[[Capitalism creates and shapes desires]].

[[Capitalism tends towards the commodification of everything]].

Jammed: Pretty in Plums by Shida Shahabi

Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]

• [[The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system]].
• [[Commodity fetishism disconnects us from where objects come from]].
• [[Repair reconnects us to the materiality of objects]].
• [[When we repair something, we think about its history and provenance]].
• [[Repair undercuts commodity fetishism]].
• [[Repair is anti-capitalist praxis]].

Bookmarked:

• Fixing as Repair – Fixing Futures
  • tags: [[Repair]].

[[compost.party]] is fun.

• A website running on solar power on an old phone.

• Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism
  • h/t: [[Panda]].
  • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Marxism]]. [[Commodity fetishism]].
• Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
  • tags: [[AI]].
• Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
• The Home Office’s new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove
  • tags: [[AI]]. [[LLM]]s.
• Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
  • tags: [[Capitalism]]. [[Democracy]].
• OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round
  • tags: [[Platform capitalism]].
  • See the point from Nick Srnicek about platforms all converging towards each other…
• International Civil Society’s Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger
  • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Reclaim the stacks]].
• Criminal Court: Microsoft’s email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty
  • tags: [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
• Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT
  • h/t [[Panda]].
• We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard….
  • tags: [[AI]].
• Livin’ on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin’s thriving DIY s…
  • tags: [[Repair]]. [[Berlin]].
• Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple
  • tags: [[Apple]]. [[Repair]].