Hacker News with Generative AI: Violence

Slaughterbots – if human: kill() [video] (youtube.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down (cnn.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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's soldiers bringing wartime violence back home (bbc.com)
Soldiers returning from the war have claimed at least 242 lives, reports say
Deadly Shooting at Wildberries Moscow Offices (forbes.com)
One of Russia’s most compelling entrepreneurial tales has turned into a deadly nightmare.
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.
Two men jailed for social media posts that stirred up far-right violence (theguardian.com)
Online disinformation sparked a wave of far-right violence in the UK (cnbc.com)
Online platforms warned over disorder violence risk (bbc.com)
Violence against women and girls a national emergency, says policing report (shropshirestar.com)
Bangladesh police given 'shoot-on-sight' orders amid national curfew (theguardian.com)
Violence between Mexican drug cartels has surged in recent years (ourworldindata.org)
Fear and a pattern of political killing in Russia (cis.mit.edu)
One-third of Americans think political violence is justifiable (thehill.com)
Mexican mayor killed hours after first woman elected president (bbc.com)
81year old serial slingshot shooter arrested terrorising neighbours for a decade (news.sky.com)
Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe (smh.com.au)