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  • “War crimes” are infractions against International Humanitarian Law, most notably, and infractions against a package of pther laws commonly grouped as “International Law of Armed Conflict”

    The letter is demanding sanctions in response to violations of International Law. That is a totally different level of laws which, in the context of the current conflict, America and Israel and breaking equally.

    I also highly doubt that America is committing fewer violations of IHL than Israel, but I’ve got a middling confidence interval on that.







  • Not just that you know the system is broken, but that you know it at every turn. When you open a retail app, apply for a job, or wait for an automated decision that no one can explain.

    This has existed since at least the 1800s, and the managerial crisis in a big way. It just feels more acute with apps, but it is still just policy without accountability. I recommend the Unaccountability Machine for further reading.

    We also know what the solution is. We’ve always known. You know it in your heart right now. The solution is localisation and community building. But that comes with comfort costs that we have decided are to much to bear. It comes with inequality between communities that we refuse to tax though land value instead of property value. It comes with risk sharing with others. It comes with comparing yourself, your family, your community, and your nation not to others; but to ourselves 1, 5, 10, 100 years ago.