This is so disgusting.

Infantino's such an idiot to keep putting himself on the FIFA stage. Every time I see him I have to hold back my gag reflex and reconsider boycotting my favourite world event.

It's easy for players and managers to say fan loyalty is truest when they're tanking -- but we're the ones who ride or die our whole lives, pay their meal tickets, and sometimes just need a mental health break

If we whittle down faculties and compete for online students we will just consolidate education into a few content providers until all scholarship is done by a handfull of profs and a bunch of bestseller-chasing influencers. The last to notice will be churches who haven't valued education in years.

Easily the Bill Murray Christmas special

Pretty much what we watched today

I actually think Trump would be a funny guy if he wasn't maximum evil with maximum power

Thinking about the 1936 Olympics

Calling Infantino a clown is a true offence against clowns at this point

FIFA: uniting the world in cringe

There are birthday party magicians who would put on a better show than the FIFA president, and most of them probably aren't wickedly corrupt.

Simultaneously excited for the World Cup draw and disgusted by everything FIFA.

Grateful to Lee Beach for having me in to his MacDiv class today to teach about (against) nationalism

Emil Brunner, in 1932, perfectly describing today's tech billionaire

Admiral Holsey agreed to testify. This is how it's done.

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read the competition is strong but it's a real contender

If you want to think about the financial dimensions of the "AI bubble", as usual, Andrew Chang's About That gives a great explainer. youtube.com/watch?v=WwMS...

my spotify wrapped is that I left it for TIDAL this year

There’s something incredibly weird about living in a different moral universe than a friend/s The disconnect on what arrests our attention and confronts us, or stirs our senses toward God, either directly conflict or have no relation. I generally expect faith to be a shared grammar, but I suppose

This is literally how people rationalized nazism, and the church needs to oppose it with internal preaching and public theology that learned its lesson

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

My observation and experience: It's not a coincidence that this non-involvement was at the same time that women started to achieve parity in mid- to senior-ranks. Service work (e.g. involvement in governance) became the job of women, with the effect that fewer men took part.

"Sometimes I worry about a society shaped by superheroes rather than muppets" is a sentence I just found in my book draft.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

If you have tenure and you aren’t standing up for your contingent faculty colleagues I don’t even know what you’re doing.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

top notch mascottin'

We had it right the first time. Frankenstein, the doctor, WAS the monster.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: ▪︎ Massive Attack ▪︎ Wilco ▪︎ The 77s ▪︎ Phoenix ▪︎ Michael Kiwanuka

Wow what a goal

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

The greatest irony of this comment is that it's actually fossil fuel companies (and the governments they've captured) who are living in the past. The rest of the world is moving towards renewables, and all this multi-billion dollar fossil fuel infrastructure is going to be worthless stranded assets.

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

Banning street hockey in Canada? This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.

2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually

It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada. Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

As someone who reluctantly voted for Carney I sure hope other parties will present viable alternatives next election

The new rules will ban *all prayers in public.* That's a violation of religious liberty. The restrictions on face coverings *also* seem to me seriously unjust— and even the paternalist justifications seems self-defeating if it leads to women simply being less able to leave the house.

And sports broadcasts remind us that TV tends to focus on the famous instead of the good

‘The statistics are pretty frustrating in whatever way you look at it.’ Columnist Niigaan Sinclair talks about the 10th anniversary of the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action and how progress on reconciliation seems to have stalled. Full Face to Face interview: youtu.be/WSnwmTvBCII

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

Had a trigger memory today when Willow Creek's Global Leadership Summit came up. At the time I was similtaneously disturbed and gaslit by how much everyone loved it, but in retrospect, wow, was that ever theologically vapid, utterly demoralizing stuff.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Who needs a Kafka novel

DAZN and FUBO exemplify the enshittification of sports streaming. Every year we pay more for less. We used to get commentary from the grounds and a halftime panel. Today it's Martin Tyler muttering alone from home and a halftime loop that barely transcends a screensaver.

Started a movie where achieving tenure is a big plot point and had to laugh

Evidence from Farage's teacher at Dulwich College to his headmaster

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Pope Leo XIV's Apostolic Letter on the 1700th anniversary of Nicaea just dropped. IN UNITATE FIDEI