sean kuhn

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protomartyr "tarpeian rock" voice

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No Partialwww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises No Partial · Rhythm & Sound · Mark Ernestus · Moritz von Oswald Rhythm & Sound ℗ 2001 Basic Channel Released on: 2004-04-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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I wrote this AND I took the pictures!!!

The beauty and boredom of 500 laps around the same .148-mile loop: defector.com/the-beauty-a...

The Beauty And Boredom Of 500 Laps Around The Same .148-Mile Loop | Defectordefector.com Ladd’s Addition is one of the oldest residential developments in Portland, Ore. It is a big square anomaly in the middle of Southeast Portland’s standard grid formation, bordered by historic Hawthorne...

really like what oneil cruz is doing with his red accessories. i welcome a RETVRN to the pirates' disreputable red trim era.

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What's in a frame? defector.com/whats-in-a-f...

What's In A Frame? | Defectordefector.com Every little thing that you’ve never spared a moment’s thought for—let me just take a quick glance around my house for some examples: shoelace manufacturing, microwave button design, cat food nutritio...

i am very fond of This, Our Magic. they don't bother with Theories; there's just Dog.

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Rico Wade and Organized Noise were the architects of Southern rap: defector.com/rico-wade-an...

Rico Wade And Organized Noize Were The Architects Of Southern Rap | Defectordefector.com I don’t particularly find “Top 5” or “GOAT” conversations interesting for any subject, least of all sports and rap. What I will say though is that no rap group means more to me on a spiritual and emot...

any mention of MPJ makes me think of (and laugh about) this picture. i like to imagine him aboard the pequod, posting through the corpusants episode:

There are NBA players with interesting podcasts, and then there's Michael Porter Jr. defector.com/there-are-nb...

There Are NBA Players With Interesting Podcasts, And Then There's Michael Porter Jr. | Defectordefector.com During a December episode of Michael Porter Jr.’s podcast, Curious Mike, the Denver Nuggets wing asked his teammate Nikola Jokic, “Where do you see yourself in how you live in 15 years?” Jokic replied...

the pirates have begun to sell and broadcast digital overlays on the ads behind home plate. they look great! at least if you like watching LHHs and the catcher clip into and out of those ads on every pitch 🤗

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blogger of indeterminate age yells at cloud defector.com/mlbs-radio-s...

MLB's Radio Streams Still Suck | Defectordefector.com There’s an erectile dysfunction doctor in Winnipeg, Manitoba who makes liberal use of a rooster sound effect in his advertisements. Outside that decision, the argument he makes in those ads is totally...

👇 me talking to giants fans about roster crunch victim joey bart's 240 wRC+ with pittsburgh 👇

YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES. YOU DID THIS. NOT THE SO-CALLED PIRATES. THAT'S NOT HOW SUPPLY AND DEMAND WORKS

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like @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social gets at here, PE firms acquire and gut publications because revenue loss usually lags behind cost reductions. more profit may accrue to ownership, but that private profit: (1) is expropriated from the public; and (2) implies reduced output and less aggregate welfare.

feels quaint to make this case in social welfare terms, but journalism is a textbook example of an industry that produces positive externalities (a better-informed, less-deranged public) and will therefore tend, in the absence of subsidy, to be undersupplied by The Market.

"The Locusts Of The Newspaper World": How Fortress Investment Group Decimated Newspapers Before Gutting Vice | Defectordefector.com Vice News laid off hundreds of workers last month. It stopped publishing news on its website, and the company laid off workers from Vice-owned Refinery29, too. Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon’s confusion a...

not that these things should all come down to dollars and cents. just saying: no serious society that would leave how information moves to chance - and by "chance", I mean a handful of mass information tech conglomerates, a couple surveillance agencies, and a few dozen influencers

china mieville voice this poker deckbuilder is roguelike

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Samer's coverage of the razing of Gaza has been more forthright and morally clear-eyed than pretty much anything else you can read about it defector.com/hamas-will-b...

Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be | Defectordefector.com As bombs keep falling on Gaza, it has become exceedingly difficult to keep up with the excuses used to justify the killing of over 11,000 people, some 4,600 of them children. In a deliberate constrict...

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With Opening Day around the corner, FanGraphs creator David Appelman provides an update on the state of the site, the new features we’ve recently launched, and the importance of Membership for FanGraphs’ future.

The State of FanGraphs 2024blogs.fangraphs.com With Opening Day around the corner, an update on where the site stands.

hard to imagine how one might in 2024 more frequently encounter g-unit records' discography than by watching league pass

Getting really rich and paying someone to follow me around with a trumpet and play dramatic Oz-style flares whenever something bad or embarrassing happens to me.

new kali malone album 👀 bask in tones tonite queen ?? compositions for organ and brass 👀

dallas mavericks deadline omen: at 5:30 this morning, i awoke with a bloody nose from a dream in which i was talking to mark cuban

my man played for the wrong sonics !

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I talked to James P. Wisdom — the author of that Moby review and hundreds more reviews now deleted from the site — and wrote about my love of early Pitchfork, and also late Pitchfork too. Also, yeah, Wisdom talks about *that* Save Ferris review. defector.com/a-notorious-...

A Notorious Pitchfork Reviewer Was My Biggest Musical Influence | Defectordefector.com I do not know much about music. I had no music education. An ex-girlfriend told me my karaoke version of “Wonderwall” was the worst thing she’d ever heard. I cannot find the beat; my wife laughs...

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i drove in a snowstorm to watch the pistons play the wizards, stacking hazard on hazard: defector.com/the-wizards-...

The Wizards Leave You Nothing To Root For But The Other Guys | Defectordefector.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — The giveaway at the gate for Monday afternoon’s Pistons-Wizards game, featuring the two worst and least exciting teams in the NBA’s Eastern Conference, was a bobblehead figuri...

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I wrote about the exhausting rich-person slap-fighting over Harvard stuff (as quickly as I could) and how stories become stories. defector.com/hiding-and-s...

Hiding And Seeking With The New York Times | Defectordefector.com A story changes simply by dint of The New York Times covering it, and how the Times covers it will go a decently long way in deciding what kind of story it will become. That is something that the peop...

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"Teams of two walking the concourses, eyes on both sidelines, a fire team waiting down the block in case things went sideways—he'd been given everything he needed to catch Stalions." defector.com/stalionss-pe...

Stalions's People | Defectordefector.com He leaned forward in his chair and put his elbows on his knees. His eyes fixed on two pieces of confetti that sat between his feet, their color pristine and bright against the gray carpet. Maize and b...