Cheyne Anderson
@the-orange.bsky.social
Citizen of the Internet | Terminal Generalist | Definitely lurking in your Bluesky threads
Organizer with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Also on Mastodon: https://tech.lgbt/@The0rangeMan
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Organizer with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Also on Mastodon: https://tech.lgbt/@The0rangeMan
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These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
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Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
July 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
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Human rights activists storm the stage and disrupt the UN’s “AI for Good” summit to call out big tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
July 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Human rights activists storm the stage and disrupt the UN’s “AI for Good” summit to call out big tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
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Big tech’s role in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza takes center stage at UN "AI for Good” summit in Geneva.
Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
July 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Big tech’s role in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza takes center stage at UN "AI for Good” summit in Geneva.
Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes.
#NoTechForGenocide
#NoAIForGenocide
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targets are immigrants. Also included are those in solidarity with immigrants, and, increasingly, elected officials, all from the Democratic Party.
A Midnight Assassin, Masked Agents and Rising Political Violence
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targets are…
www.democracynow.org
June 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targets are immigrants. Also included are those in solidarity with immigrants, and, increasingly, elected officials, all from the Democratic Party.
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20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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“Where is it? Where is the warrant?”
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Where is it? Where is the warrant?”
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️
From an internal Google report: “If Google Cloud moves forward with the tender, we recommend the business secure additional assurances to avoid Google Cloud services being used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations.”
It’s unclear if such assurances were ever offered.
It’s unclear if such assurances were ever offered.
Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.
theintercept.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
From an internal Google report: “If Google Cloud moves forward with the tender, we recommend the business secure additional assurances to avoid Google Cloud services being used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations.”
It’s unclear if such assurances were ever offered.
It’s unclear if such assurances were ever offered.
“We have made the decision that this topic cannot be discussed, cannot be debated in company or organization-wide meetings”
Corporate authoritarianism
Corporate authoritarianism
Cisco, a Major Contributor to Israel's Military Technology, Fired a Pro-Palestine Employee
Cisco staff are outraged at the company's recent policy restricting internal debate on U.S. policy in the Middle East.
www.dropsitenews.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“We have made the decision that this topic cannot be discussed, cannot be debated in company or organization-wide meetings”
Corporate authoritarianism
Corporate authoritarianism
One of these was inspired by the US
One of these is being carried out by the US
One of these is funded and armed by the US
One of these is being carried out by the US
One of these is funded and armed by the US
April 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
One of these was inspired by the US
One of these is being carried out by the US
One of these is funded and armed by the US
One of these is being carried out by the US
One of these is funded and armed by the US
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“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands.”
April 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands.”
A Microsoft worker spoke up about the company's complicity in genocide, while leadership tried to ignore it and celebrate
Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’
“Shame on you.”
www.theverge.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A Microsoft worker spoke up about the company's complicity in genocide, while leadership tried to ignore it and celebrate
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For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Another person, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, was abducted by the Trump administration. Just like with Mahmoud Khali, there are no criminal charges
Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Another person, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, was abducted by the Trump administration. Just like with Mahmoud Khali, there are no criminal charges
The LAPD is using monitoring pro-Palestine protests using a service called Dataminer
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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The LAPD is using monitoring pro-Palestine protests using a service called Dataminer
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Google Cloud recently acquired Israeli cloud security start-up
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March 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Google Cloud recently acquired Israeli cloud security start-up
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Meet Google's Genocide Czar: Thomas Kurian!
Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza
Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Meet Google's Genocide Czar: Thomas Kurian!
Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza
Google Cloud's CEO is an industry leader in the deployment of AI for occupation & genocide—providing cutting-edge cloud computing tech via Project Nimbus to Israel's military, & enabling them to massacre hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza