just as we all predicted — argentina miraculously withstanding a furious shooting gallery by a dominant cabo verde attack to hang on for a 3-2 extra time win.

that is the goal of the tournament so far

is this happening? am i awake??

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

average rugby player after receiving literally bone-crunching tackle: bit of a hard one there average football player after being lightly brushed: alack! alack sir, I die! I perish! foully slain! cut down in my youth by the cruel scythes of evil men!

Jamir Nazir, a relatively unknown writer from Trinidad, is at the center of one of the biggest AI-writing scandals. @willoremus.com talked to Nazir about his side of the story.

Jamir Nazir was accused of using AI to write "The Serpent in the Grove," a short story that was named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Prize. This week, he won the overall prize after an investigation concluded he didn't use AI. I talked with him about it: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The FIFA World Peace Prize used to mean something in this country

If Trump isn’t on the phone tomorrow to get Balogun un-suspended what even was the point of all that corruption

Balogun out for the next game now right? That ref just single-handedly sabotaged our Wod Cup.

HALFTIME: United States 1 Bosnia & Herzegovina & the ref 0

RIP Freddy

just sayin

I was about to post a very American complaint about soccer matches being decided on PKs by saying, “Imagine if tied basketball games were decided by a free-throw contest.” Then I remembered how close basketball games usually do in fact end.

ok not all soccer players are soft

Was hoping for a full montage of nose-pickers there

Is there any phenomenon in sports more anticlimactic than a match-winning goal that sends the entire stadium into bedlam only to be called back after a lengthy and tedious video review?

the alignment here is interesting

been saving this bottle for a while. finally broke it out on the occasion of getting a good deal on some ny strip steaks at the grocery

I think saying AI is “only as good as the information you use to train it” actually still oversells it by a bit. AI can mess up even when it has been trained only on “good” data.

Boned your last thug (in harmony).

you’ve bloodied my last valentine

You’ve beached your last boy

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

Sucks to lose but that goal happened because an injured Auston Trusty was basically a zombie on the field and Christian Pulisic of all people was essentially playing left back. Why Dest was on the other side of the field I have no idea.

"we're gonna get a replay for better or worse" lol

weah was so bad he got benched from the bench team

On the bright side, I think it's safe to say Pocchetino picked the right guys to be starters and the right ones to be on the bench in the games that mattered. Best player on the field for the US by far tonight is the only one who started the first two games.

Showing Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the same place at the same time violates the other first rule of Fight Club

The US is starting three players from greater Philly, all of whom played for the Philly Union. One of them, Auston Trusty, just scored.

“The decision comes months after some Woodburn residents expressed fears that the information collected from the cameras would be used to arrest immigrants or invade people’s privacy.”

yes and I think it's another symptom of the reality that artists/writers/critics used to be chosen for the job by humans and paid wages, whereas now their work is chosen piecemeal by the algorithm and they're paid in attention that they must then figure out how to alchemize into a livelihood

can u imagine the meeting where they came up with these 9 names it was either the world's least advanced AI model or some american guy named John who was like "oh yeah I can definitely name 9 famous soccer players" but then could only think of 8

this is beautiful

Technically, they’re Remains now.

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

NEW: Vessel captains crossing the Strait of Hormuz will have to answer "our riddles three" Iran's foreign ministry says

folks complain about the pile-ons on bluesky but at least the brigaders here have more than one insult

pretty hyped for this ngl

Brutal, Monday morning and no one can do their banking.

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug* CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug* ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

I continue to experience insane censorship on TikTok. In the latest case, Paramount apparently got them to take down my video of the UFC fighter saluting Trump at the White House

think australia got confused. this isn’t soccer this is a rugby team

also unless I'm missing something Australia-USA is the first World Cup matchup between two countries that call it Soccer

So funny flicking between Bluesky, where the main debate on my feed is "is it unfair to call Keir Starmer the worst prime minister ever?" and X, where discussion of the day is whether liberals should accept there are some good arguments for not letting women vote

“Normally one would have to pay a lot of money to a discreet professional to be humiliated this badly.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

my most sacrilegious world cup take: hydration breaks are fine

I regret to report that the most wholesome and delightful narrative of this World Cup is roughly as authentic as everything else on social media these days www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...