A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

whelp, shabbas dinner guests just canceled and i’ve invited the other people i know too recently to invite them again without seeming like a weirdo. it’s going to be a lonely birthday.

The Jewish world has so much money in it that's used for stupid BS, why can't a few bucks be thrown in the direction of translators so that a vitally important halachic text gets a *very good*, even *excellent* translation?

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

Matt Dinniman should call the final Dungeon Crawler Carl novel The Winds of Winter just to be a dick.

Google Search was a wonder of the information age, our modern-day Library of Alexandria. By replacing links with “AI-powered interactive experiences,” they are quite literally burning a pillar of our society to ashes.

Shavuot is bonkers because YES I’ve been counting the Omer and YES I am still surprised to learn it starts Thursday

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

This is going to be devastatingly bad

Dear automated phone tree, we both know your menu options haven't actually recently changed, so why don't we skip the formalities and cut to the part where I yell "representative" six times and you connect me to a human

I believe that a lot of the backlash against AI is more fundamentally a backlash against the vilification of competence people are sick of laziness, of incuriosity, and of "efficiency" and profit at all costs and AI is the pinnacle of "it does work fast, at the expense of being right"

i have been in this house almost five months. when are my thighs going to get used to going up and down the stairs a thousand times a day?

The six real Talmudic genders are: - obligated in positive time-bound mitzvot - witches, probably - you thought it was a beautiful woman bathing in the river, but it's a beautiful rabbi instead - tumtum, the mystery gender - the Satan in a wig and dress, à la Bugs Bunny - Adam (pre-Eve)(look it up)

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

i remember being told that speed cameras didn’t do anything to discourage speeding. i was misled, and maybe you were too, but we can look at the evidence, learn, and change our minds.

a note for all the people who told me that AI would be the perfect tool for transcribing handwritten historical records into searchable text :

Caveman Lawyer II: Neanderthal Dentist

a friend who is spending his retirement sailing historic ships is an extra in this, which is the only reason i’m interested in seeing this. i do wish i could watch it get filked by my college classics friends.

registration for NHC summer institute, the best week of jewish learning and community around, is open! cvent.me/ZD1eg1?sms=7...

every major social media platform is owned by reactionary pro-israel ideologues so if you’ve lost control of the narrative, it’s not for lack of trying to control it, it’s because you’re actually awful

sticker charts? are you fucking serious with this shit?

Not sure which installment we’re up to today of “They couldn’t be fucking this country up more thoroughly if it was in fact their explicit goal.”

And just like that, with one click Prince George’s and Montgomery County tracks of the Purple Line alignment are officially connected! #ConnectingCommunities

The last month of attacks on Jews in London equals a single afternoon in Israel. If you're a liberal/lefty Jewish Israeli, let alone Palestinian, the risk grows considerably. But the risk of violence affects *everyone*. "UK isn't safe for Jews, we need to move to Israel" is patently ridiculous 1/

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So many of my friends are posting about the importance of unionized workplaces, but I just don’t see the problem with ionized workplaces

my favorite thing about Lehrer's political satire songs is they're either depressingly still relevant or completely fucking incomprehensible smut? send in the marines? pollution? i got it from agnes? still relevant MLF lullaby sounds like it comes from an alternate universe

ME, A HARPER AUTHOR FROM ANOTHER IMPRINT, ON READING THIS: well, i guess i can just go fuck myself i guess BLINK: you can’t do that either garbage face

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.

is reverse image search on google borked for anyone else? every time i try to use it, the app freezes.

if pro ball players still had nicknames like these, maybe i would have had an answer for the “who is your favorite player” at the team meet and greet for my youngest yesterday.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

The King of England is coming to my town tomorrow for no reason I can fathom except that its name is Front Royal and someone in the protocol office thought it would be cute. I mean, fine, I guess. But the Chamber of Commerce down in Chinless Knob, VA must be seething. SEETHING.

i’m about 60% through the new @kjcharleswriter.com, and i don’t know if i can stand the precarity of the house of cards nico has built!

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Suzanne Collins is one of the most underrated writers of the generation

hell yeah

Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.

not our fault y’all send these assholes here.

I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."

This rant is GLORIOUS

This is lovely, thoughtful work to preserve the identities and records of slaves who lived, worked and suffered on properties like hers in the South. That said, the SOUND I MADE WHEN SHE SHOWED HER LIVE LAUGH LOVE WALL OF SLAVE NAMES

Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.

And I think it’s a no-brainer that they should be subject to extremely strict ethics rules: no travel they don’t pay for, no gifts from anyone who lobbies Congress or funds cases, no freebies, no favors, no dinners. You know, similar to when I was 27 and I was a state legislative analyst.

i really hope that hospital administrators can use this to strengthen their spines to support their doctors. never comply in advance!

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

between having to babysit the water heater replacement, four days without heat or hot water, and now tech support for my landlord to be able to get my rent transfer, i feel like i should get a discount next month.