The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has written to FIFA after "countless" journalists from Iran and African countries have faced US visa restrictions ahead of the World Cup despite being accredited by FIFA to cover the tournament.

impossible power levels as a poster. this man has so much talent it's hard to even comprehend

Wrote for the London Review of Books (hark at me) about Tuesday’s shocking scenes in the city I love. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Even if this was true he would not be the guy to know. He is not an AI engineer. None of the big headline interviews with claims like these are ever with actual engineers who are actually building AI models. They’re always with C-suite airheads who are just saying shit.

The BBC pundits backing Jordan Ayew to score because “he’s been there, done that across the course of his career”. My brothers, Ayew has three seasons of double figure goals in 17 seasons of professional football, and 13 league goals is the most he’s ever scored - averages 5.7 league goals a season

A save from Ati-Zigi befitting that extraordinarily beautiful goalkeeping shirt

Love it when some piece of shit steals a design I took two weeks drawing and AI-alters the faces to look like shit and then puts it on Etsy

Honestly wish @theathletic.com app was best. Now getting promoted NFL and NBA videos ahead of the things I’m actually subscribed to in my settings. Just a total mess (and don’t get me started on search again)

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

You can’t have a symmetry to something that’s never happened, you incredibly irritating man

Actually that tackle from Gabriel was better than any of your so-called good goals

That is a delicious goal

Absolutely unrelated of course but 30u30.fyi?ref=DenseDis...

Oh lord but this resonates

“Well, thank God we all made it out in time. … ’Course, now we’re equally screwed.”

obviously this behaviour would be absolutely destructive if you were to use it for middle management, and I would be very sceptical indeed as to whether it could be taken out of the model structure with system prompts.

There’s an app called Live Football which for a small yearly fee just lists every live game on tv I could watch (including YouTube and club/league-owned streams) It’s perfect. Quick, easy to use, doesn’t do any more or less than it says

Great Premier League season everybody, let’s make the hot new tactical trend next time be coherent passages of open play

Tbh you could spend five mins looking at their site and realise this thesis isn’t correct. Yes they do the latter (and I have thoughts) but the former is still hugely abundant and fun. Also, City still does diggers and trucks and all that good shit

This is a delightful build tbf

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Delighted for Hull, absolutely slaying the xG monster

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Think it’s good that this an element the EFL have specifically referenced. Let’s be honest, though: the industry as a whole struggles to provide (especially junior) employees with fair conditions, hours, pay, and security.

This is the thing with robotics and AI - some* of the stuff is actually fairly clever or useful but it’s never ever ever as good as the guy screaming in your face that you must love it or you’ll get left behind tells you it is *genuinely limited in AI’s case

Yeah exactly

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

That is some finish from Haaland

Everything 👏🏻 AI 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 rip-off

What the fuck is wrong with these people

I guess chem trails aren’t the dumbest thing associated with us anymore

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

Always.

Walter Isaacson has a lot to answer for

Evergreen.

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

Lists of 100 best anything are largely bullshit and this one in particular is very, very ‘canon’ and quite dull

Good ref in the L1 playoff semi tonight (yes, was only watching Eurovision at half time, obvs)

This Eurovision commentary is woeful

my favorite genre of international dialogue

The first phase of digitizing my collection has come to an end. I am very grateful to my students, they did a wonderful job! The result: three massive Hungarian statistical atlases that are unavailable anywhere else, and dozens of data graphics that have never been digitized before. To be continued!

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

Always fun chatting about what we do

16 gigawatts (9GW of consumption, but it's all fueled by onsite gas generation) is just an insanely stupid amount of energy to be pumping into the atmosphere of a desert