Colin

fair - I still don’t really know how to code and if I waited to start till I did I never would have started.

but yes, if you have the skill already or have the time/aptitude to learn it quickly agreed, advantage.

finding a partner who can code while you do journalism stuff is the ultimate IMO

We did it, Zo Read to the end for a good post

www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn’t come from his campaign or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It has also come from fans.

www.wired.com/story/zohran...

not sure, comfortable with tech and knowing how to code aren’t the same. you can get pretty far with no code solutions

congrats!

This was a good line “Jersey Jack, the 14-year-old company behind much of pinball’s recent tech innovations, brought several units of its acclaimed but ethically stained Harry Potter machine”

I could prob give you a dump from my db, not as exhaustive but higher res images for the most part. OPDB has some images too

Over Ten Years in the Making, Scorbit is on the Verge of a Breakout  | Kineticist A conversation with Jay Adelson and Ron Richards of Scorbit on the latest iteration of their connected pinball platform.

Over Ten Years in the Making, Scorbit is on the Verge of a Breakout.

Enjoyed an extensive conversation with Jay Adelson and Ron Richards of Scorbit ahead of their big reveal.

www.kineticist.com/post/scorbit...

YouTube video by ANTI- Records The Coup - "The Guillotine"

pairs well with youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ?...

would love to see it get a remaster

had a convo with an elder in my space recently that more or less confirms this take

not in the northeast

haha - it was apparently too hot to handle for franchi, jack g. and yeti

Speaking of LLMs, I had originally declined to speak at Pinball Expo this year but had an opportunity to join this panel on the rise of AI in pinball art and I couldn't say no

What exactly are LLMs good for again?

How To Make a Living as a Multipotentialite | Puttylike We want to do everything! But can that really lead to a lucrative and fulfilling career? Here's my overview of the four ways multipotentialites commonly structure their work.

I’m a between a group hug and a phoenix puttylike.com/how-do-you-m...

whoa

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – The Creative Independent Musician, writer and filmmaker Rachel Brown discusses how important it is to balance a life outside of artmaking, what it means to work with the right kind of collaborators and how seeking perfection ...

thecreativeindependent.com/people/music...

This stuff legit works. Incredible resource.

The pointlessness of censoring Jimmy Kimmel A power struggle over the final days of the public square.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

it’s from what I’ve seen basically the first pinball AMA

this moment has been on my list to write about, but I want to talk with the people involved first. think we can set something up?

the first admin certainly had some of this, but this time around, it’s just this fucking whiny crybaby bitch shit from every member of the cabinet all goddamned day long. fucking loser ass presidency.

Substack is full of shit — Andy Dehnart What will it take for people to understand how full of shit Substack actually is, and why they shouldn’t make their brand synonymous with such steaming stool?

savage

www.andydehnart.com/blog/substac...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

WP is massive garbage. I took twip off it as soon as I could. 🤷‍♂️

ehhh it is possible to cite yourself 😅

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As far as I know they weren’t doing them at all until wick. Used to drive me bonkers coming from the PR space. It was part of the reason for starting the media mixers! Actually now that I think of it, a lot of the people they started sending invites to came from the mixer invite list I shared 😉

they are pretty liberal with the invites but from my experiences the people who go are established or growing an audience. not a lot of randos