Juan 🇵🇸🍉 [PerplexedPeriphery / PeriferiaPerpleja]
@perplexed-jotape.bsky.social
relief response bureaucrat | grassroots organizing+mutual aid | reneging on neutrality; doubling down on humanity |
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Colombia, the location of Latin America’s longest-running insurgency, is seeing a new wave of violence.
Colombia’s fragile peace process in danger as guerrilla violence rises
Colombia, the location of Latin America’s longest-running insurgency, is seeing a new wave of violence.
tcnv.link
April 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Colombia, the location of Latin America’s longest-running insurgency, is seeing a new wave of violence.
#FallOfTheEmpire #AgeOfStupid Some living beings might find fight within, when threatened, becoming able to birth new worlds. Remarkably, other animal species would do this too, as humans do: gulfnews.com/world/europe...
Many animal 'geomorphs' under threat, study warns
Research identifies more than 600 land and freshwater species shaping ecosystems
gulfnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#FallOfTheEmpire #AgeOfStupid Some living beings might find fight within, when threatened, becoming able to birth new worlds. Remarkably, other animal species would do this too, as humans do: gulfnews.com/world/europe...
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The US intervened in foreign elections at least 128 times between 1946 and 2014, to sway outcomes in its own interests, usually to prevent left-wing parties from coming to power.
Link in next post.
Link in next post.
March 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The US intervened in foreign elections at least 128 times between 1946 and 2014, to sway outcomes in its own interests, usually to prevent left-wing parties from coming to power.
Link in next post.
Link in next post.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Global Voices stands in solidarity with the NGOs being attacked by the public prosecutor's office in Serbia and strongly condemns the police raids as well as continuing threats and intimidation.
Global Voices statement on the attacks on Serbian NGOs
Global Voices stands in solidarity with the NGOs being attacked by the public prosecutor's office in Serbia and strongly condemns the police raids as well as continuing threats and intimidation.
globalvoices.org
March 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Global Voices stands in solidarity with the NGOs being attacked by the public prosecutor's office in Serbia and strongly condemns the police raids as well as continuing threats and intimidation.
Is Europe experiencing what Latin America often felt like re: the US? Not even its whiteness will save it?
February 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Is Europe experiencing what Latin America often felt like re: the US? Not even its whiteness will save it?
NOAA will be replaced by a Cheeto with a Sharpie
February 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
NOAA will be replaced by a Cheeto with a Sharpie
Some Americans sound like they truly believe their country is going to respawn with all the stats and skills it had when they last saved. I do not think there is a comeback from the road they are going
February 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Some Americans sound like they truly believe their country is going to respawn with all the stats and skills it had when they last saved. I do not think there is a comeback from the road they are going
So, what's on the news today?
a cartoon of a sick sad world logo on a television screen
ALT: a cartoon of a sick sad world logo on a television screen
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So, what's on the news today?
USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) hosted all research and evaluations commissioned through awards and subawards. Sets of literature and datasets now available for training AI and harvesting information on cadaster, natural conservation areas, and natural resources, as well as the...
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) hosted all research and evaluations commissioned through awards and subawards. Sets of literature and datasets now available for training AI and harvesting information on cadaster, natural conservation areas, and natural resources, as well as the...
The empire is dying. Will it take us all down too, as it crumbles? #BraveNewWorld #AgeOfStupid
February 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The empire is dying. Will it take us all down too, as it crumbles? #BraveNewWorld #AgeOfStupid
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‘Israel’s military campaigns across Palestine and neighbouring countries have long offered the raw material that tech firms needed to build their experiments in surveillance and algorithmic warfare to scale: kill-chain data.’
Sophia Goodfriend on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Sophia Goodfriend on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Sophia Goodfriend | Militarised AI
Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
‘Israel’s military campaigns across Palestine and neighbouring countries have long offered the raw material that tech firms needed to build their experiments in surveillance and algorithmic warfare to scale: kill-chain data.’
Sophia Goodfriend on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Sophia Goodfriend on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
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Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference
January 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference
AI is just an euphemism for human stupidity
January 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
AI is just an euphemism for human stupidity
Achievement unlocked: 8 years living in the coldest North, and today ice finally made me fall on my a$$
a man is shoveling snow in front of a house with a smiley face that says snow
ALT: a man is shoveling snow in front of a house with a smiley face that says snow
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Achievement unlocked: 8 years living in the coldest North, and today ice finally made me fall on my a$$
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Perhaps an appropriate time to share our commentary on the problematic politics of tech helping. Adam Moe Fejerskov from @diis.dk and I reflected on our research on tech companies, Commodifying Compassion and claims of 'helping' in the global South. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping - Lisa Ann Richey, Adam Moe Fejerskov, 2024
Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global ‘virtual’ assembly lines that see them pe...
journals.sagepub.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Perhaps an appropriate time to share our commentary on the problematic politics of tech helping. Adam Moe Fejerskov from @diis.dk and I reflected on our research on tech companies, Commodifying Compassion and claims of 'helping' in the global South. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Age of Stupid has given us quite a preview days before it is formally inaugurated - empires fall, yes, but were are all here collateral damage
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The Age of Stupid has given us quite a preview days before it is formally inaugurated - empires fall, yes, but were are all here collateral damage
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Read the full report: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2025 ⬇️
www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...
www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...
January 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Read the full report: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2025 ⬇️
www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...
www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...
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I often show this video in class, and students routinely have a lot to say in response.
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Meet the Prisoners Being Paid $1 an Hour to Battle the Deadly Climate-Fueled Fires of California
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtu.be
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I often show this video in class, and students routinely have a lot to say in response.
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
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Murray Bookchin: "With the hollowing out of community by the market system, with its loss of structure, articulation, and form, comes the concomitant hollowing out of personality itself. Just as the spiritual and institutional ties that linked human being together 1/3
January 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Murray Bookchin: "With the hollowing out of community by the market system, with its loss of structure, articulation, and form, comes the concomitant hollowing out of personality itself. Just as the spiritual and institutional ties that linked human being together 1/3
Disaster weaponization
As wildfires ravage California, read how Trump has a history of basing his response to a national disaster on the politics of those caught in its wake.
Trump Refused to Approve Wildfire Aid Until He Learned Affected Areas Were MAGA: Report
Donald Trump delayed aid in response to 2018’s California wildfires because he felt the areas affected were too Democratic.
www.rollingstone.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Disaster weaponization
Age of (fall of) Empires. Dunno if we'll ever see the videogame though
January 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Age of (fall of) Empires. Dunno if we'll ever see the videogame though