'Despite U.S. reporting focusing on the actions of Israel's Unit 8200, Microsoft and Google have supported the Israeli military's Lotem technology unit for years.'

jackpoulson.substack.com/p/microsoft-an…

ICYMI

It’s very disappointing and unprofessional for NPR/NPRpolitics to allow their affiliated organizations (@waer883) to send individuals (self-identifying journalists with no ID) to a students-led Gaza Solidarity Encampment and harass them. That’s not how you obtain interviews.…

A while ago Jairo I Fúnez-Flores wrote about the culture of possessive individualism in academia. I think about it a lot. From lone genius aspirations to becoming a publication machine. It's a feature, not a bug.

NYtimes has a story where I guess the angle was “COVID ruined their HS graduation, and now Palestine protests are ruining their college graduations” and they interview the kids and the kids are like “Free Palestine, my graduation is meaningless” lmao REKT

Skype didn’t “lose” anything. It was bought by Microsoft in a 2011 killer acquisition and left to rot after Teams was launched. By the time the pandemic came around, it was in no state to compete.

“The largest union of academic workers, which represents more than 48,000 grad student workers throughout the Univ of California system, will hold a strike authorization vote…in response to how universities have cracked down on students’ Gaza protests.” theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers Israeli killer drones.

#NoTechForGenocide
No Tech For Apartheid

US universities will literally use the history of student activism and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in their campuses to recruit new students. So revolution is fine as long as it’s a marketing tool.

Id love to talk to people who participated in US student protests against apartheid in the 1980s. If you did, let me know: [email protected]

Looking for African students who are part of the pro-Palestine US campus protests, and having to navigate immigration challenges (e.g. threats of deportation) while protesting. Would like to commission essays for The Republic and will pay. Please share. DMs open.

Professor Steve Tamari, 65 y/o historian at Wash U who had 9 fractured ribs and
a broken hand for filming students being arrested by SLPD shared these words:

#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba

Anyone who cares about free speech & expression should be feeling cold blood in their veins as USG rushes to silence, censor, & brutalize those critical of Israel's extremist gov.

Bills like this are political weapons. Once forged, they will be wielded for much, much more.

CS student to research pipeline is how tech normalizes and cements its military ties

So important for critical tech researchers/teachers to denaturalize this in their classrooms: go beyond 'AI and bias' to examine the material reality of wielding compute and supply chain for $