there have been some outrageously clean strikes this world cup and this from gueye is up there with the best

the actual law has a wide variety of sanctions available to it, but vast decentralized panopticon we all live in can only unequivocally praise or condemn. seems bad.

Scattered thoughts on the two graduation ceremonies this month that are making me feel old: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

Baryon Asymmetry xkcd.com/3263/

My least favorite part of American football is the complexity of some of the rules and the hyper-technical way they're enforced, but the NFL has nothing on the offsides rule in soccer.

One of the minor annoyances of the World Cup coverage is that Fox keeps cutting to shots of people who are clearly supposed to be celebrities of some sort but I have absolutely no idea who they are and the broadcast doesn't identify them.

"Stop being a pessimist! This tank isn't half full, it's half empty!"

god the Romanovs would have loved RFK Jr so much.

GraduateKid.

I keep getting emails from Link*dIn claiming to alert me to Associate Professor jobs starting at what we pay visiting assistant professors, and I really hope those aren't real.

Banged out 1900 words of a thing that's got a deadline of next week. Nice to know I can still do that, but my brain is basically cheese now and will be for the rest of the day.

Keep Trump, replace all other Republican government officials by muppets. Wouldn’t change much, I guess.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

So we have EA types fretting about the quality-of-life of endless shrimp, and then also this?

‘Alas, poor Kermit! I knew him, Horatio: a frog of infinite jest.’

I very nearly forgot to note that today is the 25th anniversary of the first post on the blog that would make me nerd famous. open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

what is the job of the third VAR official who stands behind the other two. is she just there to keep an eye on them and make sure they're not playing games on their computers

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

It’s time for the British people to accept that all their attempts at self-government in the past 1600 years have failed, and resubmit to Roman rule

we're often too reverent in talking about athletes as gods when they are clearly talented-but-flawed men but he literally baptized this baby and blessed him with legendary soccer talent, feels like pretty solid evidence he's some sort of saint or perhaps a minor deity if polytheism is real

People now speak regularly of the thousand-yard stare. They talk less of the trauma told in the thousand-year stare of certain stone guardians. We are but flickers and motes in their gaze into long time, but we know they have seen horrors. – #CJosiffe

There are like four different types of hawk this could be, and of course the photo is a little too backlit to sort them out...

Added a fourth year to the Father's Day composite:

‘The Reflecting Pool…shit. I’m still only in The Reflecting Pool’

As I tell my kids, I'm nerd famous...

I have ranted for a few years now about the failure of our finance team to make any effort to learn the workflow of faculty and staff before setting up Workday, but I'm starting to think I should turn this around. I kind of want to understand the mind that chose these defaults.

How do we know people don't get isekai'd after they die? Tommy Lasorda could be battling a giant dragon right now with the help of an elf sidekick and we wouldn't even know.

this is deeply inspiring

One big problem with having turned into a Morning Person is that when I take a day off, I find myself needing to kill a couple of hours before anything entertaining opens, and end up strongly tempted to squeeze in some work.

Hot Take: The World Cup is best when it's hosted in Asia because the games are on early in the morning US time, when I'm most in need of distraction.

Morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeK...

Recurring gripe of mine, but one of the ways in which the lack of a sane alternative to Dems is that the liberal establishment is really bad on education, it does have a lot of pretty dumb ideas, but the people willing to criticize that want to burn public education to the ground in general.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

This is very unfair to all the England fans with “Disgraced Geography Teacher” energy.

I'm sure you know this but I love any excuse to mention it - Welles put that cut in explicitly to shock the audience awake! Peter Bogdanovich interviewed him specifically about that cut, it's awesome

a funny thing about this Cup so far is that it seems as if the refs aren't calling anything so people will dive and then get ignored and they'll pop right back up

Man Watching World Cup Thought He Would’ve Seen More Bicycle Kicks By Now https://theonion.com/man-watching-world-cup-thought-he-would-ve-seen-more-bi-1819576639/

In which I'm learning how to use our 3D printer:

the worst thing about being a soccer player has to be the constant slow-mo footage of you looking sheepish or aggrieved

90% of all NBA analysis is "This changes everything."

[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

A low-key hilarious part of watching Belgium play in the World Cup is that no two pronunciations of "De Bruyne" are the same.

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

That thing where the British guys doing soccer commentary try to work in American football references in a charmingly awkward manner.

Many pro astrophysicists receive unsolicited letters from amateurs with new but subtly wrong physics theories, often about relativity and from retired engineers. This cute new paper is a perfect reply & I love how it uses cyclotrons & transponders & radar 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660

I gave a lecture on quantum hype and quantum bullshit for our master's students this week. Afterwards they looked at Microsoft's Majorana 2 announcement and analyzed it from different sides: original press release, publication, media coverage and expert response, and then made their own conclusions.

Remember to be extra annoying while posting about the Finals tonight so as to make all the people who say "sportsball" here feel as unwelcome as possible.