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Apr 17 2024
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Google Fires 28 Workers After Anti-Israel Protests
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services. The protests, which were led by the No Tech for Apartheid organization, took place Tuesday across Google offices in New York City, Seattle, and Sunnyvale, California.
Time MagazineApr 17 2024
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Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in Google Cloud CEO's office
Nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office. The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which attracted hundreds of
CNBCApr 16 2024
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Google staffers storm NYC, California, Seattle offices to protest $1.2B Israel contract
Google staffers wearing traditional Arab headscarves barged into the California office of the company’s top cloud executive, while other workers staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters in New York City to protest the tech giant’s ties to the Israeli government on Tuesday.
The pro-Palestinian employees, part of a group called “No Tech for Apartheid,” used social media accounts on X
New York Post (News)Apr 03 2024
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I love watching this chess player crush obnoxious dudes
Anna Cramling is a 21-year-old professional chess player who has over 900,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 400,000 followers on Twitch. Her parents both hold the title of Grandmaster, and her mother was only the fifth woman ever to earn that title. Cramling plays in regular tournaments, but my favorite thing is watching her demolish condescending dudes who immediately underestimate her
Boing BoingMar 31 2024
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The Maine Millennial: Reflections on the ice storm of 2024
My roommate is eight years younger than I am, putting her firmly in the Gen Z category. Although eight years isn’t a huge difference, there are several major events I have memories of that she doesn’t – like 9/11 and, less drastically but still important here in Maine, the Ice Storm of 1998. The storm of ’98 is, and probably forever will be, my measuring stick for all ice storms. Mention “the
Portland Press HeraldMar 23 2024
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Senior dog has seizures
Last night, my almost 15-year-old Retriever X started having a sort of seizure with twitching in the eyes. He had a similar episode about a month and has had a head tilt ever since. He has high kidney values, high calcium, and high phosphorous. He is on multiple medications. I could not transport him so easily, so I called my vet who was going to come over to administer a sedative. I informed
Boston HeraldMar 18 2024
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St. Louis teen Kaylee Gain suffered brain bleed, still has not regained consciousness after brutal attack, family says
Kaylee, Gain, the 15-year-old student who was brutally attacked after school outside St. Louis, suffered a brain bleed and swelling in her brain and still has not regained consciousness, her family revealed. Kaylee was seen convulsing and twitching after her head was smashed repeatedly on the pavement following an after-school brawl near March 8 Hazelwood East High School in Spanish Lake, Mo.
New York Post (News)Mar 14 2024
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'Culture of violence': 2-against-1 beatdown in HS restroom allegedly leaves victim knocked out, hospitalized with concussion
A two-against-one beatdown in a Wheaton, Illinois, high school restroom late last month allegedly left the victim knocked out, twitching, and hospitalized with a concussion — and parents are demanding solutions to what they're calling a "culture of violence" on campus. A cellphone video shows the underage students in a Wheaton Warrenville South High School restroom Feb. 28 — and two of them
The BlazeFeb 26 2024
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US airman who set himself on fire outside Israeli embassy dies
A member of the United States air force who had set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington in an apparent protest against Israel’s war in Gaza has died, the Pentagon says.
The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio, Texas, died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, said on Monday.
US media reports said Bushnell
Al JazeeraFeb 26 2024
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Air Force member in critical condition after setting himself on fire
WASHINGTON (AP) — An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured Sunday after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The man, whose name wasn’t immediately released, walked up to the embassy shortly before 1 p.m.
Norfolk Daily News