Cape Verde and Pico Lopes qualify for the knockout stages in the true Irish fashion (three draws). Now for the next stage of the prophecy to be fulfilled they must beat Argentina on penalties, with Vozinha saving one.

“Welcome, but be good!”? Who does he think US Passports are issued to? Visitors?

You could do all the usual Catholic things with Father Demo but if you wanted him to save anything you had to pay fifty bucks.

Dropping that chalk-talk substack thing in here is of course just asking for trouble. Now imagining the Venn diagram of “Bsky users who cannot reliably identify a joke to save their lives” and “Bsky users who believe they can identify AI-generated text without any false positives or negatives”

lol, nicely pitched. NB This line of argument is already an axis of conflict, as there are emerging fights over leveraging AI in the world of Accommodations. This is one of several reasons why theories of AI that only see top-down imposition are missing how its diffusion is happening.

I always risk slipping into Douglas Adams mode on this topic, as in “The US Higher Education System is big, really big. You won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way to the top floor of the Arts building but that’s just peanuts to the USHES …”

Here you go.

Good match to watch on the Telemundo feed, let me tell you that.

🇪🇨!

Paul McGrath ran around that stadium for 90 minutes without a Pausa de Hidratación.

Pausa de Extremely Loud Booingatación

Germany’s away kit looks like a cheap PC from 1999 or 2000 that’s trying to look like an iMac.

Incidentally, in another echo from a vanished world, Wittgenstein sailed in to New York harbor on the Queen Mary (third class ticket), disembarked, and then got the train to Ithaca. Imagine the luxury and romance of it all—you could get the train to Ithaca!

A/C discourse, which I will otherwise be avoiding please and thank you, has reminded me of this passage from Norman Malcolm’s memoir of Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein visited Malcom in Ithaca, NY, in the Summer of 1949 (his only visit to the US).

Oddly, the initiating force behind Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” showing up in increasingly stupid places is the soundtrack to “Shrek”.

At the end of the day, wasn’t it really … himself?

Mini-Mamdani implies Micro-Mamdani, both in A and B variants.

I’ve decided I disapprove of Brazil’s white shorts. Not a strong look with the gold shirt.

The Scottish 13, Hendry, is living in a constant state of frozen terror now whenever gets the ball at the back.

Pausa de Sit Down There And Have A Long Think For Yerselves Ye Shower Of Bampotsación

Oh my God.

Oh, Scotland.

Beckham and his comedy-sized glass of wine.

Shifting fully over to writing articles that have titles of the form “Stop Doing <Somthing or Other>” and that have sections containing the phrases “The Problem”, “The Clincher” and “The Twist”.

Zelizer (1994), Strait of Hormuz edition.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you see me asleep at the wheel, please don’t presume to wake me up or have someone else drive

El Classico, they’re calling it

Harry Kane you absolute muppet

Pausa De Warm Flat Beeratación

Around 410 CE, the Romans left Britain, opening the way for waves of settlement by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes and the displacement of its Celtic peoples. Subsequently,

Pausa de Pear Cider That’s Made From A Hundred Percent Pearsataciòn

“Après le déluge, moi”

Rising from the humblest of origins to dominate the national news and challenge a President like this is a real Horatio Algae story

Pausa de hidratación vertical

Pausa de Lilletatación

Thank God for Mute Thread.

Quod licet Jon Bon Jovi, non licet Phoebe Maltz Bovy

It’ll cost you more than a subscription, too.

To the Poundland Station

Andy Burnham on his way from Manchester to London via train. I assume the government of Buckinghamshire demanded his carriage be sealed as a condition of transit.

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

Kermit and Piggy are central casting for Leopold and Molly Bloom. Stephen is the one human character, played by Timothée Chalamet. Link Hogthrobb is Boylan; Rizzo is Buck Mulligan. Sam is A.E. Gonzo is Simon Daedalus. His chickens are Misses Douce & Kennedy. Statler & Waldorf are the Citizen.

That is of course correct, but brother, it is not justice

Ahahahahaha

The Battle for Algaes

Pausa de Sharman-Cox Daiquiriatación

Pausa de Sharman-Cox Daiquiriatación

Thank you for your attention to this filthy mass of disgusting slimy organic matter

I’d wondered what Limahl from Kajagoogoo was up to these days; managing Ecuador, it appears.