I am just figuring out how I think about this now, as I'm posting, but I think you can consider "tech" businesses not as businesses that necessarily rely on technology - all of them do! - but as businesses that are freed from standard moral or even fiscal considerations in the name of "innovation"

None of these people are actual "nerds," none of them have any real technical abilities or non-standard interests. The only thing they bring to the table is social license to say stuff like "what if there was a doorbell camera with a gun in it"

Great to see @lambertsmarc.bsky.social and @begriffis.bsky.social on this list, as well as a piece by @shelatneel.bsky.social for @analyticsfc.bsky.social

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I thought I was but they didn’t make the list ☹️

this is so stupid

Pure five-a-side finish from Jackson, beautiful

The American version of LegoMasters is becoming increasingly insufferable as the contestants seem more interested in performing than building. Arnett and the brick masters are still awesome but some of it is utterly unwatchable.

Sigh.

There are far too many interesting football analytics papers that I want to read. From the 1980s. And from before that, if they were actually accessible. This is the blog I've rewritten the most, and is still so short of doing the subject justice. www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/analytics-hi...

Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different) youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo

One of my fave newsletters is @lifewinning.com Perfect Sentences. Unsurprised to see that @sebsb.bsky.social has made it in because he really is an excellent writer

It’s great that Saints are winning games under their new head coach. The xGD has leapt from 0.27 under Still to 0.9 under Eckert. But, Still’s team underperformed xG by 0.68 per game and Eckert’s is over performing by 0.9 per game (their roughly even on xGA).

Hinds and Charles swapping sides at FB is something I’ve never seen before (obvs wingers do it and Mead/Hemp used to regularly)

Not only this, but assuming continental competition pots remain robust then it further entrenches the dominance of the select few who enter UCL etc. All round bad news except for a relatively small number of clubs

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Congratulations to Gotham FC! Read more about our partnership with the 2025 NWSL Champions here: analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

TIL Benjamin McKenzie of the OC is a voluble and eloquent critic of crypto/NFTs etc and especially celebrity endorsements thereof, which is further proof that show was great

My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.

The worst thing about this awful article is that it genuinely suggests that 'performative reading' (which seems to be reading in public and/or secondhand books) equates in men to "f***boy behaviour; casual cruelty hides behind their finely crafted feminist image". Utterly wild to make that jump.

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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

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I swear if one more commentator says Agyemang "causes chaos" I will reach into my TV and throttle them

Sarina is a brilliant coach and I love what she has done in general, but at some point we have to start giving meaningful chances to new players especially in midfield.

English football’s focus on possession over transition causes so many problems when the international side comes up against quick strong sides with a core of NWSL attacking players.

If this team didn’t have Russo idk

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I’m extremely over getting AI-generated messages on LinkedIn asking about the football industry. A) AI can be spotted a mile away in this kind of missive; don’t do it! B) how can you be expected to be taken seriously if you outsource saying hello to a fucken robot

What does this even mean my god

🧵 Thread: I recently explored a few ideas to analyze a team's press in more detail 👇 1️⃣ Pressing triggers ▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers 👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined

I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers

Sheffield Wednesday are in administration Without structural reform this stuff will keep happening - it is yet another sign English football needs to get its house in order and move clubs away from owner reliance Analysis w/Phil Buckingham and @mjslater.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...

This is a very fair summary of where it’s at currently

And so it begins.

Not saying a huge style shift guarantees trouble, but if your squad is used to one thing and then you try to get them doing something epically, wildly different, or you try to adapt to do something epically, wildly different, it is quite unlikely to work.

Was a real pleasure chatting to Adrian about data analytics in football

Needs a @atherton.bsky.social Sad Dad Bands entry on each

The face Joe Marler just pulled to the muscle comment absolutely killed me

It’s not wildly unhinged, sorry, but John Le Carré was very, very underrated as a novelist because of the genre thing (this applies to a good few sci-fi’ers too) Also, Chaucer is way more GOATed than many realise and the Riverside makes it surprisingly accessible (he’s usually taught v badly)

Friday Stat Dump: Saves and Save % The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG). I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues. 1/

Shea Charles has been looking better and better for Southampton and tonight he’s excelled for NIR as well. Real asset for club and country at such a young age

Yes. I was alive for this day

This is a great piece

This here’s a man of the people.