Harry Waisbren
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Harry Waisbren
@harrywaisbren.bsky.social
Progressive media. act.tv co-founder.
Going from pitch to air in less than six months was motivated by Jesse Armstrong’s “desire to tap into the audience’s in-the-moment anxiety of the dangers of emerging AI and real-life tech moguls like Elon Musk gaining unprecedented political, cultural, and economic power.”

@cofalt.bsky.social:
The ‘Mountainhead’ House: Finding the Perfect Horrible Location Almost Delayed Jesse Armstrong’s Movie
'Succession' Creator Jesse Armstrong talks about the impersonal, depressing homes of the modern uber wealthy.
www.indiewire.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Still angry about it! Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) straight up rejected $810 million from President Obama's stimulus package to build high-speed rail throughout Wisconsin.

Idea was to connect Minneapolis and Chicago with access in btw to Madison and Milwaukee.

Would've been a big deal! But, you know.
May 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Generation Occupy by Michael Levitin (of The Occupied Wall St. Journal) here’s an excerpt: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think
The movement itself has mostly disappeared. But 10 years later, its legacy is everywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Donald’s so high on his own supply “hubris” might as well be the name of the drug his whole chaos failson movement is on.
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Harry Waisbren
i think a lot of you people need to decide whether you think trump is going to be an authoritarian monster or a chaos failson because the two are actually in tension with each other.
December 9, 2024 at 1:30 AM
December 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Don’t Look Up was a documentary
December 6, 2024 at 11:52 PM