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[patrickspens-deactivated2023122]

A Textbook Case of Genocide

Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[aschrecordings]

Where's a public library? by the Toronto Public Library, 1975, showcasing library branches in the west end of Toronto

[chantssecrets]

Sonia Delaunay's Broderie de feuillages (1909).

[rosieandthemoon]

from a hike in New Hampshire

[richardanarchist]

Mountain Bathed Under Golden Sun

Huang Yuxing

[rosieandthemoon]

some 4x6 drawings. All made with ballpoint

[pmamtraveller]

"Everything Appears as it is: Infinite" by Alex Dodge

[toast1862]

like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.

it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.

like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them

[just-deer-things]

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

[just-deer-things]

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

[thetiethatvines]

i think the upsetting thing about disability accommodations is that they don’t magically fix you. the shower seat should make me bright eyed and bushy tailed after a shower, not just like. tired instead of exhausted.

[evilplumpie]

finally flowering! first cosmo blooms (bipennatus and sulphureus)

[polkadotmotmot]

Harry Brioche - Golden Glow, 2025 - Oil on board

[soup-mother]

There's a certain kinda person whose issue with people going "as a psych major" to belittle and dismiss disabled people is that they think you need to have a higher level degree to be allowed to belittle and dismiss disabled people.

[soup-mother]

Like their issue is clearly with the "psych major" part and not the belittling and dismissing disabled people.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Pauojoungie Saggiak (Inuit; Iqaluit, NU, b.1959)

Treasures of the Sea

Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2016

Lithograph, 57 x 76.2 cm (22 3/8 x 30 in.)

[weepingwidar]

Abdulhalim Radwi (Saudi Arabian, 1939-2006) - Untitled (1988)

[thejawsdevour]

Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi (Surinamese) - Butterfly 5 (acrylic paint, antique buttons and glass beads on canvas, 2025)