Jaromil wrote: "I don't know what else to think. maybe he passed on his account. The sort of replying-myself thing he is doing shows that some sort of twitter ab-user has taken place and the quantity of activity indicates there may be more people behind the account now."
That's interesting. Sometimes the posts from Morlock are very challenging and provocative, but the constant stream of quick commentary and crude aggression is killing the list. Lower the volume, stick to your core issues and quit the ad hominem attacks is my request to the entity. Nettime is an interesting place because ideas emerge, circulate and morph in complex patterns. There has never before been a case where one channel is open and sending all the time. Brian On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2018, Tilman Baumgärtel wrote: > > > When exactly did this list become primarily a vehicle for the > > endless wisecracking of some guy who has borrowed his name from a > > novel from 1895? > > my record for posterity: I know well this list and most people who > started it, read and write *sometimes* myself since 20 years. I used > to be strongly against the moderation of this list 10 years ago, a > measure which is just recently removed I understand. > > morlockelloi has been around as an anonymous writer since very long. I > used to be one of his fans, plus at times a sparring partner. Reading > some of his writings from 10 years ago, some of us believed he could > be William Gibson, who has also been somehow close to this list in its > early days at least. > > what I register now is that his activity intensified and the quality > of his attacks descended below the entertaining level. There ara > flurring posts from him in the last months, where he even replies to > himself, something I recall he never did. > > Plus traits of his personality are changing, he is much more of a > 'mr. know-it-all' type now, while before was more of a cynical > quasi-Bruce-Sterling designy type person dismissing fluff and clearing > out the way for proper arguments. > > I don't know what else to think. maybe he passed on his account. The > sort of replying-myself thing he is doing shows that some sort of > twitter ab-user has taken place and the quantity of activity indicates > there may be more people behind the account now. > > ciao > > -- > Denis Roio a.k.a. Jaromil http://Dyne.org think &do tank > Ph.D, CTO & co-founder software to empower communities > Book keynotes, lectures, workshops: https://jaromil.dyne.org > ⚷ crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره > GnuPG: 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10 > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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