Re: scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread Keith Sanborn
The dualism is so Debordian: the integrated spectacle has split again into slightly mutually contaminated variants of the concentrated and diffuse spectacles. > On Feb 14, 2019, at 6:33 PM, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Rampant hypocrisy aside, it's interesting to note that regulating

Re: scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread morlockelloi
Rampant hypocrisy aside, it's interesting to note that regulating MAGAf would result in the almost exact "chinese" model as it is today. Which may explain the rabid opposition to it from the surveillance-industrial complex. For those that didn't pay attention, what Huawei is accused of was

Re: scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread Roel Roscam Abbing
The global internet is splitting in two. One side, championed in China, is a digital landscape where mobile payments have replaced cash. Smartphones are the devices that matter, and users can shop, chat, bank and surf the web with one app. The downsides: The government reigns absolute, and it is

Re: Why I have stopped reading about Brexit

2019-02-14 Thread Keith Hart
Hi Patrice, You are a brave man, but also very unlucky at least in terms of timing. This evening May was defeated when the ERG decided to pull the plug for the second time. This means that her ploy of suggesting that the Tory government is in control is rubbished. The EU negotiators have even

Why I have stopped reading about Brexit

2019-02-14 Thread Patrice Riemens
Aloha, I was a Brexit addict. Till the day before yesterday. I used to spell the Guardian online and go thru all the vagaries of that great soap. But no longer. I might merely scan the headline, and may be even not. I 'know' what is going to happen (even though you never can know). The

Re: scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread Rachel O'Dwyer
Hey would someone mind posting the content of the article here for those of us not subscribed to WSJ? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Feb 2019, at 18:56, Geert Lovink wrote: > > A rewrite: > > One other side, championed in the US, is a digital landscape where Google and > Facebook have

Re: scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread Geert Lovink
A rewrite: One other side, championed in the US, is a digital landscape where Google and Facebook have replaced freedom of speech. Social media are the apps that matter, and users can chat and surf the web with one app. The downsides: corporations reign absolute, and are watching you — you may

scaling the humiliation

2019-02-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
A brilliant passage from https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-divided-between-the-u-s-and-china-has-become-a-battleground-11549688420 : One side, championed in China, is a digital landscape where mobile payments have replaced cash. Smartphones are the devices that matter, and users can