Keian Noori

computational materials science & other interests.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

VAR review of a foul 100 yards away erases a second Egypt goal vs. Argentina, as seen and heard on the Fox broadcast. #WorldCup

[Adonis Storr @theadelites]

I cannot believe we have got to the point where a ball lightly touching the tips of someone’s hair is being measured by a Snickometer in order to disallow a goal.

The ball’s trajectory and spin were not affected at all.

The offside law was created to stop goal-hanging - it was never intended to be an exact science.

It was never created so that one day artificial intelligence could measure toenails offside and use a snicko to check if someone’s touched a ball.

It was created to stop strikers from man-marking goalkeepers all game.

VAR was meant to be reserved for clear and obvious decisions.

We used to understand that football is better and more entertaining when goals are scored.

That meant that for offsides: in case of doubt, the benefit was given to the attacker while in-line was always onside.

Now we’re using 3D generated AI technology to check toes to the millimetre and extreme microphones to measure minuscule decibels with the aim of disallowing goals and ruining football as a spectacle.

Do they ever ask if we want these changes, do they market test any of it?

What an extra time awaited us for the #Portugal v #Croatia game, unfortunately we will never get to see it thanks to the madness that VAR has descended into.

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

“Put in H”

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A season to be proud of.

We pushed the boundaries over land and sea, and couldn't have done it without your support. Thank you, Gooners ❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

LIFT IT UP ©️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Arsenal: 2025/26 Premier League champions.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A legacy written.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

1/ today we're releasing muse spark, the first model from MSL. nine months ago we rebuilt our ai stack from scratch. new infrastructure, new architecture, new data pipelines. muse spark is the result of that work, and now it powers meta ai. 🧵

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

So civilians around civilian infrastructure are now considered "human shields?"

It's not a war crime for workers to be at a power plant or for commuters to use a bridge.

It's a war crime for them to be targeted. This shouldn't be confusing.

[Kaveh Madani @KavehMadani]

Israel’s attack on Iran and Iran’s retaliation are already claiming civilian lives. Stop defending one side’s “rights” while ignoring UN Charter violations and the killing of innocent people. The world needs less hypocrisy—and more respect for diplomacy and international law.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

this is like an ad for a news network inside the movie Starship Troopers, only with more plastic surgery

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

as soon as i saw they were using asterisks for multiplication symbols, i knew we were in trouble

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

1. If there’s any geopolitical logic in the Trump tariffs, this is it:

To sustain the fleeting unipolar order and keep “America first,” the US doesn’t need to confront adversaries. It needs to coerce allies.

Trump is testing how economic coercion can make *allies* obey.

[Financial Times @FT]

Joe Biden loses to Xi Jinping in battle for Latin America https://t.co/MDImSgdyzP

[Simpsons Quotes @Simpsons_tweets]

It's a two party system. You have to vote for one of us. #ElectionDay

[Keian Noori @oldmanbalaia]

"These models (such as 538’s and The Economist’s) will tell you there is a certain probability that, say, Trump will win (52 per cent and 50 per cent at this time of writing, respectively). But a probability distribution is not a prediction — not in the case of a one-time event."

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: If you believe the polls, the US presidential race is a dead heat. If you believe the so-called prediction models, Donald Trump is slightly more likely to win than Kamala Harris. I believe neither: https://t.co/MXoGL94Fcj