Howard Gutowitz

Scientist, entrepreneur. Retired, as well as I can measure. Heterodox, enlightenment liberal: both anti-Trump & anti-"progressive". (X/Y)

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

In this house we believe: Popperian epistemology. The Anthropic Principle (At least on some branches of the multiverse). All species die, including necessarily this one.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

@unseenfilms that's disappointing to hear. Was looking forward to it. And yet, lowering expectations is always a good thing.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

No Joos, no noos.

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

DISGUSTING HOW PALESTINIANS ARE TREATED!! AN OPEN AIR PRISON!

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS!!

Photo location: Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

This is the heart of the problem. You can’t reason with people or even attempt to build trust in institutions again when journalists like Pelley are completely untethered from reality.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

@x the thirst trap bots are back in a big way!

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

If "trust god" is the solution then, as an atheist this translates to: strike the person off your friend's list. They're gone. It's not your fault. It's not their fault. It's just over, at least for now. They have to find their own way to enlightenment, don't hold your breath.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

This is a Dana stan account tonight. So much of the answer to EVERYTHING in life is what she says at the end: "Plant the seed. Trust God to the rest."

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

I went to school with that guy and I very very much doubt her story. This sexual accusation as power play thing has got to stop. Get good evidence or shut the fuck up.

[New York Post @nypost]

Vaccine expert lusted after Northwell Health scientist - then got her canned, she claimed https://t.co/wmNl6CWVik

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 6, 1938

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, arrived in London as a Jewish refugee.

At 82, he barely escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna after the Anschluss. Four of his sisters would later be murdered in the Holocaust.

In Vienna, despite his revolutionary ideas, Freud faced relentless antisemitism. Academic promotions were repeatedly blocked. As he once admitted, only Jewish audiences gave him the platform and sympathetic hearing he desperately needed.

On his 70th birthday, he told his Jewish lodge brothers:

“What bound me to Judaism was ... not belief and not national pride ... Because I was a Jew I found myself free from many prejudices which limited others in the use of their intellect ...”

Even as Freud maintained a complex, often ambivalent relationship with his Jewish identity, the rising tide of hatred eventually forced him out.

From exile in London, he published a powerful essay titled “A Word on Anti-Semitism,” exposing the hypocrisy of Christian society’s belated and feeble protests against Jew-hatred.

The man who spent his life dissecting the darkest corners of the human psyche was driven into exile by one of history’s oldest and most irrational hatreds.

No amount of genius could protect him.
Just being Jewish was enough.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

Girl 1 (pointing to new tat on girl 2): cute!
G2: yours are all so cute!!
G1: my bf says he only likes the ones on my butt.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

Summer reminds us of the masses of young women with many blue splotches randomly all over their bodies. Oh, those are tatoos. Of bunnies and such.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 5, 1948

In April 1948, 22-year-old Robert F. Kennedy traveled through British Mandate Palestine & saw: Jerusalem had a clear Jewish majority & Arab forces were openly preparing to annihilate every Jew the moment the British left.

This day, one of his dispatches from the Land of Israel was published in the Boston Post, capturing the grim reality:

“The City of Jerusalem has more Jews than Arabs but the immediate surrounding territory is predominately Arab … It is by this road [from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem] that the Jewish population within Jerusalem must be supplied, but it is fantastically easy for the Arabs to ambush a convoy …”

He added with chilling detail:

“The Arabs … would poison [the water]. The Jews … had a central water system installed … Unfortunately for them, the reservoir is situated in the mountains and it and the whole pipeline are controlled by the Arabs.”

RFK saw British troops disarming Jewish convoys while thousands of Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, and Transjordanian Arab soldiers poured in unmolested.

He watched the Haganah fighting desperately to keep the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem road open — calling it “our battle of the Atlantic” — because without it, Jerusalem’s Jews would have been starved or slaughtered.

With brutal clarity, the young Bobby Kennedy documented what so many still deny today: the Jews were not the aggressors. They were fighting for their ancient homeland “as of right and not on sufferance,” rebuilding a desolate land while Arab forces and British obstruction tried to crush them.

A 22-year-old future U.S. Attorney General and Senator saw the truth with his own eyes: the Jews were simply the ones refusing to die.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Orwell is something else.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

If she thinks that objective reality is just an opinion, she is not a keeper. Beneath this is typically that not only is it an opinion, but a wrong, shameful opinion. You'd have a lifetime of fruitless though humid and heated arguments, excluding mushrooms and other fungi.

[Raph Israël @raphlesioniste2]

🔴 Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 | Le dernier Juif d’une famille britannique vieille de 400 ans fait ses valises pour Israël

Ses parents sont déjà partis
Ses cinq sœurs aussi.

Baruch raconte qu’on lui crie « Free Palestine » et « Tu n’as rien à faire ici » dans la rue.
Il a même été menacé de recevoir de l’acide au visage simplement parce qu’il est juif

Sa famille vivait en Angleterre depuis près de 400 ans.

Baruch est le dernier à partir

La chute de l’Occident ne commence pas quand les Juifs arrivent

Elle commence quand ils partent
#RoyaumeUni #Israël #Juifs #Antisémitisme #Aliyah #LaChuteDelOccident

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

Where's the threshold? When must Jews accept that it's time to move, yet again?

[Luke Tress @luketress]

Antisemitic hate crimes in New York City jumped last month. There were 41 confirmed antisemitic hate crimes in May, a 46% increase over the average for the previous three months, according to NYPD data

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

I didn't guess that an explosion of anti-semitism in the western world would be a feature of the singularity.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In Staying Alive (1983), Rocky Balboa briefly crosses paths with Tony Manero A blink-and-you-miss-it moment.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

If I were advising a candidate trying to distance himself from a Nazi tattoo, I’d probably hold back on tweets suggesting Jewish people shouldn’t have a voice in our political system

But as we’ve seen, this is one of the worst managed campaigns in recent history.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

@JamesEsses "just" needs to be LGB w/o the T.

[Howard Gutowitz @gah]

@cremieuxrecueil would like to come.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

This is what they think men want because they’ve never met a man