Also: this article omits serious context about what the IDF does with the information Microsoft is describing!
Over a year ago, 972 wrote an explosive expose on IDF ai targeting. It's all pretty blunt. A general name Yossi Sariel wrote a book describing how AI could automate industrialized killing, and these plans were put into practice to deliberately target civilian infrastructure when entire families were sitting down to meals. The tools included Lavender, which composed target lists that pretty much included any male over 14 and Daddy's Home, which tracked targets generated by Lavender and generated strike plans when it determined that the target was at their home.
There's no good reason why the Independent left this out. A general literally wrote a book about this, and it's been a year since this information came out.
To be fair, that wasn't really her primary issue. Her primary principle was catering to donors and trying to protect the Democratic party from socialism. Which she did.
Enabling the genocide was just a means to that larger end. But the result it's the same.
You might be 100% right. But that wouldn't change the fact that you're focusing on the individual in a story about trends, and I think you're doing so because doing so is a way to avoid engaging with the larger point of the article.
Tech work isn't safe. No work is really safe these days. It doesn't even matter if AI can do your job well. It is just a facet of a project to devalue labor and disempower laborers. And that project is going really well! No matter how good you are at your job, none of us can "merit" our way out of that project.
I'm great at my job, and my job is very AI proof. But that doesn't protect me from the fact that my company is looking for ways to gigify the work and hire contract workers from among highly paid laid off scientists and engineers to take over little easy parts of my job. They'll concentrate the hard parts, of my job and yours, and reorganize it until it's as modular as possible, and raise our workloads without increasing our pay until they can make it hard enough to say we're not doing it fast enough.
No chatbot will replace me in the next 10 years. But my company doesn't need them to in order to limit my bargaining power! They're fostering an ecosystem of abundant cheap, fungible atomized workers so they will never have to bid for your labor or worry about you being irreplaceable.
All of us need to get wise to the con. We need universal incomes, universal services, universal healthcare, universal housing. We need a guaranteed safety net that is high enough that everyone has the ability to turn down bad jobs. Even the people you think suck at their jobs.
You cannot escape this by dismissing any laid off worker as too slow to keep up. Because this is a team event. And the bosses are on the other team.
Yo I self host a Nextcloud server and I don't know what an apk is. Please stop being a gatekeeper. Grandma Ruth deserves alternatives to big tech just like the rest of us.
All freedom to all the people. These tools aren't supposed to be some special privilege for 1337 hackers. They should be ubiquitous.
I don't think livestreaming your whole life is healthy or desirable, but I don't see finding friends who are cool with it to be an obstacle. There are plenty of other Twitch streamers at the very least who are down with this stuff. And she lives in Austin. Why not have a couple of buddies to go on jogs with or play basket ball or cook with? I just don't see how that would be hard to do.
I don't feel like this article answered my questions well.
Wtf, man. Hit "Publish" when you're ready to say something.
Also, I think a lot could be done to improve this problem just be recognizing the existing institutions that were serving this role that have been severely hampered.
Trusted local news can do a lot. We should find subsidy models that support those.
(I wonder if that's there brilliant idea. Either that or a superintelligent LLM that magically provides an infallible source of indisputable truth.)
For most it's about the money. Biden is a Zionist true-believer, though.
He covered up their crimes because he believes deep in his soul that their conquest of the religion is an unassailable right, no matter how brutal. It's a very fucked up belief system, but that's where he's at.
'Your honor, we urge you to allow this company to continue breaking the law because our business is insolvent without the revenue we earn from crimes.'
I like Firefox, but if enforcing antitrust collapses Mozilla than so be it. How long has this car been going on? Have they not established any plans for what they'd do if this happened? They derive 75% of their whole company revenue from one source that was likely to be found illegal? They really thought that was a good idea? That's a hell of a business model. It's not a judge's job to save them from that.
Can you put this in any context? Because it seems to confirm what I've said: orthodox Jews were historically misaligned with liberal zionism. But the modern form of zionism is much closer to religious zionism, and the hosting of one of the most outspoken and fascistic expansionist Israeli leaders at the worldwide headquarters for the Chabad-Lubavitch sect seems to really remove a lot of ambiguity here.
It looked like a crowd of Chabadniks gathered around the Chabad global headquarters to violently terrorize anti-zionist protesters (or anyone they confused for protesters). I think you might just be operating on incomplete or outdated information about orthodox Jews and zionism.
First, I'm about 99% sure that was a crowd of young orthodox men. I saw a video, and it looked like your standard Crown Heights Haredi mob. It was also outside of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
Also, why do you think Orthodox Jews are anti-zionist? Historically I think they were in tactical disagreement with modern liberal Zionism as a project, but I think they've come around and are now among the most violent supporters of land theft, settler violence, and exterminationism.
An archetypal neoconservative, Coleman started off as an anti-war activist who once worked as a roadie for Jethro Tull, and was suspended from Hofstra University for leading a sit-in. “I went to Woodstock, and I inhaled!” he boasted at the JNS summit. After first taking office as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Coleman wound up narrowly losing his Senate seat to Al Franken in 2008 as a Republican.
In addition to serving as the national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and founder of the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, Coleman now works as a top lobbyist for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
I was just at a picket line and there were two folks from the Socialist Workers Party, and I was asking them about local actions and they mentioned that one of their members had recently run for mayor. And I asked if he was the one who was really strangely Zionist and they started explaining how Zionism was a socialist priority and just... it's so weird.
We all must guard against whatever the fuck happened to Coleman. How you start off as an anti-war socialist and end up speaking in front of a crowd of fascists declaring that the oligarchs must do a better job of propagandizing against the proletariat is hard for me to follow, but we all need to make sure we never wind up catching whatever he caught.
Yeah, seems like a pretty big oversight for the author... [Checks byline]... no author credited.
Great. Very real. Much news.