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#dehumanisation

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DrALJONES

Analysis: US policymakers won't accept that Palestinians are rooted in their land.

It "is a complete dehumanisation of what Palestinians represent & an acceptance of that dehumanisation across the board.

"It’s very similar to the language you would have seen about Native Americans in the US 100 years ago.”

~HA Hellyer, Royal United Services Institute

aljazeera.com/program/upfront/

aje.io/z0dtpf?update=3632070

#uspol #dehumanisation #ushistory #genocide #freepalestine #racism .

Al JazeeraRashid Khalidi: This genocide ‘worse than any phase of Palestinian history’‘This is a systematic attempt to make Gaza unlivable, to immiserate that population,’ historian says.
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DrALJONES

Analysis: US policymakers won't accept that Palestinians are rooted in their land.

It "is a complete dehumanisation of what Palestinians represent & an acceptance of that dehumanisation across the board.

"It’s very similar to the language you would have seen about Native Americans in the US 100 years ago.”

~HA Hellyer, Royal United Services Institute

aljazeera.com/program/upfront/

aje.io/z0dtpf?update=3632070

#uspol #dehumanisation #ushistory #genocide #freepalestine #racism .

Al JazeeraRashid Khalidi: This genocide ‘worse than any phase of Palestinian history’‘This is a systematic attempt to make Gaza unlivable, to immiserate that population,’ historian says.
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Geriatric Gardener

“Surveilling Europe’s edges: when digitalisation means dehumanisation”

by Catarina Rodelli in AccessNow

“As the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice has pointed out, the EU’s ‘Fortress Europe’ approach treats every migrant as a security threat by default, implying that they are ‘racially different, inferior, and a threat to the European project’”

accessnow.org/digital-surveill

Access Now · Digital surveillance at Europe’s bordersIn the first of a three-part blog series, Caterina Rodelli explains how digital surveillance is dehumanising people at Europe's borders.
#Surveillance#EU#FortressEurope
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Eric Maugendre

#AI performs

By design #generativeAI is extremely hungry in resources: mas.to/@maugendre/111841507744

#AI already serves to transform ways of working. You can even industrialize killing: techhub.social/@estelle/111505

mas.toEric Maugendre (@maugendre@mas.to)Attached: 1 image "Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions." Technology is not growing fast enough to decarbonize steel and cement industries by 2050, says a study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43684-3 @climate@slrpnk.net #carbon #carbonFootprint #CO2 #steel #cement #degrowth #housing #housingCrisis #planning #forecast #demand #politics #pollution #economy #cartoon #research
#productivity#brutalization#duty
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Estelle Platini

B., the senior officer, claimed that in the current war, “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”

According to B., a common error occurred “if the [Hamas] target gave [his phone] to his son, his older brother, or just a random man. That person will be bombed in his house with his family. This happened often. These were most of the mistakes caused by Lavender,” B. said.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli @israel @data 🧶

Reuters, 2023 - Technologists with the Israeli army's Matzpen application and data operations unit work at their station, at an IDF base in Ramat Gan, Israel Palestine
#duty#protocol#conformance
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Touaregtweet

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2 november 2023:

Professor Avi Shlaim, an Israeli-British historian, says that the Israeli dehumanisation of Palestinians "can lead to genocide".

Speaking at an event organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians about the war on Gaza, he also says that western double standards have been "taken to a new level".

youtube.com/watch?v=MdGuuzGJjZ

YouTube'Dehumanisation of Palestinians can lead to genocide'By Middle East Eye
#Israel#Gaza#Dehumanisation
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Estelle Platini

It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.

“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

Yuval Abraham reports: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli

(to follow) 🧶#longThread @palestine @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

+972 Magazine · ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in GazaThe Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
#AIWar#technoCriticism#ethics
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sheislaurence

🧵 3/3: The #US had an NCV of 30 on Bin Laden himself. With Lavender, NVC is 100 on all high-ranking #Hamas operatives and the policy is to target ‘suspects’ in their family home with “dumb bombs” to ‘maximise lethality”, typically an NVC of 15 to 20. Entirely automated, unchecked. Up to 37,000 #Palestinians are listed in #Lavender: the maths of #NVC #dehumanisation via #AI is dizzying. #IDF soldiers understood this was the most horrifying #genocide & leaked the info. It's our duty to share.

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RustyBertrand

@TheDailyBurble Aliens is easy, it's just a word for a gap in our knowledge. Second man syndrome can be replicated in a lab.

Sociopathy is just the reptile brain run amock. Maybe some connections missing. Like that chicken with its head cut off. It lived because the brainstem is enough for life.

The rest is brainwashing. Watch the Louis Theroux WBC documentary. Or The Ultra Zionists #cult #propaganda #dehumanisation

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Estelle Platini

“Levy describes a system that has almost reached perfection. The political echelon wants to maintain the status quo, and the military provides it with legitimacy in exchange for funds and status.”

“Levy points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces[…]:
• the military’s complete reliance on technology as a decisive factor in warfare;
• the adoption of the concept […] of an army that is “small and lethal”;
• the obsession with the idea of #deterrence, which is supposed to negate the other side’s will to fight; and
• the complete addiction to the status quo as the only possible and desirable state of affairs.”

972mag.com/yagil-levy-army-mid @israel @ethics @military @idf

+972 Magazine · ‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’Oct. 7 has ‘broken a contract’ between the army and gov’t, but has yet to shake Israeli society into a different paradigm, says Yagil Levy.
#reputation#technoCriticism#tech
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Cristina Del Biaggio

"We are now desperately in need of re-orienting the world’s moral compass by exposing the intertwined processes of #humanisation and #dehumanisation of #JewishIsraelis and #Palestinians. There is no other way to begin exiting not only the very conditions that usher #violence, mass killings, and #genocide, but also towards effecting the as yet entirely fictional principle that human lives have equal value."

#RubaSalih via Allegra Lab:
allegralaboratory.net/can-the-

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