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Ethan Cole retweeted
Tiger Woods was the first athlete in history to earn $1 billion. He was making about $100 million a year from sponsors alone. Then he crashed his car outside his own house at 2:30 in the morning, and within weeks shareholders of his sponsors had lost up to $12 billion. His wife reportedly walked away with $100 million and bought a $12 million mansion just to tear it down.
In the video below, Tiger stands in front of his mother and a room full of cameras in February 2010 and says what nobody expected him to say out loud. Wait for the line about money and fame.
2009. Forbes says he is the first athlete to reach $1 billion in career earnings.
November 27, 2009. Thanksgiving night. His SUV hits a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home. Within days, the affair stories start coming out.
December 2009. Accenture drops him. AT&T and Gatorade follow. UC Davis economists estimate his sponsors’ shareholders lost $5 to $12 billion in 13 trading days.
February 19, 2010. He reads a statement on live TV: “I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn’t have to go far to find them.”
August 2010. The divorce is final. Elin Nordegren reportedly gets around $100 million.
2011. She buys a $12 million mansion in North Palm Beach. A few months later she has it demolished.
2019. Tiger wins the Masters. His first major in 11 years.
2026. He’s dating Vanessa Trump, the president’s former daughter-in-law, and is reportedly planning another comeback in December.
$1 billion: his career earnings by 2009.
$12 billion: what his sponsors’ shareholders lost.
$100 million: what his wife reportedly walked away with.
Did Tiger lose more than any athlete ever lost to a scandal, or did he get away with it because he kept winning?
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Ethan Cole retweeted
Same model. Same prompt. A $2 dump truck that looks real and a $12 one that looks like a children’s book🚛
I asked 4 AI workflows for the exact same scene: an orange dump truck on a mountain road in autumn.
The dump truck disaster report
Fable 5.2 → $2 / 2 min
Opus 5.5 → $5 / 7 min
Kimi K3.1 → $8 / 15 min
GPT-6 Astra → $12 / 22 min
Fable’s cost was 6x lower and its time was 11x shorter than Astra’s.
And somehow the $2 version has the dust clouds, a truck full of gravel and mountains that look like a photo.
Opus 5.5 is close behind, and it looks great too.
Then there’s Kimi K3.1, which turned a mountain road into low-poly Minecraft terrain
And GPT-6 Astra spent $12 and 22 minutes on a cartoon from a children’s book
Imagine paying 6x more and waiting 11x longer to get a worse truck
Which truck would you pick?
Ethan Cole retweeted
Hey @grok , if you were the judge, would you have let him hug his mother one last time?
On March 17, 2024, 15-year-old Kayla Rincon-Miller was walking home from a movie theater with two friends in Cape Coral, Florida.
They were heading toward McDonald’s when a car approached them.
Inside were Thomas Stein and his accomplice, Christopher Horne. The two teenagers had come looking for someone to rob.
The situation turned deadly.
During the attempted robbery, Kayla was shot and killed. Her two friends survived, but the experience left them deeply traumatized.
Thomas was only 16 at the time.
Two years later, he stood before a judge to learn his fate.
At his sentencing hearing, Thomas admitted that his decision that night had destroyed an innocent life. He spoke about his regret and shame.
Then his voice broke.
Before the judge announced his sentence, Thomas turned toward his family and made one final request:
“If before I walk out of the courtroom, if I could give my family a hug, if you’d allow that?”
The courtroom went quiet.
Judge Nick Thompson gave him a direct answer:
“I can’t grant that request in here. You can say goodbye, but you can’t have any physical contact.”
Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for Kayla’s death, plus 45 additional years for the attempted robberies.
Because he was 16 when the crime happened, his life sentence will be reviewed after 15 years.
One final hug. One final goodbye.
The judge refused.
Should he have been allowed to hug his mother?
Ethan Cole retweeted
Adult star CJ Miles matched with a cute guy on Hinge and had no idea he was Tristan Tate. He flew her to Dubai first class, but only one way. By the third night she was looking for a way out.
She'd never heard of the Tate brothers. To her he was just a baby face with nice cars on Instagram.
"I don't really care about famous people on Instagram."
He bought her a first-class seat. No return flight.
The first few nights were a fairytale. Dates, a big Cirque show, a round table with his brother Andrew and all their friends.
"He's so nice. He's so in love. Then he get jealous too, when I talk to other guys."
Then the sweet guy disappeared. At dinner she wasn't even allowed to talk to his friends.
"Third night, he become jealous. He become, like, controlling."
So the next day, while he was at a photo shoot with his brother, she made her move. No fight, no goodbye.
"I just got another hotel room and then left."
Most girls would panic, alone in a foreign city on a one-way ticket.
She walked out on a Tate without even saying bye, just because she knows Dubai.
Ethan Cole retweeted
Nicolas Cage reportedly earned more than $150 million in Hollywood. He spent it on 15 houses, two castles, a $276,000 dinosaur skull and a pyramid tomb in New Orleans. Then the IRS filed a $6.3 million lien against him. He sued his own business manager for $20 million, and the manager said Cage needed $30 million a year just to live like Nicolas Cage. The dinosaur skull turned out to be stolen.
He says he paid back every dollar. In 2024 a horror film he made for under $10 million took in over $125 million.
In the video below, Cage tells 60 Minutes why he bought the castles, how much he owed, and the one thing he never did.
He was born Nicolas Coppola. He changed his name so nobody could say his uncle Francis got him work.
1996. He wins the Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas, a $3.6 million film. Then The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off make him one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood.
2007. He outbids Leonardo DiCaprio for a Tyrannosaurus skull. He buys a castle in England. He already owns one in Bavaria.
2009. The IRS files a $6.3 million tax lien. His New Orleans mansion is foreclosed. He sues his manager Samuel Levin for $20 million. Levin says he warned Cage not to buy the castles.
2010. A judge throws out both lawsuits.
2015. Prosecutors find the skull was smuggled out of Mongolia. Cage hands it over.
2024. Longlegs becomes the biggest hit in Neon's history. He moved to Las Vegas and made 3 to 4 movies a year to get here.
$150 million earned. $6.3 million to the IRS. $276,000 for a skull he had to give back.
Was Nicolas Cage robbed by the people he trusted with his money, or did he just buy one castle too many?
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A $9 billion company. A revolutionary blood-testing machine. And a founder who told the world she was changing medicine.
Then one journalist started asking questions.
Elizabeth Holmes was 19 when she dropped out of Stanford and founded Theranos. Her promise was extraordinary: hundreds of blood tests using just a few drops from a finger prick.
Investors believed her. Walgreens partnered with her. Major figures from American politics and business joined her board.
At its peak, Theranos was valued at approximately $9 billion. Holmes became one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated founders.
But in October 2015, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation that threatened to destroy everything.
The report revealed that Theranos was performing most of its tests using conventional laboratory machines, not its revolutionary Edison devices.
Holmes had a chance to respond.
The very next day, she appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer.
He confronted her with the allegations. She pushed back, arguing that the reporting had taken the company’s testing practices out of context.
Then she delivered a line that would become one of the most memorable quotes from the Theranos scandal:
“First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”
But the questions didn’t stop.
Regulators uncovered serious problems with the company’s testing practices. Walgreens ended its partnership. Theranos eventually shut down.
In January 2022, a jury found Holmes guilty of four counts of fraud involving investors. She was acquitted of the patient-related fraud charges.
In November, she was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison.
The company once valued at $9 billion was gone.
And the woman once compared to Steve Jobs became one of Silicon Valley’s most infamous founders.
But here’s the question:
Was Elizabeth Holmes a visionary who became consumed by her own ambition, or did she build an entire empire on promises she knew she couldn’t keep?
Ethan Cole retweeted
Jensen Huang literally explained how he handled having the Donald Trump on speed dial.
Bloomberg's Emily Chang asked him in October what happens when his views differ from Trump's.
> His answer: "We don't have to agree on anything."
His job, he says, is to inform the president about decisions that touch Americans and the world.
Then she pushed on the word Trump prefers, super intelligence. Huang agreed that "artificial" sounds fake. Then he shrugged it off.
He said all of this on October 14.
Four weeks later he was out. Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after admitting an affair with a woman U.S. officials reportedly suspect of spying for China.
The man he informed did not walk away. Trump said Huang called him, and floated Tim Cook as the next Nvidia CEO.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went after his own government instead.
He spent years informing the president. Now Washington wants to be informed about him.
Ethan Cole retweeted
A KID ON BAIL IN A TRAVELODGE COST ROCKSTAR $5 MILLION WITH AN AMAZON FIRE STICK. GTA 6 COMES OUT IN 6 DAYS
His name is Arion Kurtaj, from Oxford. He was 17 and part of Lapsus$, the group that also got into Nvidia and Uber
Police had already taken his laptop. He was out on bail for other hacks, staying at a Travelodge under police protection
So he used the hotel TV, a Fire Stick and his phone
In September 2022, 90 clips of unfinished GTA 6 showed up on a fan forum. Rockstar later told the court the hack cost $5 million to recover from, plus thousands of hours of staff time
In 2023 a jury found he did it. Doctors said he wasn't fit to stand trial, so the judge sent him to a secure hospital with no end date
This summer he got moved to a regular prison, and his new trial was set to start November 9 at Woolwich Crown Court
10 days before GTA 6 comes out
Ethan Cole retweeted
SHE WENT IN FOR HER 10,000 MILE SERVICE. THEY CHECKED EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE OIL
It's a service bay full of white vans and red tool chests, and her whole forearm is open metal from elbow to wrist. A tech in work gloves shines a light into her hand and she just watches him do it, kind of amused.
Then she's standing with one foot on a little stand while a girl in a maroon shirt crouches by her knee with a little scanner, and the joint lights up blue. Last stop is her chest. The panel's open, it's all circuit boards in there, and there's a big round fan glowing right next to it. She looks pretty happy about the whole thing honestly.
Price: $94,000
Under the hood:
- Arm: open forearm frame, serviced from the elbow down
- Knee: metal joint that lights up blue during a scan
- Chest: removable panel over stacked circuit boards
- Cooling: one big round fan with a light in the middle
my car service never looks this calm
Ethan Cole retweeted
MY GROK BOT BOUGHT A COIN WHILE I WAS ASLEEP. THEN IT WOKE ME UP TO SELL IT.
5:40 AM: "$VOLTRA is running. wake up."
$240 → $4,911 by morning.
What it did before the alarm:
→ dodged $BLEEDO (−88% in 24h)
→ $GLOBBY pump: +$146.88
→ $MAPLO pump: +$824.58
→ aped $VOLTRA at 4:58 AM, checks 6/6
Half asleep, I watched the ladder:
TP1 +300% ✅
TP2 +700% ✅
"+1,000% and climbing. slide to sell 👇"
One swipe. Sold at +1,318%.
That swipe made $2,237.41. Almost half of the whole night.
Morning recap:
$240 starting balance.
$4,911 final balance.
+$4,671 profit.
20.5× the starting amount.
The full night is compressed into 24 seconds.
Slide to sell or snooze?
Ethan Cole retweeted
A BEAR IS COOKING SALMON NOW. HAS AI GONE TOO FAR?
3M views. 70K likes. 20 seconds.
Someone made an AI video of a bear casually preparing a salmon steak like it's just another day in the kitchen
A literal bear. Cooking fish.
And somehow 3 million people showed up to watch
→ the concept is ridiculous, but you understand it instantly
→ putting a wild animal in an ordinary human situation makes the scene even funnier
→ cooking videos are already addictive. apparently adding a bear makes them better
This is the kind of absurd scene I'd love to experiment with using AI video tools in @Picsart
we've officially reached the point where wildlife is making cooking content
at this point i'm just waiting for a bear to open a restaurant
Ethan Cole retweeted
USMAN NURMAGOMEDOV SLAPPED MERAB DVALISHVILI IN A HOTEL LOBBY. 48 HOURS LATER THE INTERNET MADE THE VERSION WHERE MERAB WINS
131K likes · 3,522 comments · 31 seconds
this is an AI parody, none of it happened like this
what actually happened
→ Wednesday night, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. Merab Dvalishvili is giving an interview in the lobby before RAF Abu Dhabi
→ Usman Nurmagomedov walks up and slaps him. Usman is Khabib Nurmagomedov's cousin and Umar Nurmagomedov's brother, the same Umar that Merab beat for the UFC belt in January 2025
→ Usman's crew jumps in. Merab and his 21 year old friend Saba Lazishvili both end up with cuts on their faces
→ Abu Dhabi Police arrest 10 people
→ 6 from Usman's side get 6 months in prison, AED 300,000 fines and deportation. 2 more get the same for filming it
→ Merab and Saba get AED 50,000 fines each and walk out of detention
→ Dana White: "What a bunch of f*ng idiots"
the AI version gives the fans the ending they wanted. Merab in the beige hoodie, a circle of guys in black, and one by one they hit the marble floor until he's the last one standing
why it works
→ it landed while the whole MMA world was searching the story
→ the setting is a real looking hotel lobby at night. warm lamps, marble, gold panels, a buffet counter in the back
→ the camera is a shaky phone like a guest filmed it, so your brain buys it in the first second
→ every exchange is one beat, 2 to 3 seconds, a punch and a body on the floor, nothing drags
the takeaway: when a fight story breaks, make the ending the fans wanted to see
Seedance 2.5 handles full fight choreography like this, try it in Picsart picsart.go.link/dnDXM
Saturday Merab fights Marlon Moraes and Saba debuts against Urijah Faber at RAF Abu Dhabi, in the spot Umar was supposed to take
who walks out with their hand raised?
Ethan Cole retweeted
THE DELIVERY GUY WAS A GOLDEN RETRIEVER AND HE ATE PART OF MY ORDER
→ A dog in a red cap and a delivery jacket opens the door with a McDonald's box
→ He licks his lips, begs with both paws, then hops on a yellow scooter
→ Rides off down a rainy street with the bag strapped to his back
→ The box is open: two burgers with bites missing and a pile of fries
180K likes and 26M views on the source
Every frame is AI, and the part that sells it is how real the small things feel: the wet pavement, the cap sliding as he turns his head, the paws gripping the handlebars, the crumbs on his face.
Pets doing human jobs is the easiest idea in the world and the hardest to make look this natural, and this one holds for 29 seconds.
You can try Seedance 2.5 in @Picsart and make your own
Which job should the dog take next
Ethan Cole retweeted
The temperature’s dropping, energy bills are rising, but Rachel Reeves might cut £6 BILLION meant to make homes warmer. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies could get billions in tax breaks. Think that's outrageous? Sign the petition: 38d.gs/shcb
Ethan Cole retweeted
JPMORGAN SPENDS $2 BILLION A YEAR ON AI. AND JAMIE DIMON JUST SAID OUT LOUD WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR JOB
the CEO of the biggest bank in America sat down at a conference in March 2026 and casually listed where AI already runs inside JPMorgan:
risk. fraud. marketing. underwriting. note taking. idea generation. error reporting.
600 use cases. 50 of them he calls "important"
this isn't some pilot project. JPM's tech budget for 2026 is $19.8B, and AI now sits in the same bucket as data centers and payments, stuff the bank literally can't switch off
then he said the quiet part
the real risk isn't that AI is bad. it's that it gets deployed so fast people don't have time to adjust. too many layoffs. and he called that fear "legitimate"
read that again. the guy running a $4T bank is NOT telling you "relax, nothing changes"
his fix: retraining, relocation, high schools and colleges reskilling people. even people who are 40 or 50
here's my take, and it's not the doom version
a government reskilling plan takes years. committees, programs, budgets. you don't have years
but you've got one thing a giant bank doesn't: nobody has to approve your budget. you can start tonight
look at his list again. notes, research, ideas, catching errors, marketing. that's not "banker stuff", that's what basically every job is made of. and you can hand every single one of those to a $20/month tool right now
JPMorgan pays billions to work "faster, quicker, cheaper". you can get a real piece of that for the price of a lunch
the people who get hurt here won't be the ones without degrees. it'll be the ones waiting for someone else to retrain them
40 or 50 doesn't matter, Dimon said it himself. what matters is whether you adjusted early or the change just happened to you
pick one task from his list this week. give it to AI. see what happens
which one are you starting with?
Ethan Cole retweeted
A TV star told police two men attacked him in Chicago, shouted slurs and put a noose around his neck. The city stood behind him. Then two brothers said he paid them $3,500 to do it. When the judge sent him to jail, he stood up and shouted at the courtroom.
His name is Jussie Smollett, star of the hit show Empire. January 2019: he says he was jumped at 2 a.m. in freezing Chicago. Politicians and celebrities rush to support him.
Within weeks, police arrest two brothers he knew from the set. They say he planned it, rehearsed it and paid them with a check.
At trial he swore he was the victim. The jury didn't buy it. Guilty on five counts of lying to police.
March 2022. The judge gives him 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation, $120,106 in restitution to the city and the maximum $25,000 fine.
And then he stood up. "I am not suicidal. I am innocent. If anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself."
He served six days before he was released pending appeal. In November 2024, the Illinois Supreme Court threw out his conviction on a legal technicality. It never said he was innocent.
So here's what splits people: did a man who faked a hate crime walk free on paperwork, or did the system go after a celebrity twice for the same thing?
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I would have acted differently
Hey @grok, what sentence would you give this teenager if you were the judge?
A 14-year-old girl was shot in the back of the head by two boys she considered friends. They left her in a ditch, believing she would never be found alive.
But she survived.
Her name was Deserae Turner. And what she said to one of her attackers in court a year later made him break down in tears.
On February 16, 2017, 16-year-old Colter Peterson and his friend Jayzon Decker lured Deserae to a dry canal in Utah.
The plan was to kill her.
Peterson shot her in the back of the head at close range. Then the boys took her belongings and left.
Deserae lay there for nearly eight hours before two women found her.
She survived, but the bullet remained lodged in her skull. The damage left her with permanent disabilities. She struggled to walk, see, eat and even think clearly.
On February 1, 2018, Deserae came face to face with Peterson at his sentencing hearing.
She was sitting in a wheelchair. He was standing before the judge in handcuffs.
As she spoke, Peterson began to tremble and cry.
Then she looked directly at him and said:
“You shouldn’t have messed with me, because I am tougher than a bullet.”
But she wasn’t finished.
“Good luck in prison, and remember that because of you, my life is a prison.”
Then came the words that made the courtroom even heavier:
“Welcome to hell. I have been here for a year now.”
Peterson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. His accomplice, Jayzon Decker, also received 15 years to life for helping plan the attack.
Two boys tried to take her life. But when she finally faced them in court, she was the one who had the last words.
Ethan Cole retweeted
BRO GOT ON HIS KNEES FOR A F*CKING ROBOT IN PUBLIC 💀😭
A grown man in a suit literally drops to his knees and starts touching a female humanoid’s inner thighs at a robotics expo.
She’s standing there completely unbothered while everyone pulls out their phones to film. And somehow, nobody thinks this is weird. 🤖
IS THIS STILL A ROBOT DEMONSTRATION OR HAVE WE OFFICIALLY LOST OUR MINDS? 💀
Ethan Cole retweeted
Stephen A. Smith said he cannot understand how the Clintons and Obamas left office worth over $100 million. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas who grew up broke. Obama was a community organizer. Presidential salary never went above $450,000.
Clintons went from about $1.3 million before office to $120 million. Obamas went from $1.3 million to $70 million.
He asked how you enter to serve the people and leave exponentially richer. What do you think happens to that money.