British Columbia Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has invited Somali referee Omar Artan to referee in Vancouver, after he was denied entry to the US
This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
I was talking to a world class official in a different sport, and this person told me what an incredible political and technical challenge it is to officiate the world championship in his thing - it's like being elected pope or something.
That gives me a sense of how devastating his must be.
I'm grading exams for a program (not in my school) that explicitly encourages students to use LLMs, but mandates students disclose how they used it.
observations:
1. It is one of the (if not the) worst groups of exams I have ever graded.
2. Many students lie about how they used LLMs.
