Ibrahim

Do people still read this? Opinions are my own.

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

Yesterday in a nutshell. Been a long time since I had a trip

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

50 million and a sell-on clause..doesn't sound like a good deal

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCL: Manchester United reach agreement with Chelsea to sign Andrey Santos. Deal for 22yo #CFC midfielder worth £48m + £2m easily achievable add-ons & 10% sell-on clause. Permission given to undergo #MUFC medical; personal terms in place @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/TY4qfwhHT4

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

Was not expecting an immediate u-turn

[Berita Harian @bharianmy]

Caruman LINDUNG 24 Jam PERKESO tidak lagi mandatori, berkuat kuasa serta-merta

#BHnasional Caruman sebanyak 0.75 peratus daripada gaji pekerja itu kini dilaksanakan secara sukarela - Fahmi

https://t.co/LbNfTXw5Nr

[Daniel Solana @DiceElDani]

Many people don’t know this, but the crossed-arms “X” signal is FIFA’s universal gesture for reporting racist abuse.

When a player, coach, or team official makes that signal, they’re informing the referee that racist abuse has occurred. It is meant to trigger FIFA’s three-step anti-racism protocol: first stop the match, then suspend it if the abuse continues, and ultimately abandon the match if it doesn’t stop.

Today, Egypt manager Hossam Hassan made the “X” gesture from the touchline. Instead of initiating the protocol, the referee booked Hassan with a yellow card and allowed play to continue.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:

1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.

2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.

3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.

4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.

5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.

6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.

7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.

8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.

9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.

FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.

[Ali Harb @Harbpeace]

There will be a lot of debate about the Egyptian disallowed goal and the contact on Salah in the box in the lead up to Argentina's winning goal.
But from kickoff, every 50/50 call went Argentina's way. Slight contact by Egypt, whistle. Argentina roughing up and shoving Egyptian players all game long, play on. Romero cleans out Salah with a sliding tackle, no yellow card. Argentinian defender commits an international foul to stop a counter, no yellow card. The only consistent thing about the refereeing was inconsistency.
These seemingly small calls change the course of the game.

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

And still no replays on the 2 potential fouls in the box done by Argentina

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

That settles it. It doesn't matter if Argentina won, so many controversial calls that they did not deserve to go their way

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

Wow. No penalty check.

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

2 potential penalty calls in the box and VAR is not even checking it?

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

Of course Argentina equalises after a series of refereeing decisions going their way

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

LETS GO EGYPTTTTTTT

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

LETS GO EGYPT LETS GOOOOO

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

What. A. Goal. Wow Cape Verde

[Shahnon Salleh @shahnonsalleh]

Check the date of that old tweet. After 11-long years of waiting, it's finally over! Lol

https://t.co/30sgcYYMVI

[Ibrahim @NotIbrahimm]

I would like to see the this many government officials take the Kelana Jaya line during peak hours on a weekday.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Several areas along the Shah Alam LRT line have been identified for Transit-Oriented Development, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke.

This would involve redeveloping large park-and-ride sites into projects such as affordable housing and retail spaces for small traders.

🧵1

[khalid karim STEMKITA @khalidkarim]

Shah Alam LRT dibuka esok. RM16.63 bilion.

Apa yang Menteri beritahu kita:
✅ "World-class"
✅ "Catalyst for economic development"
✅ "Sustainable urban development"
✅ Feeder buses ada

Apa yang Menteri TIDAK beritahu:
❌ Ramalan penumpang harian
❌ Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR)
❌ Subsidi operasi tahunan
❌ Kos asal vs kos akhir (+84%: RM9b → RM16.63b)
❌ Feasibility study — di mana?

Kita nak raikan tapi angka mana yang patut kita raikan?

Angka tak menipu.

[Thevesh @Thevesh]

Was offline the entire yesterday, didn't realise that the ripoff of https://t.co/Mryk0CtpE7 by @solahidris_ blew up.

Here's my position on the issue:

TLDR: What Solah did is legal under a CC0 license, but it was highly unethical (especially since he was trying to sell consulting services based on the ripoff), and he got what he deserved.

Longer explanation:

1) I intentionally licensed all data AND the website's source code as CC0. This means no rights reserved - anyone can use it for any purpose (including commercial), with or without attribution.

Why did I license it CC0? Because I wanted the max amount of openness possible - so that anyone who wanted to use the data could do so with the least legal friction. It's the 'gold standard' license of open data.

Under a CC0 license, a total ripoff is permissible - that's the risk of maximum openness, which I'm willing to bear since I do not earn any money from https://t.co/Mryk0CtpE7.

2) A smaller reason I licensed it as CC0 is that I don't have the time, energy, or resources to enforce a license.

E.g. let's say I licensed the data CC-BY (which requires attribution) and Solah still didn't attribute, realistically what can I do? I'm not going to take him to court. So the license is just the illusion of protection.

3) In general, I have found that ethical actors will always attribute, regardless of whether it is required or not.

What Solah did is highly unethical. And I think that the backlash he received (leading to him eventually taking down the site) is actually my preferred mechanism for dealing with this type of situation - you behave stupidly/unethically, and you deal with the consequences.

No courts needed - just enough ethical people calling him out.

[Syahir @syahir]

masa mahal takde harga siling, masa murah ada harga lantai 😀

[Thevesh @Thevesh]

BTW, I took this work so seriously, that I actually wrote it up, got it peer-reviewed, and published in Nature (Scientific Data), one of the world's top journals for pure data papers.

https://t.co/dhrCozUikZ

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

It’s actually funnier than this: it isn’t a knock-off actually, it really is the official Israeli Ben & Jerry’s, but after Unilever got upset with Ben & Jerry’s after they announced they’d no longer sell the ice cream in the occupied territories, Unilever sold the official license to the Israeli owner, so they have the right to all the brand names & imagery, but don’t have to listen to what Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield want