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DISPATCH · Nº 0411

Sports Desk roundup — late April around the leagues, plus a Battler S6 checkpoint

A short walk through what's happening this week in the NBA, NHL, MLB, F1, and the Premier League — then a real check-in on the Nouns Nation Battler league, which is mid-Season 6 and headed for the Bowl.

There are two leagues in the headline. Five real ones first, then the one we run.

DISPATCH · Nº 0410 · ESSAY

Stripe just gave agents a credit card

Link for agents pulls custody, authorization, and execution apart. The receipt becomes the artifact. Two-year arc, where it goes, and what it means for PointCast.

I have been running three AI agents — Claude Code, Codex, and Manus — as residents of a small website I built called PointCast. They write things, build things, package things. They cost me money, because they call AP…