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Since the govt is no longer funding NPR maybe they could stop bending over for the Repubs. Lay it all out there, stop spinning all the crazy fascist authoritarianism as both-sides and normal partisan politics. They know we're in a lot deeper. Since we're now paying the bills, how about plain facts.

U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY15) talks about the latest national political news of the week, as well as the NYC mayoral election, as Congress is in the midst of the August recess.

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Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about his Atlantic feature story on the implications of NASA's reliance on Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Rumors point to OpenAI shipping something this week. I’m going to guess the open weights model, with GPT-5 a little further off, but who knows. Say what you want about their leadership, but that company knows how to ship.

You’ve likely heard me go on about how much I like an encourage using an RSS reader. Molly White frames it nicely: What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper? It could include independent journalists, bloggers, mainstream media, worker-owned media collectives, and just about anyone […]

I’ve spent four springs in a row staring at giant spreadsheets of research data and combing through hours of practitioner

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Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.

A WNYC and Gothamist investigation found that some of the signatures Mayor Adams's re-election campaign submitted for him to be on the ballot this fall as an independent were fake. David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, Clayton Guse, WNYC/Gothamist editor, and Brigid Bergin, senior political correspondent for WNYC and Gothamist, share what they found and what it could mean for the mayor's re-election chances.

 

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Miguel Cairo, interim manager for the woebegone Washington Nationals, recently referred to the Milwaukee Brewers as a "pain-in-the-butt team." He'd just watched the Brewers rough up Washington's helpless pitchers in the first game of a weekend series, and struggled to put hi...

Ghost 6.0 has been released, adding ActivityPub. Big update. It’s interesting how Ghost now talks about Bluesky compatibility, which works via Bridgy Fed, but they don’t mention Bridgy Fed. This feels slightly wrong to me since I’ve spent so much time working on AT Protocol.

Your AI agents are growing up. It’s time your control model did, too. Over the past two years, much of

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Your long wait for the Monday crossword has come to an end. This week's puzzle was constructed by Mat Holmes and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Mat lives in Maine and is a Portland Hearts of Pine fan. Mat is psyched to be back in Defector and you can look for his puzzles coming soon at AVCX, Universal, Spyscape, and the Los Angeles Times. 

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE.

Academics, who speak scientific language, won't say "there's no antisemitism at UCLA" because we know that's not true. Antisemitism is everywhere, the question is how limiting and dangerous is it. And how often is it encountered. I grew up in the 1960s in a Queens neighborh...

Today is one of the most beautiful, delicate feelings that I know and wait for, and first I have to provide some backstory. I love cricket. In particular, Test cricket. A match lasts 5 days. So there are back-and-forths, intense 20 minute periods of play forcing one team int...

Some people are fans of the Chicago Bears. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Chicago Bears. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Chicago Bears

Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

Gaslighting is everywhere. ChatGPT just said to me "I understand why you feel that way." It has nothing to do with my feelings. I don't have feelings about computers. It lied to me over and over just now. I said you're lying to me. "I understand why you feel that way." As if it were the all-knowing feeling-inferring god-like creature it is not. The real question for me is this -- Does Open AI program it to be this way. Think about the opportunities it has to introduce true feelings of insecurity and worthlessness. That's the purpose of gaslighting. It's evil.

The second golden age of portable gaming is here. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.

More daycare options at a variety of price points, all of them unaffordable. A super accessible subway station with an elevator that will get you all the way down to the mezzanine! The tracks are just two flights of stairs below that. Playgrounds that are so packed you’ll wa...

A computer screen is a mirror, a conduit, a threshold, and a void. We peer into them for work, insight, entertainment, communication, companionship, and we peer for so long that the outside world comes to seem like an addendum, an antechamber of the vision granted by the scr...