Oren Levine | اورن لوين | אורן לוין

A periodic reminder that Tech Can't Fix People zazzle.com/tech_cant_fix_…

קום והתהלך בארץ בתרמיל או עם תיקים. וודאי תפגוש בדרך שוב את ארץ פלסטין. יחבקו אותך דרכיה של הארץ הטובה, היא תקרא אותך אליה כמו אל ערש אהבה. Palestinians explore the pleasures, and perils, of hiking the West Bank washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/…

But what if I wanted to say "duck"? youtu.be/d5KBtiQiy2s "Apple says new iPhone autocorrect will know you don’t mean ‘duck’" washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

@ForeignAffairs @abuaardvark @ShibleyTelhami Makes a strong case for focusing on the rights of people rather than the number of states. "A better U.S. policy would advocate for equality, citizenship, and human rights for all Jews and Palestinians living within the single state dominated by Israel"

Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, @abuaardvark, and @ShibleyTelhami discuss Israel’s one-state reality—and argue that Washington should take a principled stand against what is increasingly resembling an apartheid state. trib.al/YOkff4N

Good advice from @rabbijilljacobs in @jdforward on what we in the US can do to counter the threats to Israeli democracy and secular culture: "stop being afraid of being too 'political' and start putting our money where our values are." forward.com/opinion/538052…

.@Haaretz spells it out in case it wasn't clear enough: "Netanyahu is the best gift our enemies could ask for. He is accomplishing what Nasser, Arafat, Saddam Hussein and two Assads couldn't." haaretz.co.il/digital/daily/…

Now I understand the "1870" pin I saw in the audience of #SOTU

If "better" means "still not reliably true, but more convincing ," then I think it's still very risky semafor.com/article/02/01/…

On #VR @ReedAlbergotti asks if lack of demand is a consumer interest or hardware problem. I remember the exact same question from the mid-1990s. Maybe there's just a natural limit to the number of people who really want to use it semafor.com/newsletter/02/…

Lots of truth here from @doctorow even if I don't agree that the challenge of leaving Facebook is just like the challenge of leaving Anatevka because of pogroms wired.com/story/tiktok-p… via @wired

@Yair_Rosenberg I can hear the music now...

should probably record this for my next album: "Rewrite the debate between Hillel and Shammai over whether to start with lighting one Hanukkah candle or eight as a rap battle in the style of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton"

I am having this AI bot write Star Trek episodes about Jews and it is amazing

Already sharing #Tunesontuesday on #mastodon (and learning how that community works) @ohljazz@mastodon.sdf.org

To my fellow ex-#Nokia people - some "burning platform" energy here? But more desperate and less competent. Empathizing with Twitter employees watching as their company is being driven off a cliff. cnbc.com/2022/11/16/elo…

Empathizing with the #Twitter engineers left to maintain the system under increasing pressure technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/106…

The US general election is today! 2022! Make your plan to #vote: d.shpg.org/786678036t via @nextgenamerica #ElectionDay

My only thought on the #TwitterTakeover: Tech Can't Fix People zazzle.com/tech_cant_fix_…

"אסור לוותר על השאיפה להפוך את ישראל למקום ראוי, הוגן והגון לכלל תושביה, בלא הבדל דת, גזע ומין, כפי שהבטיחה מגילת העצמאות. ייתכן שיעבור זמן רב עד שהתהליך הזה יבשיל, אך לשמאל חפץ חיים זוהי האפשרות היחידה. אין פתרונות קסם." haaretz.co.il/opinions/edito…

If you favor secular democracy in Israel (like I do), we can learn from our friends from Iran, Turkey, Hungary and others: love and support the people in those countries working for positive change forward.com/opinion/523500…

Brilliant. Now go vote.

Now holding my breath for the Israeli elections on Nov. 1 and the US midterms #vote #בחירות2022

Breathing a big sigh of relief and thinking of my friends and colleagues in #Brazil www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2022/10/…