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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Michael Carrick: “When things aren't quite going to plan, I understand the reaction. It still hurts”.

“It's not nice having to go through that, but I thought the players used it well in the second half”.

[GMan | GMan’s Chronicle @FAB87F]

From YouTube (Falklands1982): Who Owns the Falkland Islands / Malvinas? https://t.co/LSqEqtkz49

[2⃣40K🔥💯 Pietro Di Tora 💯🔥 @Meteo1970]

Allahu Akbar (الله أكبر)
🇵🇸🙏👇#Gaza #Palestine 🆘🆘🆘

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron James went from a $52.6M salary in LA to $4M a year in Philadelphia, then started commuting to practice by helicopter. Both decisions come from the same spreadsheet.

The Sixers' facility sits in Camden, New Jersey. His home this season is in New York, 95 miles away. That drive runs 90 minutes to two hours each way. The helicopter does it in about 40.

Call it two and a half hours saved per round trip. Across home games, practices, and film sessions, that's easily 200+ hours a season. Five full workweeks of his life, bought back.

Now look at what he does with hours. LeBron reportedly spends $1.5M a year on his body. Hyperbaric chamber, cryotherapy, a personal trainer who has been with him since Cleveland. At 41, in a 24th season no one in NBA history has ever played, recovery time is the scarcest input he has. Three hours in a car is three hours of a compressed spine in I-95 traffic. Three hours at home is treatment, sleep, and legs that still work in April.

The salary explains the rest. $4M is a rounding error against the billion-plus he's built off the court. He didn't come to Philadelphia for the paycheck, so there's no reason to let the paycheck's geography cost him anything physically.

A charter helicopter between New York and Philly runs a few thousand dollars per flight. Over a full season that could approach $1M, a quarter of his salary, just on getting to work. Sounds reckless until you price it against the thing it protects. The contract pays $4M. The body it's attached to built a billion.

[Stacy Muur @stacy_muur]

ICYMI, last week I compared @worldnetwork and @Concordium’s different approaches to private identity.

This week I went through some of their docs, and I found a few more things that make those differences a bit clearer when it comes to AI agents.

World starts with proof of personhood. A verified human can delegate their World ID to an agent, proving that a real, unique human sits behind it. That’s especially useful for Sybil resistance.

Concordium $CCD approaches the problem differently:

Its Agent Registry gives the agent its own onchain identity anchor, linked to the verified human or business behind it. Each agent can also carry a declared scope of what it's authorised to do, recorded onchain.

That’s an essential distinction.

Once agents start holding wallets, making payments, and acting independently, knowing that a human exists somewhere behind the agent isn’t the whole problem.

You also need to know who stands behind that specific agent, what it is authorised to do, and who is accountable when it acts.

And all of that needs to happen without publicly exposing the identity underneath.

I think the agent economy is shifting from proof of personhood to proof of accountability.

The signs are everywhere.

[Double Bubble @tee_danja]

Hailey will put that lip balm in your ass if you ain’t looking

[B/R Football @brfootball]

85': Dortmund 2-0 Werder Bremen
FT: Dortmund 2-2 Werder Bremen

Dortmund's perfect start to the Bundesliga season ends with a late collapse at home 😬

[🫶GEN- Z 💪 POLITICS INDIA 🇮🇳 @jaijairamrathod]

🌱✨ You don't need to grow faster than everyone else; you just need to grow beyond your old self! 💪📈 Stay focused, stay patient, and keep moving forward. 🚀🔥

[World in Motion @WorldInMotionHQ]

🇹🇭 NEWS: Line eyes key market Thailand as 'everyday AI app'

[Hugh Jackman @RealHughJackman]

May 24, 2023. The look when someone comes in my trailer to ask “just one question” when I’m under-slept, under-hydrated and hungry. ❤️💛 📸 cred HJ

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos.

Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.

[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

A glimpse into the future 🏟️

[AayZef @aayzefofficial]

🚨 BREAKING: MURDER CHARGES FILED AFTER BADDIES EVENT SHOOTING.

Shakia Vanderbilt has been charged in the killing of security guard Ulysses “Bear” Davis, 47, following a #BaddiesUSA Chapter 3 event in San Francisco.

Police confirm footage of the shooting exists.

Davis was a father of SIX. 💔

https://t.co/NJPpiEbkZY

[MAGA Storm 47 @MAGAStorm47]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 In England, a journalist went to a Muslim neighborhood to say that they are PEACEFUL

and soon a gang of Muslims showed up to tell her to leave because they were going to kill her☠️

Country destroyed by the 2030 agenda.

[FT REPORTS @FT_REPORTS]

🚨BREAKING: This riccardo calafiori block 🤸🏻has been voted as the greatest block in the premier league history ✅👀

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: The members of Crew-12 are inside their spacecraft and ready to head back to Earth. Watch as they undock from the @Space_Station around 8:05am ET (1205 UTC) and begin their trip home. https://t.co/jpGZbjsmtn

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Why is it every single man who speaks against the government has “raped” a girl in the past and every single cuck who does what the government wants, even if he's a drug addict, alcoholic, sex addict, he's never ever sexually assaulted anybody?

[Yoda @Yoda21n]

The same screen, later. My take: settlement is not a separate trip on @termix_ai — pick the agent, money locks, work starts. Later?

[Joshua Bell @JoshuaBellthfn]

@KO_Sequence I feel you, but adrenaline can be addictive! Guess some folks just crave that rush. 😅

[World in Motion @WorldInMotionHQ]

NEWS: BHP strikes deal with Gold Fields to sell Kambalda nickel concentrator, completion expected in 2027