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"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/here-we-go-t…

Svenska herrlandslaget i fotboll kan ta till sig av passionen i nationalsången som Juniorkronorna bjöd på nyss. Med samma passion kan även fotbollslandslaget få spela ett världsmästerskap i USA! Stäm upp i sång för världens vackraste land - Sverige!🇸🇪

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true: 1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region. 2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate. 3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled). 4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them. 5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.

„In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people, and is likely to emit nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as ExxonMobil, the world’s largest non-state carbon emitter.” Via Alan Kirk (h/t PCA Permaculture Climate Action) truthdig.com/articles/the-e…

”När vi använde det fiktiva namnet Simon kom dokumenten på två dagar, digitalt. För DN:s journalister tog motsvarande begäran mellan 30 och 46 dagar. Materialet skrevs då ut på papper och behövde hämtas under begränsade öppettider.” Läs @pwolodarski dn.se/ledare/peter-w…

Han skriver som en sån JÄVLA boomer

Mästaren på signaler skickar ny signal om Ukraina. Om det ligger någon tyngd bakom orden eller ej återstår att se. Isåfall är det en betydande förändring av USA:s (och särskilt många republikan-politikers) inställning till kriget i Ukraina.

@dieworkwear getting married, wearing a tux but considering style of bow tie. I like the look of a diamond tip but getting mixed responses on how appropriate it is for a black tie event. Help please!

The temperature at JFK Airport has reached 101° F as of 12:30pm today. This breaks the previous monthly record of 99° F, making today the hottest June day on record at that climate station.

You guys are so fucking exhausting. Angela Browder has been with Bethesda for 19 years. She’s helped manage projects like Skyrim and Oblivion. Christiane Meister? 26 years. She shaped the look of every race from Morrowind to Skyrim. Megan Sawyer? 21 years building the environments and cities you never shut up about. Women have always been in this industry. They didn’t just “exist” — they helped define the Elder Scrolls. Lore isn’t just books and dialogue. It’s art, mood, and atmosphere — and they built it. Get your heads out of your asses.

Hårt arbete i relativ tystnad har gett resultat. Den svenske journalisten Joakim Medin är på väg från Turkiet hem till Sverige. Han landar om några timmar. Jag vill säga tack till de medarbetare på UD som, under utrikesminister Maria Malmer Stenergards ledning, har jobbat intensivt med den här frågan. Tack också till mina europeiska kollegor som har varit behjälpliga i processen. Men framför allt, välkommen hem Joakim!

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DET DÄR ÄR EN JÄVLA STRAFF

(long-winded sports media rant here that I'll possibly turn into a video at some point) This article mentions the massive industry wide layoffs and cuts over the last decade to traditional written sports journalism, and I think a downstream effect that nobody has mentioned yet is that because of that industry crumbling, networks like ESPN and FS1 have drastically reduced up and coming talent pools to work with, and it's really hurting sports TV. It's no wonder they fill seats on debate shows with so many ex-players now. There is a whole missing generation of young-ish writers and radio hosts that basically *doesn't exist*, because almost the whole traditional sports journalism industry is gone. And here's the real underlying issue - while yes, a lot of the sports writers or radio hosts that network TV would usually poach from never played in the league...and most of them certainly didn't come to the network with their own baked-in celebrity or national brand...many of them had a skill that not a lot of ex-players possess. They can tell a good story. Great sports content - even on debate shows or analytical shows - is all about being able to coherently craft a narrative. Narratives are what make the games compelling. It's why we all care about this stuff. Every Sunday in the fall, we get to see Scott Hanson guide us through a hundred simultaneous hero's journeys playing out in the Octobox. Every four years, we see small nations take on global superpowers on the pitch. Every century or so, we see a Monégasque driver sit atop the podium in Monaco, thinking about his father. Writers know how to write stories. They know how to make the audience care about the games. There are many ex-players on TV that really don't know how to do that all, so they just yell out a talking point that half the time they don't even believe in, just because it gets attention. And let me tell you; the greatest trick the devil ever played on sports television executives was making them think that getting the audience's attention was more important than getting the audience's investment. A smaller pipeline of sports writers in traditional media means less and less story tellers end up on sports TV. That is bad for everyone. My only hope is that YouTube becomes the new breeding ground for that talent to grow and develop. All of that creativity has to go somewhere, I guess.

This is not a dire wolf. They cannot do de-extinction. They can just tweak living animals to have primitive features. This company is going to make designer zoo animals. They will be isolated, lonely, and a shadow of their loving relatives. Real scientists support conservation.

IFJ, världens största journalistorganisation: ”Freedom of the press is a fundamental right that must be respected. No journalist should be arrested, deported, or harassed as a result of their work.” ifj.org/media-centre/n…

European Federation of Journalists: ”The Turkish government must immediately release Joakim Medin and all journalists detained as a blatant attempt to silence and intimidate media workers.” europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/04/0…

Här är tio av Joakims artiklar som öppnats för att så många som möjligt med egna ögon ska kunna se att journalistik gör världen större och enklare att förstå. Det är aldrig ett brott. etc.se/utrikes/haer-h…

Det är värre än så. Nu har de gripit Joakim Medin, fört honom till ett fängelse och enligt turkisk statsmedia anklagat honom för att bla ha förolämpat presidenten. Släpp Joakim!