Just learned/remembered where the World Cup will be in 2034. Saudi Arabia.

Does the World Cup do “One Shining Moment”?

Any chance of a collaboration, @stevekornacki.bluesky.bot ?

Personally I think it was a mistake for Messi not to play in this game.

Making Count von Count watch a 0-0 half is rude.

The Odyssey is probably a good diagnostic test: anyone who thought even for a moment the backlash was real has been brain poisoned by right-wing social media and they should immediately discontinue reading X, Facebook, etc.

Another rough day for SpaceX on Wall Street www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/s... ... down another 4% today.

When does a president deserve prime-time television? www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

SpaceX stock closes below its IPO price for the first time since it went public www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...

Putting aside his age for a minute ... If you had this much money, why bother driving yourself? Why not use any other transportation option (taxi, etc.)?

Imagine explaining this to a Weekly Standard reader in 2013

someone has watched that one George Carlin clip too many times

Warren seeks new Trump crypto disclosures after his reported $1.4 billion haul www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

If you've been following my coverage on xAI / SpaceX in Memphis, you know the issues around noise, air pollution, energy & water consumption concerns and more. We went there to see how xAI neighbors are doing and show you how sprawling the facilities are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XP...

Guy at the gym who’s on a call: “I put in another 10 grand!”

“As it turns out, US cities can build new buses, trams, and trains much faster than they may think. The harder question now is whether they can keep up that momentum when it serves locals, and not just visitors.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

England expects that every man will do his duty

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yeah I get it

NEW: Emails show Apple's lawyer mixed up two Asian OpenAI employees' names in its initial outreach over trade secret concerns, setting off a tense exchange between OpenAI's and Apple's attorneys months before Friday's lawsuit. www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/a...

Yiiiiiiiiiiikes.

England will be playing on St. Swithin’s Day. Good sign for them or no?

Sillicon Valley was a documentary

New from me: A lawyer for Apple mixed up two OpenAI employees — one named Wang, the other named Chang — and you can imagine how that was received, months before last week's lawsuit. www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/a...

NEW: How a bungled email soured Apple’s talks with OpenAI months before Apple sued www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/a... tip @techmeme.com

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SpaceX stock sinks for a second-straight day, nearing $135 IPO price www.cnbc.com/2026/07/13/s...

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Texas Democrat vows to investigate SpaceX if elected state attorney general

“It’s factually wrong. They didn’t row. They sailed.” youtu.be/Vpk9JazWn18?...

You don't say

State Sen. Nathan Johnson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, says that if he is elected in November, he plans to investigate whether SpaceX is unfairly benefiting from a grant program designed to expand and subsidize rural broadband.

Texas Democrat vows to investigate SpaceX if elected state attorney general www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Traditional bank advertising: Built on a Foundation of Trust, There for You at Life's Most Important Moments Venmo: hey we noticed you don't gamble nearly as much as you could

“America’s Gorbachev … weakening a superpower he meant to strengthen.”

All three hosts eliminated, like one of those parties where the only people who live there are already asleep somewhere unseen. The world will now raid the grandpa's liquor cabinet of America

Women’s World Cup is about 11 months away. FYI.

My colleagues are reporting, citing a source familiar, that FIFA's decision to overturn Balogun’s suspension came after Trump made a call to FIFA's president.

When you forget your city has fog in July and decide to have fireworks

Weird email

This is shocking.

Interesting parallels between Tom Kean and San Francisco's Jackie Fielder: www.politico.com/news/2026/06... missionlocal.org/2026/06/jack...

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to assault weapon bans next term www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

Waking up to the news that this is no longer my boss.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

SpaceX shares dropped 16% in a single day on Monday… www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/s...

Important reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherl...

I’ve just been informed that the Scots do not play soccer in kilts