An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies as prices soar for the essential components that allow devices to store data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/03/tech/ai-global-supply-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #shipping #semiconductors #tech #chipmakers #microsoft #google #bytedancemicron #samsung #skhynix
Chip Butty
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Despite International Maritime Organisation regulation setting limits to merchant marine air pollution (emissions), it seems on the basis of ship-by-ship research that many ships in international waters are nowhere need meeting these regulatory limits.
As I've posted on before: sea-freight shipping emissions remain a key aspect of climate response that is at best underdeveloped & at worst a callous disregard of environmental needs at sea.
Despite International Maritime Organisation regulation setting limits to merchant marine air pollution (emissions), it seems on the basis of ship-by-ship research that many ships in international waters are nowhere need meeting these regulatory limits.
As I've posted on before: sea-freight shipping emissions remain a key aspect of climate response that is at best underdeveloped & at worst a callous disregard of environmental needs at sea.
Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/reinventing-how-dotnet-builds-and-ships-again/
#HackerNews #Reinventing #.NET #shipping #.NET #development #software #engineering
3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors
(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )
4/ "the container is in some sense both an epoch-making design object, & an imaginative opening. It begs us to look beyond or within the banality of the box, & outward into the myriad ways that circulatory systems become wounds on our lives & architectural landscapes"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/06-object-politics/container-stacking-packing-moving-world-charmaine-chua
2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"
most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can
3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors
(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )
"Most people said they hadn’t really thought about where their stuff went after they sent it back"
I've been writing a little bit about "reverse logistics" & watched a pallet unboxing video last year for research...
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mystery-amazon-pallet-unboxing/
archive link: https://archive.ph/NO3Xo
A group of U.S.labor unions slammed the Trump administration for suspending port fees on China that workers argued would revive their industry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/09/markets/unions-trump-china-shipbuilding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #shipping #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #china #unions #shipbuilding
tools for commensality 🧿
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GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
Billy Smith
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"Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S."
This is exactly how gangs of thugs work. NO DIFFERENCE!
#US #climatechange #democracy #humanrights #justice #oil #fossilfuels #shipping
"Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S."
This is exactly how gangs of thugs work. NO DIFFERENCE!
#US #climatechange #democracy #humanrights #justice #oil #fossilfuels #shipping
Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦
and 3 others
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Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments, a growing campaign that could end up costing companies and consumers billions of dollars. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/hackers-crime-rings-steal-cargo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #hacking #shipping
U.S. shipbuilders and port operators are facing the fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign to wipe out the offshore wind industry, suffering lost government support, vanishing orders and an uncertain future. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/23/markets/us-shipbuilders-ports-trump-wind/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ports #ships #shipping #wind #renewables #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans
The European Union is urging member states to back a maritime declaration that would allow member nations working with flag states to arrange inspections on Russia's "shadow fleet" of oil tankers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/world/politics/eu-russia-shadow-fleet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #lng #shipping #oil #russia #russiaukrainewar
