Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-23 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 09:01:23AM +0530, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: > here in bombay, no-one cares about the cambridge analytica storm. Yes, humanity has always had a problem focusing on the important things. It is easier to focus on the symptoms of bad global governance bringing us... > wind

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-23 Thread lizvlx
Hi all I usually dont write to the list and I also dont read 90% of what is posted coz I mostly feel many words not s much content. But I guess thats academic language which is not one I find the time to deal with. Regarding facebook tho — Who cares about CA when u got facebook. It simply

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-22 Thread sebastian
here in bombay, no-one cares about the cambridge analytica storm. there's wind from the east, an unprecedented heatwave, the aadhar cyclone, and a series of savage social media shitstorms that just doesn't want to end. south asia's largest garbage dump (deonar), however, is currently not on fire,

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-22 Thread Geert Lovink
> From: olia lialina <o...@profolia.org> > Subject: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm > Date: 22 March 2018 5:18:07 pm GMT+1 > To: Geert Lovink <ge...@xs4all.nl> > hi! > > i wanted to answer to the list, but as it seems i am blocked on nettime, s

Fwd: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
Group return didn't work and send my post into the nettime walhalla ... Original Message Subject: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm Date: 2018-03-22 17:10 From: Patrice Riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl> To: Geert Lovink <ge...@xs4all.nl> Cc: a moderated

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
unDear nettimers, And what about a life without 'social' media? - and hence without 'discussions' about 'social media'? Ciaoui, p+7D! ("Actionism - the infantile malady of activism") On 2018-03-21 19:47, Geert Lovink wrote: Dear nettimers, I know, this is (not) the time for us to speak

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread jhopk...@neoscenes.net
Geert - no need to conspire -- simple action suffices ... the most powerful act is to identify the communications protocols one is using, and identify who owns (or controls) those protocols, and stop using the ones that are harvesting your attention in the form of your life-time and your

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread carlo von lynX
Could somebody please tell journalists and politicians that this isn't the first time manipulation happens with the help of Facebook? https://theintercept.com/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands/ On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:47:32PM +0100, Geert Lovink wrote: > Is it an idea to organize a

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread John Haltiwanger
That implies that we do not have any legal standing to launch a lawsuit over a delete button that does nothing of the sort. It's also a tool whose existence does not preclude deleting the account. I've designed it around my own use case, however: leaving FB as a social network (quite visibly so,

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread John Haltiwanger
The software I hinted at at the end of my performance at Unlike Us ( https://vimeo.com/51366449) is more or less ready. The idea is to remove all the activity from your timeline (backing up what it can along the way), but to keep the FB account open so that you can have a single post: the details

In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread Geert Lovink
Dear nettimers, I know, this is (not) the time for us to speak up… The CA events are taking over, mainstream media are publishing one strange message after the after—and the activists shut their mouth, thinking: I told you so a trillion years ago... What’s do be done? We discussed that