Tag Archives: technology

DARK: money, fleets, web

Posted on January 8, 2026 by borderslynn

The United States seems to be in DARK mode: Robert Reich, Substack, wrote today: And Corporate political spending was growing before Citizens United, but the decision opened the floodgates to the unlimited super PAC spending and undisclosed dark money we … Continue reading →

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Amazon replacing workers with automation

Posted on October 28, 2025 by borderslynn

Amazon is a major employer in the US. As of June 30, 2025, Amazon employs approximately 1,546,000 people. This number reflects a slight decrease from the previous year, indicating ongoing adjustments in their workforce. stockanalysis.com GeekWire It will now employ 30,000 less: … Continue reading →

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Growth by negation

Posted on June 23, 2025 by borderslynn

Some extracts from this book: This book will haunt you if you are already perplexed about the pain and suffering in the world. It is an honest realisation of a hopeful young person learning about capitalism, which he ultimately coins … Continue reading →

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DOT-COM to AI: Investor hysteria

Posted on June 18, 2025 by borderslynn

Dot – Com began 1995. PSI-net went public. It was one of the first internet providers. Bill Schrader was co founder of PSI-net. By July of that year, he was worth $105 million. By 2001, PSINet had declared bankruptcy. The … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, bankruptcies, betting, dot-com, false dawn, financial mistakes, greed, hype, Internet, investors, naive expectations, overconfidence, quick buck, technology | Leave a comment

Humanity with and without Empathy

Posted on June 8, 2025 by borderslynn

If you are fortunate to have been born with a neurotypical brain, you will have developed empathy, an important component for interacting with other life forms, sensing what they might be thinking, using an amazing set of tools provided by … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged activism, artificial intelligence, bravery, conflict, dismantling of institutions, Empire, exhaustion, fear, human rights, humanity, journalism, lawmakers, media, persecution, semantics, speaking truth to power, technology | Leave a comment

Ultimate Sin

Posted on February 9, 2025 by borderslynn

So now I’m reading ‘Burn Book’, by Kara Fisher. As I was passionate about computers in education back in 1981, this book has great resonance for me. Kara Fisher began as a journalist, intrigued by the young start-ups in Silicon … Continue reading →

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PROMIS to Pegasus: enablers of horror

Posted on March 22, 2024 by borderslynn

1933: the stirrings of WWII and opportunities for lucrative trade emerging. I refer you to the book (published 2001) by Edwin Black ‘IBM and the Holocaust’. It is a magnificent piece of work and reveals the integral aspect of trade … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged computers, holocaust, IBM, international trade, Intifada, israel, Nazis, Palestinians, profit before people, Promis, spyware, technology, US corporate trade | 1 Comment

Taking Responsibility to Do No Harm

Posted on September 8, 2021 by borderslynn

As we mine the resources we say we need to build stuff to ‘combat climate change’ we have, to date, mined irresponsibly. We have farmed irresponsibly and once we humans learned metallurgy, we began to mine irresponsibly. In fact, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aquifer depletion, atacama desert, chilean people protest, conscious disregard, corporate vs people, injustice, lithium mining using brine method, technology | Leave a comment

Renewable Technology: Scars of Battle

Posted on April 29, 2021 by borderslynn

Some of the metals that are forecast to be in the highest demand in the future for electronics and technology are tin, lithium, cobalt, silver, nickel, gold, tungsten, vanadium, graphite, niobium, zinc, PGM (platinum group of metals) and salt (for … Continue reading →

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Making Steel to Meet Demand. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 21, 2021 by borderslynn

To make a Turbine, a modern renewable technology, we need steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminium (0-2%). So to reduce the use of coal to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blast furnace, cancer, coke, contamination, demand and supply, energy, health and safety, human invention, industrialisation, iron, poison, science, steel, technology, wind turbines | 1 Comment

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