Antonio McFly

Professional lottery player, part-time philosopher. I mostly tweet about sports and ranDUMB opinions. $catfishmcfly

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

Dang. RIP.

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.

We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

@BDPeacock @Graham_SFN @JL_Chapman Gold. 👌🏽😂

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

I can’t tell if I’m listening to @joerogan or @ChrisWillx anymore and that’s not a compliment. Cookie cutter podcasts are inevitable. This sucks.

[Anaheim Ducks @AnaheimDucks]

Wearin' the 4-5, it ain't to play games with you
It's to aim at you, probably maim you
If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens

#UltraMoments

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

California’s wealth tax would cost Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang $8 Billion.

His response was simple: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”

“Once a year we get a bill, we pay it, and it’s big. I never once thought about it.

We love this country. That’s our way of giving back.”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. https://t.co/P4ZNeIfvPV

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Several whistleblowers say that Axios coordinated news with market insiders, leaking CME order information via phone calls up to 30 minutes before market open and close prints. Crude oil short positions were also taken just before today's Axios report on a "US-Iran deal" and "14-point deal," gaining substantially as oil dropped sharply on the news.

Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi also says Trump, Witkoff, Kushner, and their close associates profited heavily in the past hours from fake news provided to Axios.

[Film Watchers @Filmwatchers1]

It’d be cool if there was a designated broadcast crew for each of the 32 NFL teams and the viewer could pick which team’s broadcast to watch.

A team-specific crew would have a lot more and higher quality information about their team since they watch them each week.

[Cashews @BostonCashews5]

You just knew the Ducks season was going to be different when they handed out these for their home opener this year

Badass Mighty Duck masks. 🦆 #flytogether

[New York Post @nypost]

Bombshell sex harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini, JPMorgan branded 'complete fabrication' as John Doe unmasked https://t.co/Njh9k8GcNe

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

@allenanalysis @EasterbrookG This Makes America Great.

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

@Footballholics2 @Graham_SFN Just let it out. We’ll be waiting for you over here… 👍🏼

[Gregg Easterbrook @EasterbrookG]

you think, "at least it can't get any stupider," and it keeps getting stupider

[Chris Meaney @chrismeaney]

All three of Jo Adell's home run robberies

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: It's now more lucrative to have a losing sports team than a championship team.

We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.

In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season.

[NHL @NHL]

This Jacob Trouba save is UNBELIEVABLE 🤯

[Antonio McFly @catfishmcfly]

@AllbrightNFL Was it the same ol thing, players not doing Homework and voting for the name they know? Cant believe after everything that came out.