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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“It’s perfectly consistent to advocate for a policy of ‘No one is allowed to do x,’ but then if that policy fails and everyone else does X, to reluctantly do x ourselves.” 🤔 X=help dictators www.wired.com/story/anthro...

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Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by WIRE...

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/07/2025

thanks a lot to mira for covering our protest!

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Subscribe to support more independent, anarchist journalism like this - few outlets are willing to report on this protest, and even fewer are willing to call out what Israel is doing to Gaza as a blatant genocide. Liberation for all, or liberation for none.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Readers are advised to support Gazans directly as they go through relentless struggles. Information on how to support individual Gazans are in the following threads: bsky.app/profile/momm... bsky.app/profile/momm... Also see Vegans for Gaza: 4fund.com/xdh9gr

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Fundraiser: Vegan For Gaza | Konrad Suder | 4fund.com

Almost 2 million people in Gaza are facing severe hunger and famine, displaced Palestinians seeking refuge in UN schools or tents.The intensifying Israeli aggression brings heightened brutality with a...

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Vikram Subramanian, No Tech for Apartheid organizer and former Google employee, was another speaker who spoke out against these companies. His speech was reported on by Free Radical yesterday here: bsky.app/profile/thef...

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Others were part of a broad, BDS-led protest at the summit. AI researcher Adeba Birhane was a speaker at the event, and directly called out Israel's genocide. She was, however, censored for this, as discussed in her thread here - bsky.app/profile/abeb...

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Fortunately crimew and Freya were both released within hours. “We are out, safe and alive,” crimew wrote on BlueSky hours later. Both activists were also promoting a larger protest outside the summit led by pro-Palestinian action group BDS, at which they also spoke, as revealed in Fae’s thread.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

A recording of this protest can be seen posted by independent journalist Ryan Fae here - bsky.app/profile/ryan...

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

An independent survey found that at least over 80,000 Gazans have been murdered, with many more injured. These estimates do not account for the hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees, deaths this year and Gazans subject to starvation and disease owing to Israel’s blockade on aid.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

Companies named as complicit include Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir, and Google. These companies have been called out repeatedly for helping the IDF develop technologies used to directly assault Palestinians. “We will not be silent in a genocide. You cannot be neutral in a genocide.”

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

“While the US and Europe provide the financial backing, Big Tech infrastructure actively enables the surveillance, the targeting and strategic erasure of the Palestinian people. This would not be possible without their assistance,” Freya says in the video.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2025

BREAKING - Queer Swiss activists maia arson crimew @crimew.gay and No Tech for Apartheid organizer Freya were arrested at the United Nations' AI for Good conference, which praised companies that aided the Gazan genocide. Ty @davidforbes.bsky.social for editing thefreeradical.org/no-ai-for-ge...

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No AI for genocide: Queer Swiss activists for Palestine arrested at UN conference

The two were part of a series of protests against the UN for platforming enablers of genocide that it once condemned

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 15/07/2025

"These companies sold these technologies to the most abhorrent military in the world without our consent" - Subramanian flew out from the United Kingdom to attend this event, opposing the blatant genocide enabled by his former employer.

Subramanian depicted speaking behind a banner from BDS that says "No Tech for Apartheid, No Tech for Genocide, No AI for War Crimes"

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 15/07/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Former Google employee and current organizer with No Tech for Apartheid Vikram Subramanian delivers a powerful speech at a protest of the United Nations' AI for Good conference -- the very same @crimew.gay was arrested at last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLG...

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Vikram Subramanian Speech @ BDS Geneva Protest of UN's AI for Good Conference

YouTube video by Mira Lazine

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

big fan of this photo of UN ITU secretary Doreen Bogdan-Martin looking at our protest like it's a car crash she has to watch in slo-mo with no way to stop it

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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 08/07/2025

The doublespeak in calling a conference #AiForGood and then censoring invited speakers for talking about ... *doing good* is kind of breathtaking.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

surreal day, very happy with the impact we managed to have

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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This is unacceptable behaviour by ITU and the "AI for Good" organisers, not only as an aggressive action to inhibit academic freedom against Abeba, but specifically in service of an ongoing genocide where 'AI' is very much not being used 'for Good' by many of the summit funders and participants.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

free palestine

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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 08/07/2025

No tech for genocide protestors took the stage at the #AIForGood conference. “No Tech For Genocide: you are all complicit. Free, free, Palestine.” “The first AI powered genocide.” I don’t really think that the hosts of the event were prepared for this, (which does surprise me).

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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 08/07/2025

(I think both the protest and the platform were appropriate. There is no argument that AI isn’t playing a part in the current genocidal conflict being enacted by the nation of Israel in the Gaza war. Hopefully some people who have not thought about their role in enabling this will do so.)

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

photo via blick

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Human rights activists storm the stage and disrupt the UN’s “AI for Good” summit to call out big tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. #NoTechForGenocide #NoAIForGenocide

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

great vibe right outside the ITU HQ

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 08/07/2025

we are out, safe and alive

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