The U.S. starts its World Cup campaign with a victory and 3 PTS vs. Paraguay 🗣️

Thinking about how Kane Parsons has consistently mature and sophisticated things to say about his movie as it relates to hyper-contemporary questions like AI and industrial bloat, while Steven Spielberg is phoning interviews in and taking lazy sideswipes at played-out old canards like “aren’t those religious people just so small-minded?” It does sort of seem like the energy and hunger of the young’uns is making them more creatively interesting than the flagging old guard. Couple this with the fact that Parsons’s picture is thematically rich yet at the same time hyper-entertaining (and disciplined!) while Spielberg’s is a pretty well-worn retread of familiar ideas—a rickety tentpole for a baggy old tent. Even leaving aside the respective merits of their points of view, it’s just clear that one is tapping into a fresh vein of potent philosophical energy while another is sort of plodding through another recitation of old saws that have lost their meaning. Very stark generational turnover that we’re watching in real time.

Back with a BANG 💥 In his first match since January, @NickKyrgios gets the better of Moutet to advance in Stuttgart! @boss__open | #BOSSOpen

The moment Alexander Zverev claimed his FIRST GRAND SLAM TITLE 🏆🇩🇪 @AlexZverev @rolandgarros #RolandGarros

ALEXANDER ZVEREV WINS HIS FIRST CAREER MAJOR TITLE AT THE FRENCH OPEN‼️

“I mean for me the whole point of doing what I’m doing, art is a way of processing life…I don’t see the point of outsourcing any part of that.” This guy gets it. Wouldn’t want a bot to eat my food for me either, or look at sunsets on my behalf.

He’s not “a Black man” he’s a sad sack everyman who happens to be black because Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor who brings class to an indie project. If they’d cast a white guy you’d be complaining about the lack of diversity. No one wants to play this unwinnable game any more.

ANOTHER UPSET AT THE FRENCH OPEN! 😱 With World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka's loss, there will be no former major champion left in both the men's or women's semifinal. The last major when that happened was the 1977 French Open.

What’s so fitting about the triumph of Backrooms over Mandalorian is that Kane Parsons and Will Soodnik have turned this online legend into a parable about the ugliness of remake culture. It’s funny that the Backrooms trend predates the AI boom, because in many ways it embodies some of the uncanny horror that AI slop can stir in us. But in other ways Backrooms is about deeper trends of which slop is just one symptom. Others include therapy culture, the remake glut, and our obsession with nostalgia. Now a new generation of content creators, who never lived through the periods we all yearn for, are exposing our nostalgia as the Baudrillardian grotesquery it is. So I argue for @TheFP today:

Weigh in Terp nation. Who you got? ⬇️

One perhaps obvious conclusion I draw from watching Backrooms is that the best art of the next couple decades will be made not with, but about, AI

Carrying the flag forward 🇧🇷 Joao Fonseca becomes the first Brazilian Grand Slam men’s quarter-finalist since @gugakuerten in 2004!😍 #RolandGarros

FEARLESS. FENOMENAL. FONSECA. 🇧🇷 @rolandgarros #RolandGarros

The Late Night Foe 🌓 Tiafoe recovers from 2 sets down to take out qualifier Faria! @rolandgarros #RolandGarros

WE’RE OFF TO A DECIDER 🤯 Who’s your pick? ⬇️ @rolandgarros #RolandGarros

Welcome to the Tiafoe Gun Show 😤💪 @FTiafoe flexes his muscles after battling past Hurkacz in an epic five setter 🔥 @rolandgarros #RolandGarros

Weigh in Terp nation. Who you got? ⬇️

It wouldn’t be #RolandGarros without Monfils taking us to a fifth set ❤️‍🔥 @rolandgarros

Following his coach's footsteps 👟 Tien becomes the youngest American to win on European clay since his coach Chang in 1989! #GonetGenevaOpen

TIEN LIFTS THE TITLE BY THE LAKE 🏞️ A 2nd ATP Tour title & a career-high No. 18, after a 3-6 6-3 7-5 win over Navone! #GonetGenevaOpen