Arthur J Hedge III

"Our ability to create data has far outpaced our ability to manage and secure it.”

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

@StephenKing Remember, Stephen King is known for his fiction writing.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

O’KEEFE INFILTRATES NJ ANTIFA: Inside “NJ BURN” — Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI Leaders, OpenAI /ChatGPT Engineer, Reverend From Princeton Theological Seminary, and ACLU Board Member Discuss Port Newark–Elizabeth Blockade Riot, Road Spikes, Tire-Slashing of New Jersey Police Vehicles, “Ukrainian-Style” Protest Tactics, and Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder.

NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED:
• Alexyss P. - New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA
• Jim Keady @JWKeady -  Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate
• Woojin Ko - OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI
• Beleckecom Moffouk - T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile
• Zainab Tanvir - Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU
• Amanda Marie Dominguez - Rutgers University PHD Student in Education @RutgersU
• Aditi Rao @aditilrao - Princeton University Classics @Princeton
• Shannon Smythe - Princeton Theological Seminary Field Education Director @Princeton
• Cres Vellucci @CresVellucci - National Lawyers Guild Co-Founder/Co-Member & ACLU Board Of Directors  @NLGnews @ACLU
• Celine Semaan @celinecelines - Co-Founder Slow Factory Labs @theslowfactory

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday." -- Charles Kettering, Inventor

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

Is the WNBA trying to self-destruct?

[Scott Agness @ScottAgness]

An update for subscribers and Fever fans:

https://t.co/Gbn5tqtLpS

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

The WNBA has already lost me. I have been watching women’s college basketball since the 1990’s. ( I am from CT). CC’s first year was fun, but since then not very much. There sure seems to be a lot of people in the women’s professional BB world who want her to fail. I don’t care what their reasons are, but they have convinced me not to waste my entertainment time and dollars on the WNBA.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

LA - is probably the only city in the world where creatives that like you can generate ads that go viral with millions of views - so good your opponents don’t even realize it’s not you they’re fighting anymore.

@Hotshot_Movie, Pratt’s content director, has pushed back on the “AI” critique of his insanely viral campaign (and his hapless opponents…) - while @Rightanglenews details a clip of the Pratt team using pressure-washed stencils to drive home the ‘clean up this city’ point.

Campaigns are hard. If this guy can run LA half as well as he’s running this campaign, the city is in luck.

So is everyone in places like Canada who have lived with the grotesque urban decline from this corrupt ‘safe supply’ NGO grift - and had to watch, with their kids, the publicly-drugged slow-motion suicide of thousands with mental health problems.

Here’s to the hope this Pratt campaign has ignited again that good ideas - well communicated - can prevail over really bad ones….

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” Kurt Vonnegut

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I’m honored to receive the endorsement of Dr Ruben Guerra, Chairman of the Latin Business Association that represents over 800,000 Latino businesses in California! I’m ready to put the “dad” in prosperidad, and lead a city in which all Latino entrepreneurs can thrive!

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

New Jersey has done a terrible job marketing itself with the World Cup. The FIFA site has the games in New York in the "New York/New Jersey" Stadium. https://t.co/Kag2SRC9CN
#WorldCup

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

@MotherJones Why didn't you save them?

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston, Author

[CoreView @CoreViewHQ]

Misconfigurations aren’t just mistakes, they create ongoing operational work. 45% of IT leaders link them to security/compliance issues, and 43% to delayed or failed audits.

See what’s driving this in Microsoft 365: https://t.co/aI43P41iX3

#StateofAIinM365

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment" - Benjamin Franklin

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

Are you backing up your Intune configurations? Please come to learn about Intune best practices at our webinar on 4/1 with CoreView, “Mastering Intune Resilience: Detect, Respond, and Recover from Unwanted Policy Changes.” Register here: https://t.co/vqOXoeq1cN #inTune

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

Are you backing up your Intune configurations? Please come to learn about Intune best practices at our webinar on 4/1 with CoreView, “Mastering Intune Resilience: Detect, Respond, and Recover from Unwanted Policy Changes.” Register here: https://t.co/vqOXoeqz2l #inTune

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

“A tree is known by its fruits; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” St. Basil

[Arthur J Hedge III @castletips]

Ordered your book. I cannot wait until October!

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

This means more than I can really put into words.

I don't see myself this way. I'm just someone who kept asking the question "why" and following the money, and I have no idea why I amassed this much support. But grateful for all that's happened.

Love especially this line - "you can also support her by being as brave as she is." This is more true than you know. A big part of my book is that the struggle is really over "consultation primacy," who people look to when things stop making sense. Hence why so much effort is going towards combating misinformation, and why "grand master plans to fix democracy" now involve mandatory national service for NGOs.

Pre-ordering my book is huge (especially as @PassagePress relies on the preorders as they aren't a nationwide chain and are trying to get this into distributors). But the best way you can support me is simply telling the truth. Thank you, and humbled.

Books a Million: https://t.co/PY992SX478
BN: https://t.co/jiEeKkUKMU
Amazon: https://t.co/r9sSc4nbXU