Michael McMillan

All thoughts are entirely my own - except those I borrowed from people who know more than I do.

[CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80]

Israel First Mike Rogers’ career is cooked after this Abdul El Sayed ad. This is brilliant.

[Cohere @cohere]

Cohere's Model Vault is now available in public beta.

With @NVIDIAAI Confidential Computing, and GPUs on @Microsoft Azure, anybody can run our models while keeping their information secure.

Try it out today: https://t.co/y9lN5ZZgPA

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Who’d have thought George would be the only non-evil Seinfeld character?

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The Onion is on point again.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Mehdi’s NAZA piece is a brutal read. He lays out some WILD revelations from Israeli military insiders:

Palestinian kids killed in targeted bombings.

The “human shields” excuse falling apart

Unarmed Palestinians killed and counted as terrorists.

Palestinians getting shot while trying to get food.

Israeli soldiers facing the ugly reality of what they’ve done in Gaza.

Now tell me again how it’s all Hamas propaganda. These are THEIR OWN people talking.

[Nick Frosst @nickfrosst]

turns out you can get frontier performance by having a swarm of tiny models working on the problem together.

great work from the research team on this one :)

https://t.co/OoTmFrKo7k

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage.

Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour.

Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

He is one of the biggest live draws in music, filling stadiums across the United States and in major cities around the world.

Bryan served eight years on active duty in the US Navy and served overseas in Bahrain and Djibouti.

Members of Bryan’s band also wore shirts supporting the Palestinian cause, including his drummer, who wore a jersey honoring the memory of Hind Rajab.

Zach Bryan has a second show at Gillette Stadium tomorrow, Saturday night.

[Nils Reimers @Nils_Reimers]

The Cohere Embeddings team has been cooking 🍳

Several key innovations in the model:
- The model not only retrieves relevant results, but finds the most human preferred documents based on new training & evaluation techniques.
- Strong focus on multilinguality 🇺🇳 - just retrieving English docs is boring
- Massive throughput gains - scale to any data size

Together with a strong focus on privacy - your data stays private, always.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The @nytimes confirms the @haaretzcom report that the UAE secretly warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack on Israel shortly before Oct. 7; Bibi did not relay the warning to security officials. https://t.co/Rv8tzlkHAs

[Craig Horbinski @CraigHorbinski]

Having grown up in Buffalo, I can directly attest that Canadians aren’t just our neighbors. They are family. I grew up watching CFTO TV and Hockey Night in Canada. Spent more time in Toronto than in any other city. Learned to sing O Canada right alongside the Star Spangled Banner.

We have some damage to repair, but our relationship is deeper and stronger than any presidency.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Trump is sending $2.8 BILLION of bombs paid for by YOU, the American taxpayer, to a govt led by a wanted war criminal.

All while Netanyahu keeps bombing Gaza & blocks justice for Americans killed on his watch. How is this America First?

We will work to stop it.

[Cohere @cohere]

Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?

Artificial intelligence needs evidenced standards, not a cartel. A perspective from @aidangomez, co-founder & CEO of Cohere:

https://t.co/QnDmIfsLPM

[Cohere @cohere]

Cohere's Chief AI Officer @jpineau1 has been named to this year's TIME 100AI list, recognizing the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence.

Joelle has been shaping modern research in Canada for over two decades. We couldn't be prouder to have her on our team.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Opinion | The mass killing in Gaza is not a series of IDF 'exceptions' – It's the rule https://t.co/AI7ItSAY2N

[Richard @ricwe123]

That particular moment when a British surgeon was giving testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot......

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Ms. Rachel: "Where have you been, leaders? Did you not see these kids as kids because of where they were born? 20,000 children killed. 151 starved to death.

A quadcopter shooting a baby breastfeeding in a tent. Did you not think they had beating hearts like your kids? How can you go to sleep at night knowing you said nothing?"

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel.

Why?

Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.

The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…