can’t wait to get an email from AWS that my data has been obliterated by an asteroid.

Across Latin America, the relentless expansion of global agribusiness and the shipping corridors that sustain it are colliding head-on with the survival of working-class and Indigenous communities.

With the U.S. actively destabilizing progressive governments and aggressively pushing privatization across Latin America, the volume of extracted wealth seeking an offshore tax sanctuary will only increase. A post-socialist Cuba is perfectly positioned to fill this void.

*two years from now my employer sponsored health insurance covers nicotine patches to improve my productivity!

just noticed this about curious george the man in the yellow hat: -independently wealthy -center of his friend group -access to new york’s cultural elite (the met, natural history museum, etc.) -second house by the beach -access to exotic animals -travels to the caribbean

the mineral wealth needed to power the global north’s green energy transition is primarily located in chile and the southern andes. i’m sure the u.s.’ recent fixation on chilean telecoms is completely unrelated.

IMF: you can’t build industrial capacity by spending your own money, that’s unfair US: *turns half of latin america into client states to rebuild its industrial capacity* IMF: thank you for following the rules :)

The Uruguayan peso has gained over 68% against Argentina’s currency in the period since Milei took office.

my wife is mad that i didn’t buy her valentine’s day flowers. but i told her she should thank me for not making her complicit in the imperialist trafficking of blood roses. she did not like that.