If it's not price gouging like they say (it sounds like it is, but bear with me), and is really about recouping costs on longer trips to suburban stadiums, then that's all the more reason not to have World Cup matches in suburban stadiums.
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Psyop in the headline is killing me. Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, and the indie rock band Geese.
That said, none of this is surprising, and I LIKE Geese. If you want to be thoroughly depressed about the music algorithm economy, I can’t recommend Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social enough.
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band answers the heretofore unasked question “What if the Silver Jews had made their songs as long as Phish’s?” In doing so they address both both those bands’ major deficiencies (that Silver Jews songs are too short, and that Phish songs are by Phish).
So before even getting into, you know, Iran Contra, HOW’D THIS WORK OUT IN AFGHANISTAN?
And there it is. As usual under Trump, the markets reliably respond an hour or so before material information becomes public.
Happy Easter/beginning of seersucker season to all who celebrate.
The fact that the last time Italy won a knockout game in the World Cup is when they won the final in 2006 is WILD.
Curse of Zidane, man.
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Duke radio guy trying to call the manager for a technical on the UConn bench celebration, perfect
Happy Duke Gets Knocked Out of the Tournament Day to all who celebrate.
“Skenes threw 37 pitches, 26 for strikes.” That’s like half one of those vintage Greg Maddux complete games, except he only got two outs.
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Personally, I think it's important that children be taught about all the early Saddle Creek bands. Not just Cursive, but Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, and even The Good Life. Hear hear!
I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.
Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:
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200 billion they asked for this war on Iran that no one wants but Israel. Additional. More than twice as much as running SNAP. Almost three times as much as the federal housing budget.
There’s never any money for working people, always money for war.
(Is this about other people? Yes. Is it also absolutely about myself? Also yes.)
Academics really will be like "recent research suggests" and then cite something from 2005, like "recent" means "after Durkheim."
I had amazing food when I lived in England, London is legitimately one of the best food cities in the world (because of immigration), and I'm not even opposed to a good baked potato.
But come on, this photo is the height of England not beating the food allegations.
At a weeknight show where the audience is me and a bunch of people who weren’t yet born when 9/11 happened.
Explaining to someone that you’re going to see the band Wednesday on a Tuesday leads to a real "Who’s on first?" situation.
This has been coming since he was Wallace, so deserved.
oh wow no joke
incredible news! the song of the summer 2026 will once again be “dancing in the club — MJ lenderman version.” this is after an unprecedented run as song of the spring, song of the winter, song of the summer 2025, and so on can’t remember when it came out
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”
fuck this so much
we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
[Claims "a person can have enough judgment from reading books and being well-informed outside of traditional experience" to nuke grants at NEH]
"What books would you have read that would have informed your opinion on what grants to cancel based on DEI or not?”
“There were no books.”
That’s how elections work, including our presidential ones— huge numbers of eligible voters don’t vote in every election, and the election still counts. Not happy with the electorate? Persuade people to your side, don’t declare the election illegitimate.
I have heard people make principled arguments on both sides of the petition’s argument, but you don’t shut down debate because you’re afraid of the outcome. The language in the email about the last resolution being determined by a minority of membership because of low turnout seems anti-democratic.
People can have good faith disagreements and come to different conclusions about what this petition argues for, but for ASA to not follow its own protocols and not allow a vote (while lamenting the results of the last vote) seems cowardly and speaks to whose voices they do and don’t care about.
