Announcing... CHAMBER TRIALS x BRINKZ DRAFT INVITATIONAL 8 DIFFERENT... CAPTAINS DRAFT UP TEAMS OF 4 FOR AWESOME MINECRAFT GAMEPLAY. TAKING PLACE ON FRIDAY (yes friday) JULY 31ST @ 2 PM EST !!! TEAMS SOMETIME NEXT WEEK !!show more

The LIV Golf League has made major changes to... the format of the Team Championship, including a preliminary round to be played on Wednesday between teams ranked 12 and 13 in the season long standings. There will also be no byes for top seeded teams. The losing team from the preliminary round will be fully eliminated and will take no further part in the competition. On Friday, there will be 6 quarter finals matches, where all 12 remaining teams will face off in head to head match play. The captains of the top seeded teams have the opportunity to choose their opponents as in previous years. The format is also the same, with 2 singles matches and 1 foursomes match, with 2 points needed to advance. On Saturday, all 12 teams will be divided into 2 brackets. The Championship Bracket, with the winning teams from Friday, and the Rankings Bracket, with the 6 teams who lost. Once again, seeded team captains can select who they play against and the format remains 2 singles matches and 1 foursomes. On Sunday, a champion will be decided and they revert back to the standard team format of the regular season, individual strokeplay with all 4 scores counting towards the team total. The 3 winning teams from the Championship Bracket will face off for the championship rings and the remaining 9 teams will play in their Rankings Brackets for minor places. Ripper GC, captained by Cam Smith will be looking to defend the title they won last season. The previous winners are Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC and Dustin Johnson’s 4 Aces GC. The 2025 Team Championship will be held at The Cardinal at St John’s Resort in Michigan on August 20th-24th.show more

Matt Ponatoski will soon have to decide whether he’s... heading to the MLB or will suit up for Kentucky football AND baseball. 🏈⚾ “I’m going to be fully prepared to go to school and go be at Kentucky and enroll and go compete for a quarterback battle when I get there. But at the same time, like going and putting my best foot forward to these MLB teams and showing them like I have what it takes for you to draft me.” Ponatoski on where he is at in the decision-making. “It’s one A and one B,” Ponatoski said. “I’m going to go have a great career at Kentucky, or I’m going to go be a professional baseball player. It’s like you can’t draw it up much better.” The MLB Draft will be taking place July 11-13 in Philadelphia and Ponatoski will soon have to make a decision in a few months. 😼 #BBNshow more

StarHeroes Esports League: The War Begins The wait is... over! This Sunday, 18 elite squads will wage war for galactic dominance and a $50,000 prize. Here's your sneak peek of the StarHeroes League - Season 0: 2️⃣ Legendary Divisions - Galactic Division: 8 teams, only 4 will earn their place at the epic IRL Grand Finale - Stellar Division: 10 teams, but just 2 will advance to the Grand Finale 💰 $50k Prize Pool - $40,000 for the Galactic warriors - $10,000 for the Stellar challengers 🏆 IRL Grand Finale on Feb 1st Mark your calendar for the epic LAN Grand Finale on Feb 1st at Crypto Community Conference in Lodz, Poland! 🎮 Broadcast Every Sunday Catch the action every Sunday, 5 PM to 9 PM UTC on Twitch: 🔮 Predict and Win Prove your foresight in the fan prediction league. Pick the victors and claim your rewards. Your first chance to join and make your picks drops in tomorrow’s post. Stay tuned! 🔥 Weekly Highlights Stay in the loop. Tuesdays are for match breakdowns, jaw-dropping plays, and leaderboard updates. The stage is set. The countdown has begun. Time to witness the space legends rise.show more

Nick Dumesnil (California Baptist Baseball) has as much upside... as anyone in the 2025 draft. With question marks early on about how he'd fare against the top arms in the country on the Cape, "Doomey" proved quickly as one of the best players in the summer league circuit. His hands start high with the bat coiled behind his head. While a somewhat unorthodox approach, he's able to get his bat head up and hands lowered upon loading. It's an explosive operation with elite bat speed, averaging as much as 79.9 mph in the CCBL (per @Blast_Bsbl). It's a consistent swing making hard contact and driving the ball to both gaps (led the CCBL with 12 2B). The quick hip hinge allows for a powerful on-time rotation through the ball as he barrels the ball at a high clip (up to 30.4% this summer per Joe Doyle). Then there's the speed. Doomey set the Brewster Whitecap SB record with 26 (27 ATT) in 36 G. His 96.2% success rate is the highest in league history for someone with 20+ steals in a season (per League Statistician). He gets good jumps on the base paths and good reads off the bat defensively. There is some swing and miss to his game. He walks at an average rate (8.6 BB% in the CCBL) and struck out just 12.9% of the time in the WAC but that went up to 21.7% this summer. There's some chase low out of the zone vs break and did way more damage vs LHP (.435/.469/.783; .348 ISO) than RHP (.247/.333/.337; .090 ISO). A true five-tool talent, Nick Dumesnil made a name for himself this summer on the Cape, and will soon be at the top of many teams' draft boards next July.show more

my 8 GB VRAM gaming laptop is absolutely going... to hate me for this. but I still did it. ran a 31b dense model (Gemma 4 31b Q4) with only 8 GB VRAM last week I ran Gemma 4 26B A4B a mixture of experts model on my RTX 4060 and hit 25–28 tokens/sec using llama.cpp's new MTP support. smooth. snappy. but MoE has a secret: it only activates 4B parameters per token despite having 26B total. that's why it flies. so the real question started haunting me. what if I throw a full, no tricks, every parameter fires on every token, 31B DENSE model at the same machine? # Hardware: GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4060, 8 GB VRAM RAM: 16 GB CPU: Intel Core i7 H Laptop. Gaming. Modest. The model: gemma-4-31B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf (model's unsloth huggingface link in the comments) This is Google DeepMind's flagship dense model in the Gemma 4 family that can run on single consumer GPU. It packs a hybrid attention architecture, supports up to 256K context natively, and is QAT (Quantization Aware Training) optimized, meaning it retains far more quality than standard post training quants at the same bit depth. This is NOT the MoE. This is 31 BILLION dense parameters, every single one of them loaded. # the flags I used: -m gemma-4-31B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf -cnv --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-model mtp-gemma-4-31B-it.gguf --spec-draft-n-max 8 --spec-draft-p-min 0.6 -c 6000 -v Multi Token Prediction (MTP) is still active here. Separate draft GGUF required, same as the 26B setup. # Results: → Decode: ~3 tokens/sec → Prefill: ~2 tokens/sec → Context: 6000 tokens → Hardware crying quietly in the corner: yes so is 3 tps actually usable? For real time back and forth chat? Not ideal. You're not having a fluid conversation at 3 tps. but slow ≠ useless. And this is where it gets genuinely interesting. think about how senior devs actually work in a real team. But when something is architectural, deeply complex, or needs serious reasoning? they walk down the hall and escalate to the senior. That's exactly the local AI agent architecture this unlocks: → Fast orchestrator model (Gemma 4 26B MoE at 25+ tps) handles routing, simple queries, tool calls, memory. The junior dev. → Gemma 4 31B dense is the senior, called only when the fast model genuinely hits a wall. Hard multi step reasoning. Complex code generation. Deep architectural decisions. The agentic loop stays fast. Only the hard hops touch the 31B. That's a legitimate production grade local AI architecture on a budget hardware. (requires 2 8gb gpus) other workflows where 3 tps is completely fine: - overnight batch jobs. summarize documents, extract structured data, review code. Fire it off. Sleep. wake up to results. - One shot deep reasoning - Silent code audit loops, you write and test, the 31B reviews diffs and flags issues in the background between your sprints - Any workflow where output quality > output speed A few weeks ago, nobody was running a 30B+ dense model on a single consumer GPU with 8 GB VRAM. At all. Now we're doing it on an Intel i7-H gaming laptop with a NVIDIA RTX 4060, thanks to llama.cpp + QAT quants + MTP speculative drafting. Google DeepMind said the Gemma 4 31B targets "consumer GPUs and workstations." They were not exaggerating. The hardware bar to run serious frontier class models locally keeps dropping. the tools are here. the models are here. you just have to be willing to abuse your laptop a little. what workflows would you actually run on a local 3 tps 31B dense model? genuinely curious. drop it below.show more

August recap of my Fogochain journey: Faucet →DeFi→Trading→Meme Token... 1/ Testnet Expedition. Ep 1–5: ✦ Testnet Expedition Episode #1 : ✦ Testnet Expedition Episode #2 : ✦ Testnet Expedition Episode #3 : ✦ Testnet Expedition Episode #4 : ✦ Testnet Expedition Episode #5 : 2/ Faucet Guides: ✦ How To Get Faucet (Unofficial) : ✦ How to Get Faucet For Free : ✦ How to Claim Faucet by GasZip : 3/ DeFi ✦ Pyron Review : ✦ Trading Experience on Valiant : 4/ Meme Token ✦ Introducing $FF Token : Achievements in August. ▪️Earned Ember & Flame Crafter role on Fogo discord in 1 month ▪️Reached Top 8 Token Holder on Ember Dispatch ▪️Big impressions on X, even from a small account This month, my learn progress wasn’t about a single lucky break. It came from showing up daily, taking notes, fixing mistakes, and sharing what I found so others could move faster, too. Start small today. Return tomorrow. Repeat. Now, I’d love to hear from you: Which content did you enjoy the most, and what should I create next? More tutorials, trading notes, safety checklists, or deep dives into burner ecosystem? Your ideas will shape the next chapter of this journey.show more

On a conference call to promote American Century Championship... golf tournament, Kyle Lowry was asked if he saw any Villanova traits from ‘Nova Knicks in Game 4. Lowry: “(When) Josh Hart missed that layup & Wemby got fouled, if you looked at Jalen Brunson, he went straight to Josh & he said, 'Don’t worry about it, we’ll be OK.' "And I think that’s the one thing that us, Villanova (players)…we all understand the grit and the grind but we all understand (the importance of) having a great positive attitude and that’s what (head coach) Jay (Wright) taught us; have a good attitude.... no matter what (happens)… you’ll figure it out out. (Hart) misses a layup, Wemby gets fouled. Jalen was right there to pick him up and he said, ‘Don’t worry about it, we’ll be arlight.' And ya’ll seen what happened (the rest of the game). That’s just the type of attitude, the type of resilience that Nova brings…I just think (the Nova Knicks) just brought a different type of process and winnng culture for the Knicks." Lowry finished 38th in last year's American Century Championship, which is set for July 8-12 with coverage on NBC/Peacock, Friday–Sunday, July 10-12. He’s looking forward to this year’s tournament. When asked about his plans for next NBA season, Lowry said he doesn't know yet what he’ll do. "We’ll see. I like playing golf so I don’t know what’s next....I've gotta get my game right so I don’t know what’s going to happen (but) I need better odds (than his current odds for the American Century)," Lowry said, lightheartedly.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump has not yet... decided whether the U.S will participate in attacks on Iran's nuclear and military programs. The option was discussed during a national security team meeting, though he reportedly hopes the threat alone will force Iran to accept U.S demands in nuclear negotiations. 2.⁠ ⁠Iran’s Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is due to address the nation as it enters the 6th day of its war with Israel. His last public address was during Friday prayers last week shortly after Israel attacked. 3.⁠ The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Israeli airstrikes hit 2 key sites: the Tehran Research Center and TESA Karaj workshop. One building producing advanced centrifuge rotors was hit in Tehran; 2 buildings making other components were destroyed in Karaj. 4.⁠ Iran launched multiple missile volleys overnight, targeting central and northern Israel. 94 people were treated for injuries, and fires broke out from impacts and interceptor debris, according to Israel’s Health Ministry. 5.⁠ The IDF confirmed that Iran downed one of their Hermes 900 drones. It marks the first time Iran has successfully downed one of the high-value drones - each worth up to $20 million. 6.⁠ Netanyahu’s office revealed that Iran has launched over 400 missiles and hundreds of drones since the war began last Friday. Around 40 impacts have hit across Israel, killing 24 people, wounding 800+, and forcing over 3,800 to evacuate. 7.⁠ Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran is confident Arab neighbors won’t allow U.S forces on their soil to strike Iran. 8.⁠ Israel’s supply of "Arrow" missile interceptors is reportedly dwindling. The advanced, high-altitude defense systems are critical to countering long-range ballistic missile threats, like those launched from Iran. 9.⁠ A key radar system in Hamedan province, in western Iran, near the borders with Iraq and Turkey, has been replaced after being taken out. The Soubashi radar provided vital air defense coverage for western, northwestern, and southwestern Iran. 10.⁠ El Al resumed operations into Israel with a flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, landing at Ben Gurion Airport for the first time since the war with Iran erupted last Friday. The mission is part of Operation Safe Return, launched by Israel’s Transport Ministry to bring back the estimated 100,000 citizens currently stranded overseas.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump told European leaders... he will not discuss any potential divisions of Ukrainian territory when he meets Putin in Alaska. 2.⁠ UK PM Keir Starmer will meet Zelensky at Downing Street today, before Trump’s face-to-face with Putin tomorrow. Starmer has signaled Britain is prepared to “increase pressure” on Russia if needed to secure an end to the war. 3.⁠ A Ukrainian drone hit a residential building in Rostov, Russia, injuring 5 people. Moscow has increasingly accused Ukraine of targeting civilian areas as cross-border drone warfare escalates. 4.⁠ Starship’s next launch from Starbase, Texas, is due to take place sometime in the next 10 days. Flight 10 will build on past milestones like booster catches and orbital re-entry, as Elon pushes hard in his mission to make life mulitplanetary. 5.⁠ Mexico extradited over two dozen suspected cartel leaders to the United States to face prosecution. The move, part of an agreement with Trump, brings high-level traffickers before U.S. courts for trial and sentencing. 6.⁠ Trump turbocharged American space dominance with his new executive order that slashes red tape strangling SpaceX and other launch companies. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will kill outdated rules, speed up licenses, and ditch environmental reviews that take years. 7.⁠ A U.S Customs and Border Protection MQ-9 drone flew over 600 miles into Mexico, orbiting near La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel strongholds before going dark. The rare public mission, reportedly cleared by Mexico, comes as Trump pushes to use military force against drug cartels. 8.⁠ Pakistan is forming a dedicated Army Rocket Force to control and deploy missiles in conventional warfare, in what officials admit is aimed at countering India. PM Shehbaz Sharif unveiled the unit on the eve of Independence Day, calling it a “milestone” in boosting combat strength. 9.⁠ Federal officers left a Washington, D.C. police traffic checkpoint after protesters surrounded the area and began shouting obscenities at them. Trump has deployed hundreds of officers and the National Guard to DC in a bid to stamp out crime. 10.⁠ Rep. Luna described a UFO encounter to Joe Rogan that had taken place over Vandenberg Airbase: “Whatever had appeared over the base was basically bigger than a football field.”show more

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🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Russia pushed back against... accusations they interfered in the recent Georgian elections, saying, "There are attempts to interfere, but not from Russia's side." 2.⁠ The U.S is running out of air-defense missiles as conflicts intensify in the Middle East and Ukraine, raising concerns about its readiness for a potential Pacific conflict. 3.⁠ A man died after a Hezbollah rocket struck the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot-Tarshiha. 4.⁠ Steve Bannon was released from prison one week before the U.S election. 5.⁠ The Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone that exploded in an open area in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. There were no injuries in the attack. 6.⁠ Following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in September, Hezbollah has appointed his deputy, Naim Qassem, as their new leader. 7.⁠ The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) released the latest design for the spacesuit their astronauts will wear on a mission to the Moon, scheduled to take place by 2030. 8.⁠ After it appeared that YouTube was shadow-banning Joe Rogan's interview with Trump, making it difficult for people to search for it, Joe uploaded it to X. Within a few hours, it racked up millions of views. 9.⁠ As Kim Jong Un's relationship with Putin strengthens, North Korea is preparing to launch another military satellite with technological help from Russia. 10.⁠ Biden cast his ballot early, showing his ID before voting, which led people to question why the Dems are so against voter ID checks.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1. Trump fired Gen. CQ... Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine was nominated as Brown's replacement, pending confirmation. 2. Thousands of protesters rallied in Bucharest against the annulled presidential elections, chanting loudly for democracy and justice. The Alliance for the Union of Romanians party set up tables where protesters gathered, pens in hand, determined to nominate Călin Georgescu for the upcoming race. 3. After 3,821 days in Hamas captivity, hostage Avera Mengistu was finally reunited with his family at an IDF facility near the Gaza border. 4. Jeffrey Sachs told the EU Parliament how, in 2021, the U.S could have prevented the war in Ukraine from starting by announcing that NATO's intention was not to expand into the country. Jake Sullivan refused to make the announcement, believing the war would never happen. 5. Another chilling chapter in the UK's grooming gang scandal unfolded as 3 brothers - Shaha Amran Miah, Shaha Alman Miah, and Shaha Joman Miah - were jailed for grooming and sexually abusing vulnerable girls in Leeds and Barrow-in-Furness. 6. Hamas returned the remains of Shiri Bibas after previously substituting her body with that of an unknown Gazan woman. The Bibas family said: "For 16 months, we sought certainty, and now that we have it, there is no comfort in it, but we hope for the beginning of a closure." 7. Howard Lutnick was officially sworn in as Secretary of Commerce by VP Vance in the Oval Office. 8. Trump plans to sell the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on 7th Street and the 50 United Nations Plaza property in San Francisco. He said it would save money by avoiding maintenance costs, and they would lease office space instead. 9. NBCUniversal coughed up $30 million to settle a lawsuit after MSNBC falsely branded ICE facility gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin a "uterus collector," accusing him of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on migrants. 10. The Pentagon said 5,400 civilian employees on probation will be let go starting next week—the first big move in Trump's plan to shrink the federal workforce.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump announced the U.S... would be sending Patriot missile systems to Ukraine in the next few days: “It's everything. It's Patriots. It's all of them. It's a full complement with the batteries.” 2.⁠ Tesla is finally in India with the launch of its first showroom in Mumbai. Smack in the middle of Mumbai’s buzzing Bandra Kurla Complex, the 4,000-square-foot space marks Tesla’s long-awaited leap into the Indian market. 3.⁠ Trump dropped an ultimatum on the entire world - stop doing business with Russia in 50 days or get slammed with 100% tariffs. NATO chief Mark Rutte backed the plan and told countries like China, India, and Brazil to call Putin and push for peace. 4.⁠ To mark Ukraine’s Statehood Day, Zelensky dropped a defiant video saying: “Ukrainians were here, Ukrainians are here, Ukrainians will be here. And on this land, life always triumphs, our values prevail, and so does our spirit.” 5.⁠ Trump said he’s not giving up on Putin, despite being “disappointed” with his unwillingness to end the war: “I think we’re close, then he knocks down a building in Kyiv.” 6.⁠ The death toll from the Texas floods climbed to 131, with 97 people still missing. A new storm warning is in effect with more rain pounding the same Hill Country towns still reeling from the July 4 flash flood. 7.⁠ Israeli jets hit sites in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley they claimed were being used to train fighters for attacks on Israel. The Radwan Force, tied to Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan, is being targeted as it tries to rebuild after key commanders were killed in 2024’s Operation “Northern Arrows.” 8.⁠ The House Rules Committee voted 7–5 to block Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment demanding a full vote on releasing the Epstein files. All 4 Democrats and just 1 Republican, Ralph Norman, voted yes, the rest of the GOP said no. 9.⁠ Taiwan’s military drills involved practising using Stinger missiles in the Taipei subway. The Han Kuang war games are testing out various scenarios should China invade the country. 10.⁠ AI may be a cure for loneliness according to a Harvard study that found users felt less lonely after just one week of chatting with bots like Xiaoice, Replika, and Snapchat’s My AI.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump said the government... was doing everything in its power to help Texas after visiting the site of devastating floods that claimed the lives of over 135 people: “We've deployed over 400 first responders, and assisted more than 1,500 rescues.” 2.⁠ FBI Director Kash Patel allegedly wants Pam Bondi gone and may resign if Dan Bongino leaves. There is growing frustration over the Epstein cover up and Bongino has already made it clear he won’t stay at the FBI if Bondi stays at DOJ. 3.⁠ Tucker slammed the Epstein cover up, accusing him of working for foreign intel agencies: “We have every right to ask: On whose behalf was Epstein working? How does a guy go from being a math teacher at Dalton School in the late 70s with no college degree, to owning multiple airplanes, a private island, and Manhattan’s largest house?” 4.⁠ Russia launched over 600 drones and missiles in its second-largest attack which saw damage recorded in at least 11 different regions across Ukraine. Among those hit were the western region of Lviv, which borders Poland, and Chernivtsi, which borders Romania. 5.⁠ An Israeli official claimed U.S. strikes buried, rather than destroyed, enriched uranium at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site. The material is now “unreachable,” but Israel warned it will strike again if Iran tries to dig it up. 6.⁠ El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman, pled guilty in Chicago to running the family drugs empire. Now he’s giving up $80 million and bracing for sentencing. Feds say this is the beginning of the end for the Sinaloa cartel, with three brothers still out there and paranoia setting in. 7.⁠ Former GA Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan accused Trump of brainwashing the Republican Party: “Trump completely controls the entire GOP. The only example I can give is like a rogue cult leader coming into a church and taking it over.” 8.⁠ Elon’s 2018 dream is almost a reality: a retro-futuristic Tesla diner which is set to open in Hollywood in the coming weeks. We’re talking flying saucer rooftop, 75+ V4 Superchargers, rooftop bar, and two giant 45-foot LED screens playing vintage films while your car snacks on electrons. 9.⁠ Former UK Army Chief General Sir Patrick Sanders dropped the bluntest national security wake-up call yet: war with Russia by 2030 is a real possibility - and the UK is nowhere near ready. “If Russia stops fighting in Ukraine they’ll be able to hit NATO next - and we’ll be legally and militarily on the hook.” 10.⁠ On the anniversary of Cuba’s largest protests in decades, the U.S. slapped sanctions on President Díaz-Canel and top security officials for human rights violations tied to the July 2021 uprising. Secretary Rubio said visa bans will target those complicit in “unjust detention and torture.”show more

🚨SCAMMER @leviathanlocks🚨 (Please RT to help others not get... scammed) DO NOT USE @leviathanlocks I signed up back in January and deposited $1,500. Within 7–10 days, they took away my Prop Builder… which was literally the #1 reason I signed up in the first place. Anyone in the OddsJam.com / Philipp community the last couple years knows live Prop Builder is one of the biggest edges out there ROI % wise. But accounts take it away extremely fast now and the limits are shit but if you want an easy edge to grind.. there you go! I also use PB for originated prop betting too. These services i mentioned are “betting tools” to help you make informed bets by showing price discrepancies in the market, not bots that actually place bets for you. I ran the balance up to about $3,600 in roughly 2 weeks… then PB gets shut off. After that, I barely even used the account. Maybe 2–3 prop bets a week on the main book, just to fill in spots I couldn’t get down elsewhere. A little over 2 weeks ago, I decided the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze anymore. No PB = not much value for me there. So I decided to cash out. March 31st: I text their customer service number to withdraw. No response. I DM @leviathanlocks on X. He tells me I must’ve gotten skipped. Then on April 5th, the “CS guy” finally texts me back and asks for a Venmo. I send it. April 6th: he texts me asking “ u used a bot on us?” Short answer: No. He tells me I’ll get paid… but I’ll be slow paid. I wait a few days. April 10th: I text again asking when I’ll be paid. He replies: “Monday.” Insinuating (April 13th) Monday comes… No payment. I text the “CS” guy again. No response. I message @leviathanlocks again… and now he keeps accusing me of using a bot over and over. Still says I’ll be slow paid. At that point I said: At minimum, send me my $1,500 deposit back TODAY and I’ll wait on the profit. Otherwise I’m taking it public so other people don’t get burned too. His response? “Make your post.” So here we are. At the end of the day, I’m not even looking to accomplish much here. They stole $2,700 from me. Peanuts in the grand scheme but it’s the principle. And I don’t want to see others keep a significant size of their bankroll in a book like this and get scammed. And the funniest part? I used my actual THEARBFATHER account. Believe it or not, I’ve had books straight up tell me “no thanks”. Others take the action, limit/cut me off, and still pay me like they’re supposed to. I’d rather go through the front door honestly than play the burner account game and duck/dodge like that if I don’t have too on bookies. End of the day on everything I love I didn’t use a bot, I went through the front door on my actual twitter account, I made a little $$ and this scam ass site is saying whatever to get out of paying. Straight up theft, stay clear of these 🤡 @leviathanlocksshow more

Wow. WOW. WOOOOOOOW. So um, that first Wildcard+Thousands stream... was... *amazing* and also... a *lot* 😅 In the end, it was *exactly* what we were hoping for - a true stress test of ALL these systems coming together for the first time. We are SO grateful for the thousands of people who showed up today to play, attend, tune-in and help us PLAYTEST all this new stuff. We can't wait to see you all again at NEXT WEEK'S EX2 EVENT! So, now let's talk about how it went... Stuff that worked: - Our community SHOWED UP. Oh boy did you show up 😅. Our servers were straining under the load... which is good actually, in fact it's the whole point. Even more importantly, we have already received insanely valuable feedback, bug reports, stuff people loved/hated - and it's only been a few hours since the stream ended. I can't even explain to y'all how valuable this process is. Yes it's stressful, it reminds me of trying to keep Words With Friends online during that first insane year, but it's EXACTLY what we were hoping for (NEED) to turn this into the polished, top-notch game and streaming experience we are on a mission to deliver. I truly can't thank y'all enough, and hope to see you again when we run it all back again next week 🥹 - The stream itself stayed up and was mostly stable! Phew 😅. For context, ThousandsTV is not a twitch wrapper, it's a web3-native streaming tech stack built we built specifically to connect game, web/mobile, and blockchain together all at the same time. There are a LOT of moving pieces going on behind the scenes. - We brought viewers INTO THE GAME! Viewers showed up in the stands of the arena, with connected wallets/assets, triggered actions/rallies from chat, and were seen and heard during the whole stream. - The brand new 2v2 build of Wildcard was (mostly) stable and our players and viewers seemed to be having a blast down on the field and up in the stands. It was thrilling to watch Team Blue dominate, even though Team Red held their own in game 3! - Our production crew did an insanely good job running the stream, managing the players, shoutcasters, and talent, and producing a top-notch show. Of course we will work hard to make every stream better than the last, but I was super proud of how our team "rolled with the punches" during today's event. Stuff that didn't work (and/or needs to be dramatically improved): - Although it's fun to see chat going crazy, chat spam is actually something we are passionate to FIX. As you can see from the attached video, chat spam dominated today's stream and made it impossible for anyone to even see anyone else's messages. We have some GREAT ideas for how to fix this and actually turn chat spam into a FUN and exciting and not annoying thing - but those improvements didn't get shipped in time for this event. - Credits purchasing flow needs a LOT of work. As I'm sure y'all know, bringing money on chain is pretty complicated, and although we've been working hard to make this as seamless as possible, it still needs a TON of improvements. Many users who WANTED to spend money today weren't able to and/or ran into frustrating bugs in the credit purchase flow. Fixing this is obviously a top priority for our team. - Rallies need a LOT of work. Spectator-interactive features like rallies are at the heart of our vision for Wildcard. These "stream apps", as we call them, are the UNLOCK for how spectators, viewers and fans directly connect and interact with their favorite competitors, content creators, and communities. The current rally feature HINTS at this potential, but it needs to be WAY easier to understand, use, and have fun with. Improvements are ON THE WAY. - Referees were only partially working. Referees are a key innovation of the Thousands platform. They are AI-driven "personalities" (NPCs) that pay attention to everything that's happening in the arena, both on the field and especially in the stands (i.e. in chat, during rallies, etc.) The referees then make "calls" at the end of every match, rewarding users for their engagement and participation. Unfortunately, the referees weren't fully functional and seemed to drop the ball on recognizing everyone's contributions (especially people who showed up holding valuable assets such as Wildpasses in their wallets, and people who boosted those rallies with credits.) What's happening next: 1. We are combing through ALL the logs from the event right now, to make sure we don't miss a SINGLE action that our viewers and fans took during the event, including what they brought in their wallets (i.e. Wildpass holders!), any credits that were purchased, rallies that users engaged with, etc. This information is normally processed by our referees, who then determine dynamically how they're going to distribute $WC awards. We were originally hoping to complete this process and the subsequent airdrops within a few hours after the event, but given the amount of data, we need a bit more time to run these scripts (and airdrops) in batches instead of all at once, and make sure ALL of the data is being included. IMPORTANT: I will keep y'all updated in real-time here on twitter/X as this process is ongoing, and let you know the moment it's complete and all the awards have been distributed (i.e. when to go check your wallets 😎) 2. PLEASE keep sending us your feedback and bug reports. Open a ticket on our Discord and let us know what you loved, what you hated, and especially what we need to FIX. Given the overwhelming response to this event, it will likely take us several days to process everyone's feedback and fix all the bugs, but we WILL NOT REST until every ticket is closed/resolved. Thank you in advance for your patience. 3. We turn it up another notch next week. As our dear friends Wolves DAO just announced, the Wildcard Exhibition Event #2 is streaming LIVE from the WOLVES DEN AT GDC next Friday! If you missed out on all the action today, DON'T WORRY, because as I keep saying: we are just getting warmed up (and there is a LOT more b that needs to be distributed, get what I'm sayin??? 😎) Finally: Just wanted to say THANK YOU, again. Truly, from the bottom of my (our) hearts. Your excitement and enthusiasm for what we're building is why we do this. Even (especially, in fact) when you tell us all the things you want us to improve. We thrive off this feedback, it's how this game and this platform go from good to GREAT. I am so grateful for those of you who are taking this journey with us. SEE YA NEXT WEEK!!!show more

🚨 The CEO of Antrhopic said a one-person billion-dollar... company will exist by 2026 sounds crazy until you see what non-technical people are doing with Claude Code right now $10-50k/mo selling automation pipelines that take 1-2 weeks to set up Some ideas almost nobody's running yet: 1. Proposal & SOW generator for agencies and consultancies every agency writes proposals from scratch or copy-pastes from old ones and forgets to change the "client name" Claude reads the prospect brief or discovery call transcript, generates: - branded proposal with scope, timeline, deliverables - quick win plan (how exactly we will do a good output) - SOW with payment milestones - pricing options (good/better/best) - follow-up email sequence charge $500/mo per agency agencies close 20-30% more deals when proposals go out same day.. you're selling speed and save them $1k+ on the guy who does it manually and anyway not quality, without personalisation 2. Job posting-to-intel pipeline for sales teams companies reveal everything in their job postings and don't realize it Claude monitors target account career pages daily, flags: - "Head of AI" posted = they're buying, not building - 3 DevOps roles = scaling infrastructure = budget unlocked - new VP of Sales = restructuring = old vendor contracts up for review package it as buying signals delivered to Slack every morning $500-1,500/mo per sales team this is data that Apollo and ZoomInfo don't sell 3. Support ticket-to-documentation pipeline for SaaS every SaaS with 1,000+ users has the same problem.. docs are 6 months behind the product Claude crawls your help center, pulls recent Zendesk/Intercom tickets, cross-references finds questions asked 200 times last month with no matching article drafts the missing docs in your existing format.. flags stale articles for update $1,500-3,000/mo retainer the ROI math: 30% of support tickets deflected = thousands saved per month.. pipeline pays for itself week one 4. Vendor contract review & renewal tracker mid-size companies have 50-200 active vendor contracts sitting in folders nobody opens Claude reads each contract, extracts: - renewal dates and auto-renewal traps - termination notice windows - price escalation clauses - SLA commitments vs what you're actually getting delivers a dashboard with "contracts expiring in 30/60/90 days" and flags where you're overpaying $1,000-2,000/mo per company CFOs will approve this before you finish the pitch.. one caught auto-renewal pays for a year of your service 5. Employee onboarding doc generator for HR teams every company with 20+ employees has the same problem.. new hire starts Monday and nobody has their docs ready Claude reads the role title + department, generates: - personalized welcome packet - 30/60/90 day plan with milestones - tool access checklist by role - manager-specific onboarding schedule - policy summaries tailored to their department charge $300-500/mo per company HR managers spend 4-6 hours per new hire on this.. companies hiring 5+ people a month will never cancel the pattern is always the same most people will use Claude Code to build apps a small number will use it to sell pipelines to businesses still running on manual labor only the second group builds real recurring revenue the niches are wide open right now because every developer thinks this work is "too boring" boring = no competition = you set the price screenshot this. save this. repost it to save a friend's next yearshow more

Here's your blueprint for building in GTA 6 ecosystem... before it goes mainstream: the ideas on what to build in GTA 6 ecosystem went crazy, now let me show you HOW first, understand the size of what's coming: 1: GTA 5 generated over $8 billion in lifetime revenue 2: GTA Online alone pulls in $800 million per year just from in-game purchases analysts predict GTA 6 will hit $3.2B in YEAR ONE and one firm says $7.6B in the first 60 days this will be the biggest entertainment launch in history. not gaming. entertainment and do you know what happens in GTA 6 now??? no dominant servers. no established tools. no go-to creators. no infrastructure. NOTHING the people who build now will own categories for the next decade Steps which you can do RIGHT NOW: Step 1: Pick your lane there are 4 and you only need one: - Builder: tools, bots, dashboards for server owners - Operator: run a server, community, or paid service - Creator: clips, guides, streams, newsletters - Seller: digital assets (scripts, lore packs, voice packs, skins) if you code or use n8n → Builder if you're good with people → Operator if you already make content → Creator if you can write or design → Seller --------- Step 2: Learn the stack while nobody's watching - Lua basics (the language behind GTA mod frameworks) - how FiveM servers work (the architecture transfers to GTA 6) - Discord bot development (every server needs one) - AI tools you can plug in (Claude API, ElevenLabs, n8n) you don't need to master any of this you need to be 2 months ahead of everyone else that is the ADVANTAGE --------- Step 3: Join the communities forming right now the Discord servers and X accounts building for GTA 6 are tiny today join now. contribute. help server owners for free the people who show up early become the trusted names when 100M players flood in, those names become the gatekeepers in potential it's yours 6-7 figs + successful own community as the game will be launched lol, I know even the guys who buy PS5 to play in GTA in 6 months... the biggest gaming launch which EVER existed --------- Step 4: Ship ONE thing before launch Builder → Discord bot kit for RP servers Operator → niche RP server (racing league, police sim, business world) Creator → daily GTA 6 newsletter or TikTok clip page Seller → AI character backstory packs or NPC voice packs one product. shipped. before anyone else has one --------- Step 5: Build in public for 90 days post weekly progress on X, Tiktok, Youtube the person documenting the ecosystem for 3 months before launch will look like a veteran on day one by release you will have: - one shipped product - a small audience that trusts you - relationships with 10-20 other builders - enough knowledge to move fast while everyone else is still googling basics --------- CONCLUSION every platform shift follows the same pattern Roblox made devs millionaires. Fortnite paid creators $700M+. FiveM turned one Australian dev into Rockstar's official partner GTA 6 is the next one and it's BIGGER than all of them the difference? right now you're reading this before 99.9% of the world even thinks about it most people will download the game, play for 2 weeks, and go back to scrolling a small number will build inside the ecosystem while it's empty and own their lane for years nobody is talking about this not on youtube. not on linkedin. not in any newsletter this is one of the biggest builder opportunities of the decade hiding behind a video game i'm writing a full article on this right now: "How to build and monetize in GTA 6 ecosystem using AI (RESOURCES)" if this post gets 1,000 LIKES ❤️ i'll publish it next week follow so you don't miss it glshow more

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Paradis Macro Report [July 8]: US & Iran |... AI Trade | Macro Data | Hedges | Catalysts The US/Iran ceasefire has collapsed... Overnight, the US struck >80 Iranian targets e.g. air defences, coastal radar and small boats in response to Iranian attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, incl. an LNG carrier from Qatar. With Trump saying “it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.” at the NATO summit today. Trump has threatened more strikes tonight, while the Treasury has revoked its waiver on Iranian crude sales. As expected, Brent and WTI crude oil rose today due to 1/5 oil volumes passing via Hormuz. For now, this is a “wait and see what happens” situation rather than actively trading the news. It's all very volatile, as seen with semis names recently w/ ~$2.8T of market cap being wiped out across the ecosystem at the end of June alone. We all know that semis have been selling off aggressively for the past couple of weeks, which hasn't been helped by the broader macro landscape with the war. In my view, it's definitely a risk-off market for the time being with the hyperscaler earnings at the end of July being the next critical catalyst. Maybe good timing to get all this war nonsense out the way beforehand? Korea is certainly the epicenter of the issue here with KOSPI being down over 20% in just over two weeks. Samsung put up staggering earnings earlier in the week where they became the most profitable company globally ahead of the likes of $NVDA. But the stock has sold off over 12% since.... Clearly, nothing is fundamentally wrong with Samsung. They're booming. So when a historic earnings gets sold, that's most likely a combination of de-leveraging / profit taking. Well, tbh, it doesn't really matter what the issue is, fundamentally they're strong and will continue to be strong. Then shifting back to the US, you'll hopefully remember the rates backdrop that we're currently in from my previous reports. Ultimately, the Fed held rates at 3.50-3.75% in June but there's a hawkish undertone with 9/18 participants projecting at least one hike in 2026. Today's FOMC minutes highlighted that the committee is split roughly 50/50, with a few officials seeing a case for a hike. The 10 Year Treasury Yield is currently at 4.571% at the time of writing this. And while the shocking June payrolls miss (just 57k jobs vs 115k expected) knocked Sep'26 hike odds from about 2/3 to roughly 1/2, oil's spike now revives the inflation case. Meaning that every high beta/multiple growth stock lots of us are invested in are caught between a hawkish Fed and a rising oil price. And looking at other data points such as: - VIX at 16.8 - High yield spreads at circa 2.75% - Gold falling nearly 1% Shows that the geopolitical premium that was build since ~Feb has already unwound significantly. In simple terms: we're in a valuation correction environment (as we know) in crowded AI names w/ a war premium bolted on top. Evidenced by the ongoing rotation into sectors like energy, defensives and large caps - away from smaller cap names such as those upstream AI supply chain bottlenecks. In terms of near-term events: - SK Hynix Nasdaq ADR (10 July) - June CPI (14 July) - $TSM earnings (16 July) So to summarise: I'm viewing the current macro picture as a 3 layered cake: 1. Geopolitical shock with US/Iran 2. AI positioning unwinds/deleveraging 3. Hawkish Fed rates environment And in terms of key data points to watch for: 1. VIX spiking above ~22 = more market turbulence 2. High-yield spreads through 3.25% 3. Brent beyond $90 All would mean something worse is going on rather than just a sector rotation that we're in now. Which I view as short term since AI fundamentals will superceed any short term noice. Until then, (NFA) hedges are cheap e.g. energy, defensives which are working right now. Also defensive tech as I like to call it i.e. software.show more