Cody Karlin

Words guy in a numbers room; numbers guy in a words room | I used to wear aprons at @OregonMBB games, now I just wear them for holidays and tailgates | he/him

[Cody Karlin @covika]

This weekend, I’ll be going to my first @warriors game since the move to the @ChaseCenter and thought it would be a good time to share some stories about Daddy-O, the man who brought me, and many others, into #DubNation.

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@AlaskaAir Trying to call in to create a mileage plan number for my minor child, but after getting transferred once, I’ve been on hold for over an hour. There’s got to be a better way to do this.

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@RedditCFB *progrum

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@JoshPateCFB Welcome back! Are you visiting tailgates tomorrow? Or going on the campus side of the river?

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@fantasyfocus @FieldYates @MikeClayNFL with Maxx Crosby out, are the Raiders still a worthy streaming play against CLE? Or should you pivot elsewhere without their primary havoc creator?

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@portlandgeneral Thank you for the update!

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@portlandgeneral “Safety Shutdown?” You mean this was a planned blackout on a holiday when it’s not even 70° yet and a high below 90°? How do we not have a return time yet if this is scheduled?

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@FieldYates Hope you enjoy your visit to Eugene next week! You should check out Wild Duck Cafe - right next to the basketball stadium across the river from the football complex. Owned and operated by a walk-on on the football team and his parents! #GoDucks https://t.co/xvT7MeTljq

[Cody Karlin @covika]

I can hear it in the North End already! 🎶🤌🥁 #RCTID

[Aaron Flynn @AaronFlynn]

DeBella, Caio #RCTID

[Cody Karlin @covika]

Remember that time the Timbers were sponsored by Da Bella for one whole game? That was crazy! #RCTID

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@KwadeSays Chase Cota

[Cody Karlin @covika]

As if I couldn’t love Greg Olsen any more 😍

[Greg Olsen @gregolsen88]

The biggest criticism used against “analytics”, is that it doesn’t take into account the team or situation

Michael Badgley career 48+= 45%

Why doesn’t the “take the points crowd” include these pieces of info?

Early in game SF elected to attempt FG on 4th down. Moody missed 🤷‍♂️

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@alyssalimp is Charlene okay…?

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots are expected to part ways today after a remarkable 24 seasons together, ending an unmatched run in NFL history that included six Super Bowl titles, league sources tell me and @MikeReiss.

[Cody Karlin @covika]

#GoDucks forever

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🦆

[Oregon Ducks France @FranceDucks]

Belle journée les amis

[Cody Karlin @covika]

THAT’S MY COACH. #GoDucks

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@BuskingTeacher I have to pee already just looking at this

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.

Advertisers are not leaving Twitter because they are trying to make a statement or achieve some goal (which would be a boycott). They are leaving Twitter because they aren’t sure whether advertising on the platform is delivering negative or positive value, and why spend a bunch of money doing something that might actually be /hurting/ you.

The reason it might be hurting them is fuzzier. But, in my opinion, it’s not mostly to do with their ads showing up next to bigoted content. I think it’s that this platform is increasingly all about one guy in a lot of people’s minds. That one guy is both the most influential power use of the platform, and the owner of the platform.

And that guy has trained everyone to expect that he is going to say increasingly inflammatory and unhinged stuff.

That means employees and customers of those companies (who /are/ moral actors) don’t get good vibes from the company they like advertising with a company they don’t like. This is a symptom of the culture war that Elon Musk desperately wants to inflame because he is stuck inside of a really tight “you are always right” feedback loop of fans and friends who feel incapable of questioning him.

He has attained a kind of moral certainty that he is fighting a war against an existential threat to humanity. That inevitably results in either an intervention of good friends or a complete crash (often times a violent one). But that’s when the person isn’t the richest person in the world. I don’t know what happens when it’s the richest person in the world, but I’m trying not to watch it like it’s a train wreck, because, just like with train wrecks, real people are getting hurt.

That moral certainty is allowing him to do things that are very clearly bad for the economics of the platform (but good for keeping people talking about Elon Musk, which (as a person who has fallen into that trap before) is important to keep an eye on as an underlying motivation for all of this behavior.)

It is not at all surprising that large advertisers, who advertise specifically to ensure their brands are perceived positively, are leaving (at least for the moment) a platform whose biggest brand ambassador is tweeting Great Replacement theories and Pizzagate memes.

It is not an attempt to change Twitter or Elon’s behavior. It is an effort to not lose money.

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@AndyKHLiu @samesfandiari @lightyrspod I can’t believe the Podz breakout game party is going to be ruined by CP3 falling apart in the clutch. Oh wait. Yes I can! 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@OfficialNBARefs just making sure you get all the angles, because it seems you missed some 🙄

[fakelogic @fakelogic]

Gobert got 2 FTs for this foh

[Cody Karlin @covika]

@OfficialNBARefs open your eyes, imbeciles.

[Alex 👋🇲🇽🇺🇸🇪🇨🇭🇷🇧🇪🇵🇾 @Dubs408]

Rudy Gobert had Klay Thompson in a headlock and Draymond came in and out Gobert in a headlock 🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/8ns1SFAMAY