Miles Penn

This narrative has been pushed in stuffy media publications since at least 2010. It has never been my experience in any shul I have attended. Here's an anecdote from my current one: we pray for America, we pray for Israel, and at kiddush we talk about our kids and the cholent.

The Reform movement is historically very progressive. They were all in on woke and Black Lives Matter and all that stuff. Since October 7, every Reform congregation I am aware of has emphatically reaffirmed its support of Israel and cut ties with progressive organizations that will not support Israel (or progressives have cut ties with Jewish communities). In most of these congregations, there are a handful of families that are “anti Zionist,” and they either deal with it or quit. Not a lot of families have quit synagogues or temples over this. There is not a significant controversy in any Jewish communal organization. The people who claim to be “anti-Zionist Jews” are not involved in any capacity in Jewish communal life and most of them are not Jewish and only started pretending they were to bash Israel after October 7.

During the last Gilded Age, the robber barons saw a cultural value to founding universities, museums, concert halls, foundations. Many enduring institutions were founded by the ultra-rich of the 1890 who felt a sense of noblesse oblige that was also socially rewarded. Not anymore. These people see little social value to founding anything that doesn’t make a profit.

This scatter plot shows the Pareto frontier of intelligence vs. size, defined by models like Qwen3 0.6B, 1.7B, 4B, 8B, and Ministral3 3B. The 1-bit Bonsai family shifts that frontier dramatically to the left. This changes the tradeoff itself: models no longer have to be large to be capable.

This is wild. Google Research demonstrates a ~20x more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm that could break ECDSA keys within minutes with ~500K physical qubits. Google is now are more confident on a 2029 post-quantum transition. We are no longer looking at mid 2030s, we could have quantum computers of this scale by the end of the decade. They believe this result is so severe that they are not publishing the actual circuits. They instead published a ZKP proving that they know of the quantum circuit with these properties. This is very atypical, showing Google thinks this is serious shit. All blockchains need a transition plan ASAP. Post-quantum is no longer a drill.