Re: Conversion disorder of the left

These 3 pictures may provide hints as to what is going on: https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/dis%2C_mand%2C_int_pie_2015_enacted.png https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/mandatory_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png

For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance"

For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance" it seems he is out of chances already : For those finding it difficult to keep up - here's a run down of the week so far To recap: * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ's Violence Against Women programs. * On January

Re: Conversion disorder of the left

However, it seems that less revenue will go to dead bodies industries, so it's progress after all. --tax money will be stolen to pay for enterprising on HSA, vouchers for schools, etc. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net

Re: Digital leftism in a globalised world?

On Jan 31, 2017, at 14:18 , Alexander Bard wrote: > But is there somehow a widespread agreement that economic growth in > China and India over the last 30 years has not benefitted the masses at > all? That this is merely a "neo-liberal myth"? "Polls show that about

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

When I saw the "10 Preliminary Theses on Trump", what made me feel uneasy was, mostly, a matter of form: that the "10 Theses" format seemed strangely anachronistic, inadequate for a phenomenon like Trump, and that of all the attributes one could have possibly picked, "preliminary" looked like

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

Hello Brian, I understand the criticism very well (it's one that's been made quite often by various groups, especially during the 2011 wave of struggles, as I'm sure you're well aware), but I also think that we have for a good while now been without clear or obvious ways forward

Re: Little Atoms > Robbins > the myth that British data scientists won the election

There is one hypothesis that the various "this can all not be true"-pieces are ignoring: It might as well be that the "trait"-based social media manipulation techniques work best if applied to dissuade people from going to vote, but make little difference when applied with the goal of encouraging

Re: Protocols and Crises

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:43:28PM +0100, André Rebentisch wrote: > The more common match term for "protocol power" as coined by the > abstract seems to be the anglo-saxon "multistakeholderism" governance > model. It is deeply embedded in their political culture. I assume it > stems from a more

Little Atoms > Robbins > the myth that British data scientists won the election

< http://littleatoms.com/news-science/donald-trump-didnt-win-election-through-facebook > The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump By Martin Robbins 30/01/2017 Claims that social media data won the presidency are greatly exaggerated A piece of data science mythology

Re: January 30, Time To Wake Up

On 2017-01-31 01:15, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: >January 30, Time To Wake Up >"The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him >seriously." (Peter Thiel) > >What is beginning to dawn upon Americans is that the exact opposite is true: >That by taking >Trump seriously, they

Digital leftism in a globalised world?

Excellent points, dear Brian, and much agreed too. But is there somehow a widespread agreement that economic growth in China and India over the last 30 years has not benefitted the masses at all? That this is merely a "neo-liberal myth"? Sure we have seen enough Indian and Chinese

Re: Conversion disorder of the left

Morlock, You are right - it is a bone - an inside justification, along "social" and "religious" lines --(moral) for those also setting up the free-market... However, even the "free" market does not exist in a moral and political vacuum so while there is too-down rearrangement of hierarchical

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Resistance

On 01/31/2017 09:38 AM, Ian Alan Paul wrote: To not know precisely where we are headed is to remain open to the possibility of arriving where we couldn�t possibly have planned to, and in refusing the present we also invite what cannot presently exist within it. The refusal to

Re: Protocols and Crises

I admit to being slightly mystified by what you say, Felix. Let's start with protocols. An example used decades ago in discussions of artificial intelligence was the protocol for restaurant dining: you go in the door, wait to be seated, are shown to table, sit down, examine the menu