Thanks, and I'll let you know! I found a repair cafe happening here in Somerville on Sunday, so I'll start by bringing it there. Appreciate it!

And through posting about this on FB, I found out that there are all sorts of cool fix-it/repair cafes, and as it happens there's one coming up this Sunday in Somerville, in case anyone else lives near me and has stuff they need repaired! www.meetup.com/cambridge-ha...

I *LOVE* the Wayfarer series. So so much. When we had her on Gastropod for our sci-fi food episode (I worked so hard to make that happen!) (gastropod.com/what-do-alie..., I had to call her first for a quick soundcheck and I could get all my fangirling out of the way

Love it!

Oh funny! I def don't think my local radio station was particularly Italian-American (but I have to admit that I also turned off the radio once x-mas season started...)

Who knew! (Jews and other non-x-ians coming out of the woodwork...!)

Seven.

If there is, I haven't seen it, feel free to share and I can use that to forward! Or else please write it!

Now, I did not tell my friend to stop using ChatGPT for something easily searchable (and ignore the AI and click on the damn links!). But I was discussing w/colleague and we realized the media reported what Napster did to artists. There's not much about google ai/chatgpt/etc & media devastation. 3/

Seemingly unrelated, but yet related: there was a major loss of jobs at Eater. Because instead of searching for something about, say, food and getting an Eater site that would give them eyeballs and thus pageviews for ads, AI scrapes it and just gives people the info that other people worked for. 2/

Twinbrook Metro opened when I was almost 12, and I lived about two blocks away. I could take it by myself - it was glorious.

There were tiny chunks of pineapple in mushroom noodle dish at a snazzy Vietnamese resto last night, was delicious. Pineapple's great. (Haven't experienced pineapple pizza bc it comes w/ham and didn't eat that as a kid, and as an adult there aren't many well-sourced ham/pineapple pizzas to try)

Pineapple *in* dairy kugel. You haven't had fruit in a dairy noodle kugel? Like raisins? It's all good!

"They tried to kill us so don't ditch your identity/background/culture/religion" doesn't give you a lot to hang your identity on.

I would also love to add to this Holocaust angle of your thread by saying that teaching young Jewish only-sort-of-identified kids/teens *only* about the Holocaust, and not about, say, our rich traditions/history/culture, as a way to engender a Jewish identity will fail.

Love this for you (!) - but also I know I'm a Bostonian when I first read it as/think "yeah, taking the T (public transport) really does make someone hotter!"

I *am* wondering how it's all going to play out in voting. And personally I'd love it if someone were to propose a 25-story building or five in Magoun (right near me), a block away from the subway...

Wow I totally missed all the publishing of various flyers etc. Just looked some of that up...