great stuff from @maxread.info on the boys and their formats

one of my favorite sights in all of soccer is cristian Romero with a big shit eating grin ostentatiously playing peacemaker in a big jostling crowd

"the body keeps the score" is the most claudeslop phrase that is not actually claude slop

This Thursday I’ll be in conversation with the legend David Goldblatt for an @equatormag.bsky.social online event on the politics of the American World Cup — free and open to all, 6pm BST / 1pm EST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-cards-...

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the 'post-literacy'/'new orality' consensus is getting so strong im feeling positive its wrong 😎

the only j space i care about is the little alley for the dumpsters behind the video store where you can smoke a j before your shift

the double humiliation of a national loss that also confirms non-ball-knowers priors

VAR sucks but i love when refs make the box with their hands. all time great ref hand signal up there with traveling and holding

something so typical and heartbreaking that this moment's particular flavor of transphobia is the sense that someone, somewhere is getting an unfair advantage in a situation of increasingly intense and supposedly existential competition

i love to love mauricio pochettino

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“Now, we wouldn't want to suggest that the *only* reason the chain has gone into hiding is to effect de-butchification so as to slip undetected into the Woke 2 mobs”…

the widespread decriminalization of marijuana has done untold damage to our cultural understanding of liminal spaces

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can't imagine caring as much as you all do about europeans and air conditioning

vibe shift watch: facebook ending its war on its employees?

the venue across the street from the bar where i watched game 5 hosted a band called "prostitute" on june 13 so apple photos has named the automatically generated albums of photos from that night "prostitute concert" for me and all my friends

my theory is that transplant discourse is heating up because everyone knows that a lot of the knicks-related nyc homerism is unbearably small-town and wack but can't admit it so they're taking out the psychic pain of being revealed as provincials on transplants

this @tcraggs22.bsky.social piece still the best take defector.com/bari-weiss-i...

the question of whether or not genai-led homogenization (in design, illustration, writing) is temporary is really interesting bc the flood of AI-scented product will change both human taste and AI apps themselves

"An under-appreciated dynamic of ongoing universal aesthetic slopification is that it threatens not just the professional design sector but the vibrant, inventive, and often inspiringly ugly world of amateur design." great read from @maxread.info on, essentially, de-enshittification of bad design

sad to think that you can produce 40 hours of very serious television about a fake cuban ray gun that gives cia agents tinnitus and it's still not good enough to satisfy the ghouls and save your show

this might be right for bk heights but in FG the kids are named ava and leo not isabel and atticus; she's in-house counsel for an AI start up not an investor; he's only "thinking about writing a novel" because he recently got forced out of his design job at uber/fb/apple. nw nowhere near $42m

its really crazy to be a pretty successful writer of airport books and screenplays and decide to go do this instead

NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...

not sure it's really been made clear enough in the outside coverage of this that bilton is a manifestly bizarre and incompetent choice for this job—a glib moron even when doing the job he was trained for, which is a very different one from the 60 minutes job

Had a great time on @tifofootball.bsky.social yesterday talking Tottenham, recruitment, executives, the periodic table and so on. With @joe-devine.bsky.social @jonmackenzie.bsky.social and star loan signing @shainin.bsky.social youtu.be/QxD4Eesag0w?...

don't really think this is true at all! prognozpogodi, jon mud, the shape store, thereiruinedit, kirkification/agartha, lucamaxiim, ai generated seinfeld, even the balenciaga videos... lots of strange and creative "outsider" ai stuff happening on tiktok and IG reels

LOL

beff jezos effectively accelerated his ass outta the us

are there devoted fans of "subway takes" or is it just like a necessary infrastructural feature of the internet designed to connect people with stuff to promote with people who like to get mad

I think there is a pretty good short story in the Granta AI story "The Serpent in the Grove," I just don't think it's "The Serpent in the Grove" www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

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was really excited to talk to trevor paglen and holly herndon about ai and art for the rad new publication totei

"graham platner class position discourse" and its many attendant misunderstandings is one of the rare occasions where downwardly mobile WASPs can feel properly like a poorly understood minority ethnic group

my kingdom for a 24/7 distributed on-message lib-left propaganda apparatus that could make "the streamer who goes around calling people the n-word in the hopes they hit him so he can shoot them" the face of the republican party

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S tier: born to run, BITUSA, Nebraska, tunnel A tier: darkness, river, tom joad, greetings B tier: Seeger, wild the innocent, tracks, hypothetical human touch/lucky town edited comp, unreleased Philadelphia style album C tier: devils, wrecking, hopes D tier: letter, magic, stars F tier: the rising

can only imagine if de zerbi had been in charge all season. we might have had a shot at 13th, maybe even 12th place

perfect millennial top 5: viral-video challenge, stomp clap, pharrell joint that accidentally killed sampling, macklemore

my take on the drama, only a few weeks late (w/ "spoilers") maxread.substack.com/i/196025487/...

"the forklift model" of a.i. education maxread.substack.com/p/the-drama-...

the best education to make a person 'literate' in 'ai' would be a comprehensive liberal arts education :)

John Sterling died this morning. Reupping this from his retirement: defector.com/john-sterlin...

not a real yankee fan unless you once thought you hated john sterling and then eventually realized you loved john sterling