International coalition of students and professionals in tech against colonialism, apartheid, and war!
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I am so excited for this project. Hear from 15 data workers around the world who created amazing outputs like in depth reports, documentaries, zines, comic books and more.
See you on July 8th at 8am PDT/5pm CET. RSVP at tinyurl.com/data-workers
📢Thrilled to announce the launch of the✨Data Workers' Inquiry✨repository and talk series!
Join us on July 8 for an online event where data workers will discuss wage theft, violent content, uncertainty, and their efforts to organize and resist.
RSVP here tinyurl.com/data-workers
ALT A flyer with the event details: Join us for the launch of the Data Workers' Inquiry, a community-based research project where data workers are the researchers! - Monday, July 8, 8 - 10 am PT / 11 am - 1 pm EST / 5-7 pm CET. - Online on Zoom. Registration: tinyurkl.com/data-workers Agenda: - Panel 1: What is the Data Workers' Inquiry? + Q&A Speakers: Milagros Miceli, Laurenz Sachenbacher, Camilla Salim Wagner, Adio Dinika, Krystal Kauffman. Moderator: Timnit Gebru - Introducing the data workers. Moderator: Milagros Miceli - Panel 2: How do data workers organize in the face of exploration? + Q&A Speakers: Mophat Okinyi, Richard Mathenge, Krystal Kauffman. Moderator: Adio Dinika
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Computer vision is used ~primarily~ for surveillance. To deny the field's military origins is ahistorical.
So not only is this tweet deeply offensive to the families of 40,000 dead Palestinians, it's also just flat out ignorant.
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Thank you @marclamonthill for stopping by the Columbia encampment to share your wisdom and teach the students about sumud
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
going to be really interesting when Biden tells all the kids he called antisemitic - and told their administrators call the cops on them - to vote for him to avoid fascism
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Breaking: The students and workers of #MIT establish the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment on MIT’s Kresge Lawn
“MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015…. We will NOT REST until MIT cuts research ties with the Israeli military.”
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Can't help but feel pride in so many students--Columbia, BU, Yale, UNC, and likely many schools that are not going to get any press--putting themselves on the line for Gaza.
Meanwhile, many of my tenured peers haven't said a peep about the genocide in over six months.
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
the security guard yesterday asking why he had to “guard a bunch of nerds” bc so many students were doing homework 😭
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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.
Google just announced internally that 28 employees have been fired in connection with sit-in office protests this week over the company's cloud contract with Israel. Follows 9 employees being arrested yesterday.
Full memo to Google employees warns that "if you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again"
theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133…
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
joined CNBC just now to talk about this
"I think the really shocking thing was seeing 28 employees fired here. I've been covering tech for a long time, you see these selective firings, but you don't see something that's like 28... that was to send a message," says @alexeheath on Google firing employees for protesting.
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
These guys are giving up their big tech 6 figure salary jobs that provide them a free gym, daily free meals, massages and stocks and ya’ll can’t give up an $8 sugar milk drink from Starbucks or an artificial chicken sandwich from McDonald’s bc ya’ll are fat and greedy. Crazy.
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anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are
McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥
Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together
BREAKING -- Google fires 28 workers in indiscriminate act of mass retaliation
medium.com/@notechforaparthe…
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
From the encampment telegram:
We invite our comrades who are not able to access campus (and those who can) to bring blankets, handwarmers, and hot beverages/coffee to distribute to our people who will be holding the space through the night.
NYC PULL THROUGH
Join the encampment telegram to get updates on Columbia!!
t.me/cuadencampment
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This is far worse than whatever people think China may be doing with Tik Tok data. Meta is likely sharing WhatsApp group membership data with the IDF, which their 'Lavender' AI targeting system then uses to assassinate its members (and their families via its "Where's Daddy?" AI).
🚨BREAKING: TIES BETWEEN WHATSAPP AND LAVENDER - META ASSISTING ISRAEL BY LEAKING DATA?
Accusations suggest Meta, via WhatsApp, may share user group metadata, potentially aiding Israeli military targeting in Gaza.
Despite WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption claim, concerns about privacy and complicity in conflict situations persist, heightened by Meta leadership's ties to Israel.
Source: @paulbiggar
Read more: blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and…
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Students are occupying Columbia today in a throwback to the 1968 protests where students occupied 5 campus buildings to protest the university's complicity in the Vietnam War, its racist policies, and repression against organizers.
More on 1968 protests:
youtu.be/zPKDZo6eWtw
BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.
ALT Two images are in a collage together. Top image is of the 1968 Columbia University protests against the Vietnam war and segregation. Student protestors are holding a banner that states “Liberated zone”. Bottom image is of the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment. A tent is pictured on a lawn in front of butler library. A banner on the tent reads “Liberated zone” in red writing.
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Solidarity encampment surrounded by a solidarity picket on the Columbia campus. These students are saying no to genocide and no to the bankrupt institutions that allow it to continue.
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@google has called the cops on their own workers for their @NoTechApartheid protest
Power to tech workers✊
BREAKING— @google also orders for arrest of of its own workers in SUNNYVALE who sat in for 10 hours at @googlecloud CEO @thomasortk’s personal office, demanding google cut Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel.
arrests were caught on our livestream
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
These Google workers seem to have struck a nerve by.....[checks notes]....rejecting their employer's decision to profit from the killing of children
ALT Dave Rubin QT'ing Kate with "Be principled and quit, bitch..."
ALT Chaya Raichik (LibsofTikTok) QT'ing Kate with "All these entitled brats should be fired on the spot"
HAPPENING NOW
I am with my google coworkers to say DROP PROJECT NIMBUS @NoTechApartheid
t.ly/TechWorkersUnite
Not another nickel, not another dime, not another tech for genocide. We will not stand by as our work aids and abets the apartheid
anticolonial tech collective retweeted
Google reportedly urged NYPD to not move in and make arrests of those occupying the NYC office, presumably to avoid against headlines.
Demonstrators are *still* occupying both buildings, 9 hours later.
🚨 @NoTechApartheid activists have taken over Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office at the Google headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA to call on the company to drop Project Nimbus, a cloud computing project of the IDF.
Simultaneously in NYC, Googlers have taken over the lobby:
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BREAKING— ARRESTS OF GOOGLE WORKERS BEGIN IN NYC
WE WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE
@ThomasOrTK YOU ARE A GENOCIDE PROFITEER
DROP PROJECT NIMBUS NOW
NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE
