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🇳🇱 – 🇸🇪 5–1 Well well well, NL trounced Sweden with the same score that Sweden trounced Tunisia. There’s a clear pecking order in international football and we’re at the bottom.

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🇫🇷 – 🇸🇳 2–0. Some really good goals by les Bleus.

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🇸🇪 – 🇹🇳 5–1. Did not get up at 04:00 to watch this, which I was apparently alone in not doing at my workplace. Good start to the tournament, especially as the other teams in the group only got one point.

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🇪🇸 – 🇨🇻 0–0. I started following the match on radio and finished on TV. It was entertaining to hear the commentator’s increasing incredulity that Spain wasn’t able to score. A bit like a certain other real-world conflict, sometimes a draw is a win. Definitely rooting for Cap Verde to advance!

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🔗 THR: A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target

D’Souza believes that “many journalists are more powerful than billionaires,” explaining, “I can’t tell you how many billionaires and CEOs have called me in absolute tears about their lives being destroyed by one article.” He notes that most of them “have no media skill whatsoever” and have “never sought the spotlight,” so he contends that “there’s a massive power asymmetry.”

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🔗 An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

The reply took and the closure of the ticket took half an hour or so. The reasons behind it took five hundred years to pile up, and they involve a twice-mutilated vizier, a Qurʾān that vanished for four centuries, a Beirut newspaperman with a deadline, and an Egyptian physician who taught himself font engineering for fun (or that what I imagine about him). Walking through these, ended up to be the most enjoyable couple of weeks in that job, and I want to go through it here too.

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🔗⚽ Foreign Policy: How Soccer Became ‘Un-American’

The cosmopolitan cultural class that follows the Premier League consciously positions itself at the opposite pole of the alignment that returned the current president to office. While other countries see class divides between football clubs, in the United States, soccer fandom has been politicized. Like their choice of car, store, or fast food restaurant, being a soccer fan is a litmus test of U.S. partisan identity.

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🔗 XKCD: Nostalgia Content

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🔗 McSweeney’s: The New Odyssey Movie Is Historically Inaccurate; Matt Damon Isn’t the Least Bit Greek

The powers that be (the Illuminati, the Boston Brahmin, whatever you want to call them) are trying to dilute America’s proud “hard r” culture until rhotacism is a thing of the past. If they have their way, we will all be “pahking the cah at Mahket Basket to buy lobstah.” It’s no coincidence that half of Hollywood’s writers went to “Hahvahd.”

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🔗 Molly White: I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics

The [crypto and AI] PACs may look different from the outside, but they’re increasingly the same operation with aligned goals: deregulate the tech sector, slash consumer protections, and allow tech companies to capture even more enormous profits at the expense of everyday people.

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🔗 LGM: The Wages of Sin

Russia’s overwhelming military superiority creates a power asymmetry, as it expects no existential reciprocity from Ukraine, which Russia initially dwarfed. Russia’s prediction of the war was shaped by its early geopolitical isolation: the G7 sanctioned it, and any international legitimacy it had was vanquished, leaving it with no consequences should it decide not to comply with LOAC [Laws of Armed Conflict]. This permitted Russian forces to engage in consistent breaches of the LOAC, treating defiance as an asset. This is particularly evident in Russia’s targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, with attacks conducted in the winter of 2024-2025 as an attempt to brutalize the winter and weaken the Ukrainian spirit. The brutality of the Russians also persists in the attacks on shelters, such as the Mariupol Theater bombing, the unlawful deportation of children, and their cultural indoctrination. […] Conversely, Ukraine is in a unique position, as it is the militarily weaker state and relies on Western support to address the threat, compelling it to adhere to LOAC to the fullest extent. Ukraine cannot afford to acquire a bad reputation, as its lifeline depends on Western support.

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🇸🇪 SVT: Stad i ljus superhypad bland unga – Tommy Körberg: ”Mysterium”

Ett annat tecken på mitt fortskridande åldrande - min samtalspartner under lördagen festivitas utgick från att jag som gammal KTH:are självklart sjöng Stad i ljus när dansgolvet stängde. Något sådant kan jag inte minnas, men det beror mindre på överdrivet alkoholintag än att jag sällan var kvar så sent.

Hursomhelst började det enligt sägnen (Wikipedia) i Lund 1988 men det har gått mig spårlöst förbi fram till nu.

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🇸🇪🎭 Bön för idioter - Stadsteaterns Klarascen

En tragikomisk absurdistisk pjäs där fem skådespelare springer, hoppar och klättrar över varandra samtidigt som dom glider in och ut ur rollerna som figurer i en TV-serie eller dom som betraktar den. Scenen är djup, nästan kvadradisk, och ytan används till fullo. Samtiden är hemsk, eller är det bara en serie? Är böldpesten som härjar och massgravarna på Själland på riktigt, eller kommer dom i nästa säsong?

Kan rekommenderas.

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🔗📺🇬🇧 Gone (2026)

A UK crime drama that doesn’t quite live up to expectations.

David Morrisey stars as the stereotypical headmaster of a local public school[1] whose wife (also a teacher there) goes missing. As usual revelations and twists are exposed over 6 well-executed hours.

The actors and settings are good, but the details aren’t. Why is the driven DI played by Eve Myles sidelined as an FLO[2] to the bereaved headmaster, and why is she still there when the headmaster (SPOILER!) becomes a suspect? Why are multiple interviews conducted without a solicitor present?

Worth a view but a bit disappointing.

Viewed on SVT streaming.

[1] This is England, so this means private school in the rest of the world.

[2] Family Liaison Officer, very popular character in UK crime shows.

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