Shani Aviram
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One way to tell the AI bros hate the humanities is they *definitely don't remember how any of the Greek myths end*... @theverge.com -
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
One way to tell the AI bros hate the humanities is they *definitely don't remember how any of the Greek myths end*... @theverge.com -
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Since 7th Oct 2023, Israeli prisons have become torture camps of the worst kind.
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens we...
www.972mag.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Since 7th Oct 2023, Israeli prisons have become torture camps of the worst kind.
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
הדבר הכי דמנטי שיצא לו מהפה
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
הדבר הכי דמנטי שיצא לו מהפה
נשמע לא טוב
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
נשמע לא טוב
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A key takeaway from all this has to be "You don't have to listen to Republicans anymore." They're either perpetrators of fascism or suckers who fell for it. If you have conservative views we can consider them again in 50 years or so
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A key takeaway from all this has to be "You don't have to listen to Republicans anymore." They're either perpetrators of fascism or suckers who fell for it. If you have conservative views we can consider them again in 50 years or so
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A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
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besides the general thought that the fracturing of the right is probably good for the rest of us, the apology for "toxic politics" seems like an appeal to the center rather than to some other section of the far right / MAGA base, which could mean weakness of the factions as a whole
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
besides the general thought that the fracturing of the right is probably good for the rest of us, the apology for "toxic politics" seems like an appeal to the center rather than to some other section of the far right / MAGA base, which could mean weakness of the factions as a whole
בפעם המיליון, אין דבר כזה חוק, יש רק אכיפה. אם למוסדות אין כפיפות לחוק אז אין לחוק משמעות. בזה שהקונגרס והצבא והמשטרה אינם מסרבים לפעולות בלתי חוקיות חלאס, אכיפה זה מה שמתאים להם, לא מה שהחוק אומר.
This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
בפעם המיליון, אין דבר כזה חוק, יש רק אכיפה. אם למוסדות אין כפיפות לחוק אז אין לחוק משמעות. בזה שהקונגרס והצבא והמשטרה אינם מסרבים לפעולות בלתי חוקיות חלאס, אכיפה זה מה שמתאים להם, לא מה שהחוק אומר.
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I think based on everything we know people are underestimating the possibility that Larry Summers deliberately sabotaged Obama rather than shot down a larger stimulus out of stupidity.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I think based on everything we know people are underestimating the possibility that Larry Summers deliberately sabotaged Obama rather than shot down a larger stimulus out of stupidity.
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Stop listening to people who can only tell you what “will never work”, and the only suggestions they have maintain the status quo in a different flavor. A new world is possible. It will not just require us to vote, protest, campaign, fundraise, and fight, it will require rediscovering imagination.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Stop listening to people who can only tell you what “will never work”, and the only suggestions they have maintain the status quo in a different flavor. A new world is possible. It will not just require us to vote, protest, campaign, fundraise, and fight, it will require rediscovering imagination.
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It is a failed process, the outright rejection of good information couched in bad framing. We’ve acquiesced on some of our most effective ways of dealing with challenges because we don’t like the way someone else brought it up, or the words they used to describe it. Friends, we have to grow up.
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It is a failed process, the outright rejection of good information couched in bad framing. We’ve acquiesced on some of our most effective ways of dealing with challenges because we don’t like the way someone else brought it up, or the words they used to describe it. Friends, we have to grow up.
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Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.
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Picture in your mind the world you’d love to see the children you know grow up to inherit. I know you can think of all the obstacles in the way of that world. I’m asking you to challenge yourself to think of ways through & around them. Because the absence of progress isn’t proof of impossibility.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Picture in your mind the world you’d love to see the children you know grow up to inherit. I know you can think of all the obstacles in the way of that world. I’m asking you to challenge yourself to think of ways through & around them. Because the absence of progress isn’t proof of impossibility.
החצי השני של ״לפני חצות״ כזה מאסטרפיס ששוכחים שהחצי הראשון די מקרטע
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
החצי השני של ״לפני חצות״ כזה מאסטרפיס ששוכחים שהחצי הראשון די מקרטע
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As GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd said years ago, “If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning."
This isn't it. Embracing the police-state rhetoric of people with criminal records as "the worst of the worst," even if only to show the Trump regime's hypocrisy, is not helpful and ultimately abets fascism and a white-supremacist government. One in every three US adults has a criminal record.
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
As GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd said years ago, “If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning."
בדיחה כל כך אידיוטית ואחד הגאגים האהובים עליי של מונטי פייתון www.youtube.com/shorts/afC58...
Monty Python - Mrs Rogers?
YouTube video by Advanced Mick
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
בדיחה כל כך אידיוטית ואחד הגאגים האהובים עליי של מונטי פייתון www.youtube.com/shorts/afC58...
אנחנו נמשכים וצריכים אמנות ויופי כי אנחנו חיים את החיים שלנו גם במימד הסימבולי, הלא גשמי. זה המשמעות של הקיום הממשי ביותר של הלא-מודע, חוויות לימנאליות, זה שיש לנו סרט שהמיינד שלנו מייצר ומוקרן לנו כשאנחנו ישנים. לא בלבד, אבל אחת הסיבות שאפשר להרגיש ריקנות חסרת תחתית זה כי נטשנו את העולם הפנימי שלנו
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
אנחנו נמשכים וצריכים אמנות ויופי כי אנחנו חיים את החיים שלנו גם במימד הסימבולי, הלא גשמי. זה המשמעות של הקיום הממשי ביותר של הלא-מודע, חוויות לימנאליות, זה שיש לנו סרט שהמיינד שלנו מייצר ומוקרן לנו כשאנחנו ישנים. לא בלבד, אבל אחת הסיבות שאפשר להרגיש ריקנות חסרת תחתית זה כי נטשנו את העולם הפנימי שלנו
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the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
אני לא חושבת שזה בלתי אפשרי שאנשים יגיעו למסקנה הזו, אבל המערכות שלנו נגועות מדי בפסיכוזה של חמדנות שמספר קטן אך לא מבוטל של אנשים קנאיים, רצה לוודא שהמערכת לעולם לא תשתנה. דמוקרטיה משאירה פתח לתת לאנשים אייג׳נסי על החיים שלהם, זה איום גדול מדי והקנאים רצו לוודא שזה לא יתאפשר
I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
אני לא חושבת שזה בלתי אפשרי שאנשים יגיעו למסקנה הזו, אבל המערכות שלנו נגועות מדי בפסיכוזה של חמדנות שמספר קטן אך לא מבוטל של אנשים קנאיים, רצה לוודא שהמערכת לעולם לא תשתנה. דמוקרטיה משאירה פתח לתת לאנשים אייג׳נסי על החיים שלהם, זה איום גדול מדי והקנאים רצו לוודא שזה לא יתאפשר
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BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.
לולללל
Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
לולללל
אולי מישהי תבוא איתי לטרק בפירינאים? מניפסטינג 🤞
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
אולי מישהי תבוא איתי לטרק בפירינאים? מניפסטינג 🤞
אני כותבת פה לפעמים על סין והמאמצים שלה לנצח במירוץ האנרגיה… אבל אתמול דיברתי עם איש תקשורת שעבד מבייג׳ינג בשלוש שנים האחרונות ומרגישה צורך לתקן עבור עצמי ואחרות - אי אפשר לסמוך על דיווחים שיוצאים מסין לצערי. סיכוי לא מבוטל שמה שהם מדווחים על ייצור אנרגיה מתחדשת זה קשקוש בלבוש
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
אני כותבת פה לפעמים על סין והמאמצים שלה לנצח במירוץ האנרגיה… אבל אתמול דיברתי עם איש תקשורת שעבד מבייג׳ינג בשלוש שנים האחרונות ומרגישה צורך לתקן עבור עצמי ואחרות - אי אפשר לסמוך על דיווחים שיוצאים מסין לצערי. סיכוי לא מבוטל שמה שהם מדווחים על ייצור אנרגיה מתחדשת זה קשקוש בלבוש
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more to the point: "this doesn't do anything" / "this is performative (derogatory)" is a criticism of land acknowledgements I find compelling from people actively engaged in reparations projects and pretty much no else
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
more to the point: "this doesn't do anything" / "this is performative (derogatory)" is a criticism of land acknowledgements I find compelling from people actively engaged in reparations projects and pretty much no else