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Mike Murphy

@mmmmurf.bsky.social
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Editor at MarketWatch, streaming columnist, San Francisco native, Giants fan, burrito enthusiast. Yes, that's a banana slug in my profile pic.

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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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.
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Joe Salvatore @radiojo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When your longtime former Columnist finds a new successful career
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Popular Science @popsci.com · 16/09/2026
We are pleased to report that the nightmare is greatly exaggerated. In all likelihood, you'd die almost instantly! 🤗 www.popsci.com/science/coul...
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Could a whale really swallow a human? We asked a biologist.
The new thriller ‘Whalefall’ depicts a diver trapped inside of a sperm whale.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This sounds amazing.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
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...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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...
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The Coolest Thing in Climate Tech is a Super Hot Rock
Why thermal energy storage is poised for a breakout year.
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Ryan Schwartz @ryanschwartz.tv · 08/09/2026
This headline gets worse with every word.
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 01/09/2026
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:
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Waymo has been slapped with more than 8,300 parking tickets since January 2025
With fines of nearly $1 million for various violations, the robotaxi company says it’s cooperating with the city and learning from its cars’ mistakes
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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." 😬💩🐷
bayareacurrent.com
Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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...
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Here’s what’s worth streaming in September 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more
Prices are rising again, but a slew of fan-favorite shows — including Apple’s ‘Slow Horses,’ Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’ and Paramount’s ‘MobLand’ — are returning for new seasons
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Defector @defector.com · 21/08/2026
Seattle Times dipshit quits because his editors were smart enough to spike his stupid columns: defector.com/matt-calkins...
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Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns | Defector
People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did…
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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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...
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A face-soaking search for San Francisco's foggiest bar
Can fog academics, data scientists and Foggy help me find SF's foggiest bar?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“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...
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The 69-year-old rookie.
I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.
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Shana Bartels @shanabartels.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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.
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'Shoresy' is Better Than 'Ted Lasso'
'Shoresy' is one of the best shows airing right now, an emotionally satisfying, uplifting, and singular merging of sports drama and comedy.
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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excited to share this project I've been working on for months: a long list of the most underappreciated TV shows of a dizzyingly overabundant 21st century. The research for this was so fun—revisiting great shows I barely remembered, finally getting to watch others that had been on my list for years
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The 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows of the 21st Century
From 'Undeclared' and 'Bunheads' to 'The Knick' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated TV shows of the 21st Century.
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Ben Travers @bentravers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
No surprise "Sugar" got better once it stopped treating its premise like a twist, but Season 2 made a number of other savvy changes — including Colin Farrell, whose evolution is really, really impressive. www.indiewire.com/criticism/sh...
indiewire.com
The Secret Is Out: ‘Sugar’ Season 2 Got Good
'Sugar' got off on the wrong foot in a first season that hid too much for too long. But Season 2 makes key changes — beyond keeping the right secrets.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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!
marketwatch.com
Here’s what’s worth streaming in August 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more
Turn off your brain and enjoy new seasons of Apple’s ‘Ted Lasso,’ Amazon’s ‘Reacher,’ Netflix’s ‘Outer Banks’ and much more
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm almost certain the diner in the latest episode of "Sugar" is where Forrest MacNeil ate an upsetting amount of pancakes.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Quite the way to honor Jeff Kent's Hall of Fame induction.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/07/2026
Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Can't wait for half a dozen Giants pitchers to write anti-vax messages on their caps tonight.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Helluva job, PG&E! Half of San Francisco without power this morning.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes
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Kevin Tompkins @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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."
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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
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Google hates you
"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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.
adweek.com
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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:
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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.
sfist.com
SF Muni Should Admit They Can Not Handle Large Crowds at High-Demand Events
The fiasco that was the public transit offering for Saturday night's fireworks in San Francisco did not need to be such a fiasco, and it was clearly a case of over-promising on the part of the SFMTA.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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...
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2026 Q2
Playlist · Mike Murphy · 31 items
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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"
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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-...
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Here’s what’s worth streaming in July 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more
Why it’s a good month to save on streaming, despite the return of ‘Enola Holmes’ to Netflix and ‘Silo’ to Apple
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“Abyssal flatworms” just feels really unnecessary in 2026
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Six runs for the six colors on the original pride flag. A touching tribute by Landen Roupp on the final day of pride month.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This sounds like the exact kind of thing Ethan Hunt and his team would run around the world in an effort to prevent.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I do kinda like how Norway's numbers & names look like they were written by a serial killer.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Dear Giants pitchers: See, it's not that hard.
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Physical media. I’m just sayin.
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
LOOK HOW EASY IT IS
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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🤖 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
sfstandard.com
Openly gay pro baseball player speaks on SF Giants Pride controversy
One thing has been missing from the heated discourse on the rainbow hat episode: an LGBTQ+ pro athlete. That’s because there aren’t any.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
a legitimately fascinating finding tbh
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
For as deeply disappointed as I am with the entire giants organization, I am equally proud of the media group that pushed Posey today
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Fox, stop trying to make Jameis happen!"
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Regina George in Santa Hat
ALT: Regina George in Santa Hat
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
some must-read words on the bigotry, from @samihiggins.bsky.social
mccoveychronicles.com
SF Giants Opinion: Time to clean house
The Giants have a problem. And it might be time to clean house.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
News: The Onion is launching the new Infowars July 2. After years of legal wrangling and months of maneuvering by Alex Jones's lawyers to block its takeover, the Sandy Hook families are finally getting their first check... from The Onion. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...
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The Onion says it will sidestep courts to launch Infowars and pay Sandy Hook families
The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.
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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"They were in for a rude awakening with the response and it wasn't just from the gay community. It was from the Northern California community that supports the gay community." Five minutes of Mike Krukow worth listening to: www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...
sfgate.com
SF Giants announcer highlights ignorance of players' Pride Night protest
Krukow continues to stand in defense of Pride Night.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fun one from MarketWatch: Over 2,500 pounds of paper will rain on the Knicks as New York City overcomes windows that don’t open and the death of actual ticker tape.
marketwatch.com
The Knicks’ ticker-tape parade is conquering a modern-day reality: Offices barely use any paper
Over 2,500 pounds of paper will rain on the Knicks as New York City overcomes windows that don’t open and the death of actual ticker tape.
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Mike Murphy @mmmmurf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.
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