Me inspira la agroecología política, vivo en una comunidad con profundas raíces y relaciones estrechas con el campo y con el territorio. Multicultural
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El 30 de octubre de 1937, tuvo lugar un desfile nazi masivo por las calles de Nueva York, luciendo uniformes de las camisas pardas nazis y banderas con esvásticas, miles de nazis desfilaron con permiso del gobierno de EEUU.
En 1937, el régimen nazi de Adolf Hitler tenía ya 3 grandes campos de concentración, Dachau, Sachsenhausen y Buchenwald, con más de 25.000 personas internadas en ellos, la mayoría presos políticos comunistas, y miles de estos presos ya eran asesinados por palizas, torturas y ejecuciones de los nazis.
Estos desfiles serían sistemáticos inclusos ya entrados en 1939 en Nueva York, en febrero de 1939 más de 20.000 nazis llenaron el Madison Square Garden.
Esta escena no salía en Salvar al Soldado Ryan.
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THE MOST INCOMPETENT WAR IN HISTORY: SARAH PAINE ON TRUMP’S IRAN DISASTER
Dr. Sarah Paine, a leading historian of great-power conflict and strategy, delivers a blunt verdict on the Iran war. She calls it one of the most incompetent wars in human history. The decision ignored basic principles of assessment, put maximum costs on America itself, and left permanent damage to the country’s power and alliances. This is not hindsight—it is the predictable result of hubris meeting reality.
THE CORE VERDICT
➡️ “The Iran war is probably one of the most incompetent wars in human history.”
➡️ A competent war puts the costs on the enemy and minimizes them for yourself.
➡️ This one did the opposite.
THE COST CATASTROPHE
➡️ It trashed the US economy.
➡️ It blew the US alliance system.
➡️ Iran is hurting, but the collateral damage is taking down the world’s economy.
➡️ That transforms the United States from a partner into an annoyance—and for many, a primary adversary—because it is threatening their economies.
➡️ “That’s breathtakingly incompetent.”
THE STRATEGIC BLIND SPOT
➡️ Any serious assessment looks at the enemy’s strengths and your own weaknesses, plus everyone else who might intervene.
➡️ That was absent.
➡️ The first thing Iran would do is shut Hormuz. Narrow seas close in wartime. Ukraine already showed this with the Black Sea.
➡️ Shore artillery, mines, and other tools stop traffic. There is no mystery here.
➡️ The big naval base in Bahrain becomes unreachable. The fallback is Diego Garcia, 2,500 miles away in the middle of nowhere. “That would be a mess.”
THE HUBRIS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE
➡️ The people making the calls are historically unqualified for the job. That makes them profoundly dangerous.
➡️ Type A hubris assumes all decisions that matter happen in the United States.
➡️ Type B hubris assumes being good at one thing makes you good at everything.
➡️ Half-court tennis: you only watch your own side and never study the other team.
➡️ The Iranians understand Americans far better than Americans understand them.
THE UNFEASIBLE OBJECTIVE
➡️ Trying to “solve” Iran with 90 million people was never realistic.
➡️ Nazi Germany had roughly 80 million and required an occupation force of about 1.5 million just to hold it after the war—before counting everyone else.
➡️ The goal was unattainable. Pursuing it guarantees overextension and a bad ending.
➡️ The lesson the world takes is simple: get a nuke. The war incentivized proliferation.
➡️ This was a pivotal error. The choices that existed before are gone and will not return. “We will never be the trusted partner ever again. It’s done.”
THE BOTTOM LINE
The Iran war did not merely fail. It maximized American costs, destroyed trust with allies, and handed every rival a clearer reason to treat the United States as a threat to their own prosperity. Competence would have contained the problem at affordable cost. Hubris chose the opposite.
This is what permanent strategic damage looks like.
#IranWar #SarahPaine #StrategicIncompetence #HormuzDisaster #USHubris #AllianceCollapse #CatastrophicMistake
HT: YouTube The Diary Of A CEO
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Concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in our atmosphere are higher than ever before.
The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin reports on the amount of gas that accumulates in the atmosphere, not new annual emissions.
Explore the findings: bit.ly/4iIqwMR
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Tres de cada cuatro jóvenes israelíes apoyan a los partidos políticos más radicalizados. ¿Cuál es el futuro de la nación sionista?
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La cosmovisión nahua mexica acerca de la muerte contempla al inframundo como un lugar donde las almas de todos se encuentran después de la vida: el Mictlán. Los mexicas no veían la muerte como el fin de la existencia, sino como un ciclo vital para volver a comenzar y mantener el equilibrio del cosmos.
Acompañadas por un xoloitzcuintle, en una travesía de cuatro años, las almas llegaban ante el gran Mictlantecuhtli, el señor de los muertos que a menudo es representado como un ser descarnado y con garras.
Para ayudar a los muertos en su travesía, las ofrendas eran muy importantes, tanto en el momento de la muerte como en los aniversarios luctuosos. De este modo, se pedía la protección de Mictlantecuhtli en el inframundo. 🕯️💀
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What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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Natural disasters aren’t natural. A storm doesn’t decide who has insurance, savings or somewhere safe to go. People built the systems that leave others exposed. People can change them.
Read #DisasterDivide:
oxfam.org/en/research/disast…
#ClimateJustice #MakeRichPollutersPay
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0.1% of people on the planet emit more CO2 than the poorest 3.5 billion people combined.
One year’s worth of emissions from the top 1% will result in an estimated 1.3 million excess deaths from extreme heat.
Just a few stats from Oxfam's incredible new report.
Natural disasters aren’t natural. A storm doesn’t decide who has insurance, savings or somewhere safe to go. People built the systems that leave others exposed. People can change them.
Read #DisasterDivide:
oxfam.org/en/research/disast…
#ClimateJustice #MakeRichPollutersPay
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BREAKING: America's 706 biggest corporations paid a 10.4% tax rate on $1.88 TRILLION in profits last year.
That's the lowest rate researchers have found in more than 40 years of tracking.
It's also less than half the 21% rate they're supposed to pay.
This is insane.
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Some of the sharpest analyses of Israeli politics come from Daniel Levy.
This should be subtitled in every language. Short, clear, impeccable.
Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP):
Netanyahu did not alone commit genocide for 3 years. He did not alone maintain decades of illegal occupation. It was system-wide.
Eisenkot was part of it & served in the military. He sat in the emergency unity security cabinet after Oct. 7 - during the genocide.
Israeli generals, soldiers & judges - all part of a system-wide mobilization. Dissenting voices existed but remained marginal.
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Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification
"When ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest ... Microsoft turned off the court's Outlook service. Without warning the justices lost their email, their documents, their calendars, their address books... "
Microsoft claims this was a coincidence. Doctorow does not believe them
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Field data and analysis of crossing activity confirm that Israel continues to limit the amount and range of goods entering #Gaza, with total supplies meeting, at best, only around 37% of the Strip’s actual needs
euromedmonitor.org/a/7122
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RULFO: Maestro, soy yo, Rulfo. Qué bueno que ya llegó. Usted sabe cómo lo estimamos y lo admiramos.
BORGES: Finalmente, Rulfo. Ya no puedo ver a un país, pero lo puedo escuchar. Y escucho tanta amabilidad. Ya había olvidado la verdadera dimensión de esta gran costumbre. Pero no me llame Borges y menos «maestro», dígame Jorge Luis.
RULFO: Qué amable. Usted dígame entonces Juan.
BORGES: Le voy a ser sincero. Me gusta más Juan que Jorge Luis, con sus cuatro letras tan breves y tan definitivas. La brevedad ha sido siempre una de mis predilecciones.
RULFO: No, eso sí que no. Juan, cualquiera, pero Jorge Luis, sólo Borges.
BORGES: Usted tan atento como siempre. Dígame, ¿cómo ha estado últimamente?
RULFO: ¿Yo? Pues muriéndome, muriéndome por ahí.
BORGES: Entonces no le ha ido tan mal.
RULFO: ¿Cómo así?
BORGES: Imagínese, don Juan, lo desdichado que seríamos si fuéramos inmortales.
RULFO: Sí, verdad. Después anda uno por ahí muerto haciendo como si estuviera uno vivo.
BORGES: Le voy a confesar un secreto. Mi abuelo, el general, decía que no se llamaba Borges, que su nombre verdadero era otro, secreto. Sospecho que se llamaba Pedro Páramo. Yo entonces soy una reedición de lo que usted escribió sobre los de Comala.
RULFO: Así ya me puedo morir en serio.
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Fragmento de una conversación real entre Jorge Luis Borges y Juan Rulfo.
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Según David Graeber, los dirigentes derechistas han aprendido a parecer idiotas con la esperanza de ganarse la simpatía de los sectores populares. Hoy escribo para @publico_es. publico.es/opinion/columnas/…
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When China produces superior cars at a lower price, and people around the world want to buy them, economists who worked for the US government claim it is an "assault" on the market.
But when US allies Germany and Japan dominated the market, they thought it was good and natural.
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This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones
"The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats
So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts
The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it.
By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place
Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?
