Notices by Rest of World (restofworld@restof.social)

India's mom-and-pop stores are getting crushed by 10-minute delivery apps. Around 200,000 of the stores have closed in the past year.

https://restofworld.org/2024/india-rapid-delivery-zepto-blinkit/?utm_source=mast

Amazon launched a program dedicated to Indian handicrafts in 2017. The program now counts 1.6 million sellers. But artisans say their sales are lackluster, and that Amazon treats their crafts like any other industrially produced object

https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-karigar-india-handicraft-makers/?utm_source=mast

Since the ban, left-wing and progressive politicians in Brazil are largely migrating to Bluesky, a competing microblogging platform. About 85% of Bluesky’s new users since August 30 have come from Brazil. But right-wing politicians are gaining support on X
https://restofworld.org/2024/brazil-x-ban/

Debacle in the desert: Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s biggest chipmaker, is struggling to get its first U.S. factory up and running 

Read out new future https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/?utm_source=mast

Indian delivery app Swiggy has gamified health insurance, cutting workers’ coverage if they complete fewer orders

https://restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-health-insurance-quotas/?utm_source=mast

“There’s no labor shortage. There’s a corporate greed surplus.” https://restofworld.org/2023/netflix-anime-ai-artists?utm_source=mast

One of the biggest negotiations in tech has been happening almost entirely behind the scenes. Read about it in today's Exporter newsletter
https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-joint-statement-initiative/?utm_source=mast

China’s AirDrop exploit sends an uncomfortable message to Cupertino: At some point, Beijing may no longer be interested in making things easy for Apple.
https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-apple-airdrop-security-china/?utm_source=mast

Labor issues and political uncertainty have Foxconn looking outside of China. So the Apple manufacturer is flying Chinese engineers to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders. But workers at the Foxconn factory near Chennai say they’ve experienced culture shock and have struggled to replicate Chinese efficiency in India. Indian assembly line workers told us about high pressure and poor working conditions, with colleagues frequently fainting on the job
https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-india-iphone-factory/

After the rupee's crash, Sri Lankan tech workers are demanding salaries based in dollars or euros
https://restofworld.org/2023/sri-lanka-tech-workers-demand-pay-dollars-euros/

Delivery workers in Latin America are making hit songs about traffic jams, angry customers, and waiting to pick up food
https://restofworld.org/2023/delivery-driver-hit-song-soy-rappi-motoboy/

“You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy.”

Meredith Whittaker talks about how Signal resists authoritarian threats to privacy

https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/

To see how ChatGPT does with languages that are spoken by millions of people but aren’t common online, we tested it in Bengali, Tamil, Tigrinya, and Kurdish. It failed
https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-problems-global-language-testing/

“The privacy of the apartment owners is respected but not of the maids”

https://restofworld.org/2023/home-monitoring-mygate-digital-bias/

For many people waiting in line to give their biometric data to Worldcoin, any privacy concerns were outweighed by the bonus: “The money will help me. Right now life isn’t easy.”
https://restofworld.org/2023/worldcoin-orb-around-the-world/