I ordered coffee and cookies from a local Cambridge restaurant via GrubHub. Got a bicycle courier. Today is pretty icy. Now I have coffee on my cookies π«€
Cookies were for the kids. I think they are salvageable. Itβs not like my kids are supertasters or anything π¬
Iβm not sure why my workplace has a dentistβs office, but it is very good
It gets us farther from the truth. But the impetus to break it up is social (too many autism diagnoses). SMH
Five star shelter review! The stars are for the review itself (not the shelter). I learned lots
What the hell
Playing the game of: Is it Snowflake? Is it AWS? Is it my VPN? Is it my WiFi connection? Is it the macOS WiFi networking service?
The only thing definitive I found out is that an AWS data center in UAE got hit by βobjectsβ π
No worries there. I belong to regular shuls! This is not my shul, just one in the area (I live near Harvard, and this minyan seems to be linked to its students)
(And by that I mean, Jewish history is filled by so many more sad times than good that if bad times was our litmus test, we would have stopped celebrating Purim altogether. At most what is affecting us here in the US is a vague feeling of guilt. Akin to the paper straws on the poster.)
Iβm in the US. One of the local antizionist minyanim canceled Purim because we have no right to be happy when a war is going on
The rest of Jewish history be like π
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100%. Iβm a cloud data engineer, and best practice is to have redundancies across regions, though βwarβ is not usually on our mind when choosing locations. π«€
I remember how shook my company was on 9/11 though. What if our data had been in the WTC?
Just got a TOI push notification that rockets were launched for the first time in months from Lebanon
The name for "chess" used in Hebrew, Russian, Belarusian is loaned from a Persian phrase Ψ΄Ψ§Ω Ω
Ψ§Ψͺ (Ε‘Γ’h mΓ’t), meaning, as I read, βthe king is conqueredβ.
When one exclaims "checkmate", in Hebrew and Russian it's "mat".
Curiously, it's also cognate to Hebrew and Arabic word "dead"
Please take care
Lol. Production process failed AND my wifi node died all at the same time this evening π€‘
I love the YouTube government media warnings. Iβm watching a short news clip on ΧΧΧ about a goofy Shrek concert, and YouTube has a foreboding banner under it, warning me that Iβm ingesting government propaganda lol
Wowowowow
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should i be worried about this
Today I learned about "Makuya movement"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makuya
www.instagram.com/p/DVEPQ5tjEin/
Yup! For real!
Meanwhile, Duolingo Hebrew is all like βWe are running to the bomb shelter!β π¬
My oldest has a science magazine subscription, and this monthβs issue talked about how artists have an irrational taboo about AI art
Meanwhile, AI art be likeβ¦
Thereβs a dissertation to be written about World of Warcraft player housing.
No urban housing, and now suddenly thereβs βneighborhood watchβ NPCs all over the place? π
This kinda reminds me of a certain flavor of Nazism from a grad school class I took on Nazism and Christianity: Christianity is suspect because it is a Judaizing influence on the German
Volk.
Finally getting some real answers about the Epstein emails
Oh! I forgot about that! Will do.
Thatβs because the new CEO is Humam Sakhnini, an Arab Israeli Christian. Born in Nazareth in 1969. Lived in Lebanon as a teenager during the Lebanon War. Western educated. Formerly at Activision Blizzard and King
But sure. Big Jewish conspiracy
