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Toot by אידישע פויעאידישע פויע (babka.social)

@aelliotpr All of this kind of reminds me of the argument about how the swastika didn't start out as a nazi symbol and so we shouldn't automatically assume everyone using it is a nazi. (I first learned about this argument from an ex-boyfriend which is part of the reason he's very firmly an ex, but that's a collection of stories for another day in which I have copious amounts of alcohol and weed). Anyway, if you're using a swastika I'm assuming you're a nazi. Also, if you and your friends are yelling "from the river to the sea" I'm assessing the risk of you and your friends being genicidal fucks as too high for me to dig up some sort of benefit of the doubt on your behalf. See also: If you either regularly make jokes about raping women, or you regularly defend others who do the same as not really misogynist assholes and I just need to calm down, I'm assuming you're a misogynist asshole.

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Toot by אידישע פויעאידישע פויע (babka.social)

@aelliotpr All of this kind of reminds me of the argument about how the swastika didn't start out as a nazi symbol and so we shouldn't automatically assume everyone using it is a nazi. (I first learned about this argument from an ex-boyfriend which is part of the reason he's very firmly an ex, but that's a collection of stories for another day in which I have copious amounts of alcohol and weed). Anyway, if you're using a swastika I'm assuming you're a nazi. Also, if you and your friends are yelling "from the river to the sea" I'm assessing the risk of you and your friends being genicidal fucks as too high for me to dig up some sort of benefit of the doubt on your behalf. See also: If you either regularly make jokes about raping women, or you regularly defend others who do the same as not really misogynist assholes and I just need to calm down, I'm assuming you're a misogynist asshole.

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The Synagogue by Andrew Lovseth

Disruptive innovation,” a term heard more often in business school than in synagogue, has been at the heart of the Jewish project from the beginning. Soon after establishing the covenant at Sinai, the Children of Israel reconstructed their religious life around a mobile tabernacle that carried their community and its faith through the wilderness. Upon […]

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Jewish Ethics in an Age of Autonomous Warfare by Andrew Lovseth

Imagine you are a head of state with the opportunity to kill in one strike the entire political and military leadership of an enemy terrorist group. Every. Single. One. All the leaders and commanders who have launched repeated attacks on buses, cafes, and shopping centers would be gone in a flash. Along with terrorists, however, […]

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Lincoln’s Lost Lecture: Can Democracy Survive Technology? by Andrew Lovseth

All creation is mine, and every man, a miner.” So begins one of the least-known speeches by Abraham Lincoln, the “Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions,” versions of which were delivered on at least six occasions between April 1858 and April 1860. We generally think of Lincoln as an American prophet, a redeemer president who freed […]

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The Talmudic Cure for Our Technology Sickness by Andrew Lovseth

When new technology enters the world, it enriches it and pushes it forward. New technologies always add to people’s lives something they didn’t have before. But technology not only adds to people’s lives; it also takes away from them, as Marshall McLuhan observed. What it adds is always shiny; what it takes away is always […]