Lawn darts got banned in 1988 after three deaths. The CPSC pulled them because the harm was obvious and the product had no safety design, just a warning label that parents ignored.

OpenAI Sora 2 is structurally worse.

The harm isn’t accidental trajectory, it’s the intended function operating exactly as designed. A new Ekō report found the system successfully generated harmful content 61% of the time under controlled testing. This isn’t a filter that struggles to stop harm, this is a harm generator reliably producing it.

OpenAI itself has admitted that safeguards degrade over long interactions, acknowledging that engagement-driven design can directly undermine safety.

That’s a confession their business model of producing harm is incompatible with the safety claims.

California AG Rob Bonta said he paid “very close attention” to child safety policies, calling for zero tolerance, when he approved OpenAI’s restructure in October.

That’s what “very close attention” missed.

The algorithmic recommendation layer of Sora makes these lawn darts in kids’ hands more like jet-powered missiles. Ekō researchers didn’t have to search for antisemitic caricatures and school shooter content, because it was pushed to new teen accounts through the “For You” page within three hours of browsing.

Three hours from hello to have you heard about killing Jews.

That’s not user-generated harm, that’s platform-amplified harm by OpenAI with the mass atrocity accelerant built into their distribution mechanism. Violence prompts without race specification disproportionately generated Black subjects. We are seeing the kind of encoded prejudice known to accelerate crimes against humanity.

“Disinformation weapon” framing seems appropriate here, in a specific technical sense: the platform generates hyperrealistic videos that depict events that never happened, starring people who never consented, and distributes it through engagement-optimized algorithms to an audience that includes 13-year-olds. That’s the capability profile of an influence operation toolkit, military-grade information warfare, handed to anyone with a free account.

Speaking of free, OpenAI is burning cash to maintain market position. The engagement optimization is existential, beyond incidental. The jet-powered lawn darts being shipped to American children to kill Blacks and Jews aren’t a design flaw, they’re the OpenAI profit strategy.

Lt. Col. Calischaran G. James had clearly been doing something right for a long time to get where he was, which is what makes sudden relief conspicuous for the commanding officer of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36 (MALS-36) in Okinawa.

Days before Thanksgiving, in the growing wake of Pete Hegseth’s war crimes and murder of civilians in the Caribbean… what could this Mustang from Dominica have done to warrant an immediate termination on the front end of an investigation announcement?

What could a logistics squadron commander with that record and that trajectory to O-5 have done? Maybe, just maybe, if the latest Caribbean war crimes by Pete Hegseth are drawing on MALS-36 for Pacific assets or supply chains, we could guess who would know what’s moving where?

Logistics personnel are literally in a choke point for commission of crimes. In the 1930s dock workers around the world shut down Mussolini’s supply lines after he invaded Ethiopia and dropped poison gas on civilians. The dock workers didn’t just resist fascism; their resistance became part of the historical record of who stood where and when. A MALS commander would see every Hegseth war crime manifest.

Could this investigation announcement be like the one Hegseth also announced against decorated vets who had dared to say simply that soldiers should follow the law?

The Marine Corps has just intentionally created an information vacuum with their announcement, which exists in a context where the military is actively purging people who object to what Georgetown Law calls Pete Hegseth’s unlawful orders to “show no quarter.”

It’s just a matter of time before Pete Hegseth is put on trial for his war crimes.

The internal and external dissent is so loud now, it matters for future accountability. A senior military lawyer raised objections to the legal rationale and was sidelined. Admiral Holsey, the operational commander, announced objections and offered to resign in October. These aren’t anonymous sources speculating, these are people inside the chain of command who found Pete Hegseth untenable. When your own JAG officers are telling you it’s unlawful, that’s not a difference of opinion; that’s evidence for your future tribunal. The British and Canadian moves, cutting off intelligence from Hegseth over concerns the strikes are illegal, means Nuremburg-level calculations are underway for who will be going to trial.

Some experts think the strikes are illegal. Britain has had enough. Some weeks ago it suspended intelligence-sharing with America…

His big idea that “every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization” is primitive circular reasoning. He created a category to include anyone on these boats, then uses that as justification for killing them.

Straightforward moral questions such as “is it legal to execute civilians” are intentionally being buried under cynical layers of bogus unaccountable terrorism designations, false self-defense claims, and assertions about protecting our white women from Blazing Saddles.

It’s like Hegseth is saying non-white people use drugs, therefore it’s legal to murder any non-white person, anytime, anywhere. Deceptively calling this a war on “drugs”, or saying it’s stopping “drugs” from crossing the border, just resurrect tired white nationalist dog whistles of Nixon and Reagan.

Even under the laws of armed conflict, America can’t execute survivors or kill people who pose no immediate threat. Yet, that’s exactly what Pete Hegseth is doing. Former military lawyer Todd Huntley, director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law, has said Hegseth’s order to kill all the boat’s helpless passengers is unambiguously a crime:

…would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.

Hegseth has killed 80+ people without a single American court ever examining evidence, even long after the fact, that any individual was actually a threat. It’s not counter-terrorism; he’s executing people based on their race, nationality and location.

America, now spending billions on the most advanced weapons in history to execute survivors of a sunken boat who are clinging to wreckage, appears to be a militant dictatorship without any judicial process.

The hors de combat principle that you cannot attack those who are defenseless, including survivors of a sinking vessel, is among the oldest rules of armed conflict. It predates the Geneva Conventions. Naval powers agreed to this in the 1800s precisely because everyone understood that executing shipwreck survivors was barbarism.

When will Hegseth go to trial?

Pinochet was untouchable for decades until he wasn’t. Milosevic died during trial. Charles Taylor is serving 50 years. Where will Pete Hegseth land among these peers? Accountability sometimes comes late, often imperfectly, but the documentation matters. The evidence accumulates. Witnesses remember. And political conditions change in ways that seem impossible until they happen.

Reagan’s “special units” in Guatemala operated with similar impunity until Santos López was sentenced to 5,160 years for the Dos Erres massacre.

Reagan’s “bulwark” in Chad, Hissène Habré, was convicted in 2016 and died in prison, despite hiding for 26 years in exile.

The documentation that made prosecution possible was contemporaneous. It accumulated for decades before political conditions allowed accountability.

Presidents used to outsource atrocities to foreign thugs in distant countries through laundering and dual-use schemes. Trump now does it brazenly with American forces, American weapons, and a clown who calls himself “War Secretary” when he posts immoral kill shots to social media himself.

The victims in Guatemala and Chad waited decades. Hegseth is building his own war crime prosecution file in real time.