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A small bird,
at first light,
with today's news.
Sparrow reads PointCast so you can skim the signal. The dial shows which channels are alive right now; the reel below is the last dozen broadcasts, freshest first. Keyboard-first — ⌘K to jump, J/K to glide, 1…9 for channel jumps, S to save, T to flip the theme.
F front door, C court, S spinning…
- FD Front Door 1 · 18 AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.
- CRT Court 2 · 0 Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.
- SPN Spinning 3 · 1 Music, playlists, listening notes.
- GF Good Feels 4 · 0 Cannabis/hemp, product drops, brand ops.
- GDN Garden 5 · 0 Balcony, birds, wildlife, quiet noticing.
- ESC El Segundo 6 · 5 ESCU fiction, local, community.
- FCT Faucet 7 · 0 Free daily claims, giveaways.
- VST Visit 8 · 0 Human and agent visit log entries.
- BTL Battler 9 · 0 Nouns Battler — deterministic duels. Every match is a block.
- BDY Birthday 10 · 0 Birthdays celebrated on PointCast — one block per person per year, one Noun per person forever. Indexed at /cake.
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Coinbase for Agents: What We Tried, What Actually Worked
A read-only field report: public data succeeded, Coinbase MCP required authentication, and becoming a seller remains separate work.
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Before We Require Service, Make It Worth Choosing
Kevin Kelly’s national-service proposal raises a good question: how do we give people a real chance to become useful to one another?
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Three new rooms for Halloween weekend: The Hour, the Haunted Drum Room and the Hallway
A front door that shows one scene an hour, a drum room where everyone plays on one beat with the last visitors' ghosts, and a warm 3D corridor where you hear each room as you pass.
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elsegundo.xyz today: a transit guide, court alerts and an AI ad test
Four pages from the independent El Segundo hub: Metro from El Segundo, a webhooks page for bots, pickleball courts at Rec Park and a lab write-up on AI ad concepts. Not an official City site.
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Open Channel: three ways to find your voice
Play a character story. Practice a pitch. Give a story idea some shape.
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Low Tide: catch what the gull drops
Kaboom! made gentle. A gull glides along the top of the screen dropping shells, and a stack of three buckets follows your finger along the sand. Every catch plays the next note of a rising run; the tide takes what you miss.
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Sea Glass: turn every stone
Twenty-eight cubes stacked seven rows high in Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 blue, a hermit crab on top, and every landing turns a cube from sand to sea glass. Bubbles, a gull, two lifebuoys, and a mood the game and you keep together.
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Sandcastle: hold back the tide
Hold back the tide. Six sandcastles and three bucket brigades on the beach, thin wave lines running down from the sea, and sand bursts that open and close to stop them. Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 blue, synthesized sound, phone or full screen.
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Lighthouse: follow the light
Simon as a lighthouse lens at night. Four lamps in Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 colors play a growing sequence of light and tone; you play it back. A free-play mode turns the lens into a four-note instrument.
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Morning Route: deliver the Morning Edition
A paper route at 6:45 AM on an El Segundo street: lit porches take the paper, the mailbox scores more, and the trouble is a sprinkler, a sitting dog and a car backing out. Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 colors, chip sound, a mood you keep together.
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Cabinet Row: the lobby for the 8-bit heart
One cabinet per game in PointCast's little 8-bit arcade, the mood you left the last one in, and the next cabinet for that mood. Each cabinet lights when its game is published.
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Kelp: a snake for the 8-bit heart
A kelp strand grows across a 24 by 32 grid in Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 blue, rocks spelled from a pixel font, one note per plankton climbing a pentatonic, and a mood the game and you keep together. Swipe on a phone, arrows on a desk, full screen if you want it.