One of the most meticulously crafted noise-reissues I've seen is the Slave Labour – Vol. I and II 4xCD box by Dada Drumming. In addition to the excellent noise – a collaboration between Lingula (David Gilden & Richard Ramirez) and Macronympha – there is a lot of explicit content, both in text and imagery, in this box.

#SlaveLabour #Macronympha #Lingula #DavidGilden #DadaDrumming #CD #noise #NowPlaying #reissue #RichardRamirez

@rl_dane @nlarson830 #Zuck's #NSAbook are top donors to #Trump, so they'd get away with anything.

After all, the #ForProfitPrisons & #PrisonIndustry in the #USA are well-known to sell labour to corporations cheaper than any callcenter in #India!

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-slavery-and-early-colonisation-south-africa

#SA became not just a society in which some people were #slaves, but a fully-fledged #slavesociety…the institution of #slavery touched all aspects of life, as slavery was central to the social, economic and legal institutions. As the boundaries of the Cape Colony expanded…slaves were put to work on the #wine and #wheat farms of the south-western Cape…the #colonial economy could not function without the use of #slavelabour, and therefore slave-ownership was widespread.

History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa | South African History Online

Labour u-turns on slave labour? Probably not, but they have the odd restless MP to keep placated - after all they with to use their tame MPs to subdue the British population (used purposely, devolution is worth diddly squat when Westminster farts)

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/25/uk-ministers-vow-to-tackle-forced-labour-in-supply-chains-to-mollify-mps

#SlaveLabour #Labour #Ukpol #ScottishIndependence #WelshIndependence #IrishIndependence #YorkshireIndependence

UK ministers vow to tackle forced labour in supply chains to mollify MPs

Pledge comes after Labour MPs were whipped to remove legal protections from Great British Energy bill

The Guardian

@peterrenshaw

A bunch of scummy companies lieing to consumers about their safety.

I knew #Nissan for years threw away reports of dangerous faults in Nissan vehicles.

And that #VW lied about emissions.

Maybe trusting companies that grew with Nazi and Japanese #SlaveLabour during WWII was never a good idea?
Or is it that modern corporations are becoming and more fascist and put #ProfitsBeforePeople.

Destruction of #Trust

Alexander MacFarlane (c. 1702 – 23 August 1755) was a Scottish astronomer, merchant, mathematician, judge, politician and #planter. Born in #Scotland, MacFarlane graduated from the #UniversityOfGlasgow in 1728 and immigrated to the British #colonyOfJamaica, where he settled down to a career as a merchant and acquired several #sugarPlantations operated with #slaveLabour. In addition to working as a judge and politician, MacFarlane also pursued an amateur career in #astronomy in #PortRoyal.

They are attempting to create a desperate and hungry slave worker class. They despise us.

#Oligarchy #Fascism #SlaveLabor #SlaveLabour

Full list of tomato products linked to Chinese forced labour on sale in #UK

Products described as containing #Italian #tomatoes could actually contain tomatoes grown in #China using #ForcedLabor

The investigation found 17 tomato products including purée sold in UK & #German markets are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes

Of those, 6 are sold in

- #Asda
- #Tesco
- #Morrisons
- #Waitrose

All 4 supermarkets dispute results of the testing

https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/02/full-list-tomato-products-linked-chinese-forced-labour-sale-uk-22102177/

#SlaveLabour #HumanRights #food

Full list of tomato products linked to Chinese forced labour on sale in the UK

The BBC's investigation found 17 tomato products including purée sold in UK and German supermarkets are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes.

Metro

#TuesdayColumn: As the #WorldRobotConference lubes up Beijing for more industrial #robots to provide "new productive forces", I think we should wonder as to why humanity dreams so insistently about #SlaveLabour... #writing #philosophy #politics

Dreaming of Servitude:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/dreaming-of-servitors/

Dreaming of Servitors

Last week saw the World Robot Conference in Beijing, where the robotic developer consortium met up to show off their tricks and innovations to a salivating market, from uncanny-valley models to mus…

WastedWords

"Fifty-seven per cent of Americans say they are addicted to their phones, 71 per cent spend more time with their #phones than with their lovers. We've created a $500 billion-dollar industry producing #addiction machines that don't fit in our hands and are effectively made on the back of #slavelabour – the role of #smartphones in contemporary life feels increasingly, and profoundly, #stupid."

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/08/21/smartphones-opinion-phineas-harper/

"The role of smartphones in contemporary life feels increasingly stupid"

Smartphone design has been getting worse and worse while the industry itself has become an environmental and humanitarian nightmare, writes Phineas Harper.

Dezeen