#Make in India Electronics

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Dixon Technologies and Chongqing Yuhai to Form JV for High-Precision Components Manufacturing in India

Dixon Technologies (India) Limited, one of India’s largest electronics manufacturing companies, has signed a binding term sheet with Chongqing Yuhai Precision Manufacturing Co. Ltd., a global leader in mechanical enclosures and precision components. The two companies will jointly establish a new manufacturing joint venture in India, aimed at producing precision mechanical and metal components for…

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How Electronic Manufacturing in Chennai Powers India’s Tech Growth

Electronic manufacturing in Chennai is transforming how India innovates in tech. If you want to know how manufacturing electronics in Chennai drives India’s technological progress, here’s the key point: Chennai stands out as a major center for producing electronic products by offering expert pcb design, efficient electronic manufacturing services, and reliable EMS capabilities. This combination helps businesses accelerate innovation, scale production, and reach global markets quickly and cost-effectively.

Why Electronic Manufacturing in Chennai Is Driving India’s Tech Growth

Several factors make Chennai a top choice for electronics manufacturing:

Government Support: Policies and incentives promote investment in electronics factories and encourage advanced manufacturing practices.

Highly Skilled Workforce: The city has a strong talent pool of engineers and technicians trained in the latest design and assembly techniques.

Complete Manufacturing Solutions: Local providers cover everything from product development and prototyping to assembly and final testing.

Excellent Infrastructure: Chennai’s proximity to key ports and its robust transport network ensure smooth logistics for components and finished goods.

Electronic Manufacturing in Chennai: Key Advantages for Businesses

Superior PCB Design Capabilities

Good printed circuit board design is essential for product reliability and cost efficiency. Chennai’s designers use modern software tools to create optimized layouts that simplify production and enhance performance.

End-to-End Electronics Manufacturing

Service providers in the city offer:

Fast prototyping to validate concepts

Surface mount and through-hole PCB assembly

Complete product assembly including mechanical and wiring integration

Comprehensive quality assurance and compliance testing

Efficient sourcing and supply chain management

How Electronic Manufacturing in Chennai Supports India’s Tech Future

Increasing Exports: The region contributes significantly to India’s electronics exports, meeting rising demand worldwide.

Supporting Innovation: Reliable manufacturing infrastructure lets startups and OEMs focus on developing new products without production delays.

Generating Employment: The sector creates jobs for thousands of skilled workers, fostering expertise in electronics technologies.

Strengthening Supply Chains: Local production reduces dependency on imports and enhances supply chain stability.

Why Choose Chennai for Your Electronics Production?

Cost-Effective Manufacturing: Competitive pricing combined with quality output improves overall value.

Flexible Production Capacity: Providers handle small pilot runs as well as large-scale orders with ease.

Use of Advanced Technologies: Adoption of automation and quality standards ensures precision and reliability.

Customer-Centered Service: Strong focus on communication and customization helps meet unique project requirements.

Conclusion

The electronics manufacturing ecosystem in Chennai is vital to India’s growing tech industry. By combining skilled design expertise, full-service manufacturing, and strategic advantages, the city enables businesses to innovate rapidly and compete globally. For companies aiming to expand their presence in the electronics market, Chennai offers dependable, scalable solutions tailored for success.

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I don't have much energy for more than throwing random ideas in a pot but many thoughts about Robin and Wren and what has made their relationship so fraught

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i gotta fly to delhi today on my own from chennai and the way i am already preparing for the security check to pull my carry on bag into secondary inspection...

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Why India’s Bet on Local Electronics Manufacturing Could Rewrite the Global Tech Supply Chain

In the modern tech race, it’s not just innovation that matters—it’s location. And the Indian government appears to have finally recognized that when it comes to electronics—particularly smartphones—the real power lies not in merely assembling the final product but in owning the core components that power them.

If recent developments are any indication, the Modi administration is preparing for a significant shift in its electronics strategy—transitioning from “Make in India” to “Make India the Maker.” Sources close to the matter reveal that the Centre is drafting a comprehensive plan to scale domestic production of critical electronic components, especially those crucial to the global smartphone ecosystem. Yes, even the mighty iPhone is in the frame.

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भारतीय वायुसेना के हेलिकॉप्टरों को मिलेगी नई ताकत: 2,385 करोड़ में BEL से इलेक्ट्रॉनिक वॉरफेयर सूट का सौदा!

Delhi News: भारतीय वायुसेना अब और मजबूत होने जा रही है। रक्षा मंत्रालय ने सोमवार, 7 अप्रैल 2025 को भारत इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स लिमिटेड (BEL) के साथ एक बड़ा अनुबंध किया है। इस सौदे के तहत Mi-17 V5 हेलिकॉप्टरों को अत्याधुनिक इलेक्ट्रॉनिक वॉरफेयर (EW) सूट और एयरक्राफ्ट मॉडिफिकेशन किट्स से लैस किया जाएगा। 2,385.36 करोड़ रुपये की इस डील से न सिर्फ वायुसेना की ताकत बढ़ेगी, बल्कि यह आत्मनिर्भर भारत की दिशा में…

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Reliance Industries Likely to Acquire Tower Semiconductor of  Israel. Sources indicate possible delays due to the Israel Hamas conflict. Read More

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বিদেশ থেকে ল্যাপটপ,ট্যাবলেট আমদানিতে নিষেধাজ্ঞা, কী করবে Apple, HP, Dell? প্রভাব বাজারেও

নয়াদিল্লি: বিদেশ থেকে ল্যাপটপ, ট্যাবলেট আমদানিতে লাগাম টেনে ধরল কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার। যে কেউ চাইলেই আর বিদেশ থেকে ল্যাপটপ বা ট্যাবলেট আনাতে পারবেন না। বিদেশি পণ্য আমদানির লাইসেন্স রয়েছে যাঁদের, একমাত্র তাঁরাই আমদানি করতে পারবেন (Electronics Import)। দেশীয় সংস্থার তৈরি ল্যাপটপ, ট্য়াবলেটের উৎপাদন এবং বিক্রিতে জোর দিতেই এমন সিদ্ধান্ত কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের। এখন থেকেই চালু হল এই নয়া নিয়ম। (Laptops…

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Dixon Technologies to Acquire 51% Stake in Q Tech India, Strengthening Its Optical Components Portfolio

Dixon Technologies (India) Limited has taken a major strategic step by entering into a binding term sheet to acquire a 51% shareholding in Kunshan Q Tech Microelectronics (India) Private Limited (Q Tech India). The move marks Dixon’s entry into the high-precision camera and fingerprint recognition module manufacturing space, targeting applications across mobile handsets, IoT systems, and…

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Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Racecourse transformed into a sonic wonderland as Lollapalooza India 2025 concluded its second day. From legendary rock acts to electronic anthems and mesmerising indie performances, Day 2 of the festival boasted musical diversity and electrifying stage presence.

Switching gears, Louis Tomlinson brought a heartfelt and intimate energy to the festival. The former One Direction star showcased his evolution as a solo artist, seamlessly blending Britpop and indie rock. Fans swooned as he performed Drag Me Down, Night Changes, and Saturday, turning the massive festival grounds into an intimate singalong session. His raw, emotionally charged vocals resonated deeply, making his Lollapalooza India debut a night to remember.

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You might have forgotten about the trade war, but the trade war has not forgotten about you.

This week, Donald Trump reignited the global financial conflict he started in January, sending letters threatening new tariff rates to nearly two dozen countries. Starting in August, American importers will pay a 25 percent tax on goods from South Korea and Japan, a 35 percent tax on goods from Canada and Bangladesh, and a 50 percent tax on goods from Brazil unless those countries agree to bilateral deals. Additionally, Trump warned he would slap tariffs on goods from any country “aligned” with the “Anti-American policies” of China, India, and other industrial powerhouses—no further details given—and put a 50 percent levy on imported copper, used to build homes, electronics, and utility systems.

The summer tariff announcement was characteristic of all the White House’s tariff announcements this year: draconian, nonsensical, and hard to take seriously. In his first weeks in office, Trump trashed the North American trade agreement that he had negotiated during his first term before exempting most goods coming from Canada and Mexico from border taxes. In April, the White House put high levies on goods from scores of American trading partners, only to announce a three-month “pause” on those levies shortly after. During the 90-day pause, American negotiators would craft 90 new trade deals, the White House promised.

This time, Trump did not make a formal trade announcement, opting instead to send error-laden form letters to foreign capitals (one addressed the female leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina as “Mr. President”). In a Cabinet meeting, he argued that “a letter means a deal,” adding that “we can’t meet with 200 countries. We have a few trusted people that know what they’re doing, that are doing a good job, but you can’t—you have to do it in a more general way, but it’s a very good way, it’s a better way. It’s a more powerful way.” (Even if a letter was a deal, which it isn’t, the Trump administration is more than 60 letters short of 90.)

The stock market shrugged at the letters; investors are now used to the president saying something nuts and then doing nothing. Traders have figured out how to make money from the short-lived dips that Trump periodically causes, calling it the “TACO trade,” for “Trump always chickens out.” But Trump is not doing nothing. Businesses are struggling to negotiate the uncertainty created by the White House. Trump’s tariffs are forcing up consumer costs and damaging firms. And the latest renewal of the trade war will make the economy worse.

Small businesses and companies reliant on imported goods from high-rate countries are struggling the most. A few weeks ago, I spoke with Jonathan Silva, the chief executive officer of WS Game Company. On our Zoom call, he sat in front of a howitzer-size, rainbow-colored Nerf gun, sporting a five-o’clock shadow and emanating a heavy-lidded weltschmerz. His 22-person business produces upscale versions of classic Hasbro board games: a pastel, tempered-glass Monopoly board; a turquoise-and-white Scrabble set reminiscent of Portuguese azulejo tile work; and a three-dimensional wooden Clue game that looks like a billiards table. The idea is to make board games “part of your lifestyle,” he told me, instead of stuffing them “in a cardboard box with tattered corners, falling apart at the top of your coat closet.”

The company produces its games in China, meaning that the fee it pays to import its goods has changed several times in the past six months, going as high as 145 percent. The time around Trump’s April “Liberation Day” tariffs was the “worst 45-plus days of our company’s history,” Silva told me. His company put in place a spending freeze: halting bonuses, barring new hires, and cutting all unnecessary business expenses. “The main goal was to keep every employee that we have employed,” Silva told me. Then the company raised prices. “We tried to sell whatever we had domestically in our warehouses to free up cash and give us as long of a runway as possible,” he said. Even so, the company lost $16 million in purchase commitments from its sticker-shocked retailers.

The disruption from the spring will affect the rest of the business’s year, and, in particular, its crucial holiday-sales season, Silva told me. “It’s about 150 days from when I place an order to when it might hit the shelves,” he explained. “When the supply chain gets put on pause for four to six weeks, getting back on schedule takes a year.” That happened in a more extreme fashion during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

This year, “the shelves might be filled with products for the holiday, but they might not be filled with the products that the retailers really want to put on the shelf,” Silva said. “The consumer might not notice, but the businesses do.”

Businesses thus far have sheltered American consumers from tariffs by eating some of the cost themselves and relying on stockpiled goods. As a result, inflation has remained subdued and economic growth strong enough through the first half of the year. But firms can keep only so much stock in warehouses. Analysts at BNP Paribas, a banking group, estimate that inventories will “clear” by the end of the summer, and prices will rise in turn. Right now, American consumers are facing an 18 percent effective tariff rate, the highest since 1934, the Yale Budget Lab estimates. Households will pay an average of $2,400 more for goods this calendar year, thanks to Trump’s policies.

Thousands of businesses are again negotiating extremely high and haphazardly implemented rates on goods from any number of crucial trading partners. South Korea sends billions of dollars of heavy machinery to the United States each year. Bangladesh ships billions of dollars of clothing. (Clothes and shoes will see the biggest price increases because of the trade war, the Yale analysts found; prices on these goods are expected to rise roughly 40 percent.) Canada is the United States’s second-largest trading partner, an important source of farm equipment, auto parts, minerals, and crops. And companies will have to negotiate whether to work in the cost of the new tariffs or to make their own TACO trades, assuming that the Trump administration will fold and cut rates again.

History suggests that this is exactly what Trump will do, especially if the market tanks. But who knows? This week, a reporter asked the president whether new tariff rates would take effect on July 9, the end of the 90-day pause, or on August 1, the date indicated in the letters.

“What are you talking about?” Trump asked.

The tariff rates, the reporter said.

The president provided some clarification: “They’re going to be tariffs. The tariffs are going to be the tariffs.”

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The transformation has covered many aspects of public life, from the way waste is removed and treated to the army of about 850 sweepers and the thousands of differently coloured bins that line even the smallest alley.

In many cities, families will keep their home scrupulously clean, but a few feet from their front door rubbish is left lying around.

“That other area is seen as someone else’s responsibility and no one sees any contradiction in walking past a stinking pile of rubbish to their clean home,” said Arjun Sehgal, a local chemistry tutor.

Indore was once dotted with fetid garbage dumps where stray cows, pigs and dogs rootled around and added their excrement to the pile, attracting swarms of flies.

But now in the early morning, pavements and road dividers are hosed down with recycled water. The garbage vans roll out playing a jingle called Indore Has Become Number One [i.e. the Cleanest City in India for 8 years in a row]. As the sound approaches, people emerge from their homes with their rubbish.

Using GPS tracking, a team of workers monitor the vans’ movements to make sure they are doing their job and not cutting corners. The local government says 100% of household waste is segregated into wet, electronics, plastics, non-plastic, biomedical and hazardous materials.

The waste is converted into fuel and compost, which in turn is sold to farmers as manure. Many restaurants have mobile composting vans stationed outside.

“The fruit and vegetable market near my house has different bins for different kinds of waste. There is also a machine there which converts the waste to fuel which is used by city buses and as cooking fuel,” said homemaker Neeru Sharma.

Riya Raghuvanshi, who lived in Indore for five years, said the push from government had been a success because it had created a sense of civic pride in the city. “It’s worked because there is so much pride in this award. Along with the pride is a determination to maintain the city’s reputation. This has been a great motivator,” she said.

Residents have taken up cleanliness as their own personal responsibility, according to Prabhnit Sawhney, a petrol pump owner. “I’ve seen people stopping someone who littered. I’ve seen drivers stop their car when they see rubbish on the street to remove it. It’s become a kind of mission that inspires everyone,” he said.

It took intensive public awareness campaigns to bring about the new behaviour. Schoolchildren were asked to take oaths to keep the city clean. CCTV cameras were installed and anyone who was identified as having dropped rubbish was fined.

Cleanliness competitions were launched. Religious leaders were roped in to invoke religious texts to back up the need for hygiene. During the Hindu festival of Holi, when streets and buildings become stained with bright colours, extra vehicles and water tankers come out to hose the city down.

Sawhney believes Indore’s success could be replicated elsewhere in India if local governments dedicate themselves to it. “You need a willing public, a determined government, and here and there you need very energetic, proactive individuals to keep up the momentum,” he said. “Only then will habits going back generations change.”

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How will Tariffs effect the Historical Costume Community?

How will Tariffs effect the Historical Costume Community?

Maybe it was divine inspiration that I chose the summer of 2025 to semi-retire, because textiles are about to increase, ya'll! - so are avocados, strawberries, and fruits and vegetables from Mexico; electronics (from China) - like your cell phones and computers, televisions. But it doesn't stop there: building supplies, car parts, clothing, toys, medical supplies, medications, and much, much more is about to increase!

Why?

Because of Trump's brilliant economic plan to implement tariffs on countries like China, Mexico, and Canada on "Day one," to quote him directly.

Yes, that was sarcasm. For those who haven't been following the dire warnings economists worldwide and in America were shouting to the rooftops, i.e., that tariffs will cause economic disaster for many companies in the USA, and you still think the cost of gas and eggs and groceries are going to decrease in the Trump administration, boy oh boy are ya'll gonna have a huge awakening come January 20, 2025.

The way tariffs work is like this: American companies, who purchase goods outside of America, "are the ones who pay the tariffs" - NOT the companies sending goods to America for American consumers to buy. American companies will be paying MORE to import goods from other companies, and that increase will be passed on to the American people. These large corporations, who have already been recording record breaking profits since 2020, will use Trump’s tariffs as an excuse to raise their prices even more! – because there are no regulations on what they can charge the public. ALSO, they will be receiving more tax cuts, while the rest of us, especially the middle class who already carry the burden of the majority of the taxes in the USA, will see an increase in our taxes. These tariffs will cost us an additional $2500 a year per household. That doesn't sound like much, but it adds up, especially for many who are already barely scraping by - myself included.

How will these tariffs impact the historical costume community specifically?

While Mexico, China and Canada are our top exports (places we buy from), the following countries are ALSO popular sources that USA consumers import textiles and clothing:

Vietnam

India

Bangladesh

Indonesia

Honduras

The majority of fine woolen textiles are exported from the UK. The cost of wool will also be affected, with costs going up from 10 to 20%. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re already paying $30 to $40 (and more) a yard for a good wool product an additional $3 to $6 per yard will carry a punch on my client’s budgets.

Companies like Silk Baron, who import silk fabrics in bulk from places like India, will have to increase their prices by a minimum of 20%. The price of silk is already $20 to $30 or more a yard through Silk Baron, and we can expect their prices to increase to $22 to $24, or $33 to $36 a yard.

Fabric-Store.com, used to only charge $12 a yard for linen, but beginning in 2020 they have raised their prices every year and are now charging $18 a yard. The impacts of tariffs will only increase these costs.

Trump’s tariffs on China will raise prices by 60%, and 10 to 20% to other countries who import goods to the USA. Tariffs impact consumers, NOT the companies who produce the products and ship them to American businesses.

Walmart and Lowes have already rung a warning nell that their prices are about to increase. According to an article by Reuters, a Walmart spokesperson stated, “We're concerned that significantly increased tariffs could lead to increased costs for our customers at a time when they are still feeling the remnants of inflation"…"Trump has vowed to make tariffs, which are a fraction of U.S. tax collections, central to his economic agenda. Executives have been increasingly fielding questions on the subject, with many noting ongoing efforts to continue to diversify their supply chains, particularly away from China, Trump's top target.”

Additionally, the CFO of Lowe’s, Brandon Silk, said: "Roughly 40% of our cost of goods sold are sourced outside of the U.S., and that includes both direct imports and national brands through our vendor partners"…"And as we look at the potential impacts (of tariffs), it certainly would add to product costs." These tariffs will impact the cost of appliances and building supplies, which means the cost of new construction will increase.

Grocery stores, who were already price gouging consumers since the pandemic, are beginning to raise their prices. By the way, the President of the United States (or the Vice President) does not control the prices that big corporations charge consumers, it’s greed on the part of these companies like Albertson’s, Fred Meyer, etc., who set the prices. Harris planned to institute regulations to control their greed and lower the cost of groceries, etc., but Trump’s “tariffs,’ WILL absolutely affect American consumers.

Furthermore, voters, pissed off about Biden’s handling of Hamas, voted for Trump in protest. By the way, Trump and his entire administration are 100% pro-Israel, and support the atrocities Netanyahu has perpetrated against innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the terrorists of Hamas.

Voting is the equivalent to an open book examination in college or high school. All the information needed to educate yourselves on the issues are available at your fingertips, but you have to open the damn book! Voters, angry about Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, chose not to educate themselves about what control or influence on world politics a Vice President actually HAS. Harris was not pro-Israel, but publicly stated she was against Palestinian and Israeli aggression.

When textile and supply prices go up, those increases affect the cost for costumers. The tariffs that will be implemented will increase costs by 60% from any goods purchased from China. For my business, this will impact such items as “freshwater pearls,” that I use on my costume embellishment. China is the world’s largest exporter of pearls, which are “grown” or farmed in that country.

Coates embroidery thread, which I use in my embroidery machines, are based in Mexico. With Trump’s tariffs the cost will go up 20%. A spool of Coates gold metallic thread is $12.99 at JoAnns. That will increase by roughly $2.60 per spool.

Faux Baleen from Germany, used in corsetry, will go up anywhere from 10 to 20%.

American Duchess, who contracts with shoemakers in China to produce their historical shoes will have to raise their prices by 60%!!  

Buttons, thread, fabric, notions, everything you can imagine used in the creation of historical costumes are imported from China. Tariffs will have a noticeable impact on the entire historical costume community, which is already an expensive hobby.

At a time when American’s are paying more for goods and groceries than other countries, not only will tariffs impact the economy, but Trump and the Republicans as outlined in Project 2025, plan to cut Social Security by no less than 20%, but they also are planning to do away with it entirely, to include social security disability, which millions of disabled and retired Americans depend on to exist.

In a word, and I don’t give a flying fig that I’m bringing politics into historical costuming, you voted for more inflation and higher cost of goods. It would behoove all ya’ll among the younger generations to use Google and research how the stock market crash of 1929 happened, and how tariffs played a significant role in exacerbating the Great Depression.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed in June 1930, was a key factor. This act raised tariffs on thousands of imported goods in an attempt to protect American industries and farmers, which had unintended consequences such as:

Retaliation by Other Countries: Many countries responded by imposing their own tariffs on American goods, which led to a significant decline in international trade.

Reduction in Exports and Imports: American exports and imports fell by about 67% during the Great Depression. This decline in trade worsened the economic downturn.

Global Economic Impact: The tariffs contributed to a global economic slowdown, making it harder for the U.S. and other countries to recover from the depression.

These consequences ended in joblessness, as companies closed down. Read about the how the banks went under, people lost their jobs, resulting in widespread foreclosures, and the rise in shanty towns to house millions of homeless who were once productive members among the middle class.

Is this hyperbole? No! If you do not educate yourselves, history will repeat itself. Trump’s tariffs will impact Americans on a catastrophic level, as well as impact the global economy.

So, next time, maybe study for the “open book test” rather than sourcing your information from word of mouth like, you know, Fox News.

Hang on to your butts, it’s gonna get rough for all of us.

P.S: If you voted for him, and your fee-fees are hurt by this article, don't you dare say one hateful thing in my blog or my Facebook page or you will be blocked.

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What people miss with regards to the Jordan Neely/Daniel Penny story is that Penny didn’t choke him out because he’s a bad person. He did it because of socioeconomic factors which made him desperate. The alternative to him being found not guilty would be him going to prison, and that wouldn’t have been justice. Penny needs to be treated with grace and care in this undoubtably troubling time for him

I think my scambaiting post must be going around because I'm getting some asks about it. I'm mostly just deleting them if they're not interesting or instructive, but I think this one actually might be.

My OP made a gesture at a materialist analysis which should be performed. This material analysis would have to do with the flow of money, labour, and resources as it actually exists in the world: the extraction, extortion, and theft of raw materials; the purposeful, violent destabilisation of entire regions by the military arms of the USA, Canada, Europe &c. to force people to work for pennies, so that labour will be incredibly cheap compared to what it would cost if performed by most citizens in the imperial 'core'; and other measures that are taken to ensure that value flows from colonised nations to colonising nations. (These measures also include the devaluing of institutions in the 'periphery' such that advanced degrees from certain countries are simply worth less than others; and the restricted ability of those in the 'periphery' to travel or migrate across borders with the freedom afforded to those with imperial citizenship.)

So certain people are in a situation where structures and enforcers of power have made them poor and desperate on purpose so that they can be 'superexploited' at a level beyond that experienced by most people in the imperial 'core'. This is the purpose of imperialism, and it's the purpose of the concept of 'race.' People work in factories for very little money, because the imperial periphery is supposedly only good for the production of raw materials (fabric; t-shirt blanks; assembly of parts of electronics &c.); the design, the artisanship, the packaging, the 'refining,' the making of the chocolate bar from the cocoa, everything that confers 'value' to the item, is done in the imperial core, and that increased 'value' / sale price is added to the GDP of the country in which the product is completed.

In fact this 'raw material' is not 'raw' at all, and it also invovles design and artisanship—but the people of the 'third world' cannot 'design' anything and they cannot be 'artisans'—nothing they make can be labelled as 'handmade' or 'hand-sewn' even if it is literally made with their hands—because they are not considered as people in that way.

But that's the product realm. In terms of the internet (even setting aside the physical materials, space, energy, water &c. required to maintain the internet):

Things (such as Amazon's failed "Just Walk Out" thing) are advertised as "artificial intelligence" despite the fact that thousands of people in India are forced to do work that is tedious, time-consuming, and often horrific and traumatising (consider content moderation!!) in order to make them work. Their material conditions—which are created and maintained, in the most violent manner imaginable, on purpose in order to force them to do this work—render many people desperate enough to take these jobs.

If there are people, who are reachable online, who at a baseline are making a hundred times what you are making, whose currency has incredible purchasing power where you live, and you can get some of that money—if you can work for yourself this way, obviously you're going to do that. This happens because there's money to be made in it. If people can set up an operation and train hundreds of people in how to do this, and take most of the profits and still provide a salary that's attractive to people because of how high the margins are, then obviously that's going to happen. This is just, the concept of capitalism. If there is a way to make money doing something, someone is going to be doing that thing.

Material analysis is looking at the world as it actually exists, in order to figure out how materials, labour, and value are 'flowing' on local and global scales, as a means of determining why things happen the way they do. Like, on a base level, that's what it means to analyse something—to try to figure out why it happens the way it does.

This anon, in sending this ask, didn't understand what any of this meant, or didn't want to consider it, or something. They were unable or unwilling to consider a different lens than that of personal desert, personal merit, and innate personal badness / criminality. The concept of trying to understand where money is, how it moves and why, as a base level of knowledge necessary to understand why there is money to be made in doing certain things, doesn't compute to them—so they have to move things back into the realm of personal desert, and act like I'm saying that people who commit acts of interpersonal violence "deserve" to be allowed to commit that violence as long as they're going through something, whether or not the thing they're going through created the necessary circumstances for, or has any other direct relation with, the act of violence being committed (basically "some people commit violence to cope").

All of that is kind of typical—it's very normal for people to act like asking them to consider people in the 'third world' as actual human beings with human things like "circumstances" and "motivations" and "thoughts" that influence their actions is tantamount to spitting in their grandmother's face.

But what's most interesting to me about this ask is how, in order to dismiss the idea of material analysis as necessary to understand why things happen and to reassert an interpretive framework of individual criminality, anon uses the idea of interpersonal racial violence as something that we can all agree is caused by innate criminality and not by material factors. As if by comparing scamming to this act of violence, it emphasises the innate criminal personality at the root of both acts. As if, obviously, we can all agree that people who commit this kind of violence are just evil demons who "deserve" to be locked up—so saying "the material fact of present-day colonialism creates the conditions for this kind of scamming" is tantamount to saying "we shouldn't lock criminals up in prison." If the latter statement is unthinkable, then so, by comparison, is the former.

Except that this concept of "the criminal" as being a specific "type" of person who uniquely does and deserves evil, and who needs to be locked up in a cage for the good of the rest of society, is exactly what I am, in fact, intending to question. I think the anon would be surprised to learn about the vast body of work (I mean texts, but also direct activism) conducted under the heading of "prison abolition."

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Among the cypress and saw grass of South Florida, a new weapon in the state's fight to remove invasive pythons lurks, waiting to entice its prey.

Yes, it's a mechanical rabbit. Just don’t call it the Energizer bunny.  

Researchers at the University of Florida have outfitted 40 furry, fake toy rabbits with motors and tiny heaters that work together to mimic the movements and body temperature of a marsh rabbit ‒ a favorite python meal.

The fluffy army's mission? Help conservationists remove the highly destructive serpents that have invaded the state's ecosystem.

Why are they using robot rabbits?

The bunnies spin. They shake. They move randomly, and their creation is based on more than a decade of scientific review that began with a 2012 study that transported rabbits into Everglades National Park to see if, and how quickly, they would become python prey.

“The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot bunny study that launched this summer.

Subsequent studies revealed that pythons are drawn to live rabbits in pens with an average python attraction rate of about one snake per week. But having multiple live rabbits in pens spread across a formidable landscape is cumbersome and requires too much manpower to care for them.

So, why not robot bunnies?

“We want to capture all of the processes that an actual rabbit would give off,” McCleery said. “But I’m an ecologist. I’m not someone who sits around making robots.”

Instead, colleague Chris Dutton, also a UF ecology professor but more mechanically adept, pulled the stuffing out of a toy rabbit and replaced it with 30 electronic components that are solar-powered and controlled remotely so that researchers can turn them on and off at specific times.

The rabbits were placed in different areas of South Florida in July 2025 for a test phase that includes a camera programmed to recognize python movement and alert researchers when one nears the rabbit pen. One of the biggest challenges was waterproofing the bunnies so the correct temperature could still be radiated.

McCleery was reluctant to give specifics on where the rabbit pens are located.  

“I don’t want people hunting down my robo-bunnies,” he said.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the snakes.

Why are Burmese pythons a problem?

Burmese pythons aren't native to Florida. They were introduced to the state through the pet trade in the 1970s and released over time into the wild. The snakes gained a foothold in Everglades National Park by the mid-1980s, according to the 2021 Florida Python Control plan, and quickly proliferated, threatening other key species in the ecosystem.

A 2012 study by the United States Geological Survey found the pythons had contributed to population declines of a half-dozen animals, including raccoons, opossums, bobcats, foxes, marsh rabbits and cottontail rabbits

The USGS puts the Burmese python population in the Everglades in the tens of thousands.

Pythons have migrated north from the park, and researchers believe they may be able to survive as far north as Georgia if temperatures continue to warm and the snakes burrow during cold snaps.

What else is Florida doing to control the python population?

State officials trying to mitigate the python population have turned to many strategies, with varying degrees of success.

Renowned snake hunters from the Irula tribe in India were brought in to hunt and share their skills. People have used near-infrared cameras for python detection and specially designed traps. Some pythons are tracked by the DNA they shed in water.

The annual Florida Python Challenge has also gained legendary status, attracting hundreds of hunters each year vying for the $10,000 grand prize. The 10-day challenge was developed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to remove the pythons from state land. This year’s challenge runs through July 20.

Starting in 2017, the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also began paying 100 bounty hunters hourly wages and bonuses based on the length of the snake caught.

The hunters have removed an estimated 15,800 snakes since 2019 and were called the “most effective management strategy in the history of the issue” by district invasive animal biologist Mike Kirkland.

Kirkland oversees the district’s hunters and is involved in other python removal projects, including the robo-bunny experiment.

“It’s projects like (McCleery’s) that can be used in areas of important ecological significance where we can entice the pythons to come out of their hiding places and come to us,” Kirkland said at the board meeting. “It could be a bit of a game changer.”

McCleery said he’s pleased state officials are willing to experiment.

“Our partners have allowed us to trial these things that may sound a little crazy,” McCleery said. “Working in the Everglades for 10 years, you get tired of documenting the problem. You want to address it.”

McCleery said researchers did not name the robot rabbits, although he did bring one home that needed repair. His son named it “Bunbun.”