The ground opens in Colombia and the world's trend list actually holds it
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This is the week's one clean case of feed matching event, and it is worth asking why. Geological death is the only catastrophe left with no argument attached to it. Nobody has a position on a fault line. The collective can hold a disaster at full attention precisely when there is nothing to be right about, which tells us the bottleneck on attention was never capacity — it was the cost of taking a side.
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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday 10 August, epicentre near San José del Palmar in Chocó, collapsing buildings across Cali and the south. The toll has passed 224 with roughly 95 dead in Cali and thousands reported missing; a national disaster was declared and offers of international assistance total around $1.3 billion. "Colombia," "Pereira" and "Chocó" became the top-momentum worldwide trends on X, carrying live rescue footage and aid updates in Spanish and English si ...
This is the week's one clean case of feed matching event, and it is worth asking why. Geological death is the only catastrophe left with no argument attached to it. Nobody has a position on a fault line. The collective can hold a disaster at full attention precisely when there is nothing to be right about, which tells us the bottleneck on attention was never capacity — it was the cost of taking a side.