lauren
@laurens.bsky.social
Mom, technologist, LGBT, Jewish; strong opinions but I generally just post day in the life type stuff; interested in religion, philosophy, humanities, politics, computers
Sold house yesterday. Moving to new flat Sunday. Too much transition.
My hotel is solving its mold problem by unscrewing four out of five lightbulbs. Genius. No one ever needs light in the bathroom anyway. (There is no bathroom window, so it’s like taking a shower by candlelight)
lauren@laurens.bsky.social · 4w agoThis city is bonkers. High heat, high humidity, and no one has heard of bathroom fans. I’m pretty sure at the hotel I’m staying at, mold in the walls is the only thing keeping it up But it’s better than the active sewage leak in my apartment
This city is bonkers. High heat, high humidity, and no one has heard of bathroom fans. I’m pretty sure at the hotel I’m staying at, mold in the walls is the only thing keeping it up But it’s better than the active sewage leak in my apartment
I remember when the school district issued Chrome Books to my 4 year olds during the height of Corona, and they immediately used them to watch Attack on Titan It was the only thing the school district hadn’t banned on YouTube: Videos of giant, naked, sexless adults attacking & eating regular humans
none of your twee spooky names impress me@24shaz.bsky.social · 4w agoanyone else old enough to remember when every pupil needed an iPad or they’d be left behind 🙃
So let’s get this straight. Taxpayer money will be sent to Moscow to will help pay for the missiles and drones that kill Ukrainian families. Zelensky warned today that this deal strengthens Putin’s war machine, and he is right.
An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.
WTF, Springer Nature? Removing offensive language about patients being "combative" and "reproachful" is not enough. You need to explain why the language was there in the first place. virology.ws/2026/10/10/t...
Trial By Error: Springer Nature Removes Description of "Fatigue" Patients as "Combative" and "Reproachful" | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH A month after publishing a German-language article about chronic fatigue syndrome as part of a larger project, Springer Nature has rem ...
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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
Arriving to Acre train station הגעה לתחנת רכבת עכו الوصول إلى محطة قطار عكا
I hope the flydubai investigation goes better than the EgyptAir 990 investigation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAi...
EgyptAir Flight 990 - Wikipedia
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Moving from Ziv to Ahuza (different neighborhoods of Haifa) today. It has all the luxury features you’d want in a 1960s apartment! Such as this “dishwasher”. It pumps water into an upper cabinet and… well, the mechanism isn’t clear what happens next. It drools water back into the sink?
