Greetings from Jerusalem, My country is still at war, and I still don't have much time to write regularly, but I wanted to share some thoughts with you. I recently visited Shanghai and Beijing with my colleagues from the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Israel-China Policy Center, INSS. It was the first time I went since COVID-19, and we had the opportunity to meet with prominent academics and think-tankers specializing in Middle Eastern studies.

Hey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. Recently, there are many suggestions about renaming the default branch master to some other name. This was mainly due to the master-slave metaphor that some people are talking about. There is evidence that states it was intended to mention master-copy or master recording. And it is not intended to master-slave.

As discussed in previous newsletters: The celebrities need to be stopped. Kate Hudson has a passion for products. The skincare industry is out of its mind. All three points were highlighted, circled, and underlined in “Kate Hudson’s Absurd Empire,” a recent article from fashion journalist Amy Odell (you really should subscribe to her newsletter, Back Row) that delves into the growing, Goopian “wellness” operation of Hollywood’s bubbliest nepotism baby.

The world’s greatest obstetrician (delivered my twins vaginally, with nary a single stitch to show for it) is also the most aggressive Real Real hunter and her name is Dr. Isabel Blumberg. Not once have I had a pap smear in the last 5 years without recognizing at least one archival Jil Sander or Philo-era Celine piece on her. And how many patients get to send texts like this to their OBs?

This is a short note with a couple of iMessage tech tips. If you have an iPhone and you suffer from not being able to reply to all your messages, this is for you. There are a few features of Apple iMessage that make organizing text threads a bit easier—here’s the secret to marking messages as unread, pinning your favorite chats, muting the noisiest thre… ncG1vNJzZmirpJa%2FtcHPqZirnZ6pe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqGnp2LBsHnMmqmkZZGlva2xjK2csaxdorK0v8CgnKxlpaO%2Fpq3D