A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I'm not generally a huge fan of my congressman (an inevitable letdown after being represented by Ayanna Pressley), but you do on occasion gotta hand it to him.

Hey quick question, what happened the last time the US picked a leader in Iran?

Flawless caption in this email from the MFA

Looks like some sort of pro-war rally in front of the BPL. Lots of pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, along with US & Israel

The fact that the Union for Reform Judaism feels the need to support this illegal war just because the Israeli government supports it - even though the Israeli government openly disdains Reform Jews in return - is part of why institutional American Judaism is in crisis.

Yesterday I bought a ticket for a concert at Fenway this summer, and had to use the Red Sox ticketing website to do it, so I am now on *multiple* MLB mailing lists. How is it possible that I know more about email segmentation than a $4 billion sports franchise?

I need someone like this to primary Jake Auchincloss if it's not too much trouble, tyvm.

Ben Eidelson on not conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism: "The idea that we can conclusively presume, if [student protesters] are saying anti-Zionist stuff it's because they hate Jews, is just factually implausible. It's not how we would treat any other civil rights question."

Just spotted a @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social Get Loew hat in the wild

A) It is 2026, why are we still making tv shows where FBI agents are the good guys? B) In Kash Patel's FBI, conspiracy theorists are the ones in charge, they don't get sent down to the basement to be forgotten.

We should have sent John Yoo directly to the Hague the day after Bush left office, and anyone running for office with a D next to their name should demonstrate that they've fully learned that lesson if they expect anyone to vote for them.

The inevitable guy wearing shorts and a Patriots hoodie will have to get his large iced regular somewhere else, I guess.

Jewish MA residents: Please sign our letter to Gov. Healey demanding she end all cooperation with ICE--particularly the 287g agreement with the Dept. of Corrections. All other blue states have terminated their 287g's. Text: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

another long day at work for the guy at CBS whose job it is to read old stormfront posts and pitch them to the team.

Nothing drives home the fact that people absolutely do not give a fuck about anyone but themselves like being the only person in the office/on the train/at the concert wearing a mask. Six years in, and everyone is still raising their hands to say "yes, I want more people to die or become disabled."

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

I hadn't heard of this author before, but "having beaten my typewriter into a ploughshare for the duration, I shall never be able to face going back to town life" might be the greatest thing I've read this week.

I'm attending a conference of academic fundraisers this week, and I regret to inform you that the entire profession has been thoroughly brainwashed by AI cheerleaders.

Just apologized to my Lyft driver for having to take Storrow during rush hour

Something I wish I understood better: How did a country which at the time had a population roughly the size of modern-day Phoenix create so much misery across so much of the world?

Continuing my unbroken streak of going to Symphony Hall and not seeing the BSO

On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.

This guy apparently lived in Wakefield, I'd love to know what @sethmoulton.bsky.social, @edmarkey.bsky.social, and @warren.senate.gov are doing to bring him home.

I just saw the program for Steve Drury's upcoming solo recital at Jordan Hall. He's playing Wolff's "Hay una Mujer Desaparecida (after Holly Near)" and Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated." I'll say this for Steve, he knows what time it is. necmusic.edu/events/facul...

top tier post

Look at this absolute unit

Taika Waititi, Melissa McCarthy, Nick Offerman, Pedro Pascal, and Poehler/Fey

Songwriter of the Year winner Amy Allen rocking a very prominent Ice Out pin

lol they cut off Ludwig Goransson before he could give his speech for the Sinners soundtrack, then he won the next category too

Anyone who lives in Beacon Hill and doesn't shovel or salt their sidewalk is guilty of attempted murder.

so cool how harvard attacked pro-palestine protestors because not liking genocide is antisemitic but also cancelling their yiddish program is somehow not

"The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future show-cause orders" So, if ICE continues to ignore court orders, they will be subject to more court orders which they will also presumably ignore. Will there be actual consequences at some point? Ever?

I’ve reached the time of year when eating lunch at work means a choice between risking exposure to covid or frostbite.

He wants it to happen, he just doesn't want to have to see it.

I know how much everyone loves to make fun of people who thought The West Wing was an instruction manual for governing, but that's still better than thinking the same thing about Game of Thrones.

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

Anyone else remembering Philando Castile right about now?

This must be that famous Government Efficiency I’ve heard so much about.

SHKOYAKH!

This is a horrifying thing that hadn't even occurred to me: You don't have to ban vaccines outright, you just have to make it look like a bad investment for the drug companies to even bother making them.

May they never know a moment's peace for the rest of their miserable lives.

Funniest part of all this is seeing randos on bluesky saying they didn’t believe the story was real until they saw the videos, meanwhile we’re all like “this isn’t even necessarily the craziest thing that has happened to the duck”

(h/t Amelia Buttress)

Yeah I slept like a log, my slowly decaying body provided shelter and sustenance to a wide variety of small invertebrates

Jack Carlson has already said that he wants to reopen a Cambridge location, so this has the potential to be bad news for my wallet. Like, it's reasonably safe having them all the way in New Haven, but if I can just hop on the T and Try Things On...? yaledailynews.com/blog/2026/01...

Nerdiest protest sign I saw yesterday: A drawing of the Millennium Falcon with the words "This Machine Kills Fascists"

For anyone else reading this, feeling helpless, and wondering what they can do: the synagogue has a donation form and I've donated with a note that it's for fire recovery immediate expenses. www.bethisraelms.org

They have not "become" this, it's what they have always been. Still, I'm somewhat relieved to see my Rep coming to this realization after voting to express gratitude to ICE for terrorizing Los Angeles last summer.

Do not do this. Do NOT do this. DO NOT DO THIS.