As defense leaders prioritize tanks and ammunition, front-line nations warn that ignoring climate change as a risk multiplier is a costly strategic failure.
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As defense leaders prioritize tanks and ammunition, front-line nations warn that ignoring climate change as a risk multiplier is a costly strategic failure.
NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.
I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.
Food prices were already rising before this latest war began... with oil and fertilizer prices rising, food prices are likely to rise further and drive up world food insecurity.
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“Families who had barely begun rebuilding their lives are now forced to flee once again."
Norwegian Refugee Council says 300,000 people have already been displaced in “less than 100 hours” since Israel launched its war on Lebanon: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
One service member said their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this [Iran war] was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and imminent return of Jesus Christ”.
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Algorithmic targeting systems are the perfect tools to obliterate rules of engagement, as humans who are considered bottlenecks to decision making,"rubber stamp" machine decisions after seconds of deliberation, & acceptable level of collateral damage is increased to reflect expanded ability to kill.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
My latest op-ed. The fog of war in the age of AI will become thicker. Science fiction has become realist and under the Trumps administration, any potential guardrails are being degraded at warp speed 🧵https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-the-age-of-ai-the-fog-of-war-thickens/
Widespread inability to understand the way global energy markets work is a genuine risk factor right now. The kicker is the way the policies that flow from these misunderstandings have been joined up with a concerted effort to demolish alternatives and the ability to hedge against price shocks.
“Without urgent international action, we risk sleepwalking into an era where wars begin, escalate & kill at machine speed, all while humans watch events they no longer fully control – & possibly comes at the risk of their own extinction.” @bmomani.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
"Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care."
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
From FT comments
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
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OK, as the actual journalist who has been unwittingly caught up in the Claude rumor this morning (who also covers AI disinformation) let me clear this one up for the record.
To recap: Claude kind of implicated itself in the Iran school bombing citing (in part) my reporting...
Russia recruits thousands of African fighters for its war in Ukraine, often through deceptive agencies promising civilian jobs but forcing military contracts instead.
The drop in the price battery storage is incredible, joining onshore wind and solar as now cheaper than coal, on average globally. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
NEW: A source from the Iranian Kurdish group Komala denies reports that it launched a ground offensive into western Iran.
Source: www.rudaw.net/kurmanci/kur...
🚨Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 50 people have been killed and 335 wounded in Israeli strikes over the past two days, including at least seven children. The toll follows Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs after Hezbollah launched missiles toward Israel on Monday for the first time in more than a year. No casualties have been reported in Israel from the Hezbollah attacks.
See new posts Conversation Pheebs @galpalpheebs Israeli airstrike on Aramoun
🚨Lebanon’s Health Min. says 50 people have been killed & 335 wounded in Israeli strikes over the past 2 days, including at least 7 children.
The toll follows Israel’s bombardment of southern Lebanon & Beirut’s southern suburbs after Hezbollah launched missiles toward Israel on Mon. for the 1st...
The incoherence of the US justification for military action against Iran is striking. Trump has offered several different reasons. More tellingly, there’s no clear end goal. Increasingly, this looks like a war of opportunity. 🧵 /1
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Yes this is real: Karoline Leavitt just said in response to why Trump launched the war on Iran: "The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the US." So this is the first US war based on vibes. #VibesWar
"A near-total internet blackout has once again taken hold in Iran. Connectivity has become a privilege. Only those with access to Starlink and other forms of circumvention have been able to connect to the outside world."
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects
👀 "All told, The Wall Street Journal reports that simply getting all those forces into position cost $630 million, and Anadolu reports that the first 24 hours of the attack cost $779 million.
Then, of course, this operation is going to lead to much more future military spending." @ryanlcooper.com
Spain and its leaders understand their international legal obligations and are acting accordingly.
