Arteta spent years as Pep's assistant and the conclusion he reached was that he had to play a completely different style of football, you watch Arsenal and you would think he was the assistant of Bordalas at Getafe
A six-minute VAR delay with 25 replays to decide which of the multiple set-piece wrestling manoeuvres was clearly and obviously worthy of punishment. A fittingly decisive moment for the 2025-26 Premier League season.
The grappling at corners has become a joke. When James swung his corner over for Chelsea’s goal, there was Timber holding Chalobah, Rice on Hato, Trossard on Andrey Santos, Saliba on Joao Pedro, Gabriel on Enzo, Zubimendi on Sarr. It happens to Arsenal, too, of course. This is simply one snapshot of a broader problem that officials seem to have given up on policing. Perhaps because it’s so pervasive. The six-yard box has become a mosh-pit. #ARSCHE
Week 18 is the ultimate Tomlin game. Steelers either complete an unfathomable collapse but still somehow go 9-8, or they accidentally win and get obliterated in the wild card round by Buffalo.
In the end, there isn’t much of a difference, because the standard was technically met
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
Season 2 of HBO’s Entourage is my favorite stretch of the entire show largely due to the fact it gives us peak Ari Gold. As an over-the-top, ball-busting Hollywood agent, Ari’s such an endearing television character because at his core, he’s defined by his unmatched loyalty.
Vingegaard 1 min behind after crash. UAE keeps calm and Visma attack in first peloton. Always entertaining to watch Visma ride with 8 Captains and Jonas can stew in his own juice 😂 #SamenWinnen#VerliesAlleen