@samgregory
Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
The irony is stark: a private AI company is holding the line on guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weaponsโwhile the federal government pushes to remove them. After revoking Biden's AI safety policies, the Trump administration is now pressuring Anthropic to abandon its own.
I told myself it wasnโt as much of a shit ending to my first time as Survey Security Consultant While Not Pretending to be a Human and/or Faking the Existence of a Human Supervisor as it could have been.
please don't talk to me about "maxxing" anything www.404media.co/we-have-lear...
watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI
๐ Join us for a timely digital security training on how to protect your devices, sources and reporting material from adversaries, particularly in the face of physical interception, sponsored by @newsguild.org.
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It's a paradoxical moment: a fog of doubt settles over our AI-slop timelines, yet bystander video in Minneapolis powerfully reaffirms witnessing. I talked to the @nytimes about the world we're in. Fortunately, this is exactly what @witnessorg.bsky.social prepares for.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
You can now chat with MrBeast & Snoop Dogg in ChatGPT
If I ever ask for this call the police
"We are not built to watch murders on our phonesโฆthen casually scroll to a job update." @baratunde began
Then...how to witness ICE/CBP violence, discern real from fake, and build archives of accountability despite AI. It's our work @witnessorg.bsky.social
www.lifewithmachines.media/p/seeing-is-...
How it started. How it's going.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
Bargain $750 if you're a nonprofit ๐คฃ
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
SRTโs and BORTACโs roles in putting down protests in 2020 and since President Donald Trump retook power last January have been referenced in several civil suits alleging wanton abuses and civil rights violations by the tactical units.
+1 @maddow.bsky.social: @witnessorg.bsky.social and others' expert, clear advice on how to film ICE and what to do next (more resources on our site on filming, archiving, accountability)
granular, practical, well organized info here:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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"Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis." www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
From Minneapolis to Tehran, witnesses are filming. State lies and AI fakes are trying to bury truth.
@witnessorg.bsky.social makes evidence matter - in streets with documenters, in halls of power shaping tech so truth can be trusted.
It's what we do. And we need your help.
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False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
Imagine how much theyโd be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
Don't believe your lying eyes:
this is clear & expert reporting (by journalists trained in visual investigations at berkeley's human rights center) demonstrating ICE's execution of alex pretti
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota
Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administrationโs request to block, at least for now, a lower courtโs injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
