Juan 🇵🇸🍉 [PerplexedPeriphery / PeriferiaPerpleja]

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.

Colombia, the location of Latin America’s longest-running insurgency, is seeing a new wave of violence.

Nah-ah, not alone: blackboard monitor Vimes needs to tag along

Many animal 'geomorphs' under threat, study warns Research identifies more than 600 land and freshwater species shaping ecosystems

#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...

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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?

NOAA will be replaced by a Cheeto with a Sharpie

*tapping the sign* #Blaufuks

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

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So, what's on the news today?

Organisations inthe Global South standing against land theft, resource drainage, greed-driven conflict, and human rights violations... I believe USAID and its downfall represents the perils of singularity, in the form of having a single dev donor hoarding all this info to be misused to cause harm

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

Sophia Goodfriend | Militarised AI Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in...

‘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...

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

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Achievement unlocked: 8 years living in the coldest North, and today ice finally made me fall on my a$$

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...

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

Read the full report: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2025 ⬇️
www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-co...

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Meet the Prisoners Being Paid $1 an Hour to Battle the Deadly Climate-Fueled Fires of California

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?...

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

Age of (fall of) Empires. Dunno if we'll ever see the videogame though

YouTube video by CrashCourse A World Without Governments? Anarchism Explained

PBS just casually dropped a CrashCourse episode to educate folks about anarchy.

They use examples of how folks responded to the first wave of COVID: mutual aid networks, free art & education, donating n95s, &c. (Which is ongoing health and disability justice work! Check out maskbloc.org for more.)

Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation.

As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

“This quibbling over the number of people desperate for food seems a politicized diversion from the fact that the Israeli government is blocking virtually all food from getting in”-Kenneth Roth

“FEWS said in its report that its famine assessment holds even if as few as 10,000 people remain.”