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🚨 The criticism surrounding FIFA, Gianni Infantino and the organisation of this World Cup continues to grow. Writing for The Guardian, award-winning columnist Jonathan Liew delivered a scathing assessment of FIFA's president following a series of controversies, including the situation involving referee Omar Artan. 🗣️ Liew: "Given his own self-image as a kind of messianic pan-global statesman, there is a certain irony in the fact that this summer will cement his legacy as one of sport’s greatest cowards: a weak and petty man who lost control of his own tournament. A man who quivered in the face of genuine conviction. A man who had the world’s most powerful cultural force in his hands, and ended up giving it away."

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong: “I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines. We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem. Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico? Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed? The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others. Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible. Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish. If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.” “FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”

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WATCH | Anti-apartheid activist, clinical psychologist and former political prisoner Professor Saths Cooper reflects on 50 years since the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising.

Do it! For the spirit of Atlantis!🚍

Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every child who passed away in Gaza. It took him 7 hours.

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The worst part is him saying the strike on the elementary school in Minab (that killed 168 schoolchildren and teachers) "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines."

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

Mientras el negocio del fútbol sigue creciendo a pasos agigantados, Telemundo decidió defender algo que cada vez parece más escaso: la esencia del juego. ⚽❤️ Durante la transmisión del partido entre Canadá 🇨🇦 y Bosnia 🇧🇦, uno de sus comentaristas lanzó un mensaje que no pasó desapercibido: 🗣️ “Somos una de las pocas cadenas en el mundo que NO muestra anuncios durante las pausas de hidratación de la Copa Mundial. Preferimos el estilo de la vieja escuela. Deberíamos poder ver lo que hacen los jugadores. Mostramos a los aficionados, a la gente disfrutando, no la dirección corporativa del fútbol”. En una época donde cada segundo de transmisión parece estar en venta, la cadena estadounidense apuesta por mostrar lo que ocurre dentro y alrededor de la cancha.

In celebration of the late @ChickCorea’s birthday, here is a career-spanning playlist courtesy @Mark_Stryker: open.spotify.com/playlist/70…

• Jurgen, what’s your take on that Mexico vs South Africa game where the referee had to hold the players during the cooling break because FOX was still airing commercials? 🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jurgen Klopp: “This is football being held hostage by suits in air-conditioned offices. These so-called ‘cooling breaks’ were sold to us as a shield for player welfare, a noble sword against the heat. But in reality? It’s nothing but a golden cage built for the advertisers. When I saw players standing around during a cooling break while television schedules dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn’t help but wonder: who is the World Cup really serving? The fans? The players? Or the advertisers? A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we’re building dams in the middle of it so commercials can pass through. That’s dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football was once the main event; now it risks becoming the background music to an advertising show. We’re told these breaks are about player welfare, and of course player health matters. But when the game starts bending its knee to television timing, people are going to ask questions. The ball is supposed to be the star. Not a commercial break. The World Cup is football’s cathedral. Yet sometimes it feels like we’ve turned it into a shopping mall where the cash register gets more respect than the match itself. If this is the future, then football isn’t being interrupted by advertisements anymore. Football is becoming the interruption between advertisements.” —🎙️ ZDF

In the last 24 hours, Amnesty published a report on Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, and the Explosive Weapons Monitor reported that Israel is the world’s leading killer. The media barely reported either—because why would that be newsworthy…

Tyla delivered a beautiful rendition. She kicked it off in an octave that the average person can handle because our anthem in the correct octave is a little tricky when you're not warmed up. Also our anthem was made for 4 parts so the choir as back up is chef's kiss. When she sustained that 5th and gave them a moment to take us into Uit die blou 🤏🏾

Ahhh yes nothing has changed in men’s fashion 😂😂

It's the opposite. During the mid- to late-19th century, suits were the uniform of clerks and administrators. Those higher on the social and economic ladder — such as lawyers, doctors, and politicians — wore the more "gentlemanly" frock coat with a silk top hat. In fact, Labour Party founder Keir Hardie caused quite a stir when he showed up to work on his first day as a Member of Parliament while wearing a tweed suit to show his allegiance to his working-class constituents. The press was shocked, noting that he wore a "cloth cap in Parliament" (a tweed deerstalking cap, rather than the silk top hat). With time, everyone wore the suit. By the early 20th century, those who owned the means of production wore the same uniform as those who managed them. Blurring this distinction can seem meaningless today, but it was quite a big deal in the early 20th century. Even manual laborers who wore more utilitarian clothing to work — chambray shirts, blue jeans, chore coats, etc — had a suit for religious services on Sunday. Thus, the suit was not a symbol of domination, but rather hid class markers. To be sure, there were distinctions in how people wore suits and where they bought them. In London, businessmen could be distinguished by whether they bought their clothes from a "City tailor" or a "West End tailor" (the West End being the higher-grade option reserved for those with money). But these were relatively minor and only for the trained eye. Relatively speaking, class symbols today are significantly more obvious not only through the different grades of quality, but also logos and general aesthetics. Hence, to some degree, why fashion changes so rapidly today — people are constantly shifting their social position.

Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York. Apartheid without borders. P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.