Why is a contributing editor to Harper's and a lecturer at Columbia Law cribbing independent journalist Marisa Kabas's posts word for word without attribution

grading assignments and just spent the most wonderfully perplexed few seconds figuring out that when a student wrote 'sidhe' they actually meant 'seethe' and not like the faery court

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

אין אײן חודש אַרום װעל איך אָנפֿירן מוט אַ װאַרשטאַט װאָס הײסט ״פֿאַרקװירן אײַער ייִדיש״, ס׳װעט זײַן אַן אַרײַנפֿיר צו קװירע װאָקאַבולאַר און טראַנס־אײַנשליסיקײט אין גראַמאַטיק, און כ׳קוק *שטאַרק* אַרױס 🥰

At home we never sang in Yiddish, that's something I chose for myself...maybe it's a kind of stubborn attempt to live like the Holocaust never happened, like the world was never destroyed, and people lived their lives in Yiddish, children laughed and played in Yiddish, young girls dreamed in Yiddish

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

hmm

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

There is no way to fix the core problem, which is that the statistical production of symbols by definition is not based on their meaning

NEW Interview: Jonah Lubin and Raphael Haiff discuss the Boston Dictionary Project ingeveb.org/blog/balebos...

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it: Short 🧵>>

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Steve Descano, prosecutor for Fairfax County said prosecuting federal agents isn't easy but officials have a responsibility: “If they are not willing to take these actions,” he said, “then they are cowards and they are not worthy of their positions” via Andy Mannix www.propublica.org/article/why-...

Yiddish cartoonists really knew how to draw their Nazis (getting ravaged by huge snow monsters)

Me: people exaggerate how many words Yiddish has for dick Yiddish:

Hi, lawyer here! This is not funny. Senators only do this when they're in extreme distress.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce. bsky.app/profile/alex...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit

How our production of Yiddish Fiddler is going: someone wrote some song lyrics that rhyme in English and then someone else translated those to rhyme in Yiddish and now I’m translating them back to rhyme in English

If they’re gonna bring back measles and stuff anyway we should get to have the big pickle barrel at Wawa again.

Okay friends, my desire to find an alternative but equally informative label for "Chomskyan syntax" has reached criticality.

Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time: "Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

Upset how accurate these prices are in 2026

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Simply incredible

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

can't believe we have a course on the books at my uni called The Jew in History but because it's never offered anymore i will never get to audit it

NO PLANTING TREES ON THE NEW YEAR OF THE TREES 🚫🌳 the mechanisms of apartheid control and its disregard for human life, dignity, safety, freedom--- wind up coming down to the absolute fucking absurd. God foribid people have a tree. God forbid an olive.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Look, even our greatest Yiddish novelist has the initials IBS.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

i wouldn’t describe myself as a “baby person” but boy howdy do I sure enjoy having a baby in class

my brain will not stop repeating, to the tune of baby shark, Tu Bishvat doo doo doo doo doo doo

yiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

כ׳װיל גאָלן דאָס פּנים אָבער די װאָך האַלט מען ״פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך״ און כ׳דאַרף מײַן שטעטל־בערדל. אָך און װײ דערצו נאָך, אײַז מוז חרובֿ געמאַכט װערן

Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working" So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

yiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Pogroms are also a Slavic folk tradition

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.