I find this entry fascinating. It makes the claim that Stoicism was an important force in shaping Rabbinic Judaism www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stoicism I thought of posting this because I saw a Christian on here stating that Stoicism was an un-Christian philosophy

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

If I see another person on here paper over the likely revocation of same-sex marriage rights with “well, all the queers I know have the legal paperwork to handle this” … just, no. Fuck you. And no. I don’t. I have 3 kids. Only thing handled is cross-parent adoption. That there cost thousands

We been knew

we don’t need people in government who whine about reddit downvotes

I didn’t expect the Time of Monsters to include so much antisemitism

Updating my LEGO White House

So at his absolute BEST, Platner is a recent Nazi who demands not only instant forgiveness, but an instant handing of massive political power, AS A RECENT NAZI. This is what black folks mean when we talk about white men always wanting to be pedestalized for half-doing the bare minimum.

Hebrew Duolingo is completely bonkers. I think the only legit use case is for people who have already taken a lot of Hebrew. The lesson I’m on is “here’s all infinitives in Hebrew with no context. Good luck figuring out that לתת and נותן are the same word!”

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

I feel really really strongly that Fenway Health made the wrong decision here. They should have never gotten this big, and now they are tossing away what I always assumed was a core reason for their existence, trans health, to continue surviving at such a massive scale

Ryan Grim leitet mit "Drop Site News" eine der beliebtesten Quellen bei linken "propalästinensischen" Leuten (u.a. Tilo Jung), und bezeichnet ein SS-Totenkopf-Tattoo als "small skeletons" und meint die Demokraten müssten auf jeden Fall Leute, die sowas fast 20 Jahre lang tragen, begrüßen. 1/

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

I'm old enough to remember Bill Clinton's brother having a drug problem being enough to almost derail his presidential campaign. Cut to 2025... dipshits running around Al Gore's Motherfuckin' Internet™️ right now defending a guy with Nazi tattoo on his chest and saying that ain't a deal breaker.

This is fascinating on so many levels. I wonder whether an approach like this could be used to study the brain-related conditions of Long Covid?

Does anyone know what happened to @fnthrive.bsky.social?

Yesterday, I tried to use genuine curiosity and rationality with someone on the other side of a conflict on this site, just to see what would happen Result: The person decided I was mocking them and totally crashed out Dude literally was just there to hate and I guess I was evil for confusing him

Lmao, this is an ad right now on Reddit

I hate this website. I’m so glad the AWS issue is fixed so tomorrow I can spend all my time on my favorite websites… uh… Reddit, Duolingo, and uh… JIRA

Things I’ve encountered today that apparently use AWS (us-east-1): Reddit Duolingo JIRA

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

this is what happens when everything is in the cloud

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Daughter (3) told me for Halloween she wants to be Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” and when I pointed out that she’d be aestheticizing her own politics she countered that to watch passively is to already join the ritual

Food colonizer discourse is the worst of both food and colonizer discourse, topics where even one for two would pretty fucking impressive.

Since it was brought up in a server I'm part of, this is what a typical, anti-Netanyahu protest in Israel looks like.

Yesterday, Belle, my dog, passed away. The past couple of years had been really difficult for her: physical disability and cancer. She was 15 when she died A picture of her in better days

Incredibly honored to have received the endorsement of the Boston Globe Editorial Board @bostonglobe.com

We live in two realities 1. Hundreds of thousands of kids are struggling with Long COVID 2. Schools have an absenteeism crisis (students and teachers), and they don’t know why

That dread we feel is that too many people want this autocracy out of sheer curiosity--as ignorant, perverse, or fatalistic as that may be.

Reddit’s antisemitism problem (full article minus the paywall) www.reddit.com/r/jewishpoli...

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

This grammar book I bought is so WEIRD. Ppl online said, this really helped me understand verb families for the first time I bought it. The introduction has a vague defense that it’s not racist (?!?) Reading the book. Totally racist. 😮 Folks, this is why you should never ever self-publish!

Older Twin wants for breakfast that “circular Jewish thing”. All we can get is that it’s a food. I don’t think he’s talking about latkes.

How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BCE inscriptions offers clues www.timesofisrael.com/how-did-bibl...

The Education Department has been repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it. The harm inflicted on children in the process is just another casualty of the Project 2025 education agenda.

— Waking up in 2025 Motto In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. ~ Bertolt Brecht

Sarah Hurwitz argues Jews must reclaim their story from outsiders’ distortions and rediscover strength through Jewish texts and tradition. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

The kids have started calling me “Laureth”

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

This puts into words my frustration with the previous studies

Obviously, we're all in love with America's Sweetheart, the Portland Frog.

The letter very politely reminds the government that Lincoln Lab exists (my read of it) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

So that’s what my kids are going on about!

Hospitals gear up to receive returning hostages after over 734 days in Gaza captivity https://www.timesofisrael.com/hospitals-gear-up-to-receive-returning-hostages-after-over-734-days-in-gaza-captivity/

very exciting! if he gives a speech to knesset directly instead of hearing carefully edited clips out of context then maybe they’ll finally understand how much of an incompetent senile fascist he is

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