George Altshuler
@georgelouisalt.bsky.social
Rabbi in San Francisco. On here for Yiddishkeit, Haiti and the Golden State Warriors.
cosign. good writing and good thinking are wrapped up in one another.
which is why I feel bad for kids using ai instead of learning how to write...
which is why I feel bad for kids using ai instead of learning how to write...
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
cosign. good writing and good thinking are wrapped up in one another.
which is why I feel bad for kids using ai instead of learning how to write...
which is why I feel bad for kids using ai instead of learning how to write...
The discernment and restrained but scintillating prose of an @anthonyvslater.bsky.social Warriors game summary will be one of the last things artificial intelligence will replace
Bad home loss for the Warriors to open the homestand. They gave up 21 offensive rebounds and 28 second chance points to the Blazers. Lost 127-123. Steve Kerr shifted to a bigger lineup in the second half, but it didn't solve issue. They're 9-9 through 18 games.
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The discernment and restrained but scintillating prose of an @anthonyvslater.bsky.social Warriors game summary will be one of the last things artificial intelligence will replace
Solidarity between late 30s dads with young kids in the Petri dish that is daycare
Steph Curry has a cold that he said is getting worse postgame. He casted some serious doubt that he will play in Sacramento tomorrow night.
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Solidarity between late 30s dads with young kids in the Petri dish that is daycare
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An epiphany of my thirties: *always keep learning*
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
June 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
An epiphany of my thirties: *always keep learning*
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
Great piece on the importance of learning how to think by writing - and how AI can rob us of that www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Great piece on the importance of learning how to think by writing - and how AI can rob us of that www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
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QP goes THROUGH the legs to Stephen for the triple 👌🤯
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
QP goes THROUGH the legs to Stephen for the triple 👌🤯
I swear there used to be way more pigeons in #sanfrancisco. Can someone please do a journalism on this?? @coyotemedia.org @emmaruthless.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I swear there used to be way more pigeons in #sanfrancisco. Can someone please do a journalism on this?? @coyotemedia.org @emmaruthless.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org
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I think it would be really funny if snatched Luka Doncic ends up being considerably worse at basketball than zaftig Luke Doncic
July 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I think it would be really funny if snatched Luka Doncic ends up being considerably worse at basketball than zaftig Luke Doncic
tl;dr
Where do you find good opinion writing online?
Has the quality of online opinion writing simply declined ?
Where do you find good opinion writing online?
Has the quality of online opinion writing simply declined ?
July 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
tl;dr
Where do you find good opinion writing online?
Has the quality of online opinion writing simply declined ?
Where do you find good opinion writing online?
Has the quality of online opinion writing simply declined ?
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Sam Corcos, CEO of an Andreessen Horowitz–backed health startup that has ties to SpaceX, told IRS engineers that Direct File was a good product.
Then met with private tax prep industry, and recommended killing it.
This is why we can't have tech innovation in govt.
Then met with private tax prep industry, and recommended killing it.
This is why we can't have tech innovation in govt.
SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sam Corcos, CEO of an Andreessen Horowitz–backed health startup that has ties to SpaceX, told IRS engineers that Direct File was a good product.
Then met with private tax prep industry, and recommended killing it.
This is why we can't have tech innovation in govt.
Then met with private tax prep industry, and recommended killing it.
This is why we can't have tech innovation in govt.
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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A RARE WIN FOR HAITI’S OUTNUMBERED, OUTGUNNED POLICE
Dozens of officers, working under steady gunfire, helped rescue thousands of pieces from the country's famed Centre d’Art.
We're “here to protect and serve,” one said. “In this case, we saved a part of our national identity”
wapo.st/3Gx3JDI
Dozens of officers, working under steady gunfire, helped rescue thousands of pieces from the country's famed Centre d’Art.
We're “here to protect and serve,” one said. “In this case, we saved a part of our national identity”
wapo.st/3Gx3JDI
Under a rain of bullets, Haitian police rescue thousands of artworks
The Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince has nurtured generations of Haitian artists and exhibited the country’s most important works of art. Then came the gangs.
wapo.st
July 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A RARE WIN FOR HAITI’S OUTNUMBERED, OUTGUNNED POLICE
Dozens of officers, working under steady gunfire, helped rescue thousands of pieces from the country's famed Centre d’Art.
We're “here to protect and serve,” one said. “In this case, we saved a part of our national identity”
wapo.st/3Gx3JDI
Dozens of officers, working under steady gunfire, helped rescue thousands of pieces from the country's famed Centre d’Art.
We're “here to protect and serve,” one said. “In this case, we saved a part of our national identity”
wapo.st/3Gx3JDI
I’m coming to the conclusion that live tv is just bad (I’m even watching sports on delay these days because I can’t stand commercials)
Flipping back and forth between CNN and MSNBC wondering if they're showing any part of the House fight over the biggest bill in recent history and, no, they're reporting on Puff Daddy's trial and something about hot dogs, so
July 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m coming to the conclusion that live tv is just bad (I’m even watching sports on delay these days because I can’t stand commercials)
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People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
July 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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If Ron Adams gave me a compliment like that, I would put it on a billboard, a loan application, my tombstone.
Kevon Looney was so easy to cover. One of my favorite features I’ve ever done is on how the Mikan Drill tells the story of Loon. He’ll be missed
Ron Adams: “Of all the people I think I've ever coached, there's no one I respect any more than him.”
Ron Adams: “Of all the people I think I've ever coached, there's no one I respect any more than him.”
Magic of the Mikan Drill fuels Warriors ‘godsend' Looney
Kevon Looney has turned into a player the Warriors can’t live without, and it all starts with the same drill he has done since Day 1.
www.nbcsportsbayarea.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If Ron Adams gave me a compliment like that, I would put it on a billboard, a loan application, my tombstone.
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The legislation is projected by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to add $3.3 trillion to the 10-year deficit. These tweets from a United States senator were posted 10 days apart.
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The legislation is projected by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to add $3.3 trillion to the 10-year deficit. These tweets from a United States senator were posted 10 days apart.
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Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
Horrible. And the legal rationale behind this is just absurd amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Trump ends TPS for Haitians. More than a half-million people now face deportation
Trump ends TPS for Haitians; over a half million now face deportation
amp.miamiherald.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Horrible. And the legal rationale behind this is just absurd amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.
June 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.
An epiphany of my thirties: *always keep learning*
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
June 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
An epiphany of my thirties: *always keep learning*
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
A recent reflection that:
—> Maybe the point of learning is not to amass knowledge and skill and then cash in by creating or doing something great.
Instead, what if a life of learning entails learning and doing at the same time??
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Don’t look away from this
Musk and Rubio claim their aid cuts haven't killed anyone. So I challenge them to join me here--they'll see the kids they are killing with USAID cuts, moms dying in childbirth. They'll see millions of doses of wasted medicine because they canceled contracts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Don’t look away from this