Trace&Traceability

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Supply chain, traceability and certification links. Plus some music, art, database and other things....
https://trace-and-traceability.org/
Carl Andre. Untitled, 1963
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq028p5 A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs v. 2.0
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

#tech #digitalsovereignty #iran #politics #geopolitics

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Disconnect
Benjamin Y. Fong | Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data

The future of e-commerce at Amazon rests on the increasingly complex logistics of same-day delivery—and the labor costs these entail.

Phenomenal World
Deep dive into the anarchist clockmakers of Switzerland in the 1870s.
https://www.europastar.com/the-watch-files/archives-heritage/1004113260-anarchists-and-watchmakers.html
Anarchists and watchmakers

Two recent events - Florian Eitel's extensively researched publication, Le Vallon horloger et ses anarchistes, and Cyril Schäublin's film Unrueh (Unrest) - are a reminder of the profound connection that existed between watchmaking and anarchism. This fascinating story unfolds in the late nineteenth century, during the “first globalisation”, in Saint-Imier – the headquarters of Longines since 1832 – and nearby Sonvilier.

And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For. The bottom-up revolt against Big Tech shows people will indeed get off the sofa for the right fight.

👉🏻 https://newrepublic.com/article/206633/data-centers-ai-big-tech-opposition