alison says reinstate Link!

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Whoever's keeping records for all the future trials of these maniacs better hire more staff.

In Search of A Better World A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights ...

I started reading this a few weeks ago, by Iranian-Canadian lawyer and professor Payam Akhavan. He was lawyer at the ICTY and ICC, and other tribunals. His story is the human side of atrocity, Iranian history, and war crimes trials.

I don't think I could have picked a more apt book for today.

HEY LATE NIGHT WEIRDOS

Do you like horror?
Do you like GOTHIC horror?
Do you like SAPPHIC gothic horror?

If you said yes to all of the above, you'll love Woman of Sorrow and Blood

My grandparents also complained about that.

And in high school I did a research paper about the Vietnam war for a history teacher who was a veteran of it. It did not go well for me.

I think that American culture, at least, has been terrible about studying history for decades.

I feel as if people are losing touch with history but I suspect what I'm actually feeling is the slipping out of living memory of events I'm used to being able to just talk to people about.

I'm also becoming history myself... people are often wrong about stuff I was at.
But...

Question for Americans specifically, do you think of this current period of time as notably more ahistorical compared to past decades? (Also, while I'm looking for gut intuition answers, if sociologists or other academics have recommendations for reading about this, I'd love to see it!)

I appear to be going to bed at normal hours?
It's pretty great.
Brain still hurts a lot of the time, but i'm coping and the sun is out for longer, too.

Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.

JFC

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update: it went exactly as we all knew it would

instagram just showed me an advertisement for an enamel pin replica of the nazi party logo, what the actual fuck is that platform

Yeah. I'm very unimpressed.

Marginalized groups deserve to not be misrepresented.

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

That was always going to be the point of the “AI system.” So they could deliberately blow up hospitals and schools and blame the AI. It doesn’t matter what the AI says - human beings need to validate targets under the laws of land warfare.

You can tell that the US blew up that school because everyone’s doing everything possible to find a way to disqualify the obvious. The country that was bragging about knowing everything it hits suddenly being quiet and wanting to move past the situation while its journalists blame the AI system? Ok.

They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by putting that it’s non-generative AI in the title of the release.

It isn’t generative AI. It’s trained on cinematography to help with editing, by pointing out when there are errors in things like lighting and lack of continuity, and to assist in producing dailies.

"Gross" is a good name for her. That statement is disgusting.

still angry

Epic frog. They scream *really* loud when you grab them. Even when you know they’re gonna do it, it’s still so hard not to drop them!

Smoky jungle frog, Guyana

It's hard to get a sense of scale from this, but the smoky jungle frog is the largest amphibian I've ever seen. We first saw it in Ecuador 20 years ago (my wife still refers to it simply as the "Hypnotoad"), and I had a chance to nab this photo this January in Guyana.

(Guinea pig-sized, I'd say.)

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

Yikes!

I still shake my head at the local Crisis Pregnancy Center that was located in a space above the Party City.

Always made me chuckle. 🤷‍♂️😂

A bunny with a small camera stares surprisedly at a fox, who proudly has a fish it caught in its mouth. They are in the woods

Daily bunny no.3268 is proud of your achievement

Promotional image for Nice To Not Meet You. A middle-aged man is in the foreground, giant-sized, seen from the shoulders up, pulling sunglasses down on his nose to look directly at the camera, wearing a bright red leather jacket. On the left, two 30-something women in blazers and slacks are pointing and gawking at someone and taking photos. On the right, a handsome man in a casual suit looks on curiously.

Nice To Not Meet You is playing strange games with the characters'/actors' ages.

I think we're supposed to believe the male lead is in his 30s. (The actor is in his 50s). He has a younger brother in med school, his romantic history is with women in their 30s and his mom is a youthful 60-ish. 😐

The US prefers to spend billions on foreign wars that destroy futures instead of keeping people safe, housed, fed and secure. @mark-carney.bsky.social is this what you support?

Someone put me on an "Indigenous" list/feed, and I just want to say NO.

This is wrong.

I am not Indigenous. Take me off your list.

It bothers me so much that people think already married cis-het couples will be "stable" in long-term space. As though getting sealed in a can with a half-dozen people and isolated from everything for months and months won't bring strain to a relationship.