https://kpopnewshub.com/kim-min-ha-is-a-north-korean-defector-who-is-settling-in-just-fine-in-south-korea-in-posters-for-new-film-hana-korea/?fsp_sid=32982
Today is International Workers Day. In honor, here are some #SurfFeeds made by worker-owned publishers. To start, here's Defector Sports, with a really important piece of reporting from Diana Moskovitz, and a fantastic read from E.Y. Zhao on table tennis.
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#IndependentMedia #WorkerOwned #Defector #SurfSocial #SurfFeeds
When your favorite media outlet publishes something that pertains to your field, the result is a must-read.
#linguistics #lexicography #slang #Canada #defector #GongShow
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he said, but things get crowded during music nights on Wednesday and Sunday. “It’s a bit of a gong show down…
The rabbit holes are multiplying!
Imagine this: You are a 20 year old #soldier & are born into a regime. This regime has itself cut off from the rest of the world (thinks North Korea) & was established prior to your birth.
You are 30 now, the #regime has fallen & you live in a democracy.
Can you be judged for the crime of murder if you shot a #defector as instructed & you had no concept that this is unlawful (as it wasn't in your insular world)?
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” This is from Psalms 23:4, a classic prayer about God’s blessed navigating a world full of sin and evil at every turn. Growing up in…
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. It took 43 years to get here, to this spring day in 2025, standing in my nearly empty former bedroom in my mother’s house in Philadelphia, wearing a Mitski T-shirt, ratty yoga […]
A Guide to New Indie Web Media (Partial)
It's a scary yet hopeful time for web media. As it must periodically, the hard fist of capitalism has let a number of very talented individuals slip out of its grip, and they've started their own little ramshackle internet presences to try to slice themselves out a sliver of the money pie.
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https://setsideb.com/a-guide-to-new-web-media-partial/
#indies #404Media #aftermath #defector #DumbIndustries #indie #NewMedia #secondwind #secretbase #web
Jim Spanfeller destroyed multiple media brands and has now written a self-ecomonium about how hard it's been ... on him.
Won't someone *please* think of the oligarchs?
With last week’s sale of Kotaku, the project that was G/O Media is effectively dead. Its media portfolio is now something of a media one-pager: The only website it still owns is The Root, another publication that deserved better. The Nosferatus in Oxford blue shirts at Great Hill Partners, which owns G/O Media, have polished […]