Emmi Russo
emmi.dev
Emmi Russo
@emmi.dev
uw info science phd student studying kids, interpersonal relationships, and video games

former software engineer | ex-google, microsoft, smartsheet

she/her
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Great article by 404 covering the Tea app data breach. In fortuitous timing, I'm currently in the process of conducting user interviews about this app and related tools (e.g., Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook groups) to understand the privacy implications of online "dating safety" services.
New from 404 Media: viral woman's dating safety app Tea breached. 4chan taking peoples' uploaded photos, used to verify its a woman-only app. App recently hit no. 1 in App Store. “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” www.404media.co/women-dating...
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
www.404media.co
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is so bad and so dangerous. It makes complete sense that the existing team is being held hostage to do code reviews because the alternative is letting a bull run through a china shop.
New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I wrote up how to reimplement the Bluesky embed snippet as a React component
Bluesky post embeds in Next.js — mozzius.dev
by Samuel · 2 min read
mozzius.dev
October 25, 2024 at 1:19 PM