Miki

Aeronautical Engineer. Lived in US & UK. Currently based in Germany.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨⚠️ OFFICIAL: Belgian Federation statement on Folarin Balogun red card case, saying they are “astonished”.

“The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is astonished by FIFA's decision to declare suspended United States player Folarin Balogun eligible to play in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, 6 July at 5:00 p.m. (Seattle time).
FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.

This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.
However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team's next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup.
Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5:
"If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team's subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed.”
The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026.
The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.

❗️In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options.”

[Mr. Barcelona @MR_FCB1]

Forget about the touch... and explain how you, the ref and VAR determined that Vega's touch was unintentional? How did they made that determination?

Do you really think a defender in the 90+12 minute will not try to clear the ball if it goes his way in a Knockout game?

He CLEARLY tries to clear the ball and it goes backwards... the rest is history.

[Santos Flores @santosflores]

@fifamedia @adidasfootball @FIFAWorldCup Make the code open source so every national team can review the judging algorithm.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Even if you have complete faith in this tech 🙄, it requires having similar faith in the FIFA officials who interpret it & announce the results. The lack of transparency at every step makes it hard to believe it wasn’t a transparent robbery to guarantee Ronaldo in the next round.

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.

FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.

Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.

An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.

And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.

Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!

Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

[Padecedor de Gimnasia @pdenrique]

@ArchivoVAR ⁉️💥 ¿Llega a tocar la Luna al planeta Tierra?

✅ 𝗦𝗜.

👉🏻 En el segundo frame, una pequeña parte la Luna está sobre la superficie del planeta, por lo que el roce es indudable.

▪️ La fotografía satelital sí realizó su función de forma correcta en esta ocasión.

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@IbaiLlanos Costa de Marfil vs Noruega 0-2

Francia vs Suecia 4-0

México vs Ecuador 3-2

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@MotoGP https://t.co/128DloinVk

[TNT Sports Bikes @bikesontnt]

Marco Bezzecchi has lost his cool after his #CzechGP Sprint race crash 🥊

#MotoGP

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@MatTalksTooMuch @StarPlatinum_ Did you know you can fix a fight without one of them even knowing?

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@karlgunsy @Catacrack6 @Ramon_AlvarezMM Ya está volviendo a su nivel. Un LCA no suele acarrear grandes secuelas para un jugador posicional con poco movimiento explosivo. Lo tuvo Xavi Hernández y volvió bien

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@RevenRV https://t.co/YnseWrix6i

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨 Michael Olise: "My childhood idol is Lionel Messi. I grew up watching all his matches. He is the best player of all time." @ESPNDeportes ✨🇫🇷

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@Catacrack6 @Ramon_AlvarezMM Riquelme si ha fichado a un medio (Rodri)

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@soymadridista Mejor vendes el 50%, así simplemente debes multiplicar por 2

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@aficion_Rmadrid @el_pais Ampliaciones de capital, etc...en resumen reduce el poder de los socios

[Miki @Afeitadito]

@josegomezorteg5 @joseileee @RubCanales Marc debutó con 20

[Jagmans Car Magazine @JagmansM]

One of one: the 1966 Jaguar XJ13.

[LEAP 71 @leap_71]

Injector head for a 28 kN MethaLOX rocket engine designed by Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model. Coaxial swirl injector elements and central torch ignition port. Ox-inlet on the side, methane supplied by the cooling channels from the combustion chamber.

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

It's being expected that the engine could eventually power future variants of the KAAN stealth fighter jets. https://t.co/CDBh7mKWeo

[Aemilius Bis. @alternateb747]

Postcombustión.
Los motores del B1 Lancer, apodado BOne, generan más del doble de empuje con postquemadores activados que con empuje normal, 30,776 libras vs 14.590 cada motor.
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