senior writer at The Ringer. Country Baby is not for sale!!!!!https://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mlwxx775pk2vright back where we started from16 May 2026 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwxx775pk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mlvyursp6c2qwrote about knights, knaves, fools, concern trolls, bridges, jurisprudence, and Scam Altman https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/15/tech/sam-altman-defense-testimony-elon-musk-trial15 May 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvyursp6c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mlo6hg6vdk2khello hello from the federal courthouse in Oakland California. Sam Altman is on the stand! (previously: Bret Taylor said he was embarrassed that he doesn't actually remember how much he makes in salary as an OAI board member but that it is "around the order of 200k" - hate when that happens to me)12 May 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo6hg6vdk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mllmx4jcqs2bback on my bullshit (sitting in the courtroom for Musk v Altman, surpressing a snicker as Judge YGR yells with thunderous righteousness at an attorney)11 May 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllmx4jcqs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mleqzab55c2hI live close enough to my kids' school to hear the closing bell and it's the ultimate "roommate's key turning in the lock" sound08 May 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mleqzab55c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mlcb33x2as2d"Black Bear runs the tournament company, all six rinks that hosted games and 76 of the 114 participating teams." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2026/05/07/lord-of-the-rinks-black-bear-youth-hockey/89503875007 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2026/05/07/lord-of-the-rinks-black-bear-youth-hockey/89503875007/?taid=69fc9ccb083ff20001078741&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter07 May 2026 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcb33x2as2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml7ei6ftqs2qjust remembered I shoehorned the Playboy Q&A into a Grantland piece about the Ted Turner 30 for 30 more than a decade ago - my love is pure https://grantland.com/the-triangle/life-death-and-winning-why-only-one-of-those-matters-to-people-like-ted-turner/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ei6ftqs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml7c4vtcyc2pfarewell Ted Turner. One of my all-time fav documents is this 1978 Playboy Q&A with TT - this is the very first answer and it goes on for 20 more pages (PDF) https://andrewtytla.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/turner_interview_1978.pdf06 May 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7c4vtcyc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml5d3xtrt22qupdate: W U T [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5d3xtrt22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml5cxviyy22qwhat the HELL is this depraved NHL Draft Lotto format it is causing me psychic damage05 May 2026 23:16 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5cxviyy22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml4ltytexk22the hAuNtEd MaNsIoN just came up again at Musk v. Altman. Greg Brockman recalls: "There was, like, confetti and cups all around. It was Elon, Sam [Altman], Ilya, Shivon... Amber [Heard] served some nice whiskey. Elon asked her to be part of the conversation [re OpenAI.] She didn't really want to." [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4ltytexk22https://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3ml4gw2ex5k22https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/claude-ai-is-complicating-life-for-people-named-claude this article has my mind wandering to what life must be like for the protagonist of THE MARK AND THE VOID05 May 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4gw2ex5k22https://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mktcp2ctfs27appreciating my beautiful son’s kevinsmithian je ne sais quoi01 May 2026 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktcp2ctfs27https://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mkqe7sxmy22dELON MUSK TESTIMONY TRANSLATOR https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/tech/elon-musk-testimony-open-ai-trial-sam-altman-greg-brockman30 Apr 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqe7sxmy22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mksrncsmkc27RABBIT RABBIT 😅01 May 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksrncsmkc27https://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mkrhe6ciq22jwell I suppose that means it’s the five year anniversary of this https://www.theringer.com/2021/04/30/music/crash-dave-matthews-anniversary [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 06:02 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrhe6ciq22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mkqsh7wrlk2hin honor of the stars aligning for Breeny to call tonight’s Knicks here’s the profile of him I wrote a decade (😩😅) ago https://www.theringer.com/2016/06/08/nba/mike-breen-2016-nba-finals-new-york-knicks-tv-voice-5ec2f8f2a1cb30 Apr 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqsh7wrlk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/katiebakes.bsky.social/post/3mkqe7sxmy22dELON MUSK TESTIMONY TRANSLATOR https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/tech/elon-musk-testimony-open-ai-trial-sam-altman-greg-brockman30 Apr 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:efgakhphhh3inkixml7put3e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqe7sxmy22d