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Wed Apr 3 06:00:02 EDT 2024
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Slept from eleven to seven-thirty.
Woke for a while around five.
Mostly cloudy.
A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 40s.
South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
# Work
* 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM ForMAP discussion
* 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Sync with Dane Wortley and Doug Potts
* 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM IIPA path to implemention standup
# Home
* [ ] taxes!
* [x] exercise for twenty minutes
* [ ] rebuild personal VM (RHEL EOL June 2024)
* [ ] car oil change
* [ ] schedule dentist appointment
* [ ] schedule optometrist appointment
Read more of Kiki's Delivery Service.
Rode the exercise bike for twenty minutes during lunch.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919109
https://web.archive.org/web/20240403151726/https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
> The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties
> The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants — and their homes — for possible air strikes.
> One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.
> Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.
> “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
> The sources said that the approval to automatically adopt Lavender’s kill lists, which had previously been used only as an auxiliary tool, was granted about two weeks into the war, after intelligence personnel “manually” checked the accuracy of a random sample of several hundred targets selected by the AI system. When that sample found that Lavender’s results had reached 90 percent accuracy in identifying an individual’s affiliation with Hamas, the army authorized the sweeping use of the system. From that moment, sources said that if Lavender decided an individual was a militant in Hamas, they were essentially asked to treat that as an order, with no requirement to independently check why the machine made that choice or to examine the raw intelligence data on which it is based.
> “At 5 a.m., [the air force] would come and bomb all the houses that we had marked,” B. said. “We took out thousands of people. We didn’t go through them one by one — we put everything into automated systems, and as soon as one of [the marked individuals] was at home, he immediately became a target. We bombed him and his house.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mable_John
> Mable John (November 3, 1930 – August 25, 2022) was an American blues vocalist and was the first female artist signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.
I've been grooving to "The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Volume 2: 1968-1971" all afternoon.
Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 4/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: banana, carrots, mandarins, coffee
Brunch: tomato, bagel, cream cheese, egg
Dinner: left-over pizza
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