large, well-designed study showing that adding social/emotional conversations with a chatbot into a person's life is objectively harmful across multiple psychological axes t.co/VTcTwfK3ky
Michael Caley
@michaelcaley.bsky.social
I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
top 12 Saudi Pro League fees this summer vs last summer
Mike Goodman@themlg.bsky.social · 48m agoSalah heading to a second cut Turkish team gotta mean that Saudi are like DONE done with giant soccer spending huh?
This is the greatest non-partisan salience of the social media era
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1h agoAudience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad
Audience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
seems pretty clear in retrospect that the decision by Third Way to polarize the Michigan senate race as pro/anti El Sayed was a humongous tactical blunder it was also predictable at the time -- polarizing the electorate in a three-way race is really dumb just in terms of arithmetic
for @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social subscribers we talked Manchester United, following up on a good season, and used my new comps machine to remember some guys and contextualize the Santos and Tielemans signings www.patreon.com/doublepivot/...
new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social the FIFA-UEFA cold war, how Infantino's private equity bungle created an opening for change at FIFA, and what that change actually might look like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJg...
FIFA vs. UEFA: The cold war behind Gianni Infantino's downfall
YouTube video by Double Pivot Podcast
youtube.com
This is a great episode if you're like me and you kind of have a broad idea of the recent FIFA shenanigans but not the dirty deets.
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21h agonew @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social ! the FIFA - UEFA cold war turns hot, Infantino out(?), explaining what the heck was going on with the failed Kushner private capital plan and what is (and isn't) possible for the future of FIFA and football governance youtu.be/AHJgjmUoqHM?...
Depending on how this lands, it'll be an interesting example of the gap between online and offline. Twitter/bsky users are not the primary electorate!
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 12h agoI have no idea if this is what's going on or not but the results tonight are all consistent with my broad belief that Democratic primary voters are scared to death of losing again and as much as they like left/progressive ideas they are fucking terrified of losing again
I have no idea if this is what's going on or not but the results tonight are all consistent with my broad belief that Democratic primary voters are scared to death of losing again and as much as they like left/progressive ideas they are fucking terrified of losing again
This is like watching the NBA draft lottery and asking “who’s winning?” after pick 8 is revealed.
Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 12h agoRegardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.
Fun fact about Michigan, a lot of small counties have names that mean nothing, the guy in charge of naming them just chose names that he thought sounded authentically Native but were gibberish.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 12h agoTis I, the holder of secrets for the as-yet uncounted vote in Michigan. Schoolcraft County in the UP? Got those. Omegaw County? They report directly to me. I know all of the results. And all of you look foolish. Each and every one of you. Scum with wrong opinions, all! You cretins should be ashamed.
it seems clear that El Sayed is going to underperform his polls really badly in Michigan whether he wins or loses
VoteHub@votehub.com · 13h agoStevens+53 mail Detroit.
it does feel like Democratic primary voters have a reasonably good sense of preferring left/progressive candidates unless (a) they really seem like they're gonna lose the general or (b) the vibes are off not perfect obviously (I know what you're going to say) but in range
Starting to be concerned Francesca Hong would also hate the one day a year single people are legally allowed to have sex.
Shri Thanedar looking to be the first person to be a DSA federal representative and also lose a primary to a DSA endorsed opponent a griftpol legend www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
this whole episode is such a good breakdown of the current FIFA mess
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 20h agoon this week's @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social: talking about the failed Infantino-Kushner private equity scheme, the FIFA-UEFA cold war, and @themlg.bsky.social explains the core problem with any campaign to "clean up the game" and reform FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJg...
Max Miller comes off like a character in a Lifetime movie, like a tv actor who read up on the typical profile of a domestic abuser and decided to incorporate every single characteristic into his performance at once
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
I think it's good to ask candidates what their plan to win the general election is
very excited to be introducing the inexplicable spelling traditions of American B to the world of European soccer
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 21h ago🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources - Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region - Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
model UN sickos will LOVE this one.
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 20h agoon this week's @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social: talking about the failed Infantino-Kushner private equity scheme, the FIFA-UEFA cold war, and @themlg.bsky.social explains the core problem with any campaign to "clean up the game" and reform FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJg...
on this week's @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social: talking about the failed Infantino-Kushner private equity scheme, the FIFA-UEFA cold war, and @themlg.bsky.social explains the core problem with any campaign to "clean up the game" and reform FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJg...
new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social ! the FIFA - UEFA cold war turns hot, Infantino out(?), explaining what the heck was going on with the failed Kushner private capital plan and what is (and isn't) possible for the future of FIFA and football governance youtu.be/AHJgjmUoqHM?...
FIFA vs. UEFA: The cold war behind Gianni Infantino's downfall
YouTube video by Double Pivot Podcast
youtu.be
oh god oh fuck i clicked on ONE mens fitness youtube video and now the whole app is ruined. fuck fuck fuck every video is lifting tips. every ad is for a training program. there's a whey merchant on my doorstep. lean men are crawling in the walls
the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.
Bobson Dugnutt@shampeon.shampeons.com · 2d agoDon't just drive past the premise, though, which is absurd. Any WNBA team is exclusively the top 0.01% athletes in the sport. Pretending that a high school team could hang with, much less beat, them is ridiculous.
Baseball might be different, in part because it’s the solved-est of solved sports, but “everyone plays the same style” is a claim that can’t survive even the briefest of contact with anything beyond the most casual observation.
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2d agoThere is something real about maxxing out efficiency in pro sports. It's why everyone starts to play the same style. It's why rules have to change. It's also why I love college sports. The natural flaws in a roster of college kids require more strategy and trying new things.