Michael R. Bernstein

Dissonant Cogitant, Autodidact, Dilettante, Effer of the Ineffable, Epistemic Rupturer.

Adding Value since 1970.

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

🚀 Excited to announce the first public release of lodum (v0.2.0)!

Its basically Rust's serde for #Python. Fast, universal serialization for JSON, YAML, MsgPack, & more-powered by dynamic AST bytecode generation.🐍⚡️

Try it: `pip install lodum`
Docs: https://t.co/8q3f08DgQh

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@OfficialLoganK @fsfarimani @GoogleAIStudio Workspace Studio only supports creating a task (no task editing, no triggering a flow start from task creation or modification), is the GAI Studio integration more capable in that regard?

[Henshi @HenshiG]

Another voice from history has fallen silent. 🕊️

Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor, Holocaust educator, and tireless guardian of remembrance, has passed away at 96.

Born in Vienna, Eva fled with her family to Amsterdam, where they became neighbors and friends of the Frank family.

In 1944, betrayal led to their arrest and deportation to Auschwitz. There, amid unimaginable horror, she and her mother endured starvation, exhaustion, and brutality.

Her father and brother were murdered just days before liberation.

Devastated yet resolute, Eva refused to let the dead be forgotten. Instead of silencing her pain, she chose to speak—through books, lectures, and as co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK—ensuring future generations understood the consequences of hatred and indifference.

With her passing, we lose one of the last living witnesses to Auschwitz. As that generation fades, the responsibility to remember falls more heavily on us.

Eva carried unimaginable grief with extraordinary courage, not to dwell in the past, but to protect the future from repeating it.

Rest peacefully, Eva. After a lifetime bearing witness for humanity, may you now find the peace that was once stolen from you. 🕊️

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@simonw @benstein "Simon-splaining"

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Lebanon is not Hezb0ll@ and hezb0ll@ is not Lebanon. #israel #lebanon

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@EliAfriatISR Golda!

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

Hmm.

But you still need thumbnails, so, what...? Make them intentionally "worse" so they look like a human made them, or make them "better" so they look like a human made them?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@tubbypaws Welcome back! You were missed.

[tubbypaws @tubbypaws]

tubbypaws is returning to the world and may do some new things soon. i may even take on commissions with a twist…

[ליאור שליין @LiorSchleien]

America and Israel - The End?

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

Stop trying to define Antizionism by first defining Zionism

For a long time, I approached it that way myself. I would begin with: What is Zionism? Jewish self-determination? A political movement? A national liberation movement? Then I would assume “anti-Zionism” simply meant opposition to whichever definition I landed on.

That is the wrong framework.

When we study other forms of prejudice, we do not start by defining the target group and work backwards. We do not define Blackness to understand anti-Black racism. We do not begin by defining LGBT identity to understand anti-LGBT prejudice. We examine the recurring mechanisms that animate the hostility itself: the narratives, the stereotypes, the irrational assumptions, the moral coding, the patterns of exclusion.

The same analytical exercise should apply here.

Antizionism is the contemporary manifestation of hate and hostility toward Jews. The question therefore becomes: what are its recurring features? What are its libels? What are its assumptions? What are the patterns that repeat themselves across institutions, social spaces, and public discourse?

Why are “Zionists” treated as a stigmatized category, as people who are uniquely untouchable, morally contaminated, or beyond legitimate engagement?

The discussion stopped being an internal debate about Jewish political thought a long time ago. It has become an examination of a global hate movement and the mechanisms that animate it.

Therefore, we should analyze antizionism through the mechanisms by which it operates: stigmatization, exclusion, collective attribution, and recurring libels.

Antizionists rarely explain antizionism itself. The conversation always returns to Zionists and their supposed conduct. It is time to stop studying the object and reverse the lens.

Turn the mirror around.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wholesome moment.

Mom giving her daughter one of the best experiences. Memories that last forever, not just a day.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I think I have my answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft]

Because I care about treating people humanely—and because I’m a proud Zionist—this is the final straw.

Fire Ben-Gvir.

If you agree, share this please.

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@ghumare64 Rohit, can you post on how the three repos `agentmemory`, `agentbrain`, and `akbp` relate to each other?

[Michael Dickson @michaeldickson]

Let’s see if all who are observing “Nakba Day” can wrap their heads around this cognitive dissonance. The fact is: there has never been an Arab State called Palestine, and historically when people referred to Palestine they were talking about the Jewish homeland.

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

Hmm. That would be in 1986, so... "Buy Apple Computer."

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Bad enough that @NYCMayor put out a “Nakba Day” propaganda video.

So it’s no surprise that @nytimes simply repeats the false narrative without scrutiny.

Because Inea Bushnaq is not a “Nakba survivor.” She is the descendant of Bosnian Muslims and was not forcibly displaced from her home.

But facts don't matter to the NYTimes.

[M Khalid @khalidJMSW]

I am a Druze American, and today I feel deeply ashamed to call myself Syrian. All this horror—and much more—has unfolded in my city, Sweida, solely because we are Druze.

We are a small minority in the Middle East—a secular, peace-loving people who have rejected takfirism and jihadism for over a thousand years, since the birth of our faith. Yet we are not cowards. We have survived in one of the harshest corners of the world for more than a millennium, holding steadfast to our humanity, dignity, and moral integrity.

We do not preach our religion, nor do we seek converts. We cherish science, art, and music. We value life and family. We honor women, never veil them, and practice monogamy as our faith commands.

If these savage, bloodthirsty extremists are allowed to destroy us, they will do so without hesitation. They possess no moral compass, only the delusions of a psychotic ideology. The West must not look away and must not tie Israel’s hands, for it is the only nation that has tried to help us and halt the massacre.

If the world remains silent, they will wipe us out and then turn their fury toward the Christians and every other minority in the Middle East. Their ultimate aim is to create another Afghanistan at Europe’s doorstep, then Europe itself or “Rome” as they like to say.

We can hold the line—but we need the West’s support, not its complicity with the Jihadists.

[Michael R. Bernstein @NerdWorldOrder]

@ArrayManta @skdh That's actually something I get AI to check for me. It isn't uncommon to get around a 10-15% rate of "Author is misrepresenting the cited paper to some degree."

I bet that if the citation edges between papers were typed based on this, we'd get much more useful ranking data.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — May 17, 1939: Britain Appeased the Arabs & Condemned Europe’s Jews to the Holocaust

As Jews across Europe were being beaten, robbed & deported after Kristallnacht, Britain joined the side of their persecutors by issuing the infamous White Paper of 1939 — one of the most disgraceful acts of appeasement and betrayal in modern history.

First they appeased Hitler at Munich.
Then they appeased the Mufti of Jerusalem and Arab violence.

At the worst possible moment, Britain illegally slammed the last escape door shut on Europe’s Jews. The White Paper drastically restricted Jewish immigration to a trickle and made any further entry subject to Arab consent — which the Arabs had already made clear would be zero. Jewish land purchases were brutally restricted.

This was not policy.
This was betrayal.

Britain had been granted the Mandate for Palestine by the League of Nations via unanimous international treaty specifically to establish a Jewish national home and encourage close Jewish settlement.

The League’s own Mandates Commission reviewed the White Paper and declared it illegal — a clear violation of the Mandate. Britain simply ignored the League and enforced it anyway.

The Jews begged for their lives. Britain gave them a death sentence.

Hundreds of refugee ships were turned away. British forces fired on many. The Struma — carrying 769 Jews, including 70 children — was refused entry and later sunk. One of many such tragedies. Britain’s policy trapped Jews in Europe with nowhere to run as the Holocaust began.

By closing the gates while the Nazis prepared the gas chambers, Britain became complicit in the scale of the systematic, industrialized genocide. At least hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have reached safety in the Land of Israel were instead exterminated.

The British didn’t just fail the Jews.

They actively helped ensure that when the Nazis came for them, there was no place left in the world to which they could escape.

That is why a strong, sovereign Israel is not optional — it is an existential necessity.

Never again will Jews depend on the mercy of empires that appease our enemies and abandon us to slaughter.

Never again will we trust “guarantees” from powers that fold, betray, or look away when it matters most.