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  • 1 week ago | defector.com | Albert Burneko

    The topic, in Defector's internal chat, on Friday, was a ban, in the nation of France, on smoking in most outdoor spaces. How can the French—the French!—ban smoking?

  • 1 week ago | defector.com | Albert Burneko

    The pattern was: The New York Knicks would scramble the length of the floor in desperation—frantic, wide-eyed, bolts rattling loose, spotting passing and dribbling lanes just as they snapped shut—in search of a bucket. When they got one it scanned most credibly as an accident. Then, whether the Knicks got one or not, the Indiana Pacers would breeze unimpeded the other way and Tyrese Haliburton would create a wide-open, high-value shot for himself or somebody else within seven seconds.

  • 3 weeks ago | defector.com | Albert Burneko

    Did you know that there's a white genocide happening in South Africa? Me neither. We can give ourselves a break, I think: This is less a matter of gross ignorance than it is a simple epistemological deal. Namely, we can't really know that there's a white genocide happening in South Africa, because there isn't one. A person certainly could, however, think or believe that there's a white genocide happening in South Africa.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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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Albert Burneko
Albert Burneko @AlbertBurneko
9 Nov 24

RT @DefectorMedia: The media can't figure out why some racist Israeli soccer hooligans were beaten up: https://t.co/5cypsGZLxp

Albert Burneko
Albert Burneko @AlbertBurneko
5 Nov 24

RT @barry: This is what that 47-year-old guy who drinks his son’s blood or whatever looks like to me

Albert Burneko
Albert Burneko @AlbertBurneko
25 Oct 24

RT @abierkhatib: Remember when bombing hospitals was a war crime? The entire AlFarra family’s children killed by Israeli army. Credit t…