100% - you didn’t come off that way fwiw
At least Snapchat’s literary postmodern mag published a few good blogs and Stripe binds beautiful hardbacks
a16z is a ton of hat and few cattle
Seriously... this is the future we wound up building?!?
TBH I am too cynical but 20 years of Basketball Jones, Starters, No Dunks is a gift
and ya -- this quilt is incredible
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
Echoing Five Decembers - absurd cover art but such a great page turner
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.
Obviously agree 100%
🇬🇧 law ftw
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.
Yes!
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
Sports app!
8. Taking the Maokong Gondola to go try some tea
Also my buddy from Taiwan who now lives in Houston told me this place exists www.houstonentertainmentvenue.com
🧑‍🍳
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
Strands almost gets it now
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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...
post trade deadline -- depressed Magic fan would enjoy an expanded Desmond Bane flagrant grades
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?
Feeling the sheer terror of being trapped in the horse… TELL ME A STORY!
tbh bestball streamers appear to be more ethical and level headed compared to some of the folks we're talking about in this thread (and yes I'm even referring to the slappies)
The more cynical but probably honest take at this point - the more people lack trust in media, the angrier people are - the more $$$ Meta stands to earn in the long run
Related: see the flood of Meta alums working at OpenAI to turn ChatGPT into an addictive product
It’s one where a lot of smart people tbh are too scared to push back because they are internally addicted to hitting arbitrary numbers to gain more stock that hinges on other arbitrary numbers going up
This is a good sports app
In this alternative universe… Space Jam Ocho stars Mickey Mouse and Vince Carter vs The Three 6 Mafia Monstars
feat. Danny DeVito in the Bill Murray role
