Re: coronavirus questions

2020-03-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:19:33AM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: > economy is due to the overreaction of the society. Somehow the ruling > class calculated that it is worthwhile to decimate the economy to delay > deaths by few weeks or months (idiotic statements about the virus getting > tired

Re: nettime In an Internetworked World No One Is Foreign

2013-06-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 03:04:02PM +0200, robert adrian wrote: Whenever you get a free offer there is usually a catch somehwere - so when DARPA donated TCP IP free to the world The apple was never poisoned. The principals who invented packet switching and prototyped it were all

Re: nettime dark days

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:28:52AM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: You mean vigorous typing on the keyboard and determined tweeting aint't it? It seems that interactions with corporate disks (which is what 99% of social computer usage today is) are modern variants of praying. Surveillance

Re: nettime F(r)ee, Open (?) and Digital Culture(s) - slogans for selling on the databases age ?

2012-12-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:55:56PM +0100, jaroslaw lipszyc wrote: Privacy and internet are mutually exclusive. I don't know what internet is, but the Internet is fully compatible with anonymity. See Tor, I2P and darknets in general. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without

Re: nettime The Monetary Future: How Bitcoin Is Being Destroyed

2012-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 07:22:15PM +0200, John Haltiwanger wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Nick nett...@njw.me.uk wrote: Interesting read. That said, I would love to read more about the interplay of traditional capitalist power structures and bitcoin. Bitcoin is fundamentally

Re: nettime Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

2012-05-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote: On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: The curiously absent question is why there should be social media in the first place, and 'media' in general. Lascaux. Notice that memes and image macros is a regression to pictorial