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[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

This guy is doing more for America than any foreigner since maybe Marquis de Lafayette.

[Zack Hedrick @zhedrickTV]

The USMNT is serenaded by the crowd in Seattle with John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" after their 2-0 win over Australia.

USA is on to the Round of 32.
📽️: @FOXSports

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Russell Crowe on Gladiator 2:

‘They failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand what made the first film so successful: it had a moral core. Here’s the thing, most people want that. On the surface, they might go for entertainment, but if they’re going to love something and keep it with them forever, like that movie? …The love for that thing is because of its moral core. All guys want to be that man who can stay that strong, and all women want a man who can love them in that way.’

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Gio Reyna's first-ever FIFA World Cup goal was a trivela to seal it for the @USMNT 🤯

It's the first four-goal outing for the US men's squad in a FIFA World Cup

[Arlo White @arlowhite]

I suspect either a tray table was down, or one of the window blinds was still half open.

[T_p_tio 🎈 @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl]

"A man doesn't ask the mountain to be shorter"

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Conan’s riff on becoming a parent — and specifically how unexpectedly freeing it can be — has stuck in my brain ever since I heard it on the @BenSasse and @ChrisStirewalt podcast a few months ago.

Funny, true, heartfelt — aka classic Conan.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[mersomas @mersomas]

Google is revamping its entire search engine to this btw

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

“Didn’t I just write an entire encyclical about this tech stuff?”

[National Catholic Register @NCRegister]

Picture of the day: What a symbolic moment. Just days after releasing Magnifica Humanitas, his highly anticipated encyclical on artificial intelligence and human dignity, Pope Leo came face-to-face with a "robot dog" during Wednesday's General Audience. And his message remains clear: artificial intelligence may be part of our future, but it can never replace the human person.

“No computational system, however sophisticated, can create a heart that gives itself, or a conscience that discerns good from evil. Even when machines excel in efficiency, a human face that asks to be gazed upon remains the center of our history. This human face is the fullness toward which history is moving” (Magnifica Humanitas, 233).

Credit: Vatican Media

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Jez @JezCorden]

This is horrifying lol.

[anth*ny @oomfpit]

“nobody told me this” and it’s literally the first thing you learn in Lays tricks class

[Promakos @PROMAKOS_]

En torno al lago Núrnen, al sureste de Mordor, había una amplia extensión de tierras fértiles que producían. Tolkien lo dice en El Retorno del Rey: "los grandes campos de esclavos al sur, en aquel ancho dominio, más allá de las humaredas de la Montaña, junto a las aguas oscuras y tristes del lago Núrnen". El suelo era volcánico, enriquecido con cenizas del Orodruin, y lo trabajaban esclavos humanos. Aragorn los liberó al acabar la guerra y les dio la tierra.

[Mark Lane @MarkLaneF1]

You just cannot make this stuff up. Get a boost if you miss the lights.

[Simba Walker 🇵🇹🇺🇸 @SimbaWalker6x]

Would’ve made for a nice little mid-major conference