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tech and political economy researcher. lawyer. tired.

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zarahsultana.bsky.social
Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time.

Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike.

Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza
Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="430946" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Since the Gaza ceasefire was signed last month,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;has continued to violate the agreement.</p> <p>From air strikes and shootings to arrests and incursions beyond the deployment lines, most of the violations appear unprovoked.</p> <p>Israel has cited alleged breaches by Hamas and other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;groups to justify its actions.</p> <p>Hamas, however, has denied the accusations, insisting it has fully complied with the terms of the ceasefire.</p> <p>Many of the violations targeting civilians, meanwhile, have occurred without justification.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-list-israels-ceasefire-violations-gaza">Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza</a></h3> <p><img alt="A woman reacts after an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 29 October 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/000_82CE7HT%20%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=st5prIg4"></p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.
Israeli attacks on olive harvest ‘threaten Palestinian way of life’: UN
UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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'Almost wiped out': Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza's farmlands - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/almost-wiped-out-israeli-restrictions-stifle-recovery-gazas-farmlands
'Almost wiped out': Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza's farmlands
Almost no agricultural equipment or even seeds have entered Gaza since October 2023 as farmlands lie in ruin
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November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
"The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products…. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms…."

www.972mag.com/project-nimb...
Inside Israel’s deal with Google and Amazon
To secure Project Nimbus, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and tip Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”. The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities. Continue reading...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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aljazeera.com
Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rises to 63, testing fragile truce
Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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‘Nothing has changed’: Gaza health workers report almost no medical aid entering the strip - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nothing-has-changed-gaza-health-workers-report-almost-no-medical-aid-entering-strip
‘Nothing has changed’: Gaza health workers report almost no medical aid entering the strip
Israel continues to block medical supplies, equipment and assistive devices classified as 'dual-use' items
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October 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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aljazeera.com
Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.
Unexploded bombs threaten lives in Gaza; search for dead captives continue
Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Israel strikes multiple targets in Gaza as returning Palestinians face another danger: buildings at risk of collapse.
One Palestinian killed as Israeli attacks across Gaza threaten ceasefire
Israel strikes multiple targets in Gaza as returning Palestinians face another danger: buildings at risk of collapse.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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theguardian.com
ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says blockade had been a breach
ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says blockade had been a breach
Court also found that Israel had a duty not to impede supply of aid by UN organisations including Unrwa Israel must allow aid into Gaza, and its restrictions on doing so over the past two years have put it in breach of its obligations, the UN’s top court has found. The stinging advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague also found that Israel had a duty not to impede the supply of aid by UN organisations including the beleaguered UN Palestinian relief agency Unrwa, which has been in effect banned from the territory since January. Continue reading...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
Idi Amin deported 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972. So although the Conservatives want to propose the first mass deportation of legal migrants since Idi Amin - especially with the retrospective changes in ILR - Lam is proposing to deport 20 times as many people as Idi Amin.
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP

🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment:

🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...
🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and Rafah remains completely closed. 📊 Aid delivery: Since the ceasefire began on October 10, the UN said overall it has collected 10,638 metric tonnes of essential supplies through the UN mechanism. ▪️ WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa said at a separate Geneva briefing that the deliveries remain far below target: Since the ceasefire on October 10, just 520 trucks have entered Gaza carrying 6,700 tonnes of food—enough for about 500,000 people for two weeks. ▪️Daily deliveries average 750 tonnes of food aid, well short of the 2,000-tonne target needed to meet basic demand. ▪️ Limited reach and urgent needs: WFP has 26 active food-distribution points—it used to have 400 and is rapidly aiming for 145—for now, mostly in central and southern Gaza. It also supports nine bakeries serving bread to half a million people. The agency says up to 30 bakeries and wider wheat-flour access are needed, while digital vouchers are being issued to help the most vulnerable, including women-headed households and the elderly. ▪️From October 17-19, only 303 trucks carrying 6,455 pallets were offloaded—two-thirds food, one-fifth water and hygiene items. ▪️🇵🇸 Gaza authorities earlier said on average 89 trucks had entered Gaza daily over 11 days since October 10, as opposed to the 600 mandated under the ceasefire deal. ▪️”To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” WFP’s Etefa said, noting that only Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) and Kissufim are operating. ▪️UN on the ground: More than 15,000 households in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis received parcels with rice, lentils, chickpeas, tomato paste, and sunflower oil. 21 partner groups provided nearly 944,000 cooked meals through 178 community kitchens, a 40% increase in three weeks. Video: UN Briefing. October 21, 2025. Geneva.
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
divijualsuspect.bsky.social
never a bad time for this classic

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Dependency
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October 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
divijualsuspect.bsky.social
Making discrimination and exclusion the explicit goal of a society-wide digital ID infrastructure is a really bad way to go about both technical design but also the social/cultural shifts you need for it to work in practice.
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
I have a whole range of observations about digital ID, but the main one is it's a mistake to launch a complex, measurable, highly scrutinisable infrastructure project to achieve a specific measurable target when there is no evidence that the complex project will result in the measurable outcome
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster
At the conference in Dubai, Ellison began with a joke about Musk before warning the audience that artificial super-intelligence was coming sooner than expected. What, Blair asked him, should governments be doing about it? "The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the Al model, Ellison responded. Ellison was also specific about which data needed unifying - and he had an example in mind: "The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data," he declared, but it was too "fragmented" at present. Below him, the former prime minister nodded, clutching his Tony Blair Institute (TBI) notebook.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison

We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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zarahsultana.bsky.social
We must make this work — there is no other choice.
Over the past few days, I have spoken with comrades across our movement. For the sake of the party, and as an act of good faith, I will not be pursuing legal proceedings despite the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations against me. The directors of MOU Operations Ltd have issued a welcome statement clarifying the legal and financial situation. I know many people are feeling demoralised - I share that feeling. We find ourselves in a regrettable situation, but my motivation has always been to ensure the collective strength of our movement, put members first and build the genuinely democratic conference and socialist party we so urgently need. I am determined to reconcile and move forward. I am engaged in ongoing discussions with Jeremy, for whom, like all socialists of my generation, I have nothing but respect. We will find a way to continue in a unified way centring the grassroots of our movement. I am certain this is possible - indeed, it must be. Fascism is growling at the door. The stakes are too high for failure to be an option. Both Jeremy and I remain committed to making this project a success - and we can all confirm that the conference will go ahead as planned in November. This party does not belong to any one of us - it belongs to you. ZARAH SULTANA MP MP for Coventry South
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Lobbying efforts by technology companies diluted Indonesia's tech regulations by reducing burdens for algorithmic transparency, revenue sharing with publishers, and obligations to cooperate with media companies, Krisna Adhi Pradipta and Raymundus Rikang report.
How Big Tech Lobbying Changed Indonesia’s Tech Regulations | TechPolicy.Press
Krisna Pradipta and Raymundus Rikang report on how technology companies have intervened in the making of regulations in Indonesia.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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theguardian.com
What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is | Diane Abbott
What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is | Diane Abbott
Silence about the bigotry inherent in events like Tommy Robinson’s march will be seen by the thugs as tacit approval of their message, says Labour MP Diane Abbott
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September 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march

It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear

The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
September 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM