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New Post: 'Who Guards the Prosecutor? The Khan Affair and the ICC’s Internal Constitutional Crisis' By Francesco Seatzu, Professor of International Law at the University of Cagliari, Italy internationallaw.blog/2026/06/11/who… via @InternationalLawBlog

🔴The Lebanese Ministry of Heath: 3696 civilians killed and 1,413 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd. Hundreds of children have been killed and more than 130 paramedics. Families are massacred every day. Video is from a drone strike on a vehicle in Saida today. Saida is north of the Litani river.

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Statement by the Netherlands, the UK, France, Sweden, Japan, Australia and others, on the importance of humanitarian access to Gaza. government.nl/documents/2026…

New post: 'Legislative Omission as Treaty Breach: Nigeria, the AUCPCC, and What the ECOWAS Court Has Left Undone' By Obongodu Paul Unanam internationallaw.blog/2026/06/08/leg… via @InternationalLawBlog

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

Two tent schools with hundreds of children but with only one mission: Free education for the children of Gaza. Gaza Great Minds has been running since more than 2 years ago under fire, in displacement camps, under tent roofs, on sand floors. Most people never heard of it. Now you have. Share it.🩶 #Wewillreadagain

On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Order setting a deadline of 22 November 2027 for South Africa to file its Reply to Israel’s written pleading – submitted in March 2026 – in the case of Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). Israel will then have until 22 May 2029 to submit a Rejoinder. The ICJ’s Order follows a meeting of the representatives of the parties and the President of the Court in The Hague on 29 April 2026, called by the President of the Court to discuss the next procedural steps in the case. A second round of written pleadings is common in ICJ cases; in fact, in all previous cases brought under the Genocide Convention, parties have submitted a Reply and a Rejoinder. Moreover, as Israel has now objected to the jurisdiction of the Court in its Counter-Memorial, submitted in March 2026 – and not, as contemplated in the Rules of Court, “as soon as possible, and not later than three months after the delivery of the Memorial” (i.e. January 2025) – South Africa will now have to address these objections to the Court’s jurisdiction in its Reply. In terms of the Rules of Court, the written pleadings remain confidential until the Court determines otherwise. At the time of filing its Counter-Memorial Israel’s counsel publicly declared that “its Counter-Memorial [proves] its legitimate objectives in the war have always been to eliminate the military and governing capabilities of Hamas and other terrorist organizations”. Whether or not Israel’s war on Gaza is authorised by, or has complied with, the international law regarding self-defence, as claimed by Israel’s counsel, South Africa’s response is a simple one: self-defence is not a defence to genocide, there is none. What is more, Israel remains bound by the three provisional measures Orders issued by the ICJ – at the request of South Africa – that seek to ensure the protection of the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, which the Court has determined are under “real and imminent risk of irreparable prejudice”. These Orders oblige Israel, amongst other things, to ensure that its military does not commit any genocidal acts in Gaza, to ensure “without delay, in full co-operation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision…of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance”, ensure the “unimpeded access” of UN commissions of inquiry, fact-finding mission and other investigative bodies to the Gaza Strip. ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

At the 2024 DNC, Uncommitted delegates requested to have American doctors who served in Gaza address delegates at the convention about their experiences. The DNC and campaign officials said no. Now a doctor who served in Gaza is headed to Congress.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

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Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress. He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in

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New Post: 'The Demise of USAID and the US Administration’s New Form of Providing Assistance Abroad: The Case of the Bilateral Health Agreements with African States' By Professor Konstantinos D. Magliveras internationallaw.blog/2026/06/01/the… via @InternationalLawBlog

🧵One more thread on EU trade with Israel's illegal settlements. Lot of people ask - would an EU ban on such trade require unanimity or qualified majority (QMV) of EU states? Together with @CIDSE @DorienVdb50 we asked this question to experts on EU constitutional law.

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy: "Now that [Gaza] has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase: making the entire population permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed." It's the prelude, says Levy, to mass expulsion. "No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks. And without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth." Source: archive.ph/bd9kL

I welcome this decision by UN SG Guterres which is long overdue. This listing could not have come soon enough. I had in the past expressed my disappointment that Israel was not listed already, given the systematic, large-scale and horrific sexual violence perpetrated by Israel against palestinian women, men and children that have been independently documented and verified.

After winning an Emmy, Al Jazeera’s @joshrushing dedicated the award to colleagues and journalists killed by Israel in an emotional speech. @AJFaultLines documentary on Kids Under Fire won ‘Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage’ at the 2026 News Emmys.

haunted by this painting from Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, "No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin," a modern-day Guernica for the Gaza genocide

"Israel envió a mi casa a 2 tipos para ofrecerme un sobre con 500 dólares para que dejase de investigar sus crímenes en Palestina. Después el jefe del Mossad, Yossi Cohen, me amenazó a mi y a mi familia para que dejase de investigar a Israel" Fatou Bensouda, ex fiscal jefe de la Corte Penal Internacional, denuncia las amenazas y el intento de soborno que "Israel" le hizo para que parase de investigar sus crímenes en Palestina. En esta entrevista, Fatou cuenta cómo los sionistas controlan a los jueces internacionales, a través de las amenazas y los sobornos, al igual que el imperio de EEUU, que bloqueó sus cuentas bancarias y le hizo la vida imposible por intentar juzgar sus crímenes. Así funciona el mundo capitalista, los poderosos controlan a los jueces para que no les juzguen y solo persigan a sus enemigos, todo es corrupción y mafia.

Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski

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"Me han bloqueado todas las tarjetas por emitir la orden de arresto contra Netanyahu, no puede comprar ni tomar un avión ni alquilar una habitación de hotel". Nicolas Gouyou, juez francés de la Corte Penal Internacional, quien emitió una orden de arresto contra Netanyahu, afirma

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New post: 'Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions' By Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher internationallaw.blog/2026/05/18/ref… via @InternationalLawBlog