I dedicate this post to the magical city of Austin TX, and all the wonderful people I was so fortunate to meet, on one rainy Saturday afternoon โฅ๏ธโฆ
Foreword
Tick tock, the cognitive clock โฐ โฆ Money and power can only yield you so much cover โ๏ธ โฆ
In the accelerated pursuit of technological advancement and excellence, precedents have been set in this world that forever distort our human paradigm and biological relevance. Interrupting the musicality of human harmony and eclipsing humanity's intelligence and abilityโฆ
Precedents that promote the iron fist of โdemocraticโ rule & reign of a few key states (๐บ๐ธ, ๐ฎ๐ฑ, ๐ฌ๐ง) above all othersโฆ A real life oxymoron... Their perched positions of power smothering the globeโs independent countries, and the universally acclaimed international institutes, like the United Nations and all its glorified organsโฆ the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat, blah blah blahโฆ
And so these gluttonous creatures continue to play, punctuating control and manipulation in a manner otherwise metaphorically reserved only for God. Enabling one supremely evil fictitious country the killing power of an entire globe. Shielded in secret behind whipped white clouds, in skies tainted with rocket fuel, bullet rain and the haunting wails of incomprehensible and unforgivable human loss and suffering.
I can never forgiveโฆ ๐
Technology
The application of evolving innovations like artificial intelligence and machine learning in government, military and social platforms as a default regiment and norm has officially shepherded the epoch of human descentโฆ
And let us recount the many ways we have fallen from Graceโฆย
โก๏ธ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) | Drones | i.e. โDeath from Aboveโย
2009-2017: Obamaโs wholehearted embrace and expansion of the US drone program oversaw more strikes in his first year of office than in his predecessorโs full presidential term. Numbers being:
โA total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama's two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush.โ
And so we successfully normalized the prevailing practice of drones in contemporary warfare. A breed of distant warrior voyeurism that has dimmed our moral culpability when easily executing humans through micro lenses and joysticks ๐...
โก๏ธ Project Nimbus | Israel, Google, Amazon | i.e. โThe Evil Trilogyโ
2021-Current: A recent morbid doctrine in flight is Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli cloud-computing initiative in conjunction with Tech Titans Google & Amazon (and their respective cloud offerings, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Amazon Web Services (AWS)) enabling war makers the technical capabilities necessary to perpetuate continued colonial narratives through theโฆย
Unlawful surveillance of Palestinian civilians
Incessant Israeli military occupation of Palestine
Violent expulsion of Palestinian communities
Expansion of illegal Israeli settlements & outposts
And the shielding of all that dirty data from inquiring external entities like the International Court of Justice (ICJ) & International Criminal Court (ICC)โฆ fortified inside militarized digital architectures, securely bosomed within bloody borders (a fresh crimson coat from the spillage of over 31,184 Palestinian souls ๐)
Etc. etc. etc.
โก๏ธ Social Media | FB, IG, LI, X, TikTok... | i.e. โOur Digital Avatarsโ
2004-Current: Disguised propaganda (disinformation or misinformation) and deceptive freedoms (of speech) run readily rampant across our plethora of social media choices. And draped against that backdrop is the intrinsic human yearning for modern connections and social learning, both proving inadvertently tainted to attain. The two-sided coin of electronic communication affords us the โgoodโ in social activism and the potential uprising & liberation of oppressed peoples against authoritarian masters. And the inverse, the โbadโ, the pervasive censorship and state repression of genuine thought and empirical fact, the squashing of truth-telling campaigns in an overall convoluted environment of chatbot simulation & distraction, electronic duplication & waste.
I do want to emphasize that it is social mediaโs real-time extraction of digital uploads and micro-interactions that has prefaced a singular resounding positive. It has allowed for the raw unfiltered broadcast of TRUTH from Gaza, directly from its protracted victims! Delivered ever so efficiently to our pocketed smart devices, circumventing the Westโs false television transmissions, allowing us the unique opportunity for human remedy and retributionโฆ
And yet, here we crudely stand, Thursday March 21st 2024 (coincidentally, Motherโs Day in the UAE ๐ฆ๐ช, where Mama resides still โฅ๏ธ)... continuing to watch our children die, their broken parents vocalizing deep despair and anguish in unanswered wailsโฆtheir grieving gaze cast to the heavens above, those same labored skies that only seem to descend damnation down to their tired feet ๐โฆย
And that is why, intent is everything, for we all know the tools we build are ours alone, to strengthen humanity or generate punishment. And in the face of such man-made manufactured madness, there are some brave souls intent on ameliorating the prolific collateral lethality induced by Israel and its Western companions, democratizing the flow of truth, debilitating the many fictions touted by flawed and failed institutions and officials.
Brave organized souls as:
No Tech For Apartheid | IG | X
Tech For Palestine | IG | X
Afterword
We are not human animalsโฆwe are only human ๐