It's official.
Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs is now the most expensive NBA game in history.
The cheapest ticket available? $10,622 per seat.
This game will shatter every previous record by a mile.
Right! And we are all brainwashed to think it’s something to aspire to. I know this is old but the difference between one million and one billion is so vast I think people can’t comprehend it. One million seconds equals is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 Years. And Elon is about to be a trillionaire. That would be 31,700 years. Now do the math in dollars. And the fact is that no one in the history of the world has ever attained that wealth by any other means then some form of domination over others. I do not begrudge financial success, but I do have a real problem when the the top 0.1% (130,000 families) hold 6 times the wealth as the bottom 66 million households combined. Put another way 905 individuals in America have twice the wealth of the entire bottom half of the country- 165,000,000 people. And it wasn’t always this way. The top 0.1 percent’s share of the U.S. wealth pie has grown 59.6 percent since just 1989.
Literally like that episode in Black Mirror where the dude performs humiliating acts online for money in order to pay for his wife’s new subscription model brain replacement after they find out she has an inoperable tumor.
Some of the highest bounties so far:
1. $56,971 to skydive into a World Cup match
2. $24,539 to interview Henry Nowak's Killer's Family
3. $3,000 to quit your job live on camera
4. $3,700 to host a best but contest
5. $2,762 to get a tattoo on the forehead
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.
Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:
https://t.co/PvRm8u0MV7
@BirnoOCE I like it because it took me a while to get gud at Apex and my KD reflects that during my early growing pains. Now, I’m in Wildcard frying people, closing the gap to 1.00 lol. I’ve made up .05 KD in the last month
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
“Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.” Boondock Saints (1999)☘️
@MariannaReports@_fat_ugly_rat_ Pulido is play 4D chess. There’s min 200 adult voters at your avg quinceañera. 4-6 appearances a weekend = racking up thousands of votes per month.
James Talarico Primary Night Remarks: "Tonight our campaign is shocking the nation. We are still waiting for an official call but we are confidant in this movement we've built together."
@TheDarkO1ne The winner needs >50% of the vote. The 3rd candidate, Ahmad Hassan, is only commanding 1.3% of reported vote. That puts an even split for Crockett and Talarico at 49.35% if she can find the votes. That is very unlikely at this point as Talarico leads by ~140k.
.@JamesTalarico needs to make a statement tonight. That needs to be 1) Count all votes, 2) He Accepts final outcome depending on final count, 3) Dems need to rally and win Senate seat.
No victory laps until votes are final. But in all certainty, he has won. Phenomenal campaign.