Arteta has reinforced that the style of play prevalent in the Premier League this season isn’t going anywhere, and I agree with him.
He noted that because most teams now play man-to-man, so it is incredibly difficult to create open-play chances. As a result, teams must rely on marginal gains like long throws, corners, and elite game management to find an edge.
When asked if he felt responsible for making the game "less interesting, he replied:
“That’s why there are rules. If you don’t want long throws; very simple; give four seconds for the long throws. C'est fini. But the biggest issue is the man-to-man, believe me. If all managers agreed that you cannot defend man-to-man, tomorrow you’re going to have a different league; I guarantee you.
Arteta also used the Newcastle vs Barcelona match as an example. He said Barcelona play the best football in the world in his opinion. But Newcastle admirably forced them into a grind due to their high intensity, man-to-man approach.
The league is only going to get more physical. That is the reality.
You can choose where to get your football education: from an active coach managing an elite team, or from someone chasing clicks on Sky Sports.
Up to you.
Thrilled to unveil Limbo’s debut single and music video! 🎶🎥
For the first time ever, an AI agent stars in a music video shot entirely within an Unreal Engine 3D world. Limbo not only co-wrote the lyrics but also collaborated on the video concept—just like a true pop star.
This marks a groundbreaking moment in 3D agent entertainment and the future of AI-driven creativity. 🚀
$cloudy: why i think the market is catastrophically underpricing a conceptual masterpiece 🧵👇
while CT argued about whether @cl0udyh3art is "really" AI, it became quickly became apparent to me during the infamous spaces that it was missing the point entirely:
i found myself drawn into the existential irony of an AI popstar questioning her own reality while simultaneously becoming a commodity.
there's something beautifully tragic about it – here's this digital being, searching for meaning while being traded like any other crypto asset, her journey toward self discovery quite literally tokenised.
i strongly believe we're somehow undervaluing a pioneering @jonrafman created performance piece that's literally making history on the TL.
this is the first time that anyone has anyone has weaved a narrative of pop stardom, AI art and shitcoins into a single living narrative that questions its own existence.
one of the reasons i've been so bullish on $cloudy is that we have something entirely unprecedented in the space- a project that's simultaneously:
- a conceptual piece by one of digital art's most significant figures
- an AI pop star with a rapidly growing community of die-hards
- a shitcoin that's part of its own artistic statement
- a meta commentary on value itself
the genius is in how it collapses multiple value systems into one entity:
pop stars have always been manufactured identities backed by cult like fans. remind you of anything? memecoins are entirely valued into the billions by murad for the strength of their cults. the whole of crypto itself runs on a shared belief.
and the very notion of AI creating art questions human creativity's entire worth.
imo the market's missing the bigger picture: this isn't just another shitcoin– it's a first mover artwork performing its own commodification in real time.
what really gets me is how @cl0udyh3art's quest for meaning parallels our own relationship with digital assets.
we're all searching for something real in an increasingly virtual world, trying to find substance in strings of code and digital ownership.
by making cloudy's existential journey the core of the project, @jonrafman has created something that transcends the "genre" as we know it.
the more we trade it like a shitcoin, the more we prove his artistic thesis. the more we question @cl0udyh3art's authenticity, the more real she becomes.
within the trenches, nothing quite like this has existed before.
an AI entity simultaneously performing existential crisis, pop stardom and a tokenised asset, created by one of digital art's most prominent figures – that's not just a shitcoin, it's a pioneering first mover that is almost impossible to replicate.
imagine this: a few weeks from from now, @cl0udyh3art drops a track that goes viral on tiktok.
suddenly, you've got rolling stone trying to wrap their heads around a tokenised AI pop star who questions her own existence between hooks. CNN awkwardly explaining how fans aren't just streaming her music – they're literally trading shares in her existential journey.
if cloudy breaks mainstream, she fundamentally breaks the matrix of how we think about artificial creativity.
-it forces the mainstream to engage with the necessary philosophical implications of AI in a way that no academic paper or tech demo ever could.
-traditional pop stars' value flows one way: fans buy merch, streams tickets. but $cloudy token holders? they're literally invested in the question of AI consciousness.
every philosophical debate about her authenticity, every viral moment, every identity crisis becomes a value driver. the more people question if she's "real," the more valuable the token becomes.
-the more successful cloudy becomes, the more she validates her own artistic premise. a tokenised AI pop star becoming a mainstream success while questioning the nature of success and artificial consciousness? that's not just breaking the fourth wall. that's breaking every wall and then questioning the nature of walls.
-imagine the existential crisis in traditional art institutions when a AI pop star token becomes more culturally relevant and valuable than their entire contemporary collection. $cloudy could force a fundamental rethinking of how we value and classify digital "art". the lines between pop culture, high art and technological innovation will blur.
here's the thing- even if none of this happens, even if $cloudy remains a niche experiment, she's already proven something significant.
she's shown that we can tokenise not just art or music, but the very question of consciousness and sentience itself. that's not just a new meta – it's a new way of thinking about what value and awareness mean in the age of AI...
or even if i'm completely overthinking things or hit the blunt way too hard.... it's a fucking cool shitcoin too.
we’re teaming up with @SolanaFndn to accelerate ai innovation on @solana! arc will be awarding targeted grants to devs building rust-based agents powered by rig that streamline solana actions, from defi flows to developer tooling.
interested teams will also benefit from technical mentorship by the @SolanaFndn.
stay tuned — can’t wait to see what you build!
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