How do we govern ourselves? (was: Mechanical Turkish)

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Blake Stimson wrote: My premise is that the question "how do we govern ourselves? ... with > which institutions, under which rules, backed by which constraints?" that > Brian raises can never be asked from the outsider standpoint of >

Re: DigitalLabor, DataPortability, etc.

#MyFacebookInvoice just hit USD 200.000.000 Invoice Generator: https://goo.gl/EEDDcv Dataviz: https://goo.gl/7nZ1yR O On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:14 PM, olivier auber wrote: > Target: USD 350,000,000,000,000 > > Current cumulative after 12 hours: USD 60,000,000 > >

Re: Zach Blas: Metric Mysticism

Glass *is* silicon, as is what we've been staring into, all of us, in the form of mediated and virtual life for quite some time now in a variety of forms that tend to lead us astray in our perception of the nature of reality. But this misperception is wider than the particular valley of silicon

Release the Dutch Evidence of the DNC Hack | Leonid Bershidsky

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-26/release-the-dutch-evidence-of-the-dnc-hack Release the Dutch Evidence of the DNC Hack If the Dutch intelligence service watched the Russians breach the Democratic National Committee, there's no more reason to hide the evidence. by Leonid

Zach Blas: Metric Mysticism

bwo Barbara Strebel, with thanks. Full story: http://www.e-flux.com/program/170578/lecture-performance-zach-blas-nbsp-metric-mysticism/ In this lecture-performance, artist Zach Blas gazes into the crystal balls of Silicon Valley and charts the transmutation of big data into a magical