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During the siege 10 years ago today, Russia agreed to open a humanitarian corridor to allow evacuation. Then they ambushed anyone who passed through this corridor.

cross-posted from: https://qoto.org/users/mapto/statuses/112885446373011247

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In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200 — makes the case for designing a special machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate thousands of potential “targets” for military strikes in the heat of a war. Such technology, he writes, would resolve what he described as a “human bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets.”

Such a machine, it turns out, actually exists...

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.

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.

The new European AI Office launched its first job opportunities.

За съжаление през изминалото десетилетие изоставането се задълбочава.

What Philip Zimbardo tells us about human psychology is that everyday war crimes are committed by people that hide behind uniforms. Keeping a register of offenders in what appears as potential war crimes would have two positive effects:

1. Provide the evidence for these people to be put on trial in better times
2. Deter future offenders by making them think twice about their own future before unleashing their hate

I deploy a FastAPI service with docker (see my docker-compose.yml and app).

My service directory gets filled with files index.html, index.html.1, index.html.2,... that all contain

They seem to be generated any time the docker healthcheck pings the service.

How can I get rid of these?

PS: I had to put a screenshot, because Lemmy stripped my HTML in the code quote.

Кандидатстваме с пилотен проект за производство на ток от сероводорода в морската вода по НПВУ, документите са подадени на 5 декември от името на Института по индустриална химия към БАН и в срок до един месец от датата на внасянето им, колкото трае процедурата, очакваме да бъде одобрен и да получим нужното финансиране - проф. В. Бешков