When @catguymike.bsky.social couldn’t support an argument he was making using solely AI sources and transphobia, he claimed I was a “genocide supporter” and blocked me. Given his lack of research everywhere else, him assuming a Jew is a Zionist is unsurprising.

I’m in this post and I don’t like it.

Damn. That sucks. Anyway…

The same people who decry what they perceive as a “special victim” status for Jews will turn around to apply the exact rhetoric they’re decrying to Palestinians. American identity politics, in particular, do not leave space for nuance like “not every member of this traumatized group speaks true.”

Paired with GameFAQs, in my case.

It’s an ostentatious sort of day.

I want to point out that, for disagreeing with a certain person aiming Brad Lander is a “fake Jew,” I too have been called a “fake Jew” and a “kapo.” I didn’t even make other substantive claims, but just not accepting that framing was, for this person, enough. Militant Zionism is a disease.

People contain multitudes. Sometimes I wish they’d contain a bit fewer.

Jews having been consistent victims of Western society makes Western criticism of a primarily Jewish state decidedly problematic in a way they’re not equipped by to deal with by binary Christian-adjacent morality.

I don’t even follow basketball and I am not from and have never lived in NYC but this thread is genuinely lovely.

Figures the jackass who thinks Nvidia's market manipulation and right-wing political advocacy has nothing to do with Huang's influence would also not give a shit about consent.

It’s like the other side of the “Jews are eating kosher food to avoid the chemicals they’re putting in our groceries” coin.

Graham Platner was the test of whether the left had the political an social literacy they claim the right is so sorely lacking. I never again want to hear that your political opinions make you inherently better people, or less hypocritical. You voted for him? Go shit in the sea.

I think AI is killing my sense of fulfillment at my job. One of the benefits of being a staff editor has been that I consistently work with the same stable of writers. The “nitty-gritty” of my job is marking up documents, yeah, but the real core has been coaching. I love watching writers improve.

I know the rabbi means redheads, but I’m envisioning an entire community of circumcised gingerbread men.

DID YOU KNOW In the medieval era & beyond, Christians & then Jews, thought a mythical nation of ginger Jews was stuck by a far-away river & if they escaped, they'd bring the Antichrist or the Messiah-- depending. It's actually a deep tale of lore creation + script-flipping. Come and learn!

I’m “condemning” you for trying to browbeat people with misinformation, and then trying to pretend you didn’t convey said misinformation. My “bad behavior” is being mean to you in the process of correcting the record. These are not on the same scale. They’re not even in the same zip code.

A reminder that I never said the senate impeaches. She did. The combination of zero civic literacy and gaslighting about her own stance has me suspect that this is very much a right-wing op.

I want to highlight that the “guardrails” AI companies talk about are at best suggestions. LLMs are algorithms. They’re fundamentally non-deterministic, which means they will just drop even the most explicit guidance at times.

“Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.” Weird of these bigots to call for their own destruction, but hey, no reason to disappoint them.

100%? If even 5% are, he’s already beyond the pale. That’s how serious his “liabilities” are. This isn’t about the calculus of “at what point does he become socially unacceptable.” This is about “someone who demonstrates a pattern of abusing power and privilege should not get more of both.”

I guarantee you they’re also prepping for if he loses with “This is because you criticized him and shamed people out of voting for him.” Nevermind that, if he wins the primary in a ranked choice system, that defense is already demonstrably false.

I keep trying to come up with absurd versions of this and you can't, it's just a brazenly absurd way to respond to people pointing out you did bad things

Man being held accountable for shit he did: "stop weaponizing my past against me"

Men truly are beyond parody

Platner supporters just love proving that, if you allow a Nazi into your bar, you are now a Nazi bar.

Guys, if you're at all confused, @elluisin.bsky.social uses "Answer the question" to say "I concede, I stated a false premise and asked a question that relied on the acceptance of that, and had no substantive response when my premise was handily deconstructed." Just a minor communications glitch.

“Unsurprising” does not preclude “unacceptable” or “unforgivable.”

100% this. As Adrie gets into downthread, Platner is consistent with other white men who enter a progressive movement not because they want to see it succeed, but because they want to be visibly associated with spearheading its success.

Back on the Muay Grind.

Blocked for refusing, in the blocker’s own words, to “conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.” I fully believe they’re sending their best. And, if this continues to be that, they’re on a losing course.

A big part of being Republican is, apparently, avoiding developing abstract reasoning skills.

Misplacing My Religion

I get blocked quite regularly for lashing out, but this is the first time in a long time I've been blocked for asking direct, clarifying questions.

It’s clear Goldman thinks he’s Rabbi Eliezer, and was not ready for Lander to Rabbi Yehoshua him.

Can you see the future? If so, a little before even that. You have to catch them in utero.

Just finished Sazan & Comet Girl, and all I’m saying is @sevenseasentertainment.com should maybe translate and bring out Nightmare Busters ASAP. I’m so desperate for more of Yuriko Akase’s art I’m looking up Pokémon cards.

Platner's continued candidacy is evidence that, for all of that "you don't know their intentions" bluster from cultural Christians, they don't give a shit about the intentions behind why a knob-end of a candidate politically agrees with them.

Men want all the benefits of weaponized incompetence with none of the stigma of being incompetent.

There is a universe where some mashup of Hebrew and English resulted in folks threatening their kids with a “lashon lashing,” and I’m not sorry for exposing you all to that thought.

The security concerns over the event are bad, but this is also reductive and opportunistic bullshit.

Every single one of those people who died had more inherent value than Musk’s peak net worth. Strip him of his assets and capital, and funnel them all into USAID and other such programs. It’s the only way to even begin addressing the harm he’s caused.

Y’know what? I’ll take it.

I don’t remember when I first heard “put the energy out that you want to get back,” but I’m lately feeling that’s a bit transactional. Maybe, “put the energy out that you want to see more of,” a core of propagation instead of reciprocation. Maybe that’s tikkun olam? I dunno.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live (but some are performance groups or individual artists because I’m not a huge concert goer): Dragonforce Motion City Soundtrack Fall Out Boy Panic at the Disco The Protomen TWRP Santana Janelle Monáe Flyana Boss Megan Thee Stallion

Hey all, this poster, mcchouffe.bsky.social is harassing @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social and pretty much anyone who has replied to her today with the exact post I've quoted. Just a storm of this exact reply in the last hour. I recommend reporting for targeted harassment.

Yesterday would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. I don’t know where he got it from, but I remember one of his favorite random exultations was “huge enormous tiny Elvis.”

I don’t know how to make AI fans understand that, if verifying its output would be as onerous as doing the work it did “for you,” then you should have just done the work yourself in the first place. If you want to put your name to unverified output, you’re taking responsibility for the errors.

I know this is so far from the point it doesn’t matter, but why does the one dude look like he’s made of matzah?

This is why you don’t mainline cultural Christianity.