#Logistics

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Iveco Stralis 570XP 4×2 Abarth Emotional Truck, 2017. A truck that celebrated Iveco becoming supplier of heavy-duty logistics vehicles for the Abarth racing division

[discopaws]

Letters to mail? Our Bunnies won't fail!

[probablyasocialecologist]

The supply chain capitalism of AI. This image partially captures the supply chain of AI as a global and complex phenomenon. Natural resources, components and materials to build AI infrastructure are extracted, shipped, manufactured and produced across the globe. For instance, NVIDIA obtains tungsten from Brazil; gold from Colombia and tantalum from Kazakhstan. Minerals are assembled to manufacture GPUs by TSMC. NVIDIA sells GPUs across data centres in the world. Given the refresh rates of these materials, data centres sent their components to recycle plants or dumps. The human labour wrapped-up in this chain includes, data labellers, logistics drivers, data scientists, miners, data centre operators and electronic waste dismantlers, who are also scattered across different geographies. Source: NVIDIA (2022) and fieldwork.

The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens

[supplyside]

Japanese port operations

[janeuary-month]

Hi everyone! Janeuary 2025 is over, but it was a great success! Below, you'll find more information about the 2025 event:

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[pratchettquotes]

"He's started catching fish," said the Senior Wrangler. "That means he'll come over all smug and start asking what plans we've got for making a boat at any minute, you know what he's like."

The Dean looked at some sketches he'd made on a rock.

"How hard can it be to build a boat?" he said. "People with bones in their noses build boats. And we are the end product of thousands of years of enlightenment. Building a boat is not beyond men like us, Senior Wrangler."

"Quite, Dean."

"All we have to do is search this island until we find a book with a title like Practical Boat-Building for Beginners."

"Exactly. It'll be plain sailing after that, Dean. Ahaha."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[vintagegermany]

Hamburg, Germany 1890s

[titleknown]

Thinking about it, I wonder how much the reason it seems like people're willing to accept unethical production for the sake of low prices is because we don't really know what goes into the price of things.

Because like... did you know that Games Workshop does all its factory production in the UK instead of offshoring it to the Global South like other companies might? And that's good, a rare GW dub!

But also, we have no idea whether that's responsible for their bloated prices compared to other companies, as opposed to shareholders and executives wanting more cocaine money.

And that's the problem.

Like, to add, I bitch about Transformers Deluxes costing 25$ now, but that would be perfectly fine if it were what was necessary for the folks on the design teams and in the factories to make a living wage!

But again, I have no idea whether it's that, or because Hasbro execs want to buy a third Golden Sex Yacht (The Yacht You Can Have Sex With) (C) (TM).

IDK where I'm going with this, it's just depressingly interesting wrt the issues of imperialist exploitation and the global supply chain...

[silly-lazytown-polls]

[pynkhues]

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Oh my gosh, okay okay okay, anon, I've had a few wines after a friend popped by unexpectedly, sorry in advance, but she's gone now so hear me out, haha. I'm putting my crime scene investigations hat on and I can tell you after watching the scene *mumbles indecipherably* times, Lestat has at least two visible bites in the scene on his throat, not one. We all tend to look at the one on the left, but he actually has one lower on the right too.

I feel like I'm presenting evidence in a court of law right now, haha, but I've lightened the cap a bit, so hopefully you can see the one we're all normally talking about on the left here, but then, on the right, you get a hint of blood? (And you can actuall see it in that gifset too)

And when he tilts his head towards Claudia, oh! There it is! Second bite:

Which brings me back to the scene itself, and I hear you, I think maybe it was meant to be the upper left bite scarring there, BUT I'll also counter with the very fun (to me, haha) argument that the first bite we saw through the window was actually a different bite entirely given Louis seemed to go for the join of Lestat's neck and shoulder, which in the aftermath scene, would be covered by his shirt.

In other words, I think Louis bit him more than once, and I want to have been a fly on the wall in the make up team's meeting as they decided when and where to place the bites / bruises / wounding.

But anyway, YES, I love on soooo many levels that the show broadcasts that they have insane sex in Lestat's lover's house, probably break her bed, given the bruising, only for Louis to immediately take Lestat home and declare it's time, after five years, for a family meeting? Deranged behaviour! And he's there smelling at the very least like the Mississippi River and clearly glowed up from vampire / soulmate blood after years recovering on a strict animal diet, and Lestat's there looking well fucked and fed on, and their daughter is forced to just sit there and act like this is Completely Fine. A resentment probably aggravated by the fact that we know Louis threw Lestat's coffin out the window, so presumably they're sharing one tonight! She deserved to murder them both so many times over, but honestly never more so than this night!

[vintageeurope]

Helsinki, Finland 1890s

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The union representing foremen at British Columbia ports has issued a 72-hour strike notice, according to the association representing its employers.   The B.C. Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) said Thursday that if the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 514 takes strike action, it would begin on Monday at 8 a.m. PT. The BCMEA says the escalation came after it presented the union a final offer on Wednesday, which it says will provide ILWU Local 514 members with significant gains in wages and benefits, as well as a signing bonus. 

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[probablyasocialecologist]

In his 1946 book Paperboard and Paper Containers, Harry J. Bettendorf extolled the civilizational gifts of the cardboard box: “Out of the piles, confusion and dirt of the earlier period came the cleanliness, order, precision and efficiency of mass production goods through the employment of mass production packages of paperboard.”  In this moment, in the pause after World War II, after the Container Corporation had sent its boxes into battle, but before it endeavored to shape civic discourse through Aspen elites, here is a historian who believed cardboard boxes could deliver us to a better future. Little did he know what piles of waste, ideological confusion, and environmental destruction would be generated by the whole box-powered system of mass production and hyper-capitalism. Bettendorf’s box was a Trojan horse. A smarrow. A promise of progress that delivered not only order, precision, and prosperity, but also waste and exploitation.

15 May 2024

[supplyside]

tight fit