Jennifer Thompson

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Jewish Studies professor. Scholar: contemporary American Jews & Judaism, applied Jewish ethics. Los Angeles. Loves dogs, native plants, the Dead Milkmen.
I barely use Twitter and I also forgot that Mastodon exists.
I made the five-star-rated latke recipe from the New York Times and it was awful. I object.

I'm glad news outlets are finally starting to give more (but not enough) attention to #ClimateChange but analyzing 1200 climate change scenarios seems like a weird project for a newspaper to undertake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/global-warming-1-5-celsius-scenarios/?itid=hp_Climate%20box_p011_f005

How we can keep global warming below the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal

These scenarios help show us what needs to be done — and what we can still do.

The Washington Post
I am thinking for the first time about having a virtual assistant. What is it like to have one? #work
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Hi, Babkans! Thanks for having me. I'm a Jewish studies professor who studies contemporary U.S. Jewish communities and the people who study them (meta!) using anthropological approaches. I am especially interested in the majority of U.S. Jews who are talked about as marginal or "bad" because they don't observe Jewish law, are intermarried, or what have you. The other part of my job/life is Jewish ethics. But I really post more about dogs, gardens, or silliness than work stuff. #introduction