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Maz Atighi

@atighi.com
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Civic Tech / Direct File / Coder / NBA fan / 9-ball Hack / Dad / Chicagoburbian

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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 04/10/2026
Studied credulity is effectively the working definition of objectivity at places like the NYT, and it's the door bad faith actors walk through over and over
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 01/10/2026
Classic case of Celtics Twitter Intrusions
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 04/09/2026
Whether this is human or LLM, I’m delighted. If it’s an LLM, I’m dying to see the prompt.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 11/06/2026
Extremely weird series, because the Knicks can't actually hang with a non-choking Spurs team, but the Spurs can't stop choking. Still don't feel confident about the outcome either way.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 10/06/2026
I love that this walks through all the iterations, and the ghost is a stroke of genius. Also, this is (I think?) a really good use of Claude for writing. Technical narrative is hard, and high-average quality can be a win for readers. hardscreenherald.substack.com/p/an-incompl...
hardscreenherald.substack.com
An Incomplete Theory of Gravity
How do you weigh something invisible? A five-step crawl from a rubber band around five players to a neural net — measuring the pull of a shooter, with all the wrong turns kept in.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 08/06/2026
This is the only transcript mention of Finals MVP I see. “If the Knicks win, Brunson will probably win finals MVP because Jalen Brunson, he made the big shot in the big free throw tonight. But Kat has a case for it. We're not there yet.”
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 08/06/2026
I think he said the advanced stats favor Towns and it’s a very close call, but Brunson is the “ball-handling fulcrum” of the offense.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 28/01/2026
Yup www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/07/2... Also the National Association of Black Journalists nabjonline.org/blog/nabj-st... Split among some other orgs and papers
washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post announces writing style changes for racial and ethnic identifiers
The Post to capitalize Black to identify groups that make up the African diaspora.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 01/12/2025
There are such things as "executive physicals" that are basically for rich people who pay out of pocket for comprehensive exams that include a full-body MRI and other scans that would typically only be done for a specific reason if insurance were involved.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 22/11/2025
God tier finding $20 in an old jacket pocket.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 01/11/2025
I cancelled youtube tv and signed up for directv’s streaming service, which I didn’t even know was a thing. Gets me all the main channels, plus my regional sports network (not available on yt tv) for roughly the same monthly price.
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Chris Given @cmgiven.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Gabriel Zucker and I have some advice for state leaders wondering what comes next after Direct File. Rather than copying DF itself, we should learn from *how* the IRS built with taxpayers and created an experience that only the IRS could deliver. (1/3) economicsecurityproject.org/news/states-...
economicsecurityproject.org
States should look beyond Direct File to keep the spirit of reform alive - Economic Security Project
Many state tax administrators approached Direct File with a healthy skepticism — could the IRS really deliver in a matter of months, and would it be worth it for states to join on such short notice? B...
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 24/07/2025
Congrats. You’re reason I keep my Athletic subscription. Hope they threw in some money for a new mic 😉
Topic shortcuts with Hollinger’s avatar listed first.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 02/07/2025
@johnhollinger.bsky.social If you’re not going to write the piece about the Pacers bringing tiki taka to the NBA, who is?
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 31/05/2025
I'm very proud to work on Direct File. This was a special team and special project. Now open source, as it should be. github.com/IRS-Public/d...
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GitHub - IRS-Public/direct-file: Direct File
Direct File. Contribute to IRS-Public/direct-file development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 28/05/2025
They look exhausted.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 07/04/2025
These shouldn't count.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 01/04/2025
Would love to see this by home/road to try to isolate arena and jersey color.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 08/03/2025
There is another great one of these with a Chicago connection: Tom Skilling, beloved, avuncular weatherman, and Jeff Skilling, evil Enron mastermind.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 18/01/2025
Night by night, no. Overall, I think yes. The NBA already has an “it’s fixed” problem, and missed calls late in consequential games really upset fans (think of the Saints losing on the PI non-call) and a few 30 second stoppages with some manufactured drama is a fair price to avoid those.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 18/01/2025
The NBA has the resources to staff real-time monitoring of every call in every game. A challenge should send it to the team in Secaucus and if they don’t overturn in 30 seconds, the call stands. The arena can have a countdown timer and fans could get into it.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 06/11/2024
Appreciate it, man. I've been hoping more national NBA folks would make their way here; hoping you and Pelton are the trailblazers!
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 13/07/2024
I’d love to read this. Do you remember where it was?
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 12/02/2024
Downloaded Microsoft Copilot after the Super Bowl ad and had a funny interaction where I asked how it was different from ChatGPT and it started telling me the ways in which it was better (eg free gpt4 access) and then stopped mid-answer and replaced its own output.
screenshot of ms copilot saying it can’t respond to a question
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 06/02/2024
Second-best defender too, some nights.
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Maz Atighi @atighi.com · 10/01/2024
It’s very bad at some thing and very good at some things. 4 is much better than 3.5, and how you prompt it makes a big difference. 4 with a decent prompt (“think step by step” is something of a magic key) gets it on the first try. chat.openai.com/share/d02b06...
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