Posts by Russ
Stunning
Love this shot!
Small world! I worked with her a few years back.
Make sure your codec is set to 140.85.
Hell yeah. 👍
Trying out a new animated wallpaper app for Mac called Backdrop. It's the only one I've seen that unifies an animated wallpaper between your desktop and lock screen.
(cindori.com/backdrop)
This! Something sacred was taken from us.
Remember when the media said it was terrible for Biden to pardon his son because it set a bad precedent? you guys we should have listened look where we are now
Lost faith in Apple’s new AutoMix feature when it made the transition from “m.A.A.d City” to “Take me Home, Country Road”.
This thread is how I found out about the Amex card increases 🤦
Fascinating. Chatbots aren't writing to please humans anymore. They're writing to please the chatbots that evaluate them.
Got banned on Threads for complaining about authoritarianism I guess?
Good takeaway from this Ezra Klein interview: "We've memefied fascism."
(re: naming places "Alligator Alcatraz," "Speedway Slammer," etc.)
"When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come."
Timothy Snyder • On #Tyranny
Peace be with you
We’re on GPT-5 and I just want to go back to N64.
Honestly bestseller material
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
This is a banger
Can we make "No Taxation Without Representation" a thing again?
Now that's a headline
If the NYT wants to survive, it’ll stop burying ledes by making them mere kickers.
Pay attention, NYT:
“‘Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,’ said white nationalist Darren Beattie on social media last year.
Donald Trump just named him head of the Institute of Peace.”
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
Our system was built on one simple demand: no taxation without representation. One man doesn’t get to decide who gets funding and who doesn’t.
not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson
I like the term AI Cultists. I will be borrowing that.
The amount of times I think to myself, “that’s funny,” without actually laughing is preposterous.
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"