1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

'It was lunchtime. We were sitting down. They raided our house. They shot our mum and dad. Then they started shooting at us'

Part of a detailed Sky News report on how Israeli soldiers murdered a mother and father in front of their 3 children (1/2)

Oxford surgeon Professor Nick Maynard on what he saw in Gaza:

Neat! Hey, GPT-4: 'Invent a board game using emoji that we can play against each other. Give it a theme from Shakespeare's Tempest. Set up the board and explain the rules & let us play each other.'
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Anyway, it's an interesting example and well worth a read - thehustle.co/should-we-auto…

So how long until all the emails we send and receive are being generated by AI?
Then email stops being a thing any more.

Probably a good thing?

This sales pitch demo fundamentally misunderstands the point of thank you emails to the team or presentations to communicate something of import. Getting an AI to generate this doesn’t seem like a win to me 😅

Introducing OpenChatKit 🚀 -
The first open-source alternative to ChatGPT!

A team of ex-OpenAI fellows at Together have released a 20B chat-GPT model, fine-tuned for chat using EleutherAI's GPT-NeoX-20B, with over 43 million instructions under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes this thread 👇

If you’ve never been to prison, you might imagine that everyone there has been convicted. But when people are arrested they can be detained before their court case - this is called Custodial Remand. Some people are held for years like this.

Turns out there's a data story here 🧵

Take a look a the jobs here: Principal Projects & Policy Officer: ecum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Policy Designer: ecum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Senior User Researcher: ecum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

📢 Hablamos de constitucionalismo digital con Francisco de Abreu Duarte, cofundador de The Digital Constitutionalist, una comunidad que reflexiona sobre la relación entre tecnología y ley, derechos digitales, estado digital y cómo la ciencia ficción puede modificar nuestro marco legal.
#EmpoderaLIVE

Bad time to be travelling in Europe… 😅 wouldn’t it be nice to have someone vaguely competent in charge for a change 🤔

Loving Francisco de Abreu Duarte talk on The Digital Constitutionalist. Yes to the sci-fi art section (would love to contribute a poem) and connecting lawyers and technologists is so important! ✨ These 4 areas are great for informing policy 💪🙌
#empoderalive

Great points by Kriti highlighting it matters who develops the technology and what metrics drive development (and I’d say also who owns, controls and makes decisions, which user needs are getting addressed) are key to better digital tools 💪
#empoderaLive

Super cool interview with Irina (Ira) Bolychevsky about #decentralization and #Interoperability at #EmpoderaLive . Critical comments on existing walled gardens. Still, a hopeful future ahead.

OpenUK's #StateofOpen 2022 Survey is now live 🎉 . 👉🏾 bit.ly/OpenUKStateofO… 👈🏾
Please contribute to help understand economics and investment, journey to open source and maturity, governance, security and sustainability in #opensource software in the UK. Report launches July