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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 20:28:42 JST Aral Balkan

   “I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

   https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

   Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

   Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

   #tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 21:42:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • romikk

     @romikk Yeah, genius, everyone’s Hamas. Everyone but you is right. Good one, Einstein.

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     romikk (romikk@zhub.link)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 21:42:51 JST romikk

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     @aral
     ... and now Google

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 04:18:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Greengordon

     @Greengordon Yep.

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     Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 04:18:24 JST Greengordon

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     @aral

     This is a common trope among executives and it is a lie. Corporations are autocracies, as these actions show: speak against the corporation or its leaders and you’re out. Corporations are fundamentally anti-democratic inside and out.

     “One of the privileges of working in a company which represents democratic values”

     #google

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     impossibleibex 🇺🇦 (impossibleibex@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:08:20 JST impossibleibex 🇺🇦

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     @aral https://www.wired.com/story/iran-says-face-recognition-will-id-women-breaking-hijab-laws/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:08:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • impossibleibex 🇺🇦

     @impossibleibex Yeah, Iran’s government are shit too and their mullahs can eat dirt as far as I’m concerned. Nice whataboutism. Now go away.

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     Warlock Of Wires (warlockofwires@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 07:09:57 JST Warlock Of Wires

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     @aral unfortunately this is not the status quo for software engineers I wish far more of them would take their jobs as serious as these two do about the responsibilities they have when it comes to that title..

     As a electrical engineer I refuse to make weapons that harm people I didn't spend eight years in college to kill someone. I'd rather save lives and preserve people's rights...

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 18:26:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:

     @hyde Yeah. Not even the worst that’s out there.

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     Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: (hyde@lazybear.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 18:26:27 JST Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:

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     @aral 793 fucking partners...

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     Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: (hyde@lazybear.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 18:26:29 JST Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:

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     @aral I wanted to check that link and then ..

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 18:30:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ooze 𓁟

     @Ooze Bookmarked to watch, thank you :)

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     Ooze 𓁟 (ooze@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 18:30:29 JST Ooze 𓁟

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     @aral because only money matters.

     Here's a conference talk I did about this https://archive.org/details/lca2019-Im_sorry_Dave_I_cant_do_that_Ethics_in_Software_Development

     Though I am encouraged that more people are speaking up than before.

     This is the result of spruiking how only STEM matters.