#david goliath

[bloghrexach]

🧐 … this is how THEY do it!! — AI used for targeting, for killing — the most moral army in the world!! Against a people that have no military force!! — again: a ‘David v Goliath’ scenario!!

By: LaillaB, from ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from a LinkedIn …

“For many of us, lavender is a species of perennial flowering plants, but not for the Israeli occupation ..

Israel has been using artificial intelligence to help choose its bombing targets, sacrificing accuracy in favour of speed and killing thousands in the process.

According to an investigation by Israel-based +972 Magazine and Local Call, the system, called ‘LAVENDER’, was developed in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct 7th, (hardly tested or reviewed).

At its peak, Lavender marked 37,000 Palestinians in Gaza as suspected “Hamas militants” and authorised their assassinations.

To build the Lavender system, information on known Hama resistance operatives was fed into a dataset — but, according to one source who worked with the data science team, so was data on people loosely affiliated with Hamas, such as employees of Gaza’s Internal Security Ministry.

“I was bothered by the fact that when Lavender was trained, they used the term ‘Hamas operative’ loosely, and included people who were civil defense workers in the training dataset,”

The system had a 90% accuracy rate, sources said, meaning that about 10% of the people identified as Hamas weren’t members of Hamas at all. Collateral damage.

Some of the people Lavender flagged as targets just happened to have names or nicknames identical to those of known Hamas operatives; others were people who used phones that had once belonged to Hamas.

“Mistakes were treated statistically,” a source who used Lavender told +972. “Because of the scope and magnitude, the protocol was that even if you don’t know for sure that the machine is right, you know statistically that it’s fine. So you go for it.”

Suspected Hamas fighters were also targeted in their homes using a system called “Where’s Daddy?” officers told +972.

That system put targets generated by Lavender under ongoing surveillance, tracking them until they reached their homes — at which point, they’d be bombed, often alongside their entire families, officers said.

Officers would bomb homes without verifying the targets inside, wiping out scores of families in the process.

“It happened to me many times that we attacked a house, but the person wasn’t even home,” one source told +972. “The result is that you killed a family for no reason.”

Another AI system, called “THE GOSPEL’,” was used to mark buildings or structures that Hamas is believed to operate from.

According to a +972 and Local Call report from November, The Gospel also contributed to vast numbers of civilian casualties. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target,” a military source told the publications at the time.

The lavender AI is clearly a continuation of the collective punishment policies that have been weaponised against Palestinians for decades now.

Artificial Murder. Made in Israel!! … 🧐

#reclaimthenarrative … 🕊🍉 … #FreePalestine

[cavalierzee]

A Palestinian David vs An Israeli Goliath

A Palestinian David vs An Israeli Goliath

A Palestinian Child vs An Adult Israeli Trained To Kill

A Palestinian Rock vs An Israeli Assault Rifle

A Palestinian Original Land Owner vs A Zionist Invader

[devouredmelancholy]

“David” by Alex Stoddard

[necroticboop]

GARGOYLES : ↳ Types of Soulmates

[othemisto]

David with the head of Goliath but tva

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was discourse where people were saying that it was ableist of David to kill Goliath.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Attributed to Domenico Fetti (c. 1589-1623) "David with the Head of Goliath" (c. 1610-1620) Oil on canvas Baroque

[thestalkerbunny]

Husker's new voice actor sounds so familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on WHO exactly it is, it's one of those of those things where I'm like 'fucking I know who that voice actor is, I've heard him in other things WHERE is it FROM???'

I'm sorry?

IM SORRY?

DR. FACILER'S VOICE ACTOR?

So I had to look up the REST of his voice acting filmography and

Goliath 'EVERYONE'S MONSTERFUCKER AWAKENING' FROM GARGOYLES?

AND THE CAT? THE FUCKING CAT FROM CORALINE?

KING ANDRIAS?!?

I'm just...reeling for a minute. One minute I'm in the kitchen, making a chicken biscuit in the microwave and the next minute I'm realizing that this man has voice acted 90% of my favorite media.

[sare11aa11eras]

Funniest thing GRRM could do w the Vale plot in TWOW is have someone organize a nice, relaxing, attendance mandatory, good old-fashioned snowball fight to ease tensions and then have Alayne Stone hitting Littlefinger in the gourd w that Patented Starkling 500mph Fastball TM and killing that man stone dead.

[punster-2319]

HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY TO ONE OF DISNEY’S BEST ANIMATED TV SERIES: GARGOYLES

[shakingparadigm]

genuinely one of the most damned frames of ALNST

[croudjay]

my hc on some of the pkciv characters' heights

[animatejournal]

Gargoyles | Creators: Michael Reaves & Greg Weisman Studio: Walt Disney | USA, 1994

[shakespearesdaughters]

[bottlehawk]

dirk and jade hanging out in their spare time because they actually have a lot of crossover in their hobbies and special interests out of everyone in their friend group and it devolves into them showing each other their fursonas that they drew when they were 13. and they chat for a while explaining the design choices and lore behind each one. and after a hour into the conversation jade goes "you know, it is so nice to have an actual other furry in our friend group that i can talk to. it's hard finding other people in real life in the furry fandom. we should do a rp sometime!". and dirk goes "Oh. Well. I'm not actually a furry." and jade goes "haha. what?". and dirk goes "I mean, yes, I do participate within the aesthetic - ironically. But I wouldn't really classify myself as an actual furry. It's more of me observing the culture from afar for my own amusement - playing into the joke but not crossing the actual boundary, if you get what I mean. It's a fascinating area of my studies, though, and I do find the dynamics presented through this exercise very interesting." and jade just looks at him for a while, with a thoughtful expression on her face. and then she finally says. in the kindest, most gentle voice. "oh, dirk. you have such a profound amount of shame within you. it must have been so difficult for you all these years, hasn't it. i can't imagine how hard it must have been to live that way." and dirk has to go and excuse himself for a moment and as soon as he's out of jade's line of sight he immediately collapses onto his knees and starts rocking back and forth in the fetal position hyperventilating as his very being shakes and shivers at its stricken, naked core