What if you could simply “prompt” a model with a few shots and get accurate xG predictions? #TabPFN is making waves on academic benchmarks. We tested how it handles a real-world sports analytics problem. w/ Timo Martens & @jessejdavis.bsky.social dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/...

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

Insane framing. It is not "blood libel" to write about the numerous NGO reports alleging sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

The FT has a sensible article pointing out that none of the AI industry’s sums add up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The impossible maths of the AI boom

MLS says a stopped clock would “improve consistency and fan understanding.” For example, stopping play could help fans understand that Continental is the smart choice in tires

New research led by Trinity College Dublin’s AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law and people’s lives.

Pick a bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

yeah it’s extremely fucked up. hate crimes, which is what this looks like, are horrible. living in fear of hate crimes is horrible too. sorry.

American century of humiliation continues apace

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole and figured out that the 2025 Sounders gave up the 5th most goals from dead balls as a percentage of total goals conceded since 2013, which is when the ASA database begins.

For all the whinging, this is currently the best Sounders attack by the underlying numbers since @americansocceranalysis.com began keeping data in 2013, and before someone flys in about "finishing" or "xG merchants", this Sounders team is currently pacing their most goals scored at home ever.

For all the whinging, this is currently the best Sounders attack by the underlying numbers since @americansocceranalysis.com began keeping data in 2013, and before someone flys in about "finishing" or "xG merchants", this Sounders team is currently pacing their most goals scored at home ever.

Listening to a news podcast segment about the Trump administration’s use of counter-terrorism laws to target left wing organizations, when suddenly they cut to an ad read by @tombogert.bsky.social for his new podcast with Tab Ramos.

My heart breaks for the student, a 19-year old trans woman; for her family; for the LGBTQIA+ community at UW; and for all affected by this horrific loss. Trans people deserve to live without fear, free from the rhetoric and actions that fuel this kind of violence. She deserved so much better.

I miss the fried catfish at the north beacon hill Shell station so much in this moment.

This. In the same election that elected two trans people to the parliament every party that trumpeted their transphobia lost out. That’s the Scotland i know and love

Pachuca has 6 CCL wins since the switch to home and home. MLS has 1. Today, Pachuca would be one of the lowest spending teams in MLS by payroll, and actually turns a profit on transfers. I think MLS could be much better if it pushed teams to build like Pachuca, but are afraid they can’t market that.

Even Pachuca can’t market that. (You already know this but Seattle are very Pachuca-y)

Pachuca has 6 CCL wins since the switch to home and home. MLS has 1. Today, Pachuca would be one of the lowest spending teams in MLS by payroll, and actually turns a profit on transfers. I think MLS could be much better if it pushed teams to build like Pachuca, but are afraid they can’t market that.

Like MLS would probably win more CCC’s and spend less money than they do now if they restructured the rules to incentivize 30 Pachuca’s. But can MLS sell 30 Pachuca’s?

I think there is an extent to which not just money and parity are the issues, but just as much it’s marketing. That MLS knows it can get better by encouraging less top heavy rosters for the same cost, but worry it will be harder to market.

I think that they can increase quality without degrading parity too much, but that almost certainly means a path forward that does not include more DP’s and perhaps even gives advantages to spreading money instead of signing DPs. Toluca would have a below average MLS payroll by most estimates.

Will liberal political parties finally learn that they can't beat fascists in a racism competition? Lol no, absolutely not but they will keep trying and losing.

Normal People in 2026: “what has gone wrong with the US? 30% are against the pope calling for peace?” Average American before 1960: “what has gone wrong with the US!? Only 30% of the county is against the pope!?”

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

BIG: Sudan says UAE-linked drones were launched from Ethiopia. The United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia were involved in drone attacks on Khartoum International Airport and surrounding areas.

Officials say they have conclusive evidence the drones were launched from Ethiopian territory and linked to Emirati equipment. Sudan has recalled its ambassador from Ethiopia and warned it could respond militarily.

It was always a mistake for the center left media ecosystem to censor Tony Judt and Ta Nehisi Coates because the appetite for criticism of Israel was never going to go away. Here we are.

Meanwhile, Carlson effectively can't be censored because he built up independence from legacy media years ago. He has far more relevance than Ta Nehisi Coates.

Pro-Israel people really don't get how good they had it before the public sentiment swung so hard on the occupation of Palestinian land. Now, there are people both left and right who are saying what is self evidently true. Problem is that the center left is still extremely censorious about it.

When the Economist interviewer said that the destruction in Gaza was bad for Israel and then it was bad for Palestinians and Carlson got to ask her why she put it in that order, it was very obvious that he doesn't even have to try that hard.

Contorting themselves to avoid saying the very bare minimum and Tucker meanwhile gets to peddle his version of the Israel-critical narrative. This is actually a very bad situation and also a very avoidable one.

Increasingly coming to the conclusion that Carlson's beat down of both the Economist and NYT interviewers is less because of any independent skillset he possess and more because these interviewers make themselves look ridiculous on first principles by refusing to condemn the murder of Palestinians

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

Reminds me of JM Berger's definition of extremism as the belief that an in-group's success or survival is inseparable from the need for hostile action against an out-group.

MLS is still a league where every team in the top 5 of the shield standings can drop points to non-playoff teams, and it barely raises questions of if those teams belong in the top 5.

Interesting! At least here in Europe, the younger generations are reading more not less. I wonder if that would hold elsewhere: www.datawrapper.de/blog/reading...

MLS is still a league where every team in the top 5 of the shield standings can drop points to non-playoff teams, and it barely raises questions of if those teams belong in the top 5.

Shane O'Brien, one of the Irish citizens involved in the Palestine solidarity movement in Berlin who was threatened with deportation from Germany, has been acquitted on all charges related to a protest. A video provided by his defence appeared to contradict key testimony by police officers.

“It might have made sense 5-10 years ago” is basically the MLS motto

Whitecaps fans protesting outside of FIFA Congress

I’ve seen several “Mamdani won because he has riz not because people really want democratic socialism in the US” takes. To which I need to point out that Katie Wilson won in Seattle with the same policies and exactly zero riz.

The NBA's lottery reform proposal will change, but not eliminate, tanking: defector.com/the-nbas-lot...

I’ve seen several “Mamdani won because he has riz not because people really want democratic socialism in the US” takes. To which I need to point out that Katie Wilson won in Seattle with the same policies and exactly zero riz.

"A small number of far-right actors are disproportionately influencing public debate, shaping conversations, and exerting political pressure, a report has suggested." Almost like capitulating to far right fear mongering wasn't a sensible political position huh