# 2025-05-29

-   [[Bookmarked]]:
    -   [Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism](https://wether.smol.pub/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](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251340600)
        -   **tags:** [[AI]].
    -   [Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth](https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/our-mutual-friend-the-bbc-in-the-digital-age)
    -   [The Home Office's new "ChatGPT-style" LLM tool is riddled with mistakes that could mean life or death for people seeking asylum - Foxglove](https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/05/19/home-office-chatgpt-llm-life-or-death-people-seeking-asylum/)
        -   **tags:** [[AI]]. [[LLM]]s.
    -   [Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic](https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capitalism-is-fundamentally-undemocratic)
        -   **tags:** [[Capitalism]].  [[Democracy]].
    -   [OpenAI explores platform to rival X, following $40B funding round](https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/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](https://www.thedissident.news/international-civil-societys-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](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-email-block-a-wake-up-call-for-digital-sovereignty-10387383.html)
        -   **tags:** [[Microsoft]]. [[Digital sovereignty]].
    -   [Negatechnology | POST GROWTH TOOLKIT](http://postgrowth.art/negatechnology-En.html)
        -   h/t [[Panda]].
    -   [We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard….](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/)
        -   **tags:** [[AI]].
    -   [Livin' on repair: The workshops, garages and cafes of Berlin's thriving DIY s…](https://www.the-berliner.com/berlin/repair-cafes-workshops-diy-culture-eco-sustainability-bicycle-electronics-clothing/)
        -   **tags:** [[Repair]].  [[Berlin]].
    -   [Apple launches Self Service Repair for iPad, expands repair programs - Apple](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-launches-self-service-repair-for-ipad-expands-repair-programs/)
        -   **tags:** [[Apple]]. [[Repair]].