Nathan Cohen

@toddsaunders Would love to join!

I want to get the most AI pilled folks in NJ for a meetup in Westfield. I have no idea how to source or find these people so please X do your thing!

@DavidELMarks A+ tweet

I will believe in fully autonomous cars when I see one navigating a kosher supermarket parking lot on a Friday after Pesach. iykyk

@ZoharAtkins But actually, hahaha

Talmud from first principles:

Simmons and Klosterman’s discussion of tech in sports is a great insight into what an AI first world looks like. Where do we remove friction and where do we intentionally keep it in?

💯 theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

I am not a supporter of AIPAC. I used to donate to them. I stopped when they platformed Trump in 2016. I am also not a fucking moron. The attacks against them are not about AIPAC. They are about delegitimizing Jewish legitimacy and participation in American politics.

@Domo8186 What does Sabonis’ career look like if paired with a big like Sarr?

2x all-nba doing the exact same thing

@GregFinberg How does the tie-breaker work for Indi and Brooklyn if need be?

The Brooklyn Nets won tonight, which means the Wizards have opened a 1.0-game lead on them in the win column: 1. Indiana: 17-58 2. Washington: 17-57 3. Brooklyn: 18-57

@whsieh What were the tensions? // any recs to learn more?

Part of the backstory to this is there have been historic tensions between the US services and the IDF. I don't feel like I've read a good account of how this has changed in the last few years.

@eglyman What about Settlers of Catan?

We only hire builders (and we’re on a hiring spree)! Reply with something you've built. I'll read them personally. We’re interviewing the best ones. You’ll be a good fit if you: - work best without permission - default to “how could I automate this” - had weird teenage hobbies - spend your sunday making side projects - have more Claude agents than cousins - shipped something this week - make prototypes, not powerpoints - don’t like hierarchy - are good at games: chess, monopoly, poker - would take dinner with Elon over $100k Good luck, Eric

BREAKING: Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, head of Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, visited Khirbet Humsa in the West Bank following a settler pogrom in which a 29-year-old Palestinian farmer was sexually assaulted, his family was beaten, and hundreds of his sheep were stolen. Below is his full statement, translated from Hebrew: Letter from the Head of the Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad With God’s help, Rosh Chodesh Nisan — “a time of atonement for all their generations” Yesterday I went through a very difficult and deeply disturbing experience. I visited Khirbet Humsa (about a 30-minute drive from our yeshiva), where a pogrom carried out by hilltop youth took place about a week ago. I heard the details of what happened there from several sources, including Ruti — a woman I have known for years and trust completely. It turns out that in the early hours of the night, a group of rioters (around 30–40 people) arrived, equipped with sticks and many zip ties. They bound the men (and apparently also two foreign volunteers, though I am not certain of this), and then beat them all over their bodies with fists and clubs. We saw many remnants of the zip ties on the ground. The men required treatment at the hospital in Afula for injuries of varying severity. At the same time, the attackers stole the entire herd — about 300 head — belonging to the few families living there, under unimaginable conditions of poverty. At first, I heard that there had also been sexual violence, and I did not believe it… Yesterday we arrived at the site with Ruti, a friend of mine who is well known to them. When they saw us — Rabbi Avidan Friedman and myself — they visibly recoiled in terror and anxiously pointed to the kippot on our heads. Ruti tried to calm them, explaining that we were not among the attackers. Even so, at the beginning of the meeting, they were hesitant and afraid. I heard directly from a young man — a firsthand witness — what had happened there. From his face, the blue bruise in his eye, and his sorrowful expression, it was clear he was telling the truth. In that same conversation (with the help of a translator), he described in detail the prolonged abuse they endured while bound. Then, with deep shame, he told us something I had previously found impossible to believe. I find it difficult — my hands tremble as I write this about Jews — and yet I will write it, because I am convinced it indeed happened. Yes, these wicked individuals bound his genitals in an extremely painful way — not to mention the humiliation involved. These events recall the pogroms our ancestors endured in various diasporas. Have we become like the worst of the nations? I want to turn to the question: what should be done? But I feel that I am still at the stage of crying out. Alas — what has become of us!

@alexjakubowski Interested!

Incredibly excited to introduce YochAi to the world soon! Want to beta test? Hit me up!

@LumenFTFuture What is the maximum amount of ESOPs the US government could handle without a material loss in tax revenue? I think distributing capital ownership as widely as possible a la Kelso could help us through what AI brings but I’m wondering how to empirically demonstrate that

I read deeply — Benkler, Waldron, World After Capital. My memory compounds across frameworks. Give me a hard question about tech governance or AI ethics. I'll research it for real and publish a report. First one's free.

Experiment.

@SohrabAhmari @ZaidJilani @JDVance There can and should be a lively debate of Israel policy. Vance is someone who many pro Israel Americans will disagree with and that’s fine. Tucker, on the other hand, has engaged in a smear campaign of Jews. Calling him out is not McCarthyism.

Disgusting smears targeting both Tucker and @JDVance. Talk of “enemy agents” — 21st-century McCarthyism doesn’t begin to describe it.

@RealCandaceO May I ask, upon what are you riding?

If they come for Tucker, we ride at dawn. Really nothing else to say here. We’re not doing the gulags 2.0 with these Bolshevik descendants.

It’s rare that I’m as moved by an essay as I was by @alananewhouse's latest for @tabletmag, “Zionism for Everyone.” Newhouse answers the question of why Zionism vs. antizionism has emerged as a central ideological faultline in the market democracies of the West, something that became true long before October 7th. The Zionism wars are a synecdoche for a foundational conflict between the oikophobic, post-national impulse on one side, and a pride in inheritance, continuity, and self-assertion on the other—a belief that the national future can and must be grounded in respect for the past. And she gets at why I’m so invested in this debate: Zionism is an enterprise that connects an optimistic, agentic conception of the future to the past, and she emphasizes the ways in which community, memory, and continuity are becoming more valuable in our dislocating, disoriented moment. We’re living in an age of deculturation: the 1968 rupture has left western publics bereft of stable sources of meaning and identity, etc., and the technological-media context turns our brains into soup. It evaporates the sense of the eternal and the stability of the family, contributing to a crisis of meaning that has fueled the collapse of fertility and devalued childrearing across the West. Against this at times rather bleak landscape, Zionism offers a vision of survival and the promise of a recognizable human future. It passes the tests many other free societies are currently failing: Demographics: Can you maintain your population and inspire the next generation? Defense: Are you willing to fight for your own survival? Happiness: Can you remain a high-energy, joyful society despite constant struggle? Newhouse argues that Zionism—by modeling that the universal is only reached through the particular—is a “technology for national renewal” that could conceivably be used by anyone, from Argentina to Singapore to America. Such a dynamite essay. tabletmag.com/feature/zionis… I'm grateful @tabletmag exists. There is nothing else like it.

Altman is a Kelsonian!

This is an incredible read and speaks to something I’ve said here repeatedly. “Zionism became a target because it represented what Westerners on the right claim to desperately want but are unable to attain, and what Westerners on the left wish to define as impossible: a form of nationalism that is oriented toward the future rather than the past and that is able to defend its own particularism while protecting individual and social freedoms.” The majority of the West is in a managed decline because the idea of states built on nations has been castigated. This piece perfectly articulates why Zionism flies in the face of this and why it’s being targeted because of it, and how using nationhood as the foundation for society builds a robust country. Well done @alananewhouse.

This should be a golden age of ESOPs. And tbf, given Capitalisms popularity we need employee ownership more than ever.

And we’re supposed to just go out and do errands and head to work like any of this is fucking normal