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Beloveds we have gotta block The Tennis Letter that account is garbage and they do awful work
Also get the fk off x what the hell are you doing on there still?

Belgian challenger player Michael Geerts received messages threatening his parents and girlfriend if he didn’t lose his next match. Picture of a gun included. 😳

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

Interesting …

Australia and the "Epstein Coalition". Invasion of Iran a disaster - Michael West It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now

It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now. Michael West reports.
michaelwest.com.au/australia-an...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

The Betoota Advocate is a satire site with very Australian humour, which is distinct in the way that British humour and American humor has its own flavour. Don't let people wind you up about it, it's like watching someone flip out on The Onion ten years ago on twitter.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Bleurgh!

As a kid I walked into a tent at Woodford Folk Festival to get out of the rain
Bob Brown was speaking and it is no exaggeration to say that he changed the way I engaged with politics forever

ooooh! something sticky, something fresh, something smooth
excellent mix

They’ve been claiming Iran has a nuclear weapons program for as long as I can remember and have yet to offer up any credible proof for this. For over twenty years the west’s entire posture in the middle east has been premised on this unsupported claim.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

What athlete’s expression will stay with you the rest of your life?

Vale Dennis Cometti, centimetre perfect ♥️

Iga and Coco give Alysa Liu her flowers Leaving a mark.

Coco Gauff: "I was happy to see her be that voice saying the unsaid things that athletes think but are maybe scared to say."

Iga Swiatek: "Seems like everything she does she does to have fun and to really show her amazing skills in a way that makes her happy."

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All while techbros enjoy profits: "the gospel of AI-enabled precision and accuracy has now been revealed as a pretext for the acceleration of unrestrained and criminal acts of killing." ainowinstitute.org/publications...

"an expert in kill chains" fuck off, honestly

Not once do the academics or the journalists writing the piece mention the fact that language models just get shit wrong *all the time*.

It is a really shockingly bad piece and shame on everyone involved. You're helping to create the air of credulous, key-jangling awe that justifies all this

In 2024 the San Francisco-based Anthropic deployed its model across the US Department of War and other national security agencies to speed up war planning. Claude became part of a system developed by the war-tech company Palantir with the Pentagon to “dramatically improve intelligence analysis and enable officials in their decision-making processes”. “The AI machine is making recommendations for what to target, which is actually much quicker in some ways than the speed of thought,” said Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and an expert in kill chains. “So you’ve got scale and you’ve got speed, you’re [carrying out the] assassination-style strikes at the same time as you’re decapitating the regime’s ability to respond with all the aerial ballistic missiles. That might have taken days or weeks in historic wars. [Now] you’re doing everything at once.” The latest AI systems can rapidly analyse mountains of information on potential targets from drone footage to telecommunications interceptions as well as human intelligence. Palantir’s system uses machine learning to identify and prioritise targets and recommend weaponry, accounting for stockpiles and previous performance against similar targets. It also uses automated reasoning to evaluate legal grounds for a strike.

“This is the next era of military strategy and military technology,” said David Leslie, professor of ethics, technology and society at Queen Mary University of London, who has observed demonstrations of AI military systems. He also warned that reliance on AI can result in “cognitive off-loading”. Humans tasked with making a strike decision can feel detached from its consequences because the effort to think it through has been made by a machine. On Saturday 165 people, many children, were killed in a missile strike that hit a school in southern Iran, according to state media. It appeared to be close to a military barracks and the UN called it “a grave violation of humanitarian law”. The US military has said it is looking into the reports.

In the days before the Iran strikes, the US administration had said it would banish Anthropic from its systems after it refused to allow its AI to be used for fully autonomous weapons or surveillance of US citizens. But it remains in use until it is phased out. Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI, quickly signed its own deal with the Pentagon for military use of its models. “The advantage is in the speed of decision-making, the collapsing of planning from what might have taken days or weeks before to minutes or seconds,” said Leslie. “These systems produce a set of options for human decision makers but [they’ve] got a much narrower time band … to evaluate the recommendation.” “The deployment of AI is expanding,” said Prerana Joshi, research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence thinktank. “It is being done across countries’ defence estates … across logistics, training, decision management, maintenance.” She added: “AI is a technology that will allow decision makers, and anyone in that chain, to improve the productivity and efficiency of what they do. It’s a way of synthesising data at a much faster pace that is helpful to decision makers.”

This article and the academics quoted are a stunning illustration of how both media and academia have fundamentally failed to recognise how a random number generator is being used to widen the already-fucking-wide permission space for mass murder

Both now helping that project

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Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation” - The Shot There is a map. There is a plan. There are quotes. There is evidence, both historic and fresh.

Here's me. 'Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation”'

hahahahahaha these fucking freaks

Going from Albo to the Israeli ambassador Jesus fucking Christ this ep of 7:30 is grim

Albanese Supported An Illegal War With No Clear Objective or End. It's A Grim New Low the Albanese government didn’t even know the reason for the war, let alone whether it was unlawful – but they supported it anyway.

It’s not just an illegal war. That would be bad enough.

Today, the Albanese government clearly admitted they gave our support to a war, without even knowing why it was launched.

From us:

www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...

Penny Wong said a regime that murders its own people has no legitimacy.

I wonder if she would apply the same logic to the US?

#AlexPretty #ReneeGood

Alyssa Healy bowling just so she can get the allrounder icon beside her name for the Test. #AUSvIND 🏏

News in Israel today: the war is good for Israel's stock market

Damn i wonder who this guy speaking out against the Iraq War is. Wonder what he's up to these days

Truly seems the most appropriate way to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of Australia being the US’s ‘deputy sheriff’ - whole heartedly supporting the US bombing another country, despite not being clued in, even as it kills scores of children