JMC 🌹🏴

@jmcolony
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A writer of things – some literary, others political, all opinionated.

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Co-Editor at STRANGE MATTERS (http://strangematters.coop)

Literature Editor THE POINT (https://thepointmag.com/)

Learning to plan. Plotting a renaissance. Helping to build globally networked digital direct democracy.

Pronounshe/him
CommitmentsModernism in the arts, libertarian socialism in politics
InterestsLiterature, philosophy, politics, heterodox economics, history (intellectual, social, economic), international news, anthropology, ecology, cognitive science, & technology
SocialsTwitter: red_dilettante | Instagram: jmcolony | Bluesky: @red-dilettante.bsky.social
JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27
geneva_convenienceMar 27

Two humanitarian aid boats en route to Cuba are missing, Mexico says

https://lemmy.ml/post/45082211

Two humanitarian aid boats en route to Cuba are missing, Mexico says - Lemmy

MEXICO CITY, March 26 (Reuters) - Mexico’s navy said on Thursday it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba ‌after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled. In a statement, the navy said the two boats left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, last week bound for Havana with nine crew members of different nationalities on board. The vessels had ⁠been expected to arrive between March 24 and 25, but there had been no communication from them and no confirmation of their arrival, the navy said.

JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27
World news | The GuardianMar 27
UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/27/un-slavery-ruling-african-union-reparations-slavery-analysis #ReparationsAndReparativeJustice #Slavery #WorldNews #AntnioGuterres #UnitedNations #Ghana #Africa
UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations

Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has come

The Guardian
JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27
Verdant Square NetworkMar 27

Nepal’s new PM gives message to nation in rap, ahead of swearing in https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/27/nepals-new-pm-gives-message-to-nation-in-rap-ahead-of-swearing-in?traffic_source=rss

#aljazeera #worldnews #VSN

Nepal’s new PM gives message to nation in rap, ahead of swearing in

Nepali rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah has been sworn in as PM after his party’s landslide election win.

Al Jazeera
JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27
The Japan TimesMar 27
Indigenous firefighters are using drones and treetop cameras to monitor and prevent wildfires in Thailand's forests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/27/asia-pacific/society/thailand-indigenous-firefighters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #thailand #wildfires #indigenouspeople #environment
Tech-equipped Indigenous firefighters protect Thai forests

Hmong villagers zip through forested slopes and cut through brush with machetes while others scan for smoke on live feeds from their phones.

The Japan Times
JMC 🌹🏴Mar 27
Strange Matters MagazineMar 26
"Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York in recent years; its symptoms were pustules of steel & glass jutting up out of a face I thought I had known my whole life." strangematters.coop/atlas-dabbed...

Atlas Dabbed
Atlas Dabbed - Strange Matters

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Show threadJMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

@TheTedJamesExperiment @beka_valentine

(Though that said some of the rot began in the New Left, with doctrinally rigid anti-tech types emerging from dogmatic readings of genuine critics of technology like Illich, Ellul, the ecologists, etc.

And conversely, not all of it is rot -- some of those critiques are important! Degrowth etc should be part of the picture. But as an absolute principle, they can be taken too far, and become obstacles to our getting free.)

Show threadJMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

@TheTedJamesExperiment @beka_valentine

I think that our inability on the Left to have serious conversations about industrial and technological questions is a major liability to the movement, and is likely to result in us getting swept away by changes we did nothing to integrate and adapt to.

It's also contrary to the spirit of the historical workers' movement, even as recently as the New Left, which was often excited by new technologies and their possibilities for emancipation.

Show threadJMC 🌹🏴Mar 26

@TheTedJamesExperiment @beka_valentine

You're so right about this. (Editor at the magazine that published this speaking!) We've struggled hard against this tendency in ourselves and actually wrote a whole tech editorial talking about the nuances and complexities of technological issues, a few print issues ago. I think you will enjoy it.

https://strangematters.coop/technology-and-the-left-socialist-futurism/

Can Technology Save Us? - Strange Matters

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JMC 🌹🏴Mar 26
‮🅮Dec 16, 2024

So many leftists react like this to any new technology and it's honestly dangerous. I've heard so many people say things like "it's a bubble, it'll burst soon" or "people will reject it in a grand Butlerian Jihad" with regards to AI. What if that doesn't happen? Because these people essentially don't take it seriously and think it'll just go away, they don't make plans on how to deal with it and just cede these technologies entirely to the right. And they have plans on how to use these technologies, certainly not for the average person's benefit.

https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/

This article by @beka_valentine talks about this tendency with regards to space exploration, which many decry as "techbro fantasies." People who do this are not prepared to deal with uprisings on asteroid mining colonies and give them support!

Capitalism Storms the Heavens - Strange Matters

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JMC 🌹🏴Mar 26
Strange Matters MagazineMar 26
"These [organizational dualist] thinkers argued that, in addition to massive and class-based pluralistic social organizations, specific anarchist organizations would also be necessary to promote their positions more consistently among workers." strangematters.coop/debates-with...

An Historiography of Anarchism
An Historiography of Anarchism - Strange Matters

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