Akshay Kumar

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~ Oscar Wilde

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@piersmorgan British Airways Flight BA226 to London from Atlanta is now Boarding!

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 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 That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished.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?

[Josip @l3d1c]

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’.

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@RealSkipBayless Just do us all a favor and go fucking kill yourself.

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Remember in FIFA when you could run away from the ref trying to give you a yellow card? Good times!

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

The reason why the rest of the world thinks Americans are dumb is because we keep letting the dumb ones speak for us.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"A couple people decided a woman was too pregnant to fly, now U.S. soccer is gonna win the World Cup."

@MadelynBurke shares the story of how Folarin Balogun was eligible to play for Team USA ⚽️

[CrimsonCast @CrimsonCast]

I would highly recommend this website if you are trying to figure out what's going to happen with the World Cup knockout stage. Whoever programmed this deserves a medal: https://t.co/OB8bzX5uez

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@auribe714 @CrimsonCast @TheAthletic The bracket is updated with live results. It's also prediction visualizer so you need to toggle the live button on top. You can chose a winner for a future match and build up a prediction that can be shared.

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@CrimsonCast Glad you like it. Made some more updates, hover (desktop) or tap (mobile) a finished card to peek the match.

[Shaun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @shaunvlog_]

A wee note to the people of Boston.

[Football Park Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @FP_Scotland]

Anyone up for an annual Scotland v Republic of Ireland friendly at the Gillette Stadium?

Before the fans leave for Florida, Massachusetts state senator Paul Feeney has a message for the Tartan Army and has a proposition for more trips to America

[📹: Instagram/paulfeeneyma]

[Mia “GIRT” Lastname @themiasandrist]

Crying tears of pride right now

[Cris @CrisLee99]

Muito boa essa pegadinha dos mexicanos pra cima dos coreanos kkkkk
(créditos: chilinypikinoficial)

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Starting today, we’re bringing five World Cup matches to 200 @LinkNYC kiosks  in all five boroughs.

This historic public partnership with @Telemundo is bringing the beautiful game straight to our sidewalks. Whether you’re grabbing coffee in the Bronx, walking to work in Queens, or taking your kids to the park in Staten Island, you can catch the beautiful game for free.

Right now, watch our boys on the USA men's team playing on select LinkNYC screens across the city. Did you catch that second goal?

Find a kiosk showing the game near you using our LinkNYC World Cup Viewing Map.

https://t.co/475NLdmarW

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

This animation is unreal, AI is getting scary

[Chivo Infante @chivoinmortal]

Maradona si hubieran existido las pausas de hidratación en México 86.

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@JackMac You are part of the problem.

[Akshay Kumar @akshayk]

@stoolpresidente The Outlaws are the most unoriginal fucks and it's IMO that they are in large part responsible for turning people away from US Soccer.Weak ass shit.This Phil guy from Outlaws, Alexis Lalas,the poor commentators. Maybe you found your calling in life to start an Alt Support Group.