Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Academic. Author. Advocate.
@kyliemooregilbert
Email: [email protected]

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

It’s almost as though we (and Putin, and the bots) have too much freedom of speech online, and not enough of it offline...
My latest piece for @theage @smh
https://t.co/FZ1hKelOOG

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

@alaafromgaza92 This is heartbreaking. Sending love ❤️

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

We are now calling on all the other democracies that joined April's U.N. consensus nomination of Iran's regime—Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia—to state publicly whether they voted today for or against Tehran.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

@latikambourke Greta would approve

[Parham Ghobadi @BBCParham]

I explained how Iran appears to be extending its strategic military reach beyond the Middle East and into Europe, aiming to raise the cost of any future US or Israeli attack.

There are several indications of this shift:

- Iran's top security chief Mohsen Rezaei explicitly warned today that US military bases in Europe could be targeted.

- Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has called for retaliation without geographical restrictions.

- The Revolutionary Guards subsequently announced they were lifting their self-imposed 2,000-kilometre limit on ballistic missile range, potentially putting more of Europe in Iran’s crosshairs.

- The US has accused Iranian of plotting attacks in Europe, including an attempted attack on RAF Fairford in Britain, which has hosted US bombers used against Iran.

- France has accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of carrying out cyberattacks on refrigeration systems in around 700 supermarkets. Similar attacks have also disrupted supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden and other European countries.

The apparent calculation is to make any future war more costly for Washington and its allies, while pressuring European governments to discourage further attacks on Iran.

I also discussed why Tehran refuses to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which it sees as a crucial bargaining chip in negotiations with Washington.

Iran appears determined to restore its deterrence before surrendering that leverage.

Meanwhile, the war has intensified debate within Iran about developing nuclear weapons, raising the question of whether Tehran may increasingly see them as the ultimate deterrent against future attacks.

Ironically, that is precisely the outcome the war was supposed to prevent.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Iranian regime apologia coming from some incoming members of Congress is becoming impossible to ignore. Congressman-elect Adam Hamawy of New Jersey refuses to even acknowledge that the Islamic Republic of Iran is an adversary, instead suggesting it should be treated as a friend and ally while drawing a false moral equivalence between Tehran's aggression and American policy.

One can oppose a war with Iran without resorting to intellectually lazy arguments that erase the Ayatollah's decades-long destabilization of the Middle East: the domination of multiple Arab capitals, the empowerment of violent proxies, and the direct and indirect deaths of countless Arabs, Muslims, and Americans.

More troubling, Hamawy reflects a growing strain on the populist Democratic left that believes: Hamas is recast as a "resistance" movement rather than a terrorist organization; Hezbollah is sanitized; political Islamism is excused through cultural relativism; jihadist movements are treated primarily as victims of circumstance; Iran's aggression is blamed on American "imperialism"; and even the Houthis are rationalized through the lens of Third-Worldist grievance politics.

This is a disturbing degradation in political judgment from a cohort claiming to represent Arab-, Muslim-, and Palestinian-American communities. It should not be normalized, excused, or shielded from criticism through reflexive and bad-faith accusations of "Islamophobia."

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

A 47-year-old man has been detained for damaging a government building with "construction machinery", police in China's Shaanxi province have said.

No one was injured in the incident, and no motive has been given.

[Jay Shooster @JayShooster]

Great to see @WeWillMi setting an example for connecting a data center pause to a broader pause on advanced AI development to prevent catastrophic risks.

Freezing AI development has to be on the table.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

When I was at Cambridge I personally witnessed efforts to deplatform historian Benny Morris and similar intimidatory mob-like tactics trying to drown out a speech by Marine Le Pen, who was addressing the Cambridge Union. Most were disturbed by this, and most could agree that Cambridge should be a place that nurtured freedom of speech and robust political debate. I took a couple of subjects in Divinity, the staff and students were on the more diligent, nerdier end of the spectrum, more concerned with obscure theories than contemporary politics. Its simply unbelievable to me that this is happening there now. I hope that the university will resist the spinelessness they displayed during the Arday affair and will stand up to and stamp out this unintellectual nonsense.

[The Spectator @spectator]

What is unfolding in Cambridge appears to be a reaction against the Jason Arday scandal, whose death the protesters are seeking to avenge. But Orr was not responsible for Arday's death.

After Orr's first year lecture was interrupted by students filming him while accusing him of complicity in the death of Arday and complicity in genocide last week, the Divinity faculty has taken steps to protect his teaching from further political intimidation.

In a faculty email on the 5 November, students and staff were made aware of special arrangements being made for Friday, when Orr's lectures take place, due to concerns for the welfare of him and his students.

These included the presence of University proctors in his two Friday lectures, the recording of lectures for the benefit of students who have told staff that they are too frightened to attend, and the checking by security of the student IDs of all who entered the building.

✍️ Elizabeth Spring

Article | https://t.co/A5YZHmIMpD

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

No joke: Tomorrow at 10 am, the U.N. plans to elect the Islamic regime of Iran to its main subsidiary organ shaping priorities on women's rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. We urge all states who nominated Tehran — 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇳🇱🇳🇴🇫🇮🇨🇭🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭— to reverse course and vote No.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

The Islamic Republic presumably tried to hack more sophisticated targets in Europe than supermarket fridges. The IRGC cyberarmy has a fearsome reputation. The fact that this is the best they could come up with speaks volumes, not about strength but about weakness.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Unable to manage fridges let alone addressing grievances of its people, French government is shifting blame for its failures onto others.

Yes, Iran is powerful. But unlike France, we do not exercise power via support for massacres in Gaza or bombings of schools and hospitals.

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

This is pretty wild: From a jail in New York, a commander of an Iranian terrorist proxy group helped direct a failed plot to attack RAF Fairford — a key UK air force base used by the US to execute the war with Iran, federal prosecutors allege in a new indictment.

The man, Mohammad Dawood Al-Saadi, a duel Iranian and Iraqi citizen, is accused of using coded messages in calls to his family to give instructions to two other people who attempted to help carry out the attack on the base, where US B-1 bombers were stationed.

https://t.co/bsgaP77vgo

[William Molinié @WilliamMolinie]

Les trois Iraniens soupçonnés d'être à l'origine de la cyberattaques sur les frigos de 700 sites de la grande distribution en France ⬇️

Hamid Reza Lashgarian, patron du Centre électronique et cyber du Corps des Gardiens de la Révolution Islamique iranien (CGRI-CEC)

Mahdi Lashgarian, commandant de l'unité "Shahid Kaveh"

Reza Salarvand, commandant de l'unité "Shahid Kaveh"

L'autre entité du CGRI-CEC, l'unité "Shahid Shoostari", avait mené en 2020 les ciblages et cyberattaques contre Charlie Hebdo, après la réédition des caricatures de Mahomet, puis en 2023, lorsque l'hebdomadaire devait publier un concours de caricatures d'Ali Khamenei.

(source : CERT-FR)

https://t.co/BI8PRvLMrN

[Omer Kanat @OmerKanat1]

Rahile Omer was just 14 when Chinese authorities detained her. Now she has died in prison at 23.

A Uyghur child, imprisoned for years, reportedly deemed “not reformed” for praying in her dormitory. She was robbed of her freedom and her future. The Chinese government must be held accountable for her death.
https://t.co/wxGsPYHO5s

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters https://t.co/E9uIRt9ENv

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

More details about the kidnapping of Australian citizen Hiep Tran in Cambodia, including eyewitness accounts
https://t.co/V4yuD0UY0n

[Garrison Lovely @GarrisonLovely]

Jensen's "I'm sorry to my staff for cheating on my wife with a Chinese spy" letter is mostly AI-generated. 😬

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Melanchon calls for ‘direct action’ - military intervention eg a French war - against Israel.
As i predicted, we have gone full circle from imperial colonial intervention 1917/18 to a call for neo-imperial ‘decolonialization’ intervention…

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

I gave this interview to Turkish literary site @EdebiyatHaber about my book The Uncaged Sky, which has just been published in Turkish by Vis Kitap

[Edebiyat Haber @EdebiyatHaber]

Kylie Moore – Gilbert: “Hapishane anıları silikleşmeye başladıkça asıl benliğimin yeniden kendini gösterdiğini düşünüyorum”
https://t.co/8K8h7ibjfi

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:

- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.

What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.

The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

If you are in Melbourne tomorrow night, please come along to this vigil for Australian Hiep Tran and his Norwegian colleague. They were kidnapped in broad daylight in Cambodia by Vietnamese security services and taken across the border and imprisoned. Australia must send a strong message that this outrageous act of transnational repression will not be tolerated. We need to bring Hiep home right now!