"If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology — and you don’t understand your problems." Laurie Anderson, 2020

Turns out, Larry David was right about FTX

87% of journalism majors regret their choice, followed by 72% of sociology majors.

“Far be it from me to tell my people not to laugh at a time like this; since when have we not turned our haters into humor? But something about the stickiness of this clip, in specifically Jewish circles, broke my heart.” nyti.ms/3GzP6wN

if you think that you understand the impact of AI, you do not understand, and have yet to be instructed further. if you know that you do not understand, then you truly understand. (-alan watts, sort of)

Cool new trend in Japan is to wear vintage sweatshirts from summer camps for Orthodox Jewish girls in upstate New York. Here's Camp Spatt

Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology🧵

Stanford just released a MASSIVE 386-page report on the state of AI. Here are the 12 most interesting trends that you should know.

What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians? 8 more examples:

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This chart says so much about the current moment. It shows the failure of institutions and policies that were designed for the 20th Century — a century with a broad middle class and a tiny number of super-rich. The middle class is gone, and the absolute number of poor and

Damn, that is a brutal chart. (via Rishi | ഋഷി | 🌐🗽🥥🔰🏙)

And Kristallnacht was a protest against windows.

I remember one thing that set me apart from a lot of other Western students in Middle Eastern studies was my being German. Not because it provided me with some unique insight, but because people across the region would regularly come up to me and congratulate me on the Holocaust.

A month ago, at this hour, I had to tell my two daughters - 3.5 years old and 20 months old - that they must remain completely silent. No word, no cry. It was 7AM, they had just woken up in a dark room with no electricity or food, and five people were shouting outside the window.

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Hayim Katsman was a DJ, a philosophy PhD, a car mechanic, farmer and a peace activist. He especially loved Arab music and would use it in his DJ sets - he thought it could bring people closer together. He also volunteered to drive sick kids from Gaza to hospitals in Israel. On

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models. cohere.com/research/aya

The backlash to director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the Oscar’s—where his film The Zone of Interest won “Best International Feature Film”—is really beyond the pale. Let’s take a minute to watch his speech & examine what he said in context: 🧵

You've probably seen this video of a Jewish man and woman offering Muslim worshippers dates outside the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Ramadan. This beautiful gesture shows the possibility of coexistence between the two people at an individual level - I mean, it's incredibly