Walter Bauer

Indie author. One part heart, one part chaos. Bibliomorph by day, brand-battling survivalist by night. ⚔️ New book Captain Thunderblast drops Aug 16.

[Walter Bauer @starbucksbauer]

There should be an official federal holiday celebrating Bill of Rights day on December 15. It is time for future generations to remember and be proud of what made our country so great!

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER engaging in maximum cope:

"The Christopher Nolan epic is EXPECTED to bring in another $84.5 million at the domestic box office. That WOULD BE a decline of just 32 percent."

Guys, those are PREDICTIONS, not FACTS.

Again, do the math:

$263.7 + $84.5 = $348.2M BUT...

Production: $250M + Marketing: $125M + Distribution/other costs: $25–50M = Total investment: $400–425M

Also, studios do not keep 100% of ticket sales - they ultimately receive about 50% of worldwide box office (more domestically, less internationally).

So if total costs are:

$400 million, breakeven = $800 million worldwide

$425 million, breakeven = $850 million worldwide

And for anyone who claims it only needs $375–500 million to break even, that implies Universal spent nothing for the nationwide/global marketing campaign, and that theatres take no part of that box office.

And Spider-Man swings in next weekend.

Conclusion: NOT LOOKING GOOD🤣😂

[Sam Amico @AmicoHoops]

Sources: LeBron James camp reached out to Knicks, New York wasn't interested https://t.co/lLyEtom0lv

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

You sold your music catalog in 2023 for $225 million.

[SWAGGY C | $wing Trader @SwaggyCTV]

LeBron to Miami would’ve made more sense to me than Philly

Even Cleveland

Philly is real life ring chasing lol it won’t be respected like he think it will be

In my opinion, it’ll hurt him in the debates

[Edward Burger (not Berger) ❤️🌈 @edwardbrgr]

I remember watching Capote, and it absolutely blew my mind that Philip Seymour Hoffman sounded nothing like himself. I even watched an actual interview with Truman Capote to compare, and damn, it's scary how nearly identical Hoffman's performance is. His mannerisms are perfect, and it's truly extraordinary how much research and preparation he put into the role. I hardly even recognized him, he completely disappeared into the character so quickly. I'm so damn glad he won the Oscar for this amazing movie. What an unforgettable performance, and what an incredible actor. ❤️

[JD SportsTalk @JDSportsTalkNY]

LeBron James has played with 75 All Stars trying to catch Michael Jordan.

[Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS]

I'll admit I'm struggling to wrap my head around this. It's a weird team. Everyone needs the ball. Embiid's health is what it is. The regular-season defense is gonna be meh. But I'd be terrified to see that top-seven in a playoff series, which seems to be LeBron's bet here.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

True Lakers fans are celebrating!

First time wearing a Lakers jersey since June 30, 2018!

[Dr. Nirav Pandya, M.D. @DrNiravPandya]

LeBron going to Miami or Cleveland could have been packaged as a “going back to where I played / reunion” narrative. Going to Golden State could have been packaged as a “I am going to play with my buddies” narrative. Going to Philadelphia simply looks like title chasing.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I can’t wait till Bron Bron hijacks the Sixers with his 2 year retirement tour and Jaylen is subtweeting him on twitch

[Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS]

37 Players in the NBA last season touched the ball at least 68.4 times per game. Five of them now play for the Philadelphia 76ers:

- Tyrese Maxey (95.3)
- VJ Edgecombe (70.5)
- LeBron James (70.1)
- Joel Embiid (69.4)
- Jaylen Brown (68.4)

[✨ @_veryhateful]

bron ending his career on a team he has no history with is odd. i don’t like it personally.

[Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg]

Really frustrating news for men’s tennis, honestly.

Sinner had a once-in-a-lifetime plausible chance to sweep all nine Masters 1000s in one year, already being more than halfway there.

A Calendar Grandmaster!

For him to not post up in Montreal is a huge blow to the ATP level.

[HeroOfTheDay @Hero_OfThe_Day]

It’s over! We have the PROOF. LeBron James signing with Philadelphia has revealed who he truly is at his core. A mercenary. The history is now undeniable.

- When he couldn’t lead a team to a championship, he had Dwyane Wade do it for him on a superteam. On his way out, Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert accused him of quitting in a playoff series, saying “Go back and look at the tape”. Gilbert called him a quitter.

- When that superteam got old, he joined another in Cleveland, prompting Miami President Pat Riley to say “This stuff is hard. And you've got to stay together if you've got the guts. You don't find the first door and run out of it”. Riley said he had no guts.

- When Kyrie abandoned him, and realized that he couldn’t win without him, he bolted to LA, and lost until Anthony Davis saved him. Last season it was revealed in a report that Jeanie Buss had grew frustrated by his "outsized ego" and power within the franchise. — Rob Pelinka this offseason then allowed LeBron to save face, by pretending it was his decision to leave the franchise, so he bolted back East where he has an easier path to a championship next to three other All NBA players and one of last season’s rookie of the year candidates. Buss called him an ego-maniac.

An outsized ego, with no guts, who is a quitter. Their words, not mine.

Now this final move proves what everyone has said all along — He ain’t Jordan and he ain’t Kobe Bryant. He’s a mercenary, an opportunist, and he’s proven time and time again, when the going gets tough, LeBron packs his bags and runs away.

Don’t take my word for it, take it from the people who led the franchises that he played with; Dan Gilbert, Pat Riley, and Jeanie Buss — In their own words.

LeBron James never lacked the talent…….He lacked heart.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This has my full support.

Jensen is right.

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

Jensen Huang just broke 𝕏.

2,000 followers per minute, 5M views per hour. His first post is a banger.

He breaks down his thesis on why open-weight models are the future.

This letter is signed by NVIDIA, YC, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, a16z, and more.

The core argument:

Open-source software didn't just cut costs in the 80s. It built the foundation the entire internet runs on today, including systems used by the US military itself.

The letter argues AI is at the same inflection point right now.

Why open weights matter, according to the letter:

→ Startups, hospitals, universities, and small businesses can build on advanced models without training one from scratch or paying frontier prices
→ Competition keeps AI's gains distributed instead of concentrated in a handful of companies
→ Organizations get to own their data, their customizations, and their accumulated knowledge
→ Open models let a broad community find and fix vulnerabilities faster

Kimi K3 was a huge shift for open-weight intelligence.

Huang's own position: he called fears of hidden backdoors in Chinese models "a misconception," and argues that broader AI adoption, open or closed, ultimately increases demand for Nvidia's chips either way.

The letter draws a clear distinction: distillation (learning from another model's outputs) is a normal part of how AI improves. Unlawfully extracting value from closed models is a separate issue that deserves separate legal treatment, not a blanket restriction on open models.

Absolutely goated first post.

[Ari Wasserman @AriWasserman]

LeBron James, someone I believe really cares about legacy, had one obvious choice to make: go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers and finish it where it started.

Going to Philadelphia and finishing a career as a journeyman is so wild to me.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Someone on this site had a banger. Will try to find it.

"All of society and your entire life is organized around avoiding the bottom 20% of people."

Only quibble is that the bottom is probably 30% now after mass migration, Somalis, etc.

[LaVozGalactica @Lavozgalactica]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: La FIFA acaba de admitir que el España vs Argentina estuvo AMAÑADO.

El árbitro declaró tras el partido: "El amaño era a favor de los argentinos, pero son tan malos que no tiraron a puerta".