Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record
> Documentary filmmakers were publishing guidelines on how to ethically use generative AI right as Netflix’s true crime doc was adding fake images to the historical record.
Meta and Lavender
https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/
> A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?
> Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy").
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to
New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco – Tlacuilolli
https://tlacuilolli.com/2024/03/21/new-aztec-codices-the-codices-of-san-andres-tetepilco/
> The recent announcement of the discovery of three new Aztec codices is covered here for the English-speaking public.
Secret Pentagon Program Echoes Pedophile Ring in “True Detective” Series - The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/18/pentagon-darpa-ai-carcosa/
> CARCOSA is an AI-driven program overseen by DARPA that aims to reduce information overload for soldiers.
Scientists may have found a biological basis for long COVID brain fog
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage
> MRI scans of long COVID patients with brain fog suggest that the blood brain barrier may be leaky.
Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/19/honduras-crypto-investors-world-bank-prospera/
> After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the crypto groups took the dispute to World Bank arbitration court.
The open veins of Latin America: Long-term physical trade flows (1900–2016)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378022001170
> Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent's economies are net exporters of low-value, primary products and importers of manufactured goods at a high price. This pattern of specialised trade has highly negative consequences for economic development, the environment, and the local
