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I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.
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Good morning, Bluesky.
I’m in the weeds. And I’m not coming out.
I’m in the weeds. And I’m not coming out.
November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
I’m in the weeds. And I’m not coming out.
I’m in the weeds. And I’m not coming out.
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Fantastic Ray Ratto blog on an ideal topic/target. defector.com/pete-rose-al...
Pete Rose, All-American | Defector
After Pete Rose’s death was announced on Monday night, a lot of clever microphone addicts opened their obligatory thumbnail summaries of him by explaining that he was “a complicated figure.” It’s the ...
defector.com
October 1, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Fantastic Ray Ratto blog on an ideal topic/target. defector.com/pete-rose-al...
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She also apparently edited her husband, who watched a handful of the ruling class murder some OG labor in 1819 and wrote a poem ending with:
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
September 29, 2024 at 1:30 PM
She also apparently edited her husband, who watched a handful of the ruling class murder some OG labor in 1819 and wrote a poem ending with:
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'
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In Hungary, if you were greeting an audience (or a group of friends you’ve not seen for a while), you wouldn’t say “it’s good to see you all” but would instead say összefújta a szemetet a szél. It means “the wind blew the trash together”
September 3, 2024 at 5:27 PM
In Hungary, if you were greeting an audience (or a group of friends you’ve not seen for a while), you wouldn’t say “it’s good to see you all” but would instead say összefújta a szemetet a szél. It means “the wind blew the trash together”
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former ky gov matt bevin adopted a Black kid and then... sent him to a nightmare abuse academy and refused to reclaim him when the academy was shut down. appalling but not surprising in the world of white evangelical adoption www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
‘I’d rather die than go back’: Jamaica’s school for troubled US boys
The Atlantis Leadership Academy in Jamaica promised American parents it could ‘fix’ their sons. Instead, the boys allege they were systematically abused — and Paris Hilton has taken up their cause
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2024 at 8:18 PM
former ky gov matt bevin adopted a Black kid and then... sent him to a nightmare abuse academy and refused to reclaim him when the academy was shut down. appalling but not surprising in the world of white evangelical adoption www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
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Netflix recommending Moscow on the Hudson is definitely the best and most interesting thing that algorithm has ever done for me
May 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Netflix recommending Moscow on the Hudson is definitely the best and most interesting thing that algorithm has ever done for me
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Every idiotic show of force is an admission of weakness from institutions that are out of ideas and know it. If it leads to nothing else, I believe that everyone who sees this will never forget it. defector.com/they-are-ins...
They Are Insecure For A Reason | Defector
You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss’s newsletter, which I bel...
defector.com
May 1, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Every idiotic show of force is an admission of weakness from institutions that are out of ideas and know it. If it leads to nothing else, I believe that everyone who sees this will never forget it. defector.com/they-are-ins...
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
Everyone is going to be arguing about this genially savage and wise essay by @poniewozik.bsky.social in which he definitively locates the new "average" TV show. I respectfully request an exemption for Poker Face, but otherwise...I cower before the accuracy of this. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
It’s got a great cast. It looks cinematic. It’s, um … fine. And it’s everywhere.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
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Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
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April 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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It is amazing that after decades of underfunding and discrimination the right has still been able to frame conversations on education around unworthy Black people and the response from “allies” has been “okay but what about unworthy white people too”
www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...
www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...
'Theft At A Scale That Is Unprecedented': Behind The Underfunding Of HBCUs
Tennessee could owe a historically Black university over $500 million. Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes the problem cuts much deeper:
www.npr.org
April 12, 2024 at 11:53 PM
It is amazing that after decades of underfunding and discrimination the right has still been able to frame conversations on education around unworthy Black people and the response from “allies” has been “okay but what about unworthy white people too”
www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...
www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9...
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Huh. Kind of thought this one would be more exciting to people. One of, if not the first versions of Elliott Smith's Miss Misery discovered just today sitting around in some old shit.
Also in here today: My buddy Kevin was going through some books and he found something an old friend had given to his ex-wife Mary Lou Lord. A song he thought she might want to play. Holy shit. Couple more images of hand written chord charts in the post. www.welcometohellworld.com/untitled-6/
April 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Huh. Kind of thought this one would be more exciting to people. One of, if not the first versions of Elliott Smith's Miss Misery discovered just today sitting around in some old shit.
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LLMs “simulate” actual use of language to the extent that actual language users draw on resources they have no access to (text corpora hundreds of terabytes in size) to carry out a process that language use never consists in (statistical prediction of the next expression in a string).
March 30, 2024 at 1:54 PM
LLMs “simulate” actual use of language to the extent that actual language users draw on resources they have no access to (text corpora hundreds of terabytes in size) to carry out a process that language use never consists in (statistical prediction of the next expression in a string).
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Kudos to Sacha Issenberg for a wrenching, but very insightful, piece on a dying Democratic direct-mail guru and critic of political advertising. If you read it, you won't forget it:
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
March 16, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Kudos to Sacha Issenberg for a wrenching, but very insightful, piece on a dying Democratic direct-mail guru and critic of political advertising. If you read it, you won't forget it:
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I don't really miss Twitter but sure miss @AoDespair. Bluesky elders need to get him on here.
March 7, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I don't really miss Twitter but sure miss @AoDespair. Bluesky elders need to get him on here.
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The liberal Justices certainly deserve the Merrick Garland Award for Political Courage and Wisdom for voicing dissent within a unanimous decision.
Despite the unanimous outcome, the reasoning is deeply fractured. The three liberal justices are furious that the majority went too far, attempting "to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
![Ultimately, under the guise of providing a more “complete explanation for the judgment,” ante, at 13, the majority resolves many unsettled questions about Section 3. It
forecloses judicial enforcement of that provision, such as
might occur when a party is prosecuted by an insurrectionist and raises a defense on that score. The majority further
holds that any legislation to enforce this provision must
prescribe certain procedures “‘tailor[ed]’” to Section 3, ante,
at 10, ruling out enforcement under general federal statutes requiring the government to comply with the law. By
resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts
to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih2z4h7sdabweagenqiyuqipl6ipxoskxsnkynw4g4g47j24rgzvm@jpeg)
March 4, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The liberal Justices certainly deserve the Merrick Garland Award for Political Courage and Wisdom for voicing dissent within a unanimous decision.
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If There's an Obvious Pro-Trump Bias in the 2024 Polls, Where Was It in 2016 and 2020? (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2024/03/if-t...
March 3, 2024 at 5:40 PM
If There's an Obvious Pro-Trump Bias in the 2024 Polls, Where Was It in 2016 and 2020? (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2024/03/if-t...
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The New York Times and wokeness were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
February 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
The New York Times and wokeness were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
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Illinois judge who reversed rape conviction has been removed from bench after panel finds he circumvented the law
Illinois judge who reversed rape conviction removed from bench after panel finds he circumvented law
An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law an...
apnews.com
February 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Illinois judge who reversed rape conviction has been removed from bench after panel finds he circumvented the law
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this is the best take i’ve seen so far about the personal finance columnist for NY Mag who gave the "CIA" guy $50,000 in a shoebox
February 18, 2024 at 4:17 AM
this is the best take i’ve seen so far about the personal finance columnist for NY Mag who gave the "CIA" guy $50,000 in a shoebox
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“Fell ill after a walk”
Do watch Navalny’s documentary about Putin’s absurd never-completed summer palace. It gives a wonderful feeling of the man’s energy and rage. And Putin’s fundamental pettiness and lack of imagination.
youtu.be/mMxqTae75Fs?...
Do watch Navalny’s documentary about Putin’s absurd never-completed summer palace. It gives a wonderful feeling of the man’s energy and rage. And Putin’s fundamental pettiness and lack of imagination.
youtu.be/mMxqTae75Fs?...
February 16, 2024 at 11:46 AM
“Fell ill after a walk”
Do watch Navalny’s documentary about Putin’s absurd never-completed summer palace. It gives a wonderful feeling of the man’s energy and rage. And Putin’s fundamental pettiness and lack of imagination.
youtu.be/mMxqTae75Fs?...
Do watch Navalny’s documentary about Putin’s absurd never-completed summer palace. It gives a wonderful feeling of the man’s energy and rage. And Putin’s fundamental pettiness and lack of imagination.
youtu.be/mMxqTae75Fs?...