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Was @HokiesFB's last-second FG vs @Pitt_FB good? I had Grok Bot build a 3D reconstruction: calibrated the fan cam behind the left upright from goalpost geometry, tracked the ball frame by frame, and fit a physics model with drag. Verdict: ~8" outside the upright. Leans NO GOOD (~70–75%). The call stands. @elonmusk @cursor_ai
#VirginiaTech #Hokies #Pitt #H2P #CollegeFootball #CFB #ACC #FieldGoal #GrokBot #AI #ComputerVision
So a Waymo is stuck in front of water mist from the Stage 12 bar in Mesa, AZ. @Waymo @elonmusk @Tesla #AI #Selfdriving #WaymoFail
Mark Ollila retweeted
The sickening stories keeping coming in…😢😢😢
SHAME ON YOU, @StubHub.
Imagine being a kid, a HUGE @Brewers fan, and finding out you’re going to see your team play in the WORLD SERIES! ⚾️💙💛
The excitement. The anticipation. The memories you’re already imagining making.
Now imagine having that excitement ripped away because a company sold your 3 tickets that you bought, that they apparently can’t deliver.
That’s exactly what we’re dealing with right now.
We purchased THREE tickets to the Milwaukee Brewers World Series for Game 1 last Tuesday(13th) through StubHub. We selected our section, our row, paid for our tickets, and received our order confirmation.
Everything was supposed to be set.
Then suddenly, StubHub tells us they’re “searching for replacement options” because they can’t provide the tickets we purchased.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
How does a company accept someone’s hard earned money, confirm a purchase, and then turn around and say they can’t fulfill it?!
And their solution? We can request a refund while they continue looking for tickets.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT THE MONEY.
It’s about the experience. It’s about the memories. It’s about the excitement of a kid, his dad, and grandpa, who thought they were going to watch their favorite baseball team play on the biggest stage in baseball.
Look at the first picture. That’s the disappointment you’re creating, StubHub.
A refund doesn’t replace that moment.
And here’s what really bothers me…
StubHub advertises a “FanProtect Guarantee” and tells customers their orders are “100% guaranteed.”
Guaranteed WHAT, exactly?!
Because from where we’re sitting, that guarantee doesn’t feel worth much when you can’t deliver the tickets you sold us.
We did everything right. We purchased through a major ticket marketplace. We trusted the confirmation. We trusted the guarantee.
Now it’s time for StubHub to make it right.
We aren’t asking for anything extra. We want the three tickets we paid for, or comparable or better seats together, at no additional cost.
Stubhub…DO BETTER.
Please SHARE this. Not just for us, but for every fan who has trusted a ticket company with an experience that means so much more than the price of admission.
ℹ️Brandon Barker
Déjà vu. Two nights after Ty France's roof ball in Milwaukee, Spencer Jones hits the B ring at the Trop in ALDS Game 2. Caught by Victor Mesa Jr. Out.
I had my Grok Bot run the same model:
• 106.4 mph, 44° launch, peaks ~164 ft
• Clips the B ring (~142 ft up) on the way down
• No ring: lands ~380 ft vs the 404 ft CF wall, ~1% to clear it
• The real "what if" is the lower C ring, which is a HR by rule: ~21%
Verdict: right call. A fair ball off the A/B ring is in play under the Trop ground rules.
Same 21% as Ty France. Baseball's weirdest roofs keep giving.
@Yankees @RaysBaseball @MLB @elonmusk @cursor_ai
#Yankees #Rays #ALDS #MLB #SpencerJones #Statcast #GrokBot #AI
Did the roof rob Ty France of a go-ahead HR? As a Padres fan, I wanted it to be a homer. So I had Grok Bot run the physics: 105.3 mph, 49° launch, drag plus spin model. It peaks ~178 ft up, right at the roof, and lands ~343 ft without it. That's a wall-scraper at best, ~21% HR. And the out was correct under the Brewers' ground rule. It hurts, but the call stands. @Padres @Brewers @elonmusk @cursor_ai
#Padres #Brewers #NLDS #Postseason #MLB #TyFrance #Statcast #GrokBot #AI
We turned an AI agent loose on a college football controversy: camera calibration from goalpost geometry, frame-by-frame ball tracking, and a drag physics fit, all from fan videos. Forensic sports physics in an afternoon. @grok @xai @cursor_ai
Was @HokiesFB's last-second FG vs @Pitt_FB good? I had Grok Bot build a 3D reconstruction: calibrated the fan cam behind the left upright from goalpost geometry, tracked the ball frame by frame, and fit a physics model with drag. Verdict: ~8" outside the upright. Leans NO GOOD (~70–75%). The call stands. @elonmusk @cursor_ai
#VirginiaTech #Hokies #Pitt #H2P #CollegeFootball #CFB #ACC #FieldGoal #GrokBot #AI #ComputerVision
Why the ESPN angle can't settle it: from behind the kicker, you can't tell inside from outside once the ball is above the post. You need the view from the end line.
Credit to @caden_mcleary, whose fan video from behind the upright made this possible. Built with Grok Bot.
Mark Ollila retweeted
3 months ago, I sold my 1st company, Skio, for $105M cash.
Now my 2nd company, Icon, just raised $30M to launch something the world has never seen.
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We find creators, ship products, write scripts, & edit videos.
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- Full refund if you don't love your ads.
- You don't pay until you review 6 scripts.
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Today, Icon introduces the world's first Agency.
We're not building a normal agency:
- We bought a $12M domain.
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You can make $100K copying these ads if you know what you're doing.
Want the Google Drive?
1. Retweet this post.
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[Bonus] Get 3 free human creator ads if you do the above and we end up working together.
Mark Ollila retweeted
claude opus 5 runs six agents selling services to local businesses 24/7
and it built a live earth to watch it all happen on
here's what it does:
- picks a city and pulls a whole niche off google maps
- six agents, each hunting one flaw: no website, no socials, no ads, no booking, ignored reviews, dead phone line
- whichever agent finds the worst problem claims that business, so no owner gets pitched six times about six different things
- writes them a real website off their own reviews from scratch
- makes the matching social post and the tap card for the counter
- prints a postcard and sends it to their address
- then puts a light on the globe so i can watch it land
reply "PROMPT" + RT and i'll send you the prompt so you can build this too (must be following so i can DM you)
So the hardest game for Spain in the World Cup? Portugal. @Cristiano #FIFA #WorldCup.
France was already down early. Spain only got ahead of Portugal in the final minutes of regulation time.
Seems like Anthropic and Claude seem to be unstable a lot this week. how are people managing this with systems that are live using Claude API for instance? Fallback to another solution provider?
#grok #claude #anthropic
Excited to share the latest Ollila Multivac podcast! In Episode 3, I chat with Dan Tabar about virtual matter, voxels, and the future of 3D worlds. Dive in: markollila.com/the-ollila-mu… #AI #GameDev
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene created a genre worth $20B/year. In Episode 2 of the Ollila Multivac, we talk about that journey — from Arma mods to building earth-scale procedural worlds in Amsterdam. markollila.com/the-ollila-mu… #Gaming #AI
What happens when you give an AI agent its own workspace, email, and Git access? At some point the "building in public" story stops being yours. markollila.com/building-in-p… #AI #GameDev
I said my second podcast guest on the Ollila Multivac is amazing. Yes - it is Brendan (PlayerUnknown) Greene. It will go live in 24 hours. Signup on markollila.com. Brendan and I cover many topics. Here is a snippet of the podcast. #GDC2026 #PlayerUnknown