#brutalization — Public Fediverse posts

A “first-person view” drone "often looks like something assembled at a workbench. Its frame may be commercially available carbon fiber. Its motors, flight controller, radio, camera and batteries may come from civilian supply chains. Wiring is exposed. Antennas protrude from the body. The payload may be an adapted grenade, a shaped charge removed from another weapon or a purpose-built munition attached underneath. The aircraft can be noisy, fragile and vulnerable to wind, rain, cold, dust and electronic interference."

https://medium.com/predict/slaughterbots-in-ukraine-df491b895b42 via @bruces 🛸🧶

#brutalization #dehumanisation #squash #unmanned #FPV #drones #StartUpNation #innovation #efficiency #military #army #tech #technology #Ukraine #warInUkraine #technoCriticism #technoSolutionnism #productivity #AIWar

“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.”
―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

#liberalism #raceMaking #hinduism #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #CarolineElkins #Elkins #book #quotes #regimeChange

In her keynote at #FAccT2026, Lucy Suchman spoke about data:

#brutalization #dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #MilInt #military #militaryAI #AIWar

What policy for the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

Dr. Samantha Montano has analyzed the President's Council report: https://www.disaster-ology.com/blog/femareviewcouncilreportanalysis

#policy #brutalization #disasters #disasterResponse #FEMA #necroPolitics

"More than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in the Israeli regime’s detention facilities. Of these, more than 3,500 are held under administrative detention, imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial."

By Yara Hawari, co-director of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/21/this-is-the-face-of-israel @palestine

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #administrativeDetention #detention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #Palestine #AlShabaka

'US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

… also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps

#Palantir #Karp #dataProtection #brutalization #defence #defense

>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <

#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IwfHPTVyrkw&si=sPjCyeejjDlpNdCS

Palestinian women in Israeli prisons have forged a remarkable unity, particularly around educational initiatives.

Subscription required, by Hélène Servel and Asja Zaino: https://mondediplo.com/2025/01/01palestinian-women @palestine

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps #feminism #feminisms #Palestine

The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

#brutalization #GermanProblem #spending #rearmament #ReArmEurope #economy #Germany #EU #industry #EuropeanUnion #euro #euroZone #Europe #debt #budget #defence #defense

#landGrab #PalestiniansLivesMatter #violence #Palestine #israelPalestine #Zionism #FromTheRiverToTheSea #brutalization #JewishSupremacy #StateRacism #WestBank #OPT #occupation #settlements #settlers #Judea #OneState #terror #terrorism #impunity #VisualizingPalestine

"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."

Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950

#entanglement #othering #civilisation #lineOfColor #raceMaking #beliefs #squash #brutalization #complicity #epistemology #coloniality #genocide #racism #colonialism #Césaire #AiméCésaire #whiteness #quote #quotes #citation

"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."

"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."

This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros

@philosophy 🧶

#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement

"The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat."
by Craig Mokhiber : https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/rogue-states-the-illegality-of-the-u-s-backed-israeli-attacks-on-iran/

@israel

#Israel #Iran #imperialism #proZionism #colonialConvergence #war #oilAndGas #nuclear #NPT #geoPolitics #squash #brutalization #USWars #IsraelWars #israeliWars #internationalLaw

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #escalation / #brutalization / #civilianwarvictims

„Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, according to local health officials. The military said it targeted militants operating from the school.“

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/israeli-airstrike-on-school-turned-shelter-in-gaza-kills-25-medics-say/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #wording / #media / #brutalization / #hatespeech / #euphemism

„Our thoughts may shape our words, but our words also shape our thoughts. Excerpts from a new Israeli book show how the words used to justify the Gaza genocide both reflect and degrade its moral conscience.

These words dehumanize Palestinians — but they dehumanize their speakers even more.‟

https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-whats-worse-than-the-language-of-brutality/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #escalation / #brutalization / #civilianwarvictims / #uno / #ohchr

„More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters and residential buildings, the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Thursday.“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163596

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #escalation / #brutalization

„The Israeli military said Saturday it had launched "extensive strikes" as part of a fresh offensive in Gaza, after rescuers reported 100 people killed in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The army said on Telegram it had begun the "initial stages" of the offensive, known as Operation Gideon's Chariots.“

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/17/world/israel-fresh-gaza-offensive/

Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.

“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”

https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/massive-scale-genocide-and-ecocide-are-close-relations/

#preying #predation #brutalization #looting #imperialism #proSionism #coloniality #Aliyah #climateChange #climateCatastrophe #book #paupericide #genocide #tactics #solidarity #BDS #IsraelBoycott #proZionism #fossilFuels #oilAndGas #AndreasMalm #Malm #israelPalestine #MiddleEast #UK #britain #StandWithIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #collusion #allies #history #colonialism #colonisation #colonization #BritishEmpire

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”

Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' #book, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

@bookstodon hat-tip @markvonwahlde

#liberalism #castism #raceMaking #hindouism #beliefs #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #islamophobia #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #preBritish #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #bookStodon #CarolineElkins

"With army incursions and airstrikes deepening Palestinian resentment, Israel’s violent campaign in the West Bank is driving recruitment for militant groups."

By Fatima AbdulKarim, August 14, 2024: https://www.972mag.com/jenin-tulkarem-armed-resistance-israeli-repression/ @palestine 🧵

#resistance #PalestinianResistance #armedResistance #collectivePunishment #occupation #Jenin #Tulkarem #refugeehood #resentment #refugees #militancy #israelPalestine #Palestine #WestBank #terrorism #counterTerrorism #brutalization #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalisation #revenge #retribution #warOnPalestine #OPT #grievability #mourning #shaheed #martyrs #armedStruggle #repression #stateViolence #refugeeCamps #UNRWA

"In Jenin, brazen Israeli raids fuel fiercer Palestinian resistance"
by Mariam Barghouti (2024, February 27) for #972Mag: https://www.972mag.com/jenin-refugee-camp-israeli-raids-palestinian-resistance/

(to be followed)

#collectivePunishment #occupation #Jenin #refugees #militancy #israelPalestine #Palestine #WestBank #terrorism #counterTerrorism #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalization #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalisation #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalization #revenge #retribution #warOnPalestine #OPT #grievability #mourning #shaheed #martyrs

"Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

"Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

Francesca Newton writes: https://vashtimedia.com/election-labour-victory-keir-starmer-shehecheyanu/ 🧶

#farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

@estelle @israel

Do you think we're stupid?

We know that Netanyahu is responsible for what his country does. You want to blame everyone but the guilty, though.

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"At a talk in Brooklyn [in 1985, Primo] Levi, asked for his opinion on Middle East politics, started to say that ‘Israel was a mistake in historical terms.’ An uproar ensued, and the moderator had to halt the meeting."

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #Brooklyn #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #ElieWiesel #Holocaust #PrimoLevi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #philoSemitism

"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake"

Oren Ziv: https://www.972mag.com/pogroms-west-bank-soldiers-settlers/ @palestine

#landGrab #PalestiniansLivesMatter #violence #Palestine #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #Zionism #FromTheRiverToTheSea #brutalization #JewishSupremacy #IDF #StateRacism #WestBank #OPT #occupation #settlements #settlers #stateViolence #entitlement #growth #expansion #Judea #OneState #972Mag #colonization #colonisation #colonialism #Duma #terror #terrorism #Aqraba #impunity

#AI performs

By design #generativeAI is extremely hungry in resources: https://mas.to/@maugendre/111841507744115766

#AI already serves to transform ways of working. You can even industrialize killing: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111505251994013079

#productivity #brutalization #duty #protocol #conformance #AIRisks #risks #dehumanisation #AIWar #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #DataScience #Unit8200 #patriotism #OSINT #CROSINT #MilInt #military #army #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #LavenderAI #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #israel #productivity