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minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoDirect participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex. The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
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minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoAn active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement? Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past. And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support. Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
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minus-squareShardikprime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoLiterally this It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
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Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.
The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
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An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?
Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.
And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.
Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
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Literally this
It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are
A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
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