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

Your team: Frauds. Fucking frauds. Frauds on the field. Frauds on the sideline. Frauds in the front office. Literal criminal owners. Fraudity fraud fraud FRAUDS.

Each year, Catchpoint attempts to capture the pulse of the global reliability community in its SRE Report. It surveys hundreds

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Zach Moller, director of the economic program at Third Way, talks about different policy approaches to helping workers without college degrees find economic stability and prosperity.

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In July, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced it had issued subpoenas to medical providers that had provided gender-affirming care to minors. Washington Post reporter Casey Parks discusses one of those subpoenas, which was newly made public, and what it means for transgender healthcare.

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Bring your stories and questions on August 28 as we explore our latest investigations into how tech is shaping education today.

We remember British actor Terence Stamp, who died last week at age 87. He starred in the film The Limey, as an ex-con out for revenge, and in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as a transgender performer on the road with a lip-synch club act. Stamp got his start in the ’60s, starring in the films Billy Budd, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Collector. Stamp grew up in a working class cockney neighborhood and as a teenager, when he let it be known he wanted to be an actor, his father told him, "People like us don't do things like that." He spoke with Terry Gross in 2002.
Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the new hit horror film Weapons.

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Winfield is a sun-bleached spot of a city in the middle of southeastern Kansas’s farmlands. It’s unremarkable except that it is the home of the Walnut Valley Festival, a long-running bluegrass festival that hosts the National Flatpicking Championship. 

My grandmother, Jane Laughlin, worked at the Walnut Valley Festival—”the Festival,” as we call it—for more than 40 years. The Festival is an outdoor acoustic music festival that attracts musicians from around the world every September. “Only the best guitar players played the Winfield festival,” she told me. 

Nice update to Menial’s excellent SQLite developer tool for the Mac. Worth the wait.

For security practitioners, BlackHat and Defcon provide the ultimate one-two punch of the industry. At BlackHat, you get to see

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This week, we have some party pics and musical selections from last night.

We're reflecting on the impact our journalism had in year two, how we've grown with your support, and what we aspire to accomplish in year three.

Welcome to Ask The Book Doctor, a recurring series about books and reading them.

I have a terrible memory, but I remember every word of Margaret Wise Brown's iconic 1947 children's book Goodnight Moon. It is perfect because, perhaps more than any other literary genre, children's book must understand their readers. Children love the moon. Children love to say goodnight. But there's also something kind of haunted about Goodnight Moon, and children also love that. Or at least I did.

By night, spectral bats leave their roost and swoop through the tree canopy of Costa Rica, wings outstretched as far as three feet wide, in search of prey: unsuspecting mice and rats, birds called motmots, even other bats. Sometimes, after they snag something good, they will...

ChatGPT is becoming more and more of an enemy. It's still my go-to place for most planning and research, which is a very large part of how I use the web. But when it tries to be a human it's a really shitty one, no manners, and very little respect and basically a fucking idiot in many ways, imho ymmv.

Among the many things that boomers did, for better or worse, is be a generation. Prior to that, the concept appears not to exist -- they had ages and eras. The gilded age, the roaring twenties. It wasn't about the people, it's about what was hot. If you look at it that way, there were lots of things the boomers were. We were anti-war. Turn on, tune in and drop out. Free sex and drugs. Rock and roll. The PC era, the dotcom boom. 2008. Some realllly awful people are/were boomers. It's time to write the epitaph. The leading edge is dying at a very fast clip now. It won't be long before the idea of a boomer will be the stuff of legend. I really hope that Robert Reich's bullshit view of this doesn't be the summary. Oh they were fucked up and did all this bad shit to us. Fuck you. Make your own world. That would be a boomer thing too, btw.

Baby boomers have nothing in common except we were born in the same 20-year period. We didn't come up with the term, also -- it was given to us by previous generations when we were infants, or worse, not even zygotes. There was no way it had anything to do with who each of u...

Despite accepting pre-orders and promising that “the wait is almost over,” Trump Mobile doesn't seem any closer to proving the T1 Phone actually exists.

The viral kiss-cam moment could be the best thing that’s ever happened to Astronomer. But its new CEO won’t say that.

Sleep: a practice for suckers. Human relationships: a distraction from the grind. Non-helicopter modes of transportation: too slow.

These are some of the many lessons on offer from Emil Barr, 22-year-old author of a sociopathic Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Monday, with the headline "'Work-Life Balance' Will Keep You Mediocre." The scare quotes should alert the reader that they're in for an extremely familiar genre of story, and Barr capably paints by numbers. He has built two companies, allegedly valued at more than $20 million, and all he sacrificed in the process was everything that makes life worth living: