...But this is by now blurred by the sense of unhappiness and dysfunctional relationships, of a club that has become for all its wealth and noise, a fundamentally miserable place. #PSG

It took #InterMiamiCF four years of planning and two years of actual pursuing to bring #Messi𓃵 to the club. "Worth it," #Beckham said earlier in the week. How right he was.

OpenAI marshaled a global pipeline of human labor for 2+ years to enable ChatGPT & GPT-4 to exist. Workers who dealt with the worst parts are still suffering PTSD more than a year later. My story with Deepa Seetharaman out today on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/articles/chatg…

Talk about small margins, not even a hair between 😳

The Sweden players couldn't believe the fine margins that sent them through against the USA 😆 #FIFAWWC #SWE

A new era in iconic shirts at Chelsea 🔵

Every home kit in the Premier League this season! 👕 Which is your favourite? ⤵️

There's been a big rise in Chinese people trying to get to the US via Latin America. In 2021 Panama counted 200 Chinese migrants making the dangerous trek across the Darién Gap; in the first half of this year, almost 9,000 did. Shawn Yuan tells their story economist.com/1843/2023/08/1…

Los 4⃣4⃣ títulos de Leo Messi

“I didn’t write about China as a competitor to the U.S. To me, that construct is pretty artificial. The average Chinese person is not waking up and thinking: What can I do to help my country surpass the U.S.?” sixthtone.com/news/1013557

💔🫠 Whole generation of ballers, gone just gone like that… Iniesta one of the last ones still playing at 39.

Next weekend is going to be a movie 🍿⚽️ Cancel any plans you've made!

Our social media feeds continue to create a feeling of transparency & granularity, while providing fewer of the signposts that we need to chart a clear path through the thicket of content. What remains is an atmosphere of chaos and uncertainty as war unfolds daily on our screens.

#GOAT𓃵

"#Friends" was always a fantasy, a whitewashed vision of urban life, in which the characters had apartments with the approximate footprint of palazzos and infinite leisure time. But to watch it was to relax into the confidence of its comedy, of #MatthewPerry's excitable charm.

Onscreen, in that fountain, in some horrible, short-sleeved cardigan, he is there for us, still...

You love the character, you love the performer, you love what the performer made you feel through the character. #Chandler may be fictional, but the connection is real, so the loss is real.

The years of hurt continue, now stretching towards 60 years for England’s men team. The pain this time came from Spain, more inventive, more decisive. Footballing matadors put John Bull to the sword. Spain have lit up Euro 2024, England have rather laboured through Germany. Spain

It remains to be seen if there is any leader in these hideous times who is capable of the pained eloquence and reason that Kennedy showed on the day after King’s murder. Set aside the sickening rush of accusation on social media, the vicious taunts, the crackpot theories...

This is the greatest career in the history of any sports. And the fact is no trophy or stat can ever do justice of what Lionel Messi does on the pitch.