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jarfil, to news in Hamas may have profited from Oct. 7 assault with informed trading — study

Western, Eastern, Hamas… a lot of speculative trading is done based on rumors, what better than rumors which actually come true.

jarfil, to news in Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

Wasn’t the plan to send all 2 million Gaza residents to refugee camps on the Sinai, where Israel would have to control and reeducate them for at least a generation?

Now, I’m no expert in genocides…

jarfil, to news in Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana

The CNN clip in that video, is even better: the reporter gives the guys a bar of chocolate, and they go all “ohh, it tastes so great!”. Then he asks them if they’ll give any to the children, to which the guy answer “they can have the wrappers”… at which point the reporter produces out a second bar saying “don’t worry, give them this”… still, I don’t recall the kids getting any.

jarfil, to news in Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana

🤣… sorry, but since when have any companies paid fairly in any areas?

jarfil, to news in Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

Why not a controlled tire fire:

youtu.be/XvkD4QgMtWg?si=2R0l3B6_xn7Oc_DD

jarfil, to news in Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate

Female suicide, or the jealous ex killing a new partner, are not included either.

Domestic violence is a complex issue that “should” include, and address, a lot of cases that it currently doesn’t, but for some there is not even an idea on how to start addressing them… so I think it makes sense to tackle the obvious ones first: homicides.

Once we get that sorted out, with no more people thinking that “their” mate is “theirs” to do what they please with, like they do with “their” kids or “their” dogs, including putting them down whenever they wish… we might be able to get to the next issue.

jarfil, to news in Finland shuts more Russia border points, says asylum inflow must stop

According to some (right wing) outlets, Russia would be shoving immigrants into busses, shipping them towards the border, then giving them bicycles to go the rest of the way.

Apparently people consuming such sources, don’t realize that bus service is a normal thing in some countries, bicycles are more affordable than cars, many busses will carry them for you, and regular bus lines have more than enough capacity for over 200 people to travel every week.

jarfil, to news in Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate

Not really following what’s going on in Italy, what is the rate of males killed by their ex-girlfriends?

jarfil, to news in CEO of Chinese online game streaming firm arrested amid executive crackdown: "no reason has been given for arrest," company says

I’ve heard you can do no business in China without being involved in some corruption… to be punished for, the moment you don’t obey the CCP.

jarfil, (edited ) to news in China is slowly erasing Tibet's name

Could you refrain from generalizing and name calling? Your top comment was informative, you could leave it at that.

jarfil, (edited ) to news in China is slowly erasing Tibet's name

took me literally 3 minutes to find images of tanks in Tiananmen running over student barricades, and blood streaks left on the ground afterwards

I’m not as fast browsing through the 2141 images you’ve linked, most of them of protesters, some burned down tanks, and someone on a bike dressed as a tank. Could you point to the exact images you’re referring to?

jarfil, to news in 5,500 women in Gaza set to give birth ‘in race against death’, UN official says

Does it really change with context?

Palestine and Israel have been in a “demographic war” for quite some time:

https://sesricdiag.blob.core.windows.net/sesric-site-blob/imgs/news/1969-imgxhl.jpg

https://www.progressispossible.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pals.jpg

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

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.

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

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.

jarfil, (edited ) to news in WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

Things like this are a good demonstration of why they need to be kept far, far away from decision making processes.

Somewhat ironic to say, on a platform that’s already using ANNs as a first line of defense against users spamming CSAM.

I have no delusions regarding decision makers using them, my only doubt is for how long they’ve been using them to decide the next step in wars around the world.

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