Michele Tepper
@michelet.bsky.social
Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend
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The Torah of the mouth, cranberry edition 🧵
What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Torah of the mouth, cranberry edition 🧵
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"I think the best strategy in the age of AI is: bet on yourself… unique work made well with huge amounts of love is actually going to become more valuable in the AI era." A very heartening story about the brilliant Naomi Alderman buying back “Zombies, Run!” www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'
Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.
www.pcgamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"I think the best strategy in the age of AI is: bet on yourself… unique work made well with huge amounts of love is actually going to become more valuable in the AI era." A very heartening story about the brilliant Naomi Alderman buying back “Zombies, Run!” www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
As @rusty.todayintabs.com pointed out a while back, this is why tech bros need poststructuralism. Language is a tool for thought that we mistake for thought itself
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As @rusty.todayintabs.com pointed out a while back, this is why tech bros need poststructuralism. Language is a tool for thought that we mistake for thought itself
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once more begging everyone to stop writing off core tenets of criminal procedure as "a technicality"
"The government and Halligan here got off on a technicality.
And yet, in the rough and tumble world of criminal litigation, a win is a win."
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the dismissal of the Letitia James and James Comey indictments in The Situation.
And yet, in the rough and tumble world of criminal litigation, a win is a win."
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the dismissal of the Letitia James and James Comey indictments in The Situation.
The Situation: Not The Way I Wanted This to End
But I’ll take it.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
once more begging everyone to stop writing off core tenets of criminal procedure as "a technicality"
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“I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are” is a tour de force insult, simultaneously respectful and brutal
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are” is a tour de force insult, simultaneously respectful and brutal
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Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
Zombies, Run! is what got me to enjoy running, what got me through a half-marathon, and quite frankly the knowledge that it was at death’s door was a deterrent to starting up again. I’m so thrilled it will shamble on once more!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Zombies, Run! is what got me to enjoy running, what got me through a half-marathon, and quite frankly the knowledge that it was at death’s door was a deterrent to starting up again. I’m so thrilled it will shamble on once more!
Completely untrue; I can’t keep a plant alive past a month
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Completely untrue; I can’t keep a plant alive past a month
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the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Package theft has leveled up in Crown Heights - we got a guy on video dressed in a USPS uniform and carrying mail breaking in to the USPS lockbox to get in. Hardest part for him seems to have been that our lobby door looks like it should be a pull door but it's actually a push. Yay dark patterns?
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Package theft has leveled up in Crown Heights - we got a guy on video dressed in a USPS uniform and carrying mail breaking in to the USPS lockbox to get in. Hardest part for him seems to have been that our lobby door looks like it should be a pull door but it's actually a push. Yay dark patterns?
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Henry David Thoreau checking his phone, Walden Pond, Massachusetts
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Henry David Thoreau checking his phone, Walden Pond, Massachusetts
From the entrance to the exit
is longer than it looks from where we stand
I want to say I'm sorry
for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand
is longer than it looks from where we stand
I want to say I'm sorry
for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
From the entrance to the exit
is longer than it looks from where we stand
I want to say I'm sorry
for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand
is longer than it looks from where we stand
I want to say I'm sorry
for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand
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This Thanksgiving, we’re serving cons, cover stories, and a side of redemption. Watch the #Leverage and #LeverageRedemption marathon all week long, free on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This Thanksgiving, we’re serving cons, cover stories, and a side of redemption. Watch the #Leverage and #LeverageRedemption marathon all week long, free on #ElectricNOW. electricnow.tv/devices
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
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If you don't trust Google then you probably shouldn't use Gmail, but the claim it's training AI on your emails and attachments has *no real source that i have been able to find whatsoever*
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If you don't trust Google then you probably shouldn't use Gmail, but the claim it's training AI on your emails and attachments has *no real source that i have been able to find whatsoever*
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
And they said on the record that it doesn't matter whether you have the smart settings on or not, they don't.
Hochul herself said Stefanik is “full of shit” live on air to @chrislhayes.bsky.social (inspiring audible yelps in the studio!)
The Hochul campaign is out with a statement regarding President Trump's disagreement with Rep. Elise Stefanik calling Zohran Mamdani a "jihadist." Comms Director Sarafina Chitika says Trump "nuked her opening argument" in Stefanik's bid for governor
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hochul herself said Stefanik is “full of shit” live on air to @chrislhayes.bsky.social (inspiring audible yelps in the studio!)
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every week we get to friday and i think
well maybe next week will not be so weird
well maybe next week will not be so weird
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
every week we get to friday and i think
well maybe next week will not be so weird
well maybe next week will not be so weird
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I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: but this is tremendous content.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: but this is tremendous content.
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
Oh my goodness
Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh my goodness
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No but seriously arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
No but seriously arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304
The Wedding Banquet 2025 remake is a perfect movie for a shortish plane ride, and Youn Yuh-Jung absolutely steals every scene she’s in
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Wedding Banquet 2025 remake is a perfect movie for a shortish plane ride, and Youn Yuh-Jung absolutely steals every scene she’s in
Not cool, passage of time. Not cool at all.
Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Not cool, passage of time. Not cool at all.