From tech perspective, technology builders now need to be extra aware how it’s used.
Is releasing the next autonomous algo/library worth it?, if the US department of war with their friends can use that tech to kill more people.
Especially when more and more weapons become autonomous. Targets are chosen based on LLM hallucinations.
In 2026, we are the baddies.
More than tech we need to vote to reign in the Department of War spending. It will be the death of American Empire.
The white cells meant to protect, have become cancerous.
Bombings? [flagged]
“They” have almoat every big corporation under the belt now.
One of the solid exercises I get from paying attention to this site is
a precise understanding of who the tech-bro class thinks is human (and thus relatable in ways that makes violence against those Others scary)
and those whom they believe to be living in base-biological forms which they themselves could surely never occupy (positions not "really" human and thus naturally the target of things like 'authorized' and 'legitimate' state-violence).
I can't really get my brain into their positions- I generally am opposed to being violent to folks for all reasons, and even if it could be justified ex pos facto, in my understanding violence is never legitimate or authorized.
But the site:
it's kind of like reading a poorly-written epic poem in some kind of horrid and post-modern style:
exegesis of the melted ideas here is work that keeps some of us in touch with what the sociopaths of the tech world think, with their out-sized influence over a world where most of us are simply subject to their fast and violent movement.
However, what is more important than teasing out the aesthetics of the violence they may either like or fear is learning what must be done to avoid being seen as legitimate and human by this class vicious wanna-be capitalists and shitters-out-of toxic technology.
That work seems like a difficult task, but this site provides so much relevant exercise and example.
The Independent seems to have gone to garbage for n recent years, sadly.
If the US–Iran front of the war is relevant for hn I don't see why the Israel–Lebanon one wouldn't.
Let them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc.
I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more.
It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want
Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people
They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc
Countries don't have any "right to exist", this very term is thought terminating propaganda created by Israel. Israel does not have a right to exist, countries either are, or aren't. People have a right to live.
And as it stands, Israel is a terrorist nation commiting war crimes and a genocide daily.
"Defensive" weapons also do not exist. If you give Israel weapons, or sell them weapons, you are complicit in their actions.
Exactly. I always struggled with this (which is the desired effect) until I heard Francesca Albanese give this exact answer.
There is no right to exist for a country under international law, but there is a right to live for people.
Palestinians in Israel in general have full citizenship and rights and as far as I am aware lives relatively well integrated. My experience is from before the mass murdering on 7th October and the following cruel war so things might have changed though.
