Last week we hosted a live show on AI and warfare, going deep on the use of AI in Gaza, and it's now live on our Computer Says Maybe feed.
Exceptional group of guests: @marwasf.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Karen Palacio (aka kardaver), and Wanda Muñoz.
Essential if difficult listening.
13.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The admission and supervising staff may refuse admission to visitors who do not behave in an appropriate manner or if there is cause for assuming that they will disturb the performance or exhibition, or trouble other visitors. This includes every physical, verbal or gestural form of sexual harassment or discrimination. [Highlighted text begins] Wearing or carrying clothing, bags, materials etc. that display statements not compatible with the liberal democratic basic order is prohibited. Persons may be excluded from the event or expelled from the venue. Instructions made by staff on duty must be complied with. There is no entitlement to a refund of ticket fees.
Given Germany's panic over Palestine solidarity, it's clear what clothing the Berlinale will deem "not compatible with the liberal democratic basic order."
(Yup, this is a real rule: www.kbb.eu/en/hausordnung – and yup, artists are striking: filmworkersforpalestine.org#strikeberlin...)
01.12.2024 00:33 — 👍 74 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 2
Shocking video from Beit Lahia. This man was killed by a smoke grenade.💔💔💔💔💔
30.11.2024 17:31 — 👍 59 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 3
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
30.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 2761 🔁 1581 💬 63 📌 87
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub
Italy is home to six major spyware vendors and one supplier, with many smaller and harder-to-track enterprises emerging all the time, experts say.
“Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools.”
@suzannesmalley.bsky.social
therecord.media/how-italy-be...
30.11.2024 17:33 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Impunity breeds more crime. Fourteen months of non-stop mass slaughter, shielded and supported by western powers, had unleashed Israel’s genocidal mania on full display. Good luck reigning back this monster.
30.11.2024 15:17 — 👍 51 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 1
Lessons from the Arab region for UN cybercrime convention
The UN cybercrime convention will allow governments across the Arab region and worldwide to use cybercrime laws to violate human rights.
Cybercrime laws across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are being weaponized to stifle dissent + crush freedoms – going beyond combating real crimes. The new @UN Cybercrime treaty could legitimize these abuses.
www.accessnow.org/arab-region-...
27.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Hamra, Beirut where last night’s Israeli strike took place hours before the ceasefire. Looks like it hit a currency exchange shop.
Many displaced families in the commercial neighborhood have already packed up to return to southern Lebanon and Beirut southern suburbs.
27.11.2024 07:45 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
People are returning in the thousands to their villages in Lebanon.
Land is not just property: It envelopes memory, community and identity.
In this unstable region, the concept of home transcends space and time.
It is existential. Personal. Political.
27.11.2024 08:27 — 👍 105 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1
The answer is ready of course: “Israel has the right to defend itself”
27.11.2024 08:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our lives have been a one long intractable war interrupted by short intervals of ceasefires and not the other way around. We will never know peace until liberation from Israel‘s oppression and domination.
27.11.2024 07:20 — 👍 74 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
I hope the ceasefire in Lebanon holds. But there will be no peace as long as Israel maintains this ludicrous right to preemptively attack sovereign states if it wishes so.
apnews.com/article/isra...
27.11.2024 07:14 — 👍 62 🔁 14 💬 7 📌 0
Ceasefire went into effect. So many feelings but first and foremost: tired. People are tired. Thousands of cars heading south from displacement to check on their homes. #Lebanon
27.11.2024 05:52 — 👍 108 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 0
Imagine losing 50 to 100 members of your community every day for over a year. How can one grasp the scale of killing and loss of life in Gaza? Beyond the murdered are the injured, missing, amputated, disabled, elderly, children, and pregnant—imagine the unimaginable suffering they endure daily.
20.11.2024 23:21 — 👍 526 🔁 219 💬 6 📌 2
The death toll from tonight’s massacres in Gaza is nearing 100 people.
20.11.2024 23:27 — 👍 258 🔁 156 💬 4 📌 6
Yesterday, Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat was injured in an Israeli double tap strike on a home in Gaza, where he had rushed to report on the first airstrike.
Shabat says he was deliberately targeted in the second airstrike, and he has reason to believe so.
#حسام_شبات #الجزيرة #غزة
20.11.2024 22:02 — 👍 34 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0
Access Now: İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadele
Access Now’dan Marwa Fatafta, "İsrail, Gazze ve Filistinlileri kendi teknolojileri için bir test laboratuvarı olarak kullanarak, dünyaya yapay zekâ destekli yeni ve tehlikeli bir savaş planı sunuyor" ...
Access Now: İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadele
🗣️ @marwasf.bsky.social: "İsrail, Gazze ve Filistinlileri kendi teknolojileri için bir test laboratuvarı olarak kullanarak, dünyaya yapay zekâ destekli yeni ve tehlikeli bir savaş planı sunuyor."
bianet.org/haber/access...
20.11.2024 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Filistin İçin Teknoloji'nin yeni bölümünde Access Now oluşumunun Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Politika ve Savunuculuk Direktörü Marwa Fatafta (@marwasf.bsky.social) ile İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadeleyi konuştuk:
20.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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20.11.2024 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shout out to the brave folks at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. Follow them for updates on big tech complicity in Israel’s genocide + support their campaign to hold these companies to account.
19.11.2024 23:10 — 👍 119 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 0
No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner - Tech Won’t Save Us
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Inspired by workers organizing
@techwontsave.us 👀
" @parismarx.com is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it."
techwontsave.us/episode/235_...
19.11.2024 15:36 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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
19.11.2024 19:00 — 👍 224 🔁 121 💬 8 📌 5
You’re welcome!
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Exciting, subscribed!
19.11.2024 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another list for folks who’re searching for Palestinian accounts to follow on this platform.
19.11.2024 21:09 — 👍 32 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
This is all that remains of Al Najjar hospital in Rafah. The extent of the devastation only now coming to light because it is in the Israeli military controlled area.
There must be accountability for the depraved, illegal destruction of this hospital.
19.11.2024 09:42 — 👍 77 🔁 50 💬 2 📌 4
Or the excitement of searching for a new book to read from the school library. Ayyam…
19.11.2024 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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