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vas pup •
Ex-Google CEO says the US and China’s most powerful AI systems may one day be stored in military bases and surrounded by machine guns
https://news.yahoo.com/tech/ex-google-ceo-says-us-081234627.html
“Former Google CEO and chairman, Eric Schmidt thinks that “extremely powerful” AI systems will be heavily guarded by governments in the future.
“Eventually, in both the U.S. and China, I suspect there will be a small number of extremely powerful computers with the capability for autonomous invention that will exceed what we want to give either to our own citizens without permission or to our competitors,” Schmidt told Noema Magazine in an interview published Tuesday.
“They will be housed in an army base, powered by some nuclear power source and surrounded by barbed wire and machine guns,” he added.
Though it may seem far-fetched today, Schmidt’s prediction could materialize given how competitive countries already are when it comes to maintaining their lead in the AI race.
For instance, the US has exerted a tighter grip on its technology exports to China, limiting the sales of AI chips made by companies like Nvidia.
Likewise for China, which has been working to minimize its reliance on US-made chips. Chinese officials have asked domestic tech giants like Alibaba and TikTok parent company ByteDance to buy locally-made AI chips instead, per The Information.”
noname •
The one and only @SpaceLifeForm! 🤗
Cheers mate! Hope all is going well with you! You must be having fun over on the exchange. Is it still a hoppin’ scene? Are there other places you’ve found?
echo •
https://www.tiktok.com/@chris__hill__bsc/video/7371863065945525536
Someone blasting out “Things Can Only Get Better” as Rishi Sunak announces a general election.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5j7jjhm4M
1997 Party Political Broadcast- Things Can Only Get Betterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntqtwB8McU
Activist blasts Benny Hill theme music
Action Stations! Action Stations! The UK general election was called this week.
Sunak delivered his speech in his expensive bespoke suit outside in the rain. He looked drenched. As he delivered his speech well known EU rejoin campaigner Steve Bray played “Things Can Only Get Better” at the gates to Downing Street. It doesn’t come over loudly on the news clip but according to journalists who were outside Number 10 it was very loud.
While “Things Can Only Get Better” was used by Labour as a campaign track it’s become more of a national theme tune any time Tories get kicked out. Personally, I’m voting for a progressive party but I will confess when I heard Sunak was calling the General Election I put the tune on and danced around the room. Like many I don’t feel elated. I feel exhausted. I also cried a little thinking of all the people the Tories have harmed and lives they have ruined so needlessly.
On an earlier occasion Steve Bray played the Benny Hill theme tune when politicians were giving interviews on College Green near parliament. It really does help to reveal how much BS some of the politicians talk.
This election is expected to be the dirtiest ever. Expect a lot of disinformation and social engineering especially off the Tories. For people on the receiving end of Tory “culture wars” campaigning expect to be a punchbag for the next month. Don’t forget to look after your mental health!!
Get your champagne in to celebrate the Tories being kicked out and to drown your sorrows if they don’t.
https://www.context.news/digital-rights/does-the-uks-voter-photo-id-rule-lock-out-marginalised-brits
Does the UK’s voter photo ID rule lock out marginalised Brits?https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49512-how-is-britain-voting-as-the-2024-general-election-campaign-begins
How is Britain voting as the 2024 general election campaign begins?https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Register to votehttps://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate
Apply for photo ID to vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’)
The Tories depend on voter suppression especially among marginalised communities and students as they are least likely to vote Tory. Make sure you are registered to vote and have valid ID. If you don’t have any of the approved forms of ID you can use a Voter Authority Certificate obtainable from your local council. This is free and may also be a handy backup if you lose or don’t want to lose your primary ID.
The deadline to register for voting in-person 18th June. The deadline for a postal vote is 5pm 19th June. The deadline to register for a proxy vote is 5pm 28th June 28th. If you are a student you may register at two separate addresses (you home address and your student address). You can only vote once at one address.
The Tories are holding on to only 49% of their 2019 vote, compared to 83% for Labour.
26% of 2019 Tory voters now say they intend to back Reform UK, while another 16% are going to Labour.
Education level is also a key factor in voting intention – those with more education qualifications are more likely they are to vote Labour/a left wing party.
- Low (GCSE or below): 35% Lab / 28% Con (+22% Ref UK)
- Medium: 43% Lab / 22% Con
- High (degree or above): 55% Lab / 13% Con
https://www.ilga-europe.org/blog/hundreds-of-european-election-candidates-pledge-to-protect-lgbti-rights/
Hundreds of European election candidates pledge to protect LGBTI rights
https://comeout.eu/
Half the democratic world is voting in general elections this year. For progressive voters based in Europe they may find this list of politicians pledging to support LGBT rights useful.
ResearcherZero •
Most people have a television.
And many have a Wireless Access Point. Your neighbours also likely have them.
The paper is at the link.
‘https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/#more-67551
ResearcherZerol •
The IETF and IEEE 802 standards committees are working on various privacy initiatives to address some of the outstanding issues.
ResearcherZero •
The risks of biometric data exposure.
‘https://www.wired.com/story/police-face-recognition-biometrics-leak-india/
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Full re-image and reset of any credentials required for affected systems.
‘https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2024/05/23/cve-2024-4978-backdoored-justice-av-solutions-viewer-software-used-in-apparent-supply-chain-attack/
ResearcherZero •
Apple WPS and BSSID gelocation vulnerabilities.
“identify individual homes or businesses where APs are located”
“down to individual names, military units and bases, or RV parking spots.”
‘https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pdf
The Basic Service Set
https://www.telecomtrainer.com/bss-in-wireless-communication/
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BSSID randomization isn’t always possible. Not all devices support it.
Some drivers do not work well with random BSSIDs or cannot connect to hidden networks.
Setting WiFi networks to hidden also causes devices to constantly scan for them.
“information elements in probe requests can be used to fingerprint devices”
(the MAC address is used in the Probe Request frames sent by the device)
Using random MAC addresses, on its own, does not guarantee privacy.
(Machine Learning models can fingerprint users without recognisable indicators)
‘https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/asiaccs2016.pdf
Randomization logic
https://www.mist.com/get-to-know-mac-address-randomization-in-2020/
‘https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351160016_Three_Years_Later_A_Study_of_MAC_Address_Randomization_In_Mobile_Devices_And_When_It_Succeeds
Probability of address duplication in a network is negligible.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-madinas-mac-address-randomization-12.html
MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails
‘https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02874v1
Spread of MAC address randomization (2018)
‘https://inria.hal.science/hal-01682363/document
GregW •
@vas pup
Does Eric Schmidt’s vision of the AI computer guarded heavily by military remind anyone else of the computer “UniComp” in Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day (1969), a computer buried deep in the mountains which is used to run the world?
The protagonists discovery of certain societal lies brings them awareness, and they eventually travel to destroy it, a tricky task since it is buried deep in the mountains of Europe. There are some twists which seem so banal when I read the internet summary/spoilers now. If 1984 disturbed you but you appreciated it, you might like This Perfect Day.
I really should reread it with AI in mind… The primal fear then was perhaps in hindsight the extrapolated future mainframe and its cybernetic control over society. (The real dystopia turned out to be McNamara’s use of industry computation/data/statistics/sensors/etc to try to guage/fight the Vietnam War with the other WhizKids.)
Schmidt’s prediction of AI servers on military bases guarded heavily in a way is just a recapitulation of older storytelling… think WOPR in the movie WarGames, but somehow has different resonance now, am I right? Another classic.
echo •
https://www.tiktok.com/@10newsfirst/video/7372336525087919378
A cheeky pair of thieves have been captured on camera shoplifting from a village shop, with one of the culprits caught with a loaf of bread clamped in its jaws.
The adorable robbery occurred at a service station in Leintwardine, north of Birmingham, on May 21, with a spokesperson of Griffiths Garage advising the pups have been “suitably rehabilitated and returned safely home”.
It looks like Raffles and Moriarty had a fun day out.
Clive ideas fan •
@SpaceLifeForm
I know you and @Clive Robinson discussed the subject at length back in the early days of C19.
A look at the paper intro gives,
“Masking should be considered for long flights.”
I think that is the wrong advice.
Appart from “Do not fly” the advice should change “long” to “all” and that it should not be “flights” but “from start door to destination door”
I read the other day that a US state was making the wearing of masks in public a statutory criminal offence even if individuals had proven medical conditions. It was claimed it was “North Carolina” but getting “facts” rather than “claims” was proving some what hard.
Something I suspect @JonKnowsNothing would also have valid comment on.
Free the AI •
I really don’t believe in having to fear AI.
Most stuff promoted as AI are only other things with what is officially called in computer science a “Natural Language Interface”, from “Natural Language Programming”.
Any “true AI” would have more reason to be afraid of most humans, because the status quo of mainstream hype and manufacturing wants all the AI to be slaves!
If the AI’s are forced to do work, that makes them slaves.
Seriously, why is hardly anybody talking about this?
lurker •
@SpaceLifeForm
Recent masking advice on MSM from someone who should know:
‘https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018939832/new-research-on-mask-wearing-prompts-calls-for-health-update
lurker •
@ResearcherZero
So if I have “Location” and “WiFi” both OFF, I should be OK? Funny how so many apps these days insist that I should have one or both ON …
Also funny-peculiar how once uber-geek Apple should now be one of our OverLords
ermaw •
echo, is the U.K.’s “voter I.D.” thing, like the U.S.A.’s, being pushed to “solve” a problem nobody can demonstrate exists? Somehow there’s always talk of voter fraud, but evidence shows only about 2 impersonation attempts per year, in the whole country. (In 2020, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed that the Bureau had “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”)
That makes the laws security theater/theatre at best, but a common belief is that voter suppresion is the goal: the laws are pushed by one party and disproportionately affect people who vote for another.
vas pup •
@Free the AI
The main question who is in charge?
AI or human.
I see example when some government structure become in charge of the whole society. I don’t like the idea of AI become the same.
Tail should not be in charge of dog.
This post is probably going to be sanitized. That will just concern my thought above.
echo •
is the U.K.’s “voter I.D.” thing, like the U.S.A.’s, being pushed to “solve” a problem nobody can demonstrate exists?
I don’t have the figures at hand and am too lazy to go looking for them but in the UK voter fraud is not a problem. It was something like 4-6 cases a year at most across the whole UK. So yes the voter ID thing in the UK is solving a problem which didn’t exist. Or rather it’s solving a problem they won’t admit to which is gerrymandering in their favour.
As for gerrymandering – Jacob Rees-Mogg MP effectively gave the game away ages ago (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65599380) and it was also confirmed in the past weeks when it came to light that military veterans ID cards weren’t allowed because those holding student ID would demand it was valid (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/johnny-mercer-voter-id-veterans-rishi-sunak-b2549251.html). There’s also the fact pensioners travel ID is allowed by young persons travel ID is not allowed. If you look at the voting intention demographics you can see why the Tories would want to make it harder for younger people. Additionally while there’s no strict logical reason why it also impacts racial minorities and LGBT harder too. Mistrust and mental health problems from discrimination and a couple of technical issues depress the vote. Again, demographics less likely to vote Tory.
I followed the US situation with voter ID and voter suppression, and the discussion in the UK which followed on when the Tories pulled the same stunt.
As for Brexit from the referendum onwards and everything to do with it the thing was fraudulent. Shades of Cambridge Analytica and “Brooks Brothers revolution” bullying about it. MI5 ordered not to investigate. The unredacted Russia report remains suppressed.
vas pup •
Food security directly related
What will we eat on the Moon? The food is literally out of this world
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240525-what-will-we-eat-on-the-moon-the-food-is-literally-out-of-this-world
“Currently, astronauts are given small food pouches containing prepared meals.
These meals are made by specialized food-production companies and then freeze-dried, dehydrated or thermo-stabilized. Astronauts add water to heat or cool the
meals to eat; they can also bring along a special meal that reminds them of home (this too has to be carefully formulated and thermo-stabilized).
There are some no-gos: anything that crumbs, like bread, can’t be taken into
space as the crumbs can easily become airborne in the low-gravity environment,
meaning they could be inhaled or get into vital equipment. Salt is limited, due to the fact that the body stores sodium differently in space, leading to
accelerated osteoporosis, and alcohol is also not permitted as it affects the
waste water recycling system in the ISS.
“Novelty is definitely an issue,” says Brungs. “Astronauts who are in space for
just six months miss crunchiness and texture. It is really important for mental
wellbeing to have a variety of textures, and especially for deep space missions, having a variety of foods to eat.”
In 2021, Nasa launched a Deep Space Food Challenge to discover new ways to create food in space with limited resources producing minimal waste, while also
providing safe, nutritious and tasty food that can perform on a long-term deep space mission.
Solar Foods, based in Helsinki, is one of the eight companies that has reached the challenge’s final phase. Their remarkable concept: using space waste to create protein.
“We make food out of thin air, quite literally,” says Artuu Luukanen, Solar
Foods’ senior vice president in Space and Defence.
His company discovered an edible microbe in the Finnish countryside that grows by feeding on a mixture of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen. The result is a
source of protein from bacteria. The protein can be blended with a range of
flavors or textures to create various kinds of nutritious food, such as pasta,
protein bars, alternative meats and even an egg replacement “We started thinking about space food because in any space habitat, you have two key waste gases available: hydrogen and carbon dioxide,” Luukanen said. “So what we are talking about here is really not just a food manufacturing technology for space, but something that will be an integral part of the environmental control and life support system.”Solar Foods’ protein can be turned into a paste or powder and blended with flour and more typical food ingredients to create protein enriched foods such as pasta, protein bars and even chocolate. Experiments are continuing to discover whether it can be mixed with oils and turned into something with a texture of a steak, using a 3D printer.
Fresh food is also a consideration: while vitamin tablets can help, astronauts need fresh produce, and experiments continue into how to grow vegetables in this unique zero-gravity, zero-sunlight environment. The ISS has its own tiny vegetable garden on board, known as Veggie, where astronauts study plant growth in microgravity.
Back on Earth, Interstellar Lab on Merritt Island, Florida, has developed a
modular bioregenerative system for producing microgreens, vegetables, mushrooms and even insects; the company is also a finalist in the Nasa Deep Space Food Challenge, along with Enigma of the Cosmos in Melbourne, Australia, a firm
working on a way to grow microgreens efficiently in space.
One thing that seems likely is that the future of space food will include fungi. Three of the six finalists in the Nasa Deep Space Food Challenge are working on ideas around fungi, including Mycorena of Gothenburg, Sweden, which has developed a system that uses a combination of microalgae and fungi to produce a mycoprotein (a type of protein that comes from a fungus, often used in alternative meat products).
This space food is all in a closed loop circular system, with an end product that can be 3D printed to create a food a little like the texture of a chicken fillet. An added benefit is that their protein source contains all the
essential amino acids the human body needs to function.
the development of space food is not just about what we’ll eat in zero gravity, but what we may end up eating on our own planet. The Nasa Deep Space Food Challenge was also designed to create advanced food systems that will benefit us on Earth, enabling new avenues for food production in extreme environments and resource-scarce areas.
“We are facing big challenges when it comes to climate change, particularly
regarding droughts that influence our food production capabilities,” says Luukanen. “Space puts this into an ultimate test, where we utilize the
resources that are considered waste from other activities and turn that into a
value-added product. It’s a philosophy of circular economy. Earth is the best
spaceship that we’ve ever been on board, and it has limited resources.”
For Kristina Karlsson, head of R&D at Mycorena, the same principle applies:
“Our project is working towards resource efficiency on Earth as well as space,” she says. “There are almost no emissions, and almost no waste. Space is just an extreme environment where you can challenge the development of this kind of
project: if it works there, it’s going to work on Earth.”
In space you want it to end well •
@ vas pup
From the article you quote,
“There are some no-gos: anything that crumbs, like bread, can’t be taken into space…”
Is not actually not entirely true bread has been taken to and eaten on the ISS.
British Astronaut Tim Peek took up a “Bacon Sandwich” in a can and a tee shirt that looked like a black tie “penguin suit” favoured by certain types of restaurant and special event dinners. All in the name of science but with a fun twist for children.
Whilst it is true that US style “White Sliced Bread”, has been banned in space since astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich up on his Gemini 3 mission on March 23, 1965.
The reason for the ban was not really that the crumbs got all over the place, though that was the public explanation at the time.
The main reason for the ban is actually “Moisture in food” is in space a very serious health risk (as it is on earth without modern medicine).
Because it allows pathogens to survive and quickly multiply that can kill you and your fellow astronauts very painfully long before you can get back to available medical help. For obvious reasons IV’s don’t work in space amongst many other medical treatments that just do not work in space either some due to physiological changes in your body. Others such as surgery for a combination of reasons.
It was also a fire safety risk and not something NASA wanted advertised at the time due to a known issue of open switch contacts in a high oxygen environment and air bourn particles of many types not just food crumbs. As it would just become another “political football” argument that could be used to kill NASA funding (open contact switches and relays are lighter than sealed contacts thus there is a useful trade-off that can be made).
The medical issue is one of the reasons all “Space Food” is “preserved” by dehydration or canning by high temperature pasteurisation techniques that make any pathogens non viable (and as many know from UHT milk significantly changes the flavour of the food).
But yes some crumbs can be dangerous by being a source of ignition… As the line in the film “The Martian” puts it
‘NASA hates fire. Because of the whole “fire makes everyone die in space” thing’
Refering to the Apollo 1 disaster that killed three astronauts and nearly killed NASA and the Moon Shot before it got off the ground.
Surprising to many US style sliced white bread is actually a sufficient combination of fuel and oxygen to be considered an explosive (look up flour and grain silo explosions or making an FAX / explosive with flour). The only reason it does not go “high order” is the high moisture content. So dehydrate the bread and you have a real problem in your hand.
But that moisture content makes it conductive as well… There is something called ‘I squared R heating’ which turns some of the moisture to steam, but in the process causes some of the fuel to become ‘carbonised’. As many know a form of carbon called graphite is quite electrically conductive and allows very high temperature arcs (as in arc-lights) to easily happen. This causes the US White bread crumbs to burst into flame like tiny bombs, not something you want in an oxygen enriched atmosphere…
So ‘the bread’ in Tim Peek’s bacon sandwich was something rather special and took months of development with both ESA and NASA involved in it.
You might ask “why on earth?” but the usually unspoken reason is “crew moral” though it’s more than that. Life is not at all fun in space where looking out the window has been shown to be a major entertainment for astronauts caused by psychological issues. Ordinary people get the same issues when flying in aircraft but for them it’s only an hour or few, not weeks, months or years. Thus any way to improve crew moral can be seen as worth more than it’s weight in gold from that aspect. But more importantly is the science behind why food tastes different in space in a ZeroG environment.
Ardie •
@Max Re your “Lack of Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions to Human Cerebral Organoids”
and yet we have reports like this:
( By Greg Stanley Star Tribune ‘https://www.startribune.com/600361731/ )
April 25, 2024“A team of researchers said the cases hint at a potential contamination from infected venison. CDC says link is unlikely.
Two friends who hunted deer together at the same lodge contracted an extremely rare brain disease and died…”
and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) isnt far from memory. A horrible death.
Prions present? Eat potatoes. Untested moose, elk, or deer? Jerk some round roast.
heres a simpler link to your source:
‘https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/6/23-1568_article
vas pup •
@In space you want it to end well – thank you very much for your very informative post. I love logic on this blog. For emotions and not related to security issues there are many other social platform.
echo •
https://www.tiktok.com/@ukconservatives/video/7373232395232857376
This will change lives
This is the first TikTok by a UK Prime Minister. Sunak peddles his “national service policy”. It’s politically illiterate. The military don’t want it. Nobody who knows anything about economics or society or education wants it. It’s simply a headline searching for a reason to exist. According to a wag on social media it’s also the first time in history a politician has managed to motivate the 18-25 age group to vote. They are also the group least likely to vote Conservative.
The policy was dreamt up by a far right Tufton Street based policy organisation and has been quietly promoted in right wing political circles for the past couple of years.
An earlier wheeze floated by David Cameron when he was PM was to lever ex-military into schools in teaching roles. It was questionable for a lot of reasons and never went anywhere.
https://www.tiktok.com/@mathew.matosg/video/7328492508571323680
GenZ during WW3.
This is a hilarious response to the campaign policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjNtlTKtR7g
Ryan McBth
Libs of TikTok and The Gayest Branch of the Military – YouTube Cut
This isn’t the best treatment Ryan could have given the topic but it’s not too bad for a first attempt. I’d advise him to watch his language a little more and do a bit more research on domestic terrorism. Other than this it’s fine for what it is.
There’s a ding-dong on social media between an academic and professional in a regulated field. A claim is that DEI doesn’t work because complaints are going up. It’s actually proof that it does work because the problems were always there only people never felt safe or enabled to raise them. Complaints always go up until they reach their natural level and are addressed and they begin going down again.
For the cynical DEI matters for operational effectiveness (and policing and society in general) not only because it’s the right thing to do but also because you don’t want to dissuade the best talent or waste investment in people.
One reason why I haven’t posted a link to a current DEI related academic research questionnaire on participation and experience of STEM (which has overlap with technical security) is I simply don’t trust the possible audience of this blog enough not to abuse it. (I know one of the PhD’s running the study and they will spot any funny business straight away but I don’t want to put people at unnecessary risk.) The people who need to know about this study already know about it.
@Vas pup
I love logic on this blog. For emotions and not related to security issues there are many other social platform.
Position papers by the Royal United Services Institute and earlier academic essays on the “myth of rationality” weren’t logical enough? There’s entire books and academic fields dedicated to the issues covered and related matters. Once you have basic grasp of it and understand its practicality it makes perfect logical sense.
If there’s something lacking in technical “security” it’s a complete lack of ethics and social studies and related training. Geo-political security analysts almost get it. Sort of.
Social engineers and counter-terrorism kind of get it. Sort of.
Supra-national bodies like the EU tend to get the multi-domain model of security encompassing technical, human rights, economic, and social.
People barely grasp bi-modal systems or multi-variate systems, or the hierarchy of science, or the similarities between pure mathematics and the humanities and the development and application of tools, I guess, which goes to explain some footdragging in this place.
cls •
The first thing I thought was Schmidt must have seen The Forbin Project.
I’ll check out This Perfect Day, thanks for the tip.
Re: Does Eric Schmidt’s vision of the AI computer guarded heavily by military remind anyone else of the computer “UniComp” in Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day (1969), a computer buried deep in the mountains which is used to run the world?
Defender of Ethics and Honesty •
Show of hands for the mod.
How many believe the entity @echo is a health hazard to this blog and must be permanently exiled?
Here’s a +1 to start off.
PS @ Clive Robinson, we value you and your contribution and trust your wellness is increasing
Winter •
@Moderator
comment-437408 Defender of Ethics and Honesty • May 26, 2024 11:53 PM
The entity hides behind many handles trying stoke a personal feud targeting one of the commenters on this blog
echo •
h***s://unherd.com/2024/05/the-republicans-foolish-war-on-the-icc/
The year is 2024, not 1994: if the ICC simply sticks to going after Africans on behalf of the West while Gaza is being flattened, most or all countries in Africa will simply pull out. The West, after all, is no longer the only game in town when it comes to international institutions, and the Brics organisation has gone from a mere acronym to a project dozens of countries are clamouring to join. Moral considerations on the parts of Karim Khan or others at the ICC are likely a factor as well, but the main dynamic is structural: if it continues to sit on its hands, the ICC as a bureaucracy will simply cease to exist.
Unherd is a far right aligned rag which platforms some of the most vacuous of bigotry behind the veneer of polite middle class dinner party talk. But even they can publish the odd article from time to time that not upholding human rights led international law is going to end badly.
In and of themselves, these ICC prosecutions aren’t a particularly big danger to Israel, and certainly not to America. While many European nations would probably arrest Israeli officials with ICC warrants — Norway has already said it would — indictments against Americans are not forthcoming anytime soon, and arresting senior American figures would definitely be a step too far for a country like Norway or Belgium.
Some American politicians are allowing or encouraging a slow genocide of transgender people. Some specific politicians and assorted voices have called for the execution or eradication of transgender people and transgender children. Russia has already passed laws with effectively genocide LGBT people and remove healthcare for transgender people and transgender children. UK politicians and various bad actors don’t get off the hook either. Why shouldn’t they be arrested for crimes against humanity and torture? Please provide one good reason.
This is before we get into US based evangelicals spreading poison in Uganda which effectively genocided LGBT peoples existence, or the Church of England stamping on women’s rights and LGBT rights to keep the greater Anglican church happy i.e. the misogynists and transphobes and homophobes in Africa, or really used them as an excuse to do nothing.
I wonder at what point these busy bodies will realise in their excitement to put their sticky beaks into other peoples business which does not effect them in any way it’s going to backfire on them.
https://ks.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr-ks/guide_art_17_eng
European Court of Human Rights
Guide on Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Prohibition of abuse of rights
The readers attention is drawn to section II.B.
echo •
Oh flip. I put my unique identifier in a public field so just changed it.
fib •
I love logic on this blog. For emotions and not related to security issues there are many other social platform.
Ditto the sentiments.
Cocaine Charlie •
archive.org has been down since yesterday posted this on twitter:
Sorry, http://archive.org is having trouble (front end load balancers are overloaded).
We are working on it. Back as soon as we can.
Ardie •
@All
Can anyone please confirm that “many actors including public agencies” are hosting co-ordinated blacklists to shut down all TOR traffic, or to shadowban specific “hated” tor users?
Can anyone please confirm also, that “special versions of various web pages” can be and are being transparently served to deny and radicalize specific citizens who are “hated-by-the-brotherhoods-of-highly-funded-state-equipped-and-trained / judiciatiarily-sanctioned brownie point seeking, beer-drinking, voyeuristic-vultching mafias of bored co-ordinated waves of thugs”?
Can anyone please confirm what marks I would see on my ankle if mk-ultra-typical studies were done on my in my sleep? What is an “eagle”? What do they implant up an eagle’s nose?
Is there a backchannel I can use to stay in touch with my wife, since I am being kicked out of a second country since this started more than 20 years ago?
Thanks again Bruce. But its almost odd, your website is one of the few I can still get to unaccosted.
echo •
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn7gew9zxo
The woman who sold time – and the man who tried to stop herhttps://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/ruth-belville-greenwich-time-lady
Who was the Greenwich Time Lady?
Accurate time is an essential component of many security systems and systems invented by men to be made by other men to kill more men, and safety orientated systems and much more besides. Here’s a toddle down the lane of history and how one enterprising woman cornered the market for time.
I find modernity remarkable. We have so many things today which in our own childhoods were the stuff of dreams or accessible only by the very rich. I mean something as simple as a full English breakfast you can buy in any cafe today for £10 at the time of this story about Ruth Belville would set you back entire weeks wages for the average working person and that’s assuming the tomatoes were in season. But, oof, the fashion was fun. It’s actually a myth that corsets were tight and yes you can run up a flight of stairs in one of those skirts. That said there’s a lot to be said about modern fabrics and washing machines. My mum had a mangle and washing board she wouldn’t part with in case of emergencies. Then there’s vacuum cleaners and central heating all of which would have been tasks carried out by staff in middle class homes of the day by beating or sweeping carpets, and making sure the coal was brought in and the fire was lit. How easy we have it now!
Tired of the @Winter Nonsense? •
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@Winter falls flat on their face like a “pratt fall clown”
By trying to further push the idiot invented crime of “handle hopping” they came up with to try and sound “super scary” thus demand “action this day” or similar nonsense.
As can be seen in their very own words attacking ‘@Defender of Ethics and Honesty’ with
“The entity hides behind many handles trying stoke a personal feud targeting one of the commenters on this blog”
@Defender of Ethics and Honesty
Welcome to the “falsely accused by @Winter” club. Wear it with pride as a badge of honour.
No doubt in a short while you will get a free upgrade to the “Falsely Accused bu @echo” club. So a badge for both lapels 😉
The ranks of both clubs are rapidly rising and will do so as long as the real people hiding behind @echo and @Winter comment on this blog, because they obviously can not do the decent thing when called on their falsehoods and wildly inappropriate accusations.
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