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Just the concept of an AI directing bombs puts me in mind of the #StarTrek episode "A Taste of Armageddon," where the AIs on two sides simulated a war, but the casualties still had to be real. So for each simulated strike, the corresponding number of people were executed. Nearly 60 years after that episode, and we're almost there.

3. This one is 11 pages. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a collective of UN & non UN humanitarian aid partners, assessed the situation on the ground in Ethiopia. The report confirms a lack of accountability, as Ethiopian officials redirect aid for their own purposes, a lack of coordination between aid agencies & agencies working to appease a gov that was hell bent on putting 6M people under siege. The siege killed tens, possibly 100s of 1000s in war torn Tigray. https://reliefweb.int...

I readily acknowledge that the details in the respective cases are not thoroughly known, but based on reports, there are a number of serious questions about the standards of justice used to measure and deliver terror convictions. It often appears that Anglo-Australians who possess weapons and extremist materials, and show signs of plotting a terror attack, are charged with far less serious offences at the state level, and are able to avoid the “terrorist” label. Rather than receiving sentence...

Washington's decision to give Afghan funds to 9/11 victims is a continuation of its colonial venture in Afghanistan.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz tells 28 stories behind the staggering death toll of children in Gaza, their faces, names, and dreams that will never be realized: Hind pleaded for help for hours. Youssef was killed while watching cartoons. Yaqeen wanted to be a YouTube star and died in a bombing. In death, Maria joined her mother and brothers, killed in an airstrike in 2021. #Genocide #GazaGenocide https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/title/00000197-6464-...

After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply compromised law-enforcement system, Gorrie signed up for training to become one of a rare few Aboriginal police officers in Australia. In her ten years in the force, she witnessed appalling institutional racism and sexism, and fought past those things to provide courageous and compassionate service to civilians in need, many Aboriginal themselves.