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blogscot

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I'm a Scot, a geek and a Buddhist. Mostly a geek. Learning 🇪🇸 🇫🇷

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blogscot, to ai
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A brief summary from France 24 of how the IDF is using its AI to identify (and misidentify) Hamas targets in Gaza.

https://youtu.be/m9hUu5_gO44

glynmoody, to ai
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‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used #AI to identify 37,000 #Hamas targets - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes "Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants" #IDF shows exactly how not to use AI: to kill

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@glynmoody

> Another source, who justified the use of [AI] to help identify low-ranking targets, said that “when it comes to a junior militant, you don’t want to invest manpower and time in it”. [I]n wartime there was insufficient time to carefully “incriminate every target”. “So you’re willing to take the margin of error of using [AI], risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it,” they added. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home’

fkamiah17, to random
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It's not our fault, it's because our army doesn't obey orders.
Yaniv Kubovich is a military reporter with Haaretz.

blogscot,
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@fkamiah17

I'm assuming the IDF sources mentioned are very unofficial and a different story will emerge when the official investigation concludes.

I'd really love to see someone held accountable for this atrocity but I wouldn''t bet on it happening.

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Good reporting so far from CNN of the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, but disappointingly still no response from the White House.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/01/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-killed-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html

blogscot,
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@aral

Yeah, you pretty much nailed it.

> The White House is “heartbroken and deeply troubled” by a strike that killed at least seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza and is urging Israel to investigate the incident, a spokesperson for the National Security Council says.

fkamiah17, to random
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blogscot,
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@fkamiah17

With swearing added:

https://www.politico.eu/article/nicola-sturgeon-branded-boris-johnson-fucking-clown-during-pandemic-scotland-england-covid/

blogscot,
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@fkamiah17

I just wanted to read a bit more about it, so provided a link to the article. The 'swearing' line is just my introduction to the article.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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🇫🇷 Macron is optimistic about the possibility of persuading Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán to change his position on supporting Ukraine before the December 14-15 EU leaders' summit

blogscot,
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@Free_Press

"Just what makes that little old ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can't
Move a rubber tree plant

But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes"

https://genius.com/Frank-sinatra-high-hopes-lyrics

Peternimmo, to magazine
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Famous Sports Illustrated has been publishing articles written by . They pretended the articles were written by humans by creating fake biographies of the "authors", complete with AI headshots.

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

blogscot,
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@Peternimmo

If magazine editors are trying to reduce costs by using AI's to write articles their readers too can save money, that is, the price of the magazine, by just asking their favourite AI to generate the articles directly.

dgar, to random
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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

blogscot,
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@Em0nM4stodon @LoganFive @michaelgemar @dgar

I would have had the group throw the character off a cliff with the words "cure that one for free".

blogscot, to random
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"SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

sue, to random
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The folk who lived in our new house were clearly from money, and left the place an absolute pigsty. We moved from an ex council house so of course nothing fancy but the way we left it you could have eaten your fucking dinner off any surface.

Posh people are utterly useless tbqh.

blogscot,
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@sue If my guess is right at the time you could by a bag of sweets for 1p.

blogscot,
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@sue In my day it was called a 1p lucky bag. Either you're just a young wee thing or you were being ripped off. Dealer's choice.

kierkegaank, to random
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Is it rude to say that the north American credit score system is perverse institutionalized subjugation for profit? Like that the whole economic system for consumers is a perfectly legal gangrenous teet for AmEx et.al.?

If you tell someone who’s not from the US or Canada that you are forced to continuously get into debt for all your life in order to get a mortgage or rent a place they won’t take you seriously

The seemingly random end of Fight Club makes so much more sense once you learn this

blogscot,
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@kierkegaank

"The seemingly random end of Fight Club ..."

Did you watch it as a kid?

br00t4c, to random
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Viktor Orban meets with Putin, says Hungary trying to salvage relations with Russia

https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/10/17/viktor-orban-meets-with-putin-says-hungary-trying-to-salvage-relations-with-russia

blogscot,
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@br00t4c

Orban must be feeling pretty alone in the EU now that Poland's gone Left.

blogscot, to Scotland
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Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational and generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid, SSE Renewables and its partner TotalEnergies have announced.

https://news.stv.tv/north/scotlands-largest-offshore-wind-farm-seagreen-in-firth-of-forth-now-fully-operational

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