Kylian Mbappé update (lol) www.datawrapper.de/_/Tr1cL/?v=12

[FIFA Disciplinary Comittee starts googling the major questions doctrine]

Belgium could end the discourse but unfortunately they are managed by Rudi Garcia

World Cup can only mean one thing ... time to update the crazy chart of France's all-time male goalscorers (Kylian Mbappé: Very good and still so young!) Interactive version with tooltips + better accessibility: www.datawrapper.de/_/Tr1cL/?v=10

For @activehist.bsky.social I wrote about what it was like teaching #America250 in Canada. But really, I just wanted an excuse to show off how brilliant my students are! Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom  activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07...

18% of Canada's games *in the history of the men's World Cup* have come against a goalkeeper who was born in Montreal montrealgazette.com/sports/socce...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but they're all one guy

Hoping that nobody will Google you, an extremely public figure, does not seem like a good strategy for visa applications! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

give him salt and pepper shakers and he could 100% recreate the offside explanation scene from Bend it Like Beckham

It's a strange feeling to have spent [redacted] years partaking in Arsenal Derangement Syndrome with friends on Soccer Twitter only for everyone to be scattered to the winds when they finally win the title

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Update: Xabi

Maresca, Amorim and whom?

Squeezed in a few more books during the holiday period, so this blog-type-thing now covers everything I read in 2025: davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w... Pls. send book recommendations for 2026!

This is an interactive of the books I read this year, but mainly it’s a reminder that libraries are wonderful and you should support your local library davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...

I read a bunch of books this year — most of them good! Here's a blog about them: davidrudin.com/2025/12/20/w...

Her big idea for CBS News is ,,, the Munk Debates?????

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Qualtrics:

It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.

The feminist sports podcast you need is back, at least for now (we’ll have more on that later). Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so you catch this episode when it drops.

re. that TikTok, the real question I have is WHO AGREED TO MAKE THE CAKE?!?!!!

the biggest tell (of many) that this is a scam is the supposition that Ontario would be using speed cameras to enforce the law…

Samir Nasri was a pioneer!

time to re-read The Miracle in Bilbao! www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/m...

Away match for Canada

Weekend at Bernabeu’s

Trying to check if the sole verifiable claim that ZKP, Barcelona's new crypto partner, makes for itself is true: a story in four parts.

Step 1: Boil water (by asking ChatGPT for the recipe) Step 2: Boil water for pasta (it says this on the box)

“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”

I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud

Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner

Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey? bsky.app/profile/thea...

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!

if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh

Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??

"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.

Le Monde, top website story right now: "Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting." "Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.

> The project is a community of real human people. I'm interested in what they have to say. I'm much less interested in what a machine has to say. I don't think it's unreasonable for a swimming club to reject members who show up in motorised watercraft, regardless of how well watercraft can "swim".

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

How a new deal was ever in consideration under these circumstances is a mark on Arsenal, and that’s even before the public backing from his manager (“after everything he’s been through”) and decisions to make him the cover star of programmes and hero content on social channels while this was known.

Remember public editors?

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

I will just add that every Jewish hyperinsular diaspora politics grievance becoming national news and the subject of major political battles is not actually good for the Jewish community.