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BlameThePeacock, in How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it

And it will mean nothing, because they can’t enforce anything.

livus,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

At the moment.

But you know, some war criminals even from as far back as WWII were tried and convicted this century. Even though they got away with it for decades, it caught up with them in the end.

0xtero, in How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it

I wish international law regarding war crimes was actually enforceable. There's a long list of world leaders who've gotten away with mass murder with no consequences.

PhlubbaDubba, in How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it

And yet nothing can be done because the very concept of war crimes runs face first into the concept of national sovereignty, which is what the entire current world order is built on

cwagner, (edited ) in Democracy ‘in trouble, stagnant at best, and declining in many places’

PDF of the actual publication

Other publications including case studies for specific countries, gender equality reports and more.

PaddleMaster,

Thanks for the PDF to the actual publication!

abbadon420, in UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless

The war on homelessness as inspired by the war on drugs.

0x815, in UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless

As Nobel laureate Angus Deaton claims, 'The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’

cwagner, (edited ) in Over 1,500 Israelis Call for ICC action to Stop the Genocide in Gaza - Feddit

This is a bit confusing, how do they know there are over 1500 Israelis who signed? Nothing is stopping me from signing the pledge, the site even encourages me to. But I’m not an Israeli.

sndmn, in UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless

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  • abbadon420,

    What?

    blindbunny, in UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless

    Must be so lovely to decide others living situations from your ivory tower.

    Happy Guy Fawks day everyone.

    Diplomjodler, in "Crime minister:" Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership is questioned even as Israelis rally round the flag

    Getting rid of Netanyahu won’t solve any of the problems but it would surely be a step in the right direction.

    livus, in UK interior minister plans to restrict use of tents by homeless
    @livus@kbin.social avatar

    What a sociopath.

    airdi, in 3 children and woman killed in Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon

    Why is Israel trying to become the most hated country with all these actions?

    anteaters, in 3 children and woman killed in Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon

    Did they also run over a horse like the ambulance? Damned IDF, dropping horses everywhere!

    iHUNTcriminals, in WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

    The world’s wars are bigger than politics and politicians. There never was order on earth. That’s why people made up God… To deny reality for hope.

    fosforus, in WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

    Plenty of actual photographs exist with Palestinian children wielding rifles and Hamas headbands. Perhaps the AI is just trained with those images as well?

    taanegl,

    By that logic I demand stickers of obesity, respiratory issues and heart issues being portrayed when I search “American”. Preferably where each character has a fat hamburger shoved in their face.

    theKalash,

    “American” can be interpreted as the adjective as well, not just the people. So you mostly find flags, eagles and the statue of liberty.

    You have to search for “average American” to get what you’re looking for.

    fosforus, (edited )

    Why would you demand a negative thing for another group to counter a negative thing for one group? That makes no sense.

    But also, “American children” has plenty of cultural material to build an image from. Probably some of it is obese and filled with junk food, but a good portion is most probably something else. In contrast, the only public photo material of palestinian children is either from adults carrying them away from some atrocity or adults giving them assault rifles and parading them for the cameras. In short, they seem to only exist as propaganda material.

    acastcandream, (edited )

    They’re not actually asking for it, they’re making a point about the problem. The person they’re responding to is basically going “those images exist tough shit.”

    GunnarRunnar,

    Why does it matter what the excuse is?

    You shouldn’t get a stereotype (or in this case I suppose propaganda?) when you give a neutral prompt.

    DarkGamer, (edited )
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    You shouldn’t get a stereotype (or in this case I suppose propaganda?) when you give a neutral prompt.

    What I'm hearing is, "AI art shouldn't reflect reality." If this agent is repeating propaganda, it's propaganda that Palestinian kindergartens have been creating and putting out there on their own:

    A West Bank kindergarten [Al-Tofula Kindergarten] has published videos showing children pretending to perform military drills with toy guns, clashing with and killing Israeli soldiers, and holding a mock funeral for a child who is killed and becomes a “martyr.” source

    At the graduation ceremony of the Al-Hoda kindergarten in Gaza, pre-schoolers carrying mock guns and rifles simulated Islamic Jihad militants storming an Israeli building on "Al-Quds Street," capturing a child dressed in stereotypical garb as an Orthodox Jew and killing an "Israeli soldier." To the sounds of loud explosions and gunfire, the children, dressed in uniforms of the Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades, attacked the building, placing a sign reading "Israel has fallen" in Hebrew and Arabic on the back of the "soldier," who lies prone on the ground, and leaving the stage with their "hostage." source

    Pips,

    If you’re going to make that claim, perhaps cite to a source isn’t run by former Israeli intelligence that creates a lot of propaganda and has been doing so for decades.

    DarkGamer, (edited )
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    I don't trust MEMRI translations, but there is no translation needed to understand what is happening in the above footage. I'm interested in any sources that dispute the authenticity of the above, which your link does not. If you provide a credible one I will edit my post accordingly. It seems to me that this is very real.

    Pips, (edited )

    That’s fair. Without getting too in the weeds on the issue, apparently the video is authentic and it’s something Israelis do as well, so isn’t really telling about either side of the conflict except to note that extremists will use children to push their views anywhere.

    DarkGamer, (edited )
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the link. It would be interesting to know how prevalent indoctrination/militarization of youth is in each of these nations. It can be hard to accurately judge magnitude in this conflict, it is so heavily propagandized.

    PerogiBoi,
    @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

    There is absolutely no amount of data that could convince you otherwise. You’ve made it very clear you’ve made up your mind.

    Pips,

    Oh is that why I followed up by saying the video is probably authentic?

    DarkGamer, (edited )
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    Maybe try presenting some rather than complaining about what you imagine I'd do, random internet stranger.

    GunnarRunnar,

    WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

    By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’

    So what reality is this model reflecting then?

    kbal,
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    Somehow I get the feeling that equating "reality" with "propaganda created by kindergartens" is the rhetorical equivalent of dividing by zero.

    HappyMeatbag,
    @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org avatar

    To me, it should only “matter” for technical reasons - to help find the root of the problem and fix it at the source. If your roof is leaking, then fix the roof. Don’t become an expert on where to place the buckets.

    You’re right, though. It doesn’t matter in terms of excusing or justifying anything. It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen in the first place.

    GunnarRunnar,

    I do agree that technical mistakes are interesting but with AI the answer seems to always be creator bias. Whether it’s incomplete training sets or (one-sidedly) moderated results, it doesn’t really matter. It pushes the narrative to certain direction, and people trust AIs to be impartial because they presume it’s just a machine that interprets reality when it never is.

    jarfil,

    it’s just a machine that interprets reality

    …as seen by the machine.

    It’s amazing how easily people seem to forget that last part; they wouldn’t trust a person to be perfectly impartial, but somehow they expect an AI to be.

    GunnarRunnar,

    It’s amazing how easily people seem to forget that machines uses tools its creator provides. You can’t trust AI to be impartial because it never is as it is a collection of multiple choices made by people.

    This is such a bore, having this same conversation over and over. Same thing happened with NFTs and whatever is currently at the height of its tech hype cycle. Don’t buy into the hype and realize both AIs potential and shortcomings.

    sqgl,

    Should, would, could. AI is trained on what it scrapes off the internet. It is only feeding the Augmented Idiocy which is already a problem.

    jarfil,

    You shouldn’t get a stereotype […] when you give a neutral prompt.

    Actually… you kind of should. A neutral prompt should provide the most commonly appearing match from the training set… which is basically what stereotypes are; an abstraction from the most commonly appearing match from a person’s experience.

    sqgl, (edited )

    Here’s what daily Palestinian kids TV programming looks like: youtu.be/KXcQ892cKso

    Here’s a Palestinian youth summer camp: youtu.be/vCWMBvxWKL0

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