Month: October 2018

When Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, Judith Rodriguez was asleep in her home. Or rather, she was trying to sleep, but the sounds of the deadly storm blowing over the island woke her up.

In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans

Fight for your right to fix the things you own! Learn more about the Right to Repair movement at iFixit.org/blog.

by Felix Holtwell // Meet the radical Brazilians organising tech workers

by James Moulding, Irina Bolychevsky // Corbyn’s digital speech is a good start, but we should look to redecentralise the web rather than build new social media monopolies.

by Jason Prado // The internet has become highly centralised due to its role as a site of capital accumulation. Challenging capital requires revisiting the internet’s architecture.

Nothing reveals the curious disposability of consumer technology more than this feeble, aging device.