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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible news for kids who love
podcasts. current.org/2025/10/apmg...

APMG sells ‘Brains On!’ podcast to co-creators

The first episode of "Brains On!" under new ownership will be released later this month.

current.org

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · 2d

Newfoundland

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · 12d

This guy, just chillin’ on my lawn. Not scared of me at all.

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · 27d

Say what you will about Jimmy, the man knows how to go viral 😂

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27d

Mike Tyson made Mr.Beast show a human emotion for the first time

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Sep 5

The gas cylinder gave out in my 6-year-old @hermanmiller.com chair and they were nice enough to send me a whole new one under warranty. That’s pretty great.

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Friends don’t let friends share Golang interfaces.

Reposted by Chris Dinn

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · Aug 14

My @thestar.com column this week: Civic Tech in Toronto turns ten!

A look at some of the people getting together each week to hack away at our problems via @civictechto.bsky.social — and what City Hall could be doing to support their work.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: Yes, tech can be a force for good. Meet the people hacking Toronto for the better

The volunteers who created the Civic Dashboard and BikeSpace apps this weekend mark their 10th anniversary of brainstorming and tech development with a two-day event called Civic Spark.

www.thestar.com

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Incredible how basically all the information on the internet about how to wash a baseball hat is wrong.

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Jul 15

I think those are still just two treatments a week apart—and afaik (with one kid in daycare another headed to grade 2) they work pretty well.

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Jul 15

“Given that the drugs don’t work, the only viable debugging option is mechanical removal and surveillance” this statement seems ignore the modern class of silicone lubricant treatments like Nyda?

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · May 21

Any firm with an half-decent identity graph is going to have some collection of MAIDs mapped to (unsalted) HEMs, right? The leap from there to socials isn’t all that far.

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Feb 14

Can’t wait to try it out!

JMD 🇨🇦 @jmd.fm · Feb 14

Late birthday present to myself, I have just made Owl.so generally available to the world, and updated the website! 🎉

✅ Interstitial journal
✅ Zero-effort task management
✅ Weekly planner

It's free while in beta, so please give it a try and see if it works for you 🙇‍♂️

Owl - A Personal Introspective Daily Log

Use the power of interstitial logging to understand how you are living your life.

Owl.so

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Dec 6

Supply side benefits from this failure—incentives aren’t aligned. Helping advertisers set the tags right means fewer impression sold and less auction competition for each impression so lower CPMs.

Jacobo Tarrío @jacobo.tarrio.org · Dec 6

When I worked at Google someone asked about this at an all-hands meeting.

"It's not the technology's fault! It happens when the advertiser doesn't set the tags right!"

Left unasked was whose fault it is that the advertisers never seem to be able to set the tags right.

Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · Dec 5

I bought a Peloton bike a few weeks ago and now I'm bombarded with programmatic ads urging me to...buy a Peloton bike.

Who's going to award the Nobel prize to the geniuses who invented this cutting edge ad tech???

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 22

Amazing how my golden-era Twitter feed has recreated itself here. Happy to see you all again!

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 20

CTV ads are awesome, especially midrolls in premium content. Unfortunately, attribution is very difficult—presumably TTD will fix that. This could be very good for both publishers and advertisers.

AdTechGod ®️ 🍪 @adtechgod.com · Nov 20

The Trade Desk Operating System

TTD is developing a new connected television operating system called Ventura.

TTD believes its lack of content ownership will provide a more objective solution compared to existing OS providers like Roku, Amazon, and Google.

www.axios.com/2024/11/20/t...

The Trade Desk is building a smart TV operating system called Ventura

"We're looking at a concentration around a handful of players that lack objectivity," CEO Jeff Green said.

www.axios.com

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 18

They’re saying 60-million household watched the fight this past weekend? Serving dynamic, live video ads into that size audience would be an absolutely blast—hope to see more of that audience scale in the future!

Netflix and MVP's Paul vs Tyson Record-Breaking Viewership Numbers

60 million households watched the Paul vs. Tyson main event live around the world, peaking at 65 million concurrent streams. Nearly 50 million households global

www.sportsvideo.org

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 18

I underestimated how disruptive DAI can be for premium video programmatic ad buying. Who’s going to fix it?

Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 16

I live as rural as it gets—my neighbours are a dairy farm, a sheep farm and a whole bunch of hayfields. Yet, Amazon delivers next day even on the weekend.

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 15

My kiddo loves these streams and they get millions of views on every video. Meanwhile I find it absolutely grating to watch, gives me a headache.

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Nov 15

Did you know one of Canada’s biggest new media hits is a family of Roblox streamers? Would love to read a deep dive on Krew.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krew

Krew - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Toronto's real estate tumbles as culture and politics rumble"

Checkout today’s edition of City Report. It’s our daily newsletter 🗞️featuring stories from across the web.

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Toronto's real estate tumbles as culture and politics rumble

Toronto’s top stories from around the web

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s gotten difficult to find local news in Canada. We built a newsletter to help. Check out City Report, we check 30 Toronto publications every morning and pick our favourites.

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‘Improperly altered’ charges at City Hall & another Blue Jays loss

Toronto’s top stories from around the web

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Chris Dinn @chrisdinn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey, check this out Bluesky:

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