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👋 build products for people who like to read, listen, watch, and talk about sports. Now: Product @ The Athletic Was: Buzzer, Bleacher Report, BuzzFeed News, and other spots.
Inspired by @minakimes.bsky.social - drop your favorite Down By Bay verses? Our current heavy rotation includes: - Shrimp piloting a blimp - Shark dancing in the dark - Snake enjoying high tea at the Drake (Chicago specific)
Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo you know how insane it is that every new generation of parents has to listen to Down By the Bay 1000+ times, and it doesn’t bother us? In fact we seek it out for nourishment? And invent new verses?
I love Letterboxd too much so I blogged www.plantchestnuts.com/dont-sell-le...
Don't Sell Letterboxd to Comcast. Sell It to the Fans.
Letterboxd is for sale? Amaze. Amaze. Amaze. While rumors swirl that it may get acquired by a media conglomerate, a streaming platform, a movie theater chain, or maybe a wealthy benefactor, to me it’s...
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I’m old enough to remember when a16z tried to invest in building the next Disney not the next Fox
Catching up on @reckless.bsky.social's interview with Shishir and fwiw as someone who builds products, I find Shishir's blogging about craft to be super useful (e.g. how to ask questions, run meetings, etc). But during this interview he equates his free blogging (PR) with actual journalism...
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.
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TBH I am too cynical but 20 years of Basketball Jones, Starters, No Dunks is a gift and ya -- this quilt is incredible
J.E. Skeets@jeskeets.bsky.social · 6mo agoOpening @nodunks.com fan mail 📬 Y'all are the best ➡️ bit.ly/46Ekx5p
It's telling that I now spend over $100 a year to read former SBNation bloggers... I'm a nostalgic fool and tbh peak sports blogging was really the best
Review resumes and it is wild how many resumes are now edited to say they were working on AI back in the mid-2010s Like I get the dance and the reframing but also -- it's okay? This is feeling sad.
Good thread and I'm with Erik that the NBA's tanking problem is a symptom of a much larger challenge with the league. I'll over simplify things but shorten the d*mn season. Fewer games will help reinvigorate the entire league and help the NBA make more money in the long haul.
Erik Beimfohr@erikbeimfohr.bsky.social · 6mo agoI love so many NBA beats and analysts. But the conversation about tanking is arguably the most infuriating thing I’ve ever heard. People are so obsessed with tanking they are willing to completely ruin the league and make the quality of play so much worse with these short sighted solutions.
Pop up newsletters for the Winter Olympics (and this summer’s World Cup) are just… well… the best Sub to @rodger.bsky.social and @theathletic.com - still not too late
I’m at the age where 30% of my group chats are friends sending grainy YouTube clips of 1990s NBA, NHL, or NFL games Good age tbh
Levi’s Stadium (where the Super Bowl is tonight) is in the middle of nowhere but randomly Alviso Marina County Park is a few minutes away and has some of the most incredible salt ponds
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This feels... good? Like Spotify helping raise awareness over @bookshop.org is a net win regardless of the rest? newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-05/b...
Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org and Debuts Page Match Feature to Bridge Physical, E-book, and Audio Formats — Spotify
Since bringing audiobooks to Spotify in 2022, we’ve helped listeners discover thousands of new favorite titles and authors while driving growth in the publishing industry. Today, we’re turning the pag...
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Watching how some prompts an LLM is a mirror to their soul Are they trying to explore an idea and go wide to see potentialities? Are they sitting over someone’s shoulder demanding small tweaks?
Wait… when did gmail get rid of the priority inbox?!? Is this a move to just force me to use Gemini to read my email because all the filters and training are now kaput?
Back to my bullsh*t While I quibble with the copy and frequency behind some of these noties… … ESPN’s “ditch Twitter and follow our news breakers in the app” works as advertised and is a good to great feature. I wish they kept iterating weekly to make it a cornerstone of their app.
The new Dawn ads featuring cute animated ducklings discussing dirty dishes is a near perfect encapsulation of our culture’s lack of memory or assumed widespread apathy
Jason Kilar made a lot of ambitious bets running WarnerMedia… but at least the team tried to build their own distribution infrastructure. Selling to Netflix means the only non-tech show in town is Comcast… the future is Google, Netflix, and Amazon with a dash of Apple.
a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man who says not great bob
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man who says not great bob
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Yahoo’s realtime AI generated game recaps follow YouTube TV or Amazon’s “catch me up on the big plays” features These are cool prototypes that are narrowly designed to solve the problem of - I turned the game on with 10m left. It’s a small problem with low stakes www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Yahoo is using AI to recap football games in real time
It’s more than a normal box score
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Subscribe to print magazines! If you live in a place where it still exists, get a print newspaper (at least on the weekends). Leave your phone in another room and it’s wild how much better you feel 30m later.
Justin LaLiberty@jlalibs.bsky.social · 9mo agoI feel like the physical media narrative is lost. So many who champion analog in regards to movies, that advocate for Blu-ray and 4K discs over streaming of those films, have seemingly zero issue with using services like Spotify while not also buying records. Physical media is all of it.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Most people don’t dream of spending their baby’s first holiday season in the hospital, and you can make that difficult experience easier for them to bear by donating to Project NICU,” Jessica Grose writes in her giving guide.
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: NICU Parents Need Your Help
The organization provides critical support to families of sick newborns, making a lonely and devastating experience a little less so.
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I should just blog this idea out one day... Now that nearly every newsletter sends an annual gift guide (I'm all here for it), consider this my annual proclamation that we need more digital shelving! Diary apps (Letterboxd, Goodreads, etc) and boards (Pinterest) kinda offer this... but not quite!
1/4 baked theory: kids who grew up loving Bill Watterson also obsessively admire Robert Caro www.espn.com/nba/story/_/... I say this b/c it me. h/t @lindseyadler.bsky.social for this incredibly reporting from @baxterholmes.bsky.social (Reminder: it is good to read ESPN!)
How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
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