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Creature living in New England | 20s | They/Them |πŸ”ž Literally a dog Ξ˜Ξ” | Vegan 🌱
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so i guess today i disrupted the UN "ai for good" summit and got arrested with a friend

our statement that was published shortly after explains more of the specific motivations (we have since been released and are both exhausted on our way home)

(i can't add a second video to a post so a twitter link is the best i can do)

statement transcript:

Hi, we are maia arson crimew and freya. If you are seeing this video, we have most likely been arrested protesting the UN AI for Good summit in Geneva, the birthplace of the Geneva Conventions.
With this event hosted by Switzerland and the UN, Big Tech and AI companies β€” such as Google, Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft β€” are invited to whitewash their complicity in the AI-powered genocide in Palestine.
While the US and Europe provide the financial backing, Big Tech infrastructure actively enables the surveillance, the targeting and strategic erasure of the Palestinian people. This would not be possible without their assistance.
With this hypocritical event, the UN not only contradicts its own reports, but actively enables violations of international law. Just half a year ago, Switzerland was appointed by the UN to host a conference to uphold the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory. Because of so-called "stakeholder disagreements", the event was cancelled. By now hosting and platforming parties that are complicit in the Palestinian genocide, Switzerland is actively positioning itself contradicting its neutrality position.
We will not be silent in a genocide. You cannot be neutral in a genocide.
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If you're in LGBT friendly spaces and someone introduces themselves and cautiously says they're fine with any pronouns, it is your duty to notice which pronouns the people around you tend to default to for them and ensure that you refer to them with any and every pronoun under the sun except for that one. You must.

I told myself that if I ever need anything to paint I should pick the first photo I see on my dash and paint it and this was the first one so I committed.

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I'm afraid Twitter is out-posting us at the moment

Some friends and I actually started reading the book and it's as bad as you expect

Beyond the general issues with the plot there's this fascinating inconsistency with capitalizations around place names and also the various fantasy species

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894

Really obsessed with this one like how old cameras worked making everyone blurry against the statue and just makes you realize how long the statue has been right. There.