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Amazing to be simultaneously wrong both historically and theologically.

Is woke gaming dead? Seems that snorting blow would make you more than woke.

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This is some (non-kosher) chef’s kiss of antisemitism.

Being active in the Jewish community, many non-Jews thought I was religious and would often be shocked at my lack of a kippah or love of cheeseburgers.

Synagogue fees can now be paid with iTunes gift cards

GEFILTE PHISHING

anecdotally i'm finally starting to see things actually ship in the past year that aren't just "use the AI to build more AI harness" and it's roughly these categories in order: 1. software made by single programmers with a cohesive vision, that would've previously taken a mid-size startup

Come for the deadpan dive into the ‘dingo hallucinated my research report’ but stay for the entertaining explainer on building an accessible and affordable agentic workflow.

The recorded history of human civilizations beg to differ

Jerry CAPTCHA’s the mood!

‘Military Observation Deck?’ Shouldn’t it be camouflaged?

The ‘science may not be settled’ but the social science certainly is.

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*Stares in JCPOA*

Wrote about the proposed Paramount-WBD merger and why it is bad across the board.

Who amongst us hasn’t wanted to belt out a melody on a pair of glistening disco truck nuts.

The future promised us wall displays in every room, but instead we got the portable pocket leash so everyone knows you're running late for things you didn't know got put on your calendar.

The Shtetl was a rough place!

We really need to bring back the concept of shame. This is beyond forgivable from any sort of executive let alone for a PR statement

Important perspective to keep in mind — especially as the cognitive decline via gen AI comes on the heels of unprecedented drops in reading levels and comprehension across almost all schooling. The fail points are many and gen AI is one reason but not the only cause.

My dude. Book clubs have existed for this exact reason but they provide community, lived experience, and alcohol.

Glad to see people aren’t taking “fuck the billionaires” literally.

I've said this before and again: modern transphobia, with its intense focus on youth being "corrupted" into trans-ness is basically word for word old school 1930s Nazi propaganda about homosexuality, that Jews were corrupting the youth there can be no trans rights with antisemitism.

For all the ‘cognitive offloading’ generative AI promised it has shifted the emotional resource burden of verifying everything onto users.

Honestly, timeline, no notes. Cc @cwarzel.bsky.social

Whatever disgust I had for the plan to replace teachers with robots wasn’t nearly enough. This 🧵 stitches together multiple red flags into a quilt that we should use to smother the idea in its crib.

Free Willy 2: Eat the Rich

I've had to work against AI a lot in my job because I need my company to show up in AI queries and AI simply doesn't work without a hand to direct and correct it. Understanding AI is going to be a requirement for many jobs in tech adjacent fields, but as it exists now AI is a tool, not a worker.

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

Edging from an Editor’s Note — this is a first.

Soviet time jokes still relevant

The Barenaked Ladies, ‘If I had 1 million dollars’ hits differently when you’re an adult — namely, you would no longer be able to afford everything in the song for 1 million. Inflation comes for everything.

Yup! I’m far too introverted to want to be a modern day author. Hell, it’s bad enough as a marketer. I hate having to build a ‘personal brand’ simply to exist and distinguish myself in the modern economy.

Reading Blood In the Machine as a tech marketer and I’ve had to stop a few times to wade in existentialist dread & wonder if I’m an artisan watching my craft automate, a Luddite rebelling by screaming about it, or staring at a modern day Prince Regent drape himself in gold as his masses starve.

The Nazi doth protest too much

That’s what we wanted you to think!

We’ve fallen slave to data and metrics that are algorithmically created based on how long viewers engage with content. Storytelling isn’t an art form that can be optimized in real time to please the whims of a distracted audience. It’s meant to sit with you & emotionally processing can take time.

I know the bar is low, but I’m just glad they’re not prompting production scripts with some tokenizing trope transcriber.

There are many reasons to protect anonymity online, but one of them is so that survivors of sexual violence and abuse can post about their experiences without being sued into oblivion.

This is the second time I’ve seen ‘HR’ in a conspiratorial manner this week. First was the ‘HR Lady’ and now ‘HR Jews’. What’s the beef with HR?

Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...

Let’s not normalize pogroms anywhere. Call them out where they are from 1936 Berlin to 2026 Belfast.