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[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

U.S. got screwed with the red card in the game. Said f it. We ball. Outscored Bosnia despite being a man down. Balogun shook hands with the official anyway. Handled it like a total pro. Was told there were no appeals. Said f it. We ball. Bring on Belgium anyway. We’ll still win.

We’re told today he can play. We say cool. Everyone else shows 0 class whatsoever. F it. We ball. See you tomorrow.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

CONGRESS PASSES THE 21ST CENTURY ROAD TO HOUSING ACT!!!!!

HOUSE: 358-to-32
SENATE: 85-to-5

- Bipartisan reform to fix housing shortage & lower costs (no big new spending)
- Streamlines permitting, zoning & NEPA reviews to speed up building
- $200M+ Innovation Fund + grants for local govs to boost housing supply
- Lets CDBG funds build new affordable homes; raises bank investment cap to 20%
- Limits large investors (350+ single-family homes) from buying more
- Expands & modernizes HOME program + rural housing reforms
- Boosts manufactured/modular homes (easier rules, higher FHA limits)
- Whole-home repair pilots, voucher inspection fixes & veteran housing tweaks

ALL KNEES WILL BEND TO YIMBY 🏗️🏗️🏗️

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

Excited to announce the SemiAnalysis Teardown Engineering & Evaluation Lab (STEEL)
We have been building a state-of-the-art teardown lab in Oregon with $10s of millions Capex being spent capable of analyzing the world’s most advanced and important chips and process technologies over the last year and half.
We have already generated revenue on advanced datacenter chip teardowns.
This is a bit of inconvenient timing for TechInsights as they are private equity owned and currently being sold while having enjoyed virtually no credible competition for decades. This has led to TechInsights underinvesting in CAPEX.
SemiAnalysis exceeds TechInsights in revenue despite no venture or private equity ownership and being founded only 6 years ago.
Because we have no external investors and are founder led, we move faster, build faster, and we can release client chip teardowns for free regularly, while focusing on datacenter for our major clients.
STEEL has a state of the art fleet of tools.
We are less than a year and half into the journey here, but our goal is to be number 1 just like we are in AI, Datacenter, and Semiconductor market data, consulting, and technically analysis.
Our largest customers which, include all of the hyperscalers and world's largest semiconductor companies, are excited for us to shake up the market.

[Avery Adams @Adams_Animator]

Here's the tiny bit of animation I did for the trailers! Can't wait to show ya what I'm REALLY cooking up👀

[Jerry Capital @JerryCap]

AI bears in absolute shambles today

[Kvist @kvistp]

Those damn Ukrainian housewives

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

You guys would have outlawed refrigerators to keep milkmen in business.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Putin accidentally creating a high-tech regional military power of the first order on its doorstep has to be one of the funniest self-owns in history.

[“paula” @paularambles]

anthropic: “we have finished training the ultimate god model exposing zero-day vulnerabilities in all software including linux and ffmpeg and we also made ten billion dollars last month”

openai: “we have acquired TBPN”

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The President has lost his mind.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

We can help you fight against Shaheds.
Help us fight against ballistic missiles.

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

Introducing React Grab

Select any element on your page → tell Claude Code or Codex what to change

Fully open source

npx react-grab@latest

[Aida Baradari @aidaxbaradari]

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings.

We live in a world of always-on listening devices.

Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations.

With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

[tolf @tolfdog]

this ai fucking sucks

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

I am excited to share that @Starcloud_ will be the first to launch the AWS Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October this year, further enabling high-performance computing in space! 🚀
@awscloud

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

[felpix @felpix_]

me defending my R code in front of the dissertation panel:

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

It turns out the biggest set of testicles in DC is on the 74 year old math geek.

[Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT]

mfw when i didn't lower interest rates fast enough.