“Not Christian in origin” does not mean “not Christian.” The “Old Testament” is not Christian in origin, but is an extremely Christian “adaptation” of a core Jewish text. Similarly, even if Christians looked at pagan rituals and said “I want that,” the versions of it you practice are Christian.

This is a patently dangerous line of thought. Without fail, I see professional technical writers who believe that genAI has smoothed their research process turning in work that is less specific, less explanatory, and overall less effective. It gives you the confidence to think you researched well.

If you’re in Accra, anywhere near East Legon, I highly recommend Jamestown Coffee Roasters in the A&C Mall. These drinks were delicious, and they do sell bags of their coffee; robusta sourced from the Volta region.

I love this post, but I think we can safely take out “much he looks like when.”

Given Trump’s entire brand is slapping his name on the efforts and accomplishments of others, this tracks.

This person seems to be going back through Jewish peoples’ posts and replies, hunting for things he can take pot shots at and quoting them. I’m recommending him for the various block lists.

I’m tender critical. Your bills best be crisp, and their edges undamaged!

Okay, I might be trying to make latkes with the local yam and onions in the next few days, served with kpakpo shito. That, or starchy plantains.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I was originally ambivalent about doing anything to celebrate Chanukah while in Ghana, but now I wish I’d brought a menorah with me.

Fucking hell, this is not what “globalizing the intifada” is about. Posts like this are just doing the Judaism/Zionism conflation from the other direction, and are just as much a distraction from the actual victims as anything blaming Zionism for this attack.

This has been the messaging at my workplace lately, and I’m still trying to figure out why. Everything that the people I work with have used it on, I have had to invest more time than ever before into making it even just passable.

The thing is, if we had something like, say, UBI, firing someone for being blatantly racist to customers wouldn’t even be in question, because it takes away the “you’re putting them in a materially desperate situation” deflection. I don’t know how you square leftist politics with coddling racists.

That last sentence is doing a ton of heavy lifting. “Why isn’t the truth enough for you?” Because the truth about others doesn’t tell me what YOUR plan is. It’s not enough because opposition alone isn’t enough, there also needs to be something constructive.

I didn’t respond to a greeting from a Roman Catholic priest and got accused of pax evasion.

In the realm of “Israel continues to shoot itself in the foot,” they apparently decided to hold seven visiting Ghanaians for multiple hours upon them landing in Tel Aviv. They then sent three of them back to Ghana for tenuous reasons. Ghana retaliated by deporting three Israelis.

Sorry if I broke the thread for anyone who was having fun with Gentile McAppropriationPants. I’m trying to be better to myself and someone who’s that heavily invested in avoiding accountability isn’t worth the stress for whatever scant dopamine I might have earned from skewering him.

As young Jewish people break with the establishment over Gaza, anti-Zionist shuls, chavurot and yeshivas flourish — building bold, justice-rooted forms of Judaism in the diaspora. @shaneburley.bsky.social on projects offering pathways back to Judaism itself.

Latest from me: a trip through the emerging network of radical, anti-Zionist, and diasporist Judaism in the U.S. With thousands of Jews leaving behind institutions they see as complicit in genocide there are new organizations waiting to support them in their Jewish journey.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Just heard my partner say “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit,” and thought it was coming from our room. Immediately popped up, began rushing toward the room, only to hear her say from the couch near me, “babe, what are you doing?” Turned out it was about something completely innocuous.

The more I think about “disinformation,” the more I feel like it’s not a result of reducing the capacity of the public to recognize the truth and more about creating an environment that enables them to easily do what they’ve been taught is their privilege: Center only themselves.

“That lack those features” is doing a lot of work. The quote is literally talking about not just diseases, but things like height and “IQ,” the former of which is at best a vanity thing and the latter of which has a dubious, fundamentally racist basis. And how are we defining “disease”?

Found out today that the roof of the house is made of iron. Makes sense for deflecting heat, but let’s just say I found out because it started raining.

Just because I’m out of the country, don’t think I’ve stopped brewing coffee.

First waakye of the trip.

Why do we say that Enrico Fermi’s paper on weak interactions was a bad paper in its generation, but simply that Samantha’s paper on gender was a bad paper? In any other generation, Fermi’s Nobel-winning work would be recognized for its merit, whereas Samantha’s would be bad in any generation.

One thing that always strikes me about Ghana, and I might get some pictures of some of this later, are the number of businesses that use anglicized Hebrew words or Jewish iconography. Shalom Fabrics El Shaddai Lashes And my favorite: a truck with a Star of David with a menorah in the center.

“Roosters crow at dawn” is, I’m learning, an insidious fabrication. We’re 45 minutes from dawn, and they’ve been going at it for an hour already.

I mean, yeah. His issue isn’t and has never been that the claims being made about him are untrue. It’s that they’re being portrayed as a negative.

Growing up, one of my comfort games was Yoda Stories, an objectively terrible, procedurally generated “Zelda-like” where you’re Luke Skywalker and Yoda sends you out on one of a few variations of missions to combat the Empire. It was basically intended as a “replacement” for solitaire.

I will forever hold that the superior cooking method for turkey is smoking. Like, yes, you can roast the bird in a way that’s not dry. Cool. But smoking it adds such a compelling depth of flavor that it’s absolutely my go-to.

Taco Bell?

Santa knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake. Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it

Ooh, yep, I thought I recognized her. It’s skull lady.

Despite it all, you’re just a rat in a cage? Problematic rage gap.

I want to hone in on this for one more second. When my employer started advocating for AI use, they billed it as like having a very confident, knowledgeable coworker who is sometimes confidently wrong. But that perpetuates this idea that AI is an external perspective.

If there's one thing AI is teaching me very quickly about technical writers, it's that, regardless of how skilled they are as writers, most of them are not skilled editors.

It really feels like a large proportion of non-Republican elected officials in the US have internalized that the best way to deal with a bully is to ignore them and hope they stop targeting you, specifically.

Anti-theists fully out here demonstrating that they have zero interest in understanding power dynamics or history. It’s all about feeling like you’re justified in brow-beating people. Just like many Evangelicals.

Of course they’re going to appeal to the most ignorant, entitled people you know. I recently peeked at the Old App, and the majority of interaction with that app’s LLM was people asking it to do pointless, mundane things, like writing their response to a comment for them.

I forget, does someone on Jewsky have a list for "people who try to erase antisemitism by relitigating Semite as a racial category"? Because, if they're not already on it, I have at least one addition.

*crosses “minds” off the list of things that are bigger in Texas*

I somehow don’t think “intellectual diversity” was supposed to be on the surplus-to-bankruptcy scale, but WaPo will be WaPo.

Some day, gentile internet leftists will hopefully grasp the concept of a “semi-closed ethnoreligion.” But today, they’d apparently rather cape for Nazi race science.

So, I’m a huge Dragon Ball fan. I have the whole manga, I was in the theater for the limited Battle of Gods release, hell, the old Toonami dub is what got me into anime. But I don’t own the anime because there has never been a good HD release in my region.

This has big “Hitler was a vegetarian and an artist” energy. Reprehensible assholes can have ideas and ethical standpoints you agree with while still being reprehensible assholes. Stop trying to act like any amount of “good” would cancel our getting and retaining a symbol of Naziism in your flesh.

Didn’t want to post this as a comment, because it’s hugely tangential, but I think, because of how “Islam” often gets translated into English as “submission,” I didn’t realize its root is س-ل-م, the Arabic cognate of ש-ל-ם. Those are also the respective roots of “Salaam” and “Shalom.”

This said, I’ll fully admit that when Google Maps took me to a random-ass residential street ten minutes away from the office this morning (it even acknowledged that I’d selected my saved Work preset), I caught myself wondering if this was in some way related to AI.

Way, way back in the day I worked at GameStop, and we had to give a spiel about a survey and stuff when checking people out. I had to create an internal script for it so I could do it consistently, and it became rehearsed which meant I could do it quickly. Customers found this entertaining.