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“The room where it happens …No one really knows how the game is playedThe art of the tradeHow the sausage gets madeWe just assume that it happens But no one else is in the room where it happens …When you got skin in the game, you stay in the gameBut you don’t get a win unless you play in the game.”Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. These excerpts were in a song by Leslie Odom Jr.

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The news came out like every big story in Mexican soccer. A wild rumor, then a credible one and, later, confirmation. After just four years as president of the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF), Mexican soccer’s governing body, Yon de Luisa is done as president. De Luisa won’t run for another four-year term, a shock move meaning he will step aside afte… ncG1vNJzZmiflamwsLrCmpqanpWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCZo2LGsLqMnZxmpKWewKK%2FjK2gpp1dobKisMinnmasmJo%3D

Hi all, In its 6th (and possibly most dramatic) year, the State of AI Report 2023 distills what you *need* to know in AI research, industry, safety, and politics. This open-access report is our contribution to the AI ecosystem. Many thanks to Othmane Sebbouh, Corina Gurau, and Alex Chalmers for their incredible support producing it. I’m looking forward to seeing many of our loyal readers at our launch event in SF tonight.

From Estelí, Nicaragua As Tuesday night became Wednesday morning in Estelí, Nicaragua, it felt like every child in the city had negotiated a later bedtime and had managed to finagle a way into the VIP parking lot of the Estadio Independencia. One boy would signal a car he’d seen a Real Estelí player get into. A few hundred yards down the dirt path from the lot to the main road, that player’s car would be mobbed by exuberant young fans.

Quiñones, hermano, ya eres mexicano. After Korea’s late goal against Germany saved Mexico from group-stage elimination at the 2018 World Cup, Mexico fans from Russia to Los Angeles and beyond celebrated with Korean friends chanting that they were now Mexican. It was only an honorary title, but Club América forward Julián Quiñones is now very much Mexican … ncG1vNJzZmiflamwsLrCmpqanpWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCgkal6q8HLopinZaGqtq%2B7zZ6qZqWVlru0ecWoqWadnA%3D%3D

The last time the Basque national team played a match, they beat Costa Rica. In fact, the Basque Country has lost just one of the nine matches it has played since 2010. It’s a streak that also includes wins over Venezuela, Estonia, Bolivia, Peru and Tunisia. Get 20% off for 1 year FIFA, however, doesn’t recognise the Basque Country as a national team. They are, according to the… ncG1vNJzZmismJrAsK%2FCnqmdoaOlrrWvx2eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTEqrjLZquhnV2XrrS91J5knKelo8GzxYyerZ6qXaW5osU%3D

I have a playlist which reminds me of my first relationship. I have a playlist for the airplane journey I took to Canada, to move away from home. I have a playlist for reading. I have a playlist called ‘DON’T DIE’ which I made for when I couldn’t sleep for anxiety. I have a playlist for dancing alone, for cleaning the kitchen, for sleeping. Nearly 300, all sitting in my Spotify library.

Minecraft yourself. The dog deserves a face-to-face apology.—‘| #YOBA#BakedAlaska | #FLAGSTAFF TRIP #IRL#ip2’ Is Kantbot Dead? First principle: Kantbot is a bot. Yes, he is a robot. He came to us in the flame wars of early 2017, drenched in the infamy of LD50, tagged by waves of cancellation whose completion we are now seeing, and remembered for his meta-autistic November 2016 oration on Trumpian German idealism. This latter moment is well-known. It will remain so on YouTube, or some such platform, for as long as these platforms exist.