Our love of science and data is generally worthy; I’m no Luddite. But in corrupt bureaucratic systems, from politics to sports, more rules and more technology often only provide more opportunities for corrupt manipulation.
Segunda parte del video viral donde a los ingleses les avisan que Ecuador no pudo… y que ahora les toca ir a Tenochtitlán.
La preocupación es real, así que tienen que tomar medidas extremas: Bellingham abre un calabozo donde guardan a un dragón llamado Kane, comandado por el mismísimo Harry Kane.
Pero al volar sobre las nubes rumbo a México, se encuentran con algo inesperado: Quetzalcóatl, montado por el mismísimo Quiñones, nuestro guerrero jaguar.
México vs Inglaterra.
¿Y si sí?
¡Vamos, México! 🇲🇽
@miseleccionmx
#VamosMéxico #MéxicoVsInglaterra #Quetzalcoatl #Tenochtitlan #seedance2
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Part two of the viral video where the English players find out Ecuador couldn’t make it… and now they have to go to Tenochtitlan.
The concern is real, so they have to take extreme measures: Bellingham opens a dungeon where they keep a dragon named Kane, commanded by Harry Kane himself.
But while flying above the clouds toward Mexico, they encounter something unexpected: Quetzalcoatl, ridden by Quiñones himself, our jaguar warrior.
Mexico vs England.
J'vais pas vous mentir (en tant que Portugais).
Il y a 2/3 décisions VAR très litigieuses dans ce match qui tournent en faveur du Portugal...
Si c'était en faveur de L'Argentine on en parlerais pendant 30 ans, avouons-le 💀😂
I’ve just watched the highlights (twice) and #Croatia have been mugged,robbed,scammed,fleeced …….just give #Ronaldo the trophy and save me a late night
🇭🇷 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?
Only a low IQ non-technical person thinks that a wireless sensor inside a ball with a shitty polling rate that is kicked around for hours is precise enough within low millisecond range to register a string of hair on the ball’s surface, yet magically immune to the pressure wave of someone missing it by 2mm and do all of this over the air in real time across hundreds of meters.
It's an accelerometer. It picks up vibrations and pressure changes from EVERYTHING nearby, even it hitting an insect in the air, then FIFA decides which spike counts as a ‘touch’.
Colombia’s winner wrongfully disallowed.
Croatia winner wrongfully disallowed as well.
We are witnessing one of the biggest scandals in World Cup history.
- Portugal viene de robarle a Colombia un gol por un "offise".
- Ahora le robó descaradamente a Croacia, un penal que no fue y un offise que tampoco existió.
Van 2 PARTIDOS seguidos donde vienen ROBANDO. Realmente tengo mucho miedo de lo que son capaces de hacer CR7 y la FIFA...
I just want to know 2 things:
1. Why didn't the graph show the touch of Veiga and then the other players? There was hardly a gap of 500 milliseconds
2. How the hell did the referee and VAR decide that Veiga's touch was accidental and he didn't try to clear it and fail?
-they don't show another angle to see if the Croatian touches it
-The referee doesn't have to go check an Offside
-The Croatian never touches it and they don't show it in the VAR
HISTORIC ROBBERY TO CROATIA