Russell Brandom
@russellbrandom
I want to speak very plainly to you, so that we are both comforted by the honesty. russell.brandom@gmail.com
Elon is not very interested in talking about Tesla's car business these days techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
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!
I like some of the Dua Lipa songs but I don't really want her integrated into my web services
Elon's first tweet after the news... not sure anyone has told him
This Mother's Day, give her what she really wants www.ebay.com/itm/36637999...
"He does not know AI" is maybe the greatest insult you can give among tech ppl right now. techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/h...
Those "How to Stand like a Normal Person" classes really paid off
Truly a wild class of advertisers on Twitter dot com these days
One of Robert Caro’s notes to himself, from the excellent exhibit at the New York Historical Society
$2500 seems like a bargain, honestly propstoreauction.com/lot-details/...
If you were wondering how bad the information space on Twitter has gotten, a hard seltzer company is now paying to promote a confused aggregation of a Polymarket bet
AI coding tools have resulted in a flood of low-quality merge requests to open-source software projects, making some developers rethink the whole structure of OSS techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/f...
An interesting observation about Elon Musk (on Dwarkesh/Cheeky Pints), from the latest @thezvi.bsky.social thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkes...
Never has a combination of names been both so exciting and so mystifying
A very good passage from Vineland on the ecstatic potential of collective civil disobedience. "There was no telling, in those days, who might unexpectedly change this way, or when."
With respect to trans folks, I'm just not sure the FBI needs a hormone replacement therapy division
An interesting milestone in AI reporting: The NYT used open-source image classification algorithms to estimate the scale of Grok's sexualized imagery problem www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
"Humorous character replacement is common in both ancient and modern memes." (from Sheirer's A History of Fake Things on the Internet)
An absolutely unhinged font choice from the FBI FOIA office here