Been quite a week. Friday - 007 First Light release party, celebrating the company's best reviewed and fastest selling game ever Monday - Get a text from co-worker there's talk of redundancies Tuesday - Called in by HR and let go

PHOEBE BRIDGERS: and what *I'M* saying is that pre-snap motion has become such a staple of Shanahan Tree coaching schemes that modern defenses have fully adapted by filling any potential leverage gaps ANDY REID: (nodding while eating a big bowl of spaghetti)

I'd rather have mistakes than this nonsense.

VAR is the worst. It is the dumbest thing.

"One of the most powerful vectors of control is the deployment of a unitary nationalism: Chineseness as an inherited essence, unaffected by assimilation, undiluted by diversity, subjecting all overseas Chinese to a kind of mainland Han hegemony." - me, 2020 journals.gmu.edu/whc/article/...

I don't know who else is watching the World Cup on the BBC but I was not expecting further discussion of Danny Murphy's cat, Bob.

This is a fascinating example of context collapse. The OP is describing the UK, where food banks genuinely didn’t exist as a model before the late 2000s, but the respondent is describing the US.

fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"

Hobie is arrested, and Mitch considers how soon is too soon to replace him. A new Baywatching is now public, please share! youtu.be/3Pc3hI1MoeE

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Protestant but as written by Catholics, surely?

June 29 is the feast of Saints Peter & Paul—patron saints of Rome. It’s an amazing day in Roma (fireworks), but it’s also a good day to read about the construction of martyrdom (esp. whether the Neronian persecution happened) by Dr. @candidamoss.bsky.social: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 📕

one of the use cases promoted on this website is a researcher who says that he used to have to talk to people in order to find out how problems are approached in other disciplines and genAI means now he doesn’t have to. 1- wouldn’t bet on the quality of answer he is turning up 2-how desperately SAD

"I wish I had fought in Vietnam" is one of the fakest bullshit things it's possible to say

Can I pursue legal action against the Norwegian football team for fielding a weakened side? I demand redress!

"Grand Theft Auto"? No thanks - I prefer "Responsibly Biking to Work" 👍

This is what they said about Jews. This is what they said about Italians. This is what they said about the Irish. He is definitely done being careful; the House Majority Whip has decided to go back to 1920s nativism, full stop.

Absolutely delighted Ecuador wasn't allowed to whine and cheat their way out of going behind there. Well done referee. We have taken this "there was contact" thing way too far. If I head your foot and then pretend I'm injured I wouldn't get a free kick.

Listening to FM radio the past couple days has really reinforced my belief that gambling apps and predictive markets need to be violently banned

Some days you wake up and you think: I'm going to watch Wrath of Khan today.

Hey, uh, I'm not watching American English language coverage... They HAVE explained that the NZ team is nicknamed the All Whites as a reference to the rugby team, right?

What aggravates me, on top of this nonsense, is that the whole swiftboat active lying thing was WAY worse than pointing out Mitt Romney drove across a state with his dog on the roof. And Dem voters didn't vote in a crazy person.

James Burrows was not a giant in sitcom directing. He was THE giant. The primary director of Cheers and Taxi. The only director (I believe) of Will & Grace. The director whose pilots for Friends, Third Rock, Frasier, and Big Bang Theory got them on the air. The king. RIP. people.com/james-burrow...

Me, watching England at every major tournament.

[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life

Well done Cape Verde. Incredible. They might have won it too! But they were dead on their feet.

My favorite thing about this is the verses basically objecting to the use of the rainbow. This is a made up thing that was not even any kind of a thing only a few years ago. These guys should grow up.

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

I'm sorry, every time I see the USMNT acronym my brain always defaults to "US Mutant Ninja Turtles."

In the words of the great Billy Friedkin, I could not give a flying f**k into a rolling doughnut what Michel Platini thinks. Also, I'm sorry, Mbappe saying le Pen is bad is not controversial. It's like saying that the sun rises in the East. Those people are awful and it's not "divisive" to say so.

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

I am so constantly, ceaselessly, and quite genuinely angry about how AI slop has started to ruin fun animal videos on the Internet.

Madness.

Cleared to go to print.

Football will never fix itself because despite all the corruption, despite the shameless capitulation to racists and various bigots, despite everything, I am excited about the World Cup. At least the country of my birth, Ireland, bravely chose* not to participate. *ummm...

Okay, so this is massive and we're terrified. Partnering with @play.breakthrought1d.org in the fight against diabetes, the ENTIRE inkle catalogue is on Humble Bundle right now for $20 -- including TR-49, all four novels, both Overboard! games, 80 Days, all four parts of Sorcery! ... everything.

The World Cup starts tomorrow. I love football, and I have a few things to say. (also, we wrote a book: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...)

Relevant: we make free narrative tools for multiple engines, and we don't use any genAI whatsoever--not for coding, not for writing, not for anything. When it comes to middleware that people build their art + livelihoods upon, quality (and labour solidarity) matters. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

Staying on Twitter is not bad because it enriches Musk (he loses money on the site) or because it tacitly endorses his ownership (who cares) but because IT IS A BRAINWASHING MACHINE. You are not immune. More importantly your presence there encourages others to stay there due to network effects.

Education is not complicated but it is very difficult. There are no short cuts. If these tech people are honest with themselves they know they are dumping a product they are struggling to monetize on a vulnerable sector. So now money that could otherwise help is funding tools that don't help.

trump called cruz’s wife ugly and he just took it

I'm excited about the World Cup. Damn it.

What an absolute disgrace. There are no words for my disdain for this man. He's the Speaker of the House. There should be some element of concern for the public interest.

Dumb beyond belief.

Learn how we utilize Gen AI at Buttondown–it may surprise you. buttondown.com/blog/generat...

For just $75 (plus $12 shipping), you can get Disk 2 of King's Quest III on eBay. It's the perfect gift for someone who has an incomplete copy of KQ3 and only needs Disk 2.

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

I am getting pretty tired of profs working out their own anxiety and insecurity in blog posts trying to justify they not do their job. It also assumes this kind of weird technical definition of what a course is. It is skills as much as content, and that's as true in Engineering as it is in History.