For many, it’s the equivalent of dealing with smokers in the 70s and 80s, you cannot escape football and the world cup. In a neighborhood I used to live (Brazil), half my neighbors would play up really fucking loud music, the kind that shakes your windows, as commemoration after a world cup victory

Nothing new in human behavior. The Nika Riots is one of the deadliest to have happened in Constantinople because of a chariot race.

AI is about to join the list of “stupid technologies that people should really wait and see before investing on”, which includes

• 3D TVs - complete dud
• Blockchain - useless for real world problems already solved by typical computing
• Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
• Folding screen phones - overpriced junk
• Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years