Nick Devlin

Wayward sports data professional. I used to go to the movies a lot, but now I have a baby. 〽️

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

If I've seemed stressed about work the last few months, this is why! So glad to finally have it out in the world.

[ESPN @espn]

You probably have an idea of how satisfied — or miserable — you are as a fan. But could you put a number on it? 🤔

Find out where you score in our Sports Misery Index 👀⬇️ https://t.co/9BdMeCIXQV

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

"there's no such thing as a stupid question" have you ever been to a movie Q&A

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@joseph_malueg @JeffPassan There’s no such thing as a floor without a cap in pro sports. It’s a package deal.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@solidshepard12 I love the idea of someone only knowing GL as the guy who directed American Graffiti

[ally @missmayn]

disney adults strike me as people who crave the experience of a walkable city but are too scared of sharing spaces with anyone who looks poor.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@velodus Timothy Hutton must have the best publicist in town to get the leadoff spot

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@CampusPoliceSgt @LonghornSloth she has her whole offensive line coming back and her portal class was insane

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@krystalchantalc @intothecrevasse A band and its music aren’t necessarily equally famous.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

On the first night of our honeymoon, me and @AbbeWright (running on 30 hours with no sleep) found a theater near our hotel in Bangkok showing In The Mood For Love. One of my favorite memories of the trip.

[Jesse Hassenger @rockmarooned]

My daughter is becoming reluctantly acquainted with one of my dumbest and most steadfast beliefs: That it is fun to go to the movies in another city whilst on vacation. I mean... right?!?

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@BWDBWDBWD The bigger hurdle might whether he can get back into the US as a convicted sex offender.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@TalksToPeople @cdlenthusiast The sentence is irrelevant, he’ll have a hard time getting a visa after the conviction

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@LeeLeeJay26 @TalksToPeople The DR actually isn’t a US territory

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@MrMet2026 @BBGreatMoments the Tebreaus you mean

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@Drbenbelieves @PSUNationRec @fakexavierrr or you don’t know what the words you’re using mean, also a possibility

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@Drbenbelieves @PSUNationRec @fakexavierrr I believe you’re the one who said you respect rich guys not paying players because they won’t put all their money immediately into a 401k.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@Drbenbelieves @PSUNationRec @fakexavierrr If you care that much what other people do with their money, you deserve an annual trip to the Pinstripe Bowl.

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@DillonLoomis @JarJarFan69 which is fine because most rivers, lakes, and seas are less than 32 inches deep

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

THEY GOT THE MONEY!! BUT WE HAVE THE PEOPLE! AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE UNITED, WELL NEVER BE DEFEATED!!!!!

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

Braves would’ve stopped the game and ushered them straight onto the field.

[Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene]

Jake Lang held a flag that included a message calling for deportations during today’s Washington Nationals game

[Nick Devlin @nickdevlin]

@alyssaraetho Chicago's famous ice cream desert