Brian Phillips
@brianphillips.bsky.social
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Thanks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for tweeting excerpts from my predictions market piece; this is in my view the second-best possible use of Twitter, just behind quitting Twitter
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Thanks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for tweeting excerpts from my predictions market piece; this is in my view the second-best possible use of Twitter, just behind quitting Twitter
Someone from Kalshi contacted me this morning to say they'd "love to talk about your article." Do you think they'd let me create a bet about whether I'm going to take that call
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment
What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?
www.theringer.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Someone from Kalshi contacted me this morning to say they'd "love to talk about your article." Do you think they'd let me create a bet about whether I'm going to take that call
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment
What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?
www.theringer.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
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get it while it's free folks
Every day we pull three Verge stories out of the paywall for 24 hours, and today we're starting with a banger from @lopatto.bsky.social:
X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
get it while it's free folks
Meanwhile I will watch the Jason Statham Temu Leon: The Professional knockoff from the front row of the fanciest theater in town
Unfortunately I am almost definitely going to watch that Chris Pratt AI judge movie on a plane. I’m not proud of this but I already know it’s true.
January 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Meanwhile I will watch the Jason Statham Temu Leon: The Professional knockoff from the front row of the fanciest theater in town
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please look at my neighbors, running *towards the murder squads* to protect other neighbors. we're gonna win.
The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
please look at my neighbors, running *towards the murder squads* to protect other neighbors. we're gonna win.
Absolutely incredible that "they've thrown the beanbag for a fumble!" is a literal thing that happens in a culturally dominant multibillion-dollar sport and not, like, an early Victorian euphemism for a footjob
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Absolutely incredible that "they've thrown the beanbag for a fumble!" is a literal thing that happens in a culturally dominant multibillion-dollar sport and not, like, an early Victorian euphemism for a footjob
Honestly think if I were a ref I'd let a lot of stuff go because I didn't want to stoop to pick my flag up
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Honestly think if I were a ref I'd let a lot of stuff go because I didn't want to stoop to pick my flag up
Al Michaels, watching the most exciting shit you've ever seen: They call Chicago the city of big shoulders...but they're going to have to carry...a big load ON their shoulders...if they're going to...carry the ball to victory...here in the third...and that pass is complete. It's first and goal.
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Al Michaels, watching the most exciting shit you've ever seen: They call Chicago the city of big shoulders...but they're going to have to carry...a big load ON their shoulders...if they're going to...carry the ball to victory...here in the third...and that pass is complete. It's first and goal.
The rule is actually very simple. If he fumbles the ball before reaching the end zone and the angle of incidence is greater than OR EQUAL TO the tangent of an isosceles triangle whose shortest side is half the distance to the goal, and his teammate recovers it in a supine BUT NOT PRONE posture, 1/12
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
The rule is actually very simple. If he fumbles the ball before reaching the end zone and the angle of incidence is greater than OR EQUAL TO the tangent of an isosceles triangle whose shortest side is half the distance to the goal, and his teammate recovers it in a supine BUT NOT PRONE posture, 1/12
The NFL experience is lacking vs the college-football experience in so many ways, but there's nothing *quite* like a January game between pro teams from freezing industrial cities that hate each other
January 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The NFL experience is lacking vs the college-football experience in so many ways, but there's nothing *quite* like a January game between pro teams from freezing industrial cities that hate each other
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The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.
I keep coming back to the fact that Indiana's uniforms are still cool as hell because the team was never good enough for anyone to go Design Intern Liquid Metal on them
There’s no way to really properly put it in context besides repetition: This is the greatest turnaround I’ve ever seen or that you’ve ever seen
January 10, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I keep coming back to the fact that Indiana's uniforms are still cool as hell because the team was never good enough for anyone to go Design Intern Liquid Metal on them
Mendoza updating his LinkedIn with a bullet point reading "assessed efficiency procedures and devised impactful protocols for streamlining actionability"
35 points on 175 1st half yards is fucking diabolical
January 10, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Mendoza updating his LinkedIn with a bullet point reading "assessed efficiency procedures and devised impactful protocols for streamlining actionability"
Having a pass interference penalty declined is the ultimate insult for a defender
January 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Having a pass interference penalty declined is the ultimate insult for a defender
Every time the ChatGPT pasta commercial airs I pray the Kurtis Blow NBA commercial will be next, to cleanse my soul of nausea
January 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Every time the ChatGPT pasta commercial airs I pray the Kurtis Blow NBA commercial will be next, to cleanse my soul of nausea
What a game! Wow. Made me feel young again (resentful of a successful Miami Hurricanes football team)
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
What a game! Wow. Made me feel young again (resentful of a successful Miami Hurricanes football team)
2:29 seems like so much time until you remember that every Miami drive in this game has taken 27 years
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
2:29 seems like so much time until you remember that every Miami drive in this game has taken 27 years
Ole Miss, inadequate but persistent; Miami, dominant but impotent...it's truly First Date Steven Miller vs. Third Date Steven Miller out here
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Ole Miss, inadequate but persistent; Miami, dominant but impotent...it's truly First Date Steven Miller vs. Third Date Steven Miller out here
Hardcore tennis fans furious that kickers don't apologize to their opponents after a successful doink
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hardcore tennis fans furious that kickers don't apologize to their opponents after a successful doink
The rare split double-doink
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
The rare split double-doink
YES
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
YES
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Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
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2. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable, Cow
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
2. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable, Cow