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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 · 02/10/2026
it's okay with me
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We tell ourselves stories in order to live (derogatory)
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whoa there Herman buy me a drink first
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The robots.txt standard is 10 years older than my intern 💀💀💀
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Some of y’all have never put your hand into the Orb of Unfathomable Kindness and it shows www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUXck6Wk/
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#fyp #wizardtok
TikTok video by clarey 🧸🧚🏻‍♀️
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
whoops sorry, my bad for attempting to use this website
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Toad ran out of his house. There was Frog.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rage Against the Machine is the only band that gets the "all songs" treatment
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Like it or not, AI is changing the way web-accessible public services work techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/a...
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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI has solved the Napier-Stokes problem -- but should the real credit go to the human mathematicians who laid the groundwork? techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I can’t believe Paul Schrader turned out to be a weird crank whose increasingly extreme views are isolating him from society
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From a simpler time m.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJx...
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Joey Ramone - Maria Bartiromo
YouTube video by Rock N Retro
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The US isn't even limiting "prediction market" gambling to people over 21 nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/it-would-b...
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It Would Be Neat If Prediction Markets Were 21+
Prediction markets news roundup: NYT drops story on Trump Jr. lobbying state attorneys general; WSJ reports US servicemember, KPMG employee are targets of investigation.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026
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 · 27/08/2026
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...
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Sprains, pain and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale | TechCrunch
Test 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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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Times Square (1980) is a great Tim Curry movie that most people haven't seen — a celebration of misfits in the mode of Empire Records and Pump Up The Volume (both from the same director) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_S...
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Times Square (1980 film) - Wikipedia
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An incredibly alarming piece about a paid influence campaign trying to convince people that Green Bay is more expensive than New York. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/08/wisc...
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$4K rent? $7 gas? Inside the internet campaign insisting Green Bay is ‘more expensive than NYC’
The videos seem to be part of a growing trend of paying influencers to post on political topics, often without disclosures.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had a dream about a hot new NYC nightclub called Swastika Handjob, reflecting a profound sickness in our culture
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A close look at the bet OpenAI is making with ChatGPT Work, from the great @timfernholz.com techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/o...
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? | TechCrunch
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Could you actually cool a data center with piss? An investigation: techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/o...
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OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? | TechCrunch
Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Grok has started talking nonsense techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/g...
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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users | TechCrunch
Affected users told TechCrunch say they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/08/2026
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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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cat bus… cat bus!!
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A great @dmehro.bsky.social piece from the ongoing Flock story, which Wired has really been owning www.wired.com/story/the-co...
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The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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...
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Her 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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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Putting this on in the club
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sometimes the Diaper Changes You
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
I hate when my frantic attempts to change my fate ironically lead to the same outcome prophesied by the soothsayer
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In my opinion, the world has only gotten even worse since Steamboat Willie entered the public domain
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/08/2026
‘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...
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Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI | TechCrunch
On 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.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Why are people such doomers? This is why techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/m...
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Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI | TechCrunch
On 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.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A really stunning, era-defining piece www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts
Families, lawyers and judges describe a year of frantic emergency cases after ICE began detaining people who have lived in the U.S. for years.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
another unrealistic beauty standard for women
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 04/08/2026
NEW: Elon Musk clearly hates talking about Tesla's stagnant car biz these days so @russellbrandom.bsky.social and I mapped out just how much it's taken a back seat on the company's earnings calls. Musk now spends half or more of his time talking about AI & robotics: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
A bar chart showing how little Elon Musk talks about Tesla's stagnant car business
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Elon is not very interested in talking about Tesla's car business these days techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
<reads Snow Crash once>
A middle-aged caucasian man wears a kimono and traditional sandals in the middle of a Japanese garden, surrounded by six CRT television screens.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Did the Hugging Face breach really usher in a new paradigm of AI-powered cyberattacks, or was it just a sped-up version of the same old dynamic techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/i...
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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A telling passage from Zuck's WSJ op-ed: "Imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today." I'm really not sure this is true!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Once you start noticing it, even among people you like, it becomes a little unnerving. So much political commentary consists of people addressing an audience that expects a certain answer, and then giving that answer.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You had me at "Based on the New Yorker article by Ian Frazier" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMsi...
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Coyote vs. ACME | Final Trailer
YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's more to Kimi K3 than just distillation, and it's not clear the team would have had time to get useful data from Fable techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/e...
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good | TechCrunch
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dril is still posting bangers
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEW: OpenAI said it built a “highly isolated” environment to test a model that then went rogue and autonomously hacked Hugging Face. According to cybersecurity experts, the company made a human mistake—one expert called "a massive control failure"— that led to the unprecedented AI-enabled attack.
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How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Huggin...
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?...
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
At last, technology has advanced to the point where we no longer need to participate in imaginative play with our children techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/m...
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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I think most of the disconnect in how people think about AI comes from whether you think technological discovery (or civilization, if you like) is actually progressing and going somewhere, as opposed to just puttering around.
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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
According to OpenAI, a whole platform was breached by pre-release models trying to cheat during internal testing techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/o...
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models | TechCrunch
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
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