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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 — such as Google, Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft — 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.

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Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

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1. They also invented kayaks and dog booties.

Dog booties are actually really important for working sled dogs in winter to protect their paw pads from iceburn and keep ice from getting in between their toes and burning them that way.

2. The traditional Inuit diet is one of the healthiest in the world, and the most balanced for the ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 consumption

Most modern diets consume way too much Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3.

3. Inuit is a plural noun. When speaking about a single person the correct word is Inuk (always capitalized)

For example, “This Inuk woman is wearing traditional Inuit tattoos”.