{"id":3439,"date":"2021-07-09T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:39:50","slug":"wild-and-urgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/07\/wild-and-urgent\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild and urgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smartphone is the most amazing piece of hardware proving how much the human world is one and only. I mean,<\/p>\n<p>Lithium for batteries probably comes from Australia or Chile. Cobalt for batteries as well, probably from Congo.<\/p>\n<p>LCD screens from Japan and Korea. Hardware engineering from China. Software Quality Assurance from India.<\/p>\n<p>Some WiFi patents and chip from Finland. An obscure file converter necessary for your device and part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeopensourcesoftware.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FOSS<\/a> coming from Germany, Russia and Italy. <\/p>\n<p>The camera needs lenses from Switzerland and plastic molding from Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Design from the US west coast and marketing from the east.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, those smartphones make us believe and <em>emphasize<\/em> that it\u2019s us against everything and everyone. <\/p>\n<p>The very thing made with the help of the entire planet, women men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/05\/31\/the-dark-side-of-congos-cobalt-rush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and children<\/a>, all countries and communities, all minerals and clever processes combined, is polarizing us to extremes for the profit of a few individuals, through algorithmic addiction.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest we use phones less rather than doing \u201cstrikes\u201d on apps. John Lewis\u2019 good trouble, get back on the open web you cowards, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smartphone is the most amazing piece of hardware proving how much the human world is one and only. I mean, Lithium for batteries probably comes from Australia or Chile. Cobalt for batteries as well, probably from Congo. LCD screens from Japan and Korea. Hardware engineering from China. Software Quality Assurance from India. Some WiFi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}