I’d be interested to see stats on this but I reckon 90% of that first half was played in England’s half of the pitch…

Jordan Pickford is the reason England are winning at half time.

When it comes to the military uses of Google's products, or the way the company has retaliated against staff who raise concerns, Google's in-house philosophers are strangely silent: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The fact that she’s already doing the rounds of far right groups supported by vile individuals like Jordan Peterson shows that the membership of the SNP were entirely right not to elect her…

I can’t wait for the final. Football fans are very good at coming up with cutting chants and I can’t wait to hear what they come up with for Donald Trump.

Catching up on the highlights and it’s absolutely a red card for Balogun. Intent is irrelevant. He was reckless in his attempt to get the ball and his recklessness resulted in a nasty foul that could easily have broken the guy’s ankle.

Perhaps I’m an incurable cynic but which sounds more plausible: Belgium aren’t in their red strip out of respect for people with red-green colour blindness (as the ITV commentators seem to believe)? Or that each team is contractually obliged by FIFA to wear their other strip to boost jersey sales?

We definitely were not watching the same game…

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is wonderful in and of itself. But even better that Matt Goodwin is having a meltdown about it. Matt Goodwin - a man who can’t even dream of reaching the heady heights of mediocrity, and who knows it too!

Everyone has the right to seek AND TO ENJOY asylum from persecution. British “generosity” shouldn’t need to be repaid. These people are fleeing persecution! inews.co.uk/news/asylum-...

Jesus F-ing Christ. Moronic? Disingenuous? Likely both.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... F…..F…..S!!! JUST STOP!!! Not only is this incredibly dangerous given the complexity and nuance of potential cases; it is also utterly unnecessary. We have a system to do this already. Just fund it properly. But it isn’t about things functioning properly, is it…

Does anyone with knowledge of Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) investments know if our pension scheme is invested in GenAI and if so, how much and in what? I found a story from May 2025 reporting that it has poured £250 million into the Blackstone Data Centre project. Not good if true.

Remember Dario, theft is a perfectly acceptable foundation for a business. That’s the rule YOU made.

I hate to say it but I don’t think we (Scotland) deserve to go through. We’ve been pretty poor. Yes we beat Haiti 1-0 but we didn’t play well. The first half against Morocco was embarrassing and we have been woeful tonight. The fans have been fabulous. Too bad it isn’t reflected on the pitch.

The AI bubble needs to pop—and there is a choice between two paths that can be taken to recover from the potential financial fallout, the author Cory Doctorow tells @cwarzel.bsky.social. Watch Galaxy Brain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQN...

Is anyone really surprised that Trump was outsmarted by a single-cell organism?

I will always be embarrassed by our national anthem. A national anthem all about glorifying one person 🤮

My joy for Messi becoming the all time record World Cup goal scorer is about 30% love of Messi. The other 70% is the immense pleasure I get from thinking how fuming Cristiano Ronaldo will be.

So how did we get here, with Starmer on the way out after two years? To some extent, it does go back to the beginning. It was not an enthusiastic victory for Labour. Getting rid of the Tories was the top reason people voted for them in 2024, though with their message of 'Change' also resonating.

Prediction for Burnham’s tenure as PM: he won’t substantively change anything about some of the policies Labour are pursuing which are causing them to haemorrhage support , and the media will run stories ‘wondering’ whether he should resign. Or He will change track (unlikely) and will then be

I think that the emphasis in this quote on leading the party into the next election says so much about British politics and media, and not in a remotely good way.

www.theguardian.com/football/202... I’ll just leave this here…

I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.

The thing I understand the least about GenAI in academe is using it to avoid reading. I understand - although I don’t do it - why someone might want to write with some AI assistance. But reading?! That seems to me something that should just never be farmed out - to Research Assistants or to AI.

These World Cup ad breaks are ridiculous. Football is a game of 2 halves, not 4 quarters. So annoying.

And: People haven’t sufficiently grasped what it will mean to have this generation of students relying heavily on AI at university & in advanced degrees - who are becoming the future physicians and engineers and teachers and journalists & whose academic arc has been constant cognitive surrender 😬

Good on the Scotland fans for booing Hakimi every time he touches the ball.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

I am going to continue to assume anyone wearing these is a creep who I should go out of my way to avoid.

This is a really interesting read on LLMs as “co-authors”. Lots of food for thought!

Treaty of Versailles 2.0

So what concessions has Iran made, exactly? And don’t say “they agreed not to pursue a nuclear weapon” - they’ve been making that same pledge for years; it’s not new.

Frankly England should have no problem winning this match considering they have the literal Messiah playing at number 9… English commentary… #WorldCup2026

Not great for the Iberian peninsula so far…#WorldCup2026

At a time when racist and anti-Muslim extremism is being nromalised and sponsored by Moscow, the @OxfordUnion choosing to invite Yaxley Lennon is disgusting. I hope that every serious public figure now boycotts this group of attention-seeking students. bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...

I wish Lewis’s first Ferrari win could have been at Monza (pictured), so I could have seen it in person. But beyond thrilled!!! @scuderiaferrarif1.bsky.social

OMG I’m crying with happiness for Lewis Hamilton!! Forza Ferrari 🏎️🏁🍾

The digital revolution was built on the backs of an underpaid, undervalued workforce whose labor was hidden from view. So is the AI revolution.

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

I’ve been listening to the dreadful spiel from management about AI. In light of what I‘ve heard, here’s my promise to students: I will never use AI to write emails to you, to craft presentations I deliver to you, or to summarise information I provide to you. I respect you too much for that.

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

Imagine if all white people were held responsible for the crimes of white people. The mobs would be very busy indeed.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... “Protests against immigration”?!?! Are you serious, @theguardian.com?!?!?! “Racist rioting” or “Racist pogrom” erupts in Belfast is what I think you meant to say!! Jesus Christ. Call it what it is!

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Gambling companies know how addictive their ‘product’ is and they don’t care. Anyone who lives in the UK knows that you simply cannot escape the constant gambling adverts - on tv, on the high street, on transport. They’re everywhere, all the time. They paint

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.