That’s outrageous to give that

I mean it’s above the sleeve line

It’s early, of course, but I suspect the best disclaimer I’ll read in an arXiv paper today is “We emphasize that these AI-generated future selves are simulations, not prophecies.”

When it’s 15 degrees outside, folks who sign their emails “Warmly” are either bragging or choosing violence

My objection to Stove Top isn’t taste, for all the reasons explained. But “Stove Top stuffing, *instead* of potatoes” is rice erasure.

I’d trust Claude / Chst a lot more with coding if they could even do basic Shortcuts stuff right/consistently without having to be coached at every step with screenshots showing their confident instructions don’t actually map to macOS

My wife asked if this was about Real Housewives. youtu.be/W6iIJz5PHyc?...

One thing that really undermines one’s Performance of the Masculinity Is when you manifest a little skin irritation on your wrists and hands from the spruce

Started the season with the annual Performing of the Masculinity. (Anyone who spotted me with a saw will be aware of how speculative a performance it was, too.)

Those Salah quotes don’t bode well for Arne Slot. Were this simply a declining player hitting out as he’s justifiably sidelined, then it’d be different. But many of those selected ahead of him aren’t justifying it, which makes it seem like the issue is the setup, not one man.

Our kid’s wouldn’t even agree to a candid photo with any of the swag in the little admissions box. (It was the Covid year, so there wasn’t a big Signing Day event) The parents are not great, but the students need some self-respect

What the Absolute Fuck. (ht @bakerdphd.bsky.social)

I don’t like the 12.30 ET kickoffs because it blows a big hole in the middle of Saturdays, but, on the other hand, it ends right around the time the dogs expect walkies, at least during the winter, which helps with getting over it. YNWA in leashed form

Even in FIfa when you go 2-0 up the commentator says “all they have to do now is concentrate and the win is guaranteed”

“I wear the chain I forged in life” okay man, well, why did you make it so uncomfortable? I’m not gonna put a big lock on mine

Two points from two promoted sides is shocking, not matter what the form table says.

Ok, Slot’s position is obviously controversial, as it should be. But surely we can agree the new set piece coach has got to go.

Lol

I do think Kerkez is starting to round into the player everyone was excited to buy. Not there yet, but the direction has been a lot better over his past several starts

My current career plan is to pathologize a personality trait, which I then pivot into a personal brand, creating daily content to cultivate intense parasocial relationships that eventually lead to sponsorship deals and, if I play my cards right, cult-adjacent murders.

The lesser-spotted Endo/Isak double sub

Aiight the nation of Hungary and their bound-feet soccer players

Footy’s a crazy sport. But nothing in the history of the game has ever been as predictable as Leeds equalizing after the stupid penalty, and equalizing specifically because neither center-half closed down the attacker.

The good news is Konate’s been great at shrugging off mistakes or bad decisions all season

At least now we have a clear picture of what an LFC goal looks like: It probably starts with the opposition defender or goalkeeper directly passing us the ball

Ekitike is so stylish, even when accepting gifts

Ekitike is so stylish, even when accepting gifts

Peter Drury recapping the first half by saying “what if Curtis Jones’s shot had gone in though, that might have been fun” pretty much sums everything up

Was Bradley out so long he forgot the refs definitely notice when he tackles?

Graham Le Saux on comms still doesn’t understand when VAR reviews offside and when it doesn’t.

embrace prosocial klingon thought

I can’t shake the feeling that Wirtz is always screaming “why did you stop moving?!?” in his head the way I do at the computer-controlled players when playing FIFA.

Want to congratulate Manchester’s Anthony Taylor for being too obstinate to stop play for an obvious head injury.

Why do players look slower wearing … gloves?

This is an interesting perspective, in part because it reminds us of why slop is popular in other contexts. (For example, my wife & I drive a HRV and CRV respectively, in part because they are just sort of abstractions of “car that always works.” But if you care about cars you’d 🙄)

Wild ending at Villa Park, wow

The yoga teacher said “pretend you’re on your mat, out at sea and you’re floating away from shore, and so you wouldn’t worry about what happened before or what happens next.” Tbh I’m a little worried now just pretending. About both before and after!

This headline is the end of civilization.

Duke 0–1 Stanford Jasmine Aikey's goal in the 10th minute stands and sends the Cardinal to a seventh College Cup final and a matchup with Florida State.

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There is a certain slant of light, winter afternoons— that annoys, like the blinds of weird-assness—

A dumb thing about winter is that it’s so dark, but when we do have light, it comes in at this weird-ass angle so I have to close the blinds during meetings

I don’t mean to brag but I have the dumbest schedule of meetings today. Like, the meetings are good, but the timing is wackadoo.

This little fella that Peloton yoga classes use to indicate “savasana comin’” is actually me at any moment in any workout regardless of type.

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There’s no way anyone at Apple has ever even opened this garbage fire of an app. It’s comfortably the worst of the main streaming services, at least on AppleTV.

I feel like this year’s edition of EA FC (“FIFA”) has wayyyyyy more deeply problematic players distributed in packs than in previous seasons

Regardless of how much/little is accomplished in a week, this is my exact feeling after submitting the list of weekly accomplishments.

Granola offering me “Granola Crunched,” a Wrapped-style set of stats about my meetings, is surely some sort of low in this space. (“You have 6.1x more meetings than the average user in the Academic/Research category” is not a flex.)