A really great piece if you are interested in Arsenal, soccer generally, or just the ways we tend to think about athleticism. Nobody that I've seen is doing work like @billycarpy.bsky.social
I always enjoy the non-soccer intro sections. I admire the breadth of Billy's reading.
I always enjoy the non-soccer intro sections. I admire the breadth of Billy's reading.
My new long-read is out. Something for everybody: "the next five actions," the hidden layers of football athleticism, what happened against Liverpool, the new midfield geometry, box arrivals, promising Eze undercurrents, fresh defensive tweaks, and the Return of the Kai.
Time and space
On "the next five actions," the hidden layers of football athleticism, what happened against Liverpool, Arsenal’s new midfield geometry, box arrivals, fresh defensive tweaks, and the Return of the Kai
billycarpenter.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
A really great piece if you are interested in Arsenal, soccer generally, or just the ways we tend to think about athleticism. Nobody that I've seen is doing work like @billycarpy.bsky.social
I always enjoy the non-soccer intro sections. I admire the breadth of Billy's reading.
I always enjoy the non-soccer intro sections. I admire the breadth of Billy's reading.
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The first sports broadcast where you can mute the announcers and just listen to the crowd should be an international holiday
Peacock adding enhancements that may allow fans to mute announcers, control crowd noise
Peacock is introducing a series of new Dolby products that may allow fans to control audio levels for announcers and crowd noise.
awfulannouncing.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The first sports broadcast where you can mute the announcers and just listen to the crowd should be an international holiday
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Jay-Z’s Limited Problem Set:
Let x = the set including Jay’s total number of possible tribulations (maximum = 100).
GIVEN: One of the set ≠ “a bitch.” How many other potential quandaries might Jay-Z face?
Let x = the set including Jay’s total number of possible tribulations (maximum = 100).
GIVEN: One of the set ≠ “a bitch.” How many other potential quandaries might Jay-Z face?
Pop Song Math Quiz
Answer all questions in the form of a song title. 1. The Rob Base Postulate Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go ri...
buff.ly
January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Jay-Z’s Limited Problem Set:
Let x = the set including Jay’s total number of possible tribulations (maximum = 100).
GIVEN: One of the set ≠ “a bitch.” How many other potential quandaries might Jay-Z face?
Let x = the set including Jay’s total number of possible tribulations (maximum = 100).
GIVEN: One of the set ≠ “a bitch.” How many other potential quandaries might Jay-Z face?
Feeling this again.
VRBO dreamed up the ad and then said "bring me the most unlikeable man in America."
VRBO dreamed up the ad and then said "bring me the most unlikeable man in America."
Every time I book an Airbnb, I just pray it's not owned by Nick Saban.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Feeling this again.
VRBO dreamed up the ad and then said "bring me the most unlikeable man in America."
VRBO dreamed up the ad and then said "bring me the most unlikeable man in America."
I watched Pulp Fiction at the university theater at Utah State when I was 19. I went alone, my first time going to a theater alone. Showing sold out and I sat in the back row of a full house. The whole experience expanded my ideas about art and my relationship with it.
I would like to hear if you have ever had one (1) transformational experience in a movie theater. Don't care if it's high art or low, somber or funny, poetic or banal - I just want to hear about that one time at the movies that changed you at the atomic level.
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
I watched Pulp Fiction at the university theater at Utah State when I was 19. I went alone, my first time going to a theater alone. Showing sold out and I sat in the back row of a full house. The whole experience expanded my ideas about art and my relationship with it.
Coaches should stop celebrating opposition missed field goals with the same energy they use for their own team scoring a touchdown.
January 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Coaches should stop celebrating opposition missed field goals with the same energy they use for their own team scoring a touchdown.
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
#Arsenal not really suited to exploit Liverpool's weaknesses (other than set pieces). Bad at balls over the top and just mediocre at quick counters. LFC pretty good on D in low block and so skilled in midfield that #afc didn't generate a ton with the press and ceded control. Point is ok.
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Just launched the first installment of Catalog Club. It's like a book club but with albums. Every month, I'll pick an artist and over 4 weeks talk about 4 of their albums. This month's artist is Lucinda Williams. Check out the first episode, it's free!
tinyurl.com/ac4msrzm
tinyurl.com/ac4msrzm
Catalog Club: Lucinda Williams' "Happy Woman Blues"(1980)
Part 1 of our look at the early albums of a modern giant of American music
tinyurl.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Just launched the first installment of Catalog Club. It's like a book club but with albums. Every month, I'll pick an artist and over 4 weeks talk about 4 of their albums. This month's artist is Lucinda Williams. Check out the first episode, it's free!
tinyurl.com/ac4msrzm
tinyurl.com/ac4msrzm
I also punish my allies for accepting the Nobel prize. Doesn't everyone?
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I also punish my allies for accepting the Nobel prize. Doesn't everyone?
Ohio State should have followed the rules.
Football players shouldn't be allowed to be named "Bo Jackson" anymore.
January 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Ohio State should have followed the rules.
Not that bold, but '80s Dylan is actually good. The production can be cringey, but the songs are often good.
What’s your boldest *unironic* I Actually Liked It take?
The album or film or book that most other fans disregard or dismiss or actively dislike? But not you!
Are you a Chinese Democracy defender?
For me?
The album or film or book that most other fans disregard or dismiss or actively dislike? But not you!
Are you a Chinese Democracy defender?
For me?
December 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Not that bold, but '80s Dylan is actually good. The production can be cringey, but the songs are often good.
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
Lovecraftian American West
Up close with lampreys at the Bonneville Dam’s fish viewing window.
Columbia River, Oregon.
#25DaysofFishmas
Columbia River, Oregon.
#25DaysofFishmas
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lovecraftian American West
Today is a mucho sports day.
December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Today is a mucho sports day.
For a moment I thought this was about the Dukes of Hazard
I reread these historical romance novellas every holiday season and it can be your new tradition for 1.99
a.co/d/2tl0vid
#romancelandia
a.co/d/2tl0vid
#romancelandia
How the Dukes Stole Christmas: Four Historical Romance Stories of Victorian Nobles, Highlander Romance, and Gilded Age Aristocrats Finding Their Christmas Miracle - Kindle edition by Dare, Tessa, MacL...
How the Dukes Stole Christmas: Four Historical Romance Stories of Victorian Nobles, Highlander Romance, and Gilded Age Aristocrats Finding Their Christmas Miracle - Kindle edition by Dare, Tessa, MacL...
a.co
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
For a moment I thought this was about the Dukes of Hazard
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +
AI is doing the impossible--it's making me really dislike Matthew McConaughey.
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
AI is doing the impossible--it's making me really dislike Matthew McConaughey.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
Neil Young's Tired Eyes on the Live at the Roxy album is one of the great American texts.
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Neil Young's Tired Eyes on the Live at the Roxy album is one of the great American texts.