Brady O'Connell

Illinois college ⚽️⚽️ '20 #LGD

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:

“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.

Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.

For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.

And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’

How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.

This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.

They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.

And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.

Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.

The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.

If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.

Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.

For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”

[. @sergino_dest]

Amazing start of the tournament! We keep going 🇺🇸

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🍿🇺🇸 Brace for Folarin Balogun on his World Cup debut. ⚡️

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

ANTONEE ROBINSON WITH AN ABSOLUTE BANGER AGAINST GERMANY.

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!

[maddie @madsssagascar]

quote so evil it could be used in a childrens comic book to be widely and easily understood as “thats the bad guy”

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Kill the kill switch. Government shouldn’t be able to surveil and control your car!

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

Imagine immigrating to Italy, running for office, and proposing a ban on pizza and pasta. Totally insane that we allow foreigners to show up here and immediately try to alter our way of life.

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

This is why they had Charlie Kirk executed in public.

This is what they feared the most.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A data center in Fayetteville, Georgia, drained approximately 30 million gallons of water through two industrial-scale hookups that the local utility did not know existed. One connection had been installed without the utility's knowledge, and the other was not linked to any account and therefore was not being billed. The discovery only came after residents complained about low water pressure.
The campus is still under construction with completion projected three to five years out. A separate incident in Tucson last week saw Project Blue's contractor caught trucking municipal water out of a city that had explicitly voted against the project, with Tucson revoking the temporary meter and demanding two acre-feet of water credits to make the city whole.

My Take
Two unrelated data center water incidents in two weeks across two different states is a pattern, not a coincidence. The Georgia facility was running off an unmetered industrial hookup nobody at the utility had on file, which means either a contractor installed it without authorization or the utility lost track of a connection serving a major customer, and neither of those explanations should make anyone comfortable. The construction phase alone consumed 30 million gallons before operations even began, which gives you a sense of the water demand profile these facilities have once they go live.

The bigger issue is that hyperscale data centers are being permitted under regulatory frameworks built for industrial users a fraction of their size, and the utilities responsible for tracking water use are not staffed for facilities this scale. A 30 million gallon discrepancy slipping through billing is not a clerical error, it is a sign that the infrastructure for monitoring these projects is being outpaced by the speed at which they are being built. Tucson caught their problem because a citizen made a phone call to a council staffer, and Fayetteville caught theirs because neighbors noticed their taps had lost pressure. Neither of those is a functioning compliance system, and the next community in this situation will probably not catch it at all.

Hedgie🤗

[Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson]

Nobody in America voted for data centers.

Nobody in America voted for AI.

Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism.

The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people.

Without a vote.

[Pubity @pubity]

A data center in Georgia used 30 million gallons of water illegally, and locals only noticed when their water pressure was abnormally low.

The data center claimed it was an honest mistake, but locals were told by the town to conserve water while the data center kept running.

[Jared Hardin @JaredDHardin]

Due to a mild winter, my city has asked residents to only water their grass 1-2x a week, and Denver just drained a large lake, but the ~60 data centers in this state are still going strong & getting full access to water.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

It went from “tax the rich” to “tax everyone for basic things” pretty quickly.

Entry fee with 100% of proceeds going to infrastructure projects, @RonDeSantis…

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Crazy that 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline. But we’re allowing them to run our entire country.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

The ugliest truth about the Epstein Files is none of the pedophiles will be arrested.

[Dissident West @dissidentwest]

You know it’s bad when China cares more about its citizens than the United States government care about its citizens.

[Joe Marsh @WelshJoeMarsh]

A bunch of foreigners telling us we are not welcome in our own country. Exactly proving why we need to send them back.

[ESPN @espn]

TERRENCE SHANNON JR. IN HIS FIRST PLAYOFF START 🤯

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

WHY DO WE PAY RETIRED POLITICIANS FOR LIFE AFTER THEY LEAVE OUR COUNTRY IN DEBT AND DESTROY THE MIDDLE CLASS?

DO YOU THINK IT'S TIME TO END THEIR PENSION FOR GOOD?