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patrick @redford.bsky.social · Jun 3

What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out:
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What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself? | Defector

LAS VEGAS — “We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we’re literally in the first inning,” one of the Winklevoss twins gloats. “And this game’s going to overtime.” It’s th...

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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maitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social · 1d

excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...

The Hottest Ticket In Vegas? Cathy Engelbert's Press Conference | Defector

LAS VEGAS — An Aces game overloads the senses well before the game itself begins. The national anthem features indoor fireworks. Seats rumble from the bass of the speakers. There’s so much to look at,...

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 1d

simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news
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In the process, Weiss gets to continue two of her lifelong passion projects: trying to get people fired, and mainstreaming previously verboten ideological strands, like how the Nazi salute means something else or how genocidal starvation is actually fine. Even in the most generous reading—where her entire career and indeed life might reflect anything more than the cold calculus of a pure cynic who wants the approval and patronage of the world's richest and vainest reactionaries—Weiss's entire worldview is in the negative. She positions herself as a freewheeling intellectual and iconoclast, taking on the stilted orthodoxies of liberal power, but the irony is that her effectiveness is totally circumscribed by the limits of that orthodoxy. She does not have an original thought in her head, merely a list of supposed excesses and hypocrisies riddling the elite liberal world.

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Defector @defector.com · 4d

Israel breaks international law so that it can continue to starve Gaza: defector.com/israel-break...

Israel Breaks International Law So That It Can Continue To Starve Gaza | Defector

The Israeli navy intercepted 41 vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza and detained over 450 people on Thursday. The first boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail across the Mediterranean…

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 7d

this week's Nothing But Respect, with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social, also functions as an informal state of WNBA Australians. it is out on podcast platforms, there is time to listen four times before the fever-aces game tips off

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 7d

bushwick cp3

patrick @redford.bsky.social · 7d

shirt so good i'm becoming a #BallmerBoy bsky.app/profile/lawm...

Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · 7d

Tyronn Lue said that these shorts are a JVG production 👁️

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9d

RIP

patrick @redford.bsky.social · May 29

Eric Adams just told the Bitcoin Conference, “You are the Betsy Ross of today”

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 12d

hell yeah!!!

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 12d

good @redford.bsky.social on a bad movie

'HIM' Is A Non-Starter | Defector

Roughly halfway through HIM, our protagonist—the promising quarterback Cameron Cade—is instructed by a sinister doctor to spend a few hours recovering in a hyperbaric chamber. The camera shows a press...

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 12d

One Battle After Another, banger, yes, though a scene in beautiful Sacramento, CA—America’s farm to fork capitol—supposedly taking place in 2008 or 2009 shows the current Sacramento Kings arena, which did not open until 2016; concerning.

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 20d

Hollow Knight may be the Dark Souls of Metroidvanias but Silksong is the Dark Souls of Hollow Knights

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maya goldberg-safir @roughnotes.bsky.social · 20d

i wrote about navigating the splendor & contradictions of queer fandom in ballhalla for @coyotemedia.org, check out this piece! proud to be part of their launch this week.

and if you're into political/cultural/queer writing about the wnba, dive into rough notes: wnbaroughnotes.substack.com

Watch Parties, Dildos, and Equal Pay: How Queer Valkyries Fans Claim Space in the WNBA

The vibes around Ballhalla are immaculate — yet the league is still mired in misogyny and inequality. What’s a fan to do?

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 20d

We had Noah Kulwin on NBR this week for what I thought was a great conversation about the Ballmer/Kawhi saga and the ways the NBA media landscape is and is not prepared to cover something like that. Check it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...