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1. Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 06:37:47 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

   These are the readings we shared on our DAIR statement: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/palestine-10-25-23/

   On Israeli Apartheid: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

   On Gaza under siege: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/israel-opt-israel-must-lift-illegal-and-inhumane-blockade-on-gaza-as-power-plant-runs-out-of-fuel/

   On getting bombed, well just the official Israeli account boasting about dropping 6k bombs: https://twitter.com/IAFsite/status/1712484101763342772

   On white phosphorus: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon

   On quarter nuclear bomb (its now a full one though in the biggest bombardment of the century so this info. is obsolete): https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-kills-14-palestinians-every-hour-its-brutal-attack-gaza-israel-dropped-equivalent-quarter-nuclear-bomb-enar

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   • Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 06:38:33 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

     in reply to

     On 14 Palestinians per hour killed (also obsolete since its more than 700/day now): https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-kills-14-palestinians-every-hour-its-brutal-attack-gaza-israel-dropped-equivalent-quarter-nuclear-bomb-enar

     The book the Palestine Laboratory discussing surveillance and autonomous warfare tools experimented on Palestinians and exported to the rest of the world: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory

     Pegasus spyware on human rights activists' phones: https://digitalviolence.org/#/

     Facial recognition used on Palestinians at checkpoints: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 06:39:11 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

     in reply to

     Black workers at IBM and their organizing against its abetting of apartheid South Africa (hint hint, everyone else was PRO just like now): https://www.wired.com/story/tech-organizing-labor-ibm-history/

     Amazon, Google, Oracle, Microsoft military partnerships: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/business/pentagon-cloud-contracts-jwcc.html

     #NoTechForApartheid website: https://www.notechforapartheid.com/

     Tell congress #CeasefireNow here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ceasefire-now

   • Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 06:39:12 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

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     Smart Shooter pointed at Palestinians, the most dystopian weapon I've ever seen (with the motto one shot, one hit): https://twitter.com/marwasf/status/1573574943106908162

     Number of casualties in the Tigray war and genocide: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63291747

     The late Desmond Tutu on Israeli Apartheid: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/presbyterian-general-assembly_b_5499395

     The book IBM and the Holocaust detailing IBM's alliance with Nazi Germany: https://ibmandtheholocaust.com/

     Aral Balkan repeated this.