Jared Russo
@jaredrusso.bsky.social
Co-founder, CCO, and Mayor of Video Game Town. Check us out at https://videogame.town/donate/
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Jared’s Salty Spittoon: A Plea To The Good People Of Canada
Please send me maple syrup, Pepsi. I’m dying.
videogame.town
I reviewed the return of Mountain Dew Baja Cabo Citrus, but more importantly, please send me Maple Syrup Pepsi if you can: videogame.town/2026/02/05/m...
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it's hard not to think about how 5 or 10 years from now, the shooters (and games writ large) we'll be reverently talking about will still be the same ones we talk about now (DOOM 2016, Titanfall 2, etc) because there is no money going around to make new ones of those happen. we are in purgatory.
February 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
it's hard not to think about how 5 or 10 years from now, the shooters (and games writ large) we'll be reverently talking about will still be the same ones we talk about now (DOOM 2016, Titanfall 2, etc) because there is no money going around to make new ones of those happen. we are in purgatory.
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This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
www.niemanlab.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Am I the only person who thinks the latest SpongeBob game might be the best one yet? videogame.town/2026/02/11/s...
Is ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide’ The Best Game In The Franchise?
The modern stretch of “SpongeBob” platformers have been on a tear.
videogame.town
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Am I the only person who thinks the latest SpongeBob game might be the best one yet? videogame.town/2026/02/11/s...
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Those who aren't attorneys and haven't worked in public service will have a general sense of how historically unprecedented and unprofessional this behavior is but those who *are* attorneys and *have* worked in public service and taken an Oath to the Constitution are watching this with abject horror
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Those who aren't attorneys and haven't worked in public service will have a general sense of how historically unprecedented and unprofessional this behavior is but those who *are* attorneys and *have* worked in public service and taken an Oath to the Constitution are watching this with abject horror
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“MacDonald has done something no English-speaking reporter has before her: told the story of Nintendo, in detail... She has gotten inside the mind of Miyamoto, and the intangible miasma that has made video games what they are today”
Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏
www.vulture.com/article/shig...
Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏
www.vulture.com/article/shig...
‘If It Isn’t Fun, It Goes’
How Nintendo’s trust in “Miyamoto magic” changed video games forever.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
“MacDonald has done something no English-speaking reporter has before her: told the story of Nintendo, in detail... She has gotten inside the mind of Miyamoto, and the intangible miasma that has made video games what they are today”
Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏
www.vulture.com/article/shig...
Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏
www.vulture.com/article/shig...
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proud to be part of the long line of german artists doing sexy skeletons for centuries
‘Tödlein’, Death as an archer.
Made from pear wood.
Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger
www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...
Made from pear wood.
Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger
www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...
February 11, 2026 at 8:55 AM
proud to be part of the long line of german artists doing sexy skeletons for centuries
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Just saw a fucking YouTube ad for Horizon, a company that promised to convert your home equity into Bitcoin, which has dropped nearly 50% in value since October. I know the world is crazy fucked but i just cannot believe this shit is legal
February 11, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Just saw a fucking YouTube ad for Horizon, a company that promised to convert your home equity into Bitcoin, which has dropped nearly 50% in value since October. I know the world is crazy fucked but i just cannot believe this shit is legal
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guy who has only seen boss baby and has been shot in the gut during a heist gone awry: oooohhhhh…aaaaaagh…they’ve killed me. this is just like the wikipedia entry for reservoir dogs
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 AM
guy who has only seen boss baby and has been shot in the gut during a heist gone awry: oooohhhhh…aaaaaagh…they’ve killed me. this is just like the wikipedia entry for reservoir dogs
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A federal judge — appointed by Trump — has blocked a bid by Trump's Justice Department to get a complete copy of Michigan's registered voter list.
February 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
A federal judge — appointed by Trump — has blocked a bid by Trump's Justice Department to get a complete copy of Michigan's registered voter list.
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In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies.
Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies.
Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.
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That's strange because I was almost positive it was time to admit we have a psychopath pedophile billionaire problem.
February 10, 2026 at 1:12 AM
That's strange because I was almost positive it was time to admit we have a psychopath pedophile billionaire problem.
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It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
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Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
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Joe Biden had one bad debate and the entire Democratic Party kicked him to the curb in a weekend.
Chuck Schumer fails us every day and Democrats act like there’s nothing they can do?
Call your Democratic Senators and demand that Schumer step down as Minority Leader.
Chuck Schumer fails us every day and Democrats act like there’s nothing they can do?
Call your Democratic Senators and demand that Schumer step down as Minority Leader.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Joe Biden had one bad debate and the entire Democratic Party kicked him to the curb in a weekend.
Chuck Schumer fails us every day and Democrats act like there’s nothing they can do?
Call your Democratic Senators and demand that Schumer step down as Minority Leader.
Chuck Schumer fails us every day and Democrats act like there’s nothing they can do?
Call your Democratic Senators and demand that Schumer step down as Minority Leader.
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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No sympathy for a team whose owners let ICE use the team jet to deport people to concentration camps.
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
No sympathy for a team whose owners let ICE use the team jet to deport people to concentration camps.
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Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.
Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)
Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.
Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)
Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)
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It's probably true that the human brain isn't evolved to handle social media, but I think it helps if you envision yourself as a sort of beloved local knave, modestly dining out on your little japes and stories, rather than as a rebel king collecting banners for your bloody campaign for the throne
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's probably true that the human brain isn't evolved to handle social media, but I think it helps if you envision yourself as a sort of beloved local knave, modestly dining out on your little japes and stories, rather than as a rebel king collecting banners for your bloody campaign for the throne
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tried to text “hey handsome” and it autocorrected to “hey hassle” which is probably an omen
February 10, 2026 at 4:21 AM
tried to text “hey handsome” and it autocorrected to “hey hassle” which is probably an omen