Class to see Jose Fonte on the bench. So much experience. #SAFC
Alex Campolo
@alexcampolo.bsky.social
Enriched macaroni product. Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning. SAFC https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Look at the contempt in which the architects of this deal - JP Morgan - hold football fans. You get the sense that they perversely enjoy this. The executives like Mary Erdoes also deserve much more public scrutiny. These people are just warped by greed and insularity. www.ft.com/content/c81d...
In another delusional statement, FIFA confirm how absolutely vital Martyn Ziegler’s reporting has been. He might be the journalist that saves the game - at least for now…
Exceptional work by UEFA www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
uefa.com
Alex Campolo@alexcampolo.bsky.social · last wk.Good statement but needs action now. UEFA members need to boycott FIFA competitions
Finally markets calling Warsh out on his smug bullshit
A short review by me in the lates 'Technology and Culture.' I am really impressed by the journal's extensive commitment to book reviewing. muse.jhu.edu/article/996529
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
muse.jhu.edu
Good statement but needs action now. UEFA members need to boycott FIFA competitions
"Mair, an institutionalist to the end, mourned the passing of mass-party democracy...he could not fully see that the void would be filled not by a replacement institution but by a post-institutional form" www.theideasletter.org/essay/froth-...
Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New Right
Leonard revisits the political scientist Peter Mair’s influential concept of the democratic void: the widening gap between increasingly detached political elites and citizens who no longer participate...
theideasletter.org
As periodically happens across history, we need a way of reclaiming the "real." It is a very potent weapon against today's reactionary fantasies...
"although South Vietnam ceased to be a country over 50 years ago, it remains the fourth-largest recipient of US foreign aid in history." open.substack.com/pub/indevelo...
Numbers Man
History remembers two Robert McNamaras.
open.substack.com
As with Deepseek R1, there is a lot of value in going back and just reading some of Moonshot's technical papers. They are out there: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
We introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that, for the first time, outperforms full attention under fair comparisons across various scenarios -- including short-context, long-c...
arxiv.org
Very interesting benchmark which should raise questions about where and how contemporary models will transfer beyond comparatively static, verifiable domains. arxiv.org/abs/2607.16165
An Exam for Active Observers
Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active obs...
arxiv.org
Lise Klaveness of the Norwegian FA might be one of the most important people in football today: www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
Norwegian FA to complain over Donald Trump interference in Balogun case
Lise Klaveness says she won’t allow scandal to be swept ‘under carpet’ and calls on Gianni Infantino to admit decision to suspend USA striker’s ban was an error
thetimes.com
"Moyn is blunt about this: the solution to the problem of gerontocracy in America is the expropriation of the assets of older citizens who have far more than they need." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · The Cult of Longevity
We don’t have a politics of what works so much as a politics of what older citizens won’t notice. All human beings...
lrb.co.uk
"The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all." -Bernard Williams
Tomorrow we get our game ⚽️⚽️back from the casuals, the oligarchs, FIFA, politicians, celebrities, influencers and all the other SHIT 😁
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What an absolutely class performance from Spain and a victory for collective over individual football 👏👏👏
Brutal: "Empty nesters own about 28 percent of large homes in the U.S. Millennials with children own about 16 percent." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | The Housing Crisis Is Also a Retirement Crisis
A home has stopped being just a place to live — it has also become an asset.
nytimes.com
The United Arab Emirates - who own and operate Manchester City, a cycling team now competing in the Tour de France, among many other things… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...
Opinion | Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder
nytimes.com
Is there any systematic normative theory of an asset-based society that we now seem to live in? They seem to be a) empirically more unequal, b) logically unfair - elderly benefit arbitrarily from having held them longer and bought in cheaper, and c) exploitative in that the wealth gains are unearned
