if you haven't watched the Telemundo broadcast of a Mexico goal against England in Mexico City you haven't lived

new tradition 🇺🇸

"That's it, isn't it? Rules and rule changes. If you want to deeply and utterly depress someone, change the rules, and change them often. Force them to do something meaningless. Change the rules arbitrarily. That's what really demoralizes people: being imprisoned in a system of arbitrary rule changes. No hope for stability and no way out."

—@Gigi

every non-USA world cup fan right now

same 😳

i for one am excited by our robot future. let the clankers take more of our drudgery.

if you feel you would face an existential crisis without your drudgery then perhaps now is a good time to pause and reflect

"The behaviour of Hongwu, the first of the Ming emperors, is an object lesson in how to stifle the economy: forbid all trade and travel without government permission; force merchants to register an inventory of their goods once a month; order peasants to grow for their own consumption and not for the market; and allow inflation to devalue the paper currency 10,000-fold."

—Matt Ridley, from The Rational Optimist