The tech industry is voluntarily destroying itself

After Haaretz הארץ publisher Amos Schocken🇮🇱 suggested sanctions on Israel over apartheid in the West Bank, Justice Minister Yariv Levin announced he’s pushing a bill to impose 20-year! prison sentences for Israelis advocating sanctions. Which ironically proves Shocken's point.

Using bulldozers, Israeli Forces severely damaged today (Thursday) the UNRWA office in the Nur Shams Camp, north of the #WestBank. The office can no longer be used. It was the hub to deliver basic services to more than 14,000 Palestine Refugees in the camp, including

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I am beyond excited to announce that applications are now open for the Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change at UvA Institute for Advanced Study! Come visit a beautiful city, hear from world-renowned experts, and work with passionate individuals on challenges related to climate change. More info: acscc.nl

Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Algorithms Used to Disseminate Information in Social Networks arxiv.org/abs/2405.12764

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨JUST OUT: Gezira massacres in Sudan corroborated by 🛰️ analysis by Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH Yale School of Public Health - clear indicators of graves being dug rapidly, body disposal, looting, and widespread attacks on civilian infrastructure. READ AND RETWEET 👇

The World needs a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Now. This fall the United Nations General Assembly must seize the opportunity to finally open formal negotiations. The proposed convention would significantly improve the imperfect international justice system. Even a cursory

Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City. This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory. This is in no way “self-defence.”

I often think about this: younger people in the US and other wealthy nations are far more likely to have a zero-sum mindset—the idea that someone’s gain means a loss for others—compared to older generations. From our paper on zero-sum thinking (full 🧵 x.com/s_stantcheva/s…)

The horrific reality for people of #Gaza & #Israel since 7 October 2023 detailed in UN Human Rights report. Close to 70% of those killed in Gaza are children & women. Unprecedented violations of IHL give rise to concerns of atrocity crimes. The violence must stop immediately.

🚨1/ This New York Times piece is wild. Let's go through it. Firstly, the lede is an emphasis that attacks in Amsterdam were based on antisemitism, yet it cites no evidence of this, but DOES cite evidence of anti-Arab chants.

We're hiring a new assistant professor in Quantitative Sociology TCD Sociology of @TCD_SSP: timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

As we entered the apocalyptic, destroyed Gaza City, desperate families from the besieged North Gaza were fleeting south with the little they can carry. A white flag in hand to beg for mercy and no further bombardment.

“The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.”

In my first piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the media spin and fabrications of what happened in Amsterdam and how this is an explicit example of how Israeli Jewish ethnosupremacist claims & violence against Arabs & Muslims - Palestinians - are justified. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/no-the…

This family was returning home with toys for their children, only to be hit by an Israeli quadcopter drone in #Gaza. Their children returned as lifeless bodies. Is there any crime worse than this‼️

Denmark’s welfare authority is using AI & algorithms to detect benefits fraud, functioning as a social scoring system & creating mass surveillance. This risks discrimination against racialized communities, refugees, migrants, & exclusion of people with disabilities.

To watch the full documentary, please check the following link: youtube.com/watch?v=4Fhj_k…