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This week, we discuss Trump fucking up the World Cup, some thoughts on ICE coverage, and movies.

It's time for the World Cup. We've been previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.

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As the largest event humanity has ever come up with, it's safe to say that the World Cup is a big deal. In some way or other the tournament connects to literally everything, from politics, to culture, to war, to art, to philosophy, to biology, to economics, and on and on. As such, it can sometimes get overlooked that, on its most fundamental level, the World Cup is just a collection of soccer games. And the simplest explanation of a game of soccer is that the team with the best players usually wins. That is why Spain is the clear favorite. At this World Cup, Spain has the best players.

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Apple’s pattern of updates is often described as two beats, maybe like the lub-dub sound of your heart: a year of big changes, followed by a year of tweaks that feature just a couple of marquee improvements.…

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I am using Claude Code to create a toolset that makes it easy to write internet scripts at the same high level as Frontier. I was looking for a little project it could do, and came up with this. I like Wikipedia, but I know it has trouble with transparency. In areas I kno...

This year we have new The Dear Hunter, Devin Townsend, Haken, Cult of Luna, Mastodon, Slift, Elder, Periphery... We're eating good.

ActivityPub for WordPress 9.0.0 is here. Unpublishing a federated post now sends a real Delete instead of a placeholder. Be aware that this can be permanent on other servers. A new Distribution Mode keeps federation from overwhelming smaller servers, your blog can now be featured in Starter Kits, images get blurred color previews, and the ActivityPub API moves closer to the W3C standard.

They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

One of the things that sucks about the tech industry is that the assumption is that creative work is done by employees. Imagine if music or movies worked like that. And the employees will resist the company working with individual outsiders, the equiv of musicians in this a...

OG is the new Alysa Liu. I'm watching his put-back over and over, never getting tired of it.

This soundbite has been making the rounds this morning, from an interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on the show Mostly Human:

I mean, the way that we have designed Siri, Siri really wants to say ‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for, right?

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After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.

“It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck [Iran’s] water facilities, or knew what was in the buildings. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime under international law.” – The New York Times - - - A few crybabies are claiming the Uni...

Well, it had to happen eventually. We'd been putting it off and pushing it back and wallowing earhole-deep in the adrenaline rush of it all, bouncing from Las Vegas to San Antonio to Raleigh to Manhattan in a poker game in which we'd finally reached the rarefied land of the ...

Wet lab. “Wet lab” was a new term to me, I had to look it up – it’s a laboratory with chemicals where there’s spill risk etc. I have a physics background myself and the closest I came to liquids was liquid nitrogen, and when you spill that it just boils furiously and goes aw...

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Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

The musician created his own line of loopers that record and layer riffs in a loop. The pricey Looper X does what it claims, but it isn’t without quirks.