me too!
me too!
the video in here taken by the student interrupting the professor to say that course content is "not legal" is chilling
Thank you @brandyjensen.bsky.social
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An outstanding salute to Bragg encapsulating everything i think about the show but never actually thought about. In Our Time is one of the finest free things ever devised.
wrote a little bit about the greatest to ever do it
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I am really proud of the work we do and I think this is a great deal
10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. đŻ
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britainâs most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going âall floppyâ when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a âflipping nuisanceâ as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: âWe have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. Itâs a complete waste of officersâ time, and a complete pain in the neck.â Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: âThe problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. Weâre not making them go floppy. Theyâre just sort of being a nuisance.â](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
i'm sorry, i'm fucking dying at this. i for one unconditionally support the SEALs in developing mission plans that amount to a bunch of guys falling out of an airplane directly into a whale's mouth
Lucas Schaefer's "The Slip" is a ridiculously ambitious debut novel that gets boxing right and, despite being set a couple decades ago, concerns a number of issues and identity crises that are relevant right now. I really enjoyed speaking to him about it: defector.com/lucas-schaef...
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
potentially violent www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
what an absolute nightmare
my thoughts exactly
No more bonus material from Melvyn, and his guests????????
Noooooooooo
got a huge laugh from me
Weapons was so good! What a fun time at the movies!
(doing the Vince McMahon faces) Agnes Callard⌠in the free press⌠on Taylor Swiftâs impending marriage to Travis Kelce
I love the thing that Immaculate Grid built for this. Messing around and making a grid of Extremely 2000s Brewers Guys was like giving my brain a cool drink of water. We'll be goofing around with it all week in various venues, and streaming later today: defector.com/defector-and...
Let's remember some guys! Immaculate Grid has teamed up with our friends at @defector.com to present "Remember Some Guys from the 21st Century." Visit immaculategrid.com/remember this week to create and share a list of your favorite guys since 2000âthere are no wrong answers!
aw thanks so much!
I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
I wrote about Noel Gallagher, the chief: defector.com/the-oasis-re...
byline jump scare
New Quinnipiac Poll â 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of Independents, and 20% of Republicans. 60% of voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel. Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 37% of Republicans.
like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.
have just now discovered thereâs a little dog in my baseboard
WHAT
or approve an excerpt in which you are depicted as the brave victim of this circumstance
JUST WAIT
I mean she must have approved running this excerpt in particular! she isnât some new, young writer lol
look, clearly the cut has perfected running a certain style of self-aggrandizing, faux-searching but ultimately breezily exculpatory personal essay but oh my god www.thecut.com/article/eliz...
I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbotsâas a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized âeducationalâ enterprise technologyâ on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
If you don't know yet, Defector has been publishing some of the best culture writing out there with @brandyjensen.bsky.social at the wheel. Here, Mitch Therieau tells us the day the music died, and it wasn't February 3, 1959. defector.com/the-tragedy-...
I really do love my job
a really great and fascinating blog about a song that it turns out people actually liked? a lot?? defector.com/the-tragedy-...
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who among us!!!!
love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was âabout the capture of social lifeâ
Useful introduction to how fucked up the UK currently is.
good explainer if youâre confused why some people are calling for Sally Rooney to be charged as a terrorism supporter
We're celebrating our upcoming fifth birthday with a big sale! I think the site has been particularly good this week, so take a look at Defector.com and then smash that damn subscribe button. defector.com/defector-is-...
@defector.com let me write about the BEST PLAY EVER. huge thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for the smartest edits â¤ď¸âđĽ
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
The revolution will be extra-curricular: defector.com/the-revoluti...
grateful for this review of CHANGEOVER, written by Hua Hsu & the charming graphic by Nick Little (go to the website and watch it move) www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
WIRED is looking for a new features editor! This is a literal dream jobâit was mine for three years. Work with some of the smartest, kindest editors in the business! Elevate writers and ideas you believe in! Put out a ~*~*~ PRINT MAGAZINE ~*~*~ condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an âethical responsibilityâ to use AI.
i wrote about a sculpture that kinda blew my mind, and AI art, and uhhhhh what it's like being a human defector.com/whats-monch-...
âdivorce announcements from people who think theyâre more famous than they areâ easily a top 5 genre of online content for me
very useful reporting on Zohran's video team defector.com/selling-zohran
you can read an excerpt of CHANGEOVER over at @nymag.com today a nice appetizer for this afternoon's Sinner-Alcaraz match nymag.com/intelligence...
one of the best parts of this piece is that it confirms my suspicion that @boringstein.bsky.social brought the team bona fide filmmaking chops along with absolutely chaotic gremlin energy
talked to them for *hours* (apologies to my subjects)
lots of people have written about Zohranâs video strategy, but @coreyatad.com actually talked to the people who made them
lol glad to be of service
I had a similar route out of my career as a professional athlete
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Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
you can't say that straight boy with a wife
Insane decision!!
Iâm yelling âcongratsâ
i love that these guys went to quantico thinking they'd spend their careers hunting hannibal lecter or worst case scenario entrapping mentally ill muslim teens but instead they have to redact trumps name out of thousands of boxes of sex files and then walk a beat
I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
Five more Palestinians have died from starvation in Gaza, due to Israelâs restrictions on aid, bringing the total to 217 since the war began, including 100 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. đ´ LIVE updates: aje.io/1490et
Part of the problem for Labour is when they try and strike a tough pose it is just tragi-comic like this.
no AI ever
Katieâs the best!
ty!
thanks!
That youâre probably a loser.
Cool, what did you come up with?
Can you think for just a moment about why this might different? I believe in you I bet you can do it
âThe audience for this isnât people who like jokes, or even understand what they are or why other people like them. The audience is boys and men who will understand that whatâs funny is: women.â defector.com/why-a-bunch-...
I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
And Just Like That... is the rare show brave enough to hate its own characters defector.com/and-just-lik...
this is going to drive me insane (gun to my head Iâm saying itâs like an Einstein/Tesla mash-up)
I think itâs good advice, which you could tell by reading the bit where I said itâs good advice. Maybe try thinking a little harder about the rest of it too.
Instagram is now telling me I can share my location with my followers. You couldnât pay me to do that lmao. You could offer me shares in the company and I would still say no thank you
What AI skeptics don't understand is that, as the technology learns and grows, it will come to understand that Buckeyes fans would enjoy this story more if Ryan Day's Secret Restaurant only served police officers.
âThis committee recognizes that generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning.â Okay why would you recognize that. Based on fucking what.
Yeah, do it!
grateful that working at defector has helped me understand exactly how funny this is
Wrote about some movies that scare me defector.com/kiyoshi-kuro...
read @robrubsam.bsky.social on the âdeadpan insanityâ of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
the only good dating advice is that you must learn to bear your suffering well. the reason most dating advice skews conservative is because it shares with conservatism the view that suffering should happen to other people
There's a level of rich you can reach where the idea of being told no becomes unfathomable, and it probably shouldn't exist.
FOIAball is here: foiaball.com Today, we're kicking off with four stories that we're pretty sure you are going to like. If you are interested in Bill Belichick, Texas, FSU or college mascots, we've got something for you! Give it a look and let us know what you think!
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lol same
Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gazaâs minimum needs for that period ⌠Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out ⌠starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.â
Ms. Rachel forever
The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...