Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread John Hopkins
And real CO2 being generated to fuel the fucking 'mining' processors ... Can we kill this beast yet? We've got coal on the run in much of the US, but what a hopeless idea, that processor cycles is related to value and wealth... On 12/Mar/21 12:57, Heidrun Allert (sie/she) wrote: The

Re: THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism

2021-03-12 Thread Max Herman
Hi David, Myth is game is play. It's the use of the imaginative faculties upon completable tasks. The first instinct! It's where we get our dopamine and, when groups are involved, our oxytocin. Conservatives always fed their base a pack of lies and expected infinite docile consumption.

Digital Commoning Practices / Intersecting Commons lecture series

2021-03-12 Thread Station of Commons
Digital Commoning Practices https://www.stationofcommons.org/events/digital-commoning-practices https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83616306848?pwd=THRXNFFvYkxkWGliUGpyM2JWS0xaQT09 Following last week Open Source Audio Stream, we begin the new phase Intersecting Commons Lecture series: First Session:

Disassociation from Michel Bauwens

2021-03-12 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
As some of you may already know, the P2P community has a major issue with P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens who has, in my view, turned the foundations Facebook groups and other forums into potential recruitment vectors for the "alt-right" and has created an environment where many people

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Molly Hankwitz
Dear dear nettimers, Awake! The arts are kickin it! Maybe badly... Here is another, maybe relevant txt if you haven’t seen it! https://networkcultures.org/longform/2021/03/11/cats-frogs-and-cryptoartists-what-if-auteur-jpgs-become-a-luxury-good/ molly On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Heidrun Allert (sie/she)
Dear Brian, The hierarchie you present is a valuable framework. Interestingly enough, Bitcoin advocates claim that mining Bitcoin is real labor, real machines, real workers there. Best heidrun sent enroute > Am 11.03.2021 um 18:20 schrieb Brian Holmes : > >  > I can't answer the second

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Heidenreich
could it be, that it's a kind of hoax? Like: two bubbles trying trying to keep each other up by leaning against one another: a fragile bitcoin market on the one side and a dysfunctional art market on the other side. with the simple idea idea to create those crazy prices and to to lure luring

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
The media is the message: you can't escape. In 2017, about the blockchain's capacity of transforming anything into a financial transaction, and its possible effects: https://startupsventurecapital.com/the-financialization-of-life-a90fe2cb839f The financialization of life also means that anything

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Molly Hankwitz
Money is interesting! What about “old money” and “new money”? You may have had to grow up along the Eastern seaboard or in post-aristocratic EU to know the diff, but old money is inherited wealth in the form of assets and new money (nouveau riche) is that category of newly monied who somehow got

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread Rachel O' Dwyer
I haven’t followed the latest surge in NFTs as much as I’d like, but I wrote this, among other things, on cryptokitties, NFTs and art as a derivative https://circaartmagazine.net/a-celestial-cyberdimension-art-tokens-and-the-artwork-as-derivative/ I’m interested in why now though, beyond

Re: what does monetary value indicate?

2021-03-12 Thread patrice riemens
Aloha, Let me say that First Dog on the Moon has, not for te first time, the definitive, if not answer, then at last commentary on the issue: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/12/cryptoart-what-is-it-and-can-you-eat-it Enjoy! have a nice day and don't become fungible! p+7D!

Re: THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism

2021-03-12 Thread Tatiana Bazzichelli
Dear all, thank you for this great feedback, I hope to see you online later today so we can bring some questions over :) All the best! Tatiana On 11.03.21 17:38, Max Herman wrote: > > Hi David, > > Myth is game is play.  It's the use of the imaginative faculties upon > completable tasks.