Stephen Drennan (BabuYagu)

Article superbly highlights a lot of the problems I am encountering with AI. Its primary aim doesn't seem to be accuracy but a desire to please.

But also, it adds hype and exaggeration as it learns to mimic language that influencers use and states everything as absolute fact with 100% conviction.

He didn't stand out. Vitor Roque looked good. Has a touch of the Neymars in how he gets "injured" every time he is tackled and rolls around. I do like him though.

Mauricio also impressed. Was meant to be on the wing but was absolutely everywhere.

The Palmeiras LCB was also good. Name escapes me

Luighi - on the bench for them - is one of the players who popped out most in Brazilian youth football in the past in data I was tracking. Already starting for Brazil at U20 level at the world cup

Allan starts for Palmeiras v Sao Paulo in about 30 minutes in the Paulistão semi final.

Palmeiras striker Vitor Roque is worth a watch. Also 21.
16 in Brasileirão last year. 4 in his last 4 games. Turned down an offer from the gulf states last year apparently.
www.espn.com.br/futebol/palm...

Remember he had a horror game in the cup against Chelsea fairly early on - where we left space all around him and he was just dragged around the pitch having no impact. Many were writing him off.

Then was outstanding by December.

happening very well for us in Robbo & Fabinho's first seasons.

Grav was a little thrown to the Wolves though. Wirtz initially struggled but has been absolutely ridiculous for a few months now. I hope the same is true of Isak. Frimpong's stop start season is hard but he is showing glimpses.

This was about a year ago.

Its great when new guys walk in the door and immediately raise the bar in their position.

More often though, especially at a club this size, they need a minute. So you need the other in their position to hold things down while you phase them in.

I remember that

I had seen enough at Bournemouth to be on board. And agreed, it was just a few iffy moments in games. Lots of players in the pats have talked about the change in pressure coming here and feeling it and needing to settle into it.

Think we saw that with Grav too in his first season.

Really starting to enjoy Kerkez's performances. He looks like a superb signing who could nail down the LB spot for the next 8-10 years.

Are you shocked that a 21 year old moving to Liverpool had a few iffy games at the start here?

I'm even more shocked how many were keen to write him off.

The 'sources' in Brazil seem to be fan-owned/ran sites.

It is similar to how I view this for EPL clubs - often overstated. Guestimating. Exaggerating for engagement. Sometimes they will be on the mark with things and there could be a nugget of truth (we contacted them?).

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This is the best summation of VAR and the extraordinarily incompetent PMGOL I’ve seen 👌

It is still amazing they let that Diaz decision stand. They knew it was wrong - all of them - and just went along with it because they couldn't stop the game and say 'we made a mistake on that call 10 seconds ago'

Very much so. Defender near side played him on.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

VAR has become a bulletproof cloak that PGMOL have wrapped themselves in.

We wanted VAR because PGMOL are dogshit. Predictable, giving shit people a new tool produces shit results.

PGMOL implemented it in the most dogshit way. VAR took the flak, not them.

Milos Kerkez great tonight. And has been for some time. Just needed time to adapt to new club, patience given poor form of team he was coming into and for Slot to stop inverting and letting him play his natural game. All coming together now. And just wait until Gakpo starts regularly passing to him.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Maybe I just reject the idea that we have to have shit refereeing.

I haven't given up and accepted that. I want to continue demanding accountability and transparency.

Exactly.

So the problem is the people, not the tool they use

I'd say you need to invest time studying the inherent dangers of following the letter of the law (based on whoever is in charge and interpretting that way) rather than the spirit of the law.

Its pretty well documented

always either stupid or an evil person away from the law being used not as INTENDED just because if you bend it enough you CAN make it work that way.

Again, I am not disputing that you CAN arrive at the same conclusion interpreting this as you are.

I am disputing if you SHOULD?

You think there is zero space for common sense and thinking about the spirit of the law?

I think the spirit of the law comes before all sense because then you are

and this is hindsight you talking trying to make sense of stupidity so it makes sense?

Or you thought that while watching the sequence?

I don't think as a whole it does.

I think how the PGMOL uses it though does. Its just a tool. If you create dumb ways to use it, you get dumb outcomes. With the high bar bollocks, etc

How?

When that went in were you saying 'that goal shouldnt stand because...'?

Be honest. Literally nobody would. Because you cancel out dom fouls haaland fouls dom - as the advantage went to them.

Your logic isn't 'dom could have stopped that if not fouled by the man he fouled before'

as I said initially

"I understand that Haaland denies Dom from preventing the goal. Which in turn, was prevented by Dom's foul on Haaland.

This is just 'letter of the law defeating the spirit of the law"

I read that differently.

He applied the letter of the law correctly in the game.
And it was the one time he should have used common sense and thought about the spirit of the law.

Isn't a single fucker involved in any sport in the world that would think 'yep, thats a good sporting outcome'

That isn't worse. At least then he isn't giving a decision that could potentially chance the outcome of the game.

Removing LFC glasses, imagine that's the UCL final and the goal being nulled changes the result of the game. It is mental. Absolutely not how anybody intended laws to be applied.

I feel like increasingly as a species we are finding new and convoluted ways to remove common sense & critical thinking from decision making. Finding ways to justify making obviously bad decisions.

If we are going to apply 'thinking' in this way, just let AI referee games already.