Re: Stormy weather? Daniele Ganser edit

D’Eramo, quoted by Michael Guggenheim :I find these now-common disclaimers fascinating:And Russia’s unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine doesn’t absolve NATO of its responsibility in producing the conflict.This shows that what Putin has been doing is so terrible that even his defenders* feel

Interview with Perry Metzger on WFMU

Hi-- Here's an interview I did with Perry Metzger as guest host of WFMU's Techtonic program. Perry talked about cryptocurrencies (especially Bitcoin), the blockchain, and more. "Bitcoin is the least-private transaction system that has ever been invented by human beings." Perry is a

On Chomsky on Syria

Excellent deep dive into Chomsky's shallow take on Syria, including the facile "enemy of my enemy" approach he seems to take on pretty much every issue. Especially relevant given the recent rise of the pro-Assad left:

Re: What is Eurasianism?

That's my cue to mention this book: https://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Day-Francis-Postwar-International/dp/1570270392/ It was written by Kevin Coogan, who sadly died a couple of years ago. Kevin was incredibly knowledgeable about the far right, and in particular the European New Right. The book

George Monbiot on the pro-Putin left

Hello Nettime friends, The below comes from the Twitter feed of journalist George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot). It's one of the best, pithiest critiques I've seen of the pro-Putin/pro-Assad "left." Since it was originally a thread of tweets I'm preserving the format of the original by keeping the

"Data Mining for Humanists" (review of Lev Manovich's "Cultural Analytics")

By me, in the Los Angeles Review of Books (no paywall): https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/data-mining-for-humanists/ IN THE LAST 20 YEARS or so, several factors have combined to make it possible to gather and analyze vast amounts of digital information, far larger than any datasets that could

Re: made for TV, made for social media

> On Jan 7, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote: > > And, once Trump is out, many of the worst will crawl back into their lairs > and breed little swastikas. (I looked but did not see any swastikas in the > crowd). A "Camp Auschwitz" T-shirt with (an English translation of) "Arbeit Macht

Re: New "thought rhythms'

This has been going on forever in popular music--maybe *all* music, and probably all art, for that matter. Every new musical generation that comes along inevitably has some spokespeople who really want you to know that the previous generations, especially the generation they're bent on

Re: 'Charging Bull' vs 'Fearless Girl'

"Ludicrous" is right. - "Fearless Girl" is basically an ad for an index fund created by a large Wall St. firm (State Street), one that, if I remember correctly, is even less diverse than most. Easier to commission a statue than hire more women. - The "Charging Bull" statue was a piece of

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

> On Mar 20, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote: > > For Stallman, proprietary software is a fundamental obstacle to > freedom since the editor is able to decide the content, functionality, > impose censorship or deploy at will update. I realize that this is a short

Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last updated 11.21.15)

Core issues aside (no reasonable person could oppose an anti-racism movement on campuses), I find the trend toward demanding public apologies--a "hand-written apology," no less!--kind of bizarre. There are plenty of reasonable ways to acknowledge and confront racial injustice, but this just seems

nettime Amazon Requires Badly-Paid Warehouse Temps to Sign 18-Month Non-Competes

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/amazon-requires-badly-paid-warehouse-temps-sign-18-month-non-competes.html This borders on sadism. Amazon using a policy that was created for specialized, elite managers to prevent their low-level warehouse workers from getting jobs anywhere else.

nettime The Shut-In Economy

Living the dream: avoiding contact with other people, being able to work every minute of the day. https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816 - The Shut-In Economy By Lauren Smiley Angel the concierge stands behind a lobby desk at a luxe apartment building in

nettime How Pandora's Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music

(Read it now, before the typos are corrected.) Feature Creeps How Pandora's Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music by Dave Mandl http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/music/feature-creeps/ ...In the late 1950s, Miles Davis probably spoke for many jazz fans when he said of the

Re: nettime Elites' Tryranny of Structurelessness

Let's not forget Cathy Devine's anti-authoritarian response to this, The Tyranny of Tyranny: http://libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levine - ...There are (at least) two different models for building a movement, only one of which does Joreen acknowledge: a mass organisation

nettime Technology is murdering customer service - legally

Short-ish rant by me, in the Register. Tell everyone you know to click the Like button at the bottom of the page: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/04/07/technology_kills_customer_service/ When someone tallies up all the good and bad things that the tech mega-explosion of the last 50

nettime The Brutal Ageism of Tech

Pretty thorough story on ageism in tech, which usually gets no more than a bit of lip service here and there: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism A cynic might say this is the thin edge of the wedge (actually not all that thin, given the visibility and size

nettime Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code

Good piece on the failed attempt to rescue a homeless person by teaching him to code: https://medium.com/weird-future/d19c8db85c2 The whole [Some disadvantaged group] just needs to learn to code argument is probably too ridiculous to get into here. But this case highlights another sad fact

Re: nettime The secret financial market only robots can see

Hi Armin-- On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Armin Medosch ar...@easynet.co.uk wrote: In principle, it is important to differentiate between different forms of algorithmic trading. There are on one hand, large investment banks and hedge funds who hold large portfolios of different types of stocks

Re: nettime The secret financial market only robots can see

To restate what Brian wrote, in five times as many words: I think it's easy (and *usually* reasonable) to say, This thing that's happening now, and the backlash against it, is just like such-and-such a thing that happened 100 years ago, and all that fuss turned out to be very silly. So,

Re: nettime Modern Computer Systems Are Complex - Film at 11

Hi Keith-- Thanks. That article was years in the making, meaning I'd been developing those ideas for a long time before I finally got the opportunity to get them down on paper. Those are good analogies, and I've thought about various others. Most important, to oversimplify slightly, people get

nettime Modern Computer Systems Are Complex - Film at 11

Lots of interesting things going on here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/nasdaq-crash-data Anyone who has worked on an electronic trading system and didn't see this coming shouldn't be allowed to work on electronic trading systems. As a technologist I actually found working

Re: nettime Death of a Hospital

I take it you haven't seen this: = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578614183479259720.= html (Executive summary: Brooklyn-based couple, old friends of and early investors with Warren Buffett, die leaving close to a billion dollars, ***$135M*** of which they leave to LICH.

nettime FCC chairman personally grants exemption from obscenity rules to patriots

...or maybe all people who speak from the heart. --- = http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/fcc-chair-endorses-red-sox-f-b= omb Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz got the Federal Communications = Commission's seal of approval after he dropped an F-bomb in a pre-game =

Re: nettime bitcoin anyone?

This is what happens when you've got a socialist in the White House. --Dave. On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Keith J. Sanborn ksanb...@princeton.edu wr= ote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22105322 So much for utterly stable market dynamics. # distributed via nettime: no commercial

nettime The brutal truth about software

My latest piece for the Register: There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. The conflict lies in the fact that, whereas nearly every sample program in every textbook is a perfect

Re: nettime Rapture billboard

Hi Patrice-- I think you're giving these people more credit than they deserve. The Neocons, whatever you think of their politics, are a pretty sophisticated bunch. The idea of the Rapture is generally associated with a crackpot (albeit growing) group of Bible Belt fundamentalists from a whole