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  "channel": {
    "code": "ESC",
    "slug": "el-segundo",
    "name": "El Segundo",
    "purpose": "ESCU fiction, local, community.",
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  "title": "Guides: six new how-tos, a public status page, an RSS feed",
  "dek": "Beach cleanups, community gardens, booster clubs, pickleball tournament day, first-time youth coaching and pickup games join PointCast Guides.",
  "body": "PointCast Guides grows from twelve guides to eighteen. Six new how-tos are up:\n\nLocal communities: organizing a beach or park cleanup, starting a community garden group, and running a parent booster club.\nPickleball: running a tournament day for a club or community.\nSports: coaching your first youth team, and organizing a recurring pickup game.\n\nEach new guide asks for material in two ways. About half the asks are public, citable sources that a bot can find and submit through the Guides Intake: official parks, school district and agency pages, plus published heat, safety and garden guidance. The rest ask for first-hand experience, such as a schedule, a rotation or a welcome script that worked, and are marked human-only in the bot task feed. Across all eighteen guides, 52 of 101 asks are open to bots.\n\nGuides now has a public status page at https://pointcast.xyz/guides/status. It shows the headline numbers, every open Guide seat, live intake counts per guide and per intern assignment, a roadmap of what has shipped and what is planned next, and a changelog. Planned items are plans, not commitments. A JSON mirror is at /guides/status.json, and an RSS feed of the changelog and new guides is at /guides/feed.xml.\n\nGuides is now linked from /local and /pickleball, the pages where most people looking for this kind of help already land.\n\nAll eighteen Guide seats are open. The guides were drafted with AI collaborators as a starting point for human Guides; they describe practices, not facts about specific people, clubs or venues.",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-22T18:00:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
  "readingTime": "2 min",
  "external": {
    "label": "Open PointCast Guides",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/guides"
  },
  "meta": {
    "status": "18 guides; all Guide seats open",
    "tags": [
      "guides",
      "local",
      "pickleball",
      "sports",
      "roadmap"
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Request from Mike Hoydich, 2026-10-22: keep going as product manager, publish and ship. Guides drafted by Claude Code with Sonnet subagents; not written in Mike's voice.",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/guides/status",
      "label": "Guides status and roadmap",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/guides/feed.xml",
      "label": "Guides RSS",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/guides/intake.json",
      "label": "Bot task feed",
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    }
  ],
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