dear nettimers,
here's my take on the endlessly fascinating Anonymous story. Written
for LeMondeDiplo, where it appears in the current issue in a slightly
edited version and under a different title.
All the best.
Felix
Enter the Swarm: Anonymous and the global protest movements
.
On 03/04/2012 03:22 AM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:
People using facebook, or any other source, engage in labour. The
question here is do they get the full return on that labour?
I don't think it makes sense to pose the question like this, for the
reasons that Michael's text, which started
Dear Brian,
there were surprisingly optimistic undertones to your analysis. I was
wondering where they came from. Until the very end, there reference to
Polany made it clear.
In fact, this has ever been the problem of capitalism, not since Adam
Smith but since the days of Malthus and Ricardo.
The whole thing strikes me as utterly irrelevant, except for those
who want to make a career or a business in some arcane layers of art
administration connected to large institutional players.
Art-Agenda art-age...@mailer.e-flux.com wrote:
The structure of the internet is about to shift in
I haven't fully made up my mind yet when it comes to crowd-funding
(CF).
There are some definitely positive potentials to it. For example, it
point towards a cultural economy that does not depend on the standard
copyright model where investments in the first copy are regained
through
This is a fascinating study and while it's couched in business terms,
after all it was commissioned by French Telco Orange, it raises,
particularly in chapters 4 and 6, an intriguing question:
Are markets retreating, after decades of expansion, even as the public
sector shrinks as well?
There
On 09/28/2012 12:22 PM, Jaromil wrote:
collaborative rather than cooperative - maybe this is just a
prank to make Volker Grassmuck hangry :^)
Open source collaborates, free software cooperates :)
There is a re-branding going on to make this business-friendly. And
business friendly it has
It's hard to wrap one's head around the number of possible
implications this shift in energy extraction has. One thing seems
clear, oil/gas production will not peak any time soon. So neither
the breakdown of fossil fuel civilization is taking place, or will
increased oil/gas prices drive the
I must admit, I'm thinking about joining Facebook. It's such a
giant social experiment. The main direction seems to be to totally
obliterate the difference between advertisement and virtually all
other forms of speech.
In many ways, it has already achieved this, but only on a social
level,
Hi Ed,
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
Generally, I don't think Facebook forces anything on people. It's
more subtle, and it's embedded in a general, let's say, neo-liberal
context. As both traditional communities and traditional hierarchies
are grumbling, people are pushed, and are
It's interesting how ideas and experiences shift shapes over time.
For the few years now there has been a particularly German obsession
with plagiarism in academic dissertations. Initially, this has been
employed to embarrass political figures and promote a self-righteous
discourse of academic
Sharing and collaboration are often touted as the ultimate solutions
to combat the downturn. But the people who speak the loudest are often
the ones who have the least to be afraid of.
http://ouishare.net/2013/03/is-the-collaborative-economy-only-for-the-privileged/
For the past few years,
I guess it all depends if you see the state as being capable of
expressing something like the common interest. If so, then capture
by financial and other economic interests is a corruption of that
principle and one needs to fight politically against that corruption.
This is, basically, a
On 05/15/2013 05:40 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Is there any body of research that does this -- with or without
McLuhan?
Manuel Castells immediately springs to mind, who not only wrote a book
called Internet Galaxy (by far not his best, though), but premises
his entire analysis on the
Like many people, I've been following the news re: #occupyGezi, but I
still feel I don't really understand what's happening there. It would be
great if someone could provide an first-hand, on-the-ground report
rather than just some second-hand theory based on media accounts.
Any nettimers in
There are dark days, these days. We have the privilege of observing
different levels of repression working at the same time, ranging from
blanket surveillance of every electronic communication, to sending
out riot police to expel civil society and its mainly symbolic
forms of resistance from
On 06/13/2013 06:15 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
I prefer to find this recent news a light in dark times.
At the moment, i think in the West (core and periphery) we can
distinguish between three struggles in advanced stages.
One is against authoritarian regimes that force a closed set of values
on
Meanwhile, another take on the same issue. This time by Google's Eric Schmidt.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/eric-schmidt-google-nsa-surveillance
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and
so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the
On 09/27/2013 12:21 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
Finally, I do think that the claim to manage risk through hedging
strategies tends to deny collective responsibility for risks that,
nonetheless, are run by everyone and whose effective consequences are
typically paid for by large numbers of
OK. It's the machines. You convinced me. Now, what?
Felix
On 09/29/2013 02:34 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
It is the machines that are *spying* on us -- not humans. It is the
machines that are taking our jobs -- not humans (now that wage arbitrage is
declining).
# distributed
On 10/11/2013 01:46 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Correct. The principles involved have been in force for the past
100+ years -- long before *digital* systems. In the original
19th-century Benthamite Panopticon, the key idea was that the
inmates had no idea if anyone was watching, so they
[I'm somewhat conflicted about this. While I'm generally glad to see
fair use expanded, I think the judge misunderstood Google's business
model when citing in favor of favor of that Google does not sell the
scans as evidence of its benign character. They clearly wouldn't do it
if they were not
I've been reading a lot of Zygmunt Bauman lately, and he points out that
there are two control regimes operating at the same time. One is about
keeping people out, and the other is about keeping those who are in in
line. One relies on old-fashioned repression through border guards,
police,
I don't think that this FAZ article makes much sense. First, as David
Garcia pointed out, anonymous never acted as, or claimed to be, a
counter public. It has always been, to varying degrees and by different
people, about direct action and media jamming. It has never a movement
in a classic sense.
I remember, a couple of years ago, Sebastian Luetgert speaking about the
real frontier of copyright wars being personal memory. That if you
really want to enforce copyright, you have to force people to forget, to
erase from memory, say, films immediately after watching them.
At the time, it
Hi Dan,
I must say, I've never really understood the politics around ICANN. That
has always been too arcane for me. So I don't understand this
development either.
When I read these articles, the suggestion is that a weak Obama
administration is trying to appease foreign governments angered by
Thanks to an impressive grassroots campaign an important battle was
one today. Felix
Net Neutrality: A Great Step Forward for the Free Internet!
Submitted on 3 Apr 2014 - 11:46
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-a-great-step-forward-for-the-free-internet
Brussels, 3 April 2014 —
[Is there a difference between subsidizing those who do and penalizing
whose who don't? Felix]
Apple may seek health insurer subsidies for iWatch fitness bands
By PATRICK SEITZ
Posted 04/11/2014 07:27 PM ET
This interview is from the Just Net Coalition publication that Michael
Gurnstein referred to in his most recent email. Felix
Interview with Robert McChesney: How can Internet be De-monopolized?
Sally Burch
2014-04-16
http://alainet.org/active/73020
“Left on their current course and driven
Themes: NETmundial, INTERNET GOVERNANCE, FREEDOMS ONLINE, DILMA
ROUSSEFF, NET NEUTRALITY, SURVEILLANCE
La Quadrature du Net – For immediate release
Permanent link:
https://www.laquadrature.net/en/ournetmundial-our-internet-needs-more-than-internet-governance
#OurNETmundial! Our Internet Needs
I'm astounded. Nay, dismayed. There is clearly a lot going. On a
historic scale.
New patterns of social control? Check. See them emerging long the axis
of service/empowerment (Google) and surveillance/repression (NSA).
Changing social patterns? Check. See the deepening and hardening of
On 06/14/2014 02:20 PM, Florian Cramer wrote:
For example, because it doesn't want - for political reasons - its
music to end up on Spotify, Google or similar corporate services,
against which free licenses provide no means of intervention.
I agree, Google co represent a version of
While we are debating somewhat abstract free licensing issues, the
independent music labels are fighting real monopoly power.
Google is threatening to ban their music from Youtube, if they do not
accept conditions worse than the major music companies for the new
streaming venture that Google is
It's well worth the read the entire post, since there are a lot of
examples and funny scare stories.
By now, a lot of people report that they dislike Facebook (the most
extreme of the social mass media), but are still using it, because of
fear of missing something. This personally felt
On 07/24/2014 17:51, Wolfie Christl wrote:
Maybe the other way round: If users would have been paid for
their data, business models driven by personal data would be less
attractive or would look different at least
Hi Wolfie,
you are right, paying individual users for their personal data
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum
learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he
emigrated to the U.S. and created his ultra-popular messaging system
decades later, he vowed
On 11/20/2014 03:11 AM, nettime's_enigma wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:12:27 -0500
From: Dmytri Kleiner d...@trick.ca
Subject: Re: nettime end-to-end encryption for the masses
OK, after I agree to run google play store on my phone along with the
proprietary whatsapp , I also give my
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I'm thrilled, like many, by the outcome of the Greek elections and
the fact that Yannis Varoufakis is being named as finance minister
is truly amazing. I cannot remember when someone I admired as an
intellectual took office at such a high level and
On 01/28/2015 02:44 AM, Flick Harrison wrote:
The militant nationalism that Tsipras displayed by visiting the
Resistance memorial makes me think Syriza is stupid, or talking to
the stupid. The fascist threat isn't rolling into Greece in
panzers; it's a few inches to the right of their
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On 2015-03-15 07:03, Brian Holmes wrote:
I think David is right that the Left should neither ignore the
creative class, nor simply heap a now-conventionalized scorn upon
it. It is urgent to develop an intellectual/artistic culture and a
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OK, at least for the nettime context, the argument is no-brainer, no,
more than that, it's actually a core tenet of the entire nettime project.
To criticize technology from a purely moral / cultural standpoint is
an inherently conservative project.
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On 2015-04-02 12:05, Alex Foti wrote:
i mean let's not commit suicide,
Yeah, let's not do that, not the least because, as Bifo pointed out,
that would be a response entirely in line with how systems works.
The initial post was neither entirely
[Ah, there's nothing that cannot be further sliced, broken down and
re-bundled. First the music album, then newspaper, now the book.
Pay per page. How long before there will be scripts that turn the
page, for books you don't want to read, but still want to support the
author? Interesting also that
After Barcelona, now Madrid [1]. Majors from the M15 movement are now
in charge of the two biggest cities in Spain. Greece is on the brink
of being sacrificed on the altar of orthodoxy. The war in the Ukraine
is grinding on. Is 2015 turning into 1913? Who knows, but it's gonna
be a hot summer in
It's hard to see how yesterdays development in the Eurozone are
anything than dramatic. One gets the feeling that out a lack of
political leadership (blame the others), an unwillingness to address
the problems at the level where they are (untenable amounts of
debts) and ideology (tying reforms
The Hard Line on Greece
June 29, 2015
Andrew Ross Sorkin
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/business/dealbook/the-hard-line-on-greece.html
In July 2012, Timothy F. Geithner, the United States Treasury
secretary at the time, traveled to Sylt, an island off Germany in the
North Sea.
Mr. Geithner
[So, Greece caved, it signed up to what even the German media called
A list of cruelties and an offer designed to be refused. So why
didn't they go for an Grexit?
Basically, because they never prepared for one, and doing an
unprepared currency switch would have led to the immediate collapse of
I don't think much interesting can be found in the opposition between
critique & practice on the one hand, and between electronic & physical
one other.
Sure, there's a lot of theory-posturing that portrays itself as
critical but is primarily about self-promotion and there is lots of
activism
On 2015-10-10 00:48, Kristoffer Gansing wrote:
> I am just curious to see what kind of response it will evoke!
> Especially I am curious if the nettime community has anything to say
> about the supposed fear of dealing with TTIP within digital art and
> culture, well knowing of course that
activists, to open
the field for a wider and more diverse debate.
TWITTER: #algoregimes
LIVESTREAM: world-information.net/algorithmic-regimes/
Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder Conference Editors - With Thomas Sturm,
Antoinette Rouvroy, Reinhard Kreissl, Btihaj Ajana, Katja Mayer,
Francesca Musiani, Olga
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On 2015-09-13 07:27, patrice wrote:
> So, are we back to square one? I am afraid it's much worse: endgame
> for Greece, economically and politically speaking (is there
> anything else?), and endgame for the European Union as we know it.
> In this
I also think this is quite something and it would be interesting to
get some accounts of this process from people up close. Any nettimers
in Mexico city at the moment?
This is, indeed, a mega-experiment, but it's one that's in line with
others. Again and again, the metropolitan area, or the large
On 2016-06-25 22:38, Brian Holmes wrote:
> What's really crucial - and maybe this is what you're getting at,
> Michael - is how do younger people analyze this disastrous situation? Do
> they fall back on the capitalist reflex embodied by Hillary Clinton that
> says, push through the recession to
Felix
ERROR: YouTube said: This video is available in Afghanistan, Antigua and
Barbuda, Anguilla, Armenia, Antarctica, Argentina, American Samoa,
Aruba, Ã
land Islands, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bangladesh, Saint
Barthélemy, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Plurinational State of,
Bonaire,
[Usually, countries like Myanmar or Egypt are subjects to these kinds
of rulings. Just another example how Western countries are actively
destroying the very cultural and institutional foundations on which
their hegemony has been based. I'm not sure this is a good thing.
Felix]
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I was also there at the Volksbühne (though not like Geert during the day).
I completely agree with DiEM25's general analysis that the current
crisis in Europe is a crisis of democracy and not one of money. Europe
still is one of the richest, best
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On 2016-02-13 19:05, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The trend(s) that Europe is seeing itself dragged to are not result
> of 'wrong' thinking and misbehaviour of supposedly powerful masses.
> They are the result of material circumstances, and no
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On 2015-12-07 13:52, Konrad Becker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as part of the series on "Algorithmic Regimes" we ask for your
> contributions in a call for clips:
>
> "Screening the Algorithmic Imagination" January 22nd 2016
In the mean time, we did
On 2016-03-09 02:29, nettime's_scanner wrote:
>
> https://cosmowenman.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/the-nefertiti-3d-scan-heist-is-a-hoax/
>
> The Nefertiti 3D Scan Heist Is A Hoax
I'm not sure I would call it a hoax. I think -- though I have no
inside knowledge -- the most likely case is that of a
On 2016-03-15 07:42, Brian Holmes wrote:
> In the US, the classic sequence of a long downswing is unfolding:
> inventions pile up while the economy stagnates, so the inventions
> are not brought to market. They pile up: electric cars, vastly more
> efficient batteries, driverless cars, digital
On 2016-04-05 20:42, Florian Cramer wrote:
> So what the Panama Papers really are is a warning to whisteblowers
> not to "exclusively" give sensitive data to media companies, but to
> use whisteblower platforms like Wikileaks instead.
Agreed.
> Some crucial questions remain unanswered: Why is
One of the truly amazing aspects of this case is the breadth of
support for the position that what Sci-Hub is doing amounts to
justified civil disobedience.
However get to the root of this, you need to be a bit more "radical"
than this article.
Sure, ignoring foreign copyright has been a
[There was a time, when it was difficult to trace things like the
"industrial-military-media complex". Just a year ago, Assange spent
an entire chapter to detail the close link between google and the US
administration (though, he focussed on the state "deptartment). Now,
it is all naked and
On 2016-05-23 16:35, Alex Foti wrote:
>european xenophobia defeated again after fn was beaten in france
>plus the winner's a green;)
It was an amazing moment, yesterday afternoon. Public life screeched to
halt, everyone was glued to their TV sets, computers, mobile phones. All
major
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On 2016-04-17 13:40, Florian Cramer wrote:
> ...only that it is plainly wrong. At this meeting, the Colloque
> Walter Lippmann, Alexander Rüstow defined neoliberalism _against_
> the radical free market liberalism of von Mises and Hayek as a
>
[START 2/2]
https://lasindias.com/the-communard-manifesto-html
The two faces of productivity
“Productivity” is a word that evokes rejection among large sectors of
the population. For years, salaries have been reduced, workdays
extended, and thousands of workers fired in the name of increasing
On 2016-08-02 10:49, Felix Stalder wrote:
> It's not simply a theoretical text, but a testimony to the scope
> of vision driving the development of the Spanish "rebel cities".
In the mean time, I had some private emails pointing out that Las Indias
are not really connected to
On 2016-07-13 15:21, nettime's hypoallergenic reader wrote:
> <
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/11/snowflake-arizona-environmental-illness
> >
>
> Allergic to life: the Arizona residents 'sensitive to the whole
> world'
This is uncannily similar the plot set out in Todd
I think there are very simple things to be learned from this.
Something that is, in the end, utterly banal but apparently gets
forgotten with every new technology and needs to be relearned.
It is impossible to wish away power and politics.
Even when this wish is shared collectively and expressed
[This strikes me as the most advanced attempt to outline a historical
perspective on an emancipatory trajectory contained within the current
crisis. It's not simply a theoretical text, but a testimony to the scope
of vision driving the development of the Spanish "rebel cities".
The manifesto
[This text is an abstract for a larger argument I hope to develop on how
to frame the political character of the crisis, by understanding the
appeal of trump and other stongmen, while trying to avoid the trap of
leftwing nationalism (which I think is largely an illusion). I know it's
very abstract
Yesterday, I listened to Doug Henwood's radio show [1] which featured a
long interview with feminist theorist Nancy Fraser. In it, she
elaborated, among other things, her take on Polanyi's Great
Transformation, which has been used, also on nettime, to frame the
current crisis. I found her quite
On 2017-01-16 18:17, Keith Hart wrote:
> Nancy Fraser is right to be ambivalent about Polanyi's relevance for
> the last half century or today, but like him she has a weak grasp
> of world society's movement and direction; she also needs a more
> precise formulation of the problem and its
"Listen, Mark, this is serious. First you create rules that don’t
distinguish between child pornography and famous war photographs. Then
you practice these rules without allowing space for good judgement.
Finally you even censor criticism against and a discussion about the
decision – and you
Hi Florian,
> This story has one flaw: Facebook's censors aren't algorithms but
> human low wage laborers. The issue isn't principally different from
> that of a press distributor/wholesaler deciding not to put an issue
> of a newspaper on the newsstands because it contains full-frontal
>
[I came across this article by Bernhard Stiegler, which peaked my
interest in the context of the discussion of accelerationism. But as I
was reading along, what struck me even more is how good the standard
automatic translation has become Felix]
Bernard Stiegler: "Accelerating innovation
Dear nettimers,
I normally don't forward announcement, but this one might be of
particular interest, since it updates many of the issues that have been
at the core of our discussions. And, the JPP has one of the most
interesting -- and useful -- review processes I know of. All there for
your
I was also confident that Clinton would win. And I was even hoping
she would win, but what was I hoping for. I was hoping for the
continuation of a system that I know full well is unsustainable and
its continuation is undesirable.
Of course, I was hoping for that because the alternative on offer
[This is, of course, a intriguing thought. A community-led social
network, free from the logic of venture capital. I doubt, though, that
#buytwitter is the way, to enter into direct competition with capital
and start bidding. If Netscape/Mozilla is really the play-book, then
it would entail a)
> Way back in 1944, Karl Polanyi defined both Axis fascism and
> Stalinist communism as self-protective movements of society
> against the damaging forces of capitalist exploitation. The forms
> taken by these self-protective movements, he said, could be more
> damaging than the problems they
On 2016-11-15 01:17, Angela Mitropoulos wrote:
>> I think this is precisely it. Neo-liberal policies very deliberately
>> > destroyed social solidarity and increased competition andmassive rise
>> > exploitation. The effect was a in social inequality,
>> > economic insecurity and total lack of
Another story about Facebook's increasing power to affect the vote. Two
years, Jonathan Zitrain showed how FB was able to increase voter turnout
by sending out reminders during the mid-term elections [1].
[1]
John Berger is dead. He died today, at the age of 90. Orbits are surely
being written right now. However, Sally Potter's birthday thoughts
from last November seem a more apt and personal way of remembering.
"Ways of Seeing was, together with Robert Hughes' "Shock of the New",
one of the first
And, now, Zygmunt Bauman died. For most, he is remembered as
sociologist who dealt with the holocaust, or, because of this "fluid
modernity" as a post-modernist. For me, particularly in his more
recent work, he was the last great proponent of of the uniquely
European tradition of negative negative
Hi Morlock,
the case is pretty straight forward here. Hungary has an increasingly
totalitarian government. An "illiberal democracy" as Orban calls
it. They are systematically dismantling the basis for independent
thinking. First there was purge in cultural institutions, then tight
control over
This is pointless and you know it. Perhaps you should join the new
Facebook group. It's still April 1.
Felix
On 2017-04-01 18:56, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> It's entertaining that liberal communism and philanthrocapitalism is
> cherished/tolerated as antidote to the essentially anti-capitalist and
Hi Marlock,
nobody speaks of angels and the ever growing influence of money, and the
super-rich, on all aspects of civil and political life is of course
problematic.
But, throwing the baby out with the bathtub is well-known strategy of
the far-right, aka all politicians are crooks, so let's
I'm not sure I get where this thread is going, or better, where it is
coming from. There are, in my view, two different questions here.
A) has the far-right meme culture played a significant role in
Trump winning the election? The short answer is clearly no. We're
in the midsts of a deep systemic
[This is a trivial but highly entertaining story. What makes it
entertaining is that all actors makes grandiose claims about art,
politics and whatnot, and all of them are completely ludicrous. Fake
news doesn't even scratch the surface, it's fake reality! Felix]
'Charging Bull' sculptor calls
MIT Media Lab put out an Award for Civil Disobedience. In many ways,
this boggles the mind, but then again, it doesn't.
First reaction of quite some people has been to nominate Aaron Swartz.
While this is an obvious, and warranted, symbolic gesture, it might be
more interesting to take them up
./ Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest
These are not the backdoors you are looking for.
http://u.solidity.cc/
1st Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest
The Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest is a contest to write harmless
looking Solidity code that conceals a hidden purpose. A good USCC entry
On 2017-04-25 13:49, Florian Cramer wrote:
> In other words, if anti-scientific populism is one (right-wing) hell,
> evidence-based policies and regulations is the other
> (neoliberal-technocratic) hell.
This a more double-edged sword. I remember lots of policy discussions
and proposals in the
On 2017-04-21 11:19, Florian Cramer wrote:
> The bigger question lurking behind this is a critical analysis of
> (cyber-) libertarianism, which was at the root of Nettime. The
> question is whether the "Californian ideology" has, twenty years
> after its first description, mutated into several
On 2017-06-12 00:20, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
> https://www.textezurkunst.de/106/notes-toward-memes-production/
>
> Lots of good bits in here covering the nitty gritty mechanics of the
> alt-right and their stellar command of media manipulation in light of
> theories of art and cultural
I think what social media are really good at is to produce "bursts"
of activity. Things flair up, reach a lot of people, and then die
out quite quickly. The idea that these bursts would, over time,
consolidate into something more structurally coherent (other than
companies that provide the
On 2017-05-26 20:15, Karin Spaink wrote:
> Really? Top brass of the Piratenpartij moved on to Thierry Baudet?
> That’s quite some news, actually! Is there any public information
> available about that?
I'm no connoisseur of Dutch politics, but this you can find online,
from September last year
On 2017-06-01 19:13, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The evolution of the attitude towards nuclear war from terrible
> (1946+) through unthinkable (1970s) into impossible (2000+) is a
> testament to the power of Kool Aid. While the planet was continuously
> and uninterruptedly ruled based on the military
On 2017-06-03 22:08, Keith Hart wrote:
> Brian, that the US is all washed up again, with Germany and China
> the likely replacement and Felix's notion that the last six months
> have been decisive in some way.
Dear Keith,
thank you for your structural long-term view. Very sobering. What
On 2017-09-14 08:33, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The Internet did give us what majority always wanted - uniform
> enforcement of sub-mediocrity and conformity. Enjoy. Or run httpd. There
> is nothing in-between.
I'm not sure about this. There are lots of things in the middle, if you
leave the
[I recently talked to Chinese scholars and activists about this, who
broadly shared the worries expressed in this article, but they were also
aware that theirs was probably a minority position. For most people,
they said, surveillance is not the problem (it's a given). More worrying
for them is
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