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This month we’re excited to share Mahmoud Shukair’s “Praise for the Women of the Family,” a delightful novel set in the tumultuous time after the Nakba (the Palestinian exodus from what is now Israel), portraying the rapid advance of modernity and the growing conflict in 1950s Palestine. Shukair is one of the most celebrated and […]
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Women’s inexorable struggle, from the maven of Arabic short stories
May 12th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
Posted in Jewish News 
Tags: arabic, inexorable, maven, Short, stories, struggle, women 
No Comments »Google Removes “Don’t Be Evil” From Its Conduct As Employees Quit In Droves Over Project Maven
May 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy By Aaron Kesel Google has removed the phrase “Don’t be evil” from its Code of Conduct; this comes as at least 4,000 employees have expressed outrage over the company’s decision to work with the Pentagon’s Project Maven and amid a leaked video called the “Selfish Ledger” exposing internal Google dialogue to create a […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: conduct, droves, employees, google, maven, project, removes No Comments »Project Maven: Military Wants Machine Learning To Interpret Big Data For A.I. Warfare
May 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Even as the military has downplayed its willingness to delegate lethal decision making to artificial intelligence, it appears to be developing systems which could do exactly that. The rise of Big Data has been a boon for the military and surveillance industries, as the exponential increase in computer processing power has enabled the collection […]
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