Mastodawn

Adam Russell Sep 19, 2024

An astonishingly honest summary here, from the Instagram CEO. Not a good look.

Following Instagram’s announcement this week that they are implementing new controls to protect teens (“teens”, let’s all remind ourselves, is just a specific category of child).

Adam Russell Dec 22, 2023

@caseyliss you probably know about this ‘bug’, but I would love to see the call sheet search bar render properly on launch. See the way there is briefly a square at the bottom of the screen. Not sure why, but I find it weirdly distracting.

Adam Russell Aug 6, 2023

@ivory can you explain this search result / error message?

Adam Russell Jul 23, 2023

Cinematic electronica with an 80s sheen... Check out Hot Foxes' new single, Imminent Danger, for a mix of dread and romantic. angst: https://www.blackplastic.co.uk/alternative-electronic-music-b/2023/7/23/listen-imminent-danger-by-hot-foxes

Listen: Imminent Danger by Hot Foxes — BlackPlastic.co.uk

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Adam Russell Jun 1, 2023

I used to love this album, but forgot about it until I happened to end up at a Sheryl Crow live performance by accident last year. This Pitchfork review is brilliant - clear eyed in how it places it in context.

Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow Album Review https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sheryl-crow-sheryl-crow/

Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow

Read Sam Sodomsky’s review of the album.

Pitchfork

Adam Russell Apr 18, 2023

This sentence makes me so incredibly angry.

84-Year-Old Is Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager Who Went to Wrong House https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-shooting.html

Ralph Yarl Case: 84-Year-Old Is Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager

Lawyers for the family of Ralph Yarl, 16, said he was critically injured when he was shot twice in Kansas City, Mo.

The New York Times

Adam Russell Mar 10, 2023

What the hell…

“BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears

BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’

Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers

The Guardian