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✡️ and loud about it. Pretty good with words. He/Him.
First waakye of the trip.
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
First waakye of the trip.
Why do we say that Enrico Fermi’s paper on weak interactions was a bad paper in its generation, but simply that Samantha’s paper on gender was a bad paper?
In any other generation, Fermi’s Nobel-winning work would be recognized for its merit, whereas Samantha’s would be bad in any generation.
In any other generation, Fermi’s Nobel-winning work would be recognized for its merit, whereas Samantha’s would be bad in any generation.
Everyone saying this is a bad science paper is correct; but it would also be a bad paper in a theology class.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Why do we say that Enrico Fermi’s paper on weak interactions was a bad paper in its generation, but simply that Samantha’s paper on gender was a bad paper?
In any other generation, Fermi’s Nobel-winning work would be recognized for its merit, whereas Samantha’s would be bad in any generation.
In any other generation, Fermi’s Nobel-winning work would be recognized for its merit, whereas Samantha’s would be bad in any generation.
One thing that always strikes me about Ghana, and I might get some pictures of some of this later, are the number of businesses that use anglicized Hebrew words or Jewish iconography.
Shalom Fabrics
El Shaddai Lashes
And my favorite: a truck with a Star of David with a menorah in the center.
Shalom Fabrics
El Shaddai Lashes
And my favorite: a truck with a Star of David with a menorah in the center.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
One thing that always strikes me about Ghana, and I might get some pictures of some of this later, are the number of businesses that use anglicized Hebrew words or Jewish iconography.
Shalom Fabrics
El Shaddai Lashes
And my favorite: a truck with a Star of David with a menorah in the center.
Shalom Fabrics
El Shaddai Lashes
And my favorite: a truck with a Star of David with a menorah in the center.
“Roosters crow at dawn” is, I’m learning, an insidious fabrication. We’re 45 minutes from dawn, and they’ve been going at it for an hour already.
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
“Roosters crow at dawn” is, I’m learning, an insidious fabrication. We’re 45 minutes from dawn, and they’ve been going at it for an hour already.
I mean, yeah. His issue isn’t and has never been that the claims being made about him are untrue. It’s that they’re being portrayed as a negative.
This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I mean, yeah. His issue isn’t and has never been that the claims being made about him are untrue. It’s that they’re being portrayed as a negative.
Growing up, one of my comfort games was Yoda Stories, an objectively terrible, procedurally generated “Zelda-like” where you’re Luke Skywalker and Yoda sends you out on one of a few variations of missions to combat the Empire. It was basically intended as a “replacement” for solitaire.
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Growing up, one of my comfort games was Yoda Stories, an objectively terrible, procedurally generated “Zelda-like” where you’re Luke Skywalker and Yoda sends you out on one of a few variations of missions to combat the Empire. It was basically intended as a “replacement” for solitaire.
I will forever hold that the superior cooking method for turkey is smoking. Like, yes, you can roast the bird in a way that’s not dry. Cool. But smoking it adds such a compelling depth of flavor that it’s absolutely my go-to.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I will forever hold that the superior cooking method for turkey is smoking. Like, yes, you can roast the bird in a way that’s not dry. Cool. But smoking it adds such a compelling depth of flavor that it’s absolutely my go-to.
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Santa knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake.
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee, auditing your religious practices over the year for any evidence of Hellenization.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Santa knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake.
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Ooh, yep, I thought I recognized her. It’s skull lady.
Recommend everyone block this racist lady whose whole raison d’être is NOT returning stolen Indigenous remains. Don’t engage, she came over here because she misses disrespecting you.
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Ooh, yep, I thought I recognized her. It’s skull lady.
Despite it all, you’re just a rat in a cage?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
Your corporate aesthetic is outdated?
Problematic beige gap
Problematic beige gap
Your hero got put down but Achilles?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Despite it all, you’re just a rat in a cage?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
I want to hone in on this for one more second. When my employer started advocating for AI use, they billed it as like having a very confident, knowledgeable coworker who is sometimes confidently wrong. But that perpetuates this idea that AI is an external perspective.
As always, the biggest product of AI seems to be the sense of confidence it provides, even if that confidence is woefully misplaced.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I want to hone in on this for one more second. When my employer started advocating for AI use, they billed it as like having a very confident, knowledgeable coworker who is sometimes confidently wrong. But that perpetuates this idea that AI is an external perspective.
If there's one thing AI is teaching me very quickly about technical writers, it's that, regardless of how skilled they are as writers, most of them are not skilled editors.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If there's one thing AI is teaching me very quickly about technical writers, it's that, regardless of how skilled they are as writers, most of them are not skilled editors.
It really feels like a large proportion of non-Republican elected officials in the US have internalized that the best way to deal with a bully is to ignore them and hope they stop targeting you, specifically.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It really feels like a large proportion of non-Republican elected officials in the US have internalized that the best way to deal with a bully is to ignore them and hope they stop targeting you, specifically.
Anti-theists fully out here demonstrating that they have zero interest in understanding power dynamics or history. It’s all about feeling like you’re justified in brow-beating people.
Just like many Evangelicals.
Just like many Evangelicals.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Anti-theists fully out here demonstrating that they have zero interest in understanding power dynamics or history. It’s all about feeling like you’re justified in brow-beating people.
Just like many Evangelicals.
Just like many Evangelicals.
Of course they’re going to appeal to the most ignorant, entitled people you know. I recently peeked at the Old App, and the majority of interaction with that app’s LLM was people asking it to do pointless, mundane things, like writing their response to a comment for them.
The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Of course they’re going to appeal to the most ignorant, entitled people you know. I recently peeked at the Old App, and the majority of interaction with that app’s LLM was people asking it to do pointless, mundane things, like writing their response to a comment for them.
I forget, does someone on Jewsky have a list for "people who try to erase antisemitism by relitigating Semite as a racial category"? Because, if they're not already on it, I have at least one addition.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I forget, does someone on Jewsky have a list for "people who try to erase antisemitism by relitigating Semite as a racial category"? Because, if they're not already on it, I have at least one addition.
*crosses “minds” off the list of things that are bigger in Texas*
Just some of the responses from Texas' elected officials:
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
*crosses “minds” off the list of things that are bigger in Texas*
I somehow don’t think “intellectual diversity” was supposed to be on the surplus-to-bankruptcy scale, but WaPo will be WaPo.
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I somehow don’t think “intellectual diversity” was supposed to be on the surplus-to-bankruptcy scale, but WaPo will be WaPo.
Some day, gentile internet leftists will hopefully grasp the concept of a “semi-closed ethnoreligion.”
But today, they’d apparently rather cape for Nazi race science.
But today, they’d apparently rather cape for Nazi race science.
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Some day, gentile internet leftists will hopefully grasp the concept of a “semi-closed ethnoreligion.”
But today, they’d apparently rather cape for Nazi race science.
But today, they’d apparently rather cape for Nazi race science.
So, I’m a huge Dragon Ball fan. I have the whole manga, I was in the theater for the limited Battle of Gods release, hell, the old Toonami dub is what got me into anime.
But I don’t own the anime because there has never been a good HD release in my region.
But I don’t own the anime because there has never been a good HD release in my region.
It's actually why older films and movies can look really janky! They haven't figured out the motion blur trick or how to apply it to literal film yet!
And animation. Oh boy. "Interpolation" frames are common aka frames in between main frames to mimic motion blur.
And animation. Oh boy. "Interpolation" frames are common aka frames in between main frames to mimic motion blur.
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So, I’m a huge Dragon Ball fan. I have the whole manga, I was in the theater for the limited Battle of Gods release, hell, the old Toonami dub is what got me into anime.
But I don’t own the anime because there has never been a good HD release in my region.
But I don’t own the anime because there has never been a good HD release in my region.
This has big “Hitler was a vegetarian and an artist” energy.
Reprehensible assholes can have ideas and ethical standpoints you agree with while still being reprehensible assholes. Stop trying to act like any amount of “good” would cancel our getting and retaining a symbol of Naziism in your flesh.
Reprehensible assholes can have ideas and ethical standpoints you agree with while still being reprehensible assholes. Stop trying to act like any amount of “good” would cancel our getting and retaining a symbol of Naziism in your flesh.
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This has big “Hitler was a vegetarian and an artist” energy.
Reprehensible assholes can have ideas and ethical standpoints you agree with while still being reprehensible assholes. Stop trying to act like any amount of “good” would cancel our getting and retaining a symbol of Naziism in your flesh.
Reprehensible assholes can have ideas and ethical standpoints you agree with while still being reprehensible assholes. Stop trying to act like any amount of “good” would cancel our getting and retaining a symbol of Naziism in your flesh.
Didn’t want to post this as a comment, because it’s hugely tangential, but I think, because of how “Islam” often gets translated into English as “submission,” I didn’t realize its root is س-ل-م, the Arabic cognate of ש-ל-ם.
Those are also the respective roots of “Salaam” and “Shalom.”
Those are also the respective roots of “Salaam” and “Shalom.”
I am always bummed when I see Islamaphobia coming from the Jewish community. Every conversation I have had about religion with a Muslim colleague or friend has only highlighted our similarities or deepened my understanding of our shared stories.
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Didn’t want to post this as a comment, because it’s hugely tangential, but I think, because of how “Islam” often gets translated into English as “submission,” I didn’t realize its root is س-ل-م, the Arabic cognate of ש-ל-ם.
Those are also the respective roots of “Salaam” and “Shalom.”
Those are also the respective roots of “Salaam” and “Shalom.”
This said, I’ll fully admit that when Google Maps took me to a random-ass residential street ten minutes away from the office this morning (it even acknowledged that I’d selected my saved Work preset), I caught myself wondering if this was in some way related to AI.
It's so fucking funny that this guy dressed like an off-duty clown and pretended to use a paper map for two days to prove a point, but there's a difference between "Waze uses machine learning to predict routes and traffic patterns" and "we fed every book in the library into an event horizon"
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This said, I’ll fully admit that when Google Maps took me to a random-ass residential street ten minutes away from the office this morning (it even acknowledged that I’d selected my saved Work preset), I caught myself wondering if this was in some way related to AI.
Way, way back in the day I worked at GameStop, and we had to give a spiel about a survey and stuff when checking people out. I had to create an internal script for it so I could do it consistently, and it became rehearsed which meant I could do it quickly. Customers found this entertaining.
my skills have extremely atrophied but setting the office voice mail greeting or leaving voicemails myself requires written bullet points and mental rehearsal, and if I *don't* do that then I don't sound natural
I used to have a job that periodically required me to make building-wide announcements over the intercom and I swear my IQ dropped 60 points the second I hit the talk button bsky.app/profile/cath...
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Way, way back in the day I worked at GameStop, and we had to give a spiel about a survey and stuff when checking people out. I had to create an internal script for it so I could do it consistently, and it became rehearsed which meant I could do it quickly. Customers found this entertaining.