the discourse app is dying and the sports app is struggling to be born

Yes, it's a foul and so per the rules it's no goal and a free kick back in the Egyptian half - fine. But did the referee make a "clear and obvious error" for VAR to intervene? What was "clear and obvious" about it?

enjoy it while you can Brits because under woke 2 Wonderwall will be a violation of international law

My nerves 😩

Or maybe to the tune of Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab': they tried to give Flo a red card, Trump said: no, no, no

Give it a round of 'if it wasn't for our grandads you'd be Krauts' in the Belgium game and complete your destiny, lads.

This really is a vintage World Cup: terrific football, ties - you bet! - and now: a dazzlingly dodgy decision for the hosts. The US now only needs to master 'chants that are not boringly literal' to become a footballing nation.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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The nutmeg! The strike!

NO WAY

Harboring a casual disdain for premodernity is how we end up with a nation full of people so committed to progress and innovation as abstractions that just using those words is enough to defend any proposition without debate.

fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"

On the Fox coverage Darren Fletcher just referred to England as "one of the World Cup favourites" and, to be honest, I can't think of a more laughable statement based on this team's performances in the tournament so far

New amazing book out in open access! can't wait to dig into this ---- smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

1/ 8th-9th century relief panel from an altar, decorated with crosses, discs, foliage and (can you find them?) Alpha and Omega (Α/ω). The two halves are not quite mirror images of each other: small and not-so-small variations keep it interesting and are fun to find. #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

The false prophet, in the St-Sever Beatus (c. 1050) gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

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French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

California’s new eight-hour battery is making its grid even more renewable. California has switched on Tumbleweed, the first major US battery project able to discharge power for eight hours, twice the usual duration for grid batteries. Canary Media buff.ly/jBKQxrf #ShareGoodNewsToo

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

this is rude as fuck lmao

Good lord that was a low-quality game

A stunning treasure of legal history to explore containing some of the oldest English laws and which also features a dragon - The magnificient Textus Roffensis. (Textus Roffensis is on display in the crypt of Rochester Cathedral and available online at rochestercathedral.org/textus) #medievalsky

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

Salary: £35,993 💀

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

“New colours, same smile,” [the 46-year-old who hasn't played professionally since 2015] said. “I can’t wait to get back to dancing on the ball". www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Cape Verde has fewer people than every U.S. state (and DC).

It is poignant to see that Christie's credits Rosamond McKitterick (†) for her assistance describing this extremely early leaf of the Admonitio Generalis. So appropriate for what is perhaps her final credit. www.christies.com/lot/lot-6594...

If I'm seeing you in advising, you and your parents have decided you'll attend a SLAC that costs essentially $100k/year. To do so while avoiding all art/literature/history/humanities classes seems to me to defeat the purpose, but then again I'm just an English prof, what do I know

My AP skepticism is rapidly expanding to dual-enrollment programs as well. Taking your gen ed requirements at the institution where you seek to get a degree is good, actually.

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The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

We lost Rosamond McKitterick, a great scholar, a great teacher, and a great human being, far too early. This has been hard to write, but thinking about her, who she was and the person she chose to be can never bring me anything but joy. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...

The interesting question is not who uses Zotero or does not use Zotero. The interesting question is which academics enjoy working conditions that allow them to make scholarship central to their professional lives, and which academics have to do scholarship <in spite> of their working conditions.

this piece really nails the spectral existence of contingent academic labor--being highly visible to students, yet invisible to the institution

huge news 🚨

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Regret to say my first visit to LACMA's new Geffen galleries today was disheartening if not dispiriting. This is probably a view into the future for many museums: spaces designed primarily for selfies & city views, and not for actually looking at art

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

New dystopia just dropped

Subskeeting MIT news but it could be any number of places. 📚

this is still the homepage, woof

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Had the pleasure of Ollie visiting my class this Spring for a series of guest lectures, which distilled many of the key ideas from this book. Buy it! It's great!