Taylor Sharp

Teller of stories. 🎬 A work in progress w/ many works in progress. ✍️ @HoopPortraits & @HoopsAfrica & @CastingforHope #UbuntuMatters 🏀🌍🎥 #BLACKLIVESMATTER

[Taylor Sharp @tsharp94]

I’m here at MSG & @StephenCurry30 just made history. Today also marks 11 years since my mom passed from ovarian cancer. Heres a story on how these are connected and how Steph started me and @castingforhope down the path of raising $1,000,000 for women fighting cancer in NC. 💙💛

[F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco]

walking around today

[Josie Stratman @JosieStratman]

Jose Alvarado on the float with Mayor Mamdani at the Bushwick Puerto Rican Day Parade

[neha @neharedy]

i love that they picked the billy joel track. while everyone’s reaching for sinatra or empire state of mind, this stands out so beautifully and makes the city feel less like a postcard and more like a place.

thank the lord, good commercials are so back.

[GL @gldivittorio]

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” 🧡💙

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Here's what the booing sounded like inside MSG when Trump was shown on the Jumbotron:

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

lmfaooooo it did not come through like this on the TV broadcast, that is BRUTAL

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

KAT is basically trying to process grief over his mom’s death by playing the best basketball of his life in these finals and I could not be rooting for him harder.

[Jonah Bromwich @Jonesieman]

incredible live television, the whole reason to watch Inside the NBA is for moments like this. Love KAT.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947.

At the same time corporate profits are now at the highest point since 1950.

[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

[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.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Important point on this:

These tickets cannot be scalped or resold. Non-transferable and will be given to winners on the day of the games, at the site from which fans will be transported via (free) buses to MetLife Stadium.

[Taylor Sharp @tsharp94]

@MarcJSpears Hate to see this news. I had the privilege of working with Rahsaan on a docuseries for the G League featuring Pooh Jeter and Scoot Henderson. He was one of our team’s favorites to work with.

[Taylor Sharp @tsharp94]

@CHold @trailblazers Really appreciated working with you a time or two over the years, and enjoyed following along with your journey. Hoping a great new chapter is coming soon.

[Variety @Variety]

Seth Rogen says if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer”:

“Every time I see a video on Instagram that’s like, ‘Hollywood is cooked,’ what follows is the most stupid dog sh*t I’ve ever seen in my life. And if your instinct is to use AI and not go through that process. You shouldn’t be a writer. Because you’re not writing.”
https://t.co/JDPr8sUKOg

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Wemby Central 💔 @WembyCentral]

Inspiring the youth to read #wow

[Chris Hine @ChristopherHine]

Very glad they did this and Charles Barkley said what he said. The impact of what Jason Collins did, and hearing support from someone like Barkley, can mean so much to those struggling in silence.

[MrBuckBuck @MrBuckBuckNBA]

Inside The NBA: While discussing Jason Collins' passing, Charles Barkley: "We live in a homophobic society ... anybody who think we ain't got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they're just stupid."

Via @ESPNNBA

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

saying this on espn during the nba playoffs is honestly just an enormous deal, and deserves all the credit in the world. not hyperbole to say it could be life saving for someone