#ovadya

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propaganda:

I admit it is teacher/student so people might be icky over that but these mad scientists GAY jesus christ.

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Handwoven Yemenite Jewish prayer shawl, Southern Yemen, Early 20th century. 275 x 102 cm. Gift of Yihya Ovadya Gibli, Jaffa.

"In Yemen, the biblical commandment (Num. 15:38–39; Deut. 22:12) to attach tassels (tzitzit) to the four corners of one’s garment is fulfilled by attaching tzitzit to the four-cornered outer garment worn daily; in other communities, where daily attire is not four-cornered, special ritual garments—the prayer shawl (tallit) and the vest-like tallit katan—have come to be used for this purpose.

The Jews of Yemen wore several types of four-cornered garments to fulfill the tzitzit precept. In Sana'a and on the Central Plateau, an everyday black woolen shawl worn over the shoulders served as a tallit. This type of shawl was an integral part of the Jewish male’s dress in the region, and the indicative offwhite ritual tassels hung from its four corners. A more precious version made of highly refined black wool was worn in this region on the Sabbath.

The garment’s Yemeni Arabic name shamleh recalls the Hebrew word simlah, used in the Bible. Both words carry the idea of a wrapped outer garment that envelops the wearer, as does the tallit when worn during prayers. As a four-cornered garment, the shamleh was subject to the commandment to bear tzitzit, and wearing it allowed one to fulfill the commandment with an article of clothing that served daily functions. In addition to being an article of clothing, it served as a blanket when resting, or a bag for bundling and carrying goods.

In rural Yemen, all men, Muslims and Jews, slung a striped, brightly colored cotton shoulder-cloth around their upper body called a lih feh or masnaf, edged with a woven band and fringes. On the four corners Jews added the ritual tassels, identifying themselves as Jews.

In southern Yemen, the tallitot were woven in color schemes of green, red, and yellow on an off-white background. These were the standard outer garment in this region, either rectangular in shape, or poncho-like with a hole or slit in the middle for the head, similar to the tallit katan (a small, four-cornered garment worn to enable one to fulfill the tzitzit commandment if one’s regular outer garment was not four-cornered). Silk squares were sewn on to reinforce the four corners where the tassels were fixed.

Skilled Jewish weavers made these garments. Among Yemeni Jews, weaving was a widely practiced and highly respected profession, one that was considered to require special skills. In the poncho-like tallit, the edges around the head and neck opening were embroidered with stitches typical of the area. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ashkenazi white rectangular tallit with its blue or black stripes along the shorter, fringed hems, called shal in Yemen, frequently replaced the traditional Yemenite prayer shawls." x

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Yaheli Ovadya - Israeli, Unknown

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We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it. It is always there. But we’re here too, and we are no less real than the abyss. We are no less meaningful for being transient creatures caught up in something too big for us. There is still value to our lives. I’ve learned that those things that are most fragile are also the most precious.

-Ovadya ben Malka, A Damaged Mirror

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Siertas aktividades artistikas

Prezentado por Silvyo OVADYA  La semana pasada, diya de mierkoles topimos la posibilidad de ir a Edirne ande deviamos inogurar una ekspozision sovre las kartas postales de Edirne. Esta fue la segunda. Unos kuantos anyos antes, antes del Covid, realizimos por la primera vez una ekspozision sovre estas kartas. Metin Delevi era el kurator de esta ekspozision.  Esto fue realizado de las koleksyones…

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Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?

Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted by AI to collectively decide on the ways to curb it. That means you; it means me. It’s the power of […] Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch http://dlvr.it/SjYGPg

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Haim Estreya Ovadya (25 December 1922 – 26 August 1944) was a Macedonian Jewish communist who joined the Yugoslav Partisans after the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 during World War II. #cardula #estreyaovadya #fashion #fashioneditorial #illustration #peopleheroofyugoslavia #nationalhero #partisan #wwii #yugoslavia #jugoslavija https://www.instagram.com/p/CneJGpsjV6T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?

Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?

It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in computer code: ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot from OpenAI, is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right? Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University…

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A Damaged Mirror: A Story of Memory and Redemption by Yael Shahar and Ovadya ben Malka.

Tikvah (תִּקְוָ֗ה) is the word used for faith and hope. It directly translates to a chord or thread. To “put the rope in God’s hands” is praying. By holding a prayer book, it is like holding one side of a rope while God holds the other end.  

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Not to be that bitch that just gets obsessed with a character randomly

But after seeing Thomas O. Morrow being canonically Polish and creators not bothering looking for a real Polish surname (and uh names whatsoever. I mean Tomek is a short for Tomasz but Ovadya? And umm Morah?) let me introduce you to

Tomasz Oliwer Morawski

Who, as many polish immigrants, changed his surname to something easy for English speakers but at the same time sounds close enough, and with this individual it was important to make is some clever clue so Morrow.

Or, if you want to go with the path of his parents being wealthy and well-read, Ovadya could be a weird attempt of writing the polish version of Ovid's name (Owidiusz). Other name's starting with O are Olgierd, Olaf or Slavic Odolan/Odylen but none of these names are plausible as they weren't popular in 1930s and are not popular to this day.

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Transcript.

[...] Yeah. I would probably put this more in sort of the catastrophic risk camp or at least the indirect catastrophic or existential risk. Not only that, I'd put it in sort of the urgent category of that, where you have a very, very limited window. A way to think about this is that new communications media often destabilizes societies more broadly. So, think about the printing press and the ways in which Europe was basically engulfed in war for hundreds of years. You could think about radio and the connection between that and things like World War II and the ways in which radio was able to create this sort of new type of nationalism to some extent. And then there's lots of caveats to this nuance and you know, I can't express it in the two minutes here, but new communication media affect how people organize, effect how people make sense of the world, and they affect the resulting societal stability. We're also living in a world now where, let's say stability isn't quite as quite where it was, where individuals can have far more influence on sort of the overall stability of the world and where you have a whole bunch of really tricky challenges up ahead within the next five to 20 years that could easily derail even a very, very well-functioning civilization. You're in this environment, and now you're making everyone dumber. You're making them less capable of handling it, both at an individual level and at a societal level. You can think about this as, you’ve got your civilization driving its car down the road. And it's now starting to take LSD, and it's like seeing these hallucinations all over the place.And it's still trying to drive. There's going to be some level, some amount of LSD or some amount of like, of hallucination that you can still sort of drive without crashing. But there's going to be some level where you can't. We're just increasing that. And as we speed that car up, as the road gets windier, as more obstacles show up on that road ... And so that's sort of the broad framework for why our ability to make sense of the world is so crucial. [...]

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Sarlat, France (by Menahem Ovadya)

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Sarlat, France (by Menahem Ovadya) / http://picstreet.fr

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I published “Contra Ovadya on post-truth” on @Medium http://bit.ly/2HehXWn

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O problema das ‘Notícias Falsas’ do Facebook não está a desaparecer

O problema das ‘Notícias Falsas’ do Facebook não está a desaparecer

A fim de criar confiança, as plataformas das redes sociais devem considerar o envolvimento de utilizadores médios no processo de elaboração de políticas. Isto seria feito se contassem com os seus próprios funcionários, conselhos consultivos, e conselhos de supervisão. Esta sugestão vem de Aviv Ovadya, um tecnólogo que publicou recentemente um artigo sobre aquilo a […]

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Mueva moda mos kitaron

Burgaz en Bulgaria Prezentado por Silvyo OVADYA Ya esto demandando a syertos amigos: “ande estavash esta fin de semana?”. El uno me respondyo; “estavamos en Alexandropolis”, el otro me disho: “pasimos la entrada del muevo anyo en Bulgaria, en Burgaz”. Otros se estan indo a syertos kazales serka de Edirne en Bulgaria ande ay casinos. Deke esto todo? Porke muestro payiz ke tyene lugares muy ermozos…