Hacker News with Generative AI: Violence

One island, two worlds (Haiti vs. Dominican Republic) (economist.com)
A year of staggering violence in Haiti ended in the most brutal fashion. Over the course of five days in December, in a slum near the capital, Port-au-Prince, 207 people were killed by gangsters.

Haiti, Dominican Republic, Violence, Social Issues, Caribbean

55 points by marojejian 2 days ago | 78 comments

Online 'Pedophile Hunters' Are Growing More Violent – and Going Viral (nytimes.com)
With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

Social Media, Crime, Online Vigilantes, Law Enforcement, Violence

7 points by danso 5 days ago | 1 comments

FBI puts together Tesla task force as counter-protest violence ramps up (electrek.co)
The FBI has launched a task force to address the violence against Tesla properties, which President Trump as labeled as “domestic terrorism.”

Tesla, Law Enforcement, Violence, Politics

7 points by zfg 7 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists Trapped in Antarctica Plead for Help as Violence Breaks Out (newsweek.com)
A group of South African scientists has pleaded for help, saying they are trapped in an isolated base on a cliff edge in Antarctica with a team member who has become violent.

Antarctica, Science, Violence, International Relations

5 points by TMWNN 13 days ago | 2 comments

Subsonic Weapon used on the crowd in Belgrade today (reddit.com)

Politics, Serbia, Violence, Weapons

74 points by justinzollars 17 days ago | 13 comments

Sound weapon used at protest in Belgrade [video] (youtube.com)

Protests, Serbia, Violence, Technology

16 points by perihelions 17 days ago | 2 comments

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover (news.ufl.edu)
In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence. Four decades later, rebels used the memory of the massacre to help inspire the toppling of the Assad family that had overseen the operation.

Genetics, History, Violence, Syria

443 points by gudzpoz 32 days ago | 249 comments

Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram (theguardian.com)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels feeds.

Social Media, Violence, Censorship, Meta, Instagram

70 points by chrisjj 33 days ago | 76 comments

Instagram users: Reels algorithm is suddenly serving extreme violent content (reddit.com)
Instagram is now 100% gore

Social Media, Content Moderation, Violence, Instagram

15 points by 2sf5 34 days ago | 3 comments

Mexico keeps finding clandestine graves (elpais.com)
Immersed in a crisis of violence that seems to have no end, Mexico is adding up dozens of deaths and disappearances every day, as well as shootouts, exploding mines, drones that drop bombs... And then there are the mass graves, clandestine burials that have numbered in the thousands in recent years.

Mexico, Violence, Crime, Mass Graves, Human Rights

9 points by PaulHoule 39 days ago | 0 comments

Inside the violent rationalist cult of the Zizians (wired.com)
I know this is unconventional, but I’m going to start by telling you the ending. Or at least, the ending as it stands today. Most of the people involved in this story wind up either dead, maimed, spending months in a mental hospital, languishing in jail, or gone underground.

Cult, Violence, Crime, Mental Health

7 points by quinto_quarto 39 days ago | 1 comments

The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump's Grip on Congress (vanityfair.com)
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

Politics, United States, Trump, Congress, Violence

18 points by throw0101a 40 days ago | 0 comments

"Uber for Armed Guards" Surges After UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination (gizmodo.com)
Protector, an app that lets you book armed goons the same way you’d call for an Uber, is having a viral moment.

Security, Apps, Crime, Violence, Business

44 points by HiroProtagonist 42 days ago | 39 comments

AI dialogue analysis confirms movies have grown more violent over past 70 years (phys.org)
Movies often reflect the predominant societal and cultural values at the time they were shot. These values can be expressed in various elements of a film, including the interactions between characters, their communication styles and their characterizing traits.

AI, Movies, Violence, Society, Culture

11 points by pseudolus 53 days ago | 18 comments

Slaughterbots – if human: kill() [video] (youtube.com)

AI, Ethics, Video Games, Violence

5 points by amarcheschi 97 days ago | 2 comments

Echoes of Rage: Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age (worldhistory.substack.com)
If you looked at it from a certain angle, it appeared to be a golden age.

History, Violence, Social Commentary

6 points by crescit_eundo 104 days ago | 0 comments

Early Bronze Age Butchered Human Remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK (cambridge.org)
Direct physical evidence for violent interpersonal conflict is seen only sporadically in the archaeological record for prehistoric Britain. Human remains from Charterhouse Warren, south-west England, therefore present a unique opportunity for the study of mass violence in the Early Bronze Age.

Archaeology, Prehistoric Britain, Violence, Human Remains

27 points by gradus_ad 105 days ago | 14 comments

Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools (nytimes.com)
Across the United States, technology centered on cellphones — in the form of text messages, videos and social media — has increasingly fueled and sometimes intensified campus brawls, disrupting schools and derailing learning.

Education, Technology, Social Media, Violence

18 points by marban 107 days ago | 6 comments

Decivilization May Be Under Way (theatlantic.com)
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.

Society, Crime, Violence, Urbanization

24 points by gnabgib 111 days ago | 26 comments

Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down (cnn.com)

Business, Healthcare, Crime, Violence

20 points by ____H____ 111 days ago | 34 comments

Health Care Administration Wastes Half a Trillion Dollars Every Year (peoplespolicyproject.org)
Last week, an individual gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Bryan Thompson in the streets of Manhattan. The gunman wrote “deny,” “defend,” “depose” on the bullets he shot, suggesting that this killing was motivated by a dislike of UnitedHealthcare’s business practices, which are also the business practices of the private health insurance industry as a whole.

Health Care, Healthcare Costs, Business Practices, Violence

4 points by greenie_beans 112 days ago | 0 comments

The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system (vox.com)
The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met by many people online with a morbid sense of inevitability.

Healthcare, United States, Public Opinion, Violence

66 points by lr0 114 days ago | 132 comments

The online reaction to the killing of United Healthcare CEO should be a warning (ycombinator.com)
The fact that some person got angry enough to kill a high profile target isn't that extraordinary. It's happens, not frequently, but it happens with some regularity. It's the reaction that people are having, the glee at watching him die, that is extraordinary.

Social Media, Violence, Healthcare, Corporate Culture

11 points by moosedman 117 days ago | 0 comments

Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO (thedailybeast.com)
Doctors in one of the Internet’s top medical communities have turned on the murdered UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson in such brutal fashion that Reddit moderators deleted a thread on the killing.

Reddit, Medical Communities, Healthcare, Violence, Death

69 points by truegoric 117 days ago | 71 comments

Russia's soldiers bringing wartime violence back home (bbc.co.uk)
Soldiers returning from the war have claimed at least 242 lives, reports say

Russia, War, Violence, Domestic Violence

12 points by lifeisstillgood 136 days ago | 1 comments

Russia's soldiers bringing wartime violence back home (bbc.com)
Soldiers returning from the war have claimed at least 242 lives, reports say

Russia, War, Violence, Crime, Military

11 points by tmoravec 136 days ago | 0 comments

Deadly Shooting at Wildberries Moscow Offices (forbes.com)
One of Russia’s most compelling entrepreneurial tales has turned into a deadly nightmare.

Russia, Crime, Business, Violence

8 points by voisin 195 days ago | 1 comments

Walkie-talkie explosions rock Lebanon a day after pager attacks (apnews.com)
Multiple explosions went off Wednesday at the site of a funeral for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before, according to Associated Press journalists at the scene.

Lebanon, Explosions, Hezbollah, Violence, Security

15 points by BenjiWiebe 195 days ago | 1 comments

Two men jailed for social media posts that stirred up far-right violence (theguardian.com)