Walid El Houri

How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

What happens when billionaires treat dystopian science fiction as blueprint?
@alirizataskale.bsky.social explores how sci-fi is being weaponized by Silicon Valley to centralize power and how we can reclaim the genre’s radical roots. Read on @untoldmag.org

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The Cartographic War: How Google Earth Turned Gaza’s Ruins Into a Digital Battlefield - Untold Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.

What happens when the tools we use to navigate the world are weaponized for the service of genocide? Read the full investigation on @untoldmag.org
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As physical erasure takes place on the ground, a parallel erasure and distortion unfolds online.
This is the cartographic war—one fought not only with bombs, but with pixels, platforms, and psychological tactics.

This investigation dives deep into how maps, satellites, and crowd-sourced tags are being used to manipulate memory, obscure accountability, and reshape public perception—turning Gaza’s ruins into a genocidal playground.

These pins appear over residential buildings Israel has obliterated, transforming sites of trauma to digital mockeries.This is more than just bad taste or online trolling. It’s a disturbing example of how digital platforms can become complicit in psychological warfare & settler-colonial narratives

Among the ruins of bombed homes and flattened neighborhoods, users have begun tagging locations with chilling labels like “Haunted house.”
Satellite imagery doesn’t just show destruction—it reflects a new front in Israel's genocidal war.

The Cartographic War: How Google Earth Turned Gaza’s Ruins Into a Digital Battlefield - Untold Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.

Read this powerful and shilling investigation by Zina Qabbani for @untoldmag.org about yet another sadistic genocidal practice in Gaza, this time on Google Earth and its latest update.
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The killing of Anas al-Sharif and Western journalism’s moral collapse The West defends press freedom — unless the journalist is brown, Palestinian, and reports for an Arab outlet.

Read Samanth Subramanian's powerful words on @globalvoices.org about Israel's latest journalist massacre & the murder of Anas al-Sharif, one more war crime to be added to an endless list of depraved genocidal violence, and the complicity of Western journalism:

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It is part of a broader strategy of cultural genocide, ecocide, and epistemicide — erasing not just people but modes of knowing, growing, and being.

The latest attack on the Hebron seed facility and before it the Al Qarara seed bank in Gaza, reinforces that pattern: eradicating the ecological and generational links between Palestinians and their land.

From the buffalo slaughter by US colonizers to force dependence and starvation upon the native populations, to the destruction of Iraq’s seed bank by the US invasion and later the post-invasion seed laws, agriculture has long been weaponized to dominate.

On 31Jul ISR forces bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC's) seed bank
This is a crime in a lineage of centuries of settler-colonial strategies of destroying Indigenous food systems in order to control the land, erase memory, and break resistance

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

My latest for @globalvoices.org :
Israel’s recent demolition of Palestine’s last seed bank in Hebron is not just destruction, it’s a colonial act of erasure.

Beyond Project Nimbus: How Silicon Valley Fuels Israel’s War Machine - Untold As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting Unit 8200 veterans and embedding occupation tech into Google Clo...

If you haven't yet, do read @reemalma.bsky.social 's brilliant and meticulous investigation into the complicity of Silicon Valley in the Israel's ongoing genocide and apartheid in Palestine on @untoldmag.org

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This article was originally published in Ar by 7iber.com

Invisible Systems, Endless Wars, and Hypermanned Killing Machines: Lisa Ling on AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Conflict - Untold War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.

This interview, part of the Investigating the Kill Cloud research programme by @disruptionlab.bsky.social, examines how these systems erode international law, obscure responsibility, and normalize perpetual war.
Read it on @untoldmag.org
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Once confined to battlefields, warfare is now embedded in the everyday technologies we use, powered by corporate infrastructure and shielded by layers of secrecy.

Known as the Kill Cloud, this paradigm marks a radical shift in how wars are fought: from boots on the ground to data in the cloud, from soldiers to sensors, from borders to boundless networks.

Lisa Ling explores the hidden architecture of modern warfare: a global, networked system of cloud infrastructure, AI, surveillance, and autonomous weapons that enables killing at a distance, with minimal human involvement and even less accountability.

These questions aren't theoretical. The future of warfare is already here, and it’s wired into the world we live in.

Invisible Systems, Endless Wars, and Hypermanned Killing Machines: Lisa Ling on AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Conflict - Untold War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.

What is the Kill Cloud and how is it changing war as we know it? What happens when your phone, data & mvt are part of a military target profile? What oversight exists, if any, when AI flags a person for a strike?
Read my itv with whistleblower Lisa Ling @untoldmag.org
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How two shocking stories from Gaza barely made global headlines What happens when the siege itself becomes a tool of extermination? In Gaza, hunger, contaminated aid, and targeted killings expose a brutality that the world seems willing to accept.

My latest for @globalvoices.org
When did genocide stop shocking us?
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Solidarity under siege: Egypt cracks down on Palestine support movement Under the pretext of national security and diplomatic stability, the regime is actively preventing humanitarian engagements and criminalizing solidarity.

My latest on @globalvoices.org

Egypt’s strategy continues to attract scrutiny. Activists, aid organizations, and legal experts are urging accountability, not just of Israel’s blockade, but of regional enablers like Egypt.

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“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go": Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies - Untold With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.

Until the siege is lifted and the bombs stop falling,
Gaza will remain a place where people grieve without bodies,
bury without names,
because even sorrow is under occupation.

📎 Read Husam Maarouf’s report on @untoldmag.org
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By May 2, the Israeli blockade had led to the deaths of at least 57 Palestinians due to starvation, as thousands of trucks carrying vital supplies piled up at the border with #Egypt

The attack, the continuous starvation, and the subsequent international silence and inaction underscore the growing accusations of failure of the international community to uphold international law and stop what has been described as “the worst campaign of systematic starvation in modern history.”

The incident echoes previous Israeli attacks on Gaza-bound aid ships, most famously the Mavi Marmara in 2010 when Israeli commandoes killed 9 onboard.
The UN investigation of the attack found that 6 were summarily executed, shot in the head from distances between 2 and 15 cm.

The Conscience under attack: A story of aid, silence, and starvation As Gaza faces mass starvation, a humanitarian flotilla carrying aid was bombed — while governments looked away.

My latest on @globalvoices.org
On May 2 one @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship, was struck by drones in international waters near #Malta, en route to deliver food and medical supplies and 30 global peace activists including climate activist Greta Thunberg to #Gaza
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Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates As the toll mounts, so too does the sense of abandonment felt by Gaza’s journalists who continue to witness and report in the most difficult conditions.

GLOBAL VOICES: Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates globalvoices.org/2025/05/02/s... @globalvoices.org @walidhouri.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime

Journalism in exile: Muwatin’s fight for independent media in the Gulf Exiled in London, Mohammed Al-Fazari leads Muwatin, a London-based independent media outlet reporting on Gulf issues, facing state censorship, funding challenges, and the risks of exile journalism.

For World Press Freedom Day, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mohammed Al-Fazari, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Muwatin, about the outlet’s vital coverage of the Gulf region & the challenges of practicing journalism in exile.

Read on @globalvoices.org

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