Avishai 🇮🇱 🎗️
Avishai 🇮🇱 🎗️
@broccolinism.bsky.social
🇮🇱 zionist (with a capital צ), code monkey, guitar player, intentionally embarrassing dad
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...

A little surprised @simonwillison.net isn't concerned about being personally targeted for prompt injection, due to his high profile in this space.
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
simonwillison.net
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🧪August is the month of RNA🌞 in honor of the first codon AUG. For more about the fascinating world of RNA, which is at the forefront of new therapeutics from RNAi, to mRNA vaccines, check out our article: www.lbscience.org/en/2024/08/0...
#WorldRNADay
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Happy RNA Day! - Little, Big Science
Every year, we celebrate World RNA Day on the first of August. Why on August 1? Because August is abbreviated as AUG, which is also the start codon in most RNA molecules from which the ribosome produc...
www.lbscience.org
August 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Omg it’s for sale on the site
July 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I want this mug
July 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
An example from Japanese: the verb 急ぐ (isogu, to be in a hurry) to me is clearly related to 忙しい (isogashii, busy). But native speakers dismiss it because the kanji is different.
Weird language thing:

Possibly it's just that I write for a living, and I just... really like words and etymology, but I'm always surprised when people say "native speakers don't perceive the connection you see." E.g. in French "péter" means to fart. BUT
June 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The Trumpist assault on the federal government is a “civil war by other means”, says Rebecca Solnit. “It is a war against the government of the United States and the land and people of this country.” [meditationsinanemergency.com]
Some Rob You with a Six-Gun/ Some With a Fountain Pen: On Civil War By Other Means
Imagine if we were at war with a foreign power that bombed most of the federal buildings in Washington, destroying the records and functions of those departments and killing millions of federal workers – bombs falling on Health and Human Services, on the Justice Department, the Department of Interio
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy.
I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford
At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ffs amnesty
You can’t make this shit up

It’s real:
www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
December 7, 2024 at 6:43 AM