Guy Foster

Views expressed on Twitter are my own and never constitue advice or recommendations on any subject. love #cpfc 🦅❤️💙

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15 years ago today, Crystal Palace FC were in a state of limbo.

At the end of the 2009/10 season, our players, having not been paid for 3 months, had overturned a 10 point deduction due to falling into administration, securing the draw we needed on the last day of the season away at Sheffield Wednesday to keep our heads above water in the Championship.

The club still faced an incredibly precarious future, with the stadium owned by Lloyds Bank who seemingly had little intention of selling it back. Due to fan protests, both outside Selhurst Park and at the headquarters of the bank itself in early June, they relented and gave Steve Parish and CPFC2010 the green light to purchase the stadium and keep the club alive.

That summer, the lifelong fans who fronted the aforementioned consortium were forced to navigate their way through club ownership as total novices; contending with a squad which had just 9 first-team players registered to it and a club infrastructure in desperate need of TLC. Fast-forward 3 years and the club had, despite the odds being stacked heavily against it, made it to the Premier League via a Play-Off Final victory over Watford. Prior to that promotion, Crystal Palace had never spent more than a single season in the Premier League; we’re now at the end of our 12th in a row with a 13th to come in August.

Today, we head into what is our 3rd ever FA Cup Final, we’ve lost the previous two in 1990 and 2016 and have never in our history won what is considered to be a “major” trophy.

I’ve been doing so much thinking about today’s game over the last week or so, the passage of support from my Granddad to my old man, down to me and now to my son; with that story of family ties a consistent theme throughout the entire Palace fan-base, we don’t support this club for glory, it’s about pride in South London and what that badge means to us.

We may win it, if we do, it’ll be a truly incredible feeling but whatever the outcome, I know that it won’t make the slightest bit of difference to how much I love our football club; it gives my life structure and meaning and looking back to those uncertain days in 2010, I know how close we came to losing it altogether.

One last push ladies and gentlemen, you never know. ❤️💙

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@BillAckman @ZelenskyyUa @Ukraine @realDonaldTrump Zelenskyy points out that Putin breaks agreements. Vance says this is disrespectful and attacks Zelenskyy personally. Zelenskyy responds and the whole thing snowballs. Does Zelenskyy overplay his hand? He doesn’t really have one. But Vance starts it.

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@xvrmdf A problem is that energy efficiency brings down costs and lower costs cause increased consumption such that efficiency has historically not led to reduced consumption, just more cheaper consumption.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Jean-Philippe Mateta put the ball and two defenders in the back of the net 😭

#BBCOlympics #Olympics #Paris2024

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@xvrmdf People would only vote for those two parties if they are committed social conservatives. They form a coherent block.

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@xvrmdf 1. Labour 33.8%, Tory 23.7 + Reform 14.3 = 38% right?

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@xvrmdf Not seeking to delegitimise anything, just noting that:
Combined reform/conservative block was comfortably more than Labours share,
What’s left of the Tories is pretty much reform anyway
If Labour can’t grow its appeal in office (which is difficult) the UK is getting PM Farage

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@detroitmediamag @ClashofClans Why would night mode be of any interest?

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With Ebere Eze having been called up to the 26-man England squad for this summer’s Euros, I thought I would re-share this sensational piece of writing from @LoftforWords, penned just after Eze signed for Palace from QPR.

Give it 5-10 minutes. Trust me.

https://t.co/haB0F2mLao

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@DrizzyCPFC @SamiMokbel81_DM progression plan:
Arrive ✅
Straight into first team ✅
Play for England ✅
Win ballon d’or
Become prime minister
Cure cancer
Synthesise gold from organic waste

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

My opinion of @elonmusk
I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system.
I also like his positions on open source and patents.

But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues.

I disagree with how he treats his scientists.
Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever.
Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort.

I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great.
But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).

More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare.
Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media.

Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...).
One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth.

This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype.
He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions).
Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too.
Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

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@rebekkarnold Prime minister Liz truss

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@GilesyL14 Lerma was early doors last summer right?

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@DownToTen I think people struggle to compute the wages/fee trade off for free transfers.

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@DownToTen 💯

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@GilesyL14 Edouard would presumably thrive under Glasner like everyone else has if he got a run of games

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Crystal Palace could win us the Euros! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👀

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@Luke_Seychell Leicester

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@TomDutty Freedman provides the continuity. Glasner will leave, he’d go to Bayern tomorrow if we let him.

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@couge0102 @mrgaryspencer Olise had a release clause last summer but Parish managed to persuade him to stay.

The key is whether they would be worth more next year than this year, maybe if they are protected and have fewer injuries. Then structure the contract so they share the spoils (as we already do)