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Jacob Russell

@jacobrussell.space
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Michigander believer and dad building the internet by day and dreaming of escaping to a cabin in the woods. Love is everything.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 6h
"Pivot to video" is synonymous with a desperate, trend-chasing strategy that sacrifices substantive content and leads to layoffs of talented staff to produce superficial videos to chase social media algorithms. Now it's NPR's turn. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/npr-...
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NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future
NPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra on how the public media company acquired Machine Gods — which she thinks can be “the Car Talk of AI.”
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was deservedly embarrassing for the Senator and his staff.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026
Yeah man nuclear war would be worse, but I can still care about the ability to, say, drive and heat my home while also not wanting to die in a nuclear winter.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026
Question - Did Trump, strategic mastermind, manage to completely bottom out right before the mid-term, or is the mid-term just happening somewhere on the slope to the bottom? Given tribalism it's hard to think that the floor could be far below where things stand.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026
It strikes me that there's a very reasonable chance that Trump's ballroom monstrosity isn't finished before he leaves office. How the next person handles that will be very telling about how they'll clean up all the mess Trump leaves behind.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026
"British Airways abandoned us in Iceland" is the plot of a direct-to-streaming Home Alone 7. What a nightmare.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 21/09/2026
My goodness, is that the slightest hint of backbone from the White House press pool?
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 21/09/2026
We're not far from diesel prices -doubling- since January, which is honestly pretty insane.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Dear Silicon Valley cultists: no, I’m not getting paid by a shadowy they/them cabal to be mean to you. I’m being mean to you because your sicko culture has helped destroy mainstream international aid funding (which is killing people), usher in Trump 2.0, and pervert technology and innovation.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 18/09/2026
Am I missing something? The tone around these 'AI LSD sex parties' is 'might be problematic toward women and employees'. Y'all I don't see how this is any different or more acceptable than Clinton & Lewinsky or the like. The employer/employee power imbalance means that consent is under pressure.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026
genuinely one of the hardest things in the world because it is, actually, good if former trump supporters become disillusioned and move away from him and also I want to hook up the world's largest megaphone to yell WE TOLD YOU SO over and over
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026
Hunter Biden being both reasonably intelligent and well-spoken and an unreformed degenerate while in the public eye constantly is really obnoxious.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026
Guys do not be sucked in by the 'Erick son of Erick said something reasonable' gambit. You don't have to hand it to him, because as soon as you do he'll say something awful and make you regret it.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026
The ability to use the internet as a source of knowledge in everyday life is fading quickly, and I think if anything we're underselling how bad that is. For 20 years I've been able to search for something like "best hvac duct size" and get useful answers. Now it's all AI slop articles.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 15/09/2026
Yeah man, it's totally fine. Just burn it all down.
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Astronomy Cast @astronomycast.com · 15/09/2026
After 20 years, it's time to make some changes. With your patronage we can ditch the ads & turn up the science. patreon.astronomycast.com
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 14/09/2026
John's shared this viewpoint a few times, and I appreciate the viewpoint but I think it misses a broader point - why not both? As a dad, I help my kids explore and find their interests and of course that includes things I love like sci-fi and fantasy. They make their path, but I help them find it.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft & other stadium owners being awful doesn't surprise anyone. Ed Sheeran manages to come out of this looking worse though.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 14/09/2026
Of course he does. What are the odds of Trump ever not having the worst take on every issue?
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/09/2026
AI isn’t capable of destroying humanity itself, but the rush to concrete over countless ecosystems and squeeze every last drop of fresh water out of them will absolutely speed up the existing existential climate and biodiversity crises that WILL. Not to mention the wars that will start. 👇🏼
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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 11/09/2026
Lera, 18-month-old daughter of Alexandra Strilets (in photo), has died today in Crimea. Alexandra gave birth while being investigated on treason charges. She is now serving 12 years in prison, although Russian law allows postponing the sentence for a mother to take care of her children (1/3)
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 10/09/2026
The GM we need.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 10/09/2026
Listen. It's not that your Kirk joke isn't funny, or that he deserves respect. It's just that I'd rather let him fade into the past and forget he existed.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 09/09/2026
Someday we'll find out what the bribes were for.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 03/09/2026
To be honest I don't really understand how you could read this lede and not wonder, "are we the baddies?"
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 02/09/2026
It's far from the most important concern, but the condition of the Lincoln is embarrassing. What an image.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Okay lol how can you do the whole "AI superpowers my work and every luddite who doesn't use it will be left behind" schtick AND say you're broke because you see no financial return on your excessive AI spending?
Taylor Lorenz saying she spends 200 bucks on AI tools each month and is barely making any money from her AI youtube videos. Screenshot of a 64-200 dollar YouTube payments.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/08/2026
TBH this is both the right thing to do and a genius marketing move.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Many years ago, I wrote down this bit of a speech Obama gave to an audience in Silicon Valley. Because it absolutely NAILED the difference between government and business.
The final thing I’ll say is that government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with.

So sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences then I think those suggestions are terrific.

That's not, by the way, to say that there aren't huge efficiencies and improvements that have to be made.

But the reason I say this is sometimes we get, I think, in the scientific community, the tech community, the entrepreneurial community, the sense of we just have to blow up the system, or create this parallel society and culture because government is inherently wrecked.

No, it's not inherently wrecked; it's just government has to care for, for example, veterans who come home. That's not on your balance sheet, that's on our collective balance sheet, because we have a sacred duty to take care of those veterans. And that's hard and it's messy, and we're building up legacy systems that we can't just blow up.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 27/08/2026
Well I'm not using any of their apps anymore.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is so stuck in the '80s that he keeps trying the movie cliche of "we'll solve our problems by putting on a cool show!" Military parade, the "Great State Fair," a UFC fight at the White House, the Formula 1 race, etc. Except he's not the scrappy teen hero. He's the evil real estate developer.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They only want compromise when someone else is winning
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14/08/2026
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 14/08/2026
Trump was on about steam catapults on aircraft carriers way back in his first term. I'd imagine he somehow got a bug in his ear about complications when the new launch systems first rolled out. So nice that he's circled back on it after embarrassing our military in Iran.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 13/08/2026
Mamdani really putting the lie to the idea that you can't be a politician and a decent person.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026
this is a pretty good microcosm of how things in big tech have changed over the past few years is this really important? no, but "what's in the microkitchens" is an easy way to make people feel special, which is something that used to be very important in big tech now it's "sit down and shut up"
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 10/08/2026
TBH I don't love living in a post-truth world.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 10/08/2026
My one weird trick for making things better here remains 'what if we simply didn't post screenshots from the hellsite?' The constant posting of screenshots from Twitter brings real little brother energy.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 08/08/2026
Blue No Matter Who only goes one way huh
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tom let's get to the meat of it: What's more of a threat to you? Abdul in the Senate or Republicans winning the Senate back in 2026 and allowing two more years of unabated fascist Trumpist rule? Like let's just talk about it straight up here. I think the second thing is worse.
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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 07/08/2026
Bringing real loser energy here Mike. Also, how did El-Sayed win the primary if a majority of Democratic voters oppose him?
A text from Mike Rogers containing the text "If you are among the majority of Democratic voters who woke up Wednesday feeling hopeless because the person who won does not represent your values, I am here to say that all hope is not lost."
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social 🫶 Ms. Rachel, a YouTuber who, if you know a toddler, is THE BIGGEST STAR, has been about this justice life and going harder than all of us. and according to her, it's her biblical mandate. linktr.ee/hood_politics
New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social 🫶

Ms. Rachel, a YouTuber who, if you know a toddler, is THE BIGGEST STAR, has been about this justice life and going harder than all of us. and according to her, it's her biblical mandate.

https://linktr.ee/hood_politics
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