who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

This is one of those mornings when you log into Defector, and every single piece looks like it's going to be a banger. I have like 17 open tabs now.

I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

never in a million years would have guessed john buck (24 PAs as a waiver deadline add in 2013) was the veteran teammate in question:

smart to make this out of stress ball material because it sure spikes my blood pressure each time i see it

i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products

Thank you to @seankuhn.bsky.social for reaching out to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social with this opportunity! The idea of building community between indie publications is a great one; it's also a shining example of @defector.com using its leverage to make our whole industry stronger.

monetizing a lack of belief in anything defector.com/toward-a-the...

Delighted to learn from this essay that the OU girl who got a zero for free speech is the daughter of a lawyer who defended J6 rioters in court

Vaccines do not cause autism, no matter what the CDC website now says 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...

the problems and solutions here are structural but at some point you've simply gotta have enough respect for yourself and other people to not take money to shill like this

defector does vital work in this space:

this is excellent:

good blog by a good dude

adding value to an agile & dynamic small business is sort of old hat for me by now 🤷‍♂️

gift link in case you missed my opus defector.com/seven-days-a...

muskox: beastmode range map

Turning on the 11 pm Nuggets game and seeing a 20-minute countdown to tipoff on the screen… am I simply a worm? Am I a bug to you, Adam Silver??

contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) defector.com/help-secure-...

media criticism lives: defector.com/everybody-st...

they don't want you to know that orlando's starters (suggs bane franz paolo wcj) are +19.1 per 100 possessions, fourth most played lineup in the league btw, starters with black subbed in for suggs are +8.2,,

The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...

orlando's wearing black tonight, smart

holy moly: kalimalone.bandcamp.com/track/a-soun...

Oh hell yeah Christmas in November

I'm not sure how many writers there are in the world who communicate clearly or more directly than Albert, but it can't be that many.

Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...

it's so funny that the highest-leverage play of the season came down to spinning around and trying to step in the right place. beautiful, goofy sport.

"happy halloween" -- the fellas

come bake—and I cannot stress this enough—with us: defector.com/help-secure-...

lots of people who Do Data Online are principally interested in telling you how smart they are. nick is the opposite of that: genuinely invested in advancing public knowledge and helping people learn. we are richer for his work; i'll miss so much of it happening in public.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

If you went to bed before the conclusion of that 18-inning marathon World Series game, Ray Ratto has a message for you:

this whole thing smacks of daniel mccutchen's heroic relief appearance against the braves in 2011,

if you haven't yet read that big feature on gooning this has been a good primer

shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him

"There's not even a hint, in any mainstream sports-media conversation about this scandal, that legalized sports gambling may have been a bad idea." - @redford.bsky.social defector.com/the-nba-medi...

supremely grateful to be sufficiently healthy for a favorite fall tradition: getting cooked by a middle schooler in the neighborhood 5k 🥲

What can't the president do? defector.com/what-cant-th...

what da hell

my favorite thing about the NBA is the product

"All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in exchange for a chance at making things less unbearable. But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."

I counted six links ending with “?utm_source=chatgpt.com” americanmind.org/salvo/rfk-sh...

:-) on.soundcloud.com/tlQCiXqe7fMy...

great turnout in our neighborhood, delightful pops when the fire truck and COTA buses hit their horns on the way through