Would you use an AI-generated melody for a prayer when leading davening?

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

xkcd.com/3202/

@caseynewton.bsky.social worth exploring AI toys in a future #HardFork episode?

Disturbing interaction from Common Sense Media's AI toys use case review www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/a...

... later on:

Fun with NotebookLM & @anthropic.com's Soul Doc simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/c... @developers.google.com @simonwillison.net

Compare to:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
- ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 Extended Thinking

@developers.google.com This is the first time I've seen a model accurately answer one of @aidigest.bsky.social's anti-riddles! theaidigest.org/ai-can-or-ca...

Robot "hallucinating" in the desert, spots a website, but it turns out its a mirage and the website won't load (404 error).

Prompt for Gemini: Generate a visual pun. Make it engaging, interesting, and extremely funny. Make sure it relates to generative AI. The pun should rely on visuals as its primary way of communicating the idea (e.g. a fork placed in the middle of the road to represent the idea of a fork in the road)

Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser | Amazon Web Services AI agents need to browse the web on your behalf. When your agent visits a website to gather information, complete a form, or verify data, it encounters the same defenses designed to stop unwanted bots...

Meanwhile, at Amazon: "Customers tell us that CAPTCHA friction is one of the biggest obstacles to reliable browser-based agentic workflows."

"Web Bot Auth ... gives agents verifiable cryptographic identities."

aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin...

Latest from @aidigest.bsky.social: "...autonomous agents can flounder quite impressively without human guidance." theaidigest.org/village/blog...

Indeed. This survey question is epic.

I have mixed feelings about this. While the process of building slide decks can be tedious and time-consuming, I've found that it (a) forces me to organize my thoughts into a more coherent narrative and (b) helps me internalize the material, enabling me to be more confident when presenting.

You can now generate Google Slides presentations in Gemini. After some limited testing this morning, it seems to be pretty good at creating workable first drafts.

workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/10/gene...

Anyone else just discover how useful emojis are for labeling Chrome tab groups?

I prompted Claude 3.7 Sonnet, ChatGPT o4-mini, & Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate new learning tasks for high school students in the age of gen AI; all 3 suggested speed dating.

Not a hot mess (not really a lukewarm mess either), but it certainly feels messy 😉 @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social

Using AI agents for good (theaidigest.org/village)
+ real world interactions
= #MindBlown

In August 2023 there were 21 certified kosher vegan restaurants in Manhattan (34 if you count each branch separately).

Today, there are 37 (50 if you count each branch separately).

Check out the Kosher/Vegan Dashboard for more details:
www.koshermap.nyc/koshervegan-...

Column | I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs. Operator, the new AI that can reach into the real world, wants to act like your personal intern. Here’s what it’s good at, bad at — and when it went rogue.

This perfectly encapsulates the stupidity of where we are now. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

OpenAI Alleges DeepSeek Used Its Models for AI Training There's never been much honour between thieves

"There's never been much honour between thieves."
- Comment on this article by user madmin (I'm trying to give full attribution for their comment rather than stealing it as my own, though I share the sentiment).

forums.macrumors.com/threads/open...

Gist.ai | AI-powered search engine Gist.ai is an AI-powered search engine that delivers concise, accurate answers to your questions using trusted, well-established sources.

Has anyone gotten access to @prorata.ai's gist.ai yet? I just signed up for the waitlist, and I'm very curious to see how it holds up compared to other GenAI search engines.

We must have gotten the same NYT notification: bsky.app/profile/whyh...
Good to know that we're in the same group in their A/B testing.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

Spotted at the Heschel high school library: Weaving Prayer by (yes, my dad) Rabbi Jeff Hoffman & published by @benyehudapress.bsky.social #ProudSon bookshop.org/p/books/weav...

5) Add a tablespoon of soy sauce, and a pinch of a sweetener (optional). Taste and then add more soy sauce to your liking.

6) Add mixed chopped vegetables (carrot, broccoli, cabbage).

7) Add a tablespoon of chopped celery leaves.

8) Simmer for another 1 minute.

Makes one large bowl.

(3/3)

1) Bring 4 cups of water to a boil.

2) Add a tablespoon of powdered cinnamon, a cinnamon stick, a few black peppers, and 2 dried star anise.

3) Simmer for 10 minutes.

4) Add a 1/2 cup of onion slices, and a teaspoon of fried garlic.

(2/3)

To celebrate May Kaidee going #kosher, I'm sharing "a simple approach to making" one of my favorite May Kaidee dishes, (as shared with me by the restaurant):

Cinnamon Soup (Pah Loh)

(photo from www.maykaidee.com/restaurants/...)

(1/3)

H/T to @timbernard.bsky.social for suggesting this way of phrasing it at kiddush today.

#MaggieSmith outlived the journalist who wrote her obituary www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/a...

James Beard Semi-finalist Ravi DeRossi’s Restaurants Are Now Kosher The East Village restaurants—all part of DeRossi’s Overthrow Hospitality group—are now certified by Lighthouse Kosher.

5 newly kosher East Village restaurants from Ravi DeRossi's Overthrow Hospitality (www.overthrowhospitality.com)

Certification by Lighthouse Kosher (www.lighthousekosher.org)

sukkot decoration/gift boxes that say "happy sukkot" in english and "tukhus" (butt) in hebrew

some dingbat on amazon is selling sukkot decorations that, due to printing the hebrew backwards, say "tuchus" instead