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Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”. The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities. Continue reading...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

My dream home lies in ruins. I will never forgive Israel, or the world After the Israeli army razed my childhood home, I spent years building a new one for my family. Now, like most of Khan Younis, all that remains is rubble.

My dream home lies in ruins. I will never forgive Israel, or the world

After the Israeli army razed my childhood home 25 years ago, I spent years building a new one for my family. Now, like most of Khan Younis, all that remains is rubble.

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Try it with Deloitte, too.

I bet if I made a list of all of the universities in the US pushing AI, there'd be a big overlap with these management consulting companies.

Banned Books List 2025 What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

What #books are #banned in 2025?
#PENAmerica has documented nearly 23,000 book bans in public schools nationwide since 2021, a number never before seen in the life of any living American. This censorship is being mobilized by groups espousing conservative viewpoints.

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Spontaneous demonstrations against Israel's interception of the Gaza aid flotilla happened in Geneva-Switzerland.
People gathered to express their solidarity with Palestine and the flotilla by blocking the main intersection near Cornavin station. “Free free Palestine” chanted the demonstrators.

Harun Farocki’s cinema of ruptures - Serious Games – dissent.art “I try to let the film think.” Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a filmmaker, author, and film theorist. He was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard. Farocki’s films...

#Farocki’s films investigate the processes through which images and the messages they carry are constructed, transmitted, and perceived; as well as the ability of recorded images to convey the realities of war.
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Blood taken from Danish babies ended up in huge genetic study—without consent The iPsych project, which investigates the genetics of psychiatric disorders, has sent 140,000 opt-out notices amid backlash

Last month, 140,000 Danes found out that their genetic data was being used in a massive research project-- without their consent.

I unpacked how this happened, and why it matters for @science.org

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About That Japan Deal Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias

An instant post about that Japan deal. It's basically a joke
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that...

#TheloniusMonk -Straight, No Chaser is a 1988 American documentary film about the life of beboppianist and composer Thelonious Monk.
“Everything I play is different,” Monk once explained, “different melody, different harmony, different structure. Each piece is different from the other. . . .”

Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it sold advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the war in Gaza and aided in efforts to locate and rescue Isra...

“I’m glad there’s a little bit of transparency here,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said after Microsoft admitted selling AI & cloud computing services to Israel's military for the Gaza war. “But it is hard to square that with what’s actually happening on the ground.”

Renewal of war in Gaza has ‘unleashed a new hell’, says Red Cross The resumption of the war in Gaza has unleashed a new hell in the Palestinian territory, the director of the Geneva-based ICRC has warned.

“This horror and dehumanisation will haunt us for decades to come,” Pierre Krähenbühl said. “Gaza is suffering and enduring death, injury, multiple displacements, amputations, separations, disappearances, starvation and a denial of aid and dignity…”

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Today’s left-wing American college students sound like Maoists. Here’s why I think Trump’s five-year plan will be a great leap forward for the United States

The Nomadic Proletariat – dissent.art In this interview, Alain Badiou focuses on the concept of the migrant, or the sans-papiers. Badiou discusses the importance of this concept in his previous work and for contemporary politics. Source: ...

#Mayday #proleteriat #Badiou
#dissent.art
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Destruction Gernika (Guernica) – dissent.art Monday 26 April 1937 From 4.40 to 7.45 in the late afternoon of Monday 26 April 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by sustained bombing attacks by Hitler’s Condor Legion and Mussoli...

In honour of the bombing of #Gernika #Guernica #Spain on April 26th 1937
#SpanishCivilWar #Picasso #dissent.art
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Just published: my review of Ronell’s new book #America #Inscriptions

www.tankebanen.no/inscriptions...

A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...

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30th Rosa Luxemburg Conference on January 11, 2025 in Berlin
#rosaluxemburg #berlin #conference

A photo of the initial Y Combinator class with Aaron Swartz circled in orange, standing right next to Sam Altman circled in green

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this early YC photo - he & Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$. The US DOJ only came down on one of them & the other is feted by tech bros.

Memorial to the Victims of Communism (Canada) - Wikipedia

A 2023 report for the Department of Canadian Heritage recommended that 330 of the 553 names listed on The Memorial to the Victims of Communism – Canada, a Land of Refuge be removed due to potential links to Nazis or fascist groups.

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Good commentary by Boots Riley on A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan, and politics #bootsriley #acompleteunknown #bobdylan

Missed opportunity to change their name to the Coglioni family

Word of the Day: SIKTERUŠA (Bosnian) - a cup of very weak and bitter coffee offered to a guest who has overstayed their welcome; it comes from the Turkish for ‘fuck off man’.

Ryoji Ikeda - Code Verse

Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024 Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Ac...

EFF was proud to call Aaron Swartz a friend and ally.

Today’s Historic Front Page: November 6, 2024
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I just remembered that Mr Beast taught a class once at Harvard’s business school, and the whiteboard on the right labeled growth showing a line going up murders me

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

Looks like the AI hype train has claimed another victim: the #NobelPrize for Physics???

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...