JIndeli.bsky.social
@jindeli.bsky.social
Once a bookseller. Mostly on here to learn from those who care enough to share specialized knowledge… and for some of the art and all of the animals.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Chef’s kiss* article. My involuntary response to just hearing “The New York Times” is to eyeroll and keep scrolling. This article clarifies the pointed little ways the Times undermines its own integrity.
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Chef’s kiss* article. My involuntary response to just hearing “The New York Times” is to eyeroll and keep scrolling. This article clarifies the pointed little ways the Times undermines its own integrity.
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
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“Yes to Peace! No to violence!”
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Yes to Peace! No to violence!”
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
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there are very few things that are genuinely a litmus test for intelligence, but getting mad at hearing other languages is on the very short list
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
there are very few things that are genuinely a litmus test for intelligence, but getting mad at hearing other languages is on the very short list
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“alter the language of your grant title — otherwise it would be at risk of not being funded”
This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“alter the language of your grant title — otherwise it would be at risk of not being funded”
This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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The AG dept has the gal to say “the well has run dry” so hungry Americans won’t get food assistance in Nov? Meanwhile, BILLIONS are being spent on ICE, more American concentration camps, farmer bailouts, an Argentinian bailout, tax cuts for the uber rich & trump’s gaudy ballroom? That’s obscene.
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The AG dept has the gal to say “the well has run dry” so hungry Americans won’t get food assistance in Nov? Meanwhile, BILLIONS are being spent on ICE, more American concentration camps, farmer bailouts, an Argentinian bailout, tax cuts for the uber rich & trump’s gaudy ballroom? That’s obscene.
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"AMPA receptors play a key role in transmitting signals between neurons. When overproduced, they can disrupt synaptic function and lead to cognitive impairment — a mechanism previously observed in depression and schizophrenia."
Japanese researchers link COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ to neural receptors
A study found that people who reported difficulty returning to daily life after contracting COVID-19 had a higher-than-usual density of a certain receptor.
www.japantimes.co.jp
October 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"AMPA receptors play a key role in transmitting signals between neurons. When overproduced, they can disrupt synaptic function and lead to cognitive impairment — a mechanism previously observed in depression and schizophrenia."
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Her Name Was Hind: Her Foundation Takes 24 Israeli Soldiers and Commanders to the ICC for Her Murder
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Her Name Was Hind: Her Foundation Takes 24 Israeli Soldiers and Commanders to the ICC for Her Murder
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...
Reposting because I’m so amazed that it seems to be helping people! I keep trying and have only turned the volume down a single notch, but even the tiniest margin of relief is welcome. I’m intrigued that this works at all—*and* it’s shockingly loud, which is counterintuitive for tinnitus relief
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposting because I’m so amazed that it seems to be helping people! I keep trying and have only turned the volume down a single notch, but even the tiniest margin of relief is welcome. I’m intrigued that this works at all—*and* it’s shockingly loud, which is counterintuitive for tinnitus relief
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
#NoKings
― Ursula K. Le Guin
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
#NoKings
― Ursula K. Le Guin
#NoKings
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Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."
"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
October 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."
"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.
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audre lorde
FOR ASSATA
FOR ASSATA
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
audre lorde
FOR ASSATA
FOR ASSATA
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Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
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Ultra-processed food may be a good analogy for AI. It's just an evolution of the food technology that came before it, produced for profit under the guise of convenience, but now it overwhelms the food supply, has a bevy of ill environmental and health effects, and are designed to make you want more.
Ultra-processed food: Five things to know
A Stanford Medicine research dietitian spells out what ultra-processed means, why such foods are unhealthy and how to eat a healthy diet in a world filled with them.
med.stanford.edu
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ultra-processed food may be a good analogy for AI. It's just an evolution of the food technology that came before it, produced for profit under the guise of convenience, but now it overwhelms the food supply, has a bevy of ill environmental and health effects, and are designed to make you want more.
I hope this study gets the attention it deserves.
You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I hope this study gets the attention it deserves.
A needed jolt of joy to open up the New Yorker and find a new poem by my first and best poetry professor
‘At night, the dizzying decrees roll through my brain, which I guess makes waking up into these days of stomach-dropping dread where I am still moving the stones a relief as we become one with all the many elsewheres of history we failed to imagine we’d too become.’
- Maxine Scates @newyorker.com
- Maxine Scates @newyorker.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A needed jolt of joy to open up the New Yorker and find a new poem by my first and best poetry professor
Really impressed that my *local waste management district* is hosting an upcoming book club, live and Zoom, based on Edward Humes’ new book Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
September 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Really impressed that my *local waste management district* is hosting an upcoming book club, live and Zoom, based on Edward Humes’ new book Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
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No — the WHO has not officially declared COVID-19 “endemic” yet.
The WHO has not declared the COVID-19 pandemic over yet.
It is still considered a global health risk.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills." - WHO Director-General
The WHO has not declared the COVID-19 pandemic over yet.
It is still considered a global health risk.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills." - WHO Director-General
September 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
No — the WHO has not officially declared COVID-19 “endemic” yet.
The WHO has not declared the COVID-19 pandemic over yet.
It is still considered a global health risk.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills." - WHO Director-General
The WHO has not declared the COVID-19 pandemic over yet.
It is still considered a global health risk.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills." - WHO Director-General
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Got my COVID shot yesterday. Highly recommend you get yours ASAP.
If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Got my COVID shot yesterday. Highly recommend you get yours ASAP.
A thrilling list this year
National Book Award for Poetry 2025 longlist announced - www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry
www.nationalbook.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A thrilling list this year
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I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman
September 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman