Science and technology

Soft Digital Repression: Challenges And Strategies For Resistance

June 23, 2026 Rezgar Akrawi, Breakthrough News. Strategize! Algorithms, Repression, Science and technology, Surveillance

During the recent assault on Gaza, thousands of activists witnessed their posts deleted or their accounts restricted simply for documenting Israeli occupation crimes or expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. This is far from an isolated phenomenon. In India, the government issued emergency orders to block dozens of accounts during the farmers’ protests, while human rights organizations documented the suspension of accounts belonging to large numbers of journalists and activists merely for criticizing government policies.

China Surpasses United States In Research Spending

April 26, 2026 Caroline Wagner, Scheer Post. Educate! Academic Research, China, Science and technology, United States

China’s rapid rise in science has hit a milestone. The country’s investment in research and development has reached parity with – and by purchasing power measures has surpassed – that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Both nations have crossed the US$1 trillion threshold on research spending. For 80 years, the U.S. operated the most productive scientific and technological enterprise in human history. Breakthroughs and advances that came from American labs included the internet; the mRNA vaccine; the transistor and its children, semiconductors and microprocessors; the Global Positioning System; and many more.

Venezuela To Host Latin American Festival Of Open-Source Software

April 26, 2026 Luigino Bracci Roa, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Open Source, Science and technology, Software, Venezuela

The 22nd edition of the Latin American Festival of Open-Source Software Installation (FLISOL) will be held in numerous cities across Latin America and Spain to encourage the dissemination, understanding, and installation of open-source software applications and operating systems. The event invites all people, including students, academics, entrepreneurs, workers, public officials, enthusiasts, and those with little computer knowledge, to attend and bring their computers for software installation. FLISOL is organized by communities and enthusiasts of the open-source software world.

Our Smartphone-Dependent Culture Is Repeating The Mistakes Of Car-Centric Infrastructure

July 26, 2025 Owen Haacke, Next City. Strategize! Accessibility, Inequality, Science and technology, Smart Phones

Our inventions offer solutions and convenience; the systems we build bind us to them. Just look at our roads, wide strips of asphalt laid down for one invention: the car. Designed for mobility and convenience, the car quietly restructured our lives. Most of us spend our days behind the wheel, navigating a system built for cars. I see roads as canyons stretching between cities and suburbs, isolating homes, schools, offices and stores. In a car, we glide through them — we are part of the system. On foot, we are stranded, as if the world were not built for us.

Turning Banana Peels Into Coasters: Tales Of Food Waste Innovation

May 25, 2025 Nina Ignaczak, Next City. Create! Detroit, Food Waste, Michigan, Reuse, Science and technology

Inside the historic Book Depository at Michigan Central, now home to Newlab’s innovation campus, Brittanie Dabney is quietly building a different kind of startup. Her company, EcoSphere Organics, doesn’t make apps or mobility tech. It makes biodegradable coasters out of banana peels. Dabney and her team collect food scraps from local restaurants like Alchemy and Johnny’s Speakeasy — coffee grounds, citrus rinds and eggshells—and process them into small-batch products like compostable packaging and plant-based leather alternatives. Using dehydration and fermentation, Dabney aims to create materials that are both functional and regenerative.

Build Inspiring Alternatives To Counter Authoritarianism

May 16, 2025 Barbara Peterson, Waging Nonviolence. Create! climate crisis, Communities, Education, Energy, Food Security, Health Care, Housing, Science and technology

We are heading down a perilous road. Vulnerable communities face growing threats. The climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions. Authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility — it is rising, with democracy backsliding across the globe. With Trump’s return, public services like education, labor protections, humane immigration policies, health care and diversity programs are being dismantled. Meanwhile, trust in democracy is eroding — especially among young people. As political scientist Steven Levitsky points out, part of the problem is motivational: The political right is fighting for a clear, albeit dangerous, vision. The left, by contrast, is often fighting against that vision, with fewer compelling alternatives on offer.

China’s AI Breakthroughs Show It Is Outcompeting Monopoly Capitalism

February 21, 2025 João Romeiro Hermeto, Geopolitical Economy. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Capitalism, Cars, China, DeepSeek, Science and technology, Socialism

The Chinese company DeepSeek has made a major breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), with the release of its deep learning model R1. As the Financial Times put it, “With DeepSeek, China innovates and the US imitates”. Until now, the West had deemed China incapable of innovation, and Western monopoly capitalism was considered the summit of technological development. China has quietly and gradually overcome not only crucial internal contradictions but, above all, impediments imposed by the West that sought to curb its development.

US Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly And ‘Unipolar World’

February 3, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, Capitalism, China, DeepSeek, Democracy, Donald Trump, OpenAI, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Science and technology, Silicon Valley

The CEO of Anthropic, a US AI company backed by Amazon and Google, argued that the government must impose heavy restrictions on China in order to maintain a monopoly on artificial intelligence technology. If the US government can block China from getting advanced semiconductors, we will “live in a unipolar world, where only the US and its allies have these models”, wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Calling for more aggressive sanctions on China, Amodei warned, “Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world”.

Chris Hedges Report: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

January 30, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Big Tech, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Science and technology

The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This money never got to the masses. Instead shares were bought back in traditional capitalist industries and an emerging powerful bloc—the Jeff Bezos’s, the Microsoft’s, the Google’s of the world—invested in what guest Yanis Varoufakis calls, “cloud capital.”

China’s Shocking DeepSeek AI Pops US Big Tech Monopoly Bubble

January 29, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, China, DeepSeek, Finance and the Economy, OpenAI, Science and technology, Stock Market

China is making enormous progress in the development of artificial intelligence technology, and it has set off a political and economic earthquake in the West. The stocks of US Big Tech corporations crashed on January 27, losing hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization over the span of just a few hours, on the news that a small Chinese company called DeepSeek had created a new cutting-edge AI model, which was released for free to the public. The UK’s leading newspaper The Guardian described DeepSeek as “the biggest threat to Silicon Valley’s hegemony”.

Supercomputer Talks Between Israel, Amazon, And Google Collapse

January 4, 2025 Palestine Chronicle, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Alphabet, Amazon, BDS Movement, Gaza, Genocide, Google, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Project Nimbus, Science and technology

In a significant shift, talks between the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and tech giants Amazon and Google regarding the development of a government supercomputer have collapsed. Following the breakdown in negotiations, the Israeli government has opened up the project to other bidders, signaling a shift toward an alternative technological partnership. As reported by Globes, the tender for the supercomputer project is valued at NIS 290 million (approximately $79.4 million), with the winning bidder set to receive a government grant of NIS 160 million ($44 million).

Dark Oxygen: Deep-Sea Discovery Challenges Scientific Assumptions

August 5, 2024 Felicity Bradstock, Naked Capitalism. Educate! Dark Oxygen, Environment, Oceans, Science and technology

The discovery of “dark oxygen”, oxygen produced deep under the surface of the sea, is shining a light on the potential risks of deep-sea mining for metals and minerals. There has already been great controversy over plans to approve deep-sea mining activities at the international level, to meet the growing demand for critical minerals, and the recent discovery demonstrates just how little we know about marine ecosystems. An international team of researchers recently discovered that oxygen is being made by potato-shaped metallic nodules deep under the surface of the Pacific Ocean. In July, their findings, which throw into dispute the concepts of oxygen production, were published in the Nature Geoscience journal.

Technocapitalism: Our Dystopian Present—And Future?

April 20, 2024 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Big Tech, Capitalism, Dystopia, Science and technology

We are living through an incipient technological revolution. AI, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, commercial space travel, and other innovations are rapidly transforming everything from the workplace to the financial architecture of the global economy. While many of these technologies hold vast potential to benefit the social good, the multinational corporations and financial oligarchy that drive innovation and own its products are solely motivated by private profit. The consequences are unfolding all around us. As technology and the power of the oligarchy advances, the misery and disenfranchisement of the majority grows.

How The United States Is Waging Economic War On China

April 11, 2024 Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report China, Media, New Cold War, Science and technology, Social Media, Tiktok, US Imperialism

In our last two shows, we looked at China’s economy and where it was headed, busting major Western myths about it, and highlighting the differences between the Chinese and US economies that explain the dynamism of the former and the productive decline of the latter. We spoke about how China was embarked on engineering the next industrial revolution through a major structural transformation, not only to continue its high growth, but also to improve its quality, technologically and in human terms. And in doing this, China is increasingly taking the technological lead in more and more frontier sectors, including green technology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology.

EU Advances AI Rules Restricting Facial Recognition

June 15, 2023 Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Resist! Artificial Intelligence, European Union (EU), Science and technology, Surveillance, Victory

Digital rights groups on Wednesday applauded lawmakers across the European Union after they passed a draft law that would strictly regulate the use of artificial intelligence including facial recognition technology and chatbots, potentially setting a new standard for protecting the public from the misuse of AI—but noted that some provisions could exclude vulnerable people. The European Parliament passed a major legislative hurdle as it voted in favor of the draft rules in the Artificial Intelligence Act, with 499 lawmakers supporting the provisions, 28 opposing, and 93 abstaining from voting.

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