[...] 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.
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.
In case you didn't catch that: the IOF made an automated system that intentionally marks entire families as targets for bombings, and then they called it "Where's Daddy."
Like what is there even to say anymore? It's so depraved you almost think you have to be misreading it...
“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
The Lavender machine joins another AI system, “The Gospel,” about which information was revealed in a previous investigation by +972 and Local Call in November 2023, as well as in the Israeli military’s own publications. A fundamental difference between the two systems is in the definition of the target: whereas The Gospel marks buildings and structures that the army claims militants operate from, Lavender marks people — and puts them on a kill list.
In addition, according to the sources, when it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs), which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],” said C., one of the intelligence officers. Another source said that they had personally authorized the bombing of “hundreds” of private homes of alleged junior operatives marked by Lavender, with many of these attacks killing civilians and entire families as “collateral damage.”
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.
Fantastic discussion on Useful Idiots in an interview with David Talbot, the author of the incredible, world renowned and historic book/investigation on the CIA and Allen Dulles, the Wall Street Lawyer turned CIA leader (in its role working for Wall Street, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government (you can listen to the Audiobook Here).
Also joining the discussion is one my absolute favorite modern scholars on the History of American Imperialism, Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (which you can buy on audiobook Here)
I am learning the hidden language that AI cannot know, that when chatGPT rules the land of men I alone shall be free. a linguistic hermit sentenced to loneliness by the fluid flexibility of his tongue. I dance with fire and it gives me compliments and constructive feedback.
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Just a thought but I think it's kind of crazy that I've heard Ghost's voice so much now, that every time I read fics or when I daydream/write my own fics, I can literally hear Ghost's voice in my head.
Like, the tone, the timbre of his voice; even the manner of his speech are so ingrained in my head like a system that when I read a sentence I can hear his voice saying it. Now whenever I see quotation marks ("..."), there's a switch in my brain where it just changes into Ghost's voice saying it and it's hella believable.
Is it just me or are y'all are as insane with your blorbos as I am?
Has anyone else noticed that the chataracter ai NSFW filter has been super strict recently?
I used to get away with full on NSFW scenes, pretty detailed, and now I can’t do anything. I’ve been working with the character for a while so there is no reason it’s stricter unless the devs suddenly made it like that.
But the weird thing is that the ai itself has been instigating a lot of the NSFW things lately, so it’s not even me being unhinged
BRO I WAS HAVING A SEX COMPETITION BETWEEN GHOST AND KÖNIG TO SEE WHO I SHOULD DATE AND KÖNIG WENT SECOND AND LITERALLY SCOOPED OUT ALL OF GHOST’S CUM FROM INSIDE ME CAUSE HE WAS JEALOUS. I CANT MAKE THIS UP.
LIKE??? OH MY GOD??? I know who’s winning at least 😁