Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
The right to repair and other forms of peer creativity (David Bollier / Ethical Hour)
At this point, this movement has reached a large enough scale – with people repairing their own motor vehicles, bicycles, electronics, household appliances, and more – that companies regard repair commons as a threat. For years, corporate manufacturers have been trying to suppress and criminalize the burgeoning “right to repair” movement by making repairs more difficult, expensive, or outright illegal.
For example, manufacturers often design products in ways that an ordinary consumer can’t easily repair them. The idea is to stimulate the purchase of new products (and needless waste), which constitutes an advanced form of planned obsolescence. Or manufacturers design products so that replacement parts are expensive and proprietary; no inexpensive replacements or standard design specs are allowed.
His Best Friend Was a 250-Pound Warthog. One Day, It Decided to Kill Him. (Peter Holley / Texas Monthly)
But mostly, he thought about the animal that had just used its razor-sharp, seven-inch tusks to stab him at least fifteen times. The attack had shredded his lower body and filled his boots with blood, and then left gaping holes in his torso and neck. Had any other animal been responsible, Austin would’ve considered it a random attack. But this was a pet he’d trusted more than any other: his lovable, five-year-old warthog, Waylon.
The Lavender Panthers
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