🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on FIFA turning the World Cup Final into a Super Bowl circus:
“Football is losing its soul little by little. A World Cup Final is supposed to be the purest form of football, pressure, intensity, emotion, tactics, suffering, history. Not a halftime concert made for social media clips and celebrities in vip seats.
When you play at the highest level, your body is programmed around rhythm. Fifteen minutes. That’s what every footballer in the world has known since childhood. Your muscles stay warm, your concentration stays locked in, your emotions stay alive. Now imagine players sitting there for 25 minutes during the biggest game of their lives because FIFA wants a bigger TV spectacle.
People think footballers are robots. They are not. Momentum is real. If one team is dominating before halftime, that long break can completely kill the intensity of the game. It changes everything tactically and mentally. You cool down physically, you lose adrenaline, and then people expect players to immediately return playing at 100 miles per hour.
And let’s be honest here, this is not about football, it’s about money and entertainment. They want football to become the Super Bowl. More commercials, more performances, more headlines, more celebrities. But football became the biggest sport in the world without all of that. The game itself was enough.
The dangerous part is that if the final quality drops or players get injured because of these changes, fans will attack the players first. They will say certain stars disappeared in the second half or failed under pressure, without understanding the conditions were completely changed for a television show.
For me, the World Cup Final should feel sacred. Ninety minutes of war between the best players on earth. Not a pause long enough for the world to forget the match is even happening.”
Actually @RnaudBertrand living in the US there has been surprisingly virtually no news on these Chinese models - the whole debate has moved on to energy and data center capacity buildout to meet demands - if deepseek or other are so performing and don’t include security risks I can’t see why some cloud AI providers wouldn’t build a stack on this
Google trend is clear
"Ron discovered how to be the investor of the future by accident. He didn't foresee the future of startup investing, realize it would pay to be upstanding, and force himself to behave that way. It would feel unnatural to him to behave any other way."
https://t.co/HfzO3iMRcg
@rabois@danprimack It's sad that you have this irresistible urge to defend his every single statement, regardless of how depraved those might be or not.
No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.
You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen.
Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore.
Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?"
AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.
Day 5 of a collapsing account
Every morning there's less impressions since last Sunday despite the activity was unchanged.
What happened? Did really SOMEONE think I'm a bot with a totally automatic activity here?
Doesn't X have a system to check this and see my posts are 80% live from 6.30 am to 9 pm every single day with no pauses?
I'm starting to believe what people say is real, now. No replies, no signs. I'll keep on documenting this wonderful treatment.
I ran this account for 11+ years, most of which without payouts. Being seriously ill with a failed kidney transplant, on the brink of dialysis and with adverse diagnoses every month, this account is still important because it helps me live as it did for years, saving me from depression. But now, with what people say, this is making lose sleep and deeply worsening my health.
At least an explanation would be well accepted.
@Rainmaker1973 I remember when @elonmusk said yours is one of the best accounts on X and subscribed. Perhaps, he can check this out? BTW: yours is truly one of the best accounts on X! I hope you get it running properly soon.