Daryl Auguste

Writer, analyst, mixed-media tinkerer. Art, culture, politics.

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Quality stuff.

[Jimmy O'Brien @Jomboy_]

🚨 Broadcast Battle! 🚨

Cut this out of the Ohtani/Rushing breakdown for time but wanted to share it anyway because I’m a nerd for this stuff

Taking a look at how the Dodgers broadcast and the Twins broadcast told the story of this play as it unfolded in live time

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Saw all three LOTR midnight premieres at this growing up. Heartbreaking.

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

It's hard to believe Arclight Hollywood has been abandoned for 6 years. 14 screen multiplex on Sunset Blvd just sitting empty frozen in March 2020... It was the highest grossing theater in USA. So strange. @ArcLightCinemas

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

I need Marcus Smart trying to manipulate the defense as little as possible.

Set up the offense, take open shots, play defense. None of this Tragic Johnson bit.

[FranceNews24 @FranceNews24]

📹 VIDÉO - #Insolite : Pendant la coupe des griffes, une marmotte semble avoir déjà accepté son destin… tandis que l’autre panique à chaque coup de coupe. Une scène aussi drôle que totalement théâtrale.

[Paul Pierce @paulpierce34]

Wait a minute Bam got what

[O.B🇹🇷 @Obolatcan24]

Jeffrey Epstein faked his death and got surgery to change his entire body. He took on the persona of a basketball player, and he now goes by the name "Deandre Ayton"

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Serious political instincts. Color me impressed.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon.

I’m looking forward to building more housing in New York City.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Student loan forgiveness will be taxed this year.

Many student loan borrowers who get their debt forgiven in 2026 will receive a heavy tax bill next year.

The law that shielded this debt relief from taxation expired in December.

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

This guy sucks

[Giannis Antetokounmpo @Giannis_An34]

We all on @Kalshi now

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Not a coincidence that the best cherry picked scenes are the ones with no dialogue.

The writing for Episodes 1-3 is atrocious. It’s the core of what makes those films bad.

I will never understand how or why Lucasfilm spent 9 figures per film and skimped on the writing.

[Retney @retneysholocron]

I genuinely can’t understand how the previous generation saw this in 2005 and said “this sucks”

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Crypto rug pull incoming

[Lil Baby @whamcbfw4]

Imagine if you could buy shares of an artist like buying shares of Tesla or Amazon

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

Thanks for the thought-provoking piece.

My main critique is that you are overemphasizing flashy but low probability events like “left-handed bacteria,” while merely giving lip service to the risk of extreme economic concentration of power, which is very real and materializing as we speak.

Anthropic is reportedly raising funds at a $350B valuation, and the wealth created thus far has been concentrated into a few hundred (perhaps more like dozens) high net worth individuals / institutions. It’s looking increasingly likely to me that none of the leading AI labs will IPO until they reach valuations in the trillions, at which point retail investors will finally be able to get shares. In order for retail to get a 100x return on these investments, which was achievable for Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, the valuations of the AI labs will need to reach hundreds of trillions of dollars, meaning it’s likely too late for a more equitable redistribution of wealth.

Simply put, you are currently exacerbating the problem. The consequences of this are that voters may take matters into their own hands and push for either or both 1) more aggressive / nonsensical forms of redistribution — the CA Founders’ Tax is just the beginning or 2) a drastic knee-capping of the AI industry in America, which make the CCP dominance scenario more likely.

The solution is to enable retail ownership now, increasing the number of Americans with economic exposure to Anthropic and other AI labs from hundreds of people to millions.

[blkmessiah @ghostofkurta]

2008-2018…I know what you are lol

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

A $200,000 “donation”.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access.

Here is their reply.

They are charging $200,000 (payable via crypto, of course). You get high-speed access to the full collection. This includes more than 60 million books.

(This is also the group that recently stole Spotify's entire music catalog, so expect this to be available to high rollers too.)

This is the collection Nvidia is accused of accessing for training.

Training on pirated works is rife in the AI industry. It's been embraced by some of the biggest AI companies in their greed-fuelled race to win the AI market.

When they claim what they're doing is somehow fair, remember that not only is it theft (which is bad enough) - it supports further theft by funding pirates.

We desperately need a hard reset in the AI industry. It must turn away from theft, and start paying the people whose work it relies on.

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

LeBrons transition defensive effort is so, so bad.

Basically a guaranteed odd man break if he ends an offensive possession near the basket.

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

@LegalistsOfGor @wesselsrevenge @v_legal_v_cool @dash_eats Not culturally, but perhaps conceptually. There’s definitely an argument - albeit the whole topic is kinda silly.

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Interesting

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

During recent visit in DC, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It's at levels you read about in history books. In nearly every department. Lots of, "Do people just think Democrats will never win and they'll all get away with this?"

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

Strong messaging!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"The Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!" - President Donald J. Trump

[Daryl Auguste @AugusteDaryl]

This level of tone deafness is (sadly) predictable.

Failing to acknowledge the elephant in the room is far worse than any head on response to criticism.

It’s too late for Schumer. Better to bow out now.

Does he think it can’t get worse? It can (and it will).

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

The last 41 days have exposed the depths of Trump's cruelty.

He shut the government down longer than any president in American history.

He took innocent kids, veterans, and federal workers as political hostages—all because he refuses to fix the healthcare crisis.