On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, at 09:22 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> Just to mention the latest, and perhaps the most insidious entry in the
> war on cash: Bitcoin, all-transactions-always-public PoW hash system
> operated mostly by Chinese mints, touted to post-New Agers as the Next
> Big Thing.
Bitcoin
On 02/09/16 01:48 PM, nettime's slow reader wrote:
>
> http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/on-accelerationism
>
> [...]
>
> [1] To their credit, Srnicek and Williams do not ask us to dissolve into
> digital ones and zeros, as John Perry Barlow once did. Their call for a
> universal basic
On 23/07/16 02:41 AM, Jaromil wrote:
> - The REAL community of people behind Ethereum is now rejecting the
> bail-out, probably marking in history the first time in which there
> can be a bail-out rejection by grass-roots movements??
> Ethereum Classic is announced
On Tue, 3 May 2016, at 01:31 PM, Florian Cramer wrote:
>[...]
>Bitcoin repeats the history of so-called "neoliberalism" precisely
>because it _is_ neoliberalism (in the sense we understand the word
>today), in its most extreme form of libertarian anarcho-capitalism. In
>fact,
On 2015-11-30 11:06, nettime's_forgotten_password wrote:
>1. "Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer system."
It is. Anyone can (and should) run a full node. Doubly so if they're
concerned about centralisation.
>2. "Bitcoin does away with intermediaries and fees."
There are no necessary intermediaries in
On 23/06/15 12:42 AM, Armin Medosch wrote:
it is indeed perplexing that Bishop manages to write a pretty good
book about participation whilst leaving out any mentioning of media
art or digital art or whatever you call it.
Possibly the reception of their earlier views on digital art didn't
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On 02/01/15 07:55 PM, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
no amount of 20th century politics will solve this.
Well, 19th Century...
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On 03/11/14 08:17 PM, nettime's_zentral_kommittee wrote:
the internet grew out of the values of western democracy, not vice
versa.
Unlike the mushrooms at GCHQ.
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On 14/10/14 03:17 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
Will this scandal be the beginning of his downfall?
Morozov has dealt in second-hand goods since his conversion. I've
never met anyone he's fooled. So I'm not sure what his downfall would
entail.
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On 23/08/14 06:37 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
by Evgeny Morozov
[...]
The realisation that data produced by everyday appliances, smart
toothbrushes or smart toilets, can be monetised has produced an
interesting resistance against the
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On 24/07/14 02:29 AM, Felix Stalder wrote:
Now this is obviously the roughest of ballpark estimates you can
make -- and I would be happy to see a better one -- but on the face
of it, it seems to indicate that viewing one personal data as an
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On 21/07/14 11:38 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
Algorithmic regulation, whatever its immediate benefits, will give
us a political regime where technology corporations and government
bureaucrats call all the shots.
It depends how the algorithms
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On 15/07/14 12:19 AM, nettime_2.0 wrote:
* You know how Facebook is, well, a company, a for-profit
corporation?
Given the apparent moral carte blanch it afford, the temptation to
incorporate has never been stronger.
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Florian Cramer:
I'd be very interested to hear why a punk band wouldn't want to
release music under a free license.
For example, because it doesn't want - for political reasons - its
music to end up on Spotify, Google or similar corporate
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:03:13 +
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Florian Cramer:
I disagree with this letter since I am working for a small cultural
venue (WORM in Rotterdam) myself and see a discrepancy between good
intentions and not-so-good practical consequences.
First of all: the release of work as
On 16/05/14 08:45 AM, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is a slippery slope.
Wheee!
What is natural about diversity, or letting the poor live?
It depends how you're reifying them.
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On 06/01/14 01:23 PM, Felix Stalder wrote:
But this rise and decline meme is a typical media cycle.
This.
But, even if nobody would ever use the name Anonymous anymore, and all
the Guy Fawkes masks would rot in drawers around the world, what would
that mean? Decline? Of what exactly? Of an
On 10/12/13 02:39 PM, Ian Milliss wrote:
Have to agree completely, it gets very boring seeing histories that are
only about the US and Europe or so called global histories/exhibitions
that cover only the US, Europe and a few token Chinese artists.
On 03/12/13 01:37 AM, nettime's avid reader wrote:
most importantly, they have a long-standing policy
that no Beastie Boys songs shall ever be used in commercial
advertisements. (They don’t mention, although they could, that this last
was actually an explicit dying wish of Adam Yauch, a/k/a
On 30/11/13 11:01 AM, Özgür K. wrote:
i would also ask you to consider renaming the real free culture
licenses you provide as *free culture creative commons license* and
more importantly renaming the rest of the cc licenses as *non-free
culture creative commons license* or *permission culture
On 17/11/13 02:30 PM, mez breeze wrote:
[From:
https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-will-remotely-lock-down-electric-cars/
]
For a long time, cars were a symbol of freedom and independence. No
longer. In its Zoe electric car, car maker Renault apparently has the
ability to
On 16/11/13 01:09 PM, { brad brace } wrote:
A professional community for media researchers.
MediaMOO has been down since maybe the end of July.
I visited it just before it went. While clearing out my house to move
I found my ex partners notebooks containing her object numbers there
so I went
On 20/09/13 10:20 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Television has *satellites* that BEAM the same propaganda to
everyone. The Internet does not.
As a result, MEMES don't work any more! (Sorry, Kalle, you can't
advertise your way to a revolution anymore.)
If we accept meme theory then memes
On 12/06/13 09:38, Patrice Riemens wrote:
GeziPark, PRISM, ERT shutdown come all as a shock.
Some of the saddest specialist responses to PRISM that I've read argue
that it isn't a shock and that clever people knew this sort of thing was
going on anyway.
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On 13/05/13 18:11, Keith Hart wrote:
Thanks for posting this. It's a great interview and I downloaded the book
onto my Kindle. Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial
product of modernity are interesting
That sounds similar to Paul Graham's interesting opinions about unions -
On 26/04/13 15:52, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Machines will *never* become conscious or emotional or spiritual
because none of that is programmed into them.
And once it is these won't be hallmarks of humanity, as is always the
case with AI.
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On 23/03/13 19:18, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Desktop publishing, now 20+ years old, had the same false premise.
Ability to typeset and print at home did not change publishing world
much. The same big publishers are making the same money today, and
choose what they want to print in pretty much the
On 23/01/13 05:04, Lincoln Cushing wrote:
By withholding free access to the ultimate goody, the 60 megabyte image
file, am I a traitor to the Free Culture Movement?
If you want to phrase it in those terms, then yes.
- Rob.
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On 05/09/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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
On 08/03/12 16:13, miltosmane...@gmail.com wrote:
I absolutely agree. .art is simply ridiculous, who wants to be called .art?
Various of my bots, and several projects I have in mind to critique the
prevalent informal institutional theory.
:-)
- Rob.
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Also, I demand a .marx domain.
- Rob.
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On 19/01/12 15:09, Flick Harrison wrote:
Just to bring this back to digital technology... Kodak filed for bankruptcy
today.
We're halfway to Cory Doctorow's Makers. :-)
- Rob.
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On 15/11/11 10:15, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
IMHO nothing can stop a pruducer from
changing his mind for the future.
They cannot however prevent the people who have received copies of their
work under a licence offering that work to other people under the same
licence.
So yes the artist can
On 23/07/11 21:11, David Golumbia wrote:
watch out everyone... if you're not very careful, this story may make your
ideology start to show.
Threatening someone with 35 years imprisonment for a case that had
already been settled by the parties involved in order to send a message
seems pretty
On 20/07/11 14:33, Nick wrote:
wire fraud (for obtaining property) [count 1],
That's one of the things they went after Steve Kurtz for in the end...
- Rob.
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