grenlith

@nop.codes

owl on the internet wife, artist, hacker seattle fedi: https://haunted.computer/@gren avatar by @aaland.co

The first year we had smoke/high AQI in Seattle I ignored it/thought I wasn’t “sensitive”. Welp, turns out I am. If you feel crappy/tired/headachy guess what? You are sensitive too. Drink plenty of water.

My take on Covid is you can still catch Covid and I know a lot of people personally with lifelong and debilitating post-Covid conditions. Since it’s airborne I wear a mask outside of the house and run HEPAs. Reducing it to a past-tense issue is fatalist defeatism and desperate escapism

It is funny that as more people get duped by AI, the response more frequently seems to be to insist that the models are developing godlike intelligence and we all need to be sooo careful when the real lesson is clearly that the human psyche can get absolutely one-shotted by personalized flattery

lukewarm take but Amnesty International has always been run by moral cowards, and at times, moral cowards bankrolled by the CIA and the British intelligence services

By the mid-1960s, Amnesty International's global presence was growing and an International Secretariat and International Executive Committee were established to manage Amnesty International's national organizations, called 'Sections", which had appeared in several countries. They were secretly supported by the British government at the time. The international movement was starting to agree on its core principles and techniques. For example, the issue of whether or not to adopt prisoners who had advocated violence, like Nelson Mandela, brought unanimous agreement that it could not give the name of "Prisoner of Conscience" to such prisoners. Aside from the work of the library and groups, Amnesty International activities were expanding to helping prisoners' families, sending observers to trials, making representations to governments, and finding asylum or overseas employment for prisoners. Its activity and influence were also increasing within intergovernmental organizations; it would be awarded consultative status by the United Nations, the Council of Europe and UNESCO before the decade ended. (19)

at a certain point, when you’re really on top of your fiber intake, you kind of start to feel like a tube of toothpaste

sometimes @bleat.ing will walk by and just say random jargon words they’ve heard me use, but i just got hit with a real winner. they said: “enumerates your yaml till you curl” no notes, 10/10

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⚠️ Content Warning: The Southlander previously reported that GEO Group, a billion-dollar private prison company, was ordered by the judge to share unsealed footage of the June 12, 2020 incident at the Adelanto ICE processing center… 🧵1/5