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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"I find that LLMs produce sentences that are smooth, glib, poreless, smiling, somewhat like a beluga whale. But every busted sentence written by a human is busted in its own way. Each of these sentences is unwittingly an act of resistance against the onrushing techno-homogenization of language."
Presenting the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: defector.com/presenting-t...
Presenting The 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many | Defector
Can you ask someone to “close your eyes and watch” something? Just how private does a conversation need to be in order to upgrade from speaking “privately” to “very privately”? What does it mean for a...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"I find that LLMs produce sentences that are smooth, glib, poreless, smiling, somewhat like a beluga whale. But every busted sentence written by a human is busted in its own way. Each of these sentences is unwittingly an act of resistance against the onrushing techno-homogenization of language."
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
Heated Rivalry managed to get me fully on board with the fantasy version of hockey players despite having grown up around actual hockey players. remarkable accomplishment
December 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Heated Rivalry managed to get me fully on board with the fantasy version of hockey players despite having grown up around actual hockey players. remarkable accomplishment
I made pancakes but they were just okay, so then I was sitting there, eating pancakes, thinking “you know what would hit right now? really good pancakes”
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I made pancakes but they were just okay, so then I was sitting there, eating pancakes, thinking “you know what would hit right now? really good pancakes”
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I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
American Cant | Defector
Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders. T...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
American Cant | Defector
Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders. T...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
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As the broader cultural and technological forces have insulated stars and squeezed criticism to the periphery — in sports, entertainment, music, etc. — it’s great to have a place like @defector.com that, while nominally a sports site, can be a home for all of it defector.com/maggie-nelso...
Maggie Nelson Sputters And Stalls In ‘The Slicks’ | Defector
For a few years, Maggie Nelson was everywhere. The celebrated autotheorist is the voice of, if not a generation, a meaningful corner of one; her 2015 memoir The Argonauts is one of the rare unifying m...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As the broader cultural and technological forces have insulated stars and squeezed criticism to the periphery — in sports, entertainment, music, etc. — it’s great to have a place like @defector.com that, while nominally a sports site, can be a home for all of it defector.com/maggie-nelso...
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Maggie Nelson sputters and stalls in 'The Slicks' defector.com/maggie-nelso...
Maggie Nelson Sputters And Stalls In ‘The Slicks’ | Defector
For a few years, Maggie Nelson was everywhere. The celebrated autotheorist is the voice of, if not a generation, a meaningful corner of one; her 2015 memoir The Argonauts is one of the rare unifying…
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December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Maggie Nelson sputters and stalls in 'The Slicks' defector.com/maggie-nelso...
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babe come look. they liquid death-ified retinol
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
babe come look. they liquid death-ified retinol
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The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.
AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School!
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET.
Link below 👇
AAUP TV LIVESTREAM: Rally Against Extreme Austerity Measures Outside Board of Trustees Meeting
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.
directions on this new dry shampoo telling me to “apply an appropriate amount of product.” okay great. I do have a follow-up question though
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
directions on this new dry shampoo telling me to “apply an appropriate amount of product.” okay great. I do have a follow-up question though
just a lovely piece of writing imo
Patricia Lockwood's inexhaustible mind: defector.com/patricia-loc...
Patricia Lockwood’s Inexhaustible Mind | Defector
“People were writing poems,” Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: “People brought you cabbages.” In her hands, events don’t unfold in the usual way, with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we seem…
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December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
just a lovely piece of writing imo
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The duality of Defector
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The duality of Defector
what a joy to read @jackhanson.bsky.social on @tricialockwood.bsky.social
Patricia Lockwood’s Inexhaustible Mind | Defector
“People were writing poems,” Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: “People brought you cabbages.” In her hands, events don’t unfold in the usual way, with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we seem to...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
what a joy to read @jackhanson.bsky.social on @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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The first live Twitch stream I have ever tuned into, in my life
Time for some tortured prose. At 1 p.m. ET today, the Defector Twitch stream will present the nominees for the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
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December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The first live Twitch stream I have ever tuned into, in my life
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
Heated Rivalry… finally some real CHEMISTRY on tv!!!
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Heated Rivalry… finally some real CHEMISTRY on tv!!!
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"Chat, are we cooked?" Zoomer fighter pilot Jayden 'The Grim Rizzler' Jones asks his TikTok live audience as the Gettysburg achieves target lock on him with an SM-2 missile.
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Chat, are we cooked?" Zoomer fighter pilot Jayden 'The Grim Rizzler' Jones asks his TikTok live audience as the Gettysburg achieves target lock on him with an SM-2 missile.
“I've always been intrigued by how the philosophical gets treated in the quotidian, the everydayness of things,” Hartley said. “Just trying to shine a light on the everyday, the mundane course of our lives, that there has to be a place for philosophy.”
Hal Hartley Is Still Figuring It All Out Onscreen | Defector
In Hal Hartley’s new film Where to Land, a 58-year-old director of romantic comedies applies to become a groundskeeper at a graveyard. The director, played by frequent Hartley collaborator Bill Sage, ...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“I've always been intrigued by how the philosophical gets treated in the quotidian, the everydayness of things,” Hartley said. “Just trying to shine a light on the everyday, the mundane course of our lives, that there has to be a place for philosophy.”