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Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st (mainichi.jp)

TOKYO -- A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Apparently it's the former. Their prosecution rate is 8% apparently according to Wikipedia, because they're too understaffed to deal with cases that can go either way. They also have a false confession problem, but that's not what's getting them to that rate.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I mean is there anything proving Hamas leaders intentionally planned any civilian deaths? They're definitely not doing enough to stop them, but I don't think I've seen anything specifically incriminating their top brass.

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and it was a well financed and coordinated attack.

True enough, but there's only so much you can do once the soldiers are actual fighting if you're not on the field (especially when you don't particularly care either way). That said, I haven't seen anything since this "war" started that would serve as evidence to implicate, say, Sinwar in an international court of law. If he says "our plans didn't involve attacking civilians our soldiers didn't it out of their own accord" nobody can prove him wrong. Now I do think that's actually what happened (from a strategic perspective Hamas has too much to lose and too little to gain by killing civilians during a military attack), but even if that's not the case there's simply too little evidence to prove it.

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But even by proxy, leaders are responsible for the actions of their subordinates.

Up to a point. If he says "I never gave that order" I don't think anyone can prove otherwise, is what I'm trying to say.

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I've never used a Mac but my experience with iPhones and iPads (not mine) has convinced me to never touch anything Apple makes. The requirement of iTunes to send files between an iPhone and a PC is, for example, just ridiculous.

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Really we should be subsidizing EVs from our own manufacturers.

You are. Still not doing much to corporate greed.

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car makers just jack up their prices so they make more off the subsidy

Exactly.

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Uh... No. They still use GHM numbers. The UN revised numbers are fully identified deaths, meaning people with a first and last name next to their entry in the GHM's database. This is opposed to non-fully identified deaths, where it's known that X number of people died (for example an Israeli bombed blew X people to smithereens and they're unidentifiable or there's nobody left to identify them because the whole family is dead). non-fully identified numbers are the same.

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Source? Where are you getting this info

The UN came out to correct the misunderstanding:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed

Also setting aside how GHM numbers are and have always been accurate according to literally everyone (Hamas has a lot to lose and nothing to gain from faking them), Fox News? Seriously? If you're gonna make claims find a source worth reading.

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Admittedly the UN does say it's likely one of their warehouses, but crucially it's abandoned. Hamas only came in after the UN left, which is very much not the implication Israel and Zionist media are trying to make.

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I mean yes but at least in the US the latter two are overwhelmingly more common.

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Well, part of the reason is certainly because leftist social circles straight up bully anyone in their own ranks who would consider joining.

I mean it's very understandable that people don't wanna get involved in supporting America's settler colonialism project, among other things.

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Even Germany is selling weapons to Israel and I can't blame anyone for wanting nothing to do with that, but getting back to the US: In order to get into a position where they can influence national decisions, the random communist literature student will have to be a major part of the US war machine. Now remember that the US has been involved in two genocides in the past 10 years. I see your point but the kind of person who will actually steer the country towards peace will never be allowed to reach such a position in the first place unless they become another cog in the war machine.

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Uh... Biden can stop the mess in Israel with a phone call. Reagan did it.

Should we really cede all power in the Middle East to Iran so that we can stop our (fucking asshole of an) ally Israel from using those weapons on a highly immoral war?

I'm not sure why that's the dichotomy here, but literally yes. The US has no business staying in the middle east as long as it has. Also it's a genocide, not just "immoral war".

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Uh... There's a reason Israel hates BDS's guts and that's not because it doesn't work.

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I mean you can see the source code. You'll know if anyone does something weird if you have two braincells.

Edit: Clown here move along.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Oh shit I must've said something really dumb now.

(I wasn't joking).

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Nope, I'm just a clown who doesn't actually work in tech.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Correction: 33000 Palestinians are confirmed dead. Israel has systematically destroyed the Gazan healthcare system so the Gazan Health Ministry can't count dead people (the GHM only reports people its doctors officially confirmed dead). I wouldn't be surprised if the real number of dead was double the official number.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

taking Iran out would also be good for Ukraine and probably for the people in Iran.

Failed states are never good. Did we not learn this from Iraq and Syria? What about Libya? And let's not gloss over the fact that Iran is, for better or worse, one of the few countries in the region willing to stand up to Israel and the US.

Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)

Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Imagine if it was Apartheid South Africa, or Nazi Germany doing this. Do you see the problem now?

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I understood it, and what I'm trying to say is: Unlike in most places, this technology isn't going to be used even ostensibly to maintain law and order; it's gonna be used for genocide. Again, think of the FBI and the Wehrmacht using the same technology. Both are bad, but one is clearly a lot worse. That's why this is cause for concern.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Genocide doesn't mean wiping them all out, but that aside it's so they can enforce their reign of terror in the meantime. And because they later sell these technologies as "battle-tested".

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Then the Holocaust, Armenian genocide, Holodomor and Cambodian genocide weren't genocides. Good to know. Neither was the American and Canadian genocide of Native Americans.

You should read the UN's definition of genocide first.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

So, hot take here: preface this with saying I absolutely condone the surveillance by Israel here.

I think you mean condemn.

It is not reasonable to keep pointing at the holocaust and nazi germany as a stick of " look, you became the thing you suffered under", unless in a context of learning from history.

I mean when a country does Nazi things usually other countries point out that that's Nazism. It's not something unique to Israel (see: Trump's rhetoric being compared to Hitler's); it's just that Israel's philosophy shares a lot with Nazism so the similarity is pointed out a lot.

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I believe we should be very careful to stick the label nazism to everything we find abhorrent. I’d like to judge situations on their own merit, not compare them to other atrocities in our history. The socio-political situation in Gaza is so different than 1930’s Germany

True enough, but the ideology itself is very similar. The methods and forms of injustice differ, but the idea that the ubermench have the right to kill the untermench/enslave them/drive them from their homes/all of the above (also known as Lebensraum) is a very important point of similarity that actually allows us to better understand Israel's actions and ground them in reality. Comparisons with Nazis are usually unproductive, but in this case they serve to take away the air of Israeli exceptionalism Israel has spent 70 years creating, in the sense that if you logically evaluate the proposition that Israel = Nazi you find it having a lot more merit than you'd expect at first glance. Way too much merit to coexist with the idea that Israel is acting in self-defense. Gonna go on a bit of a tangent, but you'll find Israeli ideology similar to Manifest Destiny, aka the Nazis' inspiration. In the end it's all settler colonialism.

Even experts are having a hard time really putting the finger on all the mess that has been Israel-Palestine situations for the past 600 years.

Why specifically 600 years? AFAIK the modern conflict started about 100 years ago with the Balfour declaration.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

True, but:

1-It helps them find "terrorists" to blow up, and

2-This isn't going away. Even after this "war" ends what remains of Gaza will be perpetually under surveillance (more than they already are). Even if the war ends today, Gaza just became even more of an open-air concentration camp.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

You cannot look at what’s happening while ignoring the past 600+ years.

600? I mean there were Jews in Palestine then too, and very occasionally unforgiveable things were done to them, but the people who are now running Israel weren't there for any of that. These are people who migrated to Israel less than 100 years ago and their descendants.

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Not gonna say they deserve it, but they should've known what they were getting into, right?

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Again Palestinians dying in the passive voice.

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So the other side will keep exploding the first side violently until the hostages are back.

It's not about the hostages. Otherwise they would stop bombing Gaza and actually use diplomacy to get them back instead of blowing them up.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

I hate to agree with Hexbearers but stop supporting genocide. Seriously.

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This is why BDS is important.

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