Mushon Zer Aviv
@mushon.bsky.social
Politics of: systems/ interaction/ design/ futures/ friction/ flow/ budgets/ data/ vis/ privacy/ networks/ Middle-East/ maps/ cities/ labor/ zombies
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Weekend read: my friend @mushon.bsky.social's NYT Op-Ed left me crying. Crises that might feel abstract and far away from the US have real people and human suffering at their core. "What we need now is for humanity to overcome the cruelties of its own imagination". Well worth your time.
Opinion | A Tale of Two NICUs
My son was born at 28 weeks. I know the pain and triumph of neonatal intensive care.
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Weekend read: my friend @mushon.bsky.social's NYT Op-Ed left me crying. Crises that might feel abstract and far away from the US have real people and human suffering at their core. "What we need now is for humanity to overcome the cruelties of its own imagination". Well worth your time.
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"To save preemies like my son and those in Dr. Salem’s NICU takes much more than a village; it takes a society committed to protecting its weakest members, and it takes a functioning public health system. And that requires a free society, free from war and occupation, capable of protecting its own."
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com published an essay I wrote. A video from a #NICU in #Gaza brought me back to another night, 14 yrs ago, beside an incubator in Tel Aviv—where I became a father.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
Opinion | A Tale of Two NICUs
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"To save preemies like my son and those in Dr. Salem’s NICU takes much more than a village; it takes a society committed to protecting its weakest members, and it takes a functioning public health system. And that requires a free society, free from war and occupation, capable of protecting its own."
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com published an essay I wrote. A video from a #NICU in #Gaza brought me back to another night, 14 yrs ago, beside an incubator in Tel Aviv—where I became a father.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
Opinion | A Tale of Two NICUs
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com published an essay I wrote. A video from a #NICU in #Gaza brought me back to another night, 14 yrs ago, beside an incubator in Tel Aviv—where I became a father.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
It’s about bounded solidarity, fragile lives, and what might still be saved if we dare to imagine otherwise.
בזמן שבו ממשלת ההפקרה בוזזת את הקופה הציבורית, פוטרת את בניה משירות כשמבנינו ובשמנו היא דורשת לבצע פשעים של טיהור אתני והשמדה. בחרנו אני וחברי לתנועה הישראלית/פלסטינית ארץ לכולם—שתי מדינות, מולדת אחת לפעול למען עתיד בטוח, עצמאי ומשגשג במולדת הזאת שלנו שבין הנהר לים.
May 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
בזמן שבו ממשלת ההפקרה בוזזת את הקופה הציבורית, פוטרת את בניה משירות כשמבנינו ובשמנו היא דורשת לבצע פשעים של טיהור אתני והשמדה. בחרנו אני וחברי לתנועה הישראלית/פלסטינית ארץ לכולם—שתי מדינות, מולדת אחת לפעול למען עתיד בטוח, עצמאי ומשגשג במולדת הזאת שלנו שבין הנהר לים.
Being Palestinian in Israel cannot be funny. The police wouldn’t allow it.
www.972mag.com/nidal-badarn...
By Noam Shuster-Eliassi for @972mag.bsky.social
www.972mag.com/nidal-badarn...
By Noam Shuster-Eliassi for @972mag.bsky.social
A Palestinian comedian walks into an Israeli interrogation room
Nidal Badarneh was arrested for joking about Israeli hostages. Yet when Israeli comedians joke about the war, or even killing Palestinians, no one bats an eye.
www.972mag.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Being Palestinian in Israel cannot be funny. The police wouldn’t allow it.
www.972mag.com/nidal-badarn...
By Noam Shuster-Eliassi for @972mag.bsky.social
www.972mag.com/nidal-badarn...
By Noam Shuster-Eliassi for @972mag.bsky.social
Political Imagination, anti-fascism and, dare I say… partnership based peace?
Final (free) tickets to the conversation between @superrrnetwork.bsky.social’s Zara Rahman and myself on Thursday in #Berlin
pretix.eu/SUPERRR/core...
Final (free) tickets to the conversation between @superrrnetwork.bsky.social’s Zara Rahman and myself on Thursday in #Berlin
pretix.eu/SUPERRR/core...
February 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Political Imagination, anti-fascism and, dare I say… partnership based peace?
Final (free) tickets to the conversation between @superrrnetwork.bsky.social’s Zara Rahman and myself on Thursday in #Berlin
pretix.eu/SUPERRR/core...
Final (free) tickets to the conversation between @superrrnetwork.bsky.social’s Zara Rahman and myself on Thursday in #Berlin
pretix.eu/SUPERRR/core...
ANY #BERLIN-BASED #ANTI-FASCIST OUT THERE?
I’m super-thrilled to lead a political imagination workshop at Publix, Berlin, hosted by the multitalented team at @superrrnetwork.bsky.social Lab.
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I’m super-thrilled to lead a political imagination workshop at Publix, Berlin, hosted by the multitalented team at @superrrnetwork.bsky.social Lab.
form.typeform.com/to/lB2cFI35
January 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ANY #BERLIN-BASED #ANTI-FASCIST OUT THERE?
I’m super-thrilled to lead a political imagination workshop at Publix, Berlin, hosted by the multitalented team at @superrrnetwork.bsky.social Lab.
form.typeform.com/to/lB2cFI35
I’m super-thrilled to lead a political imagination workshop at Publix, Berlin, hosted by the multitalented team at @superrrnetwork.bsky.social Lab.
form.typeform.com/to/lB2cFI35
Through a year of darkenss, "Future Screenshots" is a new #futures methodology for #Political_Imagination I developed to find hope and inform action. It revolves around capturing #screenshots from futures and mapping them to the Futures Cone.
November 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Through a year of darkenss, "Future Screenshots" is a new #futures methodology for #Political_Imagination I developed to find hope and inform action. It revolves around capturing #screenshots from futures and mapping them to the Futures Cone.
"There is a world where there's no war in the Middle East. Where Palestinians and Israeli civilians go about their lives. Where maybe they can look confidently towards the future and even envisage more bridges between them. Where our region envisions its true and full potential…
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
"There is a world where there's no war in the Middle East. Where Palestinians and Israeli civilians go about their lives. Where maybe they can look confidently towards the future and even envisage more bridges between them. Where our region envisions its true and full potential…
An article I've been **RAGE CLICKING** for @uxcollective.bsky.social
Clicking repeatedly and getting no feedback is now the sign of our times. How can we design digital and social systems that avoid dead-end rage and enable new and unexpected affordances for action?
uxdesign.cc/rage-clicks-...
Clicking repeatedly and getting no feedback is now the sign of our times. How can we design digital and social systems that avoid dead-end rage and enable new and unexpected affordances for action?
uxdesign.cc/rage-clicks-...
Rage clicks are microdoses of pure horror
Clicking repeatedly, getting no feedback is now the sign of our times. Can we design systems that enable unexpected affordances for action?
uxdesign.cc
November 17, 2024 at 1:32 PM
An article I've been **RAGE CLICKING** for @uxcollective.bsky.social
Clicking repeatedly and getting no feedback is now the sign of our times. How can we design digital and social systems that avoid dead-end rage and enable new and unexpected affordances for action?
uxdesign.cc/rage-clicks-...
Clicking repeatedly and getting no feedback is now the sign of our times. How can we design digital and social systems that avoid dead-end rage and enable new and unexpected affordances for action?
uxdesign.cc/rage-clicks-...
In my new article for @tnr.bsky.social I explore Israel's blindspots in Gaza through the biblical myth of Samson and suggest what America, Israel's closest ally, should do rather than push us further over the edge…
newrepublic.com/article/1779...
newrepublic.com/article/1779...
January 13, 2024 at 7:27 PM
In my new article for @tnr.bsky.social I explore Israel's blindspots in Gaza through the biblical myth of Samson and suggest what America, Israel's closest ally, should do rather than push us further over the edge…
newrepublic.com/article/1779...
newrepublic.com/article/1779...
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How can those claiming to "stand with Israel" stand by and even actively support Netanyahu’s atrocious government? Mushon Zer-Aviv writes: newrepublic.com/article/1779...
Israel Commits Suicide of Biblical Proportions, and America Is
There to Assist
How can those claiming to “stand with Israel” stand by and even actively support Netanyahu’s atrocious government?
newrepublic.com
January 11, 2024 at 2:43 PM
How can those claiming to "stand with Israel" stand by and even actively support Netanyahu’s atrocious government? Mushon Zer-Aviv writes: newrepublic.com/article/1779...
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This is a beautifully written and sensitive piece about the Israel-Hamas war and I encourage you to read it.
Your Empathy is Killing Us medium.com/@mushon/your...
Your Empathy is Killing Us medium.com/@mushon/your...
Your Empathy is Killing Us
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
medium.com
November 16, 2023 at 4:50 PM
This is a beautifully written and sensitive piece about the Israel-Hamas war and I encourage you to read it.
Your Empathy is Killing Us medium.com/@mushon/your...
Your Empathy is Killing Us medium.com/@mushon/your...
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My friend Mushon wrote a piece on people’s inability to see the humanity and empathize with both Palestinians and Israelis https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488
Your Empathy is Killing Us
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
medium.com
November 12, 2023 at 9:32 PM
My friend Mushon wrote a piece on people’s inability to see the humanity and empathize with both Palestinians and Israelis https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488
Your Empathy is Killing Us
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
It took a long time for the words to find me. I hope they find you too.
medium.com/@mushon/your...
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
It took a long time for the words to find me. I hope they find you too.
medium.com/@mushon/your...
Your Empathy is Killing Us
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
medium.com
November 10, 2023 at 6:05 AM
Your Empathy is Killing Us
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
It took a long time for the words to find me. I hope they find you too.
medium.com/@mushon/your...
Why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hurting both sides, and what to do about it.
It took a long time for the words to find me. I hope they find you too.
medium.com/@mushon/your...
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"The moment you accept that it is not possible to fight for both sides at the same time, you lost your soul."
#ZIZEK in a rare nuanced message for those who side with the gunmen over the civilians in #Gaza and #Israel
#ZIZEK in a rare nuanced message for those who side with the gunmen over the civilians in #Gaza and #Israel
Slavoj Zizek — Statement on Israel, Hamas & Palestine (17/10/2023)
Get the 'I WOULD PREFER NOT TO' t-shirt: https://i-would-prefer-not-to.com
youtu.be
October 24, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Please wake me up from this nightmare.
October 11, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Please wake me up from this nightmare.
Selfishness is obviously the emotional mechanism for thinking you can keep the world ordered.
You can’t.
We actually do care about each other,
and your numbers don’t add up!
You can’t.
We actually do care about each other,
and your numbers don’t add up!
August 11, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Selfishness is obviously the emotional mechanism for thinking you can keep the world ordered.
You can’t.
We actually do care about each other,
and your numbers don’t add up!
You can’t.
We actually do care about each other,
and your numbers don’t add up!
Computers can never learn if they can never be surprised
August 11, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Computers can never learn if they can never be surprised
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Who's having a worse night, Trump's lawyers or Elon's?
August 6, 2023 at 4:11 AM
Who's having a worse night, Trump's lawyers or Elon's?
“This ability to catalyze an effective separation of concerns into micro (influenceable by the typical human) and macro (not influenceable by the typical human) is … the primary practical affordance of narrative technologies.”
#must_read by @vgr.bsky.social
#must_read by @vgr.bsky.social
Rediscovering Narratability
How do you exit unnarratable conditions?
studio.ribbonfarm.com
August 5, 2023 at 12:37 PM
“This ability to catalyze an effective separation of concerns into micro (influenceable by the typical human) and macro (not influenceable by the typical human) is … the primary practical affordance of narrative technologies.”
#must_read by @vgr.bsky.social
#must_read by @vgr.bsky.social
Yes, the irony of posting this here is not lost on me…
“No exit — every feed is a traffic jam” by @Mushon Zer-Aviv
https://uxdesign.cc/no-exit-every-feed-is-a-traffic-jam-a5b091e8d3c2
“No exit — every feed is a traffic jam” by @Mushon Zer-Aviv
https://uxdesign.cc/no-exit-every-feed-is-a-traffic-jam-a5b091e8d3c2
No exit — every feed is a traffic jam
Infinitely scrolling down alternative feeds is getting us nowhere. To reinvent social media, we must imagine new socials.
uxdesign.cc
August 3, 2023 at 7:30 AM
Yes, the irony of posting this here is not lost on me…
“No exit — every feed is a traffic jam” by @Mushon Zer-Aviv
https://uxdesign.cc/no-exit-every-feed-is-a-traffic-jam-a5b091e8d3c2
“No exit — every feed is a traffic jam” by @Mushon Zer-Aviv
https://uxdesign.cc/no-exit-every-feed-is-a-traffic-jam-a5b091e8d3c2
#Israel's #democracy is in peril
Let us #scrollytell you why
Let us #scrollytell you why
What Protects Democracies? - The Berl Katznelson Center
We compared the checks and balances of 66 democracies, guess how Israel compares…
protect-democracy.berl.org.il
July 12, 2023 at 11:38 AM
#Israel's #democracy is in peril
Let us #scrollytell you why
Let us #scrollytell you why