really really powerful — the indigenous folks to whom the land McGill University sits on belongs have given their blessing and solidarity to student protestors against genocide

Bit late to this, but beyond honoured that Secret Canada was recognized by IRE and NICAR with the FOI Award and IRE Medal!
The judges called it 'one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published.' 🥹
ire.org/announcing-the… #cdnfoi #SecretCanada

Concordia and McGill University students in Montreal, Canada have began an indefinite encampment in to demand an end to the genocide in Palestine and divestment.

Students in over 56 universities in US, Britain, Australia, France, and now Canada have begun indefinite encampments:

Students at McGill have launched their encampment

McGill University held $74 million in direct investment in companies complicit in upholding the apartheid and financing the Genocide

McGill Uni students demand that the Uni divest from companies complicit in Israels occupation

I hope Emory professors who are shocked that cops would brutally arrest them realize that this is what happens to poor, dark, disabled people in Atlanta on a regular basis. Voting to oust their president can only protect Emory for so long. They should condemn and stop Cop City

Let me give you the TLDR version of how the convo went with editors when Tom Cardoso and I pitched Secret Canada: 'Okay so, we want to go all in — LIKE ALL IN — on a massive policy issue: access to information. And we'll need a year and a half to do it. Oh! And a full team...

While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too.

They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts.

#GazaSolidarityEncampment #CeasfireNOW

sorry I missed your call, 95% of the calls I get are from robots trying to steal my credit card information so this entire method of communication is now dead to me

No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have.

Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.

besides the fact that many young people ARE organizing around repro justice literally all the time, how about YOU go camp out and stop putting everything on us???

Memorial to the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, outside the White House Correspondents Dinner which is filled with the those who sponsor this slaughter and those who provide the propaganda for it.

Our industry hasn’t condemned enough the killing of over 130 journalists in Gaza & Lebanon. Instead tonight they’re schmoozing with officials from US govt who are providing Israel with weapons killing media workers in targeted attacks, like my friend Issam Abdallah.

On genocide and the AI industry

People wonder about the stony silence from AI academics, when a lot of other STEM leaders have put their careers in jeopardy from talking about the genocide. They misunderstand the AI ecosystem as yet another STEM one, it isn't as it is especially

Every insistence on continuing the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians for 100-200 people has been unambiguously and extremely racist, a routine affirmation of Israeli lives mattering more than the lives, homes, and rights of 2 million Palestinians.

Any fool could see that indiscriminately bombing the area hostages are held in, as well as withholding food, power, water, and medicine, indicated a total disregard for their welfare. Even when they murdered unarmed freed hostages shouting in Hebrew, people still refused to see.

Have been saying over and over again, every single week of this genocide, these daily massacres, has been a deliberate choice by Israel—there has always been an offer to exchange hostages, and it has been consistently rejected.