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First Homebrew Website Club meeting in Nottingham!

Exclusive: small companies tell the Guardian of the impact of ending ‘Friday fatigue’

Aral Balkan talks about how to design tools and find ways around the big social media platforms. He calls for the design and implementation of Small Tech. I fully agree. Technology to provide us with agency needs to be not just small, but smaller than us, i.e. within the scope of control of the grou…

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

— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) February 1, 2019

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.

A while ago Peter wrote about energy security and how having a less reliable grid may actually be useful to energy security.
This the difference between having tightly coupled systems and loosely coupled systems. Loosely coupled systems can show more robustness because having failing parts will not …

Liked https://blog.voss.co/2019/i-used-to-have-an-interactive-map by Jonas Voss (blog.voss.co)

I used to have an interactive map that I maintained listing the countries I had visited.