🇭🇷 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 That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished.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?
🔴 #URGENTE | Un hombre murió tras prenderse fuego frente a la sede de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York. El sujeto, vestido con prendas monásticas, portaba una bandera de Tíbet y panfletos con consignas de protesta contra China.
Am I the only one who finds this incredibly romantic? Illegal, stupidly reckless, but inescapably romantic. They didn’t vandalize anything. Let them off the hook, judge.
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.”—Rumi
Luego de la gran polémica con PlayStation, Hideo Kojima compartió su mensaje del 2021:
💬 "Con el tiempo, incluso los datos digitales ya no serán propiedad de los individuos [...] No podremos acceder libremente a las películas, los libros y la música que amamos. Seré un desposeído. Eso es a lo que temo".
La poesía, los símbolos y el coraje son los que terminan escribiendo la memoria de una época.
Al final nadie recuerda cuánto dinero acumulaste.
Recuerda qué hiciste con tu voz, con tus manos y con las ideas que decidiste defender.
Dos anarquistas y artistas saltaron toda la seguridad del edificio y se colgaron a la punta del Empire state en NY para colgar una bandera que dice :
"Cuando el poder del amor venza al amor al poder el mundo conocerá la paz"
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Two individuals have scaled the very top of New York City's Empire State Building to hang a peace banner from its antenna. The banner reads, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace." Police are currently trying to safely remove the pair from the spire, which sits 1,454 feet in the air. Authorities are still investigating exactly how they managed to bypass security to reach the summit.