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by pbiggar 10mo ago
Yes you can donate (why did you add the word "directly"?). It just passes through intermediary organizations, such as the Friends of the IDF. There are even non profits that pay for "lone soldiers" -- international merce
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by pbiggar 10mo ago
Important to remember Oracle is one of the most evil tech companies, and Larry Ellison is your prototypical evil villain. Oracle CEO Catz recently said "We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second
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by pbiggar 10mo ago
In almost no cases has someone supported a terrorist group or advocated for violence. They're literally just taking lists provided by Israeli extremists and deporting them.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I can't tell or not, but are you aware that the US has deported/arrested thousands of people for their social media posts?
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Because there are huge protests in the UK at the moment for Palestine, which led them to "proscribe" the group Palestine Action. Then everyone (correctly) freaked out about civil liberties, and you can now see videos of grannies b
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
If the UK shut down everything that was related to occasional violence, there wouldn't be a pub left in England.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
If you'd like to know more about Microsoft's human rights issues, I had a lead campaigner discuss it with me on my podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95asBbCNZo
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
It's relevant because Microsoft, like all big companies, have Human Rights Pricinples and such that are part of the company. It's basically impossible to get big institutional investment without it. The issue is that they were cau
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Since it doesn't say it in the article, the human rights they're referring to is that Microsoft was caught providing Azure services to the Israeli army's unit 8200, which used them to surveil millions of hours of Palestinian
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
See also Newscord, which does very similar work to analyze bias across news media: - https://newscord.org/latest - https://www.instagram.com/newscord_org
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
The second I saw this I new it was David Sacks.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Fair point so let me qualify that. Among the fairly mainstream US left, who have put significant work into documenting and pushing back against the rise of tech oligarchs, Gil Duran is well respected.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
This is real. Gil Duran is extremely well respected among those of us who are against the fascist takeover of Silicon Valley, which has been well-documented for quite some time.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Another way these app stores enable censorship is by having arcane and inscrutable review processes, where they often ban your app for no reason with no recourse (unless you know a Googler or Apple employee, who can investigate). For exampl
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Simple solution using modulo arithmetic and arrays. Relies on python shorthands that hides implicit branches for the number case though. def main(): fizz_array = ["Fizz", "", ""] buzz_array =
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Comparative Analysis of Media Bias in 8 Western Media Outlets(mediabiasmeter.com)
11 points by pbiggar 11mo ago|2 comments
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
We're not basing on national origin, we're basing on specific participation in occupation, which is being done by the Israeli state and army.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I don't know about whether the feature was disabled, but there the absolute unhinged shit that people say in Hebrew is something that needs to be studied. Absolute cartoon evil shit. 7amleh documented it back in 2023: https:/&#x2
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
In fact Elasticsearch was specifically mentioned as a partner of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation", a fake aid org who caused many Palestinians to be killed under their watch. (Elasticsearch denied involvement when I contacted th
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I added more context above to clarify the point I was making (which I thought would be self-evident, but I guess it was a bit more obscure than I thought)
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Why would that be a hard sell?
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I see. Well, let me explain what this is about. AI models represent society, and society has significant biases against certain groups, which find their way into the AI. One of those groups is Palestinians. In fact, Israel is currently runn
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I assure you it's not a scam. We work with them heavily at Tech for Palestine. Will send over your feedback, thanks! What would be helpful to assuage your fears? Would you like more technical info, or perhaps a description of the &quot
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
I've switched over to https://thaura.ai , which is working on being a more ethical AI. A side effect I hadn't realized is missing the drama over the latest OpenAI changes.
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
There's ethical AI companies which are trying to reduce this, for example https://thaura.ai
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by pbiggar 11mo ago
Non corporate and non-addictive social media doesn't really count. For example, Upscrolled [1] is an ethical social media that's doesn't aim to be addictive (among other ethical aspects). I don't think it's the same
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by pbiggar 1y ago
CircleCI - their version is CodeBuild. Note: edited the comment above to use "copy" instead of "clone" to be more accurate.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I'll add that Amazon execs told us to our face that they use your AWS usage to decide if they were going to copy your services (which they did in our case), so any dev or ops tool on AWS shouldn't be there anyway for competitive r
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by pbiggar 1y ago
The Trump administration is definitively coming after 501c3s. I run a nonprofit and all the movement around us has been preparing for this since these laws were first announced. Ironcically, the laws to investigate nonprofits were first pro
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Oh for sure, I was agreeing with you. The target audience is academics. For non-experts, I love "Engineering a Compiler" by Cooper and Torczon.

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