2025-10-29

'Code Into Carnage'

Or Software Developers for Genocide!

https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/ 

Pretty fucked up

In the months following October 7, the IDF’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service surged more than 200-fold. The amount of data from surveillance cameras, drones, checkpoints, biometric scanners, phone calls, and intercepted Palestinian personal data stored by the IDF on Microsoft servers doubled in the next nine months, reaching 13.6 petabytes by July 2024 – equivalent to 23,000 years of audio, or seven trillion pages of text.

The point of all this was to create an enormous digital dragnet, where Palestinians’ every move, word, and keystroke was recorded in monitored in the greatest and most dystopian digital dragnet ever created. In the words of Yossi Sariel, the head of Unit 8200, the IDF’s surveillance division, the plan was to “track everyone, all of the time.”

Sariel argued that big data was the solution to Israel’s problems, envisaging a future where Israel intercepted and stored “a million calls an hour” from Palestine, and used A.I. to search for keywords and identify threats.

There was no way, however, that Israel could do this alone, as it did not possess the expertise or anything like the storage capacity needed for such a project. To this end, Sariel travelled to Seattle in 2021 to meet with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, to pitch him on the surveillance partnership whereby Microsoft would build Unit 8200 a customized and segregated area within its Azure platform.

The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to transcribe, translate, and otherwise process intelligence garnered via mass surveillance, which is then linked to Israel’s A.I.-based weapons systems.

 

And speaking of supremacist bullies - there's Modi in India.

Yes, he's a thug - but he's just the face of the broader, larger, uglier movement.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/29/unrest-in-the-himalayas/ 

The barbarism that is Western liberal 'enlightenment'.

https://blackagendareport.com/united-states-and-israel-tale-two-rogue-settler-colonial-states-united-commitment-white-supremacy

""History revealed that human rights, the consent of the governed, rule of law, and rationalism were all ideological mystifications meant to disguise and obscure the class project of the bourgeoisie of Europe that had been erected on the pedestal of slavery and colonial accumulation on a global scale. Nowhere was that lurid mendacity more apparent than in the territories named the United States of America where a vicious, white supremacist ruling class murdered, raped, burnt, and mutilated in wars of annihilation protected by their white supremacist God who blessed them through “manifest destiny” with the right to murder and conquer from sea to shining sea, from the East coast of indigenous lands to the West coast and beyond. 

2025-10-28

Oh what a great start to the day.

I get up at 4 AM.

I leave the house and arrive at the bus stop. The bus for 5:14 doesn't arrive. Instead, a bus arrives a minute later, except it's the next one (only I don't know this) and the surly driver just tells me to get in and 'enjoy the free ride'. He wouldn't answer if his bus was the 5:14 one

No longer than one minute later, the bus that was supposed to be there at 5:14, drives right on by. I try to run out of the bus I'm in, but it's too late. That bus already turned the corner of the intersection, and left.

Only then does this driver tell me his is the next one.

And of course, everyone else who's waiting for that 5:14 bus at other stops - they'll get to the train station on time and catch their train. Only I will miss it.

And the best parts of this story -

1. I am still sitting on this next bus, and it hasn't even left yet.
2. The day of flubbing things up at work, hasn't started yet.

Why am I capturing all of this - is it to whine or complain or be a martyr or gain sympathy?

No. It's none of those things.

It's a reminder that my life is a set of choices, and ultimately it's me that's responsible and accountable for both that, and the consequences.  The best one can do is understand, learn from it, hope one survives, and get on with the day at hand.

Another reality that runs counter to the propaganda narratives spread by the US Empire and its media?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/iran-eliminates-us-strategic-targets-as-yemens-shock-offensive-dismantles-israeli-scheme/291085/ Iran Eliminat...