magic playing the hits tonight: caffeinated defense, 29% from 3, halfcourt offense stalling out at the logo under mild ball pressure 🥲

lol yes, same! love his work.

Weather Vane, by Appleblim from the album Liminal Tides

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pitbull voice when the moves are smooth #fridayfeeling (post is a screenshot of a 2016 pitbull post in which he is wearing a long coat that is too tight and has a raised fist gloved in leather; the post is captioned #FridayFeeling)

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high praise from someone whose web site is an authority on walking around and looking at stuff

lol yeah it's dead as hell

hello! yes, that's a standing offer for anyone who needs it, funded through the tip jar you linked below; just have 'em email me at info(at)defector(dot)com. thanks for the kind words and support.

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screenshot of the x-axis of a ggplot in R, it reads "goblin percentile"

a while back i looked into "goblin mode" subscribers; as i recall something like 2-3% of people who subscribe for just one month wind up reading 100+ blogs in that month. however the only remaining evidence of this finding is someone's screenshot of the x-axis of a plot labeled "goblin percentile"

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Three images of Neil banging out the tunes on April 13, 2006. Neil is a hairless rat.

Twenty years ago, Neil banged out the tunes. Who was he? Come on a brief and fruitful quest to find out: defector.com/a-brief-and-...

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This piece by @albertburneko.bsky.social is so damn good. It's specifically about creative or journalistic writing, but it's absolutely about music writing too. Felt this in a big way. It's a must-read.

yeah but would a room full of LLMs crack up when you described gelman et al as "going back to the well"?

man, what a thread. this has done powerful things for my mood!

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i really like this one and think i'm on the same wavelength as mayor mark about the places we live: they are usually cruel and brutal, deserve (most of) the jokes made at their expense, but nonetheless capable of real (if sporadic) beauty

I've heard all the arguments both for and against legalizing online gambling. What I think is missing from that conversation is the fact that it's not really just gambling online that has been legalized. What has been legalized is extraction, and the new methods of extraction that are possible using the internet and mobile devices. These companies have identified a group of people with a monetizable compulsion, and we have legalized the tools needed to industrially harvest money from them.

Incredibly well put - defector.com/why-i-got-ou...

The New Evangelists | Defector In close-up for much of The Testament of Ann Lee, her eyes brimming with light, Ann Lee seems to be in a persistent state of shuddering. The founder of the Shaker religious sect, played by Amanda Seyf...

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hi! sorry, not sure what might have happened, but i think we're back in business--are you still having issues?

an ancillary benefit of working at defector is getting to tail my colleagues' recommendations for other stuff to read. each edition of the newsletter will also include some of those recommendations. let kelsey, brandy, and guests sprinkle you some game: subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com/5aa07d55-9de...

IMO: thanks primarily to brandy, israel, and kelsey, defector has grown into "Defector, but for Culture."

i get why it happens, but it bugs me that we get pigeonholed as "a sports site." we publish a ton of excellent arts & culture stuff! this newsletter will collect and highlight that work.

hello! thanks for flagging. i think i fixed this--would you mind letting me know if it looks normal on your end now?

i cannot attest to the WBC scene but cilantro's food is great!

you're dead on, this is now basically a mantra to me: bsky.app/profile/laur...

What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Maine in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us ...

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A Helpful Explainer Of Kansas's Lunatic Anti-Trans Law | Defector Last Thursday, the Kansas State legislature passed SB 244, overriding a veto by Governor Laura Kelly and enshrining anti-trans law as unhinged in its fury as it is disheveled in structure. Here at Def...

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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disa...

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