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His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.

“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

OrganicMaps to CoMaps. botwarden to KeePassXC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I tried OrganicMaps, but it was noticeably less usable than Google Maps.

When you actually need maps on mobile, UX issues and jank becomes extremely annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

CoMaps works better than OrganicMaps for me. And there is an app called Geo Share than can transform links from GMaps to CoMaps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dear Sergey,

if you object to the specific word "genocide", then perhaps we should start calling it the "mass murder and starvation that has killed 5-10% of all Palestinian civilians". That doesn't sound much better, though, does it?

One of the key things that some in the "UN is anti-semitic" camp likes to claim is that the UNHRC has many nations that are non-democratic and have known human rights abuses.

But that's somewhat cherrypicked. Yes, the nations proposing measures against Isreal do seem like a biased set. But most of the Western democracies ultimately vote for those measure, with only the US rejecting it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Will you right wing libertarian tech bro Nazis please, kindly, for the love of everything resembling humanity, fuck the fuck off forever and self delete

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only victims of those rediculous accusations is non zionist jews

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

its not great for the people actually being genocided too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I mean with antisemitism accusations or without them, gazan are genocided. Nobody who isn't a scum believe in those accusations but those accusations can increase the real antisemitism

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“With all due respect" is always followed by something deeply disrespectful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

"With all due respect" is one of those handy phrases that can mean either. The user could be saying the amount of respect they think is due is zero.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I thought this tool was retired. But no,

In December 2023, he came out of retirement to lead Alphabet Inc. into the new era of Artificial General Intelligence, after the launch of ChatGPT. (wiki)

At least it seems they are on course to make their AI competitive with Grok.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

He can go suck a lemon

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

Genocide is not exclusive to Jewish victims. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.

Genocide can be committed by anyone. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.

Genocide is being committed by Israel's military against the people in Gaza. It is not anti-Semitic to say that... but it is sad.

It is even sadder that my government, instead of stopping them, continues to help Israel commit genocide.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

also deeply offensive is actually DOING a genocide and killing gaza citizens in cold blood who are just waiting for aid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

He doth try to don that mantle, dothn't he.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides.

Yes, solid reasoning. New genocides can't exist because there were old ones

Pretty sure there have been many genocides since WW2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I think the confusion is assuming that it's only a genocide when it targets specific subgroups inside a population. It also applies in terms of national groups (whole or in part). This means any attack that intents to kill civilians of a country (or that at least intents to not make any distinction between civilian or not) is a genocide.

For example, that list also includes genocide of Ukrainians by Russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Before and after. Like you said, the occurrence of one unfortunately doesn't stop humans from carrying out another elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like ~~the UN~~ Wikipedia in relation to these issues

Really works as a counterargument against anything!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Why do you think Israel positions itself as an ethnostate so? “Everything we do is Jewish because we’re an ethnostste with strict apartheid for non-Jews so if you criticize us it’s antisemitism!!”

But the actions of Israel and its government are not the actions of Jews, they are the actions of Israel.