Aviv Sharon

יום יפה היום, חבל שאי אפשר ללכת לים.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

"Imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead."

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power.
Episode Three of Autocracy in America:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Hannah reminds us why we have a cabinet with "talents" like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, RFKJr and Pam Bondi...

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

מה עושים עם דרכון ישראלי שפג תוקפו? שומרים למזכרת?

מעניין איך זה להיות מתורגמן בשיחות האלה 💡

באיזו שפה נתניהו משוחח עם פוטין בטלפון? אנגלית? 🤔

I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6

Thank you Will Bunch

Trump Sued After Destroying White House for His Tacky Ballroom Donald Trump was hit with a brutal lawsuit after demolishing the East Wing of the White House.

There’s only been one lawsuit filed against the devastating destruction of the White House.

One.

And it’s by Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees.

Not Congress, not historical (or any) institutions, but a citizen couple.

We continue to be the resistance.

newrepublic.com/post/202201/...

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

COLOURS OF TIME | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL

הערב ראיתי עם האחים שלי את הסרט "צבעי הזמן" בפסטיבל הסרטים של חיפה. היה מעניין ויפה 🤩

youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?...

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

A scientist is saving Ukraine's hamsters—in the middle of war Mikhail Rusin is perhaps the world's greatest hamster champion.

“This is where I find my inner peace.” The man trying to save Ukraine's hamsters.

A reminder that small actions may be highly significant in the long term and can be vital when everything else going on is too big and too scary to fix by yourself.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

בלי ספוילרים!

חלמתי שאני נלחם בשטח בנוי והכדורים מעופפים סביבי 😬

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

These senators had every last shred of information they needed to know that Kennedy’s confirmation would be a disaster for American health. They chose to placate Trump.

Suddenly they’re finding their courage when it’s too late.

Absolutely pathetic and contemptible. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

למה טינדר מראה לי גברים מלוקסמבורג ואלבקרקי?

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.

לא ישנתי דקה הלילה ואז הלכתי לישון בבוקר.

רציתי לכתוב תרגום מילולי מאנגלית "לא ישנתי אפילו מצמוץ" אבל בעצם צריך להיות "לא ישנתי אפילו קריצה"

אז הפלמים והוואלונים תקועים האחד עם השני. טרגדיה.

Pete Hegseth’s Department of Cringe Renaming the Defense Department is a pathetic stunt.

It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately.
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes.

They lobotomized it *for this*.

הייתי במצעד הגאווה בחיפה ולחצתי יד לח"כ יוראי להב-הרצנו 🏳️‍🌈