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Actor Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with Eleanor The Great, about a 94-year-old woman who claims her dead friend's Holocaust story as her own. "It's rare to feel surprised when you read a script," Johansson says. Squibb stars as Eleanor. They spoke with Tonya Mosley about Squibb's Broadway nickname, Johansson's memories of working with the late Robert Redford, and hosting SNL.

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is expanding its supply chain security platform with the launch of Chainguard Libraries for JavaScript, a collection of thousands of

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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it.

I am on drugs. I wish I could tell you that I’m on interesting drugs, the kind that leave you seeing things that aren’t there, and have withdrawal symptoms that include your whole body turning into one big pustule. But alas, I’m a middle-aged American, which means that my drug habit is one I’ve cultivated for functional purposes. A boring drug habit, but one that I need. I need to take my meds, and I need to take them at specific times and in specific doses. Because without them, I am not myself.

Moderators reversed course on its open door AI policy after fans filled the subreddit with AI-generated Dale Cooper slop.

For $8 an hour, B.O., a Kenyan immigrant who asked the Texas Observer to use only her initials for fear of workplace retaliation, once cared for six elderly patients in a Houston group home for as many as 90 hours a week—without any overtime pay. Every day from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m., she fed, […]

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Following his team's loss to the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday, Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider engaged in a bit of cope. "It feels like the sky is falling right now, and it’s fucking not," said an animated Schneider. "We’ve got 90 wins, we’re in the playoffs and if t...

Calm down, Chicken Little. The stock market is not a bubble. Just because it’s a thin sphere of liquid that expands every second of every day doesn’t mean it’s a bubble. It could be anything. You’re worried. You’re saying numbers can’t go up and up forever. I’m saying take a...

The prospect of a government shutdown is growing as Democrats are threatening to not help Republicans on the Hill pass a spending bill by the September 30 deadline. Deirdre Walsh, congressional correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk, talks about the politics of the potential shutdown and related news from Congress.

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Started listening to the latest WP Tavern podcast earlier, with Dave Winer. Great so far. Dave’s fired up! I like it. As he blogged today about not waiting for the silos:

I’m not intimidated any more, I’m fed up and going ahead without them.

We can build a better web. Open, connected, portable.

Bill McKibben, environmental activist, founder of Third Act and author of many books, most recently: Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025), discusses his new book, and reflects on his life's work, both as a climate activist and journalist. 

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The reality is that generative AI (GenAI) was never “introduced” into enterprise business; it crept in when users discovered it

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Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. Let's talk about Bars, son. What is the state of Bars in 2025? Do they still exist? Do they matter? Jay Electronica certainly believes so: He has descended from the mounta...

This came up in a thread on Mastodon about "social network" vs "social media." I also think social web should be used sparingly. Because imho there is such a thing as the social web but we haven't developed very much of it, i think because we were intimidated by the silos. I'm not intimidated any more, I'm fed up and going ahead without them.

A few days ago there was a discussion on the Social Web Incubator Community Group mailing list about fediverse handles. I sent an email to the list that I want to capture on my blog here. There is also a relevant issue in Mastodon’s repo, with comments going back to 2022. Wh...

The Phillies did not send their best lineup out there on Wednesday night. They needed just one win or one Dodgers loss to wrap up a playoff bye, and there were five games left in the season. It was going to happen; they did not really seem to be in a rush. Similarly, the top...

Remember Modell’s? C’mon, it wasn’t that long ago. If you are a Defector reader from the Northeast United States, you absolutely have some sort of weird attachment to this mediocre but very vigorously advertised sporting goods chain that went out of business in 2020. You rem...

The tech the Secret Service claims can be used to "disable cell phone towers" is very commonly used by ticket scalpers to game Ticketmaster.

Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you. Forge ahead on the best information you have, and be prepared to change direction as needed.

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E.Y. Zhao's Underspin is a novel about a table tennis prodigy, Ryan Lo. The book opens with his funeral. From there, it's a beautiful story, told obliquely through the perspectives of people who knew Ryan at different phases of his brief life. He is the charismatic void at i...

At 12:01 a.m. on July 1, Cal Raleigh had 33 home runs, 71 RBIs, a 1.036 OPS, the coolest nickname in baseball (The Big Dumper, in case you needed reminding), and played for a team four games over .500 and farthest from the sport's media center. At that same moment, Aaron Jud...