No Exit

2020-04-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is a good time to watch Huis Clos - I suggest the version with Harold Pinter, directed by Philip Saville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v96qw83tw4 It is currently being massively staged in most of the developed world, courtesy of the runaway virus and runaway authorities. Divorce

The Communist Manifesto 2015, written in RNA

2020-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
This was hard to believe, but I checked with Italians, this video was actually aired in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80q6754o19U In short, the Chinese designed this thing, it escaped (or was released), and is in the process of destroying the neoliberal capitalism around the world. Was

Re: coronavirus questions

2020-03-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
3-4% of each of these groups will die, so it will likely be a uniting experience, a dismal failure of the identity politics, and therefore a serious problem for powers that be. Unrelated, it's funny how coronavirus has the same effect at biological and social levels: the damage to the body is

Identity politics manual

2020-01-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than

Re: DiEM25 Green Paper on Technological Sovereignty

2020-01-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
To quote myself from the ideology & the infrastructure paper ( https://cryptome.org/2019/02/elbar.pdf ): "The ideology of the infrastructure goes deep and is often invisible to the involved actors. The participants generally believe that they are doing the best possible job. What is specific

data sovereignty for some

2019-11-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
From https://www.wired.com/story/us-forcing-chinese-firm-sell-gay-dating-app-grindr/ : "Reuters didn't say what specific issues CFIUS raised, but the US government has worried in the past that companies in China could help the Chinese government spy on users." In other news, 85% of

Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

2019-11-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
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Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

2019-11-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
Quod enim est in genere quod non potest recte occupati hodie? Identitatem rei publicae genus divisa in omnibus vanitatem copia. Non necesse est esse simul primum sectus est. Tabula in Terra Firma dominium repellere occultae mensurae. Noticia est laruam. Reticulum malorum oculis Occult Centra

Latin as revolutionary act?

2019-11-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
What would be consequences of using Latin language among group/clique/cabal/underground/elite for discourse, publishing, idea exchange, tweets? (let's ignore for the moment how does one get the above set to learn Latin) First of all, the noise goes down, as there is intellectual effort

Re: Plan B, the new XS4all

2019-11-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
The rising awareness of the importance of the infrastructure is encouraging. I assume here that the public sees ISP as part of the infrastructure; however, that's rarely actually the case. ISPs are usually retailers - buying bandwidth wholesale (say, $1/mbps/month) and retailing it for,

Re: Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-20 Thread Morlock Elloi
This may sound far off, but there are wider analogies that may hint to solutions. (some) drugs are sanctioned (illegal, regulated) because they have significant effect on human behavior. Air pollution is regulated because it adversely affects people. Sex is (more or less) regulated, because

Re: Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-20 Thread Morlock Elloi
[inline] On 10/20/19, 11:16, Max Herman wrote: On the first video, I see the danger of making everything instantly available so to speak online. It removes the role of doing your own activities, having one's own life, just getting one online. Also the I think that there is another issue:

Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

2019-10-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
Heidegger on Being, Technology, & The Task of Thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtATDlUSIxI Heidegger on Marx and World Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96xeh_6vYU0 Not the Nine O'clock News - Marxists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJeTnLKLEI # distributed via : no

Re: Maschinenmensch

2019-10-13 Thread Morlock Elloi
Good coverage by Diego Fusaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGU1zBAoFao ... if you speak Italian, that is. If not, try closed captions with autotranslate to your tongue. It's not perfect, though ("mannequin" is translated as "dummy", etc.) On 10/10/19, 22:56,

Maschinenmensch

2019-10-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
The Greta creature is epitome and the final product of the last two decades of the New Propaganda (identity politics, displacement of ideology with sensory stimulation etc.) I think it was a mistake to produce her, as she can easily become the vulnerable focal point for the battle and

Re: Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness)

2019-10-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
The centralized censorship illustrates the heavy investment in this thing. Search for "#gretaisyourgod": - 1 result on TWTR. - 23 results on GOOG - 7 results on duckduckgo - 0 on MSFT (it's unconditionally converted to "great is your god") # distributed via : no commercial use without

Re: Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness

2019-10-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
Towards "extremely careful social discourse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7r0Rr1Qyc # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info:

Re: radio nettime: 8 Sept 2019 12:00-13:00

2019-09-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
It looks like nettime became a thing unto itself (there must be a fancy name for that.) Due to its longevity, this was bound to happen at some point, like in biological evolution, when random amino acids get together and some combination survives, it lingers on, and given enough time, you get

Re: radio nettime: 8 Sept 2019 12:00-13:00

2019-09-02 Thread Morlock Elloi
If the cost of running the list was exactly zero (let's not delve into details at this point), would you still kill it? If yes, then we have an interesting case of potlatch, without bonfire. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-02 Thread Morlock Elloi
An interesting proposition: it's about terminal illusions of grandeur. Abstract below, full text at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10./1467-923X.12739?af=R Since 2016, the UK government has outlined plans for ‘Global Britain’ as a framework for post‐Brexit foreign policy. Some

Re: don't be afraid of 'project fear'

2019-09-02 Thread Morlock Elloi
Brexit soap is an ideal confluence of irrelevance and fascination, a perfect pseudo-intellectual chatter storm. Likely nothing will happen post-brexit, which would be the proof that the whole EU thing became a hollow void ... probably the principal cause for the hysteria. Won't be able to

intelligence is no advantage, it's a handicap

2019-08-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
As US political film is mostly dead (© by Miracle Max), what's left is perhaps worth mentioning. [machine translated from https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-fabelhafte-Welt-des-Kapitalismus-4485903.html ] The fabulous world of capitalism 03rd August 2019 Rüdiger Suchsland The latest film

Re: Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can change it.

2019-07-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
This. Ignoring the presence of intermediary (with own agenda) between the technology and its deployer/user, and calling the intermediary 'the technology', is the most dangerous aspect of present indoctrination. We are slowly (or not so slowly) sliding back to the pre-Gutenberg era, where

IQ in the infrastructure web

2019-07-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
A comprehensive Italian study "The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV" came out recently (available at https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20150958 ), providing compelling evidence that TV exposure in young age permanently affects IQ and cognitive abilities in general. It is

Re: Unlike Us links on social media and their alternatives

2019-06-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
Mmmm no. Communication sovereignty is a power equation issue, and will likely become a new class issue (surveilled class vs. surveillor class.) Saying that these efforts are futile and doomed forever is nonsense - class struggles overcame far steeper obstacles. The only question is when

Re: Unlike Us links on social media and their alternatives

2019-06-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
speaking theoretically, feel free to substitute the onion-routing architecture of your choice.) My specific responses are below: On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:14:19PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: This is a promising direction. It's impossible to guess/infer at the first attempt what the platform should

The age of Stitchers

2019-06-08 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is something that has been identified in the tech field (namely computing machinery hardware and software.) I'm curious if the phenomenon is present in other fields, and if it was researched (pointers to papers appreciated.) The state of the art and practice of the mainstream software

Re: Fwd: [16beavergroup.org] Our Silence is (also) a Commons -- 05.25.19

2019-06-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
The most reasonable argument against suicide ever. Don't do their work. Ulrike Meinhof was once rumoured to have said that every suicide is a death by capitalism. And in this sense her note to her sister, "If they say I committed suicide, be sure that it was a murder" can be read beyond that of

Re: Ben Quinn: Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert (Guardian)

2019-05-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's good that nettime-l is archived - this is a fantastic documentation about psychopathology of 'progressives'. X reveals to the citizenry accurate information what their force monopoly is doing in wars (namely crimes) and lying about. X reveals to the citizenry accurate information what

Re: Ben Quinn: Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert (Guardian)

2019-05-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
Unprotected penetration of a sleeping woman (or sleeping women) is the ultimate crime that warrants any punishment one can think of. This worldview will be remembered as the only lasting achievement of identity politics and victimhood industry. Whatever Assange has done, he should not be

Re: Adam Entous: How Israel Limited Online Deception During Its Election (The New Yorker)

2019-05-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
It seems that we are collectively failing to perform 'Turing test' on virtual entities. The difficulty of distinguishing between actual and virtual humans is a testament to fundamental inadequacy of so-called 'social' networks. Or maybe it's a feature, pigeonholing humans into restrictive

Re: John Harris: Is India the frontline in big tech’s assault on democracy? (Guardian)

2019-05-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
It seems that a strong state (ie. US) can effectively use Internet to homogenize the population into desired directions, while the weaker states suffer from its divisive effects. Which makes it effective weapon, like democracy. On 5/22/19, 02:31, Carsten Agger wrote: The author is

The Unimaginables

2019-05-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
A call for imagining alternatives is a good first step. Unfortunately I don't see the a sustainable force to implement the imagined, as proposed. It is telling that Morozov correctly identifies problem as political, not technical, but then invokes 'Rebel Tech' as a solution (Morozov's 'Rebel

infonuclear options are coming

2019-05-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
It will be interesting to see the coming spread of assertions of national information sovereignty. The fact that the Internet started from one country, and that 70-75% of all Internet traffic (yes, it includes traffic between, say, Lyon and Marseille) goes through that country is often

Re: Unlike Us links on social media and their alternatives

2019-04-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is a promising direction. It's impossible to guess/infer at the first attempt what the platform should do, but it's almost obvious what it shouldn't. What we need is a requirements document, the one not produced by techies, as for one reason or another they tend to make bad choices. At

Re: Shame of going against the tribe

2019-04-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
Sorry that you recognized yourself. I have no interest in private hate mail. Either publish or shut up. From: Brian Holmes Reply-To: bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com To: Morlock Elloi On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:19 PM Morlock Elloi mailto:morlockel...@gmail.com>>

Shame of going against the tribe

2019-04-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
This resolved, for me, the mystery of disgust I had for the US 'progressives', 'left' and 'democrats'. I always thought that they were far more sinister than the right, as they hijacked those who could do something, the well-spoken professors, artists, journalists, the nice educated people in

Re: Unlike Us links on social media and their alternatives

2019-04-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
Hopefully this time around it will be a more radical approach. But first some non-technical issues have to be solved. Anything that has a 'center' shall be censored and regulated sooner or later, no matter what the current operators say. Having the most benevolent hand holding your balls is

infrastructural interventions

2019-04-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
Reality, from John Young: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5JxigHW0AA6zjw.jpg Fiction, from John Carpenter: https://cdn2.lamag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/11/theylivelocations_jaredcowan-2.jpg Carpenter was optimist. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a

Re: Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's an easy answer, just imagine that you've been asked by someone from one of the several African nations with GDP less than $800/year, effectively living from $5 a week: How can you possibly spend $200/week? (for EU dole recipients.) Once you get beyond bare basics to keep a humanoid alive

To spot Wizards of Oz

2019-04-21 Thread Morlock Elloi
The infrastructural grip on the human exchange reached the stage where there is little sense in having discourse with end points. Drones with smartphones grafted onto their faces have little, if anything, to say. They are like smart Christmas lights creating patterns that they individually

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
I agree Assange's impact has been immense, but that kind of heroic model is a counterproductive way of thinking about Assange and his contributions. If anything, the distinctive (maybe even decisive) feature of the last decade was its lack of heroes and the growing sense that we're enmeshed in

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D351_3qWwAEkMXt.jpg Now watch the sad show of British and their judicial system as they bend # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
The principal sin is that Wikileaks undermined (by explicitly exposing crimes) the wide spread belief among subjects of modern states: "it is OK for my state/party to behave criminally, because I benefit from it, as long as they keep it quiet". This is the unpardonable offense. If documenting

Re: Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

2019-04-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
There is no such thing as "Swedish request for extradition" - this is fact that is easily checked. He was never charged. The case was dropped. It was manufactured attempt by US to snatch him. It's really depressing how effective the propaganda is. Now repeat: There is no such thing as

Re: CiTiZEN KiNO #78 - Eyes Wired Shut - April 11 premiere ( Berlin ) + coming to a theater near you ?! ( Tour )

2019-04-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
So what happens when re-packaging of Frankfurt school into 'tactical footage' ends up on Youtube, becoming one of ten billion videos? The end game of showing/publishing became a nightmare. We need unscaleable medium. This is an invite for our new tactical media show in Berlin 2morw nite, but

Re: rage against the machine

2019-04-08 Thread Morlock Elloi
The below is a grim read, and shows what happens when imponderable complexity performs very ponderable mass murder. Unlike red-herringing here on nettime, it was a very physical fight between humans and machines, which humans lost due to limits of muscle power. Next time someone tries to

Re: Not Brexit

2019-04-08 Thread Morlock Elloi
Appologies to Morlock who rightly berated those of us obsessed with arcane No problem. why if you live here its like staring at the Sun and proably as dangerous. The paper? # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

crexit

2019-04-06 Thread Morlock Elloi
I don't know much about the 'crisis' caused by contractual issues between GB and EU, it seems to me it's mostly about GB ruling gang hugely overestimating its negotiation skills (that upper class breeding strategy needs rethinking), and this picture illustrates that idiocy better than any

Re: rage against the machine

2019-04-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
In case you missed, all narratives about pilots not being trained/informed were red herrings. It looks like it was an attempt to deflect blame on humans (either those that were supposed to inform pilots or those that were supposed to establish proper training procedures - from Boeing and

Re: Managing complexity?

2019-04-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
There are simpler ways of viewing this: 1. The 'complexity' is so complex that individual actors do not matter any more, and what is there is new emergent phenomenon so complex it's nearly impossible to understand; we need to spend our lives analyzing it while in semi-catatonic paralysis.

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
t; https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/whitepapers/Experimental_Security_Research_of_Tesla_Autopilot.pdf Note that this intervention was not on the vehicle, but on the environment. On 3/17/19, 12:48, Morlock Elloi wrote: Note that autonomous vehicles are becoming affordable assassination instruments

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
Everything is already in place to properly regulate this space, except naming things for what they are. All industrial/commercial activities that impact humans below cognitive levels (ie. directly biologically or by exploiting basic innate drives) are in general heavily regulated: - sex

search no more

2019-03-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
You may have noticed in the last few days that date-based searches on industrial-surveillance properties are malfunctioning. Especially if you search for something recent (like "sort by date"). This is most easily seen on the Youtube subsidiary: try sorting by date uploaded, see what you get.

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
Seemingly totally unrelated: 1. flight recorders are brightly colored these days. The term "black box" originates in WW2, mostly because the first flight recorders, as all other "secret" electronics, was housed in metal boxes painted matte black. See

Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
Property is just an opinion, programmed into certain number of human brains. It's soft, and can be modified or erased. There is no brain area dedicated for private property (witness human societies without it.) Using this ephemeral phenomenon to understand underlying dynamics is unproductive.

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
The basic issue is complexity crossing the threshold that humans cannot. So far, at least in the last few thousand years or so, mental abilities were one of key factors for individual 'success' (the other, likely more important one, was class and heritage.) We appreciate smart people as much

EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
The arguments and narratives on EU don't really make much sense. Not that deeply entrenched sides do not have self-coherent dogmas, they do. But it all just doesn't make sense. There is a total disconnect between them and between them and reality, it seems. Immigration, sovereignty,

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
It looks like Boeing hired car salesman. These are the options that you may choose to add (and pay extra, like heated seats) with your brand new 737 MAX purchase: Option #32: "Angle of attack disagree light": informs pilots about discrepancy between nose direction and airflow, in pre-stall

Re: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

2019-03-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
Accelerated and (unconditionally) broadcast communications affect humans at many levels, not just the surface cognition. One (imperfect) model of the networked society: We are all in the same (not Olympic-size, but half) swimming pool. As we pee, shit, fart, ejaculate and ooze various stuff,

Re: Banality of code

2019-03-18 Thread Morlock Elloi
The most scary recent example I've seen are the new elevators: there are no buttons/controls inside. They will take you where you have been authorized to go, by someone else. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Banality of code

2019-03-18 Thread Morlock Elloi
Instructions written at one place and time, executing at another place and time, are relatively new to the species. We are used to inanimate objects that are relatively easy to comprehend, from hammer to train locomotive. We are not used to objects that 'think'. Cats and parrots may think, but

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-17 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is deeply ideological and political issue, not technical one. Inserting code written by middlemen between humans and reality empowers only the middlemen. Humans are presented by fantasy that adheres to reality when and in degree being decided by the middlemen. There is one small step

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-15 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's not just about fun. If a company/manufacturer/authority samples 'all' possible circumstances, and embeds 'required' reactions in the machine, then several things happen in the arena of diminishing agency: - the logic unconditionally reflects authority's ideology, and not the one of the

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is the key. Designers do not understand impact of the complexity that emerges from combining relatively simple components. This is especially amplified in real-time processing of multiple inputs. In a completely different field (packet switching from millions of end points) we had to

rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
Handling of the recent B737 Max 8 disaster is somewhat revealing. What seems to have happened (for the 2nd time) is that computing machine fought the pilot, and the machine won. It looks like some cretin in Boeing that drank too much of AI Kool Aid (probably a middle manager) decided to

Re: How the East Was Won, starring Cisco Stewart & Huawei Wayne

2019-03-13 Thread Morlock Elloi
I don't know details about dwindling of Nordic communication manufacturing - any pointers appreciated. The absence of own nervous system is and will be causing increased subservient position of the involved countries. The disciplined ones will suffer the most. I'll make a prediction that the

How the East Was Won, starring Cisco Stewart & Huawei Wayne

2019-03-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
[John Ford's 1962 classic has rough sketches of concession wars between railroad builders on the virgin land.] The current Huawei/Cisco wars being fought in Europe, directly fueled by governments and involving heads of state, have little to do with equipment sales/profits or 'security'. No

Re: The smog covering Facebook transparency

2019-03-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
Exclusive access to correlations between apparently (to those without access to data firehoses) totally unrelated data, and act on such correlations without bothering to understand why they exist (it's a fallacy to assume that understanding is required for acting) is the name of the game:

Re: Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what

2019-03-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
The relevant repeating pattern is eliminating the local social network with its filtering and inertia, and substituting it with a faraway CCC, which can move at any speed it chooses. This is exactly what is going on today with Twitter, for example, which bypasses everything (except Twitter's

Re: Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what

2019-03-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
This began when IBM started selling "personal computers" (PC XT, AT). They were pitched to the mainframe customers as a way of liberation from the evil data centers and their high priests, the operators. It was immensely successful, the playbook IBM sales used was nearly perfect. They sought

Re: Cyberpunks who were right about everything, but so what

2019-03-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
Not to sound skeptical, but is there another way of viewing it? The new Pretorian Guard, a guild tending the computing machinery for the pedestrian cause of concentrating control tools of the capital, needed its mythology, and cyberpunk was born. Historically speaking, there is no evidence of

The stupidity of the Americans

2019-03-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
[ Machine translated film review from https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Dummheit-der-Amerikaner-4323913.html?seite=all ] The stupidity of the Americans March 02, 2019 Rüdiger Suchsland From Cheney to Trump: Adam McKay's "Vice" shows that the majority of the US is a land of morally

the resurrection of the edge

2019-03-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
Some 10-15 years ago the edge devices gave up, and became robotic extensions of the center. As Interwebs deteriorated* into 'web' and 'apps', the agency of the edge devices all but disappeared. The organization behind the last non-corporate browser took money from corporations, and that was

Re: Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
BTW, take a look at this graph: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y=US=%22fake%20news%22,%22conspiracy%20theory%22 It seems that "fake news" meme failed, and we're moving back to time-tested "conspiracy theory". On 2/18/19, 23:57, Morlock Elloi wr

Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-18 Thread Morlock Elloi
Read this over and over: > it will be > necessary to regulate against harmful infrastructures and malicious > behaviors. As early adopters of new technologies, extremists will "harmful", "malicious" and "extremists" will be detected by objective mass spectrometry in certified labs. It used

The London Billboard

2019-02-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
Karl Marx grave has been vandalized ... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dzhn7-7WwAIl8jE.jpg What does this mean? If one makes the obvious assumption about who did it, it means that Marx is increasingly relevant in realpolitik. The less obvious assumption is a false flag op, to bring Marx back

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

Re: John Naughton on Shoshana Zuboff: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

2019-02-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
E. Morozov's long take is at https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov Tl;Dr: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’s most pronounced shortcomings have to do with the relationship it establishes between capitalism and surveillance capitalism—as well as the way in which it

Lost in Marx

2019-02-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
"Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelder, ISBN 9780465094257. Nominally, the book is questioning popular assumptions ('simplicity' and 'beauty') that appear to be driving theoretical physics research. It seems that many clever people got caught in the honeytrap of untestable and unprovable but

Re: The list of European neocon shills

2019-02-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
It would be interesting to map author-publicist-publisher-distributor-grantor-investor-etc. relationships, and reveal the money/influence/reputation flows. Very few authors operate in vacuum, none write for free. Of course I find it difficult to respect anyone who'd cosign as much as a

The list of European neocon shills

2019-02-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
(conveniently compiled by Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/25/fight-europe-wreckers-patriots-nationalist ) Fight for Europe – or the wreckers will destroy it Fri 25 Jan 2019 Bernard-Henri Lévy, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan Pamuk and 25

Peak Anger Rocks

2019-01-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
Machine translation of a review (original at https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Analyse-von-Songtexten-Die-Wut-nimmt-zu-4289511.html ). The paper itself is paywalled at http://jpms.ucpress.edu/content/30/4/161.full Analysis of lyrics: The anger increases January 28, 2019 Florian Rötzer In

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
more. So the idea would be and with one add yet other registers, or frames, then different ways of understanding, and acting in, reality might be opened up. Felix On 30.01.19 14:31, Morlock Elloi wrote: The three work on different protocol layers, going from top to low level (in OSI terms thi

Re: No evidence of digital wrong-doing...

2019-01-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
The three work on different protocol layers, going from top to low level (in OSI terms think of them as Application, Transport and Physical layers): 1. Voting for someone involves some "thinking", in the sense "Is A better for me/my village/guild than B?" 2. Mass media operates by displacing

Re: John Naughton on Shoshana Zuboff: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

2019-01-28 Thread Morlock Elloi
- Booking targeted advertising becomes illegal/impossible, so you go back to do regular advertising. - Since the whole industry does the same, your competitors have no advantage over you. - If your business model was profoundly unethical, you go out of business. That is intentional.

Re: John Naughton on Shoshana Zuboff: 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

2019-01-25 Thread Morlock Elloi
Right. Involving 'capitalism' into this is total bs., even an intentional sabotage - to make it look inevitable (as no one can imagine alternative for capitalism, surveillance must also be inevitable.) Motherf*ckers. So many vacuous words just to avoid mentioning possibility of simple

Re: European Islamophobia report - countries needed

2019-01-07 Thread Morlock Elloi
EUR 16K ?? They should invest at least the same for europhobia reports. On 1/7/19, 15:04, Molly Hankwitz wrote: ::Call for Islamophobia reports :: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering

Re: The Cryptopticon

2019-01-07 Thread Morlock Elloi
A technical note: the actual SIM card, while helpful, is not essential for tracking. What is far more useful and harder to circumvent are identifier associations and turning patterns into identifiers: 1. If you ever use a particular cell phone (IMEI), a browser with high entropy fingerprint,

Re: The Cryptopticon

2019-01-06 Thread Morlock Elloi
There isn't much there, other than expanding on the nature of the invisible threat with long term consequences, which is usually dealt with by the organized government (smoking, pesticides, etc.), except that in this case the government is the cause of the threat, so it won't touch it, and

are you 0 or 1 ?

2019-01-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
The article below examines what could be the essence of issues we're facing today, the issues of hidden workings of things around us. It shows how communication revolutions are revolutions of reductions. It's time to realize that increasing efficiency, reducing waste, growing productivity,

Letter to a young philosopher

2018-12-31 Thread Morlock Elloi
[Machine translation from https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Brief-an-einen-jungen-Philosophen-4250192.html ... note the failure to translate 'Misstraue' ] Letter to a young philosopher December 31, 2018 Winfried Degen Well-intentioned advice for the study of philosophy to prevent the worst

Re: Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement

2018-12-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
Maybe it's just me, but when I recently re-watched Easy Rider, I kept rooting for someone to off the f*cking hippies. The same film now has happy ending. It's funny how death as exit strategy lost its appeal. On 12/30/18, 09:45, Patrice Riemens wrote: "You do one thing" was an admonition I

Re: Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement

2018-12-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
The issue is not implied morality of scaling, whether it's good or bad (and I agree on the current modality of scaling for value extraction by few from the many.) The issue is that the opposition bent on atomizing the society does scale, and has no moral issues with it. The concentrated

Re: Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement

2018-12-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
The problem is that this doesn't scale. Or at least the scaling model has not been discovered. At the same time, the opposition scales pretty well. For this scaling to involve machines (computers, programs, networks and such, and I cannot imagine competitive scaling not involving machines -

it is the end of history

2018-12-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
While looking for something else, I found unrelated interesting stuff (as it usually happens): https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/maillist.html This is nettime archive from September 2001, and the good stuff is not just after September 12 (nettime was not particularly impressed

inverted fascism

2018-12-24 Thread Morlock Elloi
Interesting insight from https://newleftreview.org/II/114/dylan-riley-what-is-trump - internationalized elites vs. nationalist proles is the exact opposite from the environment that brought us fascism. " This underlines the dramatic inversion of class–nation relations that is another

Surplus population: the rage of the product

2018-12-17 Thread Morlock Elloi
I wonder how long will it take to rebrand sterilization - perhaps by offering volunteers virtual children, which would be synthesized from parent's DNA analysis, live on AWS (or Azure for more traditional value), backed up in prominently displayed living room media containers ("he was only 3

Tim May

2018-12-15 Thread Morlock Elloi
Tim May has passed away. The post below is from 20 years ago, in many ways deeply optimistic. Subject: What we are Fighting From: Tim May Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:04:48 -0700 For the Nth time, let me restate the obvious: all current crypto restrictions being discussed involve _exports_. There

The Geert thing

2018-12-12 Thread Morlock Elloi
acceptability of out-of order postings on a quiet maillist. m. > From: Geert Lovink > To: Morlock Elloi > > There are five Morlock Eloi postings to nettime in a row. Is the problem back? Let’s not repeat the blues, OK? Best, Geert # distributed via : no commercial use withou

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