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In recent weeks (probably months, if we’re being honest), I have felt stuck in a rut when it came to groceries. I had no ideas, and frankly no motivation, to get anything other than the basic essentials like milk, bread, and maybe eggs if I wanted to bake something. My groceries were uninspired, and I was […]

Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.

Zuckerberg's anti-social future; a company offering human writing that is actually just AI; and the big switch from Flock to Axon.

“U.S. Army troops faced off against Ukrainian drone operators at a military exercise in Germany earlier this year. It didn’t go well for the Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “During the exercise, called Combined Resolve, Ukrainian drone units easily spotted and defeated U.S. troops and armored vehicles on rotation from Fort Hood in Texas.”

“It’s no secret when I ran for the legislature in 2000, I was a Republican. And I had no idea. All I cared about was getting into the legislature because that seemed to be the place that I could fix some of the problems that were happening in my area. I would’ve ran as anything, […]

“Minnesotans on Tuesday selected all female Republican and Democratic nominees for governor and U.S. Senate, the first time that a state’s ballot for those offices features only women from the major parties,” the Washington Post reports.

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector's Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. 

Today, Ray tackles a question about the merits of having an only child.

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Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted:

I’m starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a similar distance away from, like, the Beatles records when I was a kid.

This is Death Cab’s second Tiny Desk…here’s the first one from 2015:

I took this as an opportunity to listen to my favorite Death Cab song, Transatlanticism. And when are we getting a Postal Sevice Tiny Desk? Come on, we’ve been good! We need this!

Tags: Death Cab For Cutie · music · Tiny Desk Concerts · video

They need to stop using the same playbook every single time. ICE agents make an aggressive move, then immediately push a version of events that paints the person they confronted as the threat.

Chet Mazur on the cover of the Alice Donut record Mule from 1990  Chet Mazur, a longtime presence in the local music scene, died this past weekend after being struck by a U.S. Postal Service truck in Hell's Kitchen. He was 66.  According to published reports...

Anthony Strong takes an unusual approach to crowdfunding the Cole Valley outpost of his popular restaurant and marketplace.

This week on Nothing But Respect, we welcomed back Maya Goldberg-Safir, one of my favorite WNBA writers and thinkers. Maya runs Rough Notes and has written a handful of amazing Defector stories, and I consider her to be the best person covering the history of women's basketball.

On this episode, we talked about Maya's time at WNBA All-Star weekend in Chicago (which she wrote about for Bustle), the Sophie Cunningham situation, and the critical importance of understanding the past few decades of women's basketball history as a way into the controversies of today. We also did some trademark NBR meta-discourse and planned the Golden State Valkyries' championship parade.

Also! Next week, we are doing a special Broke Jumper Tip Line episode, so please send in any stories you have about anyone notable interacting with basketball in any way! (347) 380-6426!

Originally designed to make software predictable for humans, Google Go is now positioning itself as a language tailored for machine

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