Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"

Some of my most club idols are black

Imagine deploying the ‘racism is bad, sure, but that Vini guy is kind of a dick’ argument. If this is your view you are part of the problem.

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

Whoa what a save from Merzļikins

Fun!

Why am I watching Bugs Bunny interview Snoop Dogg?

It’s the 10th anniversary of this piece, in which I explored how a uniquely Milanese approach to marrying aesthetics and pragmatism made the city an ideal home for AS Velasca. This was my jam before I became a data/tactics nerd. web.archive.org/web/20191209...

Tag yourself I’m Gothmog

This is the story of our first teacher Shetland made her jumpers And the devil made her features (Maybe not the best, but the juxtaposition is perfect)

Per the Pew Research Centre, UK is 12th most religiously diverse nation. Downes, as well as being a racist, doesn’t understand the country he purports to want to protect (by being a racist)

0.957 save percentage against a team as good at Canada my goodness

Braendli doesn’t deserve to lose this

This is fascinating and educational to someone who hasn’t watched any pro wrestling since about Wrestlemania V.

It’s beyond insane that the BBC World Service might end in 7 weeks when its funding runs out. A beacon of information, education and UK soft power - Ministers would be crazy not to find money to support it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

German goaltender Franzreb Saves: 14 Wikipedia entries: 0

Great match

Totally unrelated, but here’s a picture of my favourite local landmark

Oh Swayman that was not it

Bit of an upset brewing?

Twentieth-century futurism was largely a project of “don’t worry about the problems of the present. Corporations will build you such a lovely future.” 21st-century futurism has mostly been billionaires and their courtiers whining about the mean environmental movement blocking their cool ideas.

Every year the MLS punditerati are asked to pick their MLS standings, every year they get smoked. @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc decided to look into who is the best prognosticator, and who deserves the hatemail. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/2/14/the-prognostication-power-rankings

New response to any criticism of my podcasts just dropped

Really enjoying ice hockey’s 21 Jump St remake (Genuinely fun and good commentary also)

Ice hockey players shouldn’t be as good-looking as Kevin Fiala. Goes against the spirit of the sport

Here is the project I've poured my entire soul into for the last six weeks. If you like my football writing and find yourself thinking 'wow, I wish I could read 23,000 words of this,' you might enjoy Volume I. I'm very, very proud of this:

Need to update my list of soccer analytics and tactics accounts, tell me who's posting good stuff

Ngl this curling is tense

‘I’m sorry if you feel your child was eaten by a shark’

Interesting position for the part owner of a company that employs a lot immigrants and is financially supported by a lot of immigrants

Matt is S tier and a mandatory subscription

God the ice dancing has been good. The last section especially. So much poise and skill and strength.

The TNT ice dance commentator (f) is so horrendously negative and constantly emphasises her opinions over any objectivity and it’s exhausting. Ice dancing should just be enjoyed and celebrated! The vibe is so off

🦇 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In 2022 we hosted a panel discussion around "Opportunities and Challenges for Women & Girls in Bat Science and Conservation"; the insights shared on this discussion are still relevant today. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bssa...

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social sums up why Starmer is responsible for voters hating him after such a short time:

Love that this USA team has so many college players, shows the strength of that system at producing world class athletes. Murphy and Edwards excellent and really fun to watch

If you don’t like short track speed skating mixed relays are you even alive

I’ve seen some data stuff around shooting in biathlon (the best) and obvs ice hockey is super for it, but I’m fascinated to know what data analytics is done in other WO sports. I imagine eg there’s a load in speed skating but what and how and looking at what

Watching a host of sports that I vaguely understand but don’t really is absolute catnip to the analyst in me

the English Ted Lasso: Sean Dyche rocks up in the NHL, screws up the ice to frustrate higher-quality teams, and rocks the world with long puck hockey

Is there anyone Marie-France Dubreuil doesn’t coach!?

Tracks.

Really like the level of technical detail Alcott brings to her explanations of skiing. As someone who loves learning about stuff and knows zilch about skiing, it’s very helpful and adds a lot to coverage

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.