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Most of this started as a Facebook post and got a second life here. Every piece carries its date in two calendars.

  1. AI Is Not the Problem

    I use AI all day every day. The leverage it gives me is astounding. The path from ideation to creation to implementation is shorter than it's ever been in my...

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  2. Bodily Autonomy and Down Syndrome

    I have met men with Down Syndrome who were wise and empathetic, not to mention mostly self-sufficient. I have met men without Down Syndrome who were foolish and self-centered, not...

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  3. You Can Not Own Land

    "You can not own land." "Yes I can!" "Prove it." "Uhhhh..." (Americans in particular will not like this politically incorrect post 😀) An object can be made or bought from...

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  4. Hard Conversations With Soldiers

    We need to talk about what too many soldiers in the IDF are doing. But imho our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, cousins and childhood friends,...

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  5. Two Sides to a Flag

    This post is definitely politically incorrect but I'll be honest... I have a problem with the 🇵🇸 flag. For me, it represents a history of exclusionary Pan-Arabism and organized violence...

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  6. AI and the Target List

    I use ChatGPT and Claude every day. Claude is better than ChatGPT - both are fascinating and powerful tools - but they both have serious, structural limitations. In its current...

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  7. Perks of Being a Maimonidean

    Come To The Dark Side, Luke While I'm still recovering from the flu and am stuck on the couch with all this extra time to examine my life lol, I...

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  8. Solving the Agunah Crisis

    The Agunah Crisis Women Chained to Dead Marriages Is Easily Solved We have so many options: - a clause in the kethuba stipulating binding arbitrage (including divorce, if mandated) in...

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  9. Yom Haatsmaut Amid Missiles

    (long but LIFE AFFIRMING 👍) This week we are supposed to celebrate Yom Haatsmaut. A national day of independence. A celebration of the achievement and the miracle that was the...

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  10. Comparing to Nazis

    I am not persuaded that Israeli soldiers are Nazis. There is so much that separates your average soldier from an actual Nazi, just as there is so much that differentiates...

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  11. Doña Gracia, Mother of Israel

    Went down the rabbit hole today researching alllllll the links in the chain from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 to the establishment of the state of #Israel in 1948....

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  12. Proof of the Creator

    Can you prove the Creator exists? Here's a modern update to Rambam's argument for the existence of God... Let's say, for the sake of discussion, we make the following eleven...

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  13. Pesah and Trans Rights

    As I wind down from preparing for #Passover, I want to share a politically incorrect musing on a recent development in the American culture war. Based on my understanding of...

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  14. Mental Slavery

    "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds" The Creator intervened in biohistory and through the imposition of a higher order, brought the regional empire to...

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  15. The Narrow Bridge

    I don't want to be an alarmist or pretend that I can predict the future. I hope that my concerns will be proven to be unfounded. But I want my...

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  16. Tucker Targets Chabad

    Chabad is a diverse, complex, and trans-dimensional organization. I have personally had great experiences with Chabad rabbis and families. I greatly respect their community building and social work, and I...

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  17. Setting the Record Straight

    Fun fact: I am allergic to bullies and I detest religious bullies. I also have limited patience for those who evade accountability, especially in the name of winning the American...

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  18. American Fascism Taxonomy

    I guess I still got #TDS. After much back and forth with ChatGPT, eliminating Eurocentric biases, ensuring it was operating from an updated knowledge base, and requesting elaboration on points...

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  19. Atheistic Explanation of Jewish Survival

    Allahu Akbar. But also: "A strong atheistic explanation has to work without invoking chosenness, providence, metaphysics, or teleology, while still accounting for the extraordinary empirical fact-pattern: a tiny, dispersed, repeatedly...

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  20. Rambam Was a Hasid

    Rambam, Maimonides, Abu Imran, or the Ra"m ba"r Maza"l, as he was variously known, was not just a legal scholar and judge, not just a doctor and a philosopher, but...

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