Russ Wilcox
@russwilcox.bsky.social
Startups, software, deeptech, biotech. Venture Partner at Pillar VC. Founded E Ink.
Get kids off phones [gift link] www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Free Universal After-School Is an Easy Win in a World of Problems
It’s a time-honored tradition for one generation to shake its head at the next, wondering if progress and technology have caused more harm than good. So it is now, with some prominent academics saying...
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If US wishes to remain a democracy, it must reform Citizens United
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 5h agoElon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
I’ve said this before, Trump is Saruman without the intellect, real hair, and fashion sense.
Trump has gone full Russian. This cracks our alliance with UK and Europe, and escalates WW3.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d agoPer Russian media, “Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory.”
All Dem leaders should declare NOW AND LOUDLY that Trump enablers who conspire to subvert normal order in US elections will be fully prosecuted under a future Dem administration. Don't wait.
That's just cool
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2d ago"Grandfather knot clock” by Australian woodworker George Andrew, who handcrafted this piece using Radiata pine and plywood, shaping the dramatic curves using a bandsaw, an angle grinder, and lots of hand sanding. www.woodreview.com.au/photocompent...
If you've ever wondered if physicists were just making this while "spin" thing up www.sciencealert.com/for-the-firs...
For The First Time Ever, Quantum Spins Shift a Centimeter-Scale Object
There's another notable first in the field of quantum physics to report on, and it's all to do with electron spin: the tiny, built-in magnetism of these particles, as if each one is carrying a microsc...
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Putin releases diesel ahead of midterms to help Trump. How clear can it be that these two are one team?
PSA after a chat with Claude about electric bill: electric radiant heating draws a lot of energy, and mine was running for many more hours than we actually use. Well worth ($$) adjusting the clock.
Massachusetts tried to address this with Garden leave, but I've read that employers are still using loopholes to get around it
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d agoThe UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
Clever. Data centers don't move around, and they are full of expensive chips. I wonder if th8s can disable the bot farms. Hope they do a bunch of this ahead of the midterms.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4d agoDrones struck a data center owned by Russia's Yandex in the town of Sasovo, marking the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the Ukraine war began (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
People already thought quantum would break encryption by 2035-2040. But what if AI could find a way to do it sooner with a classical computer?
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 5d agoVitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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The hand-wringing around Trump's San Diego and LA comment is misguided. Listen to his talk. "That's a small price to pay" refers to higher price of gas, not the loss of a city. When Dems obsess about imaginary gaffes, it undermines their substantive points!
If you want Elon Musk, the Ellisons and the Saudis deciding what "news" you're allowed to get, vote for Republicans in the midterms. If not, don't. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
One Priority Above All Others
We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump
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Everyone in Trump's team has a skeleton in the closet that puts a ring though their nose and makes them controllable. It's just hard to imagine that Trump is the one holding the reins. Whoever that really is should be America's public enemy #1.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last wk.Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
Look at the picture. The "ballroom" is bigger than the White House.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.
What are the odds Trump was so desperate for a peace deal that he agreed to let Iran take over Iraq?
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
We seem to be amused that the president cannot remain conscious during virtually any Oval Office event. This is a very sick man. He is unfit for his job. It is an issue the country should take more seriously.
