As the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues unabated, Andy Storey uncovers the EU’s imperial fingerprints all over the economic and political relations in the region: https://rebelnews.ie/2025/02/22/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-the-ghost-of-roger-casement-is-beating-at-the-door/
Bungie shows off Marathon and it’s a hybrid of a lot of things
Extracting the history of a dormant shooter franchise, Marathon is back
https://www.sidequesting.com/2025/04/bungie-shows-off-marathon-and-its-a-hybrid-of-a-lot-of-things/
#News #bungie #Destiny #Destiny2 #extraction #marathon #playstation #sony
Mehul Choksi’s bail plea: CBI, ED team to visit Belgium to push for fugitive jeweller’s extradition over PNB scam https://www.byteseu.com/921737/ #BailPlea #Belgium #extraction #IndiaToSendATeam #MehulChoksi #MehulChoksiLatestNews #WhatNextForMehulChoksi
The story of #Denmark's colonial #extraction of cryolite for well over a century in southern #Greenland
Oil companies create ‘smokescreen’ to enable exploration off Brazil’s Amazon coast
Oil companies are covertly positioning to extract oil from the entire mouth of the Amazon River, an investigation shows. Drilling in this ecologically sensitive region could impact traditional communities, and nature reserves.
Saviez-vous qu'une entité indépendante du gouvernement était chargée de l'évaluation environnementale des plans, programmes et projets d'aménagement du territoire ? Et que ses avis, bien documentés, étaient publics ? 
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https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/disclose-data-un-outil-inedit-pour-lancer-lalerte-sur-lenvironnement
#happybirthday @DavidKHarbour #davidharbour #actor #redguardian #blackwidow #whatif #thunderbolts #marvelzombies #jimhopper #strangerthings #AWorkingMan #GranTurismo #WeHaveaGhost #violentnight #hellboy #quantumofsolace #extraction #waroftheworlds #awake #revolutionaryroad #theequalizer #blackmass #suicidesquad #sleepless #nosuddenmove #marvelstudios
L'ingénieure Aurore Stéphant étudie depuis plus de dix ans les industries minières : bientôt, la ressource sera épuisée ou inaccessible. Mais comment faire alors que les métaux sont partout, même dans nos shampoings antipelliculaires ?
#Regardez : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bh3Z78e68Q 
Thank you for delivering MULTIPLE talks here in #bloomingtonIN and for signing our books!
As you signed @pluralistic , "Disenshittify or die!"
So, a story about how I #disenshittify ... by force!
This story starts when I was working at #IndianaUniversity for #UITS in IT Client Services. My job was "Special Projects". I worked for a director and basically made magic happen.
Early November 2014, someone from a human interface robotics lab handed me a new piece of #hardware called the #ThalmicMyo . It was an upper armband with 8 myoelectric sensors that could measure electrical muscle function, and do stuff on a computer with that data! The base idea was that you could do the following: hand wave outward, inward, spread out, fist, and thumbs up.
So, being CrankyLinuxUser, I wanted a #FLOSS toolchain to get and do my own thing with it. Whoops, only worked for #MSWindows .
Forum requests were met with silence. "Sorry you cant get the data", was the refrain. Lies.
So I used my #IU account and requested academic access. They IMMEDIATELY chimed up and said that access could easily be granted at $5000/year . UH huh.
So, I made them a target.
Took a few weeks. BUT I eventually got a shitty BUT working toolchain on Linux to use really basic machine learning. This is just a linear regression k-nearest-neighbors. No LLM fuckery. Theirs could do 5 gestures. Mine could do 10.
I initially released it on #HackerNews or YCombinator, not realizing that Thalmic Myo was VC funded by YC. And holy shit that was a #MartinHench moment where I fell into a WHOLE LOT OF SHIT. My article was auto-killed. My account on HN was shadowbanned. Ruh roh.
I had some contacts at @hackaday and I sent them my findings, my responses from HN, and my repo... and a really hostile Youtube video (one of my gestures was a middle finger to Thalmic).
On Nov 18, 2014, at 730am eastern, my phone blew up, figuratively speaking. Ping. Ping ping. PIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG until 12pm.
The page is still up on HaD, by the way. https://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-developer-access/
At 12pm or thereabouts, Thalmic Myo announced that they made an official decision to "allow raw data access"! I was not only successful for my hardware, but hardware freedom for EVERYONE with this platform.
Normally, the story would stop. I handed back the borrowed hardware to the lab that loaned it to me. I know they were able to do some cool prosthetic automation with it. But that's not my specialty. I made it so they could. My director permitted me to buy a few for our office to continue and loan them out as well.
...... 3 months later
I get a call on my office phone doing a customer survey. Told them that the hardware was great. "What about our API?" I told them that I made my own, and I was the one that forced your company to open source 3 months back. Ive never heard silence so LOUD. She asked me to stand by.
She transferred me to the CTO. We had a spirited conversation. I basically told him that I think ignoring the FLOSS and hacker community was your first and fatal mistake. You were a hardware business. You can do the VC thing and gatekeep, but that just angers people. And what you were in was a MASSIVE awesome piece of unique hardware nobody else had. He told me that their original idea was a powerpoint slide advance. I gave him perhaps 6 different major ideas to jump off on.
Nothing else happened, for a while.
3 more months later.......
I get a reddit DM out of the blue. Saw my name, and connected the dots. (S)He was an engineer at Thalmic during the time I released my Linux FLOSS code. They told me that I basically flip-turned the whole company upside down. I broke their business model of #Extraction and #enshittification and forced #FLOSS on them without a choice. They thanked me for my contribution.
Later n, the company got acquired or died. I'm not sure. I moved on and no longer had any of the hardware. Although, the basic idea is actually pretty cheap to construct these days. The only hard part is the AgCl electrode plating.
So when people ask what they can do, there's a LOT we can do. And a SINGLE PERSON can change the course of history. Sure, sometimes being in the right place at the right time is a big part, but there's so many of these moments.
Just wanted to contribute back @pluralistic to the movement you've founded.
Critical Minerals In Ores (CMiO) Database
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https://lnkd.in/gynRjUfn <-- shared USGS publication
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https://lnkd.in/gETca3DQ <-- shared link to open data database, web map services, etc
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https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/cmmi <-- shared web map
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https://lnkd.in/gdmMp2zg <-- shared editorial piece on critical minerals and geopolitics
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#geology #fedscience #opendata #CMMI #CMiO #criticalminerals #minerals #ores #database #opendata #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #commodities #technology #components #geochemistry #deposits #mining #extraction #classifaction #nomenclature #environments #structuralgeology #exploration
@USGS | @GeoscienceAustralia | @GeologicalSurveyOfCanada
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
#extraction #extractivism #mining #state #left #strategies
new book and talk w thea riofrancos
https://cenhs.libsyn.com/226-extraction-feat-thea-riofrancos
we are living through an #ExtinctionCrisis unlike anything in human history—over a million #species are at risk of disappearing in the coming decades. #ecosystems that have taken millions of years to evolve are unravelling before our eyes, driven by #HabitatDestruction, #climate chaos, #pollution, and endless #extraction. every species lost is a thread pulled from the web of life, and sooner or later, that web collapses.
Brilliant cartoon by @schloriancartoon
By then, the #climate will have worsened for all but the conditions for #mitigation & #adaptation in the Global #South will be even more adverse, with the Global #North having benefited from cheap #extraction & #technology without any reduction in its #energy footprint or adjustment for energy sufficiency.”
Le travail non payé de la nature
(Il s'agit d'une note en bas de page que je rédigeais ce matin, le genre de note qui vaudra bien un chapitre entier à mon avis - faudra juste trouver le moment où le placer ce chapitre 
Dans le corps principal du texte, il était question de la "cueillette" :
(...) Pour autant, la cueillette elle-même est un travail, une forme d’extraction – et peut faire l’objet d’une exploitation massive de travailleurs et des travailleuses. On notera ici, ce que Marx relevait déjà dans le livre I du Capital, que, pour le capitaliste, la nature « ne travaille pas », ou du moins, que l’usage des produits naturels, que nous appelons de manière très caractéristique des « ressources », n’a pas besoin d’être « payé » – la nature est considérée comme une ressource disponible gratuitement à qui veut bien s’en servir – et le capitaliste ne s’en prive pas. Il s’en empare, souvent avec brutalité, en excluant les autres usagers, s’accapare l’environnement et ses richesses en considérant qu’il en a le droit, et même, le devoir, parce que lui seul en a perçu la valeur, c’est-à-dire la survaleur qu’on peut tirer de son exploitation prétendue rationnelle (l’appropriation est justifiée par le travail, c’est le premier étage de la logique capitaliste qu’on lit déjà chez Locke, et qu’on nomme le « labour-value argument ». Ou, pour le dire autrement, ce qui est donné gratuitement (par Dieu ou la Nature) « doit être » cultivé, utilisé, exploité, extrait – ce devoir lui-même relève, comme le montrera Max Weber, d’une injonction religieuse.
L’accumulation primitive, et la spoliation, l’expropriation, l’expulsion, les violences extrêmes qui accompagnent, et structurent, le colonialisme (et son corollaire, l’esclavagisme), sont justifiés par cette injonction. Ce n’est pas pour rien que les luttes contemporaines contre l’extractivisme industriel reposent sur la négation de ce soit-disant principe : d’une part, les populations autochtones revendiquent la propre rationalité (et la supériorité, d’un point de vue écologiste) de leur usage en dénonçant l’irrationalité de l’extraction industrielle. D’autre part, on remet également en question l’idée de « ressource naturelle », par exemple en s’efforçant de penser tel ou tel partie de l’environnement comme un « sujet », une rivière, une montagne, une forêt, une barrière de corail, l’océan, et les êtres non-humains qui l’habitent. Et donc de leur accorder des droits précédant, et donc limitant, voire interdisant, certaines formes d’exploitation. Ce raisonnement a été largement développé en ce qui concerne l’exploitation animale.
On pourrait toutefois l’élargir aux êtres non-animés, je pense par exemple aux roches, en considérant que ce que nous considérons comme des « ressources » offertes gratuitement, n’est en réalité disponible qu’à l’issue d’un travail extraordinairement long, littéralement « géologique ». La plupart des paysages qui nous environnent sont issus d’un travail géologique (et quasiment toujours d’un travail humain, mais aussi animal) qui s’étend sur des millions d’années : en les exploitant de manière industrielle, c’est-à-dire en détruisant en quelques années ce qui a mis tant de temps à émerger dans l’état où elles le trouvent, les entreprises extractivistes nient la longue histoire de la production des paysages et des environnements – cette négation s’ajoute à la liste du travail que le capitaliste ne paye pas, le travail (de reproduction au sens large) non payé des femmes en premier lieu, et de celles et ceux qui ont pris soin de l’environnement jusqu’ici, y compris des savoirs autochtones (la connaissance des plantes par exemple).
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