man there is no reason the dictionary needs an AI assistant the search box is right there

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

any time I talk about how Andy Serkis sucks people are so confused/surprised but like eventually people will get it

man there is no reason the dictionary needs an AI assistant the search box is right there

trying to translate the situation into sensible ratios in my head and i think that this would be like if i took over a whole six flags for my wedding but donated literally dozens of dollars to charity in return

incredible slop yiddish on the signs turning the slogan of the general jewish labor bund into “HERE WE AARRE HERE IS OFWR COUNTRY” from its original “there, where we live, there is our country”

🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Incredible stuff happening in the Philadelphia electric grid atm

using box fans with a hepa filter attached to them is not only great for keeping the air indoors a little cleaner but is also good for ensuring you have backup fans ready for when your air conditioner dies during the deadly heat wave

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

i am losing all control at ‘springtime for frankenstein’ (from mel brooks’ memoir)

oodelally, oodelally, golly what a week

The price of eggs—the thing that launched a thousand vibecession headlines… was a lie.

lol geez

had to call to make an appointment for a procedure at a place called the perelman center and unintentionally said its name extremely yiddishly

the actual reason fitted sheets have the elastic

the actual reason fitted sheets have the elastic

came across the yiddish idiom "dumplings in a dream are not dumplings, but a dream" (kreplekh in kholem iz nist keyn kreplekh, nor a kholem) solely because i can easily imagine us dreaming about dumplings and trying to squeeze some wisdom out of it

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Okay but what’s in it for Substack aside from wanting to platform the widest variety of cranks possible, oh I see, that is the point, I figured it out while typing this

“We assure you, we do not take our decision to employ professors like Gen. Stonewall Jackson and his fellow commanders lightly,” said Alan Garber

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

אָקײ, קיש מיר אין תּחת

My thing here is there’s nowhere near the push needed to adequately fund and build more education infrastructure and staffing, so we just get this “well actually college is expensive so it’s okay for people to be bigots” type of framing.

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

during my postdoc i was co-author on a widely cited paper talking about the effectiveness of grant peer review, and it’s been upsetting seeing it get increasingly cited in work talking about moving to use “AI” for peer review

learning that the yiddish word for an expression is an oysdruk (“out-press”) while an impression is an ayndruk (“in-press”) really throws back the curtain on the literal meaning of these words in english

Agreed that not everyone who disagrees with me is filled with hate in their heart but the high cost of a college education sounds like a problem chasing trans kids out of public life isn't going to solve

storage prices at an insane high, perfect time to stop releasing games on insanely cheap pieces of plastic

Another professor fired for comments about Charlie Kirk is poised for a payout, this time $1.9M from University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The prof, Tamar Shirinian, won't return to campus: www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e... via Keenan Thomas

און ניט גאָרניט פֿאַר גרעטשען װינערסן זײַט געזונט

i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

brutal

מיר װעלן זײ אַלע איבערלעבן

hey when we say that liberals and democrats are worse than useless on trans rights this is the kind of shit we are talking about :) by the way :) what is the fucking point of conceding on title IX like this. what is the fucking point.

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota 2. what should i do?”

my new favorite response to someone who says that nobody speaks yiddish anymore

for pride i wrote about teaching linguistics while queer, and ended up talking a whole bunch about pronouns and also bad textbooks and how great it is to have queer students

for pride i wrote about teaching linguistics while queer, and ended up talking a whole bunch about pronouns and also bad textbooks and how great it is to have queer students

Rhymes with the Court's reasoning in Skrmetti on trans youth healthcare bans - they discriminated on the basis of age thus their discrimination on the basis of sex doesn't matter. Whichever has the lowest standard of scrutny, basically

reading a yiddish story set in a delicatessen in new york's lower east side and by far the strangest thing about it is that the characters sit down, look at the menu, then order their main course *and* their dessert at the same time

reading a yiddish story set in a delicatessen in new york's lower east side and by far the strangest thing about it is that the characters sit down, look at the menu, then order their main course *and* their dessert at the same time

common yiddish birthday wish is "biz hundert un tsvantsik!" (may you live to be 120 years old!) and it's beautiful to see that mel brooks is taking that shit very seriously

went to a sunday yiddish poetry jam today and it was lovely, and read this piece by malke heifetz-tussman