Bob Lamountain

[Fred Katz @FredKatz]

No joke. Just saw Hukporti double fisting 40s.

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

Big Zesty/Big Bodega is an all time nickname combo

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

Fuck yeah

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Victor Wembanyama’s agent says he refuses to do endorsement deals with soda companies

"They all want him, but Victor will never sell soda. Because he doesn’t want to kill the kids."

(Via @JaredWeissNBA / h/t @TheNBABase )

[MMA Junkie @MMAJunkie]

Bryce Mitchell gives his thoughts on #UFCWhiteHouse.

"The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us."

[Michael Redd @MichaelRedd_]

Been thinking about this. It's not about hoops, but it is about a hooper.

Give Wemby and his marketing team major credit.

For three or four years now he's been saying yes. Access. Interviews. Riding the subway. Playing chess. Living with monks. Voiced geopolitical takes. Stunt-y or not, doesn't matter.

I think reporters have been starved of actual access from NBA stars for a long time. From LeBron to Jokic, you only got the few crumbs that the player and his sneaker brand and his agency wanted you to have. Then, journalists (and talkshow hosts) would have to make a meal out of crumbs. (Crumbs that often came with strings attached.)

Wemby's kind've bucked that trend. So now that he's got the biggest stage of his career, those same access-starved reporters (who also, fwiw, tend to align with his politics and disposition) have got stories, angles, and the "superhero" they've craved to cover.

Whether Wemby's genuinely that guy or just plays one really well, I don't know. But from a media and marketing standpoint, he and his team ran their long play about as well as we've seen it run in a long time.

Salute.

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

💥💥

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Tim Dillon: “Is Iran the reason that no one can afford a house? Is Iran the reason that there's fentanyl everywhere? When your insurance won't cover a knee operation is your main concern Iran? This is the craziest sh*t I've ever heard.”

[💆🏽‍♂️ @godspeedbrother]

no nba basketball tonight for the entire country bc city of cleveland has no self respect

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Arrest The Arison Crime Family. @UNISOLDIERMUA]

“Get ze TikTokurr”

[Alex Prompter @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.

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

This is pretty damn funny

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert..

24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi.

Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks:

- The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years
- Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set
- The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one
- Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show

Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Tim Dillon on Thomas Massie’s loss: “I don’t know how you run a country where people can just dump $32 million into a race.”

“This guy who’s like, release the Epstein files.”

“Prosecute pedophiles.”

“Get out of foreign wars.”

“He loses to a guy who’s like: let’s cover up the Epstein files.”

“Let’s not prosecute pedophiles.”

“Let’s go to war with your kids.”

“You would think just platform to platform, that’s a tough sell.”

“If you spend enough money, you can just create any reality you want.”

“No one knows who the hell the other guy is.”

“He was just handpicked, came out of nowhere … was like, ‘we gotta get kids back into the military, we gotta get them to Iran now.’”

“You would think that’s probably not a super popular idea.”

“Let’s get your son out of the house and into Iran.”

“You would think that as ideas go, that’s probably a relatively hard sell.”

@TimJDillon

[Sidetalk Sports @sidetalksports]

BRUNSON EGG AND CHEESE 🤤

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is outrageous.

A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.

The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.

The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.

We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Incredible. Bill Gates followed through with this.

“If people would cut down on their meat consumption, we could really help the planet”

“So possibly we can use human engineering to make it the case that we’re intolerant to certain types of meat”

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

Follow the $$

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

When butter was demonised, Unilever sold margarine.

When tallow was demonised, Procter and Gamble sold Crisco.

When eggs were demonised, Kellogg's sold cereal.

When red meat was demonised, Cargill sold soy.

When raw milk was demonised, Nestle sold infant formula.

When leather was demonised, BASF sold PVC.

When wool was demonised, ExxonMobil sold polyester feedstock.

When animal fat was demonised, the seed-oil industry grew from a niche product to the most consumed food ingredient on earth.

Every demonisation of an animal product made a specific group of shareholders very rich.

Every one of those products had been eaten by humans for thousands of years without incident.

The science changed the moment a substitute existed to sell.

Follow the money. The advice will start to make a lot more sense.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

When butter was demonised, Unilever sold margarine.

When tallow was demonised, Procter and Gamble sold Crisco.

When eggs were demonised, Kellogg's sold cereal.

When red meat was demonised, Cargill sold soy.

When raw milk was demonised, Nestle sold infant formula.

When leather was demonised, BASF sold PVC.

When wool was demonised, ExxonMobil sold polyester feedstock.

When animal fat was demonised, the seed-oil industry grew from a niche product to the most consumed food ingredient on earth.

Every demonisation of an animal product made a specific group of shareholders very rich.

Every one of those products had been eaten by humans for thousands of years without incident.

The science changed the moment a substitute existed to sell.

Follow the money. The advice will start to make a lot more sense.

[Bob Lamountain @_Connor44_]

One of the purest scorers ever

[RCsWorld @RCsWrld]

2009 Paul Pierce 0-3 dribble scoring

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇺🇸 Meanwhile in America

“We don’t know who these people are, or what they’re doing, but they’re in our top field”

Land Owner accuses unknown Helicopter Operator of dropping Boxes of Ticks on their farm.

This follows a series of other videos, of people finding boxes of Ticks on Farms across America. Absolutely wild.