snake economy doing incredibly well all things considered

a yiddish Star Trek just called Star Shlep

accidentally parsed "data center" as "data centaur" and on paper at least that reads like the better option

Preparing for Easter by reflecting on the Elizabeth Hurley tweet

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

can’t say i’m a fan of how a yiddish word for rags (bebekhes, בעבעכעס) can also just refer to the intestines

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Ryan Coogler said trans rights

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

די װעלט איז פֿול מיט צרות און הײַנט בײַ נאַכט האָב איך געגעסן אַ שיסל זופּ און לאָמיך אײַך זאָגן: דאָס איז אמת

In response to a generic “Happy Passover” post, it’s just a sea of “Christ is King” comments, comments about Israel, memes about Chasidic Jews & memes about Netanyahu controlling the Instagram account.

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

Esquire Singapore posted a cover story interview that ***did not interview the subject*** ***but instead*** ***generated the entire interview using AI*** jfc wtaf gtfo

watch your back, clankers share.inquirer.com/WNnxYM

i generally record my online lectures off the cuff without any script which is why i have now somehow said “you have made the mistake of crossing a wizard and he has turned you into something DELECTABLE” on camera for my students

i think it’s good that the yiddish word meaning “of course, certainly” (avade, אַװדאי) can also just mean “probably,” why shouldn’t a word mean completely different things

there’s a neat program where you live for ten days in an apartment where yiddish is the only language anyone speaks, and there’s nothing i want to watch more than a messy reality show of it called THE REAL WORLD: YIDDISHLAND

Happy TDoV, have a pic of Girlmode Ranma hatching from an egg that predates the literal Trans flag

the local cemetery is doing a tour of all the groundhogs that live there and showing off their little homes with ground-penetrating radar and calling it the HOLE NEW WORLD TOUR

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

In case you missed it, here is JFREJ’s Haggadah supplement for the year 5786, featuring beautiful artwork from Lena Rivkah, and fundraising for the @envfreefund.bsky.social to free immigrants from ICE captivity: jfrej.org/supplement

the local cemetery is doing a tour of all the groundhogs that live there and showing off their little homes with ground-penetrating radar and calling it the HOLE NEW WORLD TOUR

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love

even now, even today, y'all don't know how to be normal about trans people and you get so fucking mad when trans people don't react to your bullshit the way you want them to. we can see what you said. it's right there. you used trivializing language to talk about a decision that will kill people.

getting an email from my university about facilities transitioning the hvac system from heating to cooling on TDOV

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

That's right

Dell Hymes is a foundational scholar in linguistic anthropology who sexually harassed his students and colleagues at Penn for many years before he was finally removed. I don’t cite Hymes’ work in my research and I don’t teach it, and I’m very open about why I don’t.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

What is this timeline

I love this for them.

If only there was a term for a legal system that applies differently to different people based on their ethnicity... (deleted an earlier version of this post because it was based on faulty sources that jumped the gun before the law actually passed)

hopelessly in love with the עקסטרא! עקסטרא! (“Extra! Extra!”)

Yiddish textbooks will discuss the Holocaust then immediately have a story like this: A young man is betrothed and meeting his bride for the first time. He’s terrified he won’t know what to say to her, so his father gives him some advice: “First, talk about love. Then, family. Finally, philosophy.”

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

section in my yiddish textbook called “village, shtetl, city, ghetto” (דאָרף, שטעטל, שטאָט, געטאָ) which feels like the european jewish equivalent of “tinker, tailor, soldier, spy”

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

i just used the phrase ‘just a tad’ for the first time in years and thought to myself, ‘i’ve never known why tad means little, i wonder if it’s related to tadpole’ so i looked it up and it is, in fact, a shortened version of tadpole. i think that’s charming

my biggest eyebags emoji

Our constitution sets up such a defective system of government that this guy can walk around doing impeachable offense after impeachable offense in broad daylight and no one can do anything about it.

Liberal responses to this, while well meaning, often make me sick. “Well just piss on the floor then!” “This is a distraction.” “What will their reaction be when a passing woman enters a mens bathroom, that will sure show them.” Like none of this makes it better. It’s not funny, it’s not a gotcha.

So the NYT is so committed to shitting on trans people that when the AMA tried to correct their reporting, they responded by saying they know more about the AMA's position than the AMA itself. That's zealotry.

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