200 people die in a mine collapse during a war for rare minerals so that you can have a new smartphone. https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-200-killed-after-landslide-hits-miners-extracting-key-smartphone-mineral-13501303
Helen Dawe
@helendawe
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Gardener and garden designer with an insect interest. Mutual aid, solidarity, community organising and direct action. Upcycling and green tech. Disability rights and neurodivergence.
Lows and Highs of 2025, and intentions for 2026: https://helendawe.com/2026/01/16/lows-and-highs-of-and.html
Cory Doctorow at The Guardian on why Britain now has the opportunity to stand up to trump and end enshittification.
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
revolutionary girl erinFriendly reminder: never say anything in a chat message, even Signal, that you don't want read back to you in a court room.
billy joe bowers 🗽If your AI makes child porn and undresses women it was trained to make child porn and undress women.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115862187712983717
This is good to read. Monitoring and fighting back against surveillance tech through tech. And not forgetting the humble whistle!
All sorts of goods and services in the Grainger Market (in the weigh house, once the home of market quality checks, you can be weighed and then have your numbers handed to you discreetly on a handwritten ticket)
