Joshua Orlich, CPA

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” #CPA #WarEagle 🦅

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

It was my honor and privilege to be chosen to manage the Harris County Little League B-Ball All-Star team these past few weeks. This past Saturday, it ended with us winning the championship. I love baseball.

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

Bro was genuinely scared to death. 😂 🤣

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

Today I learned that both @johnbcrist and @JoshPateCFB prefer singing their hymns a cappella… but Pate would be okay if a little acoustic guitar or piano were peppered in from time to time.

You really do learn something new every day.

https://t.co/NLDhhXL6pS

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

War Eagle! 🦅

[AUBlog @AUBlog]

A record crowd of 8,228 were on hand at Plainsman Park on Monday night to see Auburn baseball clinch a fifth regional title under head coach Butch Thompson. https://t.co/EdEmjbfU3l

[E2C Network: The Auburn Experience @E2C_Network]

⚾️ Auburn baseball continues to make history! #WarEagle

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

This kid needs to be a brand ambassador for @MerlinBirdID @Team_eBird @audubonsociety Sibley and anyone else who is smart enough to hire this young man ASAP! #birding

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Columbus Clingstones @GoClingstones]

HEY, THAT'S US! 😱

The Columbus Scrambled Dogs were on @SportsCenter this morning as the @MiLB Promo of the Week!

The Scrambled Dogs make their debut TONIGHT during the first game of our doubleheader!

🎟️ https://t.co/2uFoP887dK

[The Ledger-Enquirer @LedgerEnquirer]

Columbus baseball coach who led program to six state titles resigns https://t.co/UHtbVwlu1e

[Austin Konenski @AustinKonenski]

The 2026 Coca-Cola 600 will be the first NASCAR Cup Series race without an “Earnhardt” or “Busch” in the field since 1979.

It is the first Coca-Cola 600 without either since 1977. Richard Petty won that race.

The 47 and 49-year streaks will be broken tonight.

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

We’re in @dustyslay territory tonight, and the block is HOT!

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Ryan Ripken @ryanripkenshow]

"I was in L.A. watching [Eddie Murray] take batting practice... the whole 1st round was the ugliest swings I've seen in my life... I walked up to him and said Eddie what were you trying to do in that 1st round? He goes, that was infield back man on 3rd less than 2 outs I got 2 strikes and I'm just trying to put it in play"

Will Clark tells the story of watching Eddie Murray prepare in batting practice and how it changed his thought process.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[BillShanks @BillShanks]

I encourage all of you #Braves fans to read this tribute to Bobby from former GM John Coppolella. It’s reall good. https://t.co/XU1w9XbdNE

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Tim Sparks has confirmed he purchased 80 PIZZA HUTS and brought back EVERYTHING that made them iconic!

Pac-Man is back.
Salad bar is back.
Red cups are back.
Booths for families.

"I want to rebuild places for families to connect and put their phones down..."

[Columbus Clingstones @GoClingstones]

need a new hat? 👀

repost to win + shop in stadium today

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

Unbelievable.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

🚨 BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court justices overturn Alex Murdaugh murder convictions, order new trial

[Joshua Orlich, CPA @alwayschasing7]

@ATLSportsZone That jersey he’s “wearing” doesn’t even exist. The navy jersey is a road jersey and says Atlanta in the front. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This stat is INSANE 🤯