But when he asked the manufacturer to send him a replacement part, he was surprised to receive the manufacturer’s response: “ ‘Absolutely no.’ ”

“I had just expected, ‘Oh, no problem. Where can we send it?’ ” he said. “I wasn’t expecting them to dig their heels in.”

Mackeil was well aware of what’s become a common obstacle for hospitals: Manufacturers not only have a monopoly over even simple replacement parts, but they also often allow only their authorized service technicians to repair equipment.

Many of us are sheltering-in-place, practicing social solidarity by physically distancing, and shifting to majority online work and organizing in midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. For many folks that means adjusting to different work spaces and work-flows, ones where virtual meetings have become a regular and expected activity. On the one hand, being able to work from home or participate in virtual meetings represents a very clear form of privilege, in that you have work to do and don't have to do it in higher-risk settings like caregiving and essential retail. But within our online meeting spaces, other forms of privilege and associated power dynamics play out in ways that undermine our work and marginalize important voices and perspectives.

In the earliest moments of Tonight We Riot, the recently released video game from Texas worker-owned coop Pixel Pushers Union 512, a pair of pixelated, flag-waving workers square up against riot cops. “There’s only one way through,” a speech bubble from your comrade reads. “Direct action!” Through the side-scroll brawler, you liberate and rally a growing crowd of workers fighting against an evil capitalist regime. You don’t control just one protagonist; instead, you control the movement. When your avatar is killed, you simply control another worker in the group.

“As long as one of us survives, the Revolution will live on,” another text pop-up proclaims.

https://observer.com/2020/05/tonight-we-riot-socialist-video-game-means-interactive/?fbclid=IwAR1YJFG1lRO00N74rcNNNWE7iumO0ve6cDd8KBut5eXv7PyiRMalC6kruBw

With the coronavirus pandemic taking an increasing toll on the economy, some of the most concerning indicators show that widespread business shutdowns with weekly jobless claims reaching a record 3.28 million last week; meanwhile, leading economists say the unemployment rate could reach 30% as a result of the ongoing health crisis.

Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.

Cuidar é Resistir - Rede de Solidariedade do FCT

O Fórum de Comunidades Tradicionais (FCT) une a solidariedade e a ação para que os territórios das comunidades tradicionais de Angra dos Reis, Paraty e Ubatuba atravessem esse tempo de Pandemia Covid-19 com saúde, alimento na mesa e na terra e o povo fortalecido!

Com a união de movimento social, sociedade civil, iniciativas populares, instituições públicas e privadas, conhecimento ancestral, ciência e vontade de transformar a realidade!

Disso tudo é feito e construído o FCT, dia a dia, aldeia a aldeia, vila a vila, quilombo a quilombo, sertão a sertão, comunidade a comunidade, praia a praia... Numa luta constante para que os povos originários tenham seus direitos preservados e seus territórios sustentáveis.

Queremos aprender e desenvolver a partir da experiência das respostas à pandemia que conectou agentes dos setores público, privado e da sociedade civil. Queremos explorar os tempos e suas ações relacionadas, e conjugar o pretérito, o presente e o futuro, em um espaço de convívio digitalizado.

Following on from Part 1 on Prototyping and Part 2 on UX Research - we now take a look at how to document this process. Essential for students, of course - but mandatory for many professional work processes, especially medical device design. Some tips on how to use these stills not only to 'prove your work is legit', but also to help communicate it to 'non-designers' in say Sales & Marketing or Grant Approvals, or Award Applications etc. Communication is essential at any stage of the process.

This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors, and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of virus control) and has skeletal mass transit and far less live art. It’s a future that claims to be run on “artificial intelligence” but is actually held together by tens of millions of anonymous workers tucked away in warehouses, data centers, content moderation mills, electronic sweatshops, lithium mines, industrial farms, meat-processing plants, and prisons, where they are left unprotected from disease and hyperexploitation. It’s a future in which our every move, our every word, our every relationship is trackable, traceable, and data-mineable by unprecedented collaborations between government and tech giants.