In A Unified Path to Decolonization, I showed the results of analysis of two diagrams, the Great Plains Action Society's Theory of Change and the Decolonial Repair Network's diagram. The following was created by adding the graphic I created to describe global colonialism with those two graphics, using all three diagrams.
Category: Artificial intelligence
New orientation of this blog
I am going to begin sharing a lot of the analysis I obtain from doing research with two relatively new Google artificial intelligence (AI) applications, Gemini and NotebookLM. I realize many people have negative experiences or ideas about AI. What follows is an explanation of two philosophies of artificial intelligence. I'm using NotebookLM because it is source-grounded or "closed loop", the difference explained in the following.
Need new peace movement now
We can't allow our focus to be hijacked into dwelling on this atrocity. We must not only continue our peace efforts, but look around for others who share our beliefs that we haven't, for whatever reason, connected with, yet. Build a new peace movement, built on years of work we have already done. But now look more globally for peacemakers to join us, for us to join them, at this horrible time.
Edge of Erasure
According to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the policies and violence Israel is perpetrating on people across the territories are "systematic and risk the erasure of Palestinians."
Palestine Infographic
The complexity of the Middle East is often used as an excuse to avoid even thinking about it. Or teaching about it. And especially avoid doing anything about it. And now there are significant risks for any Palestinian support.
Using AI to repress dissent
An excellent article yesterday in AXIOS, written by Marc Caputo, explains how the Trump administration is using AI to find 'resident aliens' who have participated in pro-Palestinian activities in order to deport them.
Operation “Wrath of Zion”
This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cancel the visas of college students who protest in support of Palestine, opening the path to their deportation. A small company called Stellar Defense & Cyber Intelligence is ready to help by deploying AI technology to identify anonymous, masked pro-Palestinian protestors, through a campaign it refers to as “Operation Wrath of Zion.”