Mike Murphy

Netflix just alerted me that the BLINDSPOTTING show starring Jasmine Cephas Jones is coming on Oct. 20 so now I am alerting you all because it is SO good.

The top 3 are obvious (The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men), so those aside, I will fight for these picks until the end. 11-15: Arrested Development, Band of Brothers, Andor, Bojack Horseman, Atlanta.

When your longtime former Columnist finds a new successful career

We are pleased to report that the nightmare is greatly exaggerated. In all likelihood, you'd die almost instantly! 🤗 www.popsci.com/science/coul...

This sounds amazing.

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

I don’t know why startups bother developing thermal batteries when San Francisco figured out how keep the inside of house a 100 degrees the morning after a 90 degree day heatmap.news/technology/a...

This headline gets worse with every word.

EXCLUSIVE: Gazetteer has uncovered that Waymo vehicles got more than 8,300 parking tickets in San Francisco between January 2025 and July 19 of this year. We dug into the most common infractions and ticket locations in the city (cough, Fisherman's Wharf). Plus, thoughts from an AV expert:

Robotaxi Handler: "Even poop, there’s a lot of cleaning up poop." Current: "A lot?" Robotaxi Handler: "Way more than you think. One time there were two pig heads in the backseat of the car and the cleaner had to clean it up." 😬💩🐷

My streaming column for September: Apple and Peacock raise prices, and get ready for the British invasion: new seasons of "Slow Horses," "The Gentlemen," "MobLand," "The Great British Bake Off," "The Traitors" and more...

Seattle Times dipshit quits because his editors were smart enough to spike his stupid columns: defector.com/matt-calkins...

It’s Fogust in San Francisco, so naturally I spent a week searching for the city’s undisputed foggiest bar. I talked to fog academics, data scientists and even Foggy, SFCFC’s fog mascot, and what I found was all kinds of wholesome. My latest for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/food/article...

“My first day on the job, I fucked up.” That’s the lede to this CJR account of my 4 months in Utah, where I worked as a junior editor. I wanted to see what’s changed since i left local journalism a few decades ago. A lot of things are different. But not everything. www.cjr.org/first_person...

You should read Sami’s piece. I hope if we all continue the pressure on the Giants front office to properly apologize and make amends, maybe they’ll stop hemorrhaging fans and their precious dollars, but the boycott should and will continue until they make a genuine effort to make things right

if we are going to do a whole Field of Dreams game in a cornfield we should also have a Sandlot game where a big dog runs around and chases the players

Since TED LASSO is back*, it's time to re-share this bad boy from the @popheist.com archives. *Ted Lasso is still good don't yell at me.

My latest streaming column. Lots of dumb but fun stuff in August, like Amazon's "Reacher," P+'s "Lioness," Netflix's "Outer Banks" and hey...a new season of Apple's "Ted Lasso" too!

I'm almost certain the diner in the latest episode of "Sugar" is where Forrest MacNeil ate an upsetting amount of pancakes.

Quite the way to honor Jeff Kent's Hall of Fame induction.

Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer

Can't wait for half a dozen Giants pitchers to write anti-vax messages on their caps tonight.

Helluva job, PG&E! Half of San Francisco without power this morning.

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

related, I have sent this @drewmagary.bsky.social column to so many people lately. it really speaks to the moment of what ALL publishers — of any size, content type, funding model — are up against right now

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Javi knows. This is spot on. These dynamics, plus shorter seasons/shorter overall runs... it's all bad for television, just bad for the form all around. Anyway, thread:

Anyone who's lived in SF for more than a few years knows this to be true. It's insane how Muni can't figure out the concept of "a shuttle" for big events and anticipate the obvious bottlenecks. Even Giants post-games are a mess.

My quarterly listening report, favorite songs from April-June. Includes Courtney Barnett, Dead Pioneers, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Spacemoth, This Is Lorolei, Modest Mouse, Sugar and much more. open.spotify.com/playlist/5MQ...

it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it"

My latest streaming column: It's a slow month, but looking forward to a new season of Apple's "Silo," Disney's "X-Men '97" and S2 of Hulu's crazy violent "A Shop for Killers," along with a binge of "The Agency" & "The Bureau" on P+. www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-...

Six runs for the six colors on the original pride flag. A touching tribute by Landen Roupp on the final day of pride month.

This sounds like the exact kind of thing Ethan Hunt and his team would run around the world in an effort to prevent.

I do kinda like how Norway's numbers & names look like they were written by a serial killer.

Dear Giants pitchers: See, it's not that hard.

Physical media. I’m just sayin.

LOOK HOW EASY IT IS

🤖 John Shea "A rainbow should not hurt your heart like that." Fascinating story by Astrid Kane of the @sfstandard, who interviewed an openly gay baseball player on the controversy over the Giants' Pride Night -- he once was a Giants minor-leaguer: 🔗 via @sfstandard

a legitimately fascinating finding tbh

For as deeply disappointed as I am with the entire giants organization, I am equally proud of the media group that pushed Posey today

"Fox, stop trying to make Jameis happen!"

some must-read words on the bigotry, from @samihiggins.bsky.social