Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread Ana Valdés via NetBehaviour
Alan I hope your silence should be a short one! And regarding your brother sad but mortality is our companion and we need to deal with it. Until I fell sick with serious COVID and stayed one and half month at the Hospital I fell I was inmortal too… I am a changed person now… all the best to you

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread rhea via NetBehaviour
Oh yikes Alan I’m sorry to hear that. Best wishes to both of you. On June 8, 2021, NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm going silent on Netbehaviour. My brother has cancer and I'm having > a hard time digesting that. > These discussions are difficult for

Re: [NetBehaviour] Angry Women + stof/dust + Be Like Body - Obsolete

2021-06-08 Thread Helen Varley Jamieson
yay annie, & suzon - & the Bodies:On:Live online Magdalena festival also features the first public sneak preivews of the new UpStage platform! workshops tomorrow & next monday are already fully booked (as is Angry Women workshop now), but during the festival weekend there are two works-in-progress

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread pl
Hi, all. I thinkl that the conversation is getting a bit stuck in the weeds, a bit far afield (I don't dare3 make the pun "further afield"). To me, Communication is changing. we are changing. our lives and practices are changing. Listservs are an older form of media, but like the

[NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
Hi All, I'm going silent on Netbehaviour. My brother has cancer and I'm having a hard time digesting that. These discussions are difficult for me. I can always be reached back-channel at sondh...@gmail.com . I'll be posting on Facebook as usual and on the smaller lists wryting-l and Cybermind

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Dear Alan, So sorry to hear this. Wishing the very best to you all. We will miss you. Ruth On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 5:51 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm going silent on Netbehaviour. My brother has cancer and I'm having a > hard

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
Alan, I'm so sorry to hear about your brother! I'm also very sorry to hear that you won't be posting on NetBehaviour any more - what a shame! I haven't read/watched/listened to all of your stuff by any stretch of the imagination, but I have enjoyed - no, loved - numerous things you have

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread Helen Varley Jamieson
hi everyone, i am in an ongoing state of relentless overload so i've been unable to do much more than periodically delete all the netbehaviour emails (and multiple other lists). i just don't have the brain space for anything much at the moment, outisde of the online magdalena festival and UpStage

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread marc garrett via NetBehaviour
Hi Helen, Always lovely to hear from you, In view of such a positive response by Netbehaviour users, I think the list will carry on but, I was especially excited by Ana's words saying, “ We must change something to keep the things as they are”. I think that's spot on. I also really like the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-08 Thread Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour
Yes, thanks. Lot to mull over. -- Paul On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 9:56 PM Alan Sondheim wrote: > > Find the reference to qm somewhat problematic but this is an absolutely > stunning account - at least for me - I've learned a lot from it. Thank > you! > > Wow! - Alan - hope there's a full

[NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-08 Thread rhea via NetBehaviour
Bitcoin secures itself by rewarding the people who run it with payments in Bitcoin. To get the rewards for publishing new blocks of transactions to the Internet every ten minutes (on average), Bitcoin miners compete to solve simple but time-consuming cryptographic puzzles. When Bitcoin launched,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cochineal - on the inside

2021-06-08 Thread F3ydrus via NetBehaviour
Reposting something I wrote at lunchtime UK time today, before writing a separate msg about the long discussions of this list's past+future: (was spam-collected previously because I used the wrong from: address!) Original Message SUBJECT: Re:

[NetBehaviour] Secret Jewish Arrow-Swallowing Ceremony

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
Secret Jewish Arrow-Swallowing Ceremony http://www.alansondheim.org/arrow1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/arrow2.jpg Aologies for keeping this from you for so long It's a secret Jewish ceremony for Arrow-Day! Welcome to my secret world! -- kewanon eat your heart out!

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour
Alan very sorry to hear this. Keep on! I’m sure you will. All the best, Simon Sent from my spyphone > On 8 Jun 2021, at 19:55, Ana Valdés via NetBehaviour > wrote: > > Alan I hope your silence should be a short one! And regarding your brother > sad but mortality is our companion and we

Re: [NetBehaviour] going silent

2021-06-08 Thread pl
Yes, alan, as you are one of the backbones of the community. Hope that it is short. You know I have something similar near me. On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 23:16:18 +0100, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote: Alan very sorry to hear this.  Keep on! I’m sure you will. All the best, Simon 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
Find the reference to qm somewhat problematic but this is an absolutely stunning account - at least for me - I've learned a lot from it. Thank you! Wow! - Alan - hope there's a full essay/book emerging - On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, rhea via NetBehaviour wrote: Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:31:08

Re: [NetBehaviour] Work in Progress: Blockchain Temporalities

2021-06-08 Thread Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour
Great work. Struck by the absence of “blockchain” from the original white paper and the wide possibility of reimagining the “timestamp server.” The blockchain has always had a gears-in-clocks aspect of it for me. I explained it to some Swiss folks this way once. In San Francisco I explained

[NetBehaviour] Cochineal - on the inside

2021-06-08 Thread Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour
This music will be released into the void soon When its finished and with the other humans adding their love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s_W31Ly1g Cochineal On the inside Carborundum Paratroopers On the inside Seven miles Left till midnight Paratroopers On the inside In the frame of the

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Dear All! Firstly, Alan I also love your posts -the pattern which I think of as an art ping, and the content (when I watch, listen, read it) is a portal into your art practise which I really enjoy and value. I also think that Alan has a point in saying that Marc and I should provide a steer as

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
Hi Ruth, I think you misunderstand, or I do. For me it is a Commons, absolutely, precisely because it's not steered by anyone. Steering is restrictive; it becomes something else, you're asserting power, of course, as list owners. It's been running fine for everyone I've talked to. I think when

[NetBehaviour] Cancer

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
Cancer http://www.alansondheim.org/cancer.txt I heard tonight someone I'm close to has cancer. When my mother died years ago, I was traumatized. I wrote or assembled the cancer text. I'd like to write this puts things in perspective. It doesn't. It just brings out I, I, I, I'd, I'm and on

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread Ana Valdés via NetBehaviour
I was a bit puzzled when Alan wrote that -empyre a list where many of us belong and has participated for more than ten years is about politics. Did I misread you Alan? That’s the difficulties inherent to have English as third language :) I feel I sometimes misses nuances and shades. Because for

Re: [NetBehaviour] (Putting up a piece from a couple of day ago)

2021-06-08 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
I'm lost here; if I said that, it was an error. Empyre is 'about' culture and many other things; it's topic oriented with guest moderators and participants. - Alan On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:44 AM Ana Valdés wrote: > I was a bit puzzled when Alan wrote that -empyre a list where many of us >