What happens when the tools we use to navigate the world are weaponized for the service of genocide? Read the full investigation on @untoldmag.org
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As physical erasure takes place on the ground, a parallel erasure and distortion unfolds online.
This is the cartographic war—one fought not only with bombs, but with pixels, platforms, and psychological tactics.

This investigation dives deep into how maps, satellites, and crowd-sourced tags are being used to manipulate memory, obscure accountability, and reshape public perception—turning Gaza’s ruins into a genocidal playground.

These pins appear over residential buildings Israel has obliterated, transforming sites of trauma to digital mockeries.This is more than just bad taste or online trolling. It’s a disturbing example of how digital platforms can become complicit in psychological warfare & settler-colonial narratives

Among the ruins of bombed homes and flattened neighborhoods, users have begun tagging locations with chilling labels like “Haunted house.”
Satellite imagery doesn’t just show destruction—it reflects a new front in Israel's genocidal war.

It is part of a broader strategy of cultural genocide, ecocide, and epistemicide — erasing not just people but modes of knowing, growing, and being.

The latest attack on the Hebron seed facility and before it the Al Qarara seed bank in Gaza, reinforces that pattern: eradicating the ecological and generational links between Palestinians and their land.

From the buffalo slaughter by US colonizers to force dependence and starvation upon the native populations, to the destruction of Iraq’s seed bank by the US invasion and later the post-invasion seed laws, agriculture has long been weaponized to dominate.

On 31Jul ISR forces bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC's) seed bank
This is a crime in a lineage of centuries of settler-colonial strategies of destroying Indigenous food systems in order to control the land, erase memory, and break resistance

This interview, part of the Investigating the Kill Cloud research programme by @disruptionlab.bsky.social, examines how these systems erode international law, obscure responsibility, and normalize perpetual war.
Read it on @untoldmag.org
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Once confined to battlefields, warfare is now embedded in the everyday technologies we use, powered by corporate infrastructure and shielded by layers of secrecy.

Known as the Kill Cloud, this paradigm marks a radical shift in how wars are fought: from boots on the ground to data in the cloud, from soldiers to sensors, from borders to boundless networks.

Lisa Ling explores the hidden architecture of modern warfare: a global, networked system of cloud infrastructure, AI, surveillance, and autonomous weapons that enables killing at a distance, with minimal human involvement and even less accountability.

These questions aren't theoretical. The future of warfare is already here, and it’s wired into the world we live in.

Until the siege is lifted and the bombs stop falling,
Gaza will remain a place where people grieve without bodies,
bury without names,
because even sorrow is under occupation.

📎 Read Husam Maarouf’s report on @untoldmag.org
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By May 2, the Israeli blockade had led to the deaths of at least 57 Palestinians due to starvation, as thousands of trucks carrying vital supplies piled up at the border with #Egypt