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[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock takes their privacy very seriously.

But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.

Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

“I wrote this because I can’t speak about it.

I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.”

@RBLeipzig and @equipenatciv winger Yan Diomande on the life of his sister, Roxane. https://t.co/6wQmpdWTSi

[VT Barstool @BarstoolVTech]

Terrifying moment where sky diver gets stuck at Virginia Tech spring game. The individual was rescued by the fire department.

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

One day you sang the goodbye song for the last time and didn't realize it

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

The Program: On what largely translates in the transfer portal, per @EvanMiya’s data

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

What Happens When AI Tokens Cost More Than Your Employees?

@Jason:

“We, with our agents, hit $300/day per agent using the Claude API, like instantly. And that was doing, maybe, 10 or 20%. That's $100k/year per agent.”

@chamath:

“We're getting to a place where we have to basically now say, ‘What is the token budget that we're willing to give our best devs?’”

“And then if you aggregate it across all people, you can clearly see a trend where you're like, ‘Well, hold on a second, now they need to be at least 2x as productive as another employee.’”

“That is actively happening inside my business, because otherwise I'll run out of money.”

Jason:

“Yeah. This is a very interesting trend that you're not going to hear anybody else talk about, but when do tokens outpace the salary of the employee?”

“Because you're about to hit it. I'm about to hit it.”

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Andrew Flax @ajflax]

With the luxury tax, the Dodgers will be paying $126 million a season for Tucker (assuming no deferrals). That's more than 11 teams' entire payrolls. This is absurd.
https://t.co/uwe3cLpqXw

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[SEC Numbers Guy @secnumbersguy]

Comparing Heisman Candidates

Yards Responsible For:
-Pavia 4,018
-Sayin 3,092
-Mendoza 3,001
-Moore 2,924

TDs Responsible For:
-Pavia 36
-Sayin 30
-Mendoza 38
-Moore 25

Looks like we are #2Turnt, @diegopavia02!

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

VANDERBILT GOES INTO NEYLAND AND TAKES DOWN THE VOLS 🔥

A HISTORIC SEASON FOR @VandyFootball 🙌

[Cole Cubelic @colecubelic]

Rep of the year nominee for @VandyFootball OG Cade McConnell😤

[Jesse Taylor @BigJessT]

Hey @EASPORTS. Was wondering since you used my image in two previous NCAA Football games could yall send me the new game? Just a band guy trying to take UAB through a multi year dynasty.

@EASPORTSCollege

[Eben Novy-Williams @novy_williams]

Some quick thoughts on the @Celtics sale....

1) Price: This team will fetch the highest valuation ever paid for an @NBA control stake. That's currently $4 billion, from Mat Ishbia's purchase of the @Suns

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

If $GME goes to $150 tomorrow I'm giving $10K to a follower. 💰

Like and retweet if you want to enter the giveaway.

[Tony Clements @TonyCMKE]

Jaden McDaniels is a psychopath 😂😂

[Drizzy @Drake]

Family Matters

https://t.co/PmBrYrSPsd

[Complex Music @ComplexMusic]

DRAKE
FAMILY MATTERS
OUT NOW https://t.co/zh7J4X6H5o

[Sean Kelly @virtualstatman]

Not enough is being made of the fact that Lance Stroll only needs to score 0.65 of a point at Suzuka to surpass Juan-Manuel Fangio's career total. He could join the legends next weekend! #JapaneseGP

[🏁 Jamal Crawford @JCrossover]

Message!! 🗣️🗣️