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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That film left me more motivated than ever. I cannot accept children being killed with technology built by people who get to go home to their own. We have to change the course of history. We have to fight harder, and I’m willing to dedicate my life to this.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I need software engineers, privacy attorneys and ethical hackers to help us go after the surveillance infrastructure itself. Expose who supplies it, challenge its use in court and fight to get the contracts cancelled. We have to make it harder for them to keep doing this.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Sometimes it feels like we’re building band-aid solutions around something that needs to be ripped out at the root. People need protection now, but I don’t want to spend my life helping them hide while leaving the people responsible untouched.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m tired of how much of this fight asks the person being watched to change their behaviour. Use a different app. Give up another convenience. Find another way to hide. Meanwhile, the people building and selling the surveillance are making it easier to kill entire families in their own homes.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We’ve been helping people exercise their privacy rights and switch to ethical alternatives. We’ve joined protests and signed letters to governments. I believe in that work, but I’d be lying to myself if I said it was anywhere near enough to stop what I watched.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I’m building a nonprofit to stop mass surveillance. This film left volunteers on our team feeling helpless, and I understand why. The resources we have to protect people are nothing compared to what these militaries have to track them down and kill them.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I watched NAZA, a documentary where Israeli military insiders admit to using surveillance and AI to target Palestinians, knowing entire families would be killed. I want the people behind these systems to answer for every family they helped destroy. #NAZA

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Opt Out Rights @optoutrights.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Opt Out Rights is a finalist for The Anthem Awards, chosen from 2,500+ entries! We build free, open-source tools to fight mass surveillance. Community Voice voting ends Oct 29. Vote for us 👇 celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting...

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So much respect for these women for showing up and refusing to let this become normal. Shout out to @justingee69.bsky.social for pulling out the Donald Trump puffy suit 😂

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was walking through Stanford Shopping Center when I spotted them protesting outside Tesla. Had to join them. Billionaires shouldn’t get to buy political power and decide whose rights matter. And tech companies shouldn’t get a pass for helping ICE target people.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I joined @raginggrannies.bsky.social to protest billionaires buying their way into power. One last protest before leaving San Francisco. Completely unplanned.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that somebody else might build irresponsibly is not an argument for doing it yourself.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Publish peak water demand, emissions and military contracts. Ban mass surveillance and military targeting. Require independent oversight and revoke access when those rules are broken.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A civilian data center should never become a military surveillance outpost. No new data centers without independent environmental and human-rights reviews. Communities need the power to reject projects.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In September 2025, Microsoft disabled specific cloud storage and AI services used by Unit 8200 after its review backed up findings from The Guardian’s investigation into mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. @microsoft.com @theguardian.com

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Companies should pay the full cost of the power and water infrastructure they require. No public subsidies. No passing the bill to households. But how these data centers are used matters just as much as how they’re powered.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IEA projects global data center electricity use will nearly double to 950 terawatt-hours by 2030. This expansion still depends on gas and coal. @iea.org

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Skye Zhou told me about crypto mining sites being converted into AI data centers. The crypto bros are following the money into AI. Existing permits should not let them avoid fresh environmental reviews and community approval.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DPR Construction’s Kevin Chen discussed how the scale of these new projects is straining local communities and resources. That’s why I’m calling for more scrutiny before these projects get approved.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Neuron Factory’s Zaid Kahn described pressure to deliver data centers in roughly a year, with every day of delay driving costs higher. Builders are turning to AI to speed up construction and meet increasingly strict deadlines.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TensorWave’s Ilya Tabakh described how 30-megawatt facilities were considered enormous a decade ago. Now the discussion is about hundreds of megawatts, scaling in years rather than decades.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Communities defending their water supply, affordable electricity and basic rights should never be treated as obstacles to somebody else’s construction deadline.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When we spoke after the panel, Kushal told me there was a national push to stay at the forefront of AI. As he put it, “it’s pretty much go go go.”

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the panel, Microsoft’s Kushal Dagli discussed the obstacles to deploying a 100-megawatt data center. Power. Supply chains. Community pushback. @microsoft.com

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In my conversations, people brushed aside environmental damage, political opposition, surveillance and military risks. Whatever it takes. If they don’t, someone else will.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I met contractors building the facilities. Energy providers supplying their electricity. Engineers building robots to automate the work. The dominant message was to build faster and win a share of the billions pouring into AI.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I met the people building AI data centers. Too many dismissed pollution and surveillance as somebody else’s problem. I attended the Data Center Summit during San Francisco Tech Week.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For anyone looking to get involved, here’s the People vs. Palantir action toolkit and sign-up: bdsmovement.net/news/people-...

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People vs. Palantir: Global Week of Action

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The global campaign is calling on hospitals, universities, public institutions and pension funds to cancel their Palantir contracts, end their partnerships and divest from the company. Thank you to @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @calnurses.bsky.social for organizing the San Francisco march.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Combined cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Affordable Care Act support could deepen financial losses at more than 600 already-vulnerable hospitals, including 131 critical access hospitals serving rural communities. Emergency care, surgeries and entire facilities are at risk.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile, Palantir is securing billions in contracts while the 2025 budget law cuts more than $1 trillion from federal healthcare spending over ten years.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Palantir’s ELITE tool helps ICE build arrest lists and plan raids using personal information that includes Medicaid data. Information people gave to access healthcare is being used to locate them for detention and deportation.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I joined a thousand nurses in San Francisco yesterday for the March Against AI Tech Fascism & ICE Violence. We marched to the ICE detention center as part of the People vs. Palantir Global Week of Action.

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Opt Out Rights @optoutrights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We joined Canadian and European tech innovators in signing an open letter on Bill C-22. We’re urging the government to amend the bill to protect privacy, encryption, and cybersecurity before it becomes law. Read the letter fixc22.ca

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Tech industry to Canada: amend Bill C-22

23 tech companies and organizations tell Canada's ministers that a backdoor for law enforcement is a backdoor for everyone. Amend Bill C-22 before it becomes law.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Because I’m not interested in being scared into a future where a handful of companies own the technology and the rest of us need a subscription to participate.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That’s the outcome I’m worried about. And calling it “safety” shouldn’t put it beyond scrutiny. Make the rules proportionate to the risks. Make sure independent developers can actually meet them.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You don’t have to ban open source to kill it. Just make compliance so expensive, liability so broad, and approval so complicated that only the biggest companies can afford to participate. They get a legal department. Everyone else gets a barrier to entry.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And a researcher coming out with a dramatic warning doesn’t settle that argument for me. He could believe every word. The fear can still serve the business.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Open source threatens that. You can run it yourself. Modify it. Build on it. Stop paying someone else for access. So yes, I’m suspicious when the conversation shifts from how powerful AI is to how dangerous it would be for everyone to have it.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing sells a monopoly like an apocalypse. I call bullshit on OpenAI and Anthropic using the threat of extinction to sell us rules that could price their competition out. Big Tech has a huge financial interest in a world where we all rent intelligence from them forever.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely. That sense of community and looking out for each other is a huge part of what makes Canada what it is.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But technology is only one piece of this. It’s about fair pay. Decent housing. Access to basic services. Keeping families together. And treating the people doing some of the hardest and most necessary work in this country with dignity.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Surveillance isn’t just someone watching you. It’s governments collecting huge amounts of information about people, profiling them at scale and using increasingly powerful technology in systems where the consequences can be life-changing.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The government is using AI, advanced analytics and enormous amounts of data to assess people at scale and shape decisions about their immigration status. When your status can determine whether you get to work, stay with your family or remain in Canada, the way that data is used matters.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canada was built by immigrants. Immigration makes us stronger. But we also have to be honest about how some people are treated once they get here. What especially concerns me is how surveillance is being built into the immigration system itself.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People being paid below minimum wage. Living in awful conditions. Working jobs Canadians depend on while struggling to access basic public services. People whose ability to stay in the country can depend on an employer or a permit expiring.

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Mustafa Saeed @mustafagsaeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I joined a migrant rights protest in Toronto this weekend. I spoke to farm workers, healthcare workers and construction workers. People who made enormous sacrifices to come to Canada hoping to build a safer life. Some of what they told me was hard to hear.

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Tech for Palestine @techforpalestine.org · 10/09/2026

Join researchers, and technologists from Purge Palantir, the Pegasus Project, and T4P’s Opt Out Rights as we examine the surveillance industry and how we can resist it. Registration link: streamyard.com/watch/5hvArF...

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