{"id":26293,"date":"2024-04-27T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26293"},"modified":"2024-04-27T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:35:39","slug":"lavender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26293","title":{"rendered":"Lavender&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-Lavender-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26306\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-Lavender-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-Lavender-3-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-Lavender-3-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><span style=\"white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, OpenSans-fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Lavender is a purple\/blue flowering plant in the mint family that\u2019s easily identified by its sweet floral scent. It\u2019s believed to be native to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India, with a history dating as far back as 2,500 years.&nbsp;<\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavendar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26307\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavendar-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavendar-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavendar-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyday stresses can take a toll on your mental health: the good news is that lavender may help lift the dark cloud hanging over your head and give your mental outlook a much-needed pick-me-up. There\u2019s plenty of research that suggests lavender has positive effects on mood, stress, anxiety, and depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavender-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26305\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavender-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavender-2-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-lavender-2-768x588.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lavender-AI.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26309\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:cover;width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lavender-AI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lavender-AI-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lavender-AI-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And then there is another kind of Lavender: an Artificial Intelligence military machine application that resolves the &#8220;human bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets.\u201d<\/h2>\n<cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>SOURCE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>+972 Magazine @972mag<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine. Run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>click link for +972 Magazine  article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza\/\">https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>n 2021, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.il\/books\/about\/The_Human_Machine_Team_How_to_Create_Syn.html?id=hjl1zgEACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">book<\/a>&nbsp;titled \u201cThe Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World\u201d was released in English under the pen name \u201cBrigadier General Y.S.\u201d In it, the author \u2014 a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200 \u2014 makes the case for designing a special machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate thousands of potential \u201ctargets\u201d for military strikes in the heat of a war. Such technology, he writes, would resolve what he described as a \u201chuman bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a machine, it turns out, actually exists. A new investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals that the <strong>Israeli army has developed an artificial intelligence-based program known as \u201cLavender<\/strong>,\u201d unveiled here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets for assassination, Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military\u2019s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine \u201cas if it were a human decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Lavender-AI-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26310\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Lavender-AI-copy.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Lavender-AI-copy-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Lavender-AI-copy-768x645.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavender is a purple\/blue flowering plant in the mint family that\u2019s easily identified by its sweet floral scent. It\u2019s believed to be native to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India, with a history dating as far back as 2,500 years.&nbsp; Everyday stresses can take a toll on your mental health: the good news is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lavender&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26314,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions\/26314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}