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Defector Publishes What Corporate Media Won't defector.com/products

Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen. defector.com/vindicated-a...

I do recommend this. (And I do recommend @izdaramola.bsky.social's work in general, he's got quite a collection of work up at Defector over some years now.) Gift link.

i cannot recommend defector, this role, and the people you'll get to work with enough. i miss them already.

this is a really cool job for someone with a data/business background who likes what Defector is doing

real hoop

divinely throwed home demos from my favorite record last year 🚨 elianaglass.bandcamp.com/track/on-the...

Beautiful, moving stuff like this is why I subscribe to Defector

loved both the original story here (a defector subscriber close-reading a pair of blogs with their 7th grade class) and giri's email about sportswriting as mana for the emergent fanatic. reading and discussing things with others is beautiful. try it with defector for $1: defector.com/products

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

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

this is what supply chain risk looks like 👇 hedge your risks in the Information Space with a defector subscription: defector.com/products

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-...

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.

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

Journalism is better when it's backed by people, not markets: defector.com/products

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

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

I wrote about AI and performance for Defector defector.com/the-new-evan...

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.

defector has many virtues, but this might be foremost among them. my colleagues' work is uncommonly clear, plainspoken, and righteous. i've gift-linked some examples below. read them, and consider subscribing: defector.com/products

a tennis partner once hit a ball out onto the road and as i went to retrieve it a car stopped and its door opened and i feared some maniac was gonna flip out or worse but the guy was wearing a ~15 year old jason bay giveaway shirsey and he calmly fielded and tossed me the ball waved and drove away

beastmode 👇

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social defector.com/how-i-became...

hey everybody go read this imo defector.com/how-baseball...

this blog makes a great case for defector: as a home for writing like this; as an heir to the style of culture coverage pioneered by these magazines; and as somewhere you don't need to worry about ownership class interference. our subscribers make that possible: defector.beehiiv.com/p/defector-i...

if anyone has a copy i will pay you a slightly less reasonable price for it

evergreen bit: sending your wife an email

myanmar aerobics lady moment: knocked like 75 seconds off my 10k pr this morning

Victor Wembanyama sighting confirmed in Brooklyn: defector.com/victor-wemba...

A complimentary profile of Jason Lee that was surprisingly difficult to publish: defector.com/a-compliment...

Brilliant feature by @roughnotes.bsky.social about a forgotten era of women’s basketball, and one particularly fascinating player within it: defector.com/cardte-hicks...

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kathryn does a good job articulating the ambivalence i feel toward power athletes in "artistic" disciplines. one additional problem no one is talking about is that he looks too much like jack suwinski

be smart: every paragraph in here is an lol sean's view: read it!

And this is one of my favorite blogs we've run in a while on any topic. I remember my own experience covering the event years ago so fondly, and Kathryn really brings home how fun and strange it is to hang out there all day, and also how crazy it smells. defector.com/my-life-amon...

"One day, we will read these to Simon. He will never forget his Daddy because all of you have left him a documented history book of who Dan was." defector.com/a-message-fr...

i love the morandini bit; i'll forever hear his name in dan's voice from the harry kalas impersonation he does around the 37:00 mark in here: pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

this week, lauren and maitreyi have been recirculating old dan bits from our daily newsletter. they are great; you can read them here: defector.beehiiv.com/p/the-cipher...

a blockbuster in the sense that the principals haven’t been a going concern for years