If AI is so great, why can't it detect AI?

#Pay2Play is rec soccer in the rest of the world. Proper academies are #ProRelForUSA

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

For YEARS people in the US soccer media killed me for saying this. Now their mainstream is saying it. One paid a terrible price for speaking the truth, but the truth is finally out.

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year. That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer. FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset. US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records. So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros. Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability. Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business. They will not.

Fox Sports is expected to generate at least $250M—and potentially $500M-$600M—from World Cup "hydration break" ads, per @THR. A 30-second spot is reportedly selling for anywhere from $200K to $750K depending on the matchup and stage of the tournament. MORE: ow.ly/Rq5350ZfV0a

The myth of ‘civil war in East Ukraine’ A little over 12 yrs ago, Russian paramilitary groups led by FSB officer Igor Girkin (Strelkov) crossed the border and seized the city of Sloviansk, marking the start of the Russian occupation of the Donetsk region.

Colapinto on lap 17, 18, 19, 20, 21: Racing line it is! Colapinto on lap 22: Why follow the racing line when you've got someone closing in much faster? Let's go wide!

1 day until Tova Noel takes the stand. The guard on duty the night Epstein died. $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before his death. Googled his name 40 minutes before he was found. Falsified her check-in logs. Her charges were dropped. Tomorrow she testifies under oath.

In a nutshell…Dick & Jane will go to school in the dark so Dad can play golf after work

Interesting. Let's ask the people who debated, wrote and signed it what they meant by "declare war", shall we? 🕵️‍♂️

Here's my preliminary analysis for this weekend's snowstorm over North Carolina. This storm will be one for the record books in a lot of NC. Hopefully, I'll be able to find some time later this week to look at South Carolina. Thanks for all the reports everyone #ncwx

My eyes are very bad, I can't drive due to it. Taking Uber/cabs to work, I've noticed something. Over time, Uber will raise the price if they reason that you *must* go to a place. That you rely on them. From $9.50avg to $23avg within 6 months. I wrote a small program to - Create new uber account - Create new proxy credit card - Request ride to given destination from current Back down to $9.50 avg. Tech companies are so comically evil that it's transcended unfunny.

My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill. Cargill was/is the leading producer of critical staple ingredients such as flour, pasta, vegetable oil, and rice in VZ. I am not saying I agree with grabbing the dictator, but I did have a front row seat to the damage a kleptocracy did to innocent people. 1. The government took over our "minute rice" facility at gunpoint because we were "gouging" the nation's poor. The government was never able to run the plant. It never ran again. It was returned years later with no equipment inside 2. There are 1000's of generals in the army. They are each given a slice of the economy to loot. The large number of generals made it difficult to organize a coup against the regime. 3. The government opened grocery stores and sold staples below the cost we sold them to the government. In theory they used petro oil money to lower grocery prices. Our regular grocery outlets were forced out of business. When the government demanded we sell them products below cost we simply had to shut down. The populous became ever more dependent on the government handouts. (PS this is the mayor of New York City's proposal. 4. Dollars- We needed dollars to go buy raw materials like wheat from places like the US and Canada. The government would periodically allocate us some dollars that could only be spent for raw materials and freight. Eventually only the local companies that can and would pay bribes got dollar allocations. We had several facilities closed for lack of raw material 5. My employees liked working for Cargill. The office was an armed compound with access to a gym, high speed internet, global communications, and a weekly box of basic staples. Cargill provided a safe and secure environment if only for the working hours. 6. Employees became very close to others inside the apartment building. Going out on the street with a desperate population was not advisable. 7. I needed wood pallets for feed. We tried to export wood pallets to swap for grain. We refused to pay the bribes it would take to export the pallets 8. I once tried to set up a closed loop wheat planting to flour mill supply chain. A. They came and stole all the seed wheat for food. When we tried to ship in seed wheat in containers via US donors there was no way to get it out of the port without it being stolen 9. Livestock- Our feed business completely collapsed. Even if you could raise a pig, you couldn't defend it from being stolen. People with guns were hungry. 10. Employees- In the end my highly skilled team alone with other highly educated people chose to leave. Cargill often found jobs for them in other Latin countries. The regime was more than happy to see the well-educated leave the country. Setting these employees up with high quality stable jobs after fleeing remains one of the best things I ever did in my career. No one remembers millions in trading earnings. This is a short list. In my opinion the first money spent needs to happen now and it needs to be food. The US is already on the clock. The current regime does not care if it starves the population. The orgy of theft will actually accelerate if they believe their days are numbered. VZ should be an outstanding customer of US grown ag products. Rice, bread wheat, veg oil ect. Feed the people first. Jeff Kazin Former head trading Cargill

Remember: most accounts designed to outrage you here aren’t people. They’re bots built to manufacture anger and division. The problem isn’t the bots. It’s the people who profit from lies.

X didn’t liberate speech. It monetized disinformation.

This account on Twitter has 1.3 million followers. All of these generic MAGA accounts are operated by Russians or people in SE Asia being paid to post. American democracy has been captured by Russia.

Russia funds foreign influencers like @sashameetsrus to spread pro-Kremlin content under the guise of culture and travel. Here's how this Russian propaganda scheme works ⬇️ 🧵1/9

This is a Russian missile cruiser

They're telling me I joined 11 years ago...