J-moe

Proud owner of throwback Los Angeles Lakers D’Angelo Russel, Julius Randle, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Russell Westbrook, and Anthony Davis jerseys.

[The NBA Realist @nbarealist23]

"THE KOBE ASSIST".

In 2012, Kirk Goldsberry unveiled a unique statistical phenomenon where 15% of Kobe Bryant's missed shots led directly to points.

Kobe's perimeter gravity was so immense that his heavily contested shots regularly drew double and triple teams, leaving opposing defenses completely out of position to box out. In many instances, Kobe would deliberately attack a defense knowing his trailing big men possessed the rebounding advantage.

Goldsberry calculated that Kobe's team scored off 15% of his misses, meaning that a league leading 54% of his total shot attempts resulted in points.

Kobe Bryant didn't care about FG%.

Kobe Bryant cared about WINNING.

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

Flex on ‘em, Kiké.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Uber founder Travis Kalanick just inverted the entire automation panic.

Everyone assumes AI eliminates human value.

The physics say the opposite.

Kalanick: “Let’s say the entire world, everything in our world, was automated except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings. You would basically have like a thousand buildings a day.”

The algorithm can design a skyscraper in a millisecond.

It cannot connect the pipes.

When compute violently accelerates the speed of construction, the unautomated human becomes the ultimate bottleneck.

And the bottleneck captures all the margin.

Kalanick: “How valuable would those plumbers be? Extremely valuable. Those guys, each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing is the long pole in the tent to progress.”

If the machine needs a human to finalize physical execution, that human doesn’t get replaced.

Their economic value goes exponential.

Kalanick: “You got so much efficiency everywhere else that you need millions of plumbers.”

The market thinks automation drives human wages to zero.

The physics dictate it drives the bottleneck’s wages to infinity.

The next decade doesn’t belong to whoever out-computes the machine.

It belongs to whoever stands at the exact point where the digital engine meets the physical world.

Kalanick: “If we get to this place where autonomous cars are everywhere, if it was a thousand to one, you still probably have, I don’t know, 20 million jobs, 50 million jobs.”

The panic over job destruction assumes a static volume of output.

When output goes infinite, the system demands more human oversight. Not less.

Waymo doesn’t delete the human. It shifts them from driver of one vehicle to director of a thousand.

Kalanick: “Until we get super AGI, humans are valuable and they are going to become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress.”

You are no longer the engine.

You are the grid.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

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[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

god gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers (me defending the dodgers and their spending)

[Doug McKain @DMAC_LA]

Kyle Tucker is a Los Angeles Dodger. The Dodgers get their guy, because they mostly almost always do. No leaks. No rumors. No drama. Just the Dodgers "ruining baseball" one mega free agent at a time. DAAAA Blue Jays lose again.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[J-moe @theJmoe]

Free business idea: I would pay more than you’d think to be able to plug my laptop into additional monitors at the airport.

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Anybody know of a COLDER take than this? 🥶

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Pages getting that fly ball

[J-moe @theJmoe]

Don’t be mad at the Dodgers. Be mad at your owner who doesn’t spend money.

[BrooksGate @Brooks_Gate]

how much revenue each MLB team generated last year, and how much of that is going towards their payroll this year

[Tyler Kepner @TylerKepner]

At 222-96, Clayton Kershaw will finish his career as the first pitcher with 200 wins and fewer than 100 losses since Al Spalding and Bob Caruthers – two guys who never even pitched off a mound.

[Paul Hembekides (Hembo) @PaulHembo]

Clayton Kershaw career:

2.54 ERA
lowest by live-ball pitcher (250+ starts)

1.02 WHIP
lowest by live-ball pitcher (250+ starts)

.590 OPS
lowest by live-ball pitcher (250+ starts)

There’s a good-faith argument he’s the best regular-season pitcher of the last 100+ years.

[Nate @dodgernate]

Thank you for everything, Clayton Kershaw. My favorite player of all time 🥹🐐

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

JD “I don’t give a shit” Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the “highest and best use of the military.”

Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?

Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??

What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.

[J-moe @theJmoe]

@JB_775 @SchmoJoey What’s next? Not manning the trash bag Christmas morning?