Russell Bates

Director. Angeleno. This is Worker speaking. Hello.

[L.A. Dork @la_dorkout]

This morning, I went for walk with a coyote and a goose.

Just another day in LA.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The new LA Metro D Line will get you crosstown 17 minutes faster than driving during the AM rush, and that’s why it will be wildly successful. Transit that’s faster or as fast as driving is what will get car trips off LA streets!

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Perhaps the most satisfying Know Violence episode to date

[Diego Lopez @thisdiegolopez]

Leave them kids alone #knowviolence #160

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

AI’s primary corpus is clearly Robert Pollard’s song titles

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Truer words have never been spoken: "road rage is one of the dumbest reasons to fight." Oh and P.S. don't fight anyone!

[Diego Lopez @thisdiegolopez]

Lost a fight AND his car #knowviolence #146

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Another banger from Diego. What could this have been about, anyway? It's on a pickleball court. Don't fight anyone!

[Diego Lopez @thisdiegolopez]

When you play pickelball, everyone loses #knowviolence #131

[Paperback Paradise @paprbckparadise]

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

I've been hearing all about how good AI is getting, so I tried it out with a well-known logic problem and 10/10 no notes

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Now knocked down. Thank you LA firefighters!

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Fire in Echo Park

[yung zoë @yungkitty404]

As somebody who has gone back and forth with this, you really only need like two weeks replacing screen time with reading to get your attention span back

You’re not permanently fucked and resetting is easier than you think. Put down your phone and pick up a book.

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

OK, yes, that's very LA

[L.A. Dork @la_dorkout]

Today I was crossing Hollywood and Highland, where peds & tourists cheered a just-married couple celebrating in the middle of the intersection while a fire ravaged a strip mall down the street.

I've lived in LA my whole life, and this is the most LA candid I've ever snapped.

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Highly recommend

[Paperback Paradise @paprbckparadise]

Open a book and scream into it for fun

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

Now this is a flex

[South Pole Telescope @SPTelescope]

A yearly tradition at the South Pole is the winter-over crew watching "The Thing" right after the last flight for the summer leaves. Here is a picture of the yearly showing in the gym #southpole #winter #Xenophobia #science

[Hugo Soto-Martínez @HugoForCD13]

What do people think of the new Hollywood bike lanes?

We asked people at @CicLAvia to find out.

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

An insightful and deeply human essay about the inherent limitations of AI by the colossal thinker/writer Ted Chiang https://t.co/NgNMcJHhPy

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

@IDoTheThinking You really shouldn’t miss the scene at the LA River bike/walk path https://t.co/HII0MsoP54

[Russell Bates @RussellBates]

@IDoTheThinking Guisados https://t.co/OC73iCA5gf