The whole piece is well worth a full read. But it's important to contextualize how we got here: a long trajectory of incremental dismantling of the international legal order: administration by administration, precedent by precedent, president by president...

Disturbing news from Ukraine in which FPV drones (with on-board cameras allowing operators heightened situational awareness) cause more casualties than any other weapon. These tech developments promise to make war more precise but the reality tells a different story ukraine.ohchr.org/en/In-Ukrain...

Update: Looks like they've chosen the half-sharpie approach to please all interested parties (??)

First day of spring semester at UCU teaching Public International Law. Here we go…

Another gripping quote from the piece regarding the complete inability or unwillingness to assess the accuracy of any of these systems, exacerbating any errors or problems inherent to them. Heartbreaking.

A must-read from the @nytimes.com on the horrible realities of what happens when a country ignores or undermines international law, exacerbating the devastation by adding AI to the mix which serves to accelerate the destruction. The need for speed is killing civilians www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

In the Dutch Financieele Dagblad today discussing the value of open-source investigation in the context of Israel/Gaza and other conflicts, on the important way open-source investigative methods offer a way to break through the noise of mis-/disinformation/fake news. fd.nl/samenleving/...