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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

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Luis Paez-Pumar

Four-year-old Antonia Salmon with one of her birthday presents,a computer which used to belong to her father.

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The Machines

Restart Your Computer!

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Albert Burneko

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Only Kevin Roose’s Editors Despise Him More Than I Do

Painting of Science Fiction Scene with Robot Woman by Anton Brzezinski

Media Meltdowns

Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate

A mugger approaches two victims, holding out his hat, ostensibly to beg, but carrying a large club in his other hand, circa 1790. The image is captioned: 'Honest friend, I'll borrow a little silver of you. He who hath gold hath fear. He who hath none hath sorrow'.

Beg, Borrow Or Steal

This Is So Stupid

Not Enough People Are Taking The Wallet Inspector Seriously

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Ali Domrongchai

An illustration of a fake social media page depicting uncanny vegetables being sliced by a hand with too many fingers

AI Food

Glossy, Gunky And Ready In Minutes: AI Meal Recipes Are Overrunning The Internet

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Alan Kluegel

The actor Matthew McConaughey looking slightly deranged while sitting at an outdoor restaurant table, in the dark, under a torrential downpour.

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Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI

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Kelsey McKinney

An artistic interpretation of artificial intelligence, showing a stack of books surrounding a laptop with a pixelated face on it

AI Chat Illustration Photos

There’s No Shortcut To Publishing A Book

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Barry Petchesky

Dubliners line the sidewalks waiting for a Halloween parade that will never begin.

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Thousands Turn Out For Nonexistent Halloween Parade Promoted By AI Listing

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Rachelle Hampton

Portrait of professional road racing cyclist David Millar taken on May 16, 2011. (Photo by Joby Sessions/Procycling Magazine via Getty Images)

David Millar Portrait Shoot

Arts And Culture

Writing Is An Act, Not An Aesthetic

Presentation by two secretaries of the typing robot at the exhibition 'Happiness in the office', in Paris, France, on October 13, 1960.

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ESPN Masks Cynical AI Pivot As Benevolent Coverage Of “Underserved” Sports

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Argentina, Patagonia, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de las Manos, cave paintings

Whatever AI Looks Like, It’s Not

Justin McHenry is an archivist and historian from West Virginia, and the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/lemuria-the-true-story-of-a-fake-place/19663689">Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place</a> and the upcoming book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/raising-philadelphia-the-making-of-america-s-first-great-city-1750-1775-justin-mchenry/20390701?ean=9781955041201">Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America&#8217;s First Great City</a>.

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Justin McHenry

MILL CREEK, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 6: Smoke shrouds Mt. Shasta as the Park Fire burns on August 6, 2024 in Mill Creek, California. (Photo by Ethan Swope/Getty Images)

Park Fire Grows In Size Sparking New Evacuation Orders

History

How AI Copyright Law Is Being Guided By Spirits From Atlantis

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Patrick Redford

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‘ESPN Bet’ Is A Black Hole

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Lauren Theisen

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This YouTube Trend Is Getting Increasingly More Annoying

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Olympics

No, Canada!