Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through

Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through

A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess

A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess

Listening to @karenhao.bsky.social special episode on Empire of AI on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/1/1/emp...

My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible? Me: to keep you humble

My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible? Me: to keep you humble

“other disciplines make use of films and games without speaking their visual or procedural rhetorics…Would our colleagues in archaeology cringe at our use of agora and complain how it prolongs some longstanding myth within or about their field? Probably. Maybe now we are all even.”

Resharing this year's publication. I will have some new original research to share in the new year!

Very convenient framework for laundering responsibility for someone implicated with a company facing a wrongful death lawsuit

You can dissociate while reading this for an added fee

“I can’t stand these decanting videos” - my sister, referring to restocking videos

Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream

This year’s Christmas movie is Top Hat @filmforumnyc.bsky.social

My doppelgänger has branched out into film reviews and this is just too much

Omw to the movies

Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream

Uncut Gems is a Passover movie.

The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"

The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"

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the holy trinity

Actively trying to defuse the tension between 4 1st graders as they negotiate who sits next to the birthday girl

Thinking lately about doing an old fashioned close reading

that was my main way of posting here 😞

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Once again at the sky zone

My niece and nephew got a landline for Chanukah. Smart move

Good thread!

And of all the criticisms of the romance genre, I think the gripe about one of the genre’s defining conventions always misses the point

Gender is fake but intersexuality? That’s real

Gender is fake but intersexuality? That’s real

Watching Judith Butler and Ally Beardsley on the same podcast discussing gender is a confluence of so many streams of culture. It brings tears to my eyes

Uh oh. My sudden onset clairvoyance is flaring up

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

In the middle of the sea of cis gay men on the crowded dance floor at a circuit party, my sister shouts “I’m invisible!!”

My favorite of my grandma’s pieces and maybe the only one I’d steal

The world yearns for Hercule Poirot

Why is there coconut Manischewitz

This John Wayne doll is creepy but the boot table that makes it work

It's ok to say no to sweet potato latkes

My favorite of my grandma’s pieces and maybe the only one I’d steal

I'll be testing this strategy live in the field at the family Chanukah party later today

In my 30s now so I can just flat out lie and say “no, thanks, they’re too sweet”

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"Will the coyote ever catch the roadrunner?" is a perfect question

what about the somali customers? good chance they were working class too. do they not deserve to live in a world where they can buy a snack without an assault on their dignity?

In my 30s now so I can just flat out lie and say “no, thanks, they’re too sweet”

Pleased to announce I have signed a partnership with Kalshi to allow live betting on students' grades in my classes. PowerPoints will now feature a realtime odds ticker. It does create perverse incentives—I imagine a lot of surplus death in the grandma sector—but we can financialize that, too.

Almost that time of year where I'm gifted bad chocolate and have to say thank you