https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/criminal-complaint-filed-in-germany-against-munich-born-idf-sniper-over-alleged-gaza-war-crimes

Meanwhile, German-Israeli nationals who just participated in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Gaza are free to return to Germany for R&R.

EU Member States decided on Wednesday—while citizens were literally dropping dead from extreme heat—that “green finance” should include companies engaged in fossil fuel expansion (eg new oil drilling). The banality of evil. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oil-exploration-green-investment/

They may have overplayed their hand.

Ukraine never had operational control of the Soviet nukes on their territory.

Threatening indiscriminate mass murder (ie “nuclear deterrence”) says more about a government than about what they believe they’re up against.

Good. Any effort that can slow or reduce warmaking abilities should be welcomed.

Rutte is shameless.

Great!

Excellent!

I had filed an EU Ombudsman complaint about the European Parliament incessantly pushing X and other US big tech platforms on its website.

Omg Chomsky went to collect his prize too. That’s depressing.

Saved you a click:

Most of the Bundeswehr strategy remains classified

According to the military strategy, Russia represents “the greatest and most immediate threat for the foreseeable future” to Germany and transatlantic security: “Russia is laying the groundwork for a military attack on NATO member states.”

The document then goes on to analyze how the Bundeswehr should respond to potential war scenarios, such as a Russian attack on NATO territory, though the details are classified.

“It goes without saying that we cannot make these scenarios public. Otherwise, we might as well add Vladimir Putin to our mailing list,” Pistorius said.

Greek gov commits to waste billions on warships—that’s the story.

I wonder what could have prompted this? 🤔

Good discussion of this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

I haven’t read anyone say that it was about retaining the IP. Anthropic says, and others agree, that it would be totally irresponsible to use current frontier AI systems for lethal autonomous weapon systems – even if you think that LAWS are okay. Current AI systems are far too error-prone.

See https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war and https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war