Albert Burneko
Editor and Co-Owner at Defector
Editor/co-owner @DefectorMedia. Email me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
defector.com | Albert Burneko
The higher-seeded and hosting Boston Celtics lost Game 1 of their East semifinal series against the New York Knicks on Monday night, 108–105. The Celtics led by 16 at halftime, and by 20 midway through the third quarter, and then spent the rest of the night barfing into their laps. Here is the funniest number from the night: 45. That is how many three-point attempts the Celtics missed in Game 1. No NBA team has ever missed that many threes in a single playoff game before.
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2 weeks ago |
defector.com | Albert Burneko
Grave editorial failure only seldom can be located in something as precise as a single word choice. The following block-quoted sentence, from a Thursday article by New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose, contains one, and it feels like journalistic malpractice that his editor or editors let him type it.
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3 weeks ago |
defector.com | Albert Burneko
Have you ever been lonely? I mean really lonely. Think of the loneliest you ever were. Transpose that experience of loneliness to the bottom of a mineshaft. Oof, right? Anyway, bear that in mind. Former Business Insider CEO and co-founder Henry Blodget, these days the sole proprietor and staffer of the blog/media company Regenerator, published a curious blog on his website on Monday.
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1 month ago |
defector.com | Albert Burneko
Some things, no one can tell you. No one can tell you that you are in love; you simply know it. No one can tell you your calling in life; you have to find it. No one can tell you that you were not chased through San Francisco by a pistol-shooting madman on Saturday night. It's just one of those things a man knows for himself. Deep Prasad, CEO of a Texas-based artificial intelligence company named GenMat, had this experience over the weekend.
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2 months ago |
defector.com | Albert Burneko
In 2017 a lady selling puppies texted me a photo, of a wrinkly, tiny, brand-new little sad-eyed Boxer puppy sitting on a beat-up dog bed, looking right into the camera. What I thought, sitting alone on my porch, and probably muttered out loud, was, "Aw, look at that little porkchop." And that became his name: Chop.
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