Katya Dreyer-Oren

Everything is terrible but when a company gives me the option to "press * if you don't want to hear the hold music," I have a little hope for the world.

A DIY Pro Just Created the "Most Simple" Way to Hide a Common Kitchen Eyesore You only need two items.

I am truly sad Apartment Therapy doesn't have a comment section for this bananapants DIY. (courtesy of @kdreyeroren.bsky.social )

Instead of being able to discuss how our work impacts people all over the world, our Slack conversations are censored.

So Long to Tech’s Dream Job

It's hard to explain to people who aren't in tech how the vibe has changed, but this article does a decent job. Instead of feeling valued, we're told to feel lucky to have a job at all. Instead of feeling like people building tools for other people, we're told to not push back. bit.ly/4mAipRP

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

This is one of those books I planned to "hate-read" because I found the title so obnoxious but then it ended up being a helpful guide to just Being a Person in the World!

Thats not to say there haven't been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant's electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in the parking lot.

AI is the new microwave.

It's crazy how much AI is like the your worst coworker.

Doesn't do their job right, steals your shit, isn't funny, and in the end you still have to redo all their work and for some god knows what reason your boss loves them and never fires them.

Fun fact: Dersh was a season ticket holder to my mom’s orchestra when I was a kid and usually sat just a few rows away from us at her concerts. (There was less reporting on how despicable he was in the 90s.)

American Tall is the only reliable clothing company if you’re taller than average.

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

The Wall Street Journal 9m ago In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data

The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

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This is why I talk about what employees can - and must - do when they are asked to behave unethically. Modern capitalism is based on everyone looking the other way in the name of making money. Workers have power here, and are morally obligated to use it.

I’ve been watching the seconds tick up on my phone as I wait to ask the pharmacist why my medication is out of stock, and decided to use them to measure how long to hold my side planks, and this really feels like a commentary on America in 2025.

I keep trying to express this to people. Granted, I had to learn it the hard way, but doing the work *is* the work

The learning happens in retrieval, not encoding. Pulling it out of your brain and applying it is the hard part and it’s the part that sucks, but it’s also the only part you can’t skip!

For those of us who are disabled or prohibited from protesting for any reason, here are ways we can help.

I can’t take a service dog to a protest, it’s unsafe for him but also for others around us.

I can do some of these.

Pride, 'No Kings' combine in Boston march and festival Boston's Pride parade, in Copley Square, coincided with the “No Kings” demonstration, converging the two causes. Twirling rainbow umbrellas and waving Pride flags under drizzling skies, paraders who...

Pride met No Kings today in Boston and @cristelaguerra.bsky.social was there for @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

What we need from our friends and families and loved ones is understanding and a willingness to take on personal risk to help us.

We all need to be making these calculations right now. What would it take for you to hide someone in your house? How prepared are you for that possibility?

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

I don’t know what to do with this but on Nov. 23 I bet a friend that these two geniuses wouldn’t last 6 months together.

NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

shocked to hear that “...AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" based on a study of 25,000 workers at 7000 companies by the National Bureau of Economic Research
www.nber.org/papers/w33777
fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

A chart that shows 26% of US Jews believe in the God of the Bible. 50% believe in a higher power/spiritual force. And 22% don’t believe in any higher power/spiritual force.

Since we’re talking about Jewish atheism! It’s actually a very common thing and extremely in line with Jewish belief systems as we believe STRONGLY in skepticism and questioning. Atheism is extremely common among us and even many Rabbis are atheists.

I heard an interview yesterday with the Microsoft CTO who said that GenAI tools weren’t being deployed fast enough and companies would miss out on business opportunities. Why is nobody in the tech world talking about the other side - deploying them too quickly and losing all credibility!

Those hairs do look VERY SMART

Anticipating interesting ethical conversations around how doctors handle the administrations plan to literally kill people unnecessarily for... reasons?

Really enjoying the sardonic tone used by the woman who wrote this headline.