Liked Frank Pasquale on Twitter (Twitter)

“SimCity’s inspiration was rightwing cybernetics: “New migrants…caused overcrowding & underemployment, dampening economic vitality, & sending the city into a death spiral of blight and decay;” the urban poor are modeled as parasites.
https://t.co/cF16BzRlx3”

Liked Massive precedent set for repairable products by Janet Gunter (The Restart Project)

We’ve been campaigning for the past three months on crucial “Right to repair” measures at the European level. The early draft of regulations truly promised to revolutionise repairs of key appliances, offering guaranteed access to spare parts and repair information for all, and design for disassembly. In November, we were alarmed to see that lobbyists had successfully undermined these, adding numerous catches and caveats.