Mick Weinstein
@mickwe.bsky.social
COO at The Times of Israel
Abba of 5
'I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered' (S. Kunitz)
Abba of 5
'I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered' (S. Kunitz)
An AI that scans all the podcast appearances of a new book’s author, eliminates duplicate statements and presents genuinely interesting points.
April 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
An AI that scans all the podcast appearances of a new book’s author, eliminates duplicate statements and presents genuinely interesting points.
La Piedra is good but Flora is better www.timesofisrael.com/haifa-jerusa...
Haifa, Jerusalem pizzerias make 50 Top Pizza list for Asia-Pacific region
Haifa's NeoPolitan takes 25th spot and new entry of the year award and Jerusalem's La Piedra is at 37 on the prestigious guide
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March 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
La Piedra is good but Flora is better www.timesofisrael.com/haifa-jerusa...
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but now I think he’s right. And maybe that’s what I found so disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
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March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but now I think he’s right. And maybe that’s what I found so disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Contemporary dress code for male Israeli journalists
February 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Contemporary dress code for male Israeli journalists
“Yoav said that maybe [Hamas] love them so much there because Ariel is funny and mischievous and that it’s hard for the terrorists to simply say goodbye to them” 😢 www.timesofisrael.com/he-isnt-dead...
‘He isn’t dead, he’s in his room’: Ariel Bibas’s 5-year-old friend struggles with his loss
Yoav Avital, who grew up with Ariel, asked to invent potion that could bring his friend back, dictated a letter imagining Ariel 'flying over Gaza' to 'fight the bad guys with a bow and arrow'
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February 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Yoav said that maybe [Hamas] love them so much there because Ariel is funny and mischievous and that it’s hard for the terrorists to simply say goodbye to them” 😢 www.timesofisrael.com/he-isnt-dead...
‘For Israelis, October 7 is a slow-release catastrophe.’
Matti Friedman: The Family That Never Came Home
The deaths of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were too unbearable to believe. Israelis couldn’t accept it until we had no other choice.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
‘For Israelis, October 7 is a slow-release catastrophe.’
In Israel the inflation is so tangible these days it’s like rising humidity
February 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In Israel the inflation is so tangible these days it’s like rising humidity
Aw that's too bad...
Shira Haas as Sabra can’t shield us from disappointment in new ‘Captain America’ flick
Now in US theaters, Marvel's 35th movie may just be its worst, while featuring -- after no small amount of controversy -- the franchise's first Israeli hero
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February 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Aw that's too bad...
We lack the language to describe the pleasures of raising a child. We have plenty of words to describe the hardships, but there’s no very good way to describe the meaning/joy/purpose of day to day parenting.
January 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We lack the language to describe the pleasures of raising a child. We have plenty of words to describe the hardships, but there’s no very good way to describe the meaning/joy/purpose of day to day parenting.
The gap between the quality of the podcast guests some hosts get and the quality of the mind and questions of those hosts.
January 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The gap between the quality of the podcast guests some hosts get and the quality of the mind and questions of those hosts.
This suggests the Oct 7 disaster was not prevented due to intelligence failure to pass up warnings to highest decision-makers. My question is why was Alef so concerned about passing up the dire report of Nun? www.timesofisrael.com/top-idf-offi...
Top IDF officer’s warning of Hamas onslaught plans was hidden in Aug. 2023 – report
Channel 12 cites 'Maj. Nun' as saying that while IDF was preparing for only four simultaneous incursions from Gaza, Hamas was planning a far more significant raid
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January 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This suggests the Oct 7 disaster was not prevented due to intelligence failure to pass up warnings to highest decision-makers. My question is why was Alef so concerned about passing up the dire report of Nun? www.timesofisrael.com/top-idf-offi...
'In my view, silicon is just as apt as carbon as a substrate for consciousness. What matters is how neurons or silicon chips are hooked up to each other, not what they are made of.'
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Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious? - Boston Review
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
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December 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM
'In my view, silicon is just as apt as carbon as a substrate for consciousness. What matters is how neurons or silicon chips are hooked up to each other, not what they are made of.'
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'It would be worse than ironic to allow the inventors of the technology that has dealt a death blow to the era of Romantic authorship to use its very ideological apparatus—the identification of “authoring” with “owning”—to reap the spoils of what comes next.'
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To Whom Does the World Belong? - Boston Review
The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT.
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December 26, 2024 at 1:17 PM
'It would be worse than ironic to allow the inventors of the technology that has dealt a death blow to the era of Romantic authorship to use its very ideological apparatus—the identification of “authoring” with “owning”—to reap the spoils of what comes next.'
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When Israeli Patio Man (see David Brooks, 2002) meets Hezbollah rockets www.timesofisrael.com/wartime-diar...
Wartime Diaries: Robbie Gringras
Grateful for his safety and relative comfort in this war, one man says goodbye to his personal paradise.
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December 25, 2024 at 6:14 AM
When Israeli Patio Man (see David Brooks, 2002) meets Hezbollah rockets www.timesofisrael.com/wartime-diar...
‘What do you think is the strongest tension in Israeli society?’ - from the new Israel Democracy Institute report
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
‘What do you think is the strongest tension in Israeli society?’ - from the new Israel Democracy Institute report
'anti-Zionism threatens the historic achievement of American Jewry, which is unconditional acceptance by the non-Jewish mainstream... Anti-Zionists have reintroduced conditionality'
The Blogs: Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? It doesn’t matter
It is time to shift gears and recognize that the delegitimization of Israel is the greatest threat facing the Jewish people today
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December 16, 2024 at 2:38 PM
'anti-Zionism threatens the historic achievement of American Jewry, which is unconditional acceptance by the non-Jewish mainstream... Anti-Zionists have reintroduced conditionality'
Do bank ATMs in other countries also now offer to take your cash at a loan at usurious rates?
December 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Do bank ATMs in other countries also now offer to take your cash at a loan at usurious rates?
One of the greats in Israeli music. Her memory will certainly be a blessing.
Israeli musician Corinne Allal dies aged 69
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December 12, 2024 at 6:04 AM
One of the greats in Israeli music. Her memory will certainly be a blessing.
Concerning.
Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: 'From here to Jerusalem. We're coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza'
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Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: 'From here to Jerusalem. We're coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza'
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Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: ‘From here to Jerusalem. We’re coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza’
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December 9, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Concerning.
Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: 'From here to Jerusalem. We're coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza'
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Footage shows Syrian rebels in Damascus vowing: 'From here to Jerusalem. We're coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gaza'
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
So Karl Ove Knausgaard is learning gemara in his spare time? There's a copy of the Talmud Bavli Yoma on his desk www.washingtonpost.com/books/intera...
December 9, 2024 at 2:42 PM
So Karl Ove Knausgaard is learning gemara in his spare time? There's a copy of the Talmud Bavli Yoma on his desk www.washingtonpost.com/books/intera...
@kevinroose.com is right - we need a paperclip maximizer sci-fi film to bring that concern/prediction to life... but 'Afraid' is so badly reviewed that I don't think it'll make it into my queue even
It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
😮 Legendary chips reporter Don Clark joins to talk about Intel’s surprise CEO ouster and the state of chips
🤖 A recap of our trip to the Curve AI conference
🎁 And the Hard Fork gift guide!
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😮 Legendary chips reporter Don Clark joins to talk about Intel’s surprise CEO ouster and the state of chips
🤖 A recap of our trip to the Curve AI conference
🎁 And the Hard Fork gift guide!
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/p...
Is Intel Cooked? + What’s Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide
The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.
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December 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM
@kevinroose.com is right - we need a paperclip maximizer sci-fi film to bring that concern/prediction to life... but 'Afraid' is so badly reviewed that I don't think it'll make it into my queue even
The flight of tech talent from Israel is a serious issue, I can say from personal experience. Fall in the volume of startups, less so - we prob. had too many that drew talent away from scalable companies. But the trend here is bad and needs serious attention as we hopefully move out of this war.
Israel is producing fewer new startups, raising concerns about future tech jobs
The past decade has seen the number of newly founded startups plunge 45% and more, creating a potential economic shortfall in the coming years, according to RISE Israel
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December 9, 2024 at 9:01 AM
The flight of tech talent from Israel is a serious issue, I can say from personal experience. Fall in the volume of startups, less so - we prob. had too many that drew talent away from scalable companies. But the trend here is bad and needs serious attention as we hopefully move out of this war.
What a wonderful story - ht @dzkalman.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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December 8, 2024 at 4:42 PM
What a wonderful story - ht @dzkalman.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Assad going down in a plane crash sounds a little too convenient
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Syrian sources say Assad may have been killed in plane crash during escape
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December 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Assad going down in a plane crash sounds a little too convenient
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