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“All 41 members of Concacaf, the confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean, are set to meet on Thursday at 12.30 ET (5.30 BST) to discuss the proposals. Concacaf has previously strongly condemned the manner in which FIFA introduced the idea. It met on Wednesday night too, and there had been concerns raised about process, governance and why a cash-rich FIFA requires external investment.” Excerpt From “European soccer federations agree to boycott World Cups over FIFA’s private-investment plans” James Horncastle, Megan Feringa and Adam Crafton The Athletic https://apple.news/AgA_Q57sHRMiOoxFJ_8QWeA This material may be protected by copyrigh
Democratic Party faces debt and disarray
Lance Armstrong on his bullshit says 2am is human right issue
Wind turbines interfere with radar, but that isn't a new problem. The Pentagon reviews wind farm construction plans and can deem areas off limits. There are upgrades to radar to mitigate turbine impacts.
Emily Litella Nevermind
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Belgium keeper Courtois injured on the field.
Later that week, Paxton appeared on a podcast with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Video from the podcast showed Paxton seated in front of a fireplace and mantle that were nearly identical to those depicted in the home’s online real estate listing. One resident also told the newsrooms that they spotted Paxton in the gated community.
“The president didn’t rescue Balogun. He didn’t give the U.S. greater odds to win. He didn’t fix the tournament by correcting a mistake. He repossessed the World Cup. He made Balogun, whose class and character represented the entire squad, the face of a fix. He helped create the snooty American attitude that gave Belgium a motivational boost.” Excerpt From “The United States’ dream didn’t die. It was overturned” Jerry Brewer The Athletic https://apple.news/Ayr02cQh5RVO8Loxl5sXNkw This material may be protected by copyright.
Cost-performance curves at different effort levels. The previous best Sonnet model (Sonnet 4.6) fell well short of Opus 4.8. Now Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 cover a single range, with Sonnet 5 offering impressive capabilities at a lower cost and Opus 4.8 offering greater accuracy at a higher price. The charts show Sonnet 5 priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. Furthermore, with the introductory launch pricing through August 31 ($2/MTok input and $10/MTok output), the effective cost of Sonnet 5 is even lower than shown here. Opus 4.8 is priced at $5/MTok input and $25/MTok output. xhigh = extra high effort level.
My political compass test results: 77% woke, 59% techbro, 47% hopepilled, 73% Davos. Closest Match: Zohran Mamdani
Skeet by SwiftOnSecurity: "If u wanna seem dismissive, remember ABC: Always be chortling"
nine images of trump dressed as different performers. Title "Featured Performers"
Claude settings that imply they won't use my chats without my permission, which I have denied.
chart: Agentic coding performance by effort level. Opus 4.7 has diminishing returns. almost no difference between xhigh and max despite burning twice the tokens.
By Derek Thompson: American sadness this decade has been forged by the fact of, and the feeling of, a permanent unrelenting economic crisis, amplified by a uniquely negative news and media environment, and exacerbated by the rise of solitude and the declining centrality of trusted institutions. Inflation has made today’s life harder to afford, while the ambient awareness of other people’s triumphs on social media had made tomorrow’s success feel harder to achieve. The ongoing collapse of confidence in the establishment has made Americans feel unusually adrift and dissatisfied with institutions outside of their control, while the chosen self-isolation of modern life has demolished communal trust, as we increasingly experience other people’s minds through the toxic surreality of our screens rather than through the embodied reality of strangers who are, for the most part, just as nice as we are.
Claude output: "Honestly, I'd call it closed at this point. Document pull-to-refresh as the workaround in your team's iOS-user notes and move on."
NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte delivers a speech standing in front of a winged logo that makes him look like he has angel wings.
Four guys standing on the donut of a crew basket being lifted on or off an offshore drilling rig
Onion headline: Pelicans-Kings Game Ends After Neither Team Able To Recover Tipoff
A Daily Racing Form open to the fifth race at the Fairgrounds, showing a lot of cryptic data about dem ponies.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump said. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH.” “Praise be to Allah,” he added.
“ “The self-proclaimed ‘President of peace’ is once again starting illegal wars without congressional authorization. This is not what the American people asked for,” U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas posted on X. “Time and time again, Trump has proven that he is not interested in – or capable of – putting ‘America First.’ Our soldiers will have to put their lives on the line to defend his reckless decisions. Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution to rein in this dangerous overreach before more damage is done.” Crockett faces state Rep. James Talarico of Austin in the primary. Talarico posted a briefer statement on X that read in full: “No more forever wars.”” Excerpt From “Texas lawmakers weigh in on Trump’s decision to launch strikes against Iran” Joseph Morton The Dallas Morning News https://apple.news/Ah_AeGrXdR3SIPyOylSrKjA This material may be protected by copyright.
Sean Payton wearing Goodell Clown face t shirt just barely visible under his polo
‘President Trump called on Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against their government and warned that those responsible for killing demonstrators would “pay a big price.”’
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As accurate a description of Donald Trump as you will ever see Oliver Kornetzke Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
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Robert Killion, who was visiting from Chicago for his birthday, said he had been pleased to get a selfie with Mr. Bovino. “I think if America is built on immigration, you have to do it the proper way,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re from Mexico, Venezuela or Somalia — come here the right way and we’ll embrace you.”
And so we drifted towards calamity. At times, Cicero was shrewd enough to see it. 'Can a constitution devised centuries ago to replace a monarchy, and based upon a citizens' militia, possibly hope to run an empire whose scope is beyond anything ever dreamed of by its framers? Or must the existence of standing armies and the influx of inconceivable wealth inevitably destroy our democratic system
A cycling shoe with four Boa-style tighteners
A red cat sprawled across a table top
Arlington police break 34-year-old cold case of young mother shot dead with help of UTA students
A mouse looking at me through my kitchen window