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[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

That guitar tone was an accident. Chasing a ZZ Top sound, Dire Straits left a wah pedal parked half-open and a studio mic that had drooped overnight, pointing at the floor.

They never could recreate it. The riff that defined MTV, built by mistake.

[gbwarrior @gbwarrior]

@itsallstraw Did somebody say BLT?

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

Mark Knopfler got the idea for "Sultans of Swing" after watching a struggling jazz band performing to an almost empty pub in London. The grand name they announced themselves with contrasted so sharply with the surroundings that it became the inspiration for the song. Knopfler turned that encounter into Dire Straits' breakthrough hit, with his distinctive fingerpicked guitar playing creating one of rock's most recognisable sounds. This 1979 performance captures the band as their reputation was spreading around the world.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

NFL Films' John Facenda with his reading of Rudyard Kipling's 19th Century Victorian-era poem, "If–"

[Ryan Linkletter @blitzlink_]

Exactly how the first 8 Rounds of your Fantasy Drafts should go 👇

Round 1:
1. Jahmyr Gibbs
2. Bijan Robinson
3. Ja'Marr Chase
4. Puka Nacua
5. Jaxon Smith-Njigba
6. Justin Jefferson
7. Amon-Ra St. Brown
8. James Cook III
9. Christian McCaffrey
10. Jonathan Taylor
11. CeeDee Lamb
12. Omarion Hampton

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

August 2, 1980

The 1980 Hall of Fame Game between the Chargers and Packers is permanently suspended due to a wild weather event.

With 5:29 remaining in the third quarter — in the midst of an electrical storm, with sheets of heavy rain falling — the officials call the game.

A 0-0 scoreless tie.

Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, and Fran Tarkenton comically detail the festivities for ABC Sports.

[Prime AI @primemans]

A guy bought a $1,500 smart TV 3 years ago.

He plugged it in, sat through setup, and pressed "agree" on every popup without reading a single one. That was his entire relationship with the settings menu.

3 years of watching. Zero picture settings adjusted. Zero privacy settings checked. Zero idea his TV was tracking every single thing he watched — including content from a game console and streaming stick that weren't even made by the TV's manufacturer.

His friend — who spent 6 years as a home theater installer calibrating TVs for a living — sat down on his couch, glanced at the screen for 5 seconds, and said:

"Your TV is watching everything you watch. Literally. And the picture you're seeing right now isn't even close to what this panel can actually do."

Same TV. Same living room. Completely different device once someone actually opened the menu.

He said: "Wait, it's tracking me?"

His friend said: "Every smart TV made in the last 5 years does this by default unless you turn it off. Most people never do, because it's buried three menus deep on purpose."

He changed 10 things in 20 minutes.

The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The tracking stopped. And for the first time in 3 years, the TV was actually his.

Same TV. Same living room. Everything different.

Here's everything hiding in the menu 🧵

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.

He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

Probably the most beautiful song ever written. The lyrics, the composition, the voice and the music, it's just heart wrenching.

[Bryce DeGroat @NFL_Convo]

1. Jahmyr Gibbs🔵

Finished as the RB3 last season

But was the RB1 the year prior

Now he will be the workhorse back with Montgomery gone

All while having the easiest RB schedule in the league

This dude is coming for it all😈

[gbwarrior @gbwarrior]

@HawkEmDownChris Eddie Lee Ivery

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@HawkEmDownChris Robin Yount

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live!

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed and some don't in a single 1-hour talk.

This will permanently change the way you think about talent, effort, and success.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[gbwarrior @gbwarrior]

@1keezybaby Prince Fielder

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

A sports bar owner calibrates 47 Samsung TVs across 3 locations.

Every NFL Sunday. Every NBA playoff night. Every Premier League morning. 47 screens
showing live sports to 300+ customers all dialed in for fast motion, bright rooms, and
crystal-clear commentary.

His friend invited him over for a UFC watch party. 12 guys. One $1,200 Samsung QLED.

Cold beer. Hot wings.

He looked at the screen for 10 seconds and said:

"Your TV is in Vivid mode. The grass looks radioactive. The motion is smeared. The
commentary sounds like it's coming from a tin can. And you're watching a compressed
stream on 'Auto' quality. You spent $1,200 on this TV and it looks worse than the $400
Samsung at my bar."

He changed 9 settings in 8 minutes.

The room went silent. Twelve guys stared at the screen.

"Did you just buy a new TV?"
"I opened your Settings menu for the first time since you plugged it in."

Here are the 9 Samsung TV settings for sports that most fans have backwards and the
exact numbers to enter tonight before the next game 🧵

[gbwarrior @gbwarrior]

@HawkEmDownChris Twice

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@PTSportsFix

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@MikeEssenShow @SouthSlides @PTSportsFix

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@HawkEmDownChris Giannis