Rich Eisen officially returns to Bristol to host SportsCenter on ESPN, complete with a throwback intro and studio. 📺🎙️

Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, by Henri Rousseau, 1905, via @garrett_TFE

Didn’t think much of either in the before times, and now I actively detest both of them (along with their buddies).

I like #LennysPodcast but his choice of bringing Marc and Rabois (episodes that I promptly deleted) is tempting me to unsubscribe.

Anthropic Completes Tender Offer, But Employees Hold Onto Shares (Bloomberg) -- Anthropic employees have sold some equity to investors, wrapping up a secondary share sale that started earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter. But some investo...

Anthropic gave employees the option to sell up to $6B in shares at a $350B valuation but fewer sold than expected.

Anthropic employees are instead waiting for the IPO where they expect the valuation to go even higher.

At $30B ARR and growing, $350B seems low so I don’t blame them.

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) joins the mybinder.org federation with help from 2i2c The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is now a part of the mybinder.org federation!

@ucbids.bsky.social is back as a mybinder federation member. Their new OVH node just absorbed 50% of traffic during a Hetzner outage, serving 64K+ users without disruption. Federated infrastructure working as designed. #Jupyter #OpenSource

blog.jupyter.org/berkeley-ins...

truly the best times on Octopus Agile at the moment. Getting paid to use electricity in the UK thanks to investments in wind 💨 and solar ☀️

We should get a free drink or popcorn if we watch the pre-preview content in a movie theater

Severance is at best an ok show

The New Contract This is the third essay in a series. The Well We Never Tapped diagnosed the content pipeline failure. The Heat Death of Your Sci-Fi Universe diagnosed creative entropy. This piece diagnoses the broken contract between the platform and the consumer and proposes a fix. Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience

Netflix just raised prices again. $8.99. $19.99. $26.99. The deal keeps getting altered, and the consumer never holds the pen. The $10 streaming subscription was the Endless Shrimp of the content industry. Time to rewrite the contract.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

Genes or jeans?

I was a non-believer and @advisorator.com asked me to give it a few days and now I don’t use Safari on desktop because it doesn’t do _real_ vertical tabs. The ones where the tab bar disappears à la Edge.

Chat is this real?

Info about an account sharing viral video of the moon saying it’s Artemis 2 but it’s not, and that account is blocking people who point it out

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

Huge shoutout to @reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz who have been relentlessly evangelizing the social web since Elon took over twitter. Now they’re not just evangelizing, they’re shipping.

Verge.surf.social is sooo good. Like looking at The Verge through the other end of the telescope.

One of the weirdest things about getting older is that young people start talking nostalgically about periods of history that you lived through, in truly bizarre & selective ways.

Like, the way Gen Z talks about the 90s ... as tho the entire country was composed of single-earners who owned houses.

If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great

🚀

Three examples of social websites from The Verge (Decoder, Vergecast, and The Verge)

Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web:

verge.surf.social
decoder.surf.social
versionhistory.surf.social
vergecast.surf.social
wired.surf.social
404media.surf.social
poweruser.surf.social

“wake up darth” …they said

“it will be fun” …they said

Max Verstappen considering retiring from F1 at end of 2026 Max Verstappen has said he is considering retiring from Formula 1 at the end of 2026, admitting he is "not enjoying the sport."

F1’s new rules about to send one of its most dominant drivers into retirement.

www.espn.com/f1/story/_/i...

I seem to recall being at such a place :)

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

One of my brackets has all eight. 🤞🏽

If I were in charge of making up one of these official days that are a thing but not a real holiday, I’d go with National read your coffee table books day.

Let’s read, chill out, and get off our phones!

Coffee table books should be read beyond just being decor!

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

What Just Happened During NFL Free Agency (From A Wife's POV) YouTube video by Chase Daniel

Thought this would be a fun video with my wife…but didn’t expect this reaction! Almost 20,000 views on YouTube.

People are way more interested in the behind-the-scenes of NFL life (from Wife POV) than I realized
youtu.be/jAg4Zm2bTS0

OMGGGG Kentucky Santa Clara game ending!!!!