Michael Loffredo

2005 Indian Prairie School District 204 Chess Champ. Middle Market IB

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

The #Madden27 Cover:

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

At Indy, the details matter.

Every line, angle, and hidden feature in the logo for the 111th #Indy500 presented by @GainbridgeLife logo tells a part of our story. See you on May 30, 2027!

[INDYCAR on FOX @IndyCarOnFOX]

FELIX ROSENQVIST WINS THE CLOSEST FINISH IN INDY 500 HISTORY!

[Indy 500 Pictures @Indy500Pictures]

The European mind can simply not comprehend

[Spotify @Spotify]

Introducing Reserved. Concert tickets held just for you based on your listening 🎫 Stay tuned – Reserved tickets are coming to Premium users in the US.

[Dan Rapaport @Daniel_Rapaport]

Hall of Fame spin zone.

GARRICK HIGGO: "I was there on time, but the rule is, if you're one second late, you're late. So if you think about it, I was there on time, if you know what I mean."

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Pretty evident that the first victim of AI usage in finance will be the outsourced companies that only exist to spread numbers from company filings into excel

Every junior analyst I speak with says that Claude and OpenAI can do the same exact thing at a 10x faster pace now

[MLB @MLB]

MUNETAKA MURAKAMI HOMERS FOR A 4TH STRAIGHT GAME!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The Strait of Hormuz?
OPEN

The Stock Market?
ALL TIME HIGH

America?
GREATEST NATION ON THE PLANET

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Another classic moment from today’s Bulls press conference. Since Sterling sold, no NBA franchise has cared less about doing right by their fans with the possible exception of New Orleans - and they’re actually just incompetent. For Chicago this has been a $$$ strategy.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Okay I've seen enough. Triple NASA's budget.

[NASA @NASA]

History in the making

In this new image from our @NASAArtemis II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Fox News can confirm that the 2nd crew member of the downed F15E fighter jet has been rescued and he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran. That according to two senior US officials and multiple well placed sources in the region. The Weapons Systems Officer ejected along with the pilot when their F15E Strike Eagle they were flying was struck Thursday night (early Friday local time) in southwest Iran. 

The WSO used the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge after hiking away from the wreckage and putting out an emergency beacon.) US Special Operations rescue forces to include PJs (United States Air Force Pararescuemen (PJs) and many layers of elite rescue forces took part in the complex, layered mission to both find the crew member and also keep the Iranian forces who were hunting the American weapons system operator at bay. There are videos that have appeared from local eyewitnesses that show what appear to have been  injured and dead Iranian members of the IRGC and Basij who were looking for the downed American crew member. Fox has learned there was fighting on the ground but no Americans killed during the operation. “It was a very complex operation to retrieve the downed service member,” a well placed source briefed on the operation told me. Many different branches of the US military were involved in the rescue.

Fox News can confirm the A10 Warthog that crashed Friday was involved in providing cover for the rescue teams searching for the pilot. That A10 crashed in Kuwait (first reported by ABC Friday) but the A10 pilot managed to eject safely and was rescued. There was destruction of aircraft which have sensitive equipment on board, I am told, all part of this complex CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) mission.

The F15E was pretty much destroyed on impact. Two rescue helicopters were hit by enemy fire on  Friday and crew members onboard were injured by enemy fire but managed to make it out of Iran.

There were a lot of elements to this rescue, I am told.

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

"It's just such a wonderful feeling to hit in front of this crowd."

@BrookeFletcher caught up with Munetaka Murakami after the series win: