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Matthew Herper@matthewherper.bsky.social · 2w ago

Big win for the organisers of the Enhanced Games here – Enhanced CEO Max Martin has been in Washington this week, and the company's big bet on deregulation seems to be paying off. Expect to see Enhanced selling these substances very soon.

In win for RFK Jr., FDA advisory panel narrowly votes to allow compounding of unapproved peptides www.statnews.com/2026/07/23/f... via @statnews.com

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

What's the matter? You've hardly touched your raw bacon and mayo sandwich

🇨🇳 Robots dance, fold laundry and make sandwiches at Shanghai's AI expo China's range of humanoid robot companies display their wares at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

This constant need to pipe music into the stadium at all times is one of the worst features of this World Cup I think (and American sport generally). Imagine the noise as Spain and Argentina take the field in the World Cup Final! But no, here's Shakira at 800 decibels

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

Just throwing this out there as a wild suggestion... but they could start taxing capital?

Governments have spent over a century relying on taxes from human labor. What happens when AI starts doing the work instead? Read more: bloom.bg/4fmzEUu 📷️: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

Steve Dudley@stevedudley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Your descendants terrified 🎶

England on fire 🔥 Wales on fire 🔥 Scotland on fire 🔥

Basically agree with this from Michael Cox – Tuchel getting hammered for defensive substitutions, but England were already retreating before the subs. If you're going to be playing with six at the back anyway, makes sense for more of them to be actual defenders. www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...

England’s problem at major tournaments? They’re still just too English

Thomas Tuchel ended up adjusting to the tendencies of his players rather than changing their playing identity

nytimes.com

Aron d'Souza, who you might know as the founder of the Enhanced Games or the guy who helped Peter Thiel take down Gawker, just launched 'The Primary' which is his attempt to fix media bias by using an AI to score journalists on their impartiality and sourcing, and then rank them on a leaderboard.

Oli Franklin-Wallis@olifranklinwallis.bsky.social · 3w ago

As one of these writers... I agree

Becoming pretty obvious that the only people who actually attended the Enhanced Games were magazine writers working on longreads about the Enhanced Games

I very much enjoyed this old-timey highlights package from the newsreel era. No live World Cup action for 36 hours and this is what I've been reduced to www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/foo...

Fontaine hits four to set World Cup scoring record

Watch France's Just Fontaine score four goals in the third-place play-off against Germany at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden to set the record of 13 goals in a single tournament, as the former striker di...

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Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 3w ago

Really unfair to lump BBC and ITV into the same bracket here when BBC iPlayer works brilliantly and ITVx is an unuseable piece of trash

Throughout the World Cup, I've had a problem. House renovations mean I have no TV aerial plug. So watching via wifi. Heat means windows always open. So I hear cheers/groans about a minute before I see anything..! Good FT piece on why: www.ft.com/content/7f2f...

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The Conservative Party is for serious people" "one candidate turned up drunk"

A very odd piece; reads more like the airing of an internal HR grievance - a message to disgruntled staff from management - to rather than a pitch to the nation. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4w ago

I do think being in Rogan's vicinity does just melt these people's brains. Was he just trying to impress him, or is 'legalise handguns' an actual Restore policy position?

Rupert Lowe criticised for telling Joe Rogan there was just "one nurder" in Dunblane while criticising the handgun ban as an overreaction to the murder of 16 primary school children & their teacher www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 4w ago

In the case of the People vs The Establishment, I am issuing a restraining order. The People must stay 500 yards away from the Establishment at all times.

BREAKING: Nigel Farage RESIGNS as an MP and forces a by-election. He will stand for re-election in Clacton. “This will be a people versus the establishment by-election. A chance to stick two fingers up to the establishment.”

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 4w ago

Sadly FIFA's structure means that this scandal will have almost zero effect on Infantino's future as president. One vote per member, so he has adopted the Blatter model of funnelling funds to smaller football associations in exchange for their support.

"Trump burned any soft power gains the US had accumulated as host. He has made Fifa look like clowns in the process, and has surely left Infantino’s future as President in doubt. He made the US team pariahs, with the world rooting for their failure. And he gained absolutely nothing from it."

Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · last mo.

Really fun story about the tangible impact the mega bonuses that South Korea's tech companies are doling out are having on the nation's dating pool. www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1...

South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

As payouts from the AI boom soar, a job at SK Hynix can put you at the front of the matchmakers’ queue.

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Played a blinder there. Prepared well, managed the conditions, didn't let the critics get to me. Kept hydrated. But how do I get back to sleep?

Every time I've gone on Twitter during the World Cup my feed has literally been full of increasingly dumb suggestions from Americans for how to "fix" football. It is maddening. The arrogance!

I think Belgium maybe the only international team more painful to support than England?

Look, I love the World Cup, but as I do my daily highlights catch-up it strikes me that the expanded format gives the group stage a slight 'MCU TV series' feel. I'm mainly watching out of a sense of completionism and because I want to understand all the references. Senegal v Iraq = She-Hulk.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

I think Brexit is the real elephant in the room here (as always), particularly for the Tory PMs. Take a stupid idea, and then only select leaders from the small group who either a) thought the stupid idea was a good idea or b) were willing to pretend they thought the stupid idea was a good idea

Britain has become addicted to pressing the ‘new PM’ button – and I don’t see how Burnham avoids it | Jonathan Liew

Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICYMI, this #longread on the #EnhancedGames in Las Vegas last weekend by @amitkatwala.bsky.social is really really excellent. www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/10/1...?

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Dozens of athletes on performance-enhancing drugs competed in the Enhanced Games. Organizers hope it'll sell a lot of peptides and other supplements.

technologyreview.com

Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A couple of weeks ago I flew to Las Vegas for the Enhanced Games, that twisted version of the Olympics where athletes can take drugs. But the most interesting thing about the Games wasn't the sport—it was the crowd. Feature for @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/10/1...

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Dozens of athletes on performance-enhancing drugs competed in the Enhanced Games. Organizers hope it'll sell a lot of peptides and other supplements.

technologyreview.com

You should all read this, the definitive piece on the Enhanced Games, from @amitkatwala.bsky.social. He writes: "On Sunday, May 24, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life." www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/10/1...

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Dozens of athletes on performance-enhancing drugs competed in the Enhanced Games. Organizers hope it'll sell a lot of peptides and other supplements.

technologyreview.com

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Dozens of athletes on performance-enhancing drugs competed in the Enhanced Games. Organizers hope it'll sell a lot of peptides and other supplements.

technologyreview.com

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2mo ago

"A punchy [op-ed] from a high-flying lawyer on the ever raging debate around inheritance tax" Yes! Bring back human-generated slop!

City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...

The Turkish translation of my book Tremors in the Blood just came out! Title loosely translates to: 'The body gives it away' which I just love. It's the true story of two murders, a visionary police chief, a troubled rookie, a teenage magician and the flawed machine that binds them all.