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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

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Merch v3

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Albert Burneko

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The Machines

Soon ChatGPT Will Be Able To Botch Math Problems And Encourage Self-Harm… In A Sexy Way

Patrick Dubuque is a writer and editor at Baseball Prospectus.

Patrick Dubuque

Hot Dog Guys or Loonie Dog Kings Jody Matheson (r) and Ryan Ruston ( l) get welcomed back to the park and looking forward to loonie dogs. This was taken on the day of the Toronto Blue Jays' 2025 home opener.

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Catch The Game Like Never Before

Donald Trump talks with Bryson DeChambeau of Team United States at the first hole tee box during the Friday afternoon four-ball matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 26, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York.

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This Is So Stupid

Donald Trump Posts Fake Video Of Himself Promoting Fake Medical Technology In Fake News Segment

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Patrick Redford

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks as he presents the new Meta Ray-Ban Display at the 2025 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, on September 17, 2025. (Photo by Benjamin LEGENDRE / AFP)

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Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don’t Work

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Samer Kalaf

AI Aaron Rodgers in an incorrect Steelers hat, looking like shit

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Fox Sports Uses AI To Achieve The Impossible: Make Aaron Rodgers Look Deader Inside

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Kelsey McKinney

Engraving shows interior of Leiden University library, Netherlands 1610 by Jan Cornelisz Woudanus, approximately 1570-1615.

Interior of Leiden University library.

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

Sphere lights up with an advertisement for "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere" ahead of the show's premiere

“The Wizard Of Oz At Sphere” Premiere

Arts And Culture

No Courage, No Heart, No Brain

A man faces the realistic artist" robot "Ai-Da" using artificial intelligence at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on May 30, 2024.

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Butlerian Jihad Now

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Barry Petchesky

Kwakho Madikwain, associate of former gang member Nicholas Mnguni, fills out a spreadsheet of purchase orders in Khayelitsha on March 13, 2025. Former gang member Nicholas Mnguni, known as Zwe in his township, left the 20 Men gang in 2017 to start his own business, producing and selling perfumes, cleaning products, and insect repellent. His business, ML Scents, has enabled him to employ 4 seasonal workers, with the hope of keeping them off the streets, and away from gang recruitment. As a former gangster, Nicholas is exempt from paying the protection fee demanded by local gangs. “Luckily, they know me, so they leave me alone, plus, I don’t want to be aggressive anymore,” he says. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)

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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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Elon Musk’s Idiot Chatbot Turns Into An Explicit Nazi

AI-Powered Robot interacts with People during the Italian Tech Week 2024 at OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni on September 26, 2024 in Turin, Italy.

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Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

Kris Humphries Celebrates His Bachelor Party at LAVO

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Bachelor Parties Are Strictly Optional

The author can be reached at postpostdoc@protonmail.com.

Post-Postdoc

This photo taken on January 4, 2022 shows a vehicle with Luminar LiDAR based Proactive Safety pre-collision braking crash avoidance technology (R) stopping to avoid a child-sized test dummy as it is demonstrated on a test track, while a Tesla Model Y collides with the test dummy (L) at the Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. - As it pursues the goal of fully autonomous driving, Tesla has bet entirely on cameras and artificial intelligence, shunning other commonly used tools such as laser detection.

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When An AI Agent Tries To Kill You, Who Goes To Jail?

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David Roth

Oklahoma City Thunder General Manager Sam Presti, at center in glasses and a vest, was in attendance for the retirement of Kendrick Williams during a college basketball game between Texas Longhorns and the TCU Horned Frogs on February 3, 2024.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: FEB 03 Texas at TCU

What Is Sam Presti’s Name? The Answer(s) May Surprise You.

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The AI Floodwaters Are Rising Fast

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Media Meltdowns

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

AI Gig Work

How I Became Highly Educated Grist For The AI Mill

The Golden Gate Bridge and Downtown San Francisco are seen from the Marin Headlands during a brief rain break near Sausalito, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.

Northern California Weather

Tech CEO: Do Not Say To Me That I Was Not Just Assassinated By The Jackal

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

Not Enough People Are Taking The Wallet Inspector Seriously

An Adventure Story? Miss Betty Davis tries out her sales talk on the robot invented by Eark Kent, (left), of Carthage, Missouri, in the May Company Store in Los Angeles. The 21-year-old inventor claims that "John" walks, smokes cigarettes, spits fire, and gets generally "het up" when he doesn't receive attention.

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Book Excerpts That Don't Suck

Gossiping With A Robot Is A Real Pain In The Ass

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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

An Ai Me robot from Chinese company TCL is displayed during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

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The Future Is Too Easy

An Enchanted Tools robot called the Mirokai is displayed during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

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The Future Feels Like The Raiders, With Ed Zitron

LAS VEGAS, USA - JANUARY 06: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, showcasing the company's latest innovations in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on January 6, 2025. At the event, Huang unveiled advanced AI for training robots and cars, enhanced gaming chips, and Nvidia's first desktop computer, while also detailing how the company was expanding its data center AI technology to consumer PCs and laptops.

Nvidia Unveils Robot Training Tech, New Gaming Chips, and Toyota Deal

AI Learned It By Watching You

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