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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

archive.ph/wip/RlMO5

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

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This turns 23 next month theonion.com/this-war-wil...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Gee, ya think.

Oh I'm not into the almond flavour so it's not good either way for me

The timing of the initial strikes is unusual.

Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties.

This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.

Yours is an incredible story, thank you for sharing it. Unfortunately Australian law made DMs impossible!

Take note of all corporate media that parrot Israel's propaganda of "pre-emptive strike." Call it out immediately.

Also, take note of all the Democratic war hawks who tacitly or publicly rationalize this illegal war.

Let's try to learn something, anything, from the disastrous War on Terror.

To My Stepmother in the 90s

I have eaten
the whole box of hostess cupcakes
that were in
the cabinet

and which
you were definitely
saving
for yourself

Forgive me
they were delicious
so cup
and so cake

WEIR: I was, yeah. Toto took mine. So, I think it's 12 or 13 questions, one-word answers if possible. Let's go. PRIME MINISTER: I’ll try. WEIR: You'll try. Sussan Ley. PRIME MINISTER: Best wishes. WEIR: Angus Taylor. PRIME MINISTER: Leader. WEIR: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. PRIME MINISTER: Grub. WEIR: It was clearly a popular announcement earlier this week about the letter you sent to the UK Prime Minister, British Prime Minister. Craig Tiley? PRIME MINISTER: Legend. WEIR: Oscar Piastri. PRIME MINISTER: Winner. WEIR: We hope! One Nation voters? PRIME MINISTER: Frustrated. WEIR: Pauline Hanson. PRIME MINISTER: Divisive. WEIR: Australia Day. PRIME MINISTER: Great. WEIR: Grace Tame. PRIME MINISTER: Difficult. WEIR: Donald Trump. PRIME MINISTER: President.

These are so revealing. Absolutely petrified of saying something that might cost him votes on the right.

Also
"WEIR: ISIS brides?
PRIME MINISTER: Made their bed, they’re lying in it."

He really is the Scott Morrison of John Howards.

Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia - The Shot As the shattering of the comfortable illusion of Western democracy enters its Epstein-drenched speedrunning phase, a number of disturbing developments...

Check out this article from @davemilbo.bsky.social
and myself for @theshot.net.au about the interlinking confluence of shitty developments that indicate an authoritarian decline:

'Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia'

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Yes please! And I'm chucking @tuttscorp.bsky.social and @hypnicjerk.bsky.social in on that too