Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: 'We’re going towards a more divided society' (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/joseph-stiglitz-on-artificial-intelligence-were-going-towards-a-more-divided-society The technology could vastly improve lives, the economist says – but only if the tech titans that control it are properly regulated. ‘What we have

Nozomi Hayase: Unity for Assange’s Plight Is Necessary To Build a Movement for Democracy (AntiWar)

Sorry, I have not yet entirely read this article (kinda tl;dr, with my train in less than one hour ...), but it looks worthwhile enough with Julian A. on the verge of being kicked out of the Ecuadorian Embassy with nowhere to go but ...? My opinions on the persona of Assange are sufficiently

Adam Tooze: Politics don’t matter; market forces shape our world (The Observer/Guardian)

Politics don’t matter; market forces shape our world. So ran the dominant ethos before 2008. Adam Tooze, the author of a landmark book ('Crashed' -pr), says it was always an illusion The Observer/Guardian, Sun 29 Jul 2018 ‘I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You

Oliver Holmes & Hazem Balousha: Wireless in Gaza: the whizz-kids making code not war (Guardian/Tech/ the Upside)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/wireless-in-gaza-the-code-school-bringing-hope-to-the-strip The Upside Technology Wireless in Gaza: the whizz-kids making code not war Gaza City academy hopes its hi-tech business model will be immune to physical barriers to trade By

Re: Paul Mason: Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause

There was an interesting article in the London Review of Books recently (OK, source: LRB vol 40 no 10, May 2018 "Without Map or Compass, on the constitutional implications of Brexit", by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott) to the effect, as I understand it, that the impending, and long overdue, Corbyn

Athenes Ellenikon Health Centre: the right link!

Bwo Lorenzo Tripodi: Just a little clarification about the link to the oginoknauss website at the bottom of your email: this is a photographic survey mae il 2016 on the whole area of the Hellninikon airport with some (non updated) info to the development project and resistance campaigns,

One more from Athenes: against the eviction of the Elleniko health centre

IN SUPPORT OF THE METROPOLITAN SOCIAL HEALTH CENTRE OF ELLINIKO (MKIE) The state company of ELLINIKO A.E. issued last week an ultimatum demanding "Metropolitan Social Health Centre of Elliniko" (MKIE) to evacuate its premises in the publicly owned old airport of Elliniko. This is in order to

Re: In Italy: First-ever agreement between Amazon and unions

On 2018-05-25 11:47, nettime's avid reader wrote: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/first-ever-agreement-between-amazon-and-unions-halts-inhumane-work-hours-italy Amazon employees in Italy have made history. Workers are announcing today the first-ever direct agreement between unions and the

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

I thought we'd be going out of FB altogether. But then everything is relative ... Cheerio, p+7D! (QR Circei in GoT: "I spend a number days at a ... to get it right" Brother: "several days?" QR Circei: " well, the best part of an afternoon" ...) On 2018-05-05 09:55, Anni Roolf wrote:

Desperately looking for ...

... 'The Six Cirles Movement' ... BonDi Nettimers, There must be someone among the 100 orso regular posters and 4000+ nettime lurkers who rememembers a WIRED magazine article somewhere in the 2nd half of the nineties (the hallowed era of "The Long Boom is Here, Got a Problem with That?")

Re: ZAD Press release - Intergalactic Call-Out

"You are a cunning linguist, Mr Agger" ... ;-) On 2018-04-21 10:58, Carsten Agger wrote: On 04/21/2018 10:22 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote: Cheers, NDdL ZindabAD! Dil mein tufanon ki toli Aur nason mein inquilab Inquilab zindabad! My best wishes for the people at the ZAD. # d

ZAD Press release - Intergalactic Call-Out

ZAD Press release - Intergalactic Call-Out Issued Thursday 19 April 2018 Welcome to France. In theory and written in stone: Freedom, equality, fraternity. In reality and written in the flesh: Public services under attack. Solidarity criminalised. Freedom trampled. The peasantry

Bad ZAD news ...

Podinski is right, let's focus (also) on happenings on the ground ... bwo the INURAlist/Ivor Stodolsky, Miguel Martinez Some of you have heard of the ZAD. Only a short time ago, after years of dedication and courage and work for the commons, the ZAD celebrated victory over the mega-project

ByeBye Facebook.nl

Aloha, It doesn't happen very often that the Dutch do something good (OK, waterworks, powerful Marijuana, and the such) but the Dutch wing of the Quit FaceBook movement isn't bad at all. Check out the satirical programme 'Sunday with Lubach' which launches a hopefully massive national

Re: morlock elloi

On 2018-04-08 22:15, Felix Stalder wrote: When we turned off moderation a couple of months ago, we did so because we perceived that nettime was limiting itself by too many implicit rules that had accumulated over time. So we decided to break one, abolish our position as moderators, as an

Re: Francesca Bria: Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back

On 2018-04-06 15:03, Felix Stalder wrote: Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back | Francesca Bria | Opinion Francesca Bria https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/05/data-valuable-citizens-silicon-valley-barcelona Tech firms are emerging as new feudal lords.

Christopher Adam: Orbán’s threat of revenge has fired up the Hungarian opposition

original to: http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/03/16/orbans-threat-of-revenge-has-fired-up-the-hungarian-opposition/ Orbán’s threat of revenge has fired up the Hungarian opposition March 16, 2018 3:55 pm· Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s decision to use his speech on a Hungarian national

Eduard de Jong: on digital neofeudalism

Original Message Subject: versie voor NTT Date: 2018-03-28 21:11 From: Eduard Karel de Jong Thought on reading https://www.eurozine.com/collective-responses-to-digital-neofeudalism/ It seems yet an other example of the effects of an exponential

Uber Blues

re: (pdf available on request) The company is unreformable because its 'disruptive' business model sucks from A to Z & back again. Uber & clones should simply be outlawed. No compromise. Last in Marseille,

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

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

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

Jean Noel Montagné: An other Internet is possible: Catalonia and Germany as examples

(The French, original version of this article to appear in the next issue of 'Le Sauvage' http://www.lesauvage.org/) An other Internet is possible: Catalonia and Germany as examples When Wifi came up in the early 2000s, and it became possible to connect a computer to the Internet without

Shree Paradkar: When will there be a film on Winston Churchill, the barbaric monster with the blood of millions on his hands? (Toronto Star)

In case you go see, or went, to the film 'Churchill' ... Original to: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/03/09/when-will-there-be-a-film-on-winston-churchill-the-barbaric-monster-with-the-blood-of-millions-on-his-hands.html When will there be a film on Winston Churchill, the

PS: Addie Wagenknecht: How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet (Forbes Mag)

I forgot to credit the original 'text filterer': Barbara Strebel (who else? ;-) Credit where credit is due! # 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

Addie Wagenknecht: How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet (Forbes Mag)

Original to: https://www.forbes.com/sites/addiewagenknecht/2018/03/05/how-claire-evans-is-writing-women-back-into-the-internet/ How Claire Evans Is Writing Women Back Into The Internet Claire L. Evans is the author of the new book: Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the

Bifo (Franco Berardi): Bonino and the Fiscal Compact - the same mistake as the anti-EU crowd.

Since 'Bifo' is one of the tutelary divinities of nettime (just ask Geert) I thought it was appropriate to translate (Q as usual, Alex F can always redress my Italian) the op-ed he published in yesterday's edition of Il Manifesto ('quotidiano comunista') the day of the general elections,

Oliver Leistert: "Blockcian as a Modulator of Existence"

Now that we have at length (and at leisure) trashed the blockchain on this list, I suddenly stumbled on the first text that made sense of it, to me at last. Unfortunately, it paints a very dystopian picture of the possibilities of the blockchain.

Blockchain Halelujah! (was: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)

Message Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian) Date: 2018-03-03 09:30 From: Patrice Riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl> To: Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> Cc: Eduard Karel de Jong <edu...@dejon

Re: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)

On 2018-03-02 22:27, Carsten Agger wrote: On 03/02/2018 09:17 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW consisting of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where is the consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU cluster

Re: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)

still shift stamped paper p+2D! On 2018-02-23 13:38, Carsten Agger wrote: On 23-02-2018 13:11, Patrice Riemens wrote: Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far

Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)

Some connex pbs have caused my post to be send unedited. Here's the correct version (fingers X-ed) --- Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far

Josh Hall: (Guardian)

Original to: Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead Josh Hall Crypto technology is coming to a crossroads. Those who want to use it to radically redistribute wealth must take urgent action @JoshAJHall Fri 23 Feb 2018 11.04 GMT Last modified on Fri 23 Feb

John Perry Barlow R.I.P.

(bwo Barbara Strebel) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018 John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in

Re: How do we govern ourselves? (was: Mechanical Turkish)

Aloha, On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 07:32:33AM -0600, Blake Stimson wrote: > > > The core question of a democratic society is not "how do I become free?" > > Rather it is "how do we govern ourselves?" Crucially that means: with which > > institutions, under which rules, backed by which constraints

Zach Blas: Metric Mysticism

bwo Barbara Strebel, with thanks. Full story: http://www.e-flux.com/program/170578/lecture-performance-zach-blas-nbsp-metric-mysticism/ In this lecture-performance, artist Zach Blas gazes into the crystal balls of Silicon Valley and charts the transmutation of big data into a magical

Re: the thing with Europe

On 2018-01-16 20:38, Morlock Elloi wrote: Or maybe it's time to put down our phones, pick up shovels and start laying fibre. I don't know. This, of course, is the only solution. If all other arguments fail, consider that this gets you to the jail fastest. QED. --- Europe was mentioned

Re: social media critique: next steps?

Sounds like "What Does The Ruling Class Do When It Rules" https://www.versobooks.com/books/292-what-does-the-ruling-class-do-when-it-rules Ciaoui, p+7D! On 2018-01-16 12:27, Sean Cubitt wrote: The algorithms of the ruling class are in every epoch the algorithms of the ruling class

Re: social media critique: next steps?

On 2018-01-13 15:36, Geert Lovink wrote: Following Boris Beaude, but now in a more pessimistic/dystopic interpretation, I am increasingly feeling to live 'the Ends of the Internet'. And the links Geert provides suggest I am not alone. We, of the 'pioneer' generation, are - have been for quite

Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

On 2018-01-09 22:25, Joseph Rabie wrote: Their is a blind belief that capitalism and the market are one and the same, but this is not so. Markets have existed for as long as there has been specialization of labour. Capitalism is a modern mechanism, invented to enable certain forms of

Re: Never Mind the Bitcoin?

In uncertain times, traditional investments bring in far less returns than speculative ones. Of course the risks of default are higher, but then it's borrowed money anyway, or held by very deep pockets players who behave as venture capitalists: 1 smashing investment makes for 9 dudd ones.

'La Casemate', Grenoble FabLab burned down by anti-digital activists

bwo Tetalab List Original to: https://hackernoon.com/in-france-cyber-criticism-turns-violent-as-activists-burn-a-fablab-to-protest-the-diffusion-of-4ad378251c5b In France, cyber criticism turns violent as “activists” burn a fablab to protest the diffusion of digital culture What will be the

Re: Never Mind the Bitcoin?

On 2017-12-13 20:41, Morlock Elloi wrote: Bitcoin successfully hijacked a sizable amount of public belief, which underwrites any fiat currency, and it doesn't get more fiat than Bitcoin. This is continuation of the phenomena of machine amplification of human activities; machines do it better

Never Mind the Bitcoin?

Never Mind the Bitcoin? By Patrice Riemens, Eduard de Jong, and Geert Lovink We wrote about (and against) the crankiness that is called Bitcoin back in 2015, at a stage when everybody was gawking at its sudden rise in 'value' from $250 to something like $400 - up from $5-15 not tah much

Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory (NYT)

Bwo Alberto Cammozzo Original to: By STEVAN DOJCINOVIC BELGRADE, Serbia — My country, Serbia, has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook’s experiments on user behavior — and the independent, nonprofit

Re: Critical literature on big tech corps?

Aloha, And to Ted's brilliant, if very literary (as usual) explanation, one might add Saskia Sassen's rejoinder in a recent interview that ours is not the digital age, as many think, but the age of finance. Plus ca change et ... plus ca change - while staying the same, sortof.

Wilf Mbanga: Even if Mugabe has gone, Zimbabweans won’t be dancing in the streets (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/mugabe-gone-zimbabweans-decide-future-mnangagwa Even if Mugabe has gone, Zimbabweans won’t be dancing in the streets By Wilf Mbanga, The Guardian, November 15, 2017 What we want is to decide our own future, and who will lead

Brexit democracy

From Sauvons l'Europe newsletter http://sauvonsleurope.eu/brexit-hold-up-sur-la-democratie/ In French Deepl.com translated: Brexit: Democracy robbery? By Arthur News/editorial comment November 6,2017 We have already written about the confiscation of the most basic democratic principles in the

"L'Europe et les regions"

Yes, sorry, it's in French. But it's a well-'epibrated' (Dutch fancy word coined by poet Simon Carmiggelt) piece on the dilemma United nation states Europe vs United regionally fragmented Europe: L’Europe et les Régions 30 octobre 2017 Bien au-delà de la place des régions dans l’Europe,

The Observer editorial on independance for Catalonia

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/29/observer-view-independence-catalonia The Observer view on independence for Catalonia It is surely not beyond the wit of Catalans and Spaniards to work out a form of amicable association that both can live with The Observer,

Catalonia

Aloha, If the sign - as I interpret them - don't lie, Spain is sliding slowly but unmistakably, into civil war. But so is Catalonia. Constitutionaly speaking, but then in the spirit of a constitution, not in its static state at a given time (of troubles), the position of the Spanish

Re: Catalonia and mainstream opinion

No, it did (see rep in The Guardian), but feebly, largely apportionating the blame on the Generalitat. Meanwhile prosecution of the chief of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Cat. Police) and other officials is likely to be pursued. and the Spanish State´s police and para-milataries (Guardia Civil) are

Steven Levy Joi Ito and the Donald

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:02:43PM +, nettim...@kein.org wrote: > Check > Re: Steven Levy: Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like Dera nettime-l, The old ACER provided by CRIR runs on software that Wired doesn't accede to anymore. If you're nice and patient, you could send me a c+p

Catalonia and mainstream opinion

Reading stuff in newspapers and others the last few days I am getting increasingly shocked - and worried, about what appears to be mainstream (media & politics) opinion wrt the 'events' in Catalonia. It boils down to something like 'Catalonians are nationalistic fools, what they do is ramp

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

On 2017-10-03 07:23, Brian Holmes wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Aliette GC wrote: Country is not nationalism for them but their singular and exclusive work tool available to experiment. Maybe, and let's sure hope. But not blindly. Ada Colau, mayor

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

On 2017-10-02 09:22, Felix Stalder wrote: Like many, I watched incredulously as Spanish police beat up Catalan voters yesterday and I kept wondering what this rising tension does to the project of rebel municipalism. Is it being squeezed between the nationalisms? Or can thrive within it? What's

Simon Tisdall: Ripples from Catalan referendum could extend beyond Spain (Guardian)

Ripples from Catalan referendum could extend beyond Spain Catalonia is not unique: all over Europe groups are seeking to redefine identity and rejecting the centralised state The Guardian, Monday 2 October 2017 by Simon Tisdall The Spanish government’s attempted suppression of Catalonia’s

Hackmeeting 2017 Manifesto: To the Hackers of the Past / Hackmeeting 2037 Release

original to: https://es.hackmeeting.org/hm/index.php?title=ManifestoENG Hackmeeting 2017 Manifesto: To the Hackers of the Past [ENG] Hackmeeting 2037 Release This message has been bioencrypted to bypass the Google Guard filter against subversive thinking; personal data might have leaked, so

Rutger Bregman: Look at the phone in your hand – you can thank the state for that (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/phone-state-private-sector-products-investment-innovation (bwo Barbara Strebel, with thanks) Look at the phone in your hand – you can thank the state for that Rutger Bregman, The Guardian Opinion, 12 July 2017 We know the

Re: John Harris: Liberals can’t hope to beat Trump until they truly understand him (Guardian)

On 2017-09-01 01:06, Morlock Elloi wrote: Guardian is getting sophisticated, one has to scan 2/3rds of the article before the obvious sleight of hand: First, as evidenced by credible academic studies, many voters’ recognition of his lies does not seem to weaken their support for him. The bs

Re: When repression is cheaper than redistribution

Well, there is an absurdly simple way to achieve this change of calculus, though a costly one - for us: leave the screens, go down in the street and start getting killed by the riot police, preferably in numbers. No modern 'democratic' dispensation survives that, as Jacques Chirac knew all

John Harris: Liberals can’t hope to beat Trump until they truly understand him (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/liberals-donald-trump-rightwing-populists (bwo Evel with thanks) Liberals can’t hope to beat Trump until they truly understand him Rightwing populists are operating according to different rules. If everything is a circus,

Re: Who said the US is boring?

"We can do better" But we won't. OK, some of us will - and will have to. But chance is it's unsustainable. That is, if we descend into the kind of scenario predicted within a total Trumpian meltdown. Yet we don't need to. It is indeed likely that the US of A will get into some seriously

Re: [spectre] the EU's first rogue state

and Macron’s status quo. Seriously that is the wrong lesson.. On 10 Aug 2017, at 08:50, Patrice Riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl> wrote: That's a point of view. But unfortunately Hungary doesn't provide as much comic relief as the Disunited Kingdom, it's totally deflated PM, it's rightwingers going a

Re: [spectre] the EU's first rogue state

That's a point of view. But unfortunately Hungary doesn't provide as much comic relief as the Disunited Kingdom, it's totally deflated PM, it's rightwingers going at each other's throats, and the whole country generally slowly descending in the social and economic meltdown that the unavoidable

Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Raphaële Chappe: The Supermanagerial Reich (LARB)

Don't know where I got this one from, but it's super good, immo, and super-creepy! Original to: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/ The Supermanagerial Reich By Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Raphaële Chappe Los Angeles review of Books, November 7, 2016 POPULAR CULTURE

Howard Jacobson: The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (Guardian)

original to: The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani Howard Jacobson The Guardian, Saturday 29 July 2017 ‘Maryam Mirzakhani’s death will be

In Memoriam Maryam Mirzakhani

from Il Manifesto, July 16, 2017 https://ilmanifesto.it/addio-a-maryam-mirzakhani/ Il suo nome suscitò simpatia e stupore quando nel 2013 ricevette la Medaglia Fields per il suo lavoro di ricerca in matematica e geometria. Il premio, considerato il Nobel per la matematica, a Maryam Mirzakhani

Rowland Atkinson: London, whose city? (LMD)

original to: https://mondediplo.com/2017/07/06london#nh6 London, whose city? Architectural follies, and their ruins, have consequences The fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower and killed so many who lived there made clear what many have felt for years: London has become a city for capital not

Paul Mason: Jeremy Corbyn has read Antonio Gramsci (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2017/jun/12/paul-mason-jeremy-corbyn-defeat-ruling-elite-antonio-gramsci Jeremy Corbyn​ has won the first battle in a long ​war​ against the ruling elite by Paul Mason, The Guardian, June 13, 2017. Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci

Tim Farron: Theresa May can’t be trusted to get it right on counter-terrorism policy (Guardian)

Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/05/theresa-may-trusted-counter-terrorism-policy Theresa May can’t be trusted to get it right on counter-terrorism policy The PM has a record of poor decisions and did the police a huge disservice when she prioritised ineffective

Subhashish Panigrahi: Indian language Odia Wikipedia turning 15 this

Bwo Frederick Noronha/Bytes for All readers (Odia is an Indi-Aryan Indian language, mostly spoken in Odisha -formerly Orissa- in Eastern India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odia_language) There exist 23 Indian-language Wikipedias, and the oldest one is turning 15 Born in 2002, the

Re: Fwd: Neoliberalism & alt-rght trolls

On 2017-05-26 00:00, Florian Cramer wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman < > enid.cole...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > >> I hope people did not actually think I am claiming the right and new >> (and Internet-enabled) manifestations of it don't exist out of the >> United

Re: Neoliberalism & alt-rght trolls

On 2017-05-16 15:17, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote: > > Just to take two examples: As you note, above, the alt-right demands > economic nationalism (in their own language they are anti-globalist). > Anonymous, once it broke free of the chans became a far fling > internationalist movement with

Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

On 2017-04-06 04:01, d...@geer.org wrote: > Praising disobedience on a page that doesn't work if you refuse > Javascript... Curious what Unc'Karl would have said about the irresoluble contradictions of the Digital ... # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

Problem is that in the specific Hungarian case (and all cases are specific) is that it raises the spectre/ skeletton in the cupboard called 'Trianon', the evil treaty that dismembered the Austrian-Hungarian empire after WWI punishing it far more than it did punish imperial Germany. Etnicity in

On the Biggie Brexit Bandobust (re: Laurie Penny's Despair)

This is a core statement: "I’ve spent the better part of my youth thinking up creative insults for these men, trying to form and reform the contempt and disgust that almost everyone who came of age in the UK after the financial crash feels for the way these people have pissed all over our

Charles Ferguson: Trump's real issue is his threat to the internet

original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/27/trump-free-speech-media-bans-tweets-internet-deregulation Forget Trump’s tweets and media bans. The real issue is his threat to the internet Deregulation could allow the president to undermine freedom of speech in a way that

Kim Foale: Tech culture is failing communities. How can we make it

Original to: https://medium.com/@kimadactl/cf6f3d51ad13#.9udg819qg Bwo HacktionLab/Mick Fuzz Tech culture is failing communities. How can we make it better? by Kim Foale Californian design principles have taken over the internet, turning people into products. We need a roadmap towards truly

Armin Medosch talks Technopolitics (2010)

Armin Medosch - Technopolitics Uploaded on Dec 16, 2010 Brian Holmes symposium - The Artistic Device Saturday 27 November 2010" https://youtu.be/H_l9MTd-qMU Armin with us for almost one hour and half Bwo & thanks to Barbara BaselThing Streber Armin For Ever! p+5D! # distributed via : no

Re: will someone explain

On 2017-02-02 10:02, David Garcia wrote: > Will one of the American nettimers take a few moments to explain > something to a constitutional ignoramous such as myself. > > For those of us outside of the long standing narrative put about is > that the US constitution is so cunningly constructed

Re: January 30, Time To Wake Up

On 2017-01-31 01:15, sebast...@rolux.org wrote: >January 30, Time To Wake Up >"The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him >seriously." (Peter Thiel) > >What is beginning to dawn upon Americans is that the exact opposite is true: >That by taking >Trump seriously, they

Fr Cedric Prakash SJ: Murdering the Mahatma Today (January 30)

Cf Sebastian's post "January 30, Time To Wake Up" NB: The current prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, is an ideological heir of Nathuram Ghodse. In many aspects Modi, can be seen as a precursor of Donald Trump, and may be even, his 'guru'... MURDERING THE MAHATMA TODAY! Fr Cedric Prakash

Re: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview

On 2017-01-02 22:45, C.Robbins wrote: > Without question the article on Assange was the epitomy of "bad > journalism", "Fake news" or whatever trending tagline one wishes to > assign to biased delivery of, and 24/7 consumption of propaganda > ... and, yes, Ben Jacobs, accompanied by thousands of

Re: Steven Levy: Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like

Here's the same as I posted to unciv "A re-tweet is NOT an endorsement" And I won't do you guys the pleasure of unsubscribing. No cheers from Nijmegen either ("navigare necesse est") p+0D! (forgot 'm, may my house burn) On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 04:36:48PM -0500, Boris Klompus wrote: >

Steven Levy: Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like the Sex

original to: https://backchannel.com/joi-ito-explains-why-donald-trump-is-like-the-sex-pistols-943db42c9f47#.7t7fit60x (bwo barbara Strebel, 'our Hippie from Basel') Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like the Sex Pistols The leader of MIT’s Media Lab on technological whiplash, nonviolent

Timothy Snyder: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century

"Sheldon Wolin Wrote that even looking forward to an assured defeat [-which has happenend in the meanwhile -PR] we do have the 'terrible resposibility' to fight on for justice, equality, andfreedom. "You don't win, or you win rarely. And if you win, it’s often for a very short time", he said

Re: Thomas Frank: Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails

On 2016-11-03 10:20, Armin Medosch wrote: > this is a very bad article, I don't see the point of publishing it on > nettime. the guarduian should never have published it. this is a > critique of the elites? oh me god, how far has so called quality > journalism sunk ... <...> I cannot agree

Thomas Frank: Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how

original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run WikiLeaks’ dump of messages to and from Clinton’s campaign chief offer an unprecedented view into the

Re: Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: Zero Work is the

On 2016-10-26 23:05, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Social can move a lot, without consequences. It is not clear at all > that that any kind of "social movement" is effective way to change > anything in the 21st century. Maybe we are in the post-social movement > age, where some other mechanisms rule,

Cristophe Guilluy: At the periphery of progress (interview, La

, reality will overtake it sooner or later. A system that no longer includes the majority does not last very long. The economic model based on metropolisation and globalsiation, despite the riches it creates, does not 'make society'. It cannot be sustainable. Q translation by Patrice Riemens

Re: Hackaton exploring the digital landscape

On 2016-10-15 13:50, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: > Is it perhaps part of the political problem of our time > > ... that some people actually believe that it is possible to change and > repair social and political structures that have evolved over decades, > within just a brief period of time, --

#jakegate explained ... by a Dummy

f the Deep State (2014) (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/) Patrice Riemens Amsterdam, October 7, 2016 NB (but see the other NB at the head of this post) I started writing this story in Transylvania, 3 weeks ago. I dropped it till now, but nothing appears to happened

Re: EUgoslavia

Hi Alex, Very nice analytics ;-) yet again, thanks! On 2016-09-28 07:13, Alex Foti wrote: > is the fucking old eee-you coming apart at the seams? Yes, we're definitely in the zombie phase - and for quite some time now. But be careful with the use of 'libertarian' (as in 'libertarian

John Gapper: Gawker was too liberatrian for Sillicon Valley (FT)

Ogiginal to: https://www.ft.com/content/71feffa2-6914-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c (watch ou for 'obstacles' ...) Gawker was too libertarian for Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneurs’ enthusiasm for rule-breaking runs out at exactly the point when they suffer by: John Gapper, FT, August 25, 2016.

Re: Lacanian meets Trumpian

On 2016-08-10 00:05, Morlock Elloi wrote: > https://overland.org.au/2016/08/trump-fascism-putin-and-wikileaks-the-anatomy-of-a-liberal-nervous-breakdown/ > > Trump, fascism, Putin and Wikileaks: the anatomy of a liberal nervous > breakdown > > By Olivier Jutel > 8.Aug.16 > > Most presidential

Re: Statement from the TOR Foundation

On 2016-07-29 18:10, Morlock Elloi wrote: > One fact confirmed: there were allegations. Zero facts as to if they > are true. Bullshit HR investigation of the criminal matter. No legal > action. This stinks to high heaven. > > On 7/29/16, 2:38, nettime's sub-committee wrote: > >> Statement >>

Decisionism and its discontents (was: ... well, Decisionism, etc. ; -)

Hi, Greetz from Izola/ Isola d'Istria (.si) Re (Morlock E.) : > I would like to push forward this idea: we will develope to be an > automaton-society. Mashinery will do a more and more growing part of > everything that has to be done to create good and sustainable living > conditions for

Re: geography of copyright

On 2016-07-19 19:02, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Sorry, I overlooked it: > > Am 19/06/16 um 14:46 schrieb Patrice Riemens: > >> On 2016-06-18 20:00, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: >>> but the publishers in the East >>> did trash their nicenst new books out of fear.

BEPS Blues

Hej Hej, BEPS stands for 'Base Erosion and Profit Shifting' and is the name of a biggie OECD policy framework to address the vexed issue of corporate, multinational taxation in the wake of the 2007/8 financial crisis and the recurring scandals about tax avoidance by big business, the 'Panama

Re: London's Replacement as City of Cupidity

LOL! However ... On 2016-07-03 12:07, Mathilde muPe wrote: > I cannot iunderstand why anyone with non-stoned mind could claim that > Amsterdam could be the next banking Valhalla. (Including dutch > newspapers ) Bankers aren't stoned, they fuel on coke - makes them even crazier! > Besides

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