David Paulus
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Crisis data and decision-making | actually have a PhD in this but who listens | papers: https://t.co/69in3UuGtj
New York, USA
Joined July 2015
2yrs after the Oct 7 crimes against Israeli civilians, Israel's most lethal aggression against the Palestinians continues, causing unspeakable suffering. Violence won’t end if States facilitate illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide, as they have done for the past 58yrs.
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The United Nations Satellite Centre (@UNOSAT) has released an updated satellite-based assessment of structural damage in the #Gaza Strip. As of 8 July, approximately 78% of all structures—around 193,000—are damaged, including 102,000 that are destroyed. ➡️ https://t.co/Bfmd5NM098
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So little, so late, President @vonderleyen : After you have given Israel 21 months a free pass in Gaza, it will take more than words to prevent Israel from completing its genocidal mission and overt ethnic cleansing campaign. And even more, to repair what's left of the EU
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.
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Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon.
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Regarding Elon Musk's America Party: Perhaps if Musk had never backed dictator-wannabe Trump, never supported the fascist authoritarian takeover of American democracy, never promoted far-right conspiracies and disinformation, never gave a Sieg Heil Nazi salute at Trump's
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Extremely powerful and thorough investigation further confirms the Sunday massacre was: - committed by the IDF, and - directly linked to the GHF aid distribution GHF & Israeli govt denied this as fake news for days. But in reality: massacre risk is baked into the GHF model.
NEW: Our investigation into the deadly shooting near an aid site in Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.
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Turns out there are some pretty big issues with DHS data. A new study finds massive subnational differences in data quality across 35 African countries. Here's the breakdown:
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Spoke with CNN today about what it actually takes to deploy disaster and outbreak response operations - and how Elon’s vendetta against @USAID has destroyed the US Government’s ability to do so.
"USAID now is not capable of deploying any kind of disaster response teams, because of the destruction is ongoing." Fmr USAID official, who led the Ebola response under President Obama, joins @brikeilarcnn to react to Musk's claims Ebola prevention efforts have been restored
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The "receipts" that DOGE has posted this evening show yet again that these morons can't interpret government data. @SecRubio has issued waivers for food aid & lifesaving funding, but even a cursory scan of the canceled contracts finds lifesaving expenses being canceled.
Yet again, Elon's "scandals" are just a case of his inability to read government spreadsheets. Not batting 1.000, indeed.
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OpenAI has to be the most insufferable company in the world. They can steal from the whole world & guzzle all resources. But no one can give them a taste of their own medicine even a little bit. https://t.co/D9oKpKgofr
ft.com
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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🆘 RSF IS EXECUTING ALL OUT ASSAULT ON EL FASHER 🆘 Read @HRL_YaleSPH documentation of heaviest combat engagement near and within the city since siege of capital of north Darfur began last spring. Emergency report from @HRL_YaleSPH @YaleSPH below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
🚨NEW REPORT 🚨 RSF has launched its biggest attack to date on El-Fasher, encircling the city from both east + west. RSF now threatens the exit route for civilians and others out of El-Fasher. 🛰️@Maxar
https://t.co/DOEaVK0cPm
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“In the chaos of conflict, clinging to unattainable quantitative thresholds isn’t just unrealistic,” Ainashe told Reuters. “It’s a fatal oversight that risks abandoning entire populations to suffer and die in silence.”
reuters.com
Many say Gaza is in famine. But the war makes it hard for the world hunger monitor to conclude if Gaza meets the criteria. Is it time to change the definition?
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In conflicts, one can always argue the data is "outdated" or "inaccurate" just because the population is displaced on an ongoing basis, and people's needs change. This can't be an argument against the publication of a report.
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"USAID...noted discrepancies in population estimates and some other data...FEWS NET did not resolve any of these concerns and published in spite of these technical comments and a request for substantive engagement before publication. As such, USAID asked to retract the report."
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This political influence defeats the purpose of an objective famine early warning system. Also, the argument is trivial. https://t.co/s2QsaivBLy
apnews.com
U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.
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