'This is not a photo to celebrate' Reuters journalist Mohammed Salem says of his 2024 World Press Photo of the Year picture of Inas Abu Maamar embracing the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza reuters.com/world/reuters-…

Columbia Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young: 'The faculty who are supporting the students do not all agree on the issue of Israel and Palestine...[but] we are astonished and disgusted with the way the university has cracked down on the students.'

probably my favorite part of being an instructor at an elite university is getting to teach Advanced Seminar in Achieving Woke Mind Virus. my least fav is probably Woke Indoctrination 101 (not woke enough)

Kate is incredible and has tirelessly carried Google's child safety work since joining. This is not only a blatantly illegal firing of a worker protesting unjust policies, it's also an enormous loss that makes their products less safe for kids.

Disgusting behaviour from Google.

It's not lost on me that the author of this message, Head of Global Security Chris Rackow, was formerly a Navy SEAL, at the FBI, and a development manager at Raytheon.

Military industrial complex and Big Tech going hand-in-glove quite nicely.

In hot prisons in summer Indiana prisoners would have to work 100 hours to afford a commissary fan, priced 30% higher than on the outside. Just one detail from The Appeal's incredible analysis of prison commissary prices
theappeal.org/locked-in-pric… by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 + Ethan Corey

These Google workers seem to have struck a nerve by.....[checks notes]....rejecting their employer's decision to profit from the killing of children

Google provides direct cloud AI services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and recently signed a new $1 million contract for consulting services to the ministry which seeks to allow 'multiple units' access to automation technologies.

unicornriot.ninja/2024/google-em…

Breaking:

Dozens of Google employees began occupying NYC and Sunnyvale offices today in protest of the company’s $1.2 billion dollar Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government
wired.com/story/google-n…

This is a historic tech action.

A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.

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HAPPENING NOW

I am with my google coworkers to say DROP PROJECT NIMBUS No Tech For Apartheid

t.ly/TechWorkersUni…

Not another nickel, not another dime, not another tech for genocide. We will not stand by as our work aids and abets the apartheid

No Tech For Tyrants Labor for Palestine No Tech For Apartheid WE WONT WORK FOR GENOCIDE
No Tech For Apartheid No Tech For Tyrants Tech Workers Coalition Labor for Palestine

TECH WON’T BUILD IT

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” interc.pt/3UhuSyh by jeremy scahill, Ryan Grim interc.pt/3UhuSyh

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This seems notable