Cagan

Cal Poly SLO

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

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[Cagan @cagan_dev]

@deeSouzaArdaa10 @Fenerbahce kesinlikle hem ucuzda hemde hareketli bizimkiler 20 milyon asagisi olsun bakmazlar...

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Brian Cipenga alin Fener e ucuza madem para yok

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@mansizzzzle NYC would be a good intro to health space

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

The stadium cleaning staff seeing that Japan has been eliminated:

[Quimey Herrera @QuimeyHerrera01]

el futbolista paraguayo solo está diseñado para recuperar la pelota, una vez que lo logra se la devuelve al rival para intentar recuperarla nuevamente

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

@Hak0uu @Thermobolic @anabology Whats the extra benefit of bpc on head/hair?

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

@juliette_hiyb @NoahRyanCo Yeah for me its glycine too sometimes its
excitatory

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

Turkey beat USA in the World Cup, T'. They're saying it's payback for their people, what with all the Thanksgiving dinners and shit.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

A bus driver in France crashed today because he fainted due to the heat having no AC in the bus

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Watching the World Cup has me asking questions. Do Europeans get issued 8 weeks of vacation, unlimited airline miles, and a trust fund at birth? Because every match I turn on there are 40,000 fans following their team to a different state or country on a Tuesday afternoon while Americans are hiding in a work bathroom checking scores.

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

Jetblue > United any day

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

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@joephair_ @NoahRyanCo Also heard using TMG helps with it?

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

@NoahRyanCo @themoldcompany Any way to test mold exposure for body?

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

Japan semi finals

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

Japan real dark horse of the world cup

[Emre @emresryl]

Bunu özel uçakla getirin, diğerleri yük gemisiyle dönsün

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

Japan real dark horse of the world cup

[Cagan @cagan_dev]

@Lin_DAO_ @AbudBakri