I think Hasan Piker stans need to have a long think about why significantly less problematic and controversial anti-Israel voices have been silenced on Twitter, but Piker’s account remains active. They won’t, but they need to.

I think we also grew up while Rabin was PM, and they didn’t exactly go out of their way to inform us young, diaspora Jews of his history as a general. He was exclusively framed through his participation in talks with Clinton and Arafat.

I know this is a thing in all of his posts, but does the random capitalization bug anyone else? I’m halfway to believing they have a random German guy writing his posts for him.

Also, if he’s telling the truth about not being aware that it was the tattoo on his chest, he’s too ignorant to be in politics.

The attack on Temple Israel in Michigan will never be “understandable” due to “context.” Fuck Reddit.

Seriously. Every attempt sounds like “Hawktuah Shinken,” a very different sort of art.

"Jewish state?" he spat, eyes aflame with jihad. It was as though, in the distance, I could hear the ululations of his people, the whisper of "infidel" in my ear.

It’s telling that she thought this interaction painted her in a positive light. He asks her to define the scope of a term, a term that has been defined in myriad different ways by myriad different people, and she tries to treat that as a “gotcha” while never actually defining it.

I effectively haven’t slept since Sunday. I’m sitting in the parking lot at work, trying to decide if I should muster up the gumption to step out of the car or, instead, put in for a sick day and head home.

I don’t have the exact words for it yet, but I don’t think the fixation on Jewish influence of the US’s support for Israel exists without some amount of buy-in to Protocols-esque conspiracy fodder. Whether in the form of blaming us and organizations that claim to speak for us, or calling on us…

Ever single gentile needs to read each and every one of these. A Jewish woman on Instagram made a post about how matzo is made and why we eat it on Passover. Every reply was violent, vile, and hateful. I need you to understand how even the most innocuous part of Jewish existence is reviled.

Partner and I took an impromptu trip to Anime Boston today. Ended up impulse buying the complete Dominic Deegan. Got home, cracked it open, and relived the first two chapters in about an hour. @mookiebean.bsky.social’s writing remains eminently binge-able.

I don’t think it’s healthy to carry around the amount of anger I have right now, and it feels like the world as a whole is determined to make sure I do exactly that.

Three people charged over alleged arson attack on Jewish charity ambulances in London

The oldest is 20. The youngest is 17. My heart is very heavy.

Yeah… You’ll never convince me that diminishing the perceived value of the Humanities hasn’t resulted in a culture of little-to-no empathy. Maybe it’s pathologizing these people too much to say they CAN’T view the character as someone other than themselves, when reading in first-person, but…

To know what they’re saying on Threads, people would have to actually be on Threads.

You’ll note that you don’t end up with a bunch of Jews under the corresponding posts for Christian holidays declaring “Jesus is a false idol!” or some shit like that. No, we get this shit from Christians because Western Christianity is fundamentally configured to breed self-righteous assholes.

I am more than a little confused on when and why “close ties to Chabad” became some sort of indictment.

I think you mean “Teaching to Gress.” Gotta detrans the title.

For full transparency on why I have distaste for Piker, his behavior and rhetoric reads to me as the sort of person who is championing leftist causes because he believes, in a new leftist order, he’ll get to be on top of it. He’ll be in the privileged class that isn’t supposed to exist.

This isn’t even about purity politics, and it plays its hand very early by claiming it won’t be about litigating the claims of Piker’s various prejudices. It then handwaves them, and uses their “weakness” as the premise for its argument that this is ACTUALLY an inter-left squabble.

The idea that any people, as a whole, deserves to be forcibly driven “back to the stone ages” is fucked up beyond all belief. The petulance of “I deserve all of the things, they deserve none of the things” is rage-inducing.

Frankly, using AI is outright dangerous for anyone writing in any area where copyright and plagiarism are concerns. When you do the writing yourself, you're going to know you're not pulling passages wholesale from other works. With AI? It's actually a lot more work to know if it did.

It’s so reinforced/assumed that, at my first internship, my manager, who was Egyptian, found out I was Jewish and joked, “So, can I get you to build me some pyramids?”

After the 17,000 YouTube video I’ve seen in which an “independent gaming journalist” talks about an upcoming game like they’re reading flat marketing copy, I’m firmly convinced the vilification of traditional gaming media was largely inorganic.

This reads as completely fair to me. I see men, in particular, turn specific games into markers of personal identity and tribal affiliation. “I’m a Ninja Gaiden player. You DMC fans just care about flash and want to mash buttons.” FromSoft games happen to be particularly appealing for this mindset.

An interview? They communicated on Telegram, the same avenue through which they claimed the attacks. Personally, I’m of a mind to doubt any narrative about this in any direction until there’s actual information, instead of speculation colored by a narrative you want to push. Until then, face value.

Oh, so you can’t fucking read. The group itself, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, claimed responsibility for the attack. It’s unsubstantiated because it hasn’t yet been confirmed, not because Israel claimed it was them. So blinded by your bullshit narrative you can’t even read anymore.

Secretary of yimakh sh’mo v’zikro.

Palestinians deserve Western allies who actually care about them, instead of seeing their genocide as an opportunity to indulge in the antisemitism they learned from nana.

Perestroika: a word I’m aware of because of the second live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

No, you’re supposed to do your due diligence and not propagate false flag fear-mongering simply because it’s convenient to your narrative. It is incredibly easy to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic. Failing as hard at it as you have is embarrassing.

When a Jewish person says they’re a Zionist, there’s at least a possibility they have some other definition in mind than support for the continuation of Israel’s apartheid regime. When Newsom or another gentile says it, though, there’s no doubt that they’re gunning for the status quo, at best.

Illustrating my point for me.

Slurs are definitionally a tool of fascism. They’re used to denigrate and other, defining a underclass. In the case of the r-word, that underclass is ostensibly based on intellectual ability.

Reading some of these interactions, maybe I kind of lucked out that my one chance to talk with him got interrupted by Jonah Falcon forcibly inserting himself into the situation.

Ugh. Got to bed on time, even fell asleep relatively quickly, but I think I miscalculated and either ate too early or didn’t have enough for dinner. I got woken up by my stomach.

I think the broader point this relates to for me is that most people are far worse editors than they are creators. So much of what we train to do across numerous fields is based on us starting from a place of dysfunction or nonfunction and getting to a place where things function.

Crimson Desert is the latest game to include AI art that the studio claims was “used as a placeholder” and intended to be replaced. Assuming that’s not a BS “we thought we wouldn’t get caught” cover story, it’s still a knock against using AI. Why risk forgetting which assets are placeholders?

The massive dishonesty about the whole “zios” discourse is that it asserts that it’s “just shortening the term” while trying to ignore WHY movements shorten the names of their ideological opponents. It isn’t to be cutesy or efficient. It’s to be derogatory. That’s not inherently wrong, but…

They are two different conversations. The point is that any attempt to has a conversation about antisemitism today inevitably leads to reactions that focus on said genocide, even when the antisemitism in question manifests as physical violence against Jews. But sure, it’s “hurt feelings.”

Like, the fact that Andrea, an accomplished teacher and community advocate/union leader, isn’t even tracking while people are putting their full chests behind a likely Nazi failson who went off to play COD IRL instead of anything useful is… Telling. It’s misogyny. It’s always misogyny.

Y’all, is this “I can only hold space for one marginalized group” bullshit a uniquely white thing? Because my partner and literally 90% of her friends are Black, anti-Zionist, radical African feminists, and they do not fall into antisemitism oopsies like this motherfucker.

Gentiles need to stop expressing opinions on Jewish identity. That’s something that SHOULD be completely divorced from advocacy against Israel, but for some reason, the fuckers keep linking the two. Stepping from rake to rake in a yard.

A new question, because "has anyone found a use for GenAI" always gets a bunch of nebulous non-answers from AI evangelists. Can anyone name anything that has been CONCRETELY improved by GenAI? It has to be objective improvement, and it has be concrete. Not "I felt more productive."

Not that it excuses anything, but I’m increasingly convinced the spread of antisemitism in the mainstream is at least partially driven by people being worn down enough that they’re clinging to a convenient, binary villain narrative. It’s not quite antisemitism from first principles, but it’s close.

I’ve been exhausted for a couple of weeks now. First because I was sick (with something that, while respiratory, was confirmed to not be COVID, flu, or strep). But now I don’t think it’s a physical health thing. I think it’s the state of the world, and the antisemitism even in spaces of “hope.”

Avoiding introspection is nothing more than running from your own thoughts. These people are cowards, afraid of their own shadows, and convinced that plugging their ears with enough money will stand in for their nonexistent sense of self.

Of course Nvidia is super-excited about working AI into DLSS 5, because it aligns with their big moneymaker. But every example of it they’ve shown utterly demolishes the art style of the game they’re applying it to. Just a slop company, all around.