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Reading List, 99 Days of Lockdown double edition.

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"One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.

… I’ve got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I’ll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don’t want me to go where you go, so I go where you don’t want me to. It’s only afternoon, there’s a lot ahead. There won’t be any mail downstairs. Turning, I spit in the lock and the knob turns.”

From 'Meditations in an Emergency’ by Frank O’Hara, 1957.

"I spent a day working from the floor, squatting before and around my computer as though it were a campfire, with glutes aflame and feet unshod. ‘‘This is how a monkey sees the world,’’ I thought, dreamily. It was the calmest I’d felt in days. If lacking something as fundamental as furniture did not impair my life, perhaps the same could be true of recently banned fundamentals, like social contact or walking outdoors without a muzzle. When people talk about fasting, this is what they talk about: the surge of power that arises from realizing you don’t need what you thought you did.“ Are you losing it? Yeah me too. [Molly Young, The New York Times]

Why Groundhog Day was a horror film all along [Megan Garber, The Atlantic]

Ed Yong on the Longform podcast, talking about his deeply informative story in The Atlantic on how the pandemic will end. TL;DR: most of the mess could have been prevented, or at least, been a lot less bad.

"Fuck the bread. Bread is over." [Sabrina Orah Mark, The Paris Review]

The underground hairdressers of lockdown [Sirin Kale, The Guardian]

"Introverts socially distancing with others might feel an additional layer of stress, even before the first virtual happy hour invitation. Staying at home with others places a burden on introverts because they are not wired for full-time interaction.“ Lockdown was supposed to be an introvert’s paradise, but it’s not [Abby Ohlheiser, MIT Technology Review]

In praise of wasting time [Amelia Tait, The New Statesman]

Why doesn’t Netflix want us to watch credits? [Daniel Pemberton, The Guardian]

On being stranded in a ghost town during coronavirus [Brent Underwood, The Guardian]

Questions asked to the flour hotline during a pandemic [Erin Berger, Eater]

"Quarantine purchases might be less about the actual product than some vestige of conspicuous consumption, the need to project your class identity as a response to insecurity. Our jobs aren’t the same, our social lives aren’t the same, but the appeal of maintaining a high-status image remains.” Consumerism in times of quarantine [Kyle Chayka, Vox]

“For the people onboard, monitoring the ever progressing data gives them a sense of the forward arrow of time. Otherwise, that sense can only come with facial hair that grows—and with the smell of fresh bread: when the odor wafts through the ship, it must be “Sunday."” Time has no meaning on the North Pole [Katie Weeman, Scientific American]

Asa Steinars’ Instagram with photography from Iceland.

How to un-learn what writing should look like when you’re female/POC/other [Alexander Chee, Vulture]

Racism is a trauma [Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, The Cut]

"Poker has given me many things. Better decision making abilities. A better understanding of probabilistic thinking, the nature of chance, the nature of incomplete information. A way of dealing with the things out of my control, of making peace with the elements of my life that simply won’t be reined in.” [Maria Konnikova, The Guardian]

"In my life, it was as if I was the captain of a magnificent ship but was somehow always in a dinghy buffeted about in the ship’s wake, about to catch up with myself. Up ahead on the magnificent ship, I was organised and sober and slim and shiny-haired. This infertility news was the first thing to finally break through to me that the ship had sailed off without me. I went home, shut the door of my apartment and cried for a week.” An excerpt from Sophie Heawood’s book, fantastically titled ‘The Hungover Games’ - I can’t wait [The Guardian]

"Crisis distorts our senses, our sense of time, and maybe our sense of self too. If the kind of threat that triggers a “fight or flight” response — what’s supposed to be a rare, once or twice in a lifetime kind of experience — becomes a constant feature of daily life, the past, present and future begin to ricochet off of one another like stray bullets.” [Saeed Jones, GQ]

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Winners and losers from the USA Football presidential election

After months of heated debate and backroom politicking, the us presidential election is over. Carlos Cordeiro, in the past the vp of football’s governing frame in the USA, prevail Sunil Gulati as president. The previous Goldman Sachs government, who triumphed at the 3rd poll, emerged as a “compromise” candidate between Kathy Carter—president of Football United Advertising and the Established order’s hand-picked champion—and the rebel Team Of Six. For the entire communicate of alternate on this election, the balloting individuals through and big opted to take care of the established order.

The status quo in American football has more or less the similar priorities as any entrenched hierarchy. The primary is in keeping up institutional balance—ensuring the device helps to keep running, it doesn’t matter what. The second one is keeping up their very own holds on energy. (Occasionally those two priorities are in battle. You’ll wager which one most often wins out.) Kathy Carter’s failure to win at the first poll signalled that she wasn’t going to win at the day, and the large cash rollers in American football—which is to mention, the small crew of people that dangle fairness stocks in Football United Advertising—noticed their hopes of turning US Football right into a captured regulatory company evaporate.

However whilst they ignored a possibility to consolidate their energy, they didn’t in reality surrender a lot. There’s no indication that Carlos Cordeiro goes to interrogate SUM’s ties with the group or its alleged conflicts of hobby. The present care for SUM over US nationwide group pronounces will virtually indubitably stay untouched. MLS isn’t going any place. The individuals who had cash and gear via American football earlier than the vote is not going to lose a lot of it. No matter reforms increase below Cordeiro is not going to meaningfully problem US Football’s present energy construction. The American Football Established order can have given up the most important positional merit, however they nonetheless regulate the board.

However that doesn’t imply there received’t be penalties from this election.

The Established order’s failure to put in Kathy Carter is a blow to their industry pursuits. Whilst there received’t be any destructive penalties within the short- and medium-term, the Industry Other folks within the recreation are all too conscious about that core theory in industry: if you happen to’re now not rising, you’re death. Settling for Cordeiro will take care of the established order, which is certainly higher for them than probably the most possible choices, however while you’re a significant participant in an business that generates billions of greenbacks in step with yr, merely preserving your place is observed as an indication of weak point.

And when it comes to politics, throwing their weight at the back of one candidate who couldn’t win at the first poll after which hemorrhaged reinforce in next votes is an important hit. Those with cash and gear in American football can (and most probably will) get well, however there’s no technique to spin this as anything else however a lack of political capital. The ones out of doors the present entrenched energy construction, those who sponsored a number of of the “Alternate” applicants, surely scent blood within the water now.

Barring some main concessions from Cordeiro and others on the most sensible of US Football, the similar constituents that made Eric Wynalda a viable candidate will likely be again in 4 years, having realized some precious classes from this previous weekend. If American football’s status quo chooses to forget about the ones outsiders, they’re going to accomplish that at their peril.

Listed here are probably the most winners and losers from ultimate weekend, at the side of some lingering questions.

Winners: The joint WC 2026 bid

Having determined to fast-track the bidding procedure ultimate yr, FIFA would possibly make a selection a number nation for the 2026 International Cup at 68th FIFA Congress in June. The “United” Canada-Mexico-USA bid is the transparent favourite, with best Morocco competing with them. (FIFA may just conceivably reject each bids and re-open the method.) With extra money and higher infrastructure to reinforce a International Cup, 2026 is ours to lose, roughly.

With the giant prices and logistical demanding situations fascinated by web hosting a International Cup, the scandals besetting Russia and Qatar as they get ready to host their tournaments, and the myriad felony and monetary scandals FIFA is coping with, the 2026 host analysis activity power will surely position a top rate on balance and consistency from the bid committees. Carlos Cordeiro’s election to the us presidency, on the very least, gifts an look of each. As vp of US Football, he’s additionally had a hand within the bid’s conception and construction up so far. He is aware of what the present state of items is, and he is aware of what the following steps are.

FIFA for sure had causes to love Eric Wynalda and his platform. He proposed transferring American membership football in step with the “default” calendar, making MLS play a fall-to-spring agenda. He additionally made noises about imposing promotion and relegation within the home membership football pyramid. But it surely’s exhausting to consider FIFA throwing their weight at the back of Wynalda, given a few of his, uh, “eccentricities,” at a time once they in reality want a secure hand on the until. Had the election swung to Wynalda, or one of the vital different “Alternate” applicants whose reinforce integrated the ones components in American football who need to blow all of it up and get started over, one may just simply consider FIFA getting spooked. Most likely sufficient to offer Morocco every other glance.

So if you happen to’re a North American football fan and also you’re enthusiastic about the potential of International Cup fixtures in or close to your own home the city, Cordeiro’s election is most probably a just right factor.

Losers: Younger avid gamers in underserved communities

This most probably would’ve been the case regardless of who received. Not one of the applicants presented transparent, detailed plans on how to achieve out to younger football avid gamers in communities that US Football traditionally has a tendency to forget about. All of the applicants roughly agreed that outreach to those communities is vital, and a very powerful to the group’s ambitions for a aggressive males’s nationwide group and for keeping up the ladies’s nationwide group’s dominance. However except for Kyle Martino’s thought for placing football targets beneath basketball hoops in parks all around the nation, no person in reality presented an in depth imaginative and prescient of what this outreach would seem like.

In the meantime, a few of this nation’s maximum promising younger avid gamers are persistently falling during the cracks. Even if introduced with low cost and low-risk alternatives to find those avid gamers and get them on considered one of a number of construction tracks—like, say, creating a courting with organizations equivalent to Sueño Alianza, which is already doing the exhausting paintings of scouting and figuring out ability in Hispanic communities—US Football has usually selected to not.

Es un increíble honor ser elegido Presidente @ussoccer. Agradezco a todos que me han apoyado y los otros candidatos por los angeles campaña apasionada. Les prometo a trabajar con todos los miembros para unir los angeles familia futbolera. #AimHigher

— Carlos Cordeiro (@CACSoccer) February 10, 2018

Bilingual victory tweets apart, Cordeiro hasn’t but demonstrated that outreach to underserved communities goes to be a concern in his management. Nor has he articulated what any roughly reforms or renewed commitments would seem like. Persons are asking to get all the way down to brass tacks, and what they’re getting as a substitute is extra platitudes. Except and till this type of detailed and actionable plan is unveiled, we will best think that the present established order will likely be maintained. And that’s simply now not just right sufficient.

Unresolved: The ladies’s sport

Final month, Pardeep Cattry wrote concerning the election and the way the entire applicants weren’t speaking sufficient concerning the ladies’s sport. Between the time the object went are living and when ballots have been being forged, the dialog by no means meaningfully shifted. And for probably the most section, how ladies’s football will likely be supported and administered below Cordeiro stays unclear.

There also are some severe questions over how concerned US Football needs to be in its stewardship of the NWSL. That they allowed the Boston Breakers to vanish with out an excessive amount of of a battle doesn’t look like a just right signal.

Then again, appointing a Normal Supervisor to supervise the USA ladies’s group is most probably a good suggestion. It’ll, in fact, rely on how a lot energy the GM has over the senior group, and the adolescence construction pipeline, and whether or not they’ll be capable to get up to Jill Ellis if essential.

Winners: MLS

Main League Football, below Don Garber’s path, mainly will get to stay on holding on. How it does issues, on each the industry and the football facets, will most probably now not be meaningfully tested or challenged through US Football below Cordeiro. The league’s earnings device, SUM, will stay doing its factor (virtually indubitably below Kathy Carter’s management).

Whether or not it’ll enjoy any enlargement over the following few years is an open query. However for now, MLS is strong and Garber will get to keep on with his present plan.

Losers: The NASL

Having misplaced their Department II standing and several other in their member golf equipment, the NASL is in a large number of bother. Beset through monetary demanding situations and and not using a visual approach to stabilize their affairs—a lot much less regain the bottom they’ve misplaced during the last two years—the league resorted to a two-part Hail Mary maneuver.

The primary section is their ongoing litigation in opposition to US Football and MLS. Due to a setback of their antitrust go well with passed down in November, the league’s hopes of scoring a victory in courtroom gave the impression to dwindle. Therefore the second one line of assault: pushing for a transformation in US Football’s management. It emerged over the weekend that NASL membership house owners Rocco Commisso and Riccardo Silva lent monetary reinforce to a number of applicants, together with Eric Wynalda. That clearly didn’t pan out.

With Cordeiro now in energy, the league’s survival might be determined through the USA Courtroom of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. That’s now not an excellent place to be in.

Losers: Eric Wynalda and Hope Solo

4 of the Team Of Six applicants will likely be simply advantageous. They’ll both get positions in US Football or they’ll return to their day jobs. For the opposite two, issues glance murky.

First and most evident was once Eric Wynalda. He went all-in on his marketing campaign, development a base of reinforce that integrated the NASL (see above) and a lot of state football associations. He additionally had probably the most loudest constituents of Football Twitter on his aspect, and whilst all these other people weren’t eligible to vote, they have been valuable in shaping the dialog (for higher or worse).

And but for all that sound and fury, Wynalda’s balloting reinforce crowned out at not up to 14% within the first poll.

We would possibly by no means know whether or not his incapacity to near the space on Carter and Cordeiro was once a results of burning bridges all the way through the notorious Team Of Six negotiations heading into election day. It’s value noting, on the other hand, that despite the fact that the entire “Alternate” applicants and their supporters united at the back of one candidate—let’s say Wynalda, for the sake of argument—that candidate don’t have gotten above 30% of the vote at the first poll. Nonetheless, it’s now not unreasonable to assume that Wynalda was once so excited by profitable that he didn’t see a lot worth in achieving a consensus with a few of his warring parties.

Within the hours following the vote, Wynalda gave the impression to now not be taking issues neatly.

Wynalda has all the time been relatively, uh, passionate in his perspectives, however his tweets within the aftermath of the vote are bordering on self-destructive. It’s not going that his status at his day process will likely be suffering from his fresh habits—he does paintings for Fox, in the end—however he would possibly finally end up burning some vital bridges within the wider American football neighborhood.

In the meantime, Hope Solo—who, through all accounts, must have by no means handed the background take a look at—had an abysmal efficiency within the vote. Fairly than bow out gracefully after the primary poll, she stayed in via all 3 rounds. After the vote was once completed, Solo handed on a possibility to rebuild bridges and get a recent get started with the wider American football neighborhood through accusing the Athlete Council of caving to force from SUM.

After which there was once her fiery speech. Exciting despite the fact that it was once, this was once certainly the type of grandstanding oration you give in your approach out of the development after you’ve hand over your process.

No matter profession Solo has after this election, it’s exhausting to consider it being in football.

Winners: The Athlete Council

By means of balloting as soon as once more as a bloc, the Athlete Council solidified their function as a a very powerful swing vote in US Football elections. And despite the fact that they in the long run sponsored the only candidate and not using a actual enjoy within the participant, their statements after the reality make it transparent that they have been united at the back of the person who absolute best represented their pursuits.

In a company that turns out so beholden to cash and entrenched political energy, the election proved that it’s the avid gamers that in reality assist set the path of US Football. Which is in the long run a just right factor.

Losers: The promotion-relegation motion

Enthusiasts who consider that the one future of American football is to put into effect promotion and relegation in any respect ranges of the USA membership pyramid have been excited by making this USSF presidential election a referendum of varieties on their factor. And it was once efficient. Each and every candidate from the Team Of Six stated the pro-rel activists, both through validating their considerations or, with regards to Wynalda and Solo, explicitly pandering to them.

With Gulati now not working for re-election and a rising sense that transformational alternate was once wanted, this fringe crew noticed a possibility that they won’t see once more for a long time, they usually rushed to grab it. None in their most well-liked applicants prevailed. Whilst Cordeiro will without a doubt make some concessions to these constituents who didn’t reinforce him within the election, it will be very sudden if the brand new management made any overtures to the likes of Ted Westervelt.

In fact, the pro-rel motion isn’t going any place. However to the level that they’re dedicated to a long term by which American membership football options promotion and relegation—relatively than, say, merely blowing up MLS—this election proved to be a substantial blow.

Unresolved: The United States nationwide groups

Carlos Cordeiro is a Industry Individual, now not a Football Individual. He readily recognizes this. Sunil Gulati was once additionally a Industry Individual, however he idea he may just run each side of the operation himself. So did many of the different applicants, for that topic. Cordeiro stated that, his industry and organizational bona fides however, a Football Individual must most probably be accountable for Football Issues. No matter else one would possibly say about him and whether or not he’s the fitting particular person for the process, the truth that he’s keen to confess that the technical aspect of US Football operations isn’t in his space of experience merits some credit score.

Spotting that having one particular person overseeing each the industry and technical sides of the group’s mandate, US Football voted in December to restructure the place of job of the presidency and create new Normal Supervisor positions to supervise the boys’s nationwide group and ladies’s nationwide group. After the election, Cordeiro made it transparent that he’ll transfer fast to put into effect this new directive as a part of a broader dedication to let Football Issues be treated through Football Other folks. That is undeniably a just right factor for the nationwide groups.

Assuming Cordeiro will get the ones hires proper, this is.

The proper other people accountable for the boys’s group and the ladies’s group will rebuild each systems to provide sturdy aggressive squads. At the males’s aspect, there’s the possible to reinstate the USA as a significant energy in CONCACAF and as a group that may dangle their very own in opposition to the sector’s absolute best in main world tournaments. And at the ladies’s aspect, a sensible and savvy rent may just prevent the rot and be sure that the ladies’s group can dangle off demanding situations to their world dominance from the likes of Germany and France.

Hiring the improper other people, then again, may just do harm that can take a technology or extra to opposite.

The way forward for the nationwide group systems may just really well be determined this yr. It’s a thrilling alternative, to make certain, however the stakes connected to 1 or two choices boggles the thoughts. So much can cross improper this yr, sufficient that it’s uncomfortable to take into consideration.

(To mention not anything of the truth that there’ll best be GMs for the boys’s and ladies’s group. No phrase but on how the adolescence nationwide groups will likely be administered. Or the Paralympic nationwide group. Let’s hope they’re now not overlooked within the reorganization.)

Unresolved: A Lot

It’s simple to conflate america Football Federation, a non-profit group that oversees arranged football and is chargeable for keeping up nationwide groups that compete in sanctioned world tournaments, with the extra summary thought of American Football. However simply as the USA govt doesn’t constitute the totality of existence in The united states, there’s so much that occurs in American football that the us isn’t fascinated by.

The truth that the president of US Football can best do such a lot to mend the various, many, many issues of the game on this nation will inevitably result in unhappiness in Carlos Cordeiro, irrespective of what he does arrange to perform. However the upside is that the ones issues can nonetheless be addressed. Whilst interest and engagement aren’t essentially just right issues in and of themselves, the truth that such a lot of fanatics were given concerned within the dialog across the election of a sports activities business functionary displays that there’s actual energy and backbone amongst American football fanatics. If that power may also be channeled into efficient organizing and hard work—if fanatics around the nation may also be moved to follow-through on their concepts for the way forward for the rustic, establish the spaces the place they may be able to make a distinction, and get to paintings—then American football may have a vibrant long term.

I did that thread bc I assumed it was once going to be established order these days.

However I nonetheless really feel that approach.

Our scouts (intentionally) suck at discovering Latino ability, so Alianza was once born.

Our pyramid (intentionally) holds again markets, so Detroit Town was once born.

It is exhausting, however stay development. https://t.co/ijONkn6H5t

— Zack Goldman (@ThatDamnYank) February 10, 2018

In fact, the historical past of football in The united states is stuffed with tales of people that, annoyed after now not getting their approach, take their ball and cross house. This tendency has held again the game prior to now. And with the type of rhetoric that bubbled up earlier than and right away after the election, it’s now not a for the reason that this received’t occur once more.

Will American football as an entire be a winner or a loser? That, largely, is as much as you.

Observe James on Twitter @thaumatropia.

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