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[Eagle ( ) @Red_Chlorine]

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year filled with love, laughter, and cherished moments with family and friends! 🎄❤️ May the joy of the season bring you peace and happiness. May your heart be light and your spirits high this holiday season and always! 🌟🕯️

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

There is nothing to discuss. In every situation and for all intents and purposes, this is a RED CARD.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

@creatorsmedia_ Plenty

[CG @cgtwts]

SpaceX just acquired Cursor for $60B

> be Cursor
> 4 MIT students start a side project in 2022
> build the AI coding tool developers love
> hit a $10B valuation
> decide copilots aren’t enough
> move into models
> need massive compute to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic & Google
> meanwhile xAI is losing the coding race
> realizes catching up could take years
> skips the line
> buys Cursor for $60B
> Cursor gets compute
> xAI gets the coding leader
> founders become multi-billionaires

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Argentina v Algeria is the World Cup’s only group-stage match between the largest Spanish-speaking country and the largest Arabic-speaking country in the world.

Argentina is the largest country where Spanish is the dominant language. Algeria is the largest country where Arabic is the dominant language.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Jack @thejacksvn]

The underrated stars of the World Cup have been the Asian goalkeepers.

All 5 we’ve seen have been superb.

Al Owais 🇸🇦 - 9 saves, .5g prevented
Beach 🇦🇺 - 9 saves, 1.5g prevented
Abunada 🇶🇦 - 5 saves, .8g prevented
Suzuki 🇯🇵 - 4 saves, .2g prevented
Kim 🇰🇷 - 3 saves, 1.1g prevented

Great Wall Of AFC.

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

I’m not a seer, but I’ve watched football long enough to understand patterns.

When Spain drew against Iraq in that friendly, people said it’s just a friendly.

Friendly games are not just friendlies anymore, especially when they’re played close to a major tournament.

Those games are played to try out systems. They’re played to test the soundness of technical relationships on the pitch and define methods and balance. There’s also something about winning games, just any game at all, it raises your confidence, puts you in the mood and when you don’t, doubt creeps in.

Pre-tournament friendlies are like preseason games. That’s when the tournament begins.

That draw against Iraq showed that they struggled to break teams down and we’ve seen it from the Cape Verde game.

Now the conversation internally will be seeking solutions. What can change?

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

Iraq played a draw against Spain.

Lol.

Football has totally turned around. Systems are so close now. That gap is increasingly shrinking.

It's not a question of who started for Spain. They had good players on the pitch. Times have changed. Even if it's a friendly match, you don't go into these games now thinking you own the day. Football has never been this close.

Like we saw Morocco make it to the semis at the last World Cup, there’ll be shockers this time too.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 5. East Japan and West Japan run on different electrical frequencies. This has been true since the 1890s, when two city governments bought equipment from different countries and nobody caught the problem until the grid was already built. In 2011, the split became a crisis.

Japan runs on 100 volts, the lowest household voltage of any industrialized country. The US uses 120V; most of Europe and the UK use 230V. At 100 volts, a shock delivers about one-fifth the energy of a 230-volt shock, because electrical power scales with the square of the voltage. This is why Japan can safely run a simple flat two-pin plug with no earth connection on most appliances, the opposite of Britain’s approach.

But Japan’s 100V standard applies across the whole country. The frequency does not. In the 1890s, Tokyo Electric Light Company imported generators from Germany’s AEG, which ran on 50 cycles per second. Osaka Electric Light Company imported generators from America’s General Electric, which ran on 60Hz. The two cities built their grids independently. By the time anyone saw the problem, too much infrastructure existed to fix it.

Today, East Japan (Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai) runs on 50Hz, while West Japan (Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka) runs on 60Hz. The boundary follows roughly the Fuji River in Shizuoka Prefecture. Frequency converter stations sit at the border, but their combined capacity in 2011 was roughly one gigawatt, about the output of a single medium-sized power plant.

In March 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami took 27 gigawatts of generating capacity offline in East Japan. Rolling blackouts hit Tokyo. West Japan had surplus electricity it could not move east in any meaningful quantity. The converters were the chokepoint.

The electricity crisis in Tokyo during 2011 was partly caused by a purchasing decision made in the 1890s by a city government that no longer exists.

Japan has since expanded its converter capacity and added interconnections between East and West. The two frequencies still haven’t been unified. Estimates put the cost of doing so in the trillions of yen.

The British plug’s shape was locked in by a 1947 safety committee. Japan’s split grid was locked in by purchasing decisions made in the 1890s. Neither has been changed since.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Addy 🇬🇭🇨🇮🇸🇳 @Addynotaddy]

Correct map don’t be a wet towel.

[Rising Stars XI @RisingStarXI]

🇲🇦🚀 The career path of 𝐒𝐀𝐈̈𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐈 (𝟐𝟓).

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

We can bash Elon and his team, but this auto translate feature has changed everything.

Your tweet can travel to Vietnam seamlessly

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

✨🇫🇷 First ever World Cup goal for Bradley Barcola… with his first touch in France-Senegal.

[Spencer Mossman @fc_mossman]

On topic of "Productive Dribbles"

🇧🇷 Kevin 🔎➡️💎

[Spencer Mossman @fc_mossman]

@billycarpy last summer I did the same right before his move to RBL... saw his data in the 700 or whatever minutes at Leganes and thought "this is too good to be true" but turns out so far it has been even better

[Billy Carpenter @billycarpy]

@fc_mossman Some players, especially young ones, have a few vanity metrics, and then you dive in and start poking holes in their statistical profile. Diomande is the opposite, where the deeper you go, the more insane they get. I genuinely checked my shit to see if I had an algorithmic error

[Spencer Mossman @fc_mossman]

ScoutLab has a metric called "Productive Dribbles"

They're successful dribbles where the ensuing action was a shot, chance created, progressive pass, or progressive carry... so dribbles that actually led to something.

Yan Diomande had 42 last season.

Crysencio Summerville has 20 of them in his entire Premier League career.

[Anime Tweets @AnimexTwts]

It's over 😭

[Ikemba @kkingjorge]

@Mayoveli The Chinese government will take it personal.

18 years after the Beijing Olympics, almost no one has outdone them.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

Xi Jinping rose through Chinese politics in part by helping organize what is still regarded as one of the greatest Olympic Games of all time.

I’d bet that with him still serving as president, if China were to host a FIFA World Cup, it would set the bar so high that it might not be surpassed for the next 50 years.