we are way too far into the mainstreaming of vegan food for restaurants to still be salting food to ocean brine levels. you have other tools!

does this resonate with anyone else’s Victoria Mboko Experience

by the end of this weekend my phone had learned "cablp" without autocorrecting it. please enjoy my trip report: defector.com/criss-angel-...

this is pretty much where i stand

this week the world learned about his french-inflected pronunciation of "saliva"

i dont see why we have to conflate "these ai companies suck" with "their technologies are uninteresting" and "philosophy of mind is stupid"

recently was playing various punk subgenres for my 7yo nephew but he kept saying it needed to go harder because he has already "listened to some darnly intense music" and the band he finally decided was hard enough was converge

I wrote some thoughts on the Benito show! defector.com/bad-bunny-ce...

Read @girinathan.bsky.social on French phenom Moise Kouame. www.thesecondserve.com/moise-kouame...

Lovely interview by @girinathan.bsky.social in @defector.com with Jose Alvarado's hgh school and AAU coach: defector.com/jose-alvarad...

I have always found this construction incredibly corny but yes, we, as a human race, ”do not deserve” Benito. tasteless piggies hurtling toward a world of pure slop, how is the ~biggest pop star alive still a talented, idiosyncratic, humane, stylish person

what's the best way to turn text on a webpage (might contain photos or design elements) into a nicely formatted pdf "Print => Save as pdf" way too crude a tool

briefly entered Dave McKenna mode defector.com/jose-alvarad...

this is a lovely newsletter for all the tennis sickos out there

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

it is wild how few reliable methods there are for a normal person to learn information about the world, and also how many people want the one method left standing to be gambling lines for possible states of the world

22 years old defector.com/carlos-alcar...

people often ask me my theories about this crop of indian people in politics but i don't actually know any. kash patel is italian-american. vivek ramaswamy is as well, this is known. usha vance was born to italian immigrants to the united states

I suspect we are hurtling towards the UNCHANGEOVER: An Old Man & An Ongoing Era of Men’s Tennis

Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅 The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...

even after his passing, Dan’s spirit can do the impossible (make me feel intense warmth towards the sixers)

unclear if the parents in the daycare group chat are enjoying my diarrhea riffs

Also remember this and have a laugh. I think it was Dan’s favorite thing that ever happened.

today I've been feeling the weight of all the things I'd have loved to ask Dan about and now cannot. every passing day will add new ones. what a joyous and charming font of arcane knowledge, what a fan, what a friend, what a loss—Rest In Philly defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Scrolling through Twitter, finding the ancient texts, discovered a quintessential Dan tweet.

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

I wrote about prediction markets, where we’re at and how we got here for Defector

Regina’s! 🍕

it’s actually a four way rivalry if you look at it this way stop fretting everyone

i do enjoy that some of the most formidable Sincaraz opponents are his own body and his own mind respectively

what does it say that as soon as they applied the heat rule i imagined legions of nole fans arguing that the powers that be are rigging the game for jannik once again

Zeynep Sonmez Brings the Ruckus via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/zeynep-sonme...

we're so back

what cultural formats (watching live sports game, listening to recorded music at song and album length, reading a novel) will survive among humans born after 2000

they've achieved tennis kumon

Leylah Fernandez is a bizarre career arc… blazing to the US Open final at age 18 and now I would be mildly surprised if she ever makes the second week of a major again?

every 🎾 nerd about to watch the AO should read this.

a fantastic blog & headline, by @girinathan.bsky.social defector.com/jd-vance-is-...

a good racquet stringer is a kind of translator, as Roman Prokes explained to me for @thebeliever.net sports issue: www.thebeliever.net/a-microinter...

Interviewed Gilles Cervara about his eight years coaching Daniil Medvedev coming to an end, his unlikely new role coaching Nishesh Basavareddy, his love of watching Learner Tien, and why he thinks the Sinner-Alcaraz stranglehold will loosen this year. www.benrothenberg.com/p/gilles-cer...

i used to be a static stretching evangelist but i now think that standing meditation is the way i need to understand why this makes my entire skeleton feel bliss www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxXo...

I apologize to hogs for the comparison defector.com/jd-vance-is-...

Unlock my mindful teachings! Thank you to Simeon Alderfield, noted real person

enjoyable interview about CHANGEOVER - Jim Spanfeller mentioned squaremile.com/sport/alcara...

fun pod here, thanks Sarah

The tennis is back on, it’s as good as we remember, and your friends at The Second Serve find themselves pondering the one topic on every fan’s mind. That’s right: world No. 42 Zizou Bergs, say @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/zizou-bergs-...

one mildly held conviction is that grownups do not wear photogenic clothes to exercise or play sports. you should wear a tshirt from 1997 falling apart. you should not wear complementary hues. you should look like dogshit

lovely review essay about CHANGEOVER in @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/giri-nathan-...

Wrote about fish soup for dire tongues