Sam Bennett

he/him

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[McFrat @McflurryMike3]

Smh they got Pete Wheeler at first? What a waste of his speed. And you got Lisa Crockett’s slow ass in the outfield? Coach needs to be fired

[ThrowbackHoops @ThrowbackHoops]

Michael Jordan finished with 38 points in an NBA Finals Game 2 win against the Jazz! (1997)

38 PTS
13 REB
9 AST
2 STL
55% FG (11/20)
71% FT (15/21)

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[ThrowbackHoops @ThrowbackHoops]

Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen combined for 58 points in an NBA Finals Game 1 win against the Jazz! (1997)

Jordan: 31 pts, 8 ast, 4 reb
Pippen: 27 pts, 9 reb, 4 blk

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Happy Pride 🌈

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New data reveals that 700,000 children have been kicked off of SNAP food assistance since Trump's budget bill gutted SNAP funding.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Reminder that Florida has had an explicit ban on partisan gerrymandering in its state constitution since 2010 but the state Supreme Court has just ignored it

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half.
https://t.co/8bGxYcoGcS

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[dead domain (OF 50% OFF 🏳️‍🌈) @DomainDead]

I spent the last week digging through old articles and studies on racist policy like segregation, redlining, war on drugs etc.

It’s SHOCKING how many “.gov” addresses and resources now end in “404 not found”

They’ve deleted so much nobody realizes is gone.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[Elizabeth🦒 @oceana_roll]

The way he says SpongeBob is really good

[Sam Bennett @SCBennett2]

@oceana_roll It’s rare to watch a movie and just have no clue what’s going to happen. I really enjoyed it.

[Sam Bennett @SCBennett2]

The Catholic Church exists to sexually abuse children, but the dude they have in charge is correct about AI which is something.

[GL @gldivittorio]

Bar

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

A message from Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria. 👇

“papi ♥️ We blinked and it’s been 10 years. 10 seasons. Hundreds of away games, trips to Wembley, too many Bernabeu nights, and millions of memories.

“Football was never just a sport. It decided where we lived, how often we moved, the languages we learned, the friends we made and the emotions we felt. From as long as I can remember it was football stadiums. Moving to Doha, Mexico, Rome, Brescia, Barcelona, New York, Munich and Manchester. Thank you for giving us a childhood built around sport, something so rare and special.

“We moved again, for the 8th time in 14 years. Manchester is very hard to put into words. You changed the most respected league in the world. You achieved things and broke records that may never be repeated. And we got to experience all of it from the closest seat possible.

“The happiest and saddest tears came from football, because watching you live every second so intensely made us feel everything with you. Those 90 minutes where the world feels like it stops.

“We think people forget quickly because football moves fast and a new season always starts. But as time passes, we’ll realise just how impossible those numbers really are. 41 trophies in 16 years.

“Years from now people will talk about football and try to explain what this era felt like, they’ll talk about your teams, the way they made people feel. Because beyond the trophies, you gave us memories we escaped real life for.

“It has been a privilege to watch and support you for almost 25 years. Thank you for always bringing us close to everything, for including us in it all. The biggest privilege has been to live it all beside you.

“As citizens, football fans and rivals we will miss seeing you on our screens every week. Because without realising it there is a final match, a final whistle. And none of us are ever really ready for that moment.

“Thank you papi and mami, the beautiful things in our lives always trace back to this game.

“For the world these were historic football moments, for us they were family memories, and I don’t think any of us realised while living it, that we were inside football history. And that stays long after the final whistle ♥️”

See the full post and photos 👉 https://t.co/cIxfb9aRAQ

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Mayor Mamdani defies the establishment by rolling out a staggering 100,000 universal childcare offers across NYC.

He confirms the city is aggressively expanding early education to toddlers. The administration is actively saving families thousands.

[Manchester City US @ManCityUS]

“Eternal will be the feeling… the love I have for my Manchester City.”

🩵

[aria 🍓 @ariadotwav]

oh my fucking god bruh