Over the past few days I swore a citizenship oath to a new country and went to a festival where I got to try three DELICIOUS varieties of paw paw fruits and two less-delicious ones, and met another Philadelphian who speaks Yiddish and got to hear the lovely story of how they chose their Yiddish name

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

A very good Yiddish word is “mayse” (מעשׂה), which can refer to a story but can also refer to an action or deed, which is all very poetic, and then it can also just be slang for someone’s genitals, which is decidedly less poetic

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

אַ מעשׂה װעגן ייִדישע קאַניבאַלן װאָס הײסט ״אַ ייִדישער טעם״

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

now gavin,

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

I'm not even trying to be a snob, I just genuinely don't know what any of us think "normal" looks like anymore. The Biden years were an attempt at a low-key restoration of normal, they failed in no small part because we didn't need "normal," what we needed was an extraordinary response to Jan 6.

Speaking as a reproductive health reporter who covered these referenda endlessly and talked to MANY voters in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio: Abortion rights are MORE popular than Democrats. They MAKE Democrats popular. Why would Democrats run away from one of the few policies that works for them

The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

pronouns for a yiddish deer that are just she/her/herschel

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Used to be that the cereal companies would take out full page ads in Yiddish in honor or Rosh Hashanah asking that THE ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

It is at least a little funny that the talk I’m giving at the Yiddish language and culture festival is scheduled on CHRISTMAS MORNING

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Technically it’s not a sabbatical unless you spend your seventh year on the job engaging in rest, otherwise it’s just a sparkling writing retreat

Technically it’s not a sabbatical unless you spend your seventh year on the job engaging in rest, otherwise it’s just a sparkling writing retreat

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

i am begging and pleading for cis journalists to stop treating threats against the trans community as clickbait. send post

Being asked to review for a new journal and torn between feeling like "ohhh, they like me, they really like me" and "oh neat more uncompensated work to throw on the pile"

Not a single member of the so-called opposition party bothered to object to honoring a racist.

I've been seeing the term "LLM" used to describe images created by "AI" (more accurately LMMs, large multimodal models, rather than LLMs, large language models) and I'm very interested in this broad adoption of "LLM" as a marker of anti-AI-hype stance (regardless of actual acronym meaning)

A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please

כ׳לײג דעם ״זײ״ אין ״זײער שײן״ 💅

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Just saw a sign for a speed limit with a digital speedometer and as the car in front of us passed by the screen just said ☹️

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

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LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.

The Yiddish word “harb” (האַרב) just means “hard” and it’s just the most wimdy-ass word

Remember the time Putin canceled a puppet show that mocked him and then the creator had to flee the country

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Cute thing about this Yiddish phrase meaning "just try and stop me!" is that it literally translates to DO SOMETHING TO ME

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Brad Lander's comment during the NYC primary that people view Dems as either "fight" or "fold" people is the best characterization of how lose -- this is a fold strategy, and people want their candidates to fight for them, not step on their necks trying to reach across the aisle.

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Before my language and sexuality seminar this morning I kept thinking “I hope someone mentions twinks today” and in the first five minutes of class we got to talk about twinks

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former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

They used tear gas on him, and wouldn't let him shower. For three days. That stuff gets in every pore. Your skin burns for days, even after a shower. This is torture.