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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss

@profmweiss.bsky.social

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Math & Math Education, comics nerd, occasional Torah talk. Son of an immigrant refugee. He/Him/His.

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · Aug 12

brb, changing my display name to "Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss"

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · Aug 10

I don’t think people actually realize how wildly maximalist Jewish writing is. Like, the classic example is people saying they’ve read Talmud when Talmud is this:

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 1d

Onion bagel, scallion cream cheese, lox, red onion & a slice of tomato

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely one of my favorite stories

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 3d

one of the few specific stories to be found both in Josephus (Antiquities 13:13) and the Talmud (Sukkah 48b)

Mr. Burns saying "The written law doesn't mandate any water libation! I'm going to pour it on my feet intead [sic] of on the altar!"

the crowd throwing etrogim, shouting "Alexander Jannaeus is the son of a captive woman!"

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: Using "neurotic" as a dogwhistle for Jews
Wired: Using "autistic" as a dogwhistle for Jews

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 5d

I don't at all disagree, but taken from a distance it's kinda the same as Grant Morrison's post-Crisis take on Earth 3 (from "JLA: Earth 2"), though, isn't it?

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 8d

(Am I violating the rules of the "second sentence of every story" meme? Only if you incorrectly consider a colon to be the end of a sentence, rather than as a punctuation mark within one. Fight me!)

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 8d

The word of God came to Jonah, son of Amittai: Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim judgment upon it; for their wickedness has come before Me. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 8d

It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Witch Puppy Fen! 🏳️‍⚧️🎃🐶 @fendoggles.bsky.social · 8d

Listen, Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11d

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 11d

As long as I am a member of the United States Congress, I will NOT fund authoritarianism.

I will NOT support Fascism.

And I will NOT vote for a continuing resolution that steals from American families.

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 12d

The inverse of this is true, as well. Which is the biggest "face turn"? My money is on Woke Bill Kristol.

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 14d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 16d

When I worked for the Girl Scouts, and this was ten years ago, this was a five alarm fire. Membership organizations were crashing across the board, nobody wants to join or commit to any organization they just kind of want activities and services to be available when they feel like showing up

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 16d

even the secular is dying, though
car clubs and the like are shrinking

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16d

When it comes to the atomization of American society, I think a lot of people are underestimating the combination of American social life traditionally being rooted in faith based institutions and the increasing secularization of American society, especially amongst the youth

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 15d

Isn't this literally the point of "Kill your darlings"?

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 19d

all scapegoating must be postponed until the Musaf of Yom Kippur (listen, I don't make the rules, I just read the Machzor like everyone else)

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21d

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Ezra is right. In 2010, 1/4 of the House Dem caucus was pro-life. Without those votes Dems cannot build a strong majority.

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

Re: (2) above, yes, I know, Trump doesn't care what the law says and SCOTUS has routinely let him flout it. Nevertheless it's important to know when he's breaking the law and to say so clearly

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry but I have some questions:

(1) What exactly is a "proclamation"?? Is this an executive order? If so, why not just call it that?

(2) I was under the impression that the H1B visa program was established by Congress. Does the law give the President the power to do this?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22d

BREAKING: President Trump signs a proclamation to overhaul the H-1B visa program for high-skilled workers, including a new $100,000 annual fee.

Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that will require a new, $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applications.

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

oh HELL YEAH

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

Just to emphasize this point, when the Nuremberg laws were passed in 1935, Hitler didn't face massive, large-scale protests in the largest cities in Germany. The government of Bavaria didn't refuse to comply with Hitler's orders. The kind of resistance we are seeing today had no analogues then.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22d

No, I’m saying this isn’t Germany in 1934. The opposition in Germany in 1934 would have given anything to be as well-situated as we are, with as many potential avenues of resistance

steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 22d

in case you wanted to know what a "regular german" was saying in 1934

it was denial all the way down. "well nobody like me is in harm's way, they're just detaining the communists"

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

If ever there was an appropriate context for insufferable pedantry, this is that context

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Liz, is it insufferably pedantic of me to point out that “zeitgeist of our time” is a tautology?

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

This really is a thing of beauty

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 22d

@planetmoney.bsky.social Have any economists applied the idea of regulatory capture to the current Supreme Court? Seems like it would be a useful frame for understanding it, insofar as we have often thought of SCOTUS as a body that is meant to regulate the executive and legislative branches

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 23d

Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 24d

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” These stories show what happens when it’s the other way around."

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 24d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24d

The most recent episode includes Hodgman talking about going to Portland *with Coulton* AND a discussion of different kinds of lobsters and crabs AND talk about cryptids but somehow the Furry Old Lobster (which sits at the intersection of this Venn diagram) just didn't get mentioned!

Wildly Maximalist Michael Weiss @profmweiss.bsky.social · 24d

Kind of amazed that @hodgman.bsky.social and Janet Varney (is she on here?) have done TWO episodes of E PLURIBUS MOTTO with extensive discussions of lobsters but not a single mention of the Furry Old Lobster (either the part from AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE or the song by @jonathancoulton.bsky.social)

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