UPDATE: Over 2,000 North American academics have now signed the Open Letter condemning Israel's scholasticide in Gaza. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza and their students.

Press release: docs.google.com/document/d/1D2…

Sign the letter: forms.gle/CEBQG4FkpctYTX…

🚨EU Migration Pact passed ❌

The Pact will bring a deadly new era of digital surveillance of migrants & more tech will be used to criminalise people entering Europe.

👉🏾Read our #ProtectNotSurveil statement 'A dangerous regime of migrant surveillance'
equinox-eu.com/wp-content/upl…

On April 19, Sociologists for Palestine is hosting a teach-in about the Resolution for Justice in Palestine. Featuring Ruha Benjamin, Michael Burawoy, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Sharmila Rudrappa, and Roi Livne.

Register at bit.ly/soc4palteachin

If you're in NYC, DC, or Palo Alto, come join us to hear us talk about The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism! Dr Eleanor Drage Future Intelligence

South African regulator will be taking on Microsoft over its #cloud #computing practices - another one to watch along side FTC and OFCOM efforts

cnbcafrica.com/2024/south-afr…

Today, the CIJ_ICJ heard oral arguments from Nicaragua, which has brought a case against Germany alleging that in providing political, financial & military support to Israel, Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide & has failed in its obligation to prevent genocide.🧵

Don’t miss this excellent line up if you’re in NYC on May 21st!

One more lawsuit denouncing arms export to Israel. Today Amnesty International Denmark, Oxfam Denmark, MS Action Aid Denmark, and Al-Haq filed a lawsuit against Denmark authorities for failing to comply with their obligations under international law amnesty.dk/ngoer-sagsoger…

Really incisive read by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם on yet another system AI-washing what is in reality, as per Tali 🪬🌶️🪁, wide-ranging kill-lists, dehumanising Palestinians, reducing them to numbers, and justifying their killing en masse.

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza.

An investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם, in partnership with שיחה מקומית.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

1/4 📣Breaking News homodigitalis.gr/en/posts/13219… The Hellenic Data Protection Authority fines the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the 'Centaurus' and 'Hyperion' systems with the largest penalty ever imposed to a Greek public body

NYC's 'AI' 'weapon scanners' produce 85% false positives!!1!!

AKA they don't detect weapons-- they give cops a pretext to harass ppl while lining the pockets of vendors. In the meantime, NYC is shutting libraries on weekends citing budget constraints.

hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons…

HAPPENING NOW! Hundreds of health workers are blockading the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London, demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which supplies advanced technology to Israel’s military and supports the genocide.

this looks like a beautiful action ♥️ palantir is deadly in so many ways, from facilitating deportations to racist predictive policing to supporting genocide

✒️@MonaElswah and I dug into the Oversight Board's Advisory Opinion on Shaheed. We write that without high quality benchmarks to evaluate automated moderation tools across langs, Meta risks continuing to burden Arabic speakers with inconsistent moderation: cdt.org/insights/conte…

the utter gaslighting we all went through back in october when they first attacked al shifa hospital, and we tried to explain they'd done it before, they'd do it again, and here we are, months later, a 2 week siege of al shifa, executing civilians, doctors, children, point blank

capitalism always genocidal, it consumes even the dead, such as when naomi who painted palestinians and their allies as hateful & antisemitic returns to the scene, gearing up to coin a term, write a book, etc

There is no way to have an analysis of borders without centering Palestinian liberation.

You cannot analyze bordering regimes or proclaim 'Right to stay, freedom to move, and right to return' if you are not thinking about and in deep solidarity with Palestinian freedom struggle.

Join Maya Wind, Naomi Klein, and Nadia Abu El-Haj for a discussion of how Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians - in collaboration with Haymarket Books!