"Lies, conspiracy theories, misinformation, bias, pseudo-science, superstition & so on are... the [human default] that society will revert to in the absence of fragile cultural & institutional achievements." conspicuouscognition.com/p/why-do-peopl…

The continuing evolution of price discrimination. Opinion | Algorithmic pricing is scary. Here's what to do about it. bostonglobe.com/2025/12/26/opi… via The Boston Globe

This one had me crying with laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It’s that day when I make you all look at this

A guy walks into Moskovitz’s parrot shop and asks, “How much is that parrot?” “It's $5,000,” replies the store owner. “Why so much?” “Well this parrot knows the Talmud by heart.” The shopper was impressed. “What about that parrot?” he asks. “It's $10,000.” “Why so much?”

VENEZUELA: You’re hearing, of course, a ton of politics about what happened in Venezuela. Everyone is spinning, and candidly, many have no actual depth on the issue and default to politics and political angles...as always.

Yep. There really are only two camps: The camp that loves the West — and wants its blessings of modernity and prosperity for all humanity — and the camp that hates the West and will defend every tyrant and every destroyer of their own polities to avoid having to acknowledge that

Differentiating between greatest and most accomplished. Tom Brady Is Not the GOAT nytimes.com/2026/01/04/opi…

Brilliant. Goodbye MTV 😢

🔴 SNAPSHOT FROM HISTORY  – The beaten & stolen Yemenite Jewish children In 1918, Yemen began enforcing the Orphans' Decree. Based on Islamic law, that dictates the natural form for humans is Muslim - any child whose father died was removed from the Jewish community & tortured

Great cost-benefit analysis: when to park illegally. Parking is tops when it comes to Boston 311 calls bostonglobe.com/2026/01/16/met…

Something that often gets lost in popular discussions of Jewish history is just how much interconnection existed across the Jewish world long before Zionism even shows up as a political movement. The history of Diaspora Jewry is usually presented as a dispersal out of Roman

Over coffee this morning my wife said, “Did you hear anything I just said?” I thought to myself, “That’s an odd way to start a conversation.”

"Lawfare is... the deliberate use of legal frameworks, legal language, and legal institutions as weapons to achieve military or political objectives that cannot be achieved on the battlefield." The Genocide Slur Is Not Just for Jews tabletmag.com/sections/israe…

my current life situation... 😆😆😆😆

What is happening here is a classic sleight of hand. “Expulsion” is narrowed to its most literal, juridical meaning, and everything that falls outside that artificially constrained frame is dismissed as unreal, thereby allowing the lived experience of an entire population to be

It's so cold in Boston right now that packs of coyotes are able to cross the water today.

Knowledge poisoning: "The internet is flooded with biased, partial, or distorted content, so that truth disappears into the noise. The goal is to undermine our very ability to know what is true: when everything is contested, nothing is stable."

The Peanut Butter and Jelly (or Fluff) sandwich is from Massachusetts?! Patriots QB Drake Maye's favorite sandwich: a PB&J bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/lif… via The Boston Globe