giri nathan

got it!

yes… and fats! yummy yummy fats

we are way too far into the mainstreaming of vegan food for restaurants to still be salting food to ocean brine levels. you have other tools!

I was very very close to namedropping her here, definitely the last time I had this feeling

does this resonate with anyone else’s Victoria Mboko Experience

I Traveled 800 Miles To Eat Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza At Criss Angel’s Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza | Defector When I was a very depressed British teenager, I had an unhealthy fascination with America. I found a way to love its contradictions, to explain away the obvious sins not by excusing them directly but ...

by the end of this weekend my phone had learned "cablp" without autocorrecting it. please enjoy my trip report: defector.com/criss-angel-...

yeah, it was strange for the piece to not hit a traditional "new yorker eurostep" and give the historical context, acting instead as if this is the first moment people have given this subject serious thought

yes, have to go broader

completely agree, it was too narrowly circumscribed on the company and their circle. i would've preferred a version that abandoned the "i visited a place" mag structure and just surveyed the landscape of thinkers on the topic (and i think he would do a good job at that)

this is pretty much where i stand

i didn't find it all that handwavey tbh, and in general i enjoyed it more than writing that treats "learning" and "thinking" and "minds" as if they were crystal-clear concepts we fully understand in ourselves

i agree the "private" "scratchpad" thing was bizarre to drop in passing, without serious examination. but i think the piece as a whole was about as philosophically serious as you could expect a general interest magazine to get

that's true, and probably, in the long run, using platforms like this all day will make us crave the one over the other

the context....may surprise you

this week the world learned about his french-inflected pronunciation of "saliva"

that's fair, i just read the gideon lewis-kraus article and found it to be curious about the fart-sniffers' work without being credulous, he leaves open the possibility that it *is* meaningful without stuffing it down the reader's throat

i dont see why we have to conflate "these ai companies suck" with "their technologies are uninteresting" and "philosophy of mind is stupid"

frank ramsey didn't die for this

recently was playing various punk subgenres for my 7yo nephew but he kept saying it needed to go harder because he has already "listened to some darnly intense music" and the band he finally decided was hard enough was converge

Bad Bunny Celebrated America | Defector The Super Bowl halftime show is a giant, overstuffed program that is about celebrating its own overstuffedness. It’s a maximalist entertainment spectacle set in the middle of the most maximalist enter...

I wrote some thoughts on the Benito show!

defector.com/bad-bunny-ce...

A Future For France - The Second Serve With no clear current challenger to Sinner-Alcaraz dominance, Giri Nathan looks to French phenom Moise Kouame.

Read @girinathan.bsky.social on French phenom Moise Kouame.

www.thesecondserve.com/moise-kouame...

He's still making those plays. It's just, the level being so much higher, he's finding ways to fit in. You talk about it as a coach: As a player, your job is to make it so that I have to play you, right? There's zero coaches in America that are gonna not play you if you're really making yourself completely indispensable, and that's what he's always done. You have to play him. Willie Green found out the same thing. You've just got to put him in, because good things happen.

Lovely interview by @girinathan.bsky.social in @defector.com with Jose Alvarado's hgh school and AAU coach: defector.com/jose-alvarad...

it‘s close. he was 1 and she was 2 in worldwide streams last year

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on top of all that, one of the last pop musicians doing anything worthwhile with the album format which my boomer listening habits appreciate

I have always found this construction incredibly corny but yes, we, as a human race, ”do not deserve” Benito. tasteless piggies hurtling toward a world of pure slop, how is the ~biggest pop star alive still a talented, idiosyncratic, humane, stylish person

yeah, it’s a bummer. i was hoping there’d be a more elegant option but maybe there isn’t

what's the best way to turn text on a webpage (might contain photos or design elements) into a nicely formatted pdf

"Print => Save as pdf" way too crude a tool

Now That Jose Alvarado's On The Knicks, Let's Remember Him As A Queens High School Star | Defector Excuse me while I go Dave McKenna mode: I watched Jose Alvarado as a high school star in Queens nearly a decade ago. His team at Christ the King Regional High School took on Bishop Loughlin, another l...

briefly entered Dave McKenna mode

defector.com/jose-alvarad...

an ideal format for keeping up with such a vast sport, especially something like february 250 action

this is a lovely newsletter for all the tennis sickos out there