The conventional use of settlers applied only to those Israelis living over the Green Line, and particularly those doing so with the ideological intent of expanding Israel’s de facto borders.
Ah, I was actually trying to draw a distinction between Israeli citizens and those settling Palestinian regions specifically. Like I didn’t want to implicate Israelis generally. But I see how it’s not a good distinction because there are also soldiers and tech company employees testing surveillance tactics on Palestinians but living in Israel (the post-Nakba region).
Of course, I’m also just not much acquainted with how all these terms get used by people living in the regions. Thanks for the heads-up! I’ll try and see how to rewrite this to be more accurate.
the discussion about Microsoft’s response to me seemed to take as facts what I believe to still only be allegations.
You’re right. I added it as a tiny sentence at the end. But what’s publicly established is that Microsoft supplied cloud services to the IDF while letting them just use that for what they wanted – not that the cloud services were used for storing tapped Palestinian calls specifically. I’ll add a footnote about this.
EDIT: after reading the Guardian article linked to from the one announcing Microsoft’s inquiry, I think the second point is also pretty well-established: “But a cache of leaked Microsoft documents and interviews with 11 sources from the company and Israeli military intelligence reveals how Azure has been used by Unit 8200 to store this expansive archive of everyday Palestinian communications.”
The major comment: I feel you could go farther to connect the dots between the “enshittification” of Anthropic and the issues you raise about the potential of AI to help enshittify democratic regimes.
This is a great insight. The honest answer is that I had not thought of connecting those dots here.
We see a race to the bottom to release AI to extract benefits in Anthropic’s founding researchers actions, and also in broader US society.
Thanks for the comments
Ah, I was actually trying to draw a distinction between Israeli citizens and those settling Palestinian regions specifically. Like I didn’t want to implicate Israelis generally. But I see how it’s not a good distinction because there are also soldiers and tech company employees testing surveillance tactics on Palestinians but living in Israel (the post-Nakba region).
Of course, I’m also just not much acquainted with how all these terms get used by people living in the regions. Thanks for the heads-up! I’ll try and see how to rewrite this to be more accurate.
You’re right. I added it as a tiny sentence at the end. But what’s publicly established is that Microsoft supplied cloud services to the IDF while letting them just use that for what they wante
d – not that the cloud services were used for storing tapped Palestinian calls specifically. I’ll add a footnote about this.EDIT: after reading the Guardian article linked to from the one announcing Microsoft’s inquiry, I think the second point is also pretty well-established: “But a cache of leaked Microsoft documents and interviews with 11 sources from the company and Israeli military intelligence reveals how Azure has been used by Unit 8200 to store this expansive archive of everyday Palestinian communications.”
This is a great insight. The honest answer is that I had not thought of connecting those dots here.
We see a race to the bottom to release AI to extract benefits in Anthropic’s founding researchers actions, and also in broader US society.