David Langellotti (@notdevid)

Not sure how it happened, but I found myself attending an academic cryptography conference in Beer Sheva, Israel the day before the elections here.

Not going to say it's why the election turned out the way it did, because it's almost certainly not.

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David Langellotti @notdevid Oct 25

Since starting to build @targum_app, I've discovered a lot of folks have also vibe coded 'better ways to learn x language.'

targum is not just that.

It's the result of two decades of my life loving language learning as a hobby, and needing languages to function in the world I live in.

It's already found relevance with a few users. Maybe the next one is you.

targum Verified account @targum_app Oct 25

The best way to learn any language is with content you're actually interested in.

On targum, you can paste a link to any YouTube video, and get a full-blown Hebrew lesson.

Join the waitlist at targum.page

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David Langellotti @notdevid Oct 18

Went to the North Korean restaurant in Moscow, back in 2021.

It was an absolute hole in the wall - a rarity for restaurants of that calibre in the capital.

It reminded more of the underground, certainly unregulated, Chinese restaurants that I had visited with my classmates - students themselves from China. None of the typically courteous service of Russian restaurants, but excellent homestyle food.

The portions at the North Korean restaurant were tasty but small. Not luxurious - again homestyle - but expensive. There was certainly no way it could compete with the plethora of South Korean restaurants that were popping up in Western Russia at the time.

I'm certain the restaurant stayed afloat merely as a curiosity for the slightly more adventurous, beyond what I'm sure were more nefarious machinations behind the scenes.

Carl Zha Verified account @CarlZha Oct 17

Dinner at North Korean restaurant in Shenyang.

We can't film North Korean waitresses to maintain the fiction that China is enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea

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David Langellotti @notdevid Oct 12

The other day, I asked a colleague who had come from the Soviet Union how it had been. Had he experienced anti-semitism?

"Not once," he said.

Not in the (final years of the) Red Army, not in university. Not at the start of his career in the 90s, before his immigration to Israel.

I myself lived and studied in Russia from 2016-22. My experience (albeit as a Jewish foreigner, in a very different time) was much the same. So I believed him.

I then realized I had asked him the same somewhat bothersome question I frequently get here (as someone who had moved to Israel from the USA).

Had I ever experienced anti-semitism in the States?

"No, not really," I say. "I have to admit."

David Langellotti @notdevid Oct 8

I built a better way to learn biblical Hebrew and Aramaic.

It's now in beta - just in time for parashat Bereshit.

Sign up for the waitlist and let me know if you'd like to get started this week.

targum Verified account @targum_app Oct 8

This Shabbat, Jews around the world begin the Torah's yearly reading cycle again, with its first portion, Bereshit (Genesis 1–6).

Now you can read it in the original, no matter your Hebrew level.

• Tap any word: its meaning, its root, its family, instantly
• Onkelos's Aramaic translation and Rashi's commentary beside every verse, one tap away
• Every verse read aloud
• Print it with your own words marked

Join the waitlist: targum.page

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