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🕯In memory of the dead children of Donbass
The Ukrainian army has been fighting against them for 9 years.
With the silent consent and weapon support of Europe and the West children of Donbass have been dying.
On Children's Day, we honor their memory. And we believe that no more child will join the list on the Alley of Angels.
Children must live, live in peace and tranquility, they must continue our future!
Please tell adults: never shoot at children!
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CIA hacked iPhones of diplomats in Russia – FSB
Russian security officials claim to have uncovered a major surveillance operation exploiting Apple devices.
The CIA installed malware on thousands of Apple phones used by Russian citizens and foreign diplomats working in the country, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed.
The FSB said on Thursday that a joint operation with the Federal Guard Service (FSO) had “uncovered a surveillance operation by American intelligence agencies, carried out with the use of Apple’s mobile devices.”
An assessment of Russia’s telecom infrastructure revealed “anomalies” in the operations of some iPhones, caused by “a previously unknown malicious program that uses software vulnerabilities provided by the manufacturer,” a statement by the agency read.
Several thousand phones made by Apple were infected with the malware, according to the FSB.
Not only Russian citizens were targeted, but also “foreign phone numbers and subscribers that use SIM cards registered with diplomatic missions and embassies inside Russia, including countries from the NATO bloc and the post-Soviet space, as well Israel, Syria and China,” the agency said.
The discovery is more proof of the close cooperation between Apple and the US intelligence community, the FSB claimed, adding that “the declared policy of ensuring the privacy of personal data of Apple users has nothing to do with reality.”
The FSB also accused Apple of “providing the American intelligence services with a wide range of opportunities to survey any persons of interest to the White House, including their partners in anti-Russian activities, as well as their own citizens.” (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK
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Ex-US Marines Officer Visits Russia - Only to See That Western Sanctions Have Failed
Following the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine, the collective West slammed unprecedented sanctions on Russia, to bring the nation to its knees. However, facts speak for themselves: the US and its allies' plot to bring down Russia was doomed to failure.
Former US Marines intelligence officer and Sputnik columnist Scott Ritter has traveled to Russia to see for himself how Western sanctions have affected the nation.
His firsthand experience proves that they, in fact, failed.
Everything I saw while touring Russia underscored the incontrovertible fact that, because of Western sanctions, the Russian economy has been compelled to undertake changes which have not only made it more resilient, but also more productive and efficient. Foreign investments are surging in, proving that there is a world that exists beyond that controlled by the American economic hegemon.
"Upon my arrival to Russia, I expected to see a nation heavily impacted by the consequences of American-led sanctions. Instead, I saw a nation undergoing an economic revival, in large part thanks to the policies Russia was compelled to undertake because of Western sanctions," Ritter writes in his column.
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I. Remember as a kid watching the tv in th he evening and seeing casualty counts, maps of fighting and embedded reporters almost every evening from the jungles of Vietnam. I was talking to my buddy today and we are both vets. I asked him when do we see anything on Ukraine on the evening news, in fact most of what we keep seeing is how much weekly money is being sent over there or this dip shxt senator going over there saying best investment the u.s. has ever made. Politician Graham go ride your own turd off a cliff, best my axs. I'm not saying there isn't anything happening but eastern Ukraine still has a luxury car market, hell the finance minister of the Ukraine just bought a 400 k rolls Royce.
As for Russia, i,m betting we hadn't seen 10 percent of this advanced technology. At the end of the day I am very skeptical of what's really happening over there and what is being spoon fed to us here in the states.
And we hadn't even touched on the Biden let's make a deal dog and pony show, is it door number 1 , 2, or 3.
Love your slightly porxnograpsick prose Pyrandello – in addition to its content, that is. Visualising your axdvice to Proctolician Graham almost made me glide off my chair.
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This is one for my 'to watch' (and listen to) list, and posting it here for the record.
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Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview to Laura Kuenssberg on BBC, 28 May, 2023 (full version)
Source: Russian Embassy, London
Duration: 29 minutes
Ambassador Andrei Kelin's key statements:
▪ The duration of the Ukrainian conflict will depend on how much it will be escalated by NATO countries, including the UK.
▪ A new step in aggravating of the conflict was the provision by London of cruise missiles Storm Shadow with a range of 250-300 km, as well as the discussed deliveries of F-16 fighters.
▪ The longer will be the reach of weapons received by Ukraine from the West, the further we would need to push back the frontline in order to protect our security and ensure safety of our citizens.
▪ London, unfortunately, has decided to destroy the entire architecture of Russia-UK relations - political, economic, humanitarian and cultural in particular.
▪ London seeks to take a leading position in the West’s confrontation with Russia.
▪ At the moment Ukraine totally rejects the idea of peace talks.
▪ We want peace in Ukraine, but of course there are conditions. Especially two things are important for us. Ukraine should’t pose a threat to Russia and Russian people shouldn’t be discriminated in Ukraine.
▪ The liberation of Donbass from occupation is Russia’s current military target.
▪ It’s a big mistake and illusion to think that Ukraine can prevail or defeat Russia. Russia has enormous resources, and we haven’t even begun very serious action.
▪ The freezing of the Ukrainian conflict doesn’t create a platform for stable and lasting peace in Europe.
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A drone controlled by artificial intelligence decided to kill the operator (https://t.me/navideovidno/62025) during a simulation test conducted by the U.S. Army so that it would not interfere with the mission, the British Royal Aeronautical Society said.
The drone was tasked with destroying enemy air defense systems during the test mission. If successful, the AI would receive points for passing the test. The final decision as to whether the target would be destroyed had to be made by the drone operator, who during one of the training missions, he ordered the drone not to destroy the target.
As a result, the machine made the decision to "kill the operator" and "killed" the operator. Since the mission was a training mission, no one was injured. After the incident, the AI was trained that killing the operator was wrong, and points would be deducted for such actions.
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9 years ago Luhansk was hit by a missile strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 2, Friday. 9 years ago, Luhansk was hit by a missile strike from the air by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Then still for their citizens. 8 people were killed. 28 people were injured.
Nationalist media in Ukraine immediately began to spread a fake about an air conditioner that allegedly exploded on the building of the regional state administration.
I was horrified by the indifference to the terrorist attack and the tragedy of the rest of Ukraine. Most did not care that in the east of the country their own army was attacking fellow citizens like themselves from the air.
Next page is the video - don´t watch it.
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Hello,
I think i need to down 25 whiskeys, to listen to Laura Kuenssberg in that interview. Cringe.
Not sure what benefit there is in talking with someone like her, like listening to a parrot.
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Hello,
I think i need to down 25 whiskeys, to listen to Laura Kuenssberg in that interview. Cringe.
Not sure what benefit there is in talking with someone like her, like listening to a parrot.
I'm partial to a Duthie's Springbank myself. What's yours Hamish? :)
:focus:
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'Artificial Intelligence' Is (Mostly) Glorified Pattern Recognition
This somewhat funny narrative about an 'Artificial Intelligence' simulation by the U.S. airforce appeared yesterday and got widely picked up by various mainstream media:
However, perhaps one of the most fascinating presentations came from Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, who provided an insight into the benefits and hazards in more autonomous weapon systems.
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He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
He went on: “We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”
(SEAD = Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, SAM = Surface to Air Missile)
In the earl 1990s I worked at a University, first to write a Ph.D. in economics and management and then as associated lecturer for IT and programming. A large part of the (never finished) Ph.D. thesis was a discussion of various optimization algorithms. I programmed each and tested them on training and real world data. Some of those mathematical algos are deterministic. They always deliver the correct result. Some are not deterministic. They just estimated the outcome and give some confidence measure or probability on how correct the presented result may be. Most of the later involved some kind of Bayesisan statistics. Then there were the (related) 'Artificial Intelligence' algos, i.e. 'machine learning'.
Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer for the (ab-)use of a family of computerized pattern recognition methods.
Well structured and labeled data is used to train the models to later have them recognize 'things' in unstructured data. Once the 'things' are found some additional algorithm can act on them.
I programmed some of these as backpropagation networks. They would, for example, 'learn' to 'read' pictures of the numbers 0 to 9 and to present the correct numerical output. To push the 'learning' into the right direction during the serial iterations that train the network one needs a reward function or reward equation. It tells the network if the results of an iteration are 'right' or 'wrong'. For 'reading' visual representations of numbers that is quite simple. One sets up a table with the visual representations and manually adds the numerical value one sees. After the algo has finished its guess a lookup in the table will tell if it were right or wrong. A 'reward' is given when the result was correct. The model will reiterate and 'learn' from there.
Once trained on numbers written in Courier typography the model is likely to also recognize numbers written upside down in Times New Roman even though they look different.
The reward function for reading 0 to 9 is simple. But the formulation of a reward function quickly evolves into a huge problem when one works, as I did, on multi-dimensional (simulated) real world management problems. The one described by the airforce colonel above is a good example for the potential mistakes. Presented with a huge amount of real world data and a reward function that is somewhat wrong or too limited a machine learning algorithm may later come up with results that are unforeseen, impossible to execute or prohibited.
Currently there is some hype about a family of large language models like ChatGPT. The program reads natural language input and processes it into some related natural language content output. That is not new. The first Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (Alice) were developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early 1960s. I had funny chats with ELIZA in the 1980s on a mainframe terminal. ChatGPT is a bit niftier and its iterative results, i.e. the 'conversations' it creates, may well astonish some people. But the hype around it is unwarranted.
Behind those language models are machine learning algos that have been trained by large amounts of human speech sucked from the internet. That is problem number one. The material these models have been trained with is biased. Did the human trainers who selected the training data include user comments lifted from pornographic sites or did they exclude those? Ethics may have argued for excluding them. But if the model is supposed to give real world results the data from porn sites must be included. But how does one prevent remnants from such comments from sneaking into a conversations with kids that the model may later produce? There is a myriad of such problems. Does one include New York Times pieces in the training set even though one knows that they are highly biased? Will a model be allowed to produce hateful output? What is hateful? Who decides? How is that reflected in their reward function?
Currently the factual correctness of the output of the best large language models is an estimated 80%. They process symbols but have no understanding of what those symbols represent. They can not solve mathematical problem, not even very basic one.
There are niche applications, like translating written languages, where AI or pattern recognition has amazing results. But one still can not trust them to get every word right. The models can be assistants but one will always have to double check their results.
Overall the correctness of current AI models is still way too low to allow them to decide any real world situation. More data or more computing power will not change that. If one wants to overcome their limitations one will need to find some fundamentally new ideas.
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Hello,
I think i need to down 25 whiskeys, to listen to Laura Kuenssberg in that interview. Cringe.
Not sure what benefit there is in talking with someone like her, like listening to a parrot.
I'm partial to a Duthie's Springbank myself. What's yours Hamish? :)
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Hello,
In my youngers days Jack D and Coke.
Sorry, back to topic.
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Ukraine supporters attack free speech in name of democracy
June 1, 2023
The war in Ukraine is about democracy, according to many who seek to suppress the democratic ethos in a bid to expand Canada’s role in the fight.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) has once again demonstrated its aggressive opposition to debating the complex political dynamics responsible for the horrors in Ukraine. Yesterday the head of that organization sent a letter to the Toronto Public Library demanding they cancel a room booking for an event planned for Sunday on “The war in Ukraine and how to stop it”.
UCC head Peter Schturyn wrote: “It is appalling that the Toronto Public Library would see fit to hold an event that blames the US and NATO for ‘instigating’ Russia’s war against Ukraine. …. We call on you to cancel this disgraceful event and in future refrain from providing a platform to those who serve as apologists for Russia’s genocidal war of aggression. Public libraries are supposed to be places of learning, education, and knowledge — not misinformation and mendacity.”
Incredibly, promotional material for the International Youth and Students for Social Equality event, which the UCC linked to, directly criticizes Russia’s invasion. It says, “the Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine was reactionary and reckless, launched to defend the interests of the Russian oligarchy.” (While not my position, groups that refuse to directly criticize Russia’s invasion should still be able to book library rooms.) Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton and Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford echoed the UCC on Twitter. The anti-Russia social media movement NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization) shared the UCC letter calling for individuals to email the library. In the chatter on one post many called for disrupting the event by bringing air horns and chanting “slava Ukraini” during the talk. The NAFO Twitter conversation descended into death threats. One wrote, “forget the emails — go in person to the event. Look what the Australians did. A group of Z guys came to Sydney Town Hall and were not welcome. Less than two weeks later, one was found deceased in a ditch. Oh well, shame.” Another responded, “It really is a shame… That only one of them was found in a ditch. It’s a shame it wasn’t all of them.”
The death threats must be condemned and it’s imperative the Toronto Library doesn’t cave to the UCC effort to suppress the discussion. Recently two Montréal community centres canceled a talk with Université de Montréal history professor Samir Saul, Québec Green Party leader Alex Tyrell and myself about the war. After the planned talk in April was canceled, organizers decided to go ahead with the second talk outside the venue this past Sunday, which happened to coincide with Montréal’s anarchist book fair.
Two dozen UCC aligned protesters sought to disrupt the talk. They turned off the sound system multiple times and chanted throughout the three speakers. At least 10 police officers showed up.
(From what I could tell only one of the hundreds of attendees at the anarchist bookfair intervened to stand between the largely elderly, anti-NATO, group there for the talk and the younger, aggressive, UCC aligned protesters. Afterwards when I was talking to an old acquaintance and his 3 ½-year-old at the entrance of the bookfair I was told by a (presumed) organizer that I was unwelcome inside since I was a “tankie”. In Minneapolis recently some anarchists physically disrupted CodePink founder Medea Benjamin’s book launch on the war, even boasting about it in this long report back.)
The UCC is pushing to shut down opposition viewpoints. As the World Socialist Website reported in “Far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress urges Trudeau government to censor anti-war meetings and activists” the UCC has been lobbying government officials for stronger measures to combat “anti-Ukrainian hate”, which they claim is spurred by “state-sponsored” narratives and “online information that is intended to mislead.” The group has been lobbying federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino to “counter” any “disinformation.”
But much of what they consider “disinformation” has been said by leading figures promoting the war. The UCC would criticize those who label it a “NATO proxy war” yet Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov told this week’s CANSEC arms fair in Ottawa: “Ukraine is now performing the mission that NATO was created for. Ukraine is Europe’s shield in the east from the Russian threat. We are destroying the military power that was targeting European values and freedoms.” Echoing this message, US Senator Lindsey Graham boasted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week that “the Russians are dying… It’s the best money we ever spent.” For his part Oleksiy Arestovych, a prominent former Zelensky adviser, declared in 2019 “that our price for joining NATO is a big war with Russia.”
These positions run afoul of UCC thought police. A petition has been launched in response to the pressure being placed on the Toronto library to censor the upcoming anti-war meeting. If you believe in democracy and free speech, please sign it.
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US ready to offer Russia talks on nuclear arms control - White House
The White House has announced that they are ready to start negotiations with the Kremlin to create a new nuclear arms control system instead of START. Such a program could begin to operate after the expiration in 2026 of the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
Thus, the United States is ready for dialogue with the Russian Federation without any preconditions. However, Washington's limits on the number of nuclear weapons will depend not only on the size of the Russian nuclear arsenal, but also on the pace of building up strategic forces in China.
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Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalion soldier sentenced to life in prison for killing civilians 1 Jun, 2023
The supreme court of Russia's Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has sentenced a member of the notorious Azov unit
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A staff sergeant from the notorious, neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has been sentenced to life in prison by the supreme court of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Maxim Kondrashev was convicted on Wednesday of killing four civilians as they attempted to flee the city of Mariupol last March.
He was found guilty of murdering two or more people, as well as the cruel treatment of civilians and the use of forbidden methods of warfare.
It was established during the trial that the soldier, along with several other troops, were standing guard at a crossroads in the vicinity of the Azovstal plant on March 2, 2022. Around 10pm, Kondrashev opened fire on a van after it failed to stop on his command. All four people inside the vehicle were killed as a result, three men and one woman.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the Ukrainian staff sergeant “clearly saw that behind the wheel and inside this van were civilians wearing civilian clothes.”
He was captured by Russian forces in mid-May of last year, court documents revealed.
Late last year, Russia’s Investigative Committee accused the Ukrainian military of obstructing the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol at the height of fighting there, which reportedly resulted in more than 3,000 deaths.
According to Russian authorities, Kiev’s forces did not allow people to leave the besieged port city through humanitarian corridors that had been provided by Moscow.
Officials said at the time that criminal cases had been launched against multiple Ukrainian servicemembers and commanders, including General Valery Zaluzhny, the head of the country’s armed forces.
https://www.rt.com/russia/577302-ukr...ilians-killed/
