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.
@refuah Sounds like I have not missed much, then!
I barely use Twitter and I also forgot that Mastodon exists.
@abbystein I am ready for some good, clean vegetables.
I made the five-star-rated latke recipe from the New York Times and it was awful. I object.
@CarolGreenburg @jewwhohasitall
It's on display in my living room year-round.
@adar I guess no one knows!

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
@bogiperson @religidons I *think* Laura Leibman at Reed College has used an assignment like this.
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.