Our father in heaven...
Rock fortress of Israel...
Watch over the State of Israel...
Shield her beneath the wing of your kindness..
Spread upon her your tent of peace...
Send your light and wisdom to her leaders, officers, and counselors...
Advise them with your good counsel...…

Iran said to begin attack on Israel, launching dozens of drones that’ll take hours to arrive timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april… via @timesofisrael

As with many other vexing societal problems, the social-media question ended up on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). cacm.acm.org/opinion/more-i…

Body of Israeli teen found in West Bank; IDF says he was murdered in terror attack timesofisrael.com/body-of-israel… via @timesofisrael

From where I sit, as a senior faculty member in an elite university, it seems that rather than pursue the common good, elite academic institutions are pursuing money and prestige. medium.com/@vardi/us-camp…

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OpenAI, IP Theft, & A New Incentive Structure For The Internet: @TheInformation's @MoreOrLessPod tinyurl.com/mrzu9cwj #OpenAI Lauren Goode Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Brian L. Frye Lawrence Solum Andrew Charles Baker DHH Steven Levy Ian Bogost Rob van Kranenburg Moshe Vardi Roger McNamee Luther Lowe Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

Iranian forces seize vessel using helicopter as tensions with Israel soar washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

The D2K Showcase is April 17! Join us to interact with D2K students in the poster session and learn more about their projects ranging from academic and medical research to industry-sponsored and community-impact projects. bit.ly/3EL2DPw

The Perilous Coming Age of AI Warfare cnas.org/publications/c… via CNAS

Below, the texts of the statements made by the Jewish Faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine, describing the antisemitic hostilities encouraged by the Med School administration. Moreover, based on my inquiries, the Provost Office is largely unaware of these hostilities.

Adobe Paying for Videos, Images to Train AI Models - pymnts.com/news/artificia…

There's growing public acceptance that social-media technology is out of control with adverse societal consequences, writes Moshe Y. @Vardi in 'More Is Different, in Social Media Too.' Yet it's unclear how speech on social media should be regulated. bit.ly/3xJy1xW

Grateful for the Boniuk Institute and all that it does to study and advance religious tolerance, and to honor other scholars who engage in this work.

Jewish humor :-)

Iran has ten ways to attack Israel; which one will it choose? - analysis jpost.com/middle-east/ir…

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'Every probabilistic algorithm that's efficient can be replaced by a deterministic one, so you don't really need [randomness],' Wigderson told Ars. 'The power believed to be in probabilistic algorithms doesn't exist.'

Join us on Monday, April 15th for a #Technology , #Culture , and #Society Lecture by Natasha Schull, Associate Professor at New York University. Learn more at events.rice.edu/event/359134-d….

'Designs on Attention: Object Lessons from Slot Machines to Self-Tracking Technologies'

Some researchers claim that the youth mental health crisis is not real, it's just a moral panic; it's just that diagnostic criteria have changed, and stigma has reduced.

Zach Rausch shows that this is wrong. It is real and international:

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