Philip Glassmeyer

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@mahdikaz These posts that you have been doing on C2PA have been tremendous. Thank you for your contribution.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

Listening for the following tomorrow as summarized by Claude:

Phrases signaling “native/standard” not “optional tooling”

•“provenance by default”
•“signed at the point of generation”
•“every output carries credentials”
•“zero-trust content layer”
•“content integrity built into the platform”
•“authenticity as infrastructure”
•Any mention of automatic signing in Azure AI Foundry or Copilot pipelines without developer intervention

Phrases signaling resolver/registry commitment

•“universal resolver”
•“cross-platform verification”
•“hardware root of trust”
•“certificate chain of custody”
•“interoperable credential verification”
•“persistent identifier” — this one is very DMRC-specific language
•“W3C DID” (Decentralized Identifiers) — Digimarc’s resolver architecture touches this standard

Phrases signaling agentic AI provenance specifically

•“agent-to-agent trust”
•“verifiable agent identity”
•“transaction provenance”
•“agentic audit trail”
•“sovereign content identity”
•Any reference to signing agent outputs not just human-created content — this would be huge because it expands the addressable market dramatically beyond media into every enterprise workflow

Phrases directly echoing C2PA/Digimarc published language

•“manifest store” — specific C2PA architecture term
•“claim generator” — C2PA specification language
•“hard binding” or “soft binding” — directly from C2PA technical spec
•“Content Credentials at scale”
•“ingredient assertions” — C2PA provenance chain language
•Any reference to the February 2026 Microsoft Research report recommendations being implemented — that report essentially handed Microsoft a roadmap

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@ChallengeThink @sleff30 I have posted much more extensively on the Yahoo! message board for the company. You’ll find a lot of great content there from the last two weeks. It will help you quickly contextualize everything that is going on right now with the company.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@ChallengeThink @sleff30 9 years.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@sleff30 @ChallengeThink Yep…the toll road.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FlyEaglesFly529 @TradeIdeas Claude thinks so based on what has been made public in the last 20 days or so between CC, Ken, Dom, commission report for section 50 compliance, etc. Recovery and validation.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

Finishing up this office build and installation today for home in fountain Hills.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

Great point re Azure from 2021. This is underappreciated. Digimarc is already listed on the Azure Marketplace. If the MCP provenance server gets featured or certified as part of a Build announcement, enterprise customers can purchase directly through Azure — bypassing Digimarc’s own sales cycle entirely. Azure Marketplace deals can close in days, not months, because procurement is already approved through existing Azure spend commitments.

This is potentially the fastest revenue path in 2026. If even 500 Azure customers purchase a $50,000 annual subscription through the Marketplace….

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@bstg @bobdun52 You guys are crushing it right now! Glad you are remembering to smile!

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FlyEaglesFly529 @TradeIdeas MCP server architecture…important detail. Good stuff.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

Strong possibility that we see announcement of a partnership or commercial deal announced in the next few weeks re C2PA. Adobe and Google Chrome collaboration announced on the 12th shows $DMRC has built the toll road by way of owning the registry. Look for continued momentum with price this week. JVR will need an updated price target shortly.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@bstg What’s the answer?

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FlyEaglesFly529 @Codester1389 Oh, I know. I wasn’t sharing it because I thought it might be used to you. I just knew that you’d be willing to commiserate with me!

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FinWitness This post is full of smoke and mirrors. Not 15 prospects. They are 15 customers all at different stages of onboarding and launch.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FlyEaglesFly529 @TradeIdeas Love to see it.

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FinWitness When did you ask them?

[Philip Glassmeyer @Sideburnsofwood]

@FlyEaglesFly529 Yes, and second place is two laps behind.