Cynthia Graber
@cagraber.bsky.social
Co-host of Gastropod (entertaining podcast about food science/history). Instructor at MIT grad program in science writing. Lover of brassicas. Somervillain for life.
If there is, I haven't seen it, feel free to share and I can use that to forward! Or else please write it!
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If there is, I haven't seen it, feel free to share and I can use that to forward! Or else please write it!
Now, I did not tell my friend to stop using ChatGPT for something easily searchable (and ignore the AI and click on the damn links!). But I was discussing w/colleague and we realized the media reported what Napster did to artists. There's not much about google ai/chatgpt/etc & media devastation. 3/
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Now, I did not tell my friend to stop using ChatGPT for something easily searchable (and ignore the AI and click on the damn links!). But I was discussing w/colleague and we realized the media reported what Napster did to artists. There's not much about google ai/chatgpt/etc & media devastation. 3/
Seemingly unrelated, but yet related: there was a major loss of jobs at Eater. Because instead of searching for something about, say, food and getting an Eater site that would give them eyeballs and thus pageviews for ads, AI scrapes it and just gives people the info that other people worked for. 2/
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Seemingly unrelated, but yet related: there was a major loss of jobs at Eater. Because instead of searching for something about, say, food and getting an Eater site that would give them eyeballs and thus pageviews for ads, AI scrapes it and just gives people the info that other people worked for. 2/
Twinbrook Metro opened when I was almost 12, and I lived about two blocks away. I could take it by myself - it was glorious.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Twinbrook Metro opened when I was almost 12, and I lived about two blocks away. I could take it by myself - it was glorious.
There were tiny chunks of pineapple in mushroom noodle dish at a snazzy Vietnamese resto last night, was delicious. Pineapple's great. (Haven't experienced pineapple pizza bc it comes w/ham and didn't eat that as a kid, and as an adult there aren't many well-sourced ham/pineapple pizzas to try)
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There were tiny chunks of pineapple in mushroom noodle dish at a snazzy Vietnamese resto last night, was delicious. Pineapple's great. (Haven't experienced pineapple pizza bc it comes w/ham and didn't eat that as a kid, and as an adult there aren't many well-sourced ham/pineapple pizzas to try)
Pineapple *in* dairy kugel. You haven't had fruit in a dairy noodle kugel? Like raisins? It's all good!
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Pineapple *in* dairy kugel. You haven't had fruit in a dairy noodle kugel? Like raisins? It's all good!
"They tried to kill us so don't ditch your identity/background/culture/religion" doesn't give you a lot to hang your identity on.
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"They tried to kill us so don't ditch your identity/background/culture/religion" doesn't give you a lot to hang your identity on.
I would also love to add to this Holocaust angle of your thread by saying that teaching young Jewish only-sort-of-identified kids/teens *only* about the Holocaust, and not about, say, our rich traditions/history/culture, as a way to engender a Jewish identity will fail.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I would also love to add to this Holocaust angle of your thread by saying that teaching young Jewish only-sort-of-identified kids/teens *only* about the Holocaust, and not about, say, our rich traditions/history/culture, as a way to engender a Jewish identity will fail.
Love this for you (!) - but also I know I'm a Bostonian when I first read it as/think "yeah, taking the T (public transport) really does make someone hotter!"
October 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Love this for you (!) - but also I know I'm a Bostonian when I first read it as/think "yeah, taking the T (public transport) really does make someone hotter!"
I *am* wondering how it's all going to play out in voting. And personally I'd love it if someone were to propose a 25-story building or five in Magoun (right near me), a block away from the subway...
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I *am* wondering how it's all going to play out in voting. And personally I'd love it if someone were to propose a 25-story building or five in Magoun (right near me), a block away from the subway...
Wow I totally missed all the publishing of various flyers etc. Just looked some of that up...
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wow I totally missed all the publishing of various flyers etc. Just looked some of that up...
Now I'm curious what the pre-voting meltdowns are about. Some things to vote on are making me think, and some candidates/issues are things I have strong opinions about, but...meltdowns? Which of the things on the ballot?
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Now I'm curious what the pre-voting meltdowns are about. Some things to vote on are making me think, and some candidates/issues are things I have strong opinions about, but...meltdowns? Which of the things on the ballot?
(and I didn't mean that in past tense, they all still do, no matter their age!)
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
(and I didn't mean that in past tense, they all still do, no matter their age!)
If only they knew how many people get called Aunt/Auntie who have literally no blood ties! And in all sorts of communities! Shall I list all the kids/young adults who called me aunt/ie who have zero relationship to me?!
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If only they knew how many people get called Aunt/Auntie who have literally no blood ties! And in all sorts of communities! Shall I list all the kids/young adults who called me aunt/ie who have zero relationship to me?!
I did just literally laugh out loud. Maybe they weren't as loud about their holidays.
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I did just literally laugh out loud. Maybe they weren't as loud about their holidays.
Someone I knew when I was just out of college was an Indian-American who grew up in Queens, and when she was a kid, she didn't understand the concept of white people being prejudiced against Jews because she thought all white people were Jewish.
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Someone I knew when I was just out of college was an Indian-American who grew up in Queens, and when she was a kid, she didn't understand the concept of white people being prejudiced against Jews because she thought all white people were Jewish.
But yeah, I see v loud replies from people on other posts who clearly don't live in NYC.
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
But yeah, I see v loud replies from people on other posts who clearly don't live in NYC.
She *does* live in NYC alas, but also she's clearly been influenced by all the fear-mongering, which, if you actually listen to anything he *says,* isn't based in reality. And to then go and support *Cuomo*?!?!
October 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
She *does* live in NYC alas, but also she's clearly been influenced by all the fear-mongering, which, if you actually listen to anything he *says,* isn't based in reality. And to then go and support *Cuomo*?!?!
Oof indeed. I keep seeing someone I vaguely know on FB, generally progressive and supposedly feminist, posting abt supporting C/fear of M and I want to yell.
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Oof indeed. I keep seeing someone I vaguely know on FB, generally progressive and supposedly feminist, posting abt supporting C/fear of M and I want to yell.
It's similar to my frustration with arguments about people needing to "understand the other side" (and why are we always the ones told to do this?). Just one example: if I have my way, everyone will have affordable (even free?!) healthcare. If they have their way, I could likely die.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's similar to my frustration with arguments about people needing to "understand the other side" (and why are we always the ones told to do this?). Just one example: if I have my way, everyone will have affordable (even free?!) healthcare. If they have their way, I could likely die.
Okay, good to know, thanks! (And will keep in mind the, well, more than slight difference in our tolerance for gore/fear.)
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Okay, good to know, thanks! (And will keep in mind the, well, more than slight difference in our tolerance for gore/fear.)