Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

Pure number salad

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

BBC What are you doing running a full article on an objectively terrible model's outputs. CIES giving Liverpool 28% and Forest 7% of the title smh

✍️ New article: "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads" Decades ago, Britain’s roads were much more dangerous. Cars had no seatbelts, airbags, mirrors, or flashing indicators. Traffic signs and signals were rare, and speed limits and other rules were rarely enforced.

Survey of Jewish voter opinions. Lotta no shit Sherlock stuff in here, but NB: 80% of Jewish women voted Harris preserving democracy + abortion are the top 2 issues for Jews BY FAR almost all Jews think praising 10/7 is antisemitic, few think criticizing "Israeli war strategy" (their words) is.

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A play in three acts

Big notes of caution on reading Okafor's FBRef bars, very few minutes and a bunch as striker, with massive sub effects. Taking out the striker mins, and accounting for sub effects. Last 2 seasons Moves the ball into the box a bunch, nice outlet carrier & dribbler, hope he can add more shots

The reason Liverpool and other big clubs sell a lot of academy players is that it’s incredibly rare for a youth prospect to turn into a viable contributor for a title-contending PL side, so the majority of academy “successes” are just going to be guys who are good enough to earn a £20 million fee

Model output and projections for the new PL season. ***Model has no off-season info, so is rating teams on their May 2025 level, it will adjust pretty quick as we get some matches played*** I expect Brentford, Wolves to be worse than model suggests I expect Tottenham to be better

new Expecting Goals study looking at age curves in soccer and separating out skills of passing, shooting, ball-carrying and defending: www.expectinggoals.com/p/building-m...

It's easy to gloat - and let's be honest, this is very funny - but it's also a very bad sign that one of the main reasons Dr. Prasad got fired is that he refused to approve a drug that probably doesn't work and may be harmful. Not a great sign for US citizens, that.

Jonathan Reynolds is right. A wealth tax is "daft". Here's why:

The BBC have zero excuse for not covering this, given it started right outside of their offices in London. The systematic abuse and erasure of trans people in the UK is led by our politically corrupt national broadcaster.

All the football front offices conspiring to make Luke Edwards look like a right tit is so funny. Seven minutes between these

pretty telling comment here. Britain and America absolutely did feed and clothe Nazi and Japanese POWs during WWII. and they provided food and supplies to occupied territories as the war was won. the Hunger Plan by contrast was a Nazi thing

“Credit to the boys” implies the existence of “Debit from the boys”

I love Paddy so much, but this was very obvious from the Nmecha signing and it is also obviously the right time to move on.

we're so many years into the xG era and still "guy who put up really good xG and had a bad finishing season" is still the free-est money out there

Arguments like “this guys statistics are artificially deflated by the style he played” are compelling for why a guy is potentially undervalued, but become a lot less compelling when you’re paying top dollar for a player.

I left X months ago. At some point, surely, a threshold is passed where it is no longer appropriate for Governments to continue to have a presence on that platform. If its AI going full-on Nazi is not that threshold, what is? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

There's a single correct response to this kind of finding, which is utter despair

I don't think #lufc are signing a 10 this window. Longstaff in 23/24 was v different to last season. Between this, Diarra/Sadiki on the list it's imo pretty clear we are looking for pressy box-crasher from that 3rd midfielder, not a creative passer (though the other 2 can ball carry for days too)

Nah don't do this #lufc

love this website. this could mean three different things, 33% chance each.

A key point often missed, we will have to record £2.5m in amortisation cost this year when we loan him out. So it is only better to loan than sell if we sell for under £2.5m, not £5m.

Long story short, the vet fucked up in how they terminated their relationship with a rude woman and this let that same woman, a legal expert who is also GC, to take them to the cleaners. It doesn't mean that supporting trans rights now means you are automatically discriminating against GCs. 9/

Like this one a lot, Stach is quality

Etymology fact of the week: "calque" is a loanword, while "loanword" is a calque. #etymology #language #linguistics

who needs to worry about genocide when you can rotate a perfect golden sphere of cumming shrimp in your mind palace forever

the problem with even trying to rigorously count utils is that you can count any number of utils you want by shifting your time window and your probability estimates.

Another data point for the 7% of the UK is pure psychopath

Germany’s recent UBI trial showed, once again, that giving people an unconditional monthly income improves mental well-being, stress levels, sleep, and overall life satisfaction — all without reducing working hours. The myth that ‘free money’ turns people into couch potatoes simply isn't true.

are they just sorting a table by xG overperformance talksport.com/football/323...

Wild that the discussion is about the veracity of whether they threw stones and not why the fuck would you shoot a teenager for throwing stones even if that is the case

this is such a striking error of advance scouting he says he started Mount in order to cover Spurs' inverted fullbacks but that hasn't been Ange's tactic for months, in Europe they've been running Udogie up and down the left touch line with Pedro Porro staying deep on the right to play longballs

Israel's Finance Minister Smotrich: "We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth. He couldn’t, so he created grok. Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:

I am publishing soon something we were scooped on @theonion.com beat us to it I am not joking

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social: The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong. Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play. Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters. Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters. 🧵 academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

This is Labour's core problem here. The right will never allow Starmer a win on immigration because the issue is central to their appeal and therey' daren't lose it. So whatever he does will never be enough.