trickbo

North London via the world. Adventurer in the epicurean underbelly.

[RK☄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @mygoatiswashed]

2am - Haiti vs Scotland

5am - Australia vs Turkey

6pm - Germany vs Curacao

9pm - Netherlands vs Japan

[Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP]

See the impact of lockdowns and furlough. The stupidest govt policy this century.

[Yas Rana @Yas_Cricket]

This is really good

https://t.co/6pZGWFoQp3

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Extraordinary chart: Chinese AI models have now completely overtaken their US competitors on OpenRouter, the largest API aggregator out there for AI models.

Interestingly it's really a 2026 story: beforehand US models were truly dominant.

This is mainly due to the release of models like Kimi K2.5 (released in Jan 26), MiniMax M2.5 (Feb 26), and, of course, DeepSeek V4 (released in April).

Like I wrote after the release of DeepSeek V4, for most tasks, favoring Chinese AI models is literally a no-brainer in almost all respects:

- At least 10 times cheaper than US models
- At least 90% as good for most tasks (programming, copywriting, etc.)
- Your data and privacy are MORE secure as it's open source and you can (and should) use it in a way where no-one sees your data, like self-hosting or via Zero Data Retention (ZDR) providers.

Honestly it's so freaking obvious that at this stage there are two categories of AI users: those who already use Chinese models, and those who will.

Src for graph: https://t.co/hh1N11JdFl

[Def Mon @DefMon3]

Utterly insane to go to a warzone and expect anything else.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely hilarious for the FT to argue the West is losing to China because "liberal market democracies operate with greater accountability to voters."

Hilarious and, of course, absurdly wrong. China is winning precisely because it's obsessively focused on delivering for its people: infrastructure, improving living standards, reducing poverty, etc.

"Liberal market democracies" are losing precisely because they forgot who democracies are supposed to be accountable to.

Src: https://t.co/tQjkt6OSg4

[𝔓𝔲𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔱 @therealpuneet]

You don’t have a clue what you are 😂😂😂

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Again, I keep seeing this line. "It's not our job to entertain the neutrals and entertain the wider football public. Not bothered about that". Fine. Adopt the argument all that matters is winning. But you didn't win. You lost.

[Jon @jonhotspur1988]

“Noooorf Laaandan forevaaaaa, watevaaa the wevvvaaa!”…unless it’s over 25 degrees at 5pm.

[Jacob Steinberg @JacobSteinberg]

Am sure Arteta can accept not getting the rub of the green as he realised “how difficult and big is the referee’s job” when the decision went Arsenal’s way against West Ham 😉

[Rado dos Ovie Mendes 🎈 @thee_ovie]

Ref tells Saka to hurry up and take the corner with stoppage time up. Saka does his usual slow-walk to run down the clock. The ref calmly waits, and the absolute second Saka gets into position? He blows for half-time.

Absolute cinema. Masterclass game management for a final.

Arsenal got so used to getting away with murder from Premier League refs that when someone actually enforces the rules, they think they’re being robbed.

Credit where it’s due tho, they played some demonic football to get here. But if PL refs weren't so intimidated by Arteta’s touchline tantrums and fooled by their theatrics, Arsenal wouldn’t be parading a PGMOL trophy today.

Justice served in Europe! 🫶🏼

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

🙏 Cundy: "Commiserations..."

😡 Groves: "Stick it where the sun don't shine!"

#AFC legend Perry Groves was fuming with Cundy and Agbonlahor's reaction to PSG winning the UCL final! 😤

[trickbo @trickbo]

@barneyronay So much bitter saltiness in your post game article, great to read, you must be gutted 😭

[Robert @UtdRobert]

That fella in a Saka top has coming running in from 10 yards away to end up on his arse😂😂😂😂

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

24.7% - Arsenal’s possession average (24.7%) was the lowest by a team in a UEFA Champions League final on record (since 2003-04), as well as their lowest in any match under Mikel Arteta where they had 11 men on the pitch throughout. Reactive.

[trickbo @trickbo]

@blakeaburge No one other than an American would think this is underrated

[trickbo @trickbo]

@OnKnockers @antoniogm London

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

No, it's a terrible return: ~6% annually (before inflation).

S&P 500 annual return was 13%.

So either:

1. these billionaires are crap at investing

2. the data is wrong/incomplete

3. the composition changed - 2026 billionaires not the same people as 2010 billionaires

[NORTHERN SCUM🐊 @Unserious_Exrha]

Caicedo did exactly the same thing Khusanov did to João Pedro and got a yellow card😂