indeed

Feel like the World Cup lesson here is not to ever let up on the gas.

Wow

Please not a penalty singular. We need penalties plural now.

By Alito’s reasoning any votes that can’t be counted by midnight should be invalid too, shouldn’t matter if they were mailed or done in person.

Underrated aspect of Panama’s win is that it was their 6th kicker who won it (and Germany’s 6th who missed). Expectations for everyone after #5 are so wildly different from 1-5.

God that was deranged and wonderful Paraguay

Really starting to love the whack a mole player popups on Fox when the second half starts.

(inventing the human condition) let's make it exhausting

They should get rid of the robes too. And no help with their wardrobe so Alito has to wear one of his sheets.

Come on Paraguay bring the chaos

"That’s not leadership as much as it is management. That’s the problem with reaching for neutrality." Great piece by Jerry Brewer in the Atlantic on last night's Pride Match. Love good writers who have good takes, and make everything more human. Worth the read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/740...

Love seeing a happy Keys again

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

Canada just scored, but according to Google AI search they have 9 more goals coming! Exciting time to be alive.

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Cabo Verde has never lost a World Cup match

Shoot that right into my veins Cabo Verde

Every single word in this headline is a surprise

That shot oh my god. Cabo Verde!

Commentators in the US aren’t nearly excited enough for this Curaçao performance. It’s pretty fun to watch.

"I am not a normal president," quite the flex

That was a great goal. Was pulling for Cote d'Ivoire here.

HOW DID HE NOT TAKE THAT SHOT (GER-CIV that is)

As someone who grew up with a special needs sibling (with Down Syndrome) I’ll just say it’s not a surprise that the mouth-breathing douchebags I remember as a kid gravitated toward Trump and MAGA.

"For the second tournament in a row, top-ranked Sabalenka exited with a bagel to-go" is an award winning line here

Fascinating thread

LLMs are perpetuation machines. It’s literally what they’re designed to do.

I mean they can’t kick them all out.

DirecTV does this thing where after like three hours it asks you "Are you still watching" and I feel like it’s really saying shouldn’t you move away from the TV now, son

I had that Fox commercial on mute just now at half time and still low key threw up in my mouth

What are we even doing as a species

I was ok with it until the niacin

I know it’s early but I love this and didn’t expect that I’d ever feel good about the World Cup being here, with this administration, and didn’t think I’d be reminded of how good we can really be. We’re awful but also diverse and open and welcoming. Especially in our big cities.

Typical Mamdani. He’s only saying all this because he believes it and because it’s true.

I am so here for Curaçao in this game.

A very happy 80th & final birthday to our great President!

Brazil underwhelming so far, or Morocco is just good

This makes me think we need to bring back Letterman, not David but the Electric Company superhero who was by several orders of magnitude the greatest superhero. He can single-handedly turn the president into a sad and harmless Rump and a grateful nation will rejoice.

Haiti being told by FIFA to change their uniforms at the last minute because it’s too political to celebrate their independence from French rule is so on brand

Watched Hacks finale last night and loved it even though I was a mess at the end of a 20 hour travel day. Maybe that’s why I loved it.

Here on Lenglen watching Khachanov and a new favorite, Marco Trungelitti. He’s fading a little now in the 4th but first two sets were fun, and I love his shaggy pool guy vibe.

Here at Roland Garros for first time. Excited to watch Monfils tonight. The heat is… something else.

"even though I had nothing to do with it" is such a dick move on multiple levels

One underexplored but quasi-dystopian good thing about hating AI is that "AI enhancements" are going to become the premium features that you just absolutely do not need and can live without.

Trump has whatever is the exact opposite of imposter syndrome

"If you don't care about science, that's okay, because AI is going to touch everything else as well" sounds so much like a warning, and it's not meant as a warning. It's meant to be happy prophecy! And the kids are just not fooled at all.

"I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months" is pretty nice and almost enough to forgive the troubling moustache

I like them doing the cover for non-tennis fans, that's great for the sport. Tennis fans will note that his back is covered in clay, meaning at some point in this imaginary match he also was lying *face-up* on the clay, and it wasn't after winning the match! Unless it was.

there’s a difference between not putting your name on something and not driving it home to voters over and over that what you did worked and your policies are effective. You can’t just do neither and expect it to work out with low information voters.