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על נהרות בבל שם ישבנו גם בכינו בזכרנו את ציון
https://kafkaesque.blog
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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One of several treasures in exciting new exhibition, the Mishneh Torah is among the most important halachic works ever created
National Library of Israel unveils rare 14th-Century Maimonides masterpiece
One of several treasures in exciting new exhibition, the Mishneh Torah is among the most important halachic works ever created
www.jewishnews.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @nutedawn.bsky.social this is 100% consistent with my internal logic
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@danwaterfield.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social the aim of the app is to keep the flames alive. your SRS flame dies down over time, and you have to keep it either above 70% or 95% depending how tedious you are
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
@danwaterfield.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social it tells you what the correct answer should have been
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @bouledenerfs.bsky.social the main difference with the old forum - as well as friendly moderation - is it is not pro Russia! Feel free to help others on it too
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @bouledenerfs.bsky.social my friend is hosting a forum related to duolingo - please share her work. She is an active moderator and knows many languages and her community will support you in your efforts duoclub.org
Duoclub - For learning across languages - Index page
duoclub.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.“

We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.

You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
@puzzledbyadream.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social for example. dan could say in hebrew

"I like possums"
אני אוהב אופוסומים

Ani (I)
Ohev (like)
Opossum'im (Possums)

Ani is the pronoun
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@danwaterfield.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social elevenlabs seems the best, they get the grammar rules better
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
@batariangal.bsky.social gamers mentioned!
The real oppressed are the undergrad Thomists Feserposting in /r/askphilosophy and acting confused when people with PhDs from NYU or LMU or whatever are dismissive of them
god i miss how creative the old facebook meme pages used to be
December 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social what are the ethics of AI TTS? I used an AI to generate this audio from the niqqud and put it on a green background. this took about 5 hours to do.
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
@danwaterfield.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social Dan did you get my message sorry I have been quite slow to develop it because basically it is like it takes ages to create and implement an authentication system
December 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
we have a toxic and evil media ecosystem
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey have you seen
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Good grief
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@jayzedbee.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @runeberg.bsky.social is zach the jewish brazillian guy from the film we like?
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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If only magazines like The Economist had warned people of the consequences of student loans and the expansion of student fees when they were being introduced...
Labour is hitting Britons who support the party with exorbitant marginal rates, and giving distorting perks to people who will never vote for it and who, often, have little need
Pity the AVOCADOs
The Aggrieved Victims Of Crushing Academic Debt Obligations have it rough
econ.st
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM