2021-10-16

• It's Repair Day! "A day to promote and celebrate the value of fixing". Fix shit or cry trying, as the saying goes. I've got a toy laptop, a sewing machine and a pair of jeans to fix.

• Bookmarked: On the Sustainability of Free Software

  the FSFE demands the publication of a device's underlying source code under a free licence 30 at the end of support for any software necessary to run or modify the initial functioning of the device.

  URL

  https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html

• Listening: Electoral Theory and Strategy of Marx and Lenin w/ August Nimtz
  • Electoralism
• Watched: What Does It Mean to Care and Repair?
• Austerity
  • Austerity in England linked to more than 50,000 extra deaths in five years

Researchers who analysed the joint impact of cuts to healthcare, public health and social care since 2010 found that even in just the following four years the spending squeeze was linked with 57,550 more deaths than would have been expected.

– Austerity in England linked to more than 50,000 extra deaths in five years

• Money and capital

If money, according to Augier, 'comes into the world with a congenital bloodstain on one cheek,' capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt."

― Capital, Vol. 1