Russell Brandom

Russell Brandom

@russellbrandom.bsky.social

I want to speak very plainly to you, so that we are both comforted by the honesty. russell.brandom@gmail.com

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Russell Brandom
@russellbrandom.bsky.social

A lot of posting is driven by a sense of political urgency that's completely divorced from any meaningful system for obtaining and using political power, maybe not even remembering that such a system could exist.

Russell Brandom
@russellbrandom.bsky.social

[Don Draper voice] What do your customers really want? Not wine. They want to get close to boys. And now there's a wine lets them do that. [pulls away cover to reveal the new vineyard name]

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Ken Schwencke
@schwanksta.com

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

I mean we really need to accept that doomer content really takes hold of people’s psyches, and spreads very widely, almost irrespective of people’s underlying politics or views. It has become a tidal force in politics.

Depths Explorer 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦@boxedout.bsky.social

I have a friend who is absolutely addicted to this stuff. He lives an almost unbelievably privileged life, in Los Angeles. He constantly complains about how bad everything is. I get so frustrated with him. I’m constantly pointing out the absurdity of it, but he’s literally addicted.

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lauren
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track

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Sean O’Kane
@okane.fyi

New investigation from me: Waymo and Zoox test drivers were injured dozens of times across 2024/2025 as a result of harsh braking -- often for no apparent reason -- or erratic movement by the autonomous vehicles. More on @techcrunch.com but a short thread below. techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/s...

techcrunch.comSprains, pain and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale | TechCrunchTest drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of...

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Amanda Silberling
@amanda.omg.lol

in light of the liquid death "pee on data centers" satire.... does anyone know a urologist/scientist/data center engineer/something of that nature who would be willing to entertain the question of what would actually happen if people tried to cool data centers with urine......................

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nitasha tiku
@nitasha.bsky.social

I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comHer childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

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Jesse Felder
@jessefelder.com

‘The public does not trust tech execs to make sure new technologies like this have a positive impact on society. Instead of acknowledging that and trying to win back their trust, this essay demonstrates over and over again how the trust was lost in the first place.’ techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/m...

techcrunch.comMark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI | TechCrunchOn Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.