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"Members of Trump's Board [of Peace] are ... among the worst human rights violators on the planet."

Hey let’s keep this going!

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Imagine being a soldier dying to amuse the whims of the pedophile king and all your family gets out of it is a semiliterate "an army believed to be dead?" headline and the pedophile spending exactly 2 seconds pretending to give a fuck before changing subjects to his magnificent Epstein ballroom

Bicycle Face This film will be presented during the event La Nuit du court on March 21, 2026 at Concordia University Bicycle Face is a film essay exploring the relationship between women and bicycles from a con...

Montreal's Festival des Films sur l'Art 2026:
"Bicycle Face"
-exploring the relationship between women & bicycles, paying tribute to women’s freedom.
Its starting point is a historical episode from the late 19th century, when a so-called ​“bicycle face” was invented to discourage women from riding.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

High levels of destruction seen in Beirut today after a wave of Israeli strikes targeted the south of the city.

This footage was filmed here: 33.8587, 35.51405

In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.

Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.

During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all

developed an artificial intelligence-based program known as “Lavender,” unveiled here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets for assassination, Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine “as if it were a human decision.”

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

Rightly, there is a lot of discussion about US Military and Anthropic in the context of Iran, but a lot of it seems to unfold in amnesia of Israel's use of algorithmic targeting systems "Lavender," "Gospel," and "Where's Daddy" in Gaza.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

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.

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...

EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.

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Dismay as Hegseth urges Latin American allies to join ‘offense’ against cartels Critics sceptical Pentagon chief’s plan for increased military force – amid rising US intervention – will stop drug gangs

"The defence secretary urged countries to remain “Christian nations, under God, proud of our shared heritage with strong borders” and not be led astray by “radical narco-communism, anarcho-tyranny … and uncontrolled mass migration”.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Once upon a time in Dahiyeh: Israel’s destruction of Lebanon’s communities Israeli attacks on Dahiyeh this time clearly aim to tear apart the communities living there, residents and experts say.

Smotrich just said Dahiyeh will soon look like Khan Younis.

I wrote about Dahiyeh in 2024 and Israel’s domicide/urbicide

www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Tracy Chapman Live at Cabaret Metro 1988-05-07 : Tracy Chapman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Tracy ChapmanCabaret MetroChicago, ILMay 7, 1988** 24 BIT **Master recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio ArchiveSource:  Unknown mic &...

Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

Today the Israelis ordered the evacuation of the southern suburbs of Beirut. This included a couple Palestinian refugee camps. People who were displaced during the Nakba or in 67, settled in Beirut and now their grand/great grandchildren are once again displaced.

AI slop is a potent strategy of warfare in spreading disinfo and sowing doubt. Quickly produced at scale, AI slop drowns out human-made content and goes viral as spammers detect and exploit weaknesses in algorithms.

Video: A.I. Videos Distort Damage From Iranian Strikes After Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, A.I.-generated imagery claiming to show massive explosions or exaggerated destruction at or near targeted sites have been spreading on social m...

Both predictable and terrifying the way gen ai images and narratives about ai systems’ precision are manipulated towards normalizing atrocities.

www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Israel's last regime change war backfired. This one could too For the first time since 1956, Israel is openly fighting alongside a Western imperial power in a war whose political repercussions are far from certain.

Israel’s last regime-change war backfired. This one could, too

For the first time since 1956, Israel is openly fighting alongside a Western imperial power in a war whose political repercussions are far from certain.

By Meron Rapoport @mekomit.bsky.social

www.972mag.com/israels-last...

The OSMP has added Israeli 2,000-pound-class air-delivered bombs with distinct red and yellow markings.

This suggests the munitions likely contain an incendiary and high-explosive payload. The best known of these is the BLU-119/B CrashPAD which contains white phosphorous.

OSMP2051 Air-Delivered Bomb, JDAM kit, MK 84 series, Israel

🟥These images were posted by the Israeli Air Force on social media during the ongoing war with Iran. Some of the posts directly mention Israeli Air Force strikes in Iran.

View images of the munitions here:

osmp.ngo/osmp2051/

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.

“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social

www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Liberals to cut CBC by $192-million in 2026-27 This year’s estimates include $1.38-billion in funding for the CBC, representing a marked decrease from the $1.58-billion allotted to the public broadcaster during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Mark Carney campaigning in April 2025:

"When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded. That has to change. We expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding...”

Mark Carney now: