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)?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schie%C3%9Fbefehl

#law #philosophy

Schießbefehl - Wikipedia

Waiting On D'Angelo | Defector

“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 entire Puja Patel-guest-editing week at #Defector has been great. This piece by Amy Phillips? Very, very much so. #music Gift link: https://defector.com/living-through-this-again?giftLink=f55c8c487da76c6eff7d249c001628c3
Living Through This, Again | Defector

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

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

Set Side B

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?

https://defector.com/jim-spanfeller-somehow-worse-at-writing-than-running-a-media-company?giftLink=8d76e139360bae5a6a2d10c434f29c59

#Herb #Journalism #defector #journamalism

Jim Spanfeller Somehow Worse At Writing Than Running A Media Company | Defector

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 […]

Federal politics live: Larissa Waters brushes off reports of a heated exchange with Dorinda Cox

Greens leader Larissa Waters says she "can't remember" if Dorinda Cox told her to "grow a spine" during a heated exchange after the senator's failed leadership bid. Follow live.

ABC News

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/

Would you like to try to simulate what life on #Mars would be like?

Step one is to clear out your freezer. Step two is to lock yourself inside of it.
...your loved ones on the outside may deliver some food to you no sooner than nine months after you ask for it.

#Defector #LifeOnMars
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…

#DavidRoth at #Defector
"It will be important to remember the shame of this moment, both how it felt and how it worked, when it is time to build whatever will rise from it—to remember the blithe and brutal and self-delighted contempt with which this elite set out to devour every other better thing, and to work to build a life and a world that is not just strong enough to resist it but dedicated to its opposite."
#DonaldTrump #Evil
https://defector.com/kingdom-of-the-biters
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector

The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’d had throughout my twenties in exhausting freelanced aggregate. The boss that bit me […]

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…