Is blockchain dead? Ask these guys… micky.com.au/is-blockchain-…

Australian property sales slump to levels not seen since the early 1990s (via @BIAUS) businessinsider.com.au/australia-prop…

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The Complexifier.

Got 3rd place. We'll get em next year.

“We could not find medicine for him or anything that could have kept him alive. Yazan turned into a skeleton in this war. Hunger gnawed at his body. we could not provide anything for him due to the siege and the war." 4/8

Everyone knows a normal baby’s legs are chunky. This photo should bring everybody to their knees. Who are we & what’s the point if we can’t stop this?

Introducing Lavender, the new Unit 8200 tool that has allowed the IDF to dramatically accelerate its pipeline of targets in Gaza with almost no human oversight and shocking permissiveness on civilian deaths. With Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Israel's "unprecedented" calculations for how many Palestinian civilians the IDF is authorized to kill in order to kill a single suspected Hamas operative: 10-15 civilians for every junior operative. 100 civilians for a single "senior" commander. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is… All by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies. Israel has

Lavender seems mostly like a technology of delegation, a way to distance one’s self from civilian casualties and targeting decisions. McNamaraism is back, and it’s as stupid and evil as ever.

The American journalist whom Israel shot and killed in 2022 in the West Bank while wearing a bright blue vest that said PRESS. The IDF first denied killing her, only to admit it after multiple independent investigations found they did it, so then claimed it was an accident.

This story is horrific, and basically confirms every one of the fears we had back in October when we knew the IDF was using AI—it's error-prone, there's scant human oversight, and it facilitates the mass rubber stamping of targets, of mass killing. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

This is a genuinely neutral description of this article. The only thing it leaves out is that the IDF did not actually bother in general to confirm the target was home. So sometimes they *only* killed the women and children.

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed dlvr.it/T7VdKY

“We were told that senior officers are afraid to accept positions in the West Bank because they are afraid of being prosecuted in The Hague,” one source recalled.

"Never say game over"❤️

Says the person who organized a consortium of hedge fund billionaires to create career blacklists for college students protesting the Israeli war in Gaza.