Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-13 Thread KMV
> - the defeat of NATO could lead to a "decolonization" of Western > Europe (not that this by itself leads to positive results. Repressive > "liberal" fascism remains as likely an outcome as some sort of > independence.) I also wondered what you mean, given that Russia has its own awful colonial

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-07 Thread KMV
I think (and hope) you are right, Brian. In response to this comment: "The TV cameras, few as there were, were literally outside, observing, clutching their pearls, while a thousands social media cameras were inside, doing, celebrating." Worth noting that the rioters targeted the media during

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

2017-04-24 Thread KMV
Exactly what I was thinking, Peter. I marched on Saturday as well because I'd prefer that not only my kids have a planet to live on, but one that has not seen even worse crises of displacement thanks to drought and famine. I'd like to not see more and more immigrants rounded up an put into

Re: will someone explain

2017-02-02 Thread KMV
Ben is on target. Additionally, while it seems there are constitutional grounds to challenge quite a few things Trump is doing, it requires not only the political will from the other branches to mount the challenge, but the further will to force the matter if Trump and others alied

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-15 Thread KMV
fucking white men." On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:25 PM, KMV <cuuixsil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Alice and Angela on this as well. Mainstream reporting over > here has focused on economic dissatisfaction in the rust belt, and rural > voters feeling left out, but it's w

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-15 Thread KMV
I agree with Alice and Angela on this as well. Mainstream reporting over here has focused on economic dissatisfaction in the rust belt, and rural voters feeling left out, but it's worth noting that people of color in the rust belt still voted overwhelmingly against Trump, though their economic

Re: nettime tensions within the bay area elites

2014-05-12 Thread KMV
There is also tension within Google, that is interesting to observe. I have a friend working in Google.org, the humanitarian arm that works on projects like apps to help find missing persons after some type of disaster. he and others there are often extremely frustrated by what goes on over at

Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

2014-01-22 Thread KMV
I have certainly seen these changes during the past eight years that I have lived in California, near Sacramento. However, the green initiatives cannot be simply written off that way considering our miserable air quality, the water rationing that has just started, the loss of pollinating insects,

Re: nettime Morphology of a copyright tale

2012-05-05 Thread KMV
Love it, particularly the fate of the bearded flute-playing man. :-) --But was his beer free? ;-) On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Aymeric Mansoux am...@kuri.mu wrote: # This text is based on the work from Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp in # his 1928 essay Morphology of the Folktale. By studying