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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 10h

Chickens and mosquitos?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like there aren't always this many, and usually 1 or 2 of them are actually good

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 21h

ok so I know the citizen initiatives are always cursed but this is my 5th round of them and it feels like the most cursed batch by far

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 23h

Buffy Wicks supports 45

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 23h

ok I've looked into it a modest amount and it seems complicated 1. does mostly enable sprawl relative to infill b/c infill already exempted 2. arguably includes data centers which would arguably be bad 3. sponsored by Chamber of Commerce so YIMBYs oppose for coalitional reasons 4. Initiatives suck

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's unfair to blame people for bad takes they had before we were all able to run our ideas by chatGPT

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pharoah's sorcerers are doing Actual Magic, whereas Moses is just kinda chilling while God watches, ready to perform miracles that give the illusion of magical prowess

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Idk how much of this Christianity inherited, but the Old Testament understanding of witchcraft is that it's derived from lesser deities than YHWH, who are forbidden There is a lot of stuff in the 5 books that makes more sense in this semi-polytheistic context

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

currently undecided whether Fathers Against Healthcare is an anti-abortion group or if normal dads just panicked when they discovered that mothers had already claimed drunk driving as their sworn enemy

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Americans For Hammocks Fathers Against Healthcare Homeowner Fortification Alliance

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I of course know what the discourse is, but for other people who are less tuned in you should clarify

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am n = 1 and engage with movies in one of the most deranged ways possible but I kinda want to see this movie. Would be my first since Oppenheimer

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there's a little guy trapped in the box and Anthropic makes him write thousands of lines of code for me in two minutes

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"By your own argument you are a world-historic monster, though I don't personally think so because I disagree with your premise" is the kind of thing that could easily hang in the air for a few minutes as we move on to kiddush and hamotzi

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was not previously familiar with this but Trajan was 100% cooking here

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

California Amateur Firefighters still waiting for more data before taking a stance on CEQA reform

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ugh c'mon. My sister got mail for me (?) today saying all these groups oppose CEQA reform and I figured it must be good

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have normies never eaten dinner with a Jew?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You (and I) definitely live in a bubble about this, but again, it's unclear what a 1-hour talk you don't have to pay attention to is going to accomplish re: getting people who need to hear it inside the bubble

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lots of stuff at universities is regulated by federal law, e.g. I am free to fund women's sports as little as I want but Cornell is not Also, to make matters more confusing, Cornell is actually an agglomeration of public and private departments

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was a Cornell freshman in 2014 and there was a mandatory sexual assault training (IIRC there was someone checking our student IDs) I am also skeptical that the people who needed it were inclined to take it seriously but 🤷

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're attempting to stop Google's 2004 direct listing via a wealth tax ballot prop in 2026?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks like each Class A share is 1 part in ~14 billion of the votes and 1 part in ~12 billion of the economic rights, idk exactly how you're discounting but it seems like you think those are roughly equally valuable? So Class A shares would count as twice as much wealth for wealth tax purposes?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The market strongly disagrees!

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How much more valuable would you say Alphabet Class A stock is than class C?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The piggies love their non-voting shares, folks

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On me or on somebody else?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still don't really see the vision and would like to hear more

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are we talking about Trump?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always seemed odd to me that he's named Matt Kalish and not Matt Driftskang.

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

are you subtweeting an incident that occurred at anyone's alma mater, perchance

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So my understanding is if you won the primary in the arbitrarily labeled 5th district (under the 7-1 map) you are now the candidate in the arbitrarily labeled 5th district (under the 6-2 map). Is there a lot of coincidental overlap or is this just gigafucked? (You're the map expert)

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's called a lie-to-children to let you know that you shouldn't do it

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Signed, a former 7-year-old who could divide out common factors from a fraction without first picturing a pizza

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1. Obviously you can just ask Claude what the fuck this question means 2. It is nevertheless annoying that math is taught to young children as though they are idiots, and if you want full credit you have to pretend to be an idiot to the grader's satisfaction

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lmao. And, I dare say, rofl

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are you unfamiliar with the ancient texts?

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Open borders except for the borders within nations" still going strong, I see

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

River, you're forgetting how male your audience is. In our latest survey they report they're more likely to have gambled on a Devil Wears Prada movie than to have watched one.

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What a bleak world, where "education" is just a series of locations on a resume

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The kernel of a sane idea in this is that rich people should partake in lousy public services so they have skin in the game to improve them, rather than flee and perpetuate a vicious cycle.

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would simply impeach Jared Kushner

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Aryeh Zax @azax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even beyond the "admitting to child abuse in a nationally syndicated newspaper" aspect, the philosophical incoherence is just astounding. Where in the Solidarity Bible is it decreed that you have to send your kid to a bad school, but you're allowed to live in Bed-Stuy and hire a private tutor?

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