Meredith Whittaker: There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza. time.com/6966102/goog...

There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza. time.com/6966102/goog...

Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministrytime.com Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.

This is a nightmare. And it's going to take significant pressure to prevent this from becoming business as usual--a selling point for oppressive regimes, as opposed to a cautionary tale.

I also recommend this fortifying history, documenting the 1969 research strike that began at MIT and spread across universities as scientists rejected the use of their work for murder and pain-bringing. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253665...

March 4mitpress.mit.edu Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.On Marc...

Pairs well with Kelly Moore's Disrupting Science book.

Tech companies very much chose a side in this conflict.

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