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[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴'GRIM that John "Labour Friends of Israel" Healey was taken to meet and greet children in #Camden.

As Defence Minister he explicitly spoke out against blocking arms sales to Israel and ensured IDF supplied with intelligence from RAF flights over #Gaza.

20,000 dead kids later...' - @pauleholden

@Sagal_AW @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty @GreenJennyJones @natalieben @TheCanaryUK @skwawkbox @CrispinShow @georgegalloway @WorkersPartyGB @DerbyChrisW @kennardmatt @PDeclassified @Tracking_Power @DefendOurJuries

[Stop The Game @StopTheGameEire]

The Sports Minister of Ireland Patrick O'Donovan believes the israeli government and the football team are separate.
We disagree. And we have public evidence to show.
#StopTheGame

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ms. Rachel blasts Republican Christian hypocrisy: “Let’s be a more Christian nation and take away SNAP benefits. Let’s be a more Christian nation and put our neighbors and put the strangers in detention centers. Let’s make more and more money and not help others and let’s deny people’s healthcare. But the SNAP thing, that just breaks me. You’re gonna complain about a child having enough food?”

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

The guy who's responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, starving millions of people, and bombing 6 different regions in one year, got on the world stage and bragged about a terrorist attack that maimed children and took the time to condemn Hasan Piker.

If that doesn't show you who's on the right and wrong side of history, I don't know what will.

[Stop The Game @TadhgHickey]

It'll be to Ireland's eternal shame if dignify these despicable murderous bastards by sharing a football pitch with them. #StopTheGame

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Dr. Marandi just described the US policy perfectly:

"The other guest is openly genocidal. He's talking about starving the Iranian people to trigger an 'organic revolution.' That's the opposite of organic - that's let's kill the kids, let's kill the women. Starve the people, make them suffer, because they don't like the revolution.

This is deeply sinister. It shows the nature of the U.S. empire. There's a lust in the United States to make Iranians starve. It's a deep sickness."

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel’s Prime Minister addressed the UN General Assembly in person, despite having an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued against him. Palestinian President Abbas meanwhile was forced to address the Assembly virtually. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Developers are being told they can now pay to trash and override environmental legal protections.

Why are the big environment charities being so silent? 👇👇👇

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We live in a world where the person committing Genocide has center stage at the UN and a 50 vehicle convoy for protection.

While the victim of Genocide was banned from even attending.

We are in a far worse state now than we were 80 years ago.

[Raphael Dogg @raphaeldogg]

Last week: 'We got it wrong on Gaza.'

Today: 'We stand with Israel.'

Tomorrow: 'They do have that right...'

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

Tommy Robinson isn’t even Tommy Robinson😂

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Netanyahu is the architect of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. He is a war criminal and a fugitive charged by the ICC.

He can, and must, be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
https://t.co/keqqQuRFEE

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously.

On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school.

The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was.

The AI system could not.

Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude.

On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes.

The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility.

The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help.

Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to.

Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started.

This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite.

This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes.

I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad.

We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class.

A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime.

In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon.

Read that last line again.

If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you.

I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate.

So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think.

If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff.

And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike.

Unforgivable.

[basement films @Basement_Films]

Tonight on @C4Dispatches at 11.05pm “Britain’s Gaza secrets exposed”, our latest and 4th film on Gaza since October 7th.

Firstly, as ever we must pay tribute to our colleagues in Gaza who risk their lives every day there. Journalists have been targeted and killed in greater proportional numbers than in any other war in history. In Gaza journalism, like healthcare, the subject of our last film, has become a lethal profession.

We have spent the last year sifting through hundreds of internal FCDO IHL – (international humanitarian law) – assessments of Israel’s military conduct in Gaza. As those who have not looked away will know, 73,000 people, including at least 21,000 children have been killed in what a special @UN commission and the majority of international experts call a Genocide, which was meant to stop with the ceasefire last year, but which has effectively continued, albeit at a slower, but still regular child killing, pace.

So if it is a genocide- what did we, the UK do ? Did we stop it, as is our legal duty if there is a clear risk ? Did we intervene ? Or did we help enable it ?

This film looks at what role our own UK government played, through both Conservate and Labour parties, and the process by which the FCDO assesses whether Israel’s military conduct complied with international law.

Watch at 11.05pm on channel 4 to find out. I don’t want to give anything away but the process led to less than a handful of incidents, out of the many hundreds it examined, most with graphic video evidence, being described as possible war crimes. We try to explain how that happened. Why ? is a question for others- and perhaps international courts. Please watch.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱 After more than 100 delegates walked out on Netanyahu's UN speech, members of Israel's delegation appeared to go around checking exactly who had left.

Hope they packed extra pages, because the list of countries fed up with Netanyahu keeps getting longer.

Writer: Julie

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A barrister hired a digger, pulled 200 bags of rubbish out of a dead stream and got the fish, herons and dragonflies back. The Environment Agency @EnvAgency replied with a letter about a missing permit. Maximum punishment 2 years in prison.

That is Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland of @gardencourtlaw and the River Roding Trust @riverroding in East London.

Update for anyone who missed it. On 25 June the agency dropped the prosecution threat and sent a warning letter.

In August a study funded by Thames Water @thameswater and run with @Thames21 found 600 million litres of sewage contaminated water entering the lower Roding every year.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

“What they cover is a handful of young juvenile delinquents, about 150 in number, who throw stones, who chop down olive trees, occasionally they fire up, they light some fires.”

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Man whose job is literally to make the laws fails to understand the basic concept of asylum seekers while siding with a criminal so stupid that he filmed the evidence of his own crime to make prosecution nice and easy. All in order to appease knuckle dragging morons. 👍

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Good to see the carefully balanced Question Time audience includes patriots who look like they have more balaclavas than teeth.
#bbcqt