Inside the iPhone Repair Ecosystem: Where Do Replacement Parts Come From and Can You Trust Them? // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2at8837

Thrilled to launch a big project today: ANATOMY OF AN AI SYSTEM. It's a large map & long-form essay about Amazon's Echo, and the full stack of capital, labor, and natural resources used in AI. It's a collab with Vladan Joler, who is a visual genius ✨ anatomyof.ai

Seizing the Chokepoints // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2ceIYLL

How to earn trust through digital design by Sarah Gold // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2hZK2lu

Bees dying under 5G poles // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2kaE7Nc

California's massive power outage is a wake-up call for the whole country // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2lQSVW-

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2mpfW2z

The UK is currently in the grip of an unanticipated egg carton shortage. The entire of Europe is supplied by just three egg carton manufacturers. None is based in Britain tmblr.co/Zuv3OsY4QzKxOu…

“Observations of failure, breakdown and dysfunction are frequently made with reference to abstract and large-scale objects such as system, capitalism, planet, or climate. But numerous smaller-scale expressions may be found also when zooming in” tmblr.co/Zuv3OsZ2gnEtSu…

In this essay a new form of Internet activism is proposed: stacktivism // tmblr.co/Zuv3OsZDtXCBqi…

What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2VJmzk-

I'm running a stream on infrastructure, 'infrapolitics' and experimental method at London Critical's #LCCT2018 - the call for papers is open now at londoncritical.org, deadline (extended cos strikes) Mon 2 April

London Critical I'm interested in responses drawing on the work of (among others) Susan Leigh Star, @shannonmattern, Mar Hicks, stacktivism, @agpublic, furtherfield's Blockchain stuff (sorry for mass @-ing). Look at all the streams, not just mine! Loads of good stuff there.

Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2WnSiWR

The demise of the nation state After decades of globalisation, our political system has become obsolete – ... tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2WpDPIi

Infrastructure and unending empires // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2W-CBFr

Into the Red Stack - Gabriele de Seta on China’s digital entrepreneurs, infrastructures and platforms // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2XDb9xP

The Varieties of Corporate Power // tmblr.co/Zuv3Os2XYMURa