#Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-#Palestinian protest

Protester is engineer who worked on Azure software, which enabled #Israeli surveillance of Palestinians

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Johana Bhuiyan
Mon 19 May 2025 14.27 EDT

"“As one of the largest companies in the world, Microsoft has immeasurable power to do the right thing: demand an end to this senseless tragedy, or we will cease our technological support for Israel,” read the email... “If leadership continues to ignore this demand, I promise that it won’t go unnoticed. The world has already woken up to our complicity and is turning against us. The boycotts will increase and our image will continue to spiral into disrepair.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/19/microsoft-ceo-speech-palestinian-protest?CMP=share_btn_url

#NoTechForApartheid
#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

“I’ve always seen translation as a highly creative process, a kind of craft, and allowing machines to do the heavy lifting will inevitably have an impact on quality. Plus, who wants to live in a world of dull, uninspiring, automated content?"

A new Q&A with the co-creator of FairLoc, a digital stamp to certify that a translation is the work of humans, not machines.

https://lingua.globalvoices.org/2025/03/interview-with-fairloc-tina-julsgaard-human-translation-certification/

“The way to be fresh is need is to keep telling the stories and not follow mainstream media narrative” - Kunda Dixit
#GVSummit2024

Global Voices summit panel- Where have all the bloggers gone?

“Blogging remains useful for sharing thoughts and sharing connections. It’s about community building” Mong Palatino, Filipino activist blogger

#GVSummit2024 #Blogging

The @globalvoices Summit in Kathmandu is getting started! Always weird to see our little rag-tag NGO hosting a fancy pants conference like this 😅

#GVSummit2024

🌐Our stage is global, and so is our audience! Join us for the Global Voices Summit 2024 livestream.

Let’s connect across borders and amplify underrepresented voices together.

🌍 Tune in here: https://www.youtube.com/live/XKYd3yVL0zI?si=f5defg7_bHcUWikh

🌐Voices from the Global South are taking the stage! 🌍 Tune in live to #GVSummit2024 to hear stories that challenge, inspire, and inform.

📺 Live stream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKYd3yVL0zI

Opening of the Global Voices Kathmandu summit public 2 day event.

🌐We're having fun during the #GVSummit2024 Day 2: discussions about GV's future, gifts and snacks.

Today we had a joint Lingua-Newsroom activity for the #GVSummit2024 in which we translated a public domain poem "A Word", by Emily Dickinson.

👀 How would you translate this poem?

Happy to be back with my gang at a @globalvoices summit where my passion for digital rights and press freedom activism was born.

🌐 #GVSummit2024 Today, during our Day 1 internal session, more GVers connected and discussed the different areas and opportunities within Global Voices.

👀Here is a recap of our day!

✌🏾🙌🏼🫲🏿 Greetings from our lovely GVers!

Our #GVCommunity works with languages from all around the world! Our #GVSummit2024 is a multilingual space where we can learn new words every day.

What are your favourite phrases in your language? 👀

As part of the preparation for our #GVSummit2024 on December 6th and 7th, we are meeting with some of the members of our immense community this week.

📹 Here is the recap of Day 0's internal sessions.

🌐 Did you know the 2024 edition of the #GVSummit2024 will take place on December 6-7 in Kathmandu?

Check out the program and all the details! :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping: https://summit2024.globalvoices.org/

Let us know if you have questions before registering. We hope to see you there!

A million ppl have already been displaced in #Lebanon and the IDF publishes a map that effectively condemns half the country. These are Shia-majority areas for the most part. This is forced demographic change. Mass ethnic cleansing.

These are also Lebanon’s agricultural areas.

Global Voices stands with 29 human rights organizations in solidarity with #Gaza journalists. We demand Israel's compliance with international law and the protection of journalists' safety in Gaza.

https://globalvoices.org/2023/11/23/statement-israeli-occupying-forces-launch-a-new-campaign-targeting-journalists-and-media-outlets-in-palestine/

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."

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PSA: If it is safe and appropriate for you, please make your Fediverse profile searchable.
Visit Preferences/Public Profile/Privacy and Reach scroll down a bit to SEARCH.

Why this PSA? Our member-owned co-op instance (see https://cosocial.info) just turned on Mastodon 4.2 search and wow, it’s good. Also, really fast.

Thanks to the Mastodon team for the strong work!

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-09-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-israeli-cyber-firms-developed-an-insane-new-spyware-tool-no-defense-exists/0000018a-93cb-de77-a98f-ffdf2fb60000

- Install uBlock Origin on your browsers
- Install Pi-Hole in your LAN, which will also cover your mobile devices