Emyr Derfel

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Lots of folks have pointed out all of the banana pants stuff about this tweet, but I guess my question would be, "and then what?" You can research & write your dissertation super fast, then what? What is the destination you're trying to get to? A job? Good luck with that. A book? Ok...? Then what?

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
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Same, there's rows of new T chargers at Lymm services and the one time I've needed a top-up there since they opened, the Gridserve chargers were pleasantly unoccupied.

Once again, Badenoch endorses Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals.

If the government - against public opinion and all the evidence - continue to pursue them, they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

They call people who don't like ai "denialists" and meanwhile the dude is just saying this out loud

I don't see how Dale comes close to the worlds wealthiest fascist.

“It’s France saving Europe’s honour, not Spain” says French FM Barrot.

This is the EU’s tragedy in one sentence.

A beauty contest between capitals over who gets the moral credit.

Europe doesn’t need a winner. It needs a position.

See that's the thing about Farage: he does have a spine, but he's a snake.

LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING

sweepthestrait.com

Spend the day comparing "prompt engineering" to "arguing with the Nutrimatic machine about tea".

I don’t know what’s worse: AI impersonating writers and editors and stealing the value they use to pay rent or people being casually dismissive of said writers and editors for being upset about that

Why don't they just make their tools not output crap code?

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

I’ve seen several potential clients using AI LLMs to evaluate legal claims and, besides often being wrong, they reliably interpret the query to predict what answer the user *wants* to hear. So, worse than wrong.

The say “I am alive” comic

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

Fatbike has meant a wide MTB for decades.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

This annoys me with my actual fat bike, a mountain bike with 4" tyres.

Uh...not an e-bike

Definitely not an e-bike

And this isn't an e-bike

But this is not an e-bike

Can anyone tell me what the bike industry and/or People For Bikes are doing about the way e-bikes are being blamed for havoc caused by people riding electric motorcycles?!!?

WAY MORE THAN HALF THE STORIES ABOUT DEATHS CAUSED BY E-BIKES DO NOT INVOLVE E-BIKES. THIS IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.

This is a lawyer without a client, rather than a plaintiff without a lawyer.

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

abolish the home office. salt the earth

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED SWIMMING POOLS FILLED NOT SAME TRUCK

Appreciate the clarity

Seriously, landlords are business owners. No one guarantees to other business owners that they will never, ever have a bad month or two.

02 NOT ALL AI IS EQUAL A spam filter and GPT are not the same problem ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 A bicycle and a jumbo jet both get you places. But comparing their "fuel use" as if they're the same thing would be ridiculous. L.1801 recognises that Al comes in four very different types and their environmental footprints are not even close to each other. Before measuring anything, the standard requires you to classify what kind of Al you are assessing. Section 6.3 defines four technology types with fundamentally different hardware, data, and energy demands. This classification is the starting point of every L.1801 assessment. TYPE 01 Expert Systems Medical diagnosis, fraud detection, energy optimisation-rule-based, human-defined logic Energy Data TYPE 02 Machine Learning Email filtering, product recommendations - learns from statistical patterns in data Energy Data TYPE 03 Deep Learning Image recognition, CNNs, RNNs-multiple layers of neural networks Energy Data Hardware: CPU + GPU TYPE 04 Highest Impact Generative Al LLMs, image/video generation, multi-modal models - generating new content at scale Energy Data Hardware: Significant GPUs and/or TPUs Hardware: CPU only Hardware: CPU + GPU Key insight: The standard explicitly classifies GenAl as "comparatively high" in both energy and hardware demands - a level above all other Al types. When people debate "Al's environmental impact," they are mostly talking about Type 04.

03 THE FOUNDATION Count the whole story, not just the ending ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 Before you say your toy is eco-friendly, you have to count the mine where the metals came from, the factory that built it, the truck that shipped it, and what happens when you throw it away. Not just whether the box is recyclable. L.1801 is built on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) the internationally recognised methodology for environmental accounting, standardised in ITU-T L.1410. The core principle: measure the full life of the system, from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment. For Al that means four stages. Click each stage below to see what the standard actually requires you to count. ↓ Click any stage to expand its data requirements STAGE 01 STAGE 02 STAGE 03 STAGE 04 Make the Hardware Before training begins Build & Train The expensive phase Run It Daily Inference & operation Retire It Decommission & e-waste Key insight: Most Al companies today report only Stage 3 - inference electricity. The standard requires all four stages. Stages 1 and 4 in particular are almost universally missing from current Al environmental disclosures.

07- WHAT WE MEASURE It's not just about carbon ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 A car isn't bad for just one reason. It burns petrol, needs metal to build, uses water in its engine, and takes up space. Al is the same. Measuring only carbon is like judging a car only by how loud it is - you're missing most of the picture. L.1801 mandates one impact category and recommends four more. In practice, the recommended categories are likely to be skipped by most organisations unless required by regulation. Click any card to see what it measures and why it matters. MANDATORY RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED Climate Change GHG emissions across full life cycle Water Use Cooling systems + energy generation Minerals & Metals Rare earth elements for hardware Fossil Fuels Energy source matters enormously Biodiversity The one almost nobody measures yet ← Key insight: Only carbon is mandatory. Water, minerals, fossil fuels, and biodiversity are all optional. This means most organisations will report carbon and stop there - which the standard is designed to evolve beyond as measurement methodologies mature and regulation catches up. STANDARD Section 8.1.4 + 8.1.6-LCIA categories and reporting requirements

"ITU-T L.1801 is the world's first standard for measuring how much AI systems actually cost the planet — from GPU mining to your last query. This is what it means, layer by layer"

Very useful new standard from the ITU with some VERY useful explanations

l1801framework.netlify.app

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.