What was your job at Microsoft?

I was a 68 working on consumer products, but it was still too much for me. Especially the revelation that Satya worked with the IDF to capture all Palestinian phone conversations and host them on Azure. Every day I woke up to go to work after I found that out, I was sick to my stomach. I eventually couldn't take it any more. I took a pay cut and I'm still in the tech industry working for a startup, and still facing ethical dilemmas (with our investors) but at least I'm not on the front-lines of human rights abuse.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

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FLeXMurphy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

War is a massive racket.

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1234letshaveatw 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TIL an intelligence agency spying on a foreign adversary is human rights abuse. I would be super upset if my country of residence did the same to a neighbor sending rockets my way, would make me sick to my stomach

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Fraterkes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Little slip of the mask here where we seamlessly transition from the perspective of an American working for an American tech company to someone living in a country neighbouring Palestine.

	▲	1234letshaveatw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I would go so far as to call it a privileged perspective

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swozey 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He didn't work for Israel, unless he failed to mention that this was not a USA job.

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tessierashpool 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

take these theatrics somewhere else, please. you're changing the topic and you're not arguing in good faith.

	▲	1234letshaveatw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
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antonvs 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> TIL an intelligence agency spying on a foreign adversary is human rights abuse.

It is when it's an intelligence agency for a country that's actively committing genocide.

Answer a question for me: is the lesson you took from the Holocaust something like "if there are going to be holocausts anyway, I want to be the one committing them"?

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swozey 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've always figured big tech workers were so compartmentalized that they wouldn't know their new analytic feature was also going to the defense skunks initiative, but that could be conspiratorial thinking.

Guess it doesn't matter now when they have full on defense orgs.