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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 3d

One Battle After Another would have been better if it had ended with Ghetto Pat turning to the camera and saying "I am a liberal now" and then specifying he's the exact same kind of liberal I am

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 3d

*Tres* leches?? En esta economia?!

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 6d

Once again, I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 7d

After OpenAI’s dev day, all the pieces are in place for AI-driven commerce techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/o...

OpenAI and the race for AI-driven commerce | TechCrunch

OpenAI now has all the pieces in place for AI-driven commerce, establishing ChatGPT as a place customers go to buy and retailers go to sell.

techcrunch.com

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 10d

They’re selling Labubus at the Grover Cleveland Memorial Truck Stop

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 12d

Ultimately, Hard Boiled is a film about the corrupting power of jazz music

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 14d

"In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police."

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Judge William Young finds that Noem, Rubio, DHS, and State "deliberately" sought to restrict non-citizens' First Amendment rights.

"'No law' means 'no law.' The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction ...."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

President Irump here makes clear that, in his view, the First Amendment's
protection of freedom of speech applies to American citizens
alone, and to an unconstitutionally narrow view of citizenship at that.
This case -- perhaps the most important ever to fall within
the jurisdiction of this district court -- squarely presents the
issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United
States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally "yes, they do." "No law" means "no law." The First Amendment does not draw President Trump's invidious
distinction and it is not to be found in our history ....

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 15d

This is an interesting look at the public grocery store idea, but the problems it brings up — food deserts, regions dominated by a single provider — do not really exist in New York prospect.org/economy/2025...

Supermarket Shaping

Critics say Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery store proposal will never work. But Mamdani’s idea isn’t the problem—market consolidation is.

prospect.org

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The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 18d

Everybody and their mother is talking about AI, but how much of what people are saying is true? @russellbrandom.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to cut through the misinformation to explain why so many people are getting AI so wrong.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

youtu.be/xIp6TgYM9zw

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 19d

Get the gang together — I’m planning a heist

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 21d

It’s hard to look at this and think AI will make human coding obsolete any time soon — but then, almost all of the human work he's doing is mediated by an AI model.

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 21d

This is Salva’s description of his development workflow — very AI heavy, but also integrated with human oversight at multiple levels

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 21d

Today in @techcrunch, I talked with Google’s PM for developer tools Ryan Salva — and learned a ton about how AI-assisted coding works in practice techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/h...

How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding work | TechCrunch

Google PM Ryan Salva is responsible for tools like Gemini CLI, giving him a front-row seat to the ways AI tools are changing software development.

techcrunch.com

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 22d

smh... do better, Gwar nypost.com/2025/09/21/u...

Heavy metal band stage phony beheading of Elon Musk, murder Trump in shocking festival performance

“That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalizes violence against a real person,” one X user wrote.

nypost.com

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 25d

Just make the popes kiss, that’s your answer to everything

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 26d

But now we have a schism between the virtual pope and the “real” pope

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 26d

When Mitski said, “I will go jogging routinely,” I felt that

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 27d

"It is important to keep in mind that fear is a weapon." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This Is It

Obedience and Support are the Same

www.unpopularfront.news

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 27d

they have to keep them on the ropes so they *don't* do Weapons

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28d

It seems like the California DFPI is using an AI-generated image as part of its crypto scam warning. Note the illegible writing on the ATM and surrounding packages.

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28d

it just seems like an odd moment to prioritize left vs. liberal infighting

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Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28d

I'm just trying to imagine an actual anti-fascist movement that succeeded by driving the wedge with liberals. What's the theory of change here? What becomes possible once you drive all the liberals out?

Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social · 28d

If your goal is to mobilize voters for the left, why does that path run through the NYT editorial page?