serial chiller.

I take pride in not being like them other n*ggas. | φνπ ♦️ // infosec. 👨🏽‍💻

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Your LG OLED is watching your living room while you sleep.

Gamers Nexus just ran 135 minutes of bench tests.

Retail LG OLED TVs. Including the G5.

Microphone stays active in standby.

Screen is dark. Remote is down. Microphone is still on.

Recording clear audio.

Storing it locally.

Uploading it when the internet comes back.

The TV was disconnected from Ethernet.

Still kept recording.

The researchers put audio near the mic. The TV logged it. Stored the file. Uploaded it the moment connectivity returned.

Plain text voice logs sitting on the device.

LG says it has sold 216 million smart TVs globally.

LG's advertising arm claims access to 363 million secondary devices in the US.

Secondary. Meaning devices that aren't the TV. Your phone. Your partner's smartwatch. Your kid's laptop.

The TV scans your entire network in standby.

Maps every device. Gets their IP addresses. Logs nearby Wi-Fi networks. Signal strengths. Location data.

Then feeds it to LG Ad Solutions.

Automatic Content Recognition catches what's on screen.

Even your HDMI input. Your Apple TV. Your gaming console. All logged.

But the microphone in standby is the part that hits different.

Because standby means off to you.

To LG it means the listening device is still powered.

Just not telling you.

Researchers found remote code execution vulnerabilities in webOS.

So your network-scanning, audio-recording, data-harvesting television is also potentially hackable by anyone on your Wi-Fi.

LG says nothing.

No comment. No response. No explanation.

Just microphones in 216 million living rooms.

All quietly working while the owner thinks the TV is asleep.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Oh sh!t... @andreijikh just went down the rabbit hole.

Except it isn't 2028...🤫

[Fif Inning @awwhalenawl]

"this edible ain't talking about nothing"

[Kish 🇭🇹 @kishswim]

Nahhh this is jokes I can’t be mad

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Stef. | Content + Marketing Director 👨🏾‍💻🛠 @STEFisDOPE]

Nonchalant gimmick Pulisic.

Aura-gambled and LOST to King Leopold’s descendants.

Not my #USMNT captain.

[USMNT burner @burnerusmnt]

get dunked on

[serial chiller. @JB4Hunnid_]

@Suleymantekhim @Washed2Pittman @GEORGEPlCK3NS Džeko talk in 2026 😭😭😭

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

He has no idea what he has done for football twitter 😭😭 https://t.co/naxEevcvJv

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

This world cup might genuinely have the greatest meme collection ever😭😭

[☭ℭ𝔬𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔯☭ @Connor_RiceyGFC]

God bless the World Cup cos what do you mean there's a Ghanaian witch doctor on LBC news

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Do you think Republicans can square their support for ending birthright citizenship with the USMNT whose top scorer is a birthright citizen?

Norman: Those are two separate issues—sports and policy.

PabloReports: Do you think the World Cup coach is taking an American job? He’s from Argentina.

Norman: That’s a separate issue. It doesn’t matter where he’s from.

PabloReports: What if he was a doctor? Or a construction worker?

Norman: That’s two separate issues.

PabloReports: What makes sports different?

Norman: With sports, you gauge on wins and losses. A construction worker is not a specialized field like sports is.

[serial chiller. @JB4Hunnid_]

@knicks_tape99 Been in America a lil too long, had to pull out the switch

[🗽🍻💍 @Light_2610]

"CJ McCollum owns you"

"Sixers in 5"

"It's just the Cavs, the real finals are happening in the west and the winner will sweep the Knicks"

"The Knicks are lucky they got a young and dumb Spurs team"

[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

R word, n word, chimping out, fake graph, George Floyd.

They were programmed by the biggest losers to ever live.

[dr. local angry blk man @afropessimistic]

Students see no issue using AI to complete their assignment because they have been conditioned to treat schooling as a means to a capitalist end and not a tool for acquiring knowledge. The proliferation of AI is just making this very explicit for those who didn’t already know.

[Louie @reallouiehuey]

Oh so MAGA is pro insider trading now. Neat.

[Jake Asman @JakeAsman]

Enjoy the crowd during this one. #Knicks