Jon Reed

Lucky husband and dad to the two best boys • Dog dad • AI Enablement Engineer • Ending pay-to-play in youth soccer ⚽️ →

[Jon Reed @Cityzen_Kane]

@TaylorTwellman The counter starts with information. We measured every published club fee in Kansas City: same sport, $1,508 to $4,700 a year, and at three clubs a family cannot find a price at all. Parents cannot push back on numbers they cannot see. Full data: https://t.co/OOslW7KLSR

[Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 @TaliaRinger]

My hot take is that if your company builds software that it cannot stop from hacking into other systems, your company is a malware company and should be treated as such

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[Oladoja @_onlyscott]

🚨 Sir Alex Ferguson has reportedly criticised the growing Ballon d’Or drama involving La Liga players, saying the award is becoming more about politics and arguments than football.

“Every year we see players, clubs and supporters from La Liga dragging themselves into endless Ballon d’Or arguments. Premier League players don’t need all this politics. You play football, you perform, you win trophies — then let the football speak.”

“When I was managing, we didn’t need to campaign for individual awards every five minutes. If a player was the best, people knew. Now everyone wants to control the conversation.”

“Football is becoming more about politics than what happens on the pitch. If we continue like this, we will lose what made the game special.”

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🚨 Tony Cascarino on Arsenal demanding answers over the Sunderland penalty:

🗣️“Arsenal won the game 2-0, the penalty was saved, and they still want a meeting about it.

If this is how Arsenal are going to behave every time a referee makes a decision they dislike, then we might as well stop playing football and let Arteta referee his own matches.

They want every decision explained when it goes against them, but when decisions go their way, suddenly it’s ‘part of football.’

You cannot spend an entire season talking about referees and then expect people to take you seriously when you call yourselves title contenders.”

[Amala Ekpunobi @amalaekpunobi]

Welcome to 2026, where feminists thinks Sydney Sweeney doing a sexy ad is setting women back, but Lindsay Clancy killing her three kids and crying postpartum psychosis isn’t.

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Jamie Carragher: "I actually [think] two yellow cards is enough. Phil Foden put his foot into him, but his foot's already high, it's not like he's lashed out and kicked out. But for me, the guilty party is Bruno [Fernandes]. Bruno's fouled him, that's football, he's then kicked him when he's on the floor, then he's rolled around - he's hardly been touched and he's rolling round to get somebody sent off... I don't think Bruno Fernandes comes out of that looking well at all, I think it's really poor from him.

"Phil Foden's reacted, he shouldn't, I get that. I do think Michael Oliver was far too quick to get the red card out, because when we can see the referee cam, I don't think there's any way he can see where Phil Foden's foot is because Bruno's backside's almost facing the referee. How you see that in real time I don't know...

"There's too much focus on Foden. It should be Bruno! We need to start coming down hard on players who react like that when there's nothing wrong with them. We're encouraging players to do that to get somebody sent off, to give themselves a greater chance of winning. We need to call people out!" [via @SkySportsPL]

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Interesting times.

[Dillon Loomis @DillonLoomis]

This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now. It's critical everyone understands the situation because this is just the beginning of the AI infowars and psyops

Jacob Coxon, a relatively unknown AI researcher, gives the WSJ an exclusive story about his resignation from Anthropic and his concerns about AI

Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years. This post now has over 149M views. For reference, Ilya Sutskever (a very well known AI name) left OpenAI in 2024 and his announcement post has fewer than 6M views as of today

Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI-doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor (Jaan Tallinn) who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic

We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021 (Newspeak). This organization is a British NGO with ties to hacking democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition and extinction rebellion

Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fear monger the public into voting to regulate AI. It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd

It would also place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process

Elon then points out how none of this feels organic, and Jacob decides to take a shot at him for firing some xAI researchers

Meanwhile, we know Anthropic has publicly asked the government to audit and block frontier models and Anthropic has run a state-by-state campaign for rules that only large AI labs trigger, meaning the rules are structured around barriers only frontier labs can easily clear (limiting competition)

There is extensive Anthropic personnel and financial overlap with the groups that wrote the Biden-era AI policies. It is well known information you can seek out if you want the detail

This all seemingly comes back to regulatory capture and political motives. None of this feels natural. Jacob can say these are his real views all he wants, and they may be, but there is clearly far more to the story

[Jon Reed @Cityzen_Kane]

Yes

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis, quit worrying and go do something real

[Nate Bukaty @nate_bukaty]

Currently on American television: Serie A on CBS, Premier League on NBC, Bundesliga on USA. First weekend of college football. I think soccer is gonna make it in the US.

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[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Alan Shearer on Erling Haaland reaching 300 club goals:

🗣️ Shearer: “I sometimes listen to the conversations around Haaland and think we’ve completely lost our minds.

People will tell you he only had this many touches, he didn’t create enough chances, he needs to be more involved in the build-up. Okay. Then somebody crosses the ball into the penalty area and there’s a defender practically hanging off him, and somehow Haaland is still the one heading it into the net.

That’s his job.

I watched the goal today and I’m not even sure Semenyo has to look up and think, ‘I need to put this exactly on Erling’s head.’ With some strikers you have to find them. With Haaland, put a good ball into the area and he’ll try to find you.

That sounds simple until you remember every defender knows exactly what he’s trying to do.

They know he wants to get across them. They know he wants the space between centre back and goalkeeper. They know if the ball goes into that area he’s probably attacking it.

And he still gets there.

That’s what 300 goals tells you.

There was another moment today where he gets contact in the box and could probably make much more of it. He stays up and carries on trying to get to the ball.

I like that about him. His first thought always seems to be, ‘Can I still score?’ Not, ‘Can I get a penalty here?’

People can debate whether he’s the most complete striker, whether he should touch the ball more, whether he should create more. Those are fair conversations.

But he’s now scored against 24 of the 25 Premier League teams he’s faced. The only one left is Sunderland, and unfortunately for Sunderland, he plays them in two weeks.

At some point you stop asking what else a goalscorer should be doing and appreciate that you’re watching somebody who has made scoring goals look far more normal than it actually is.”

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[EJ @Eni_jjj]

Lionel Scaloni: "We are losing the essence of football. Not only at a professional level, but also with kids."

"My children play in Spain and are overwhelmed with information. They receive the ball, and they're already being told what to do."

"There are fewer dribblers because if they barely get the ball and you say, 'Pass it!'... Imagine if Messi, when he was eight years old, had been constantly told by his coaches to "Pass it!" We wouldn't have him today."

"Football has become such a huge thing, everyone reads, studies, and thinks that with that, they can already manage."

"If you tell a 7 or 8-year-old to make a diagonal run, cover defensively... He's seven years old! Let him play with the ball, make mistakes, and when he's 14 or 15, then we can start correcting."

"It's a message for the future. This is a sport, and the beauty of football should not be lost."

[Jon Reed @Cityzen_Kane]

Congratulations, this is a real step and the thread is the clearest explanation of it I have seen. Thank you.

Point 7 is the one I would underline. Affordability is measurable at the community level, and almost nobody is measuring it.

I built that for one metro. Every published club fee in Kansas City, from the clubs’ own pages, each figure sourced, dated, archived, and human-verified before publishing. $1,508 to $4,700 a year for the same sport, and three clubs where a family cannot find a price at all. The methodology is public so any market can run it.

It is the measurement layer under The American Pyramid, a published blueprint to end pay-to-play with KC as the pilot metro: prove it in one city, publish the results, then let other communities adapt what works.

If the federation wants community-level affordability data as this rolls out, KC has a working template and I would hand it over tomorrow. https://t.co/XGmLdwMBNE