I don't think both letters are written and sent by a whistleblower. They are not from inside, IMHO. There is nothing one learns from them what is not in news or can't be assumed. They are written by a person competent in soviet/postsoviet history and Russian politic scene, who sees how things are
https://pad.profolia.org/s/chekhovs_gun
/The plan was to write a description for a series of lectures and
conversations at Merz Akademie in upcoming semester, but it became a
manifesto, I'd like to share with you.
/
Disarming Chekhov’s Gun
The mantra passed down from generation to
taphors. They do not only appeal to imagination and give
shape to invisible products. Words themselves become interfaces, and
every change in vocabulary matters.
I'd like to thank Interface Critique interfacecritique.net/ for making
my publication possible and foremost for being a platform for this
I am a big fan of super cuts, still sacrificed last Sunday afternoon to go
through all the 60 "experiences" Zuckerberg promised "to unlock".
https://pad.profolia.org/s/experience
As at least 9000 others, I loved Sam Lavingne’s supercut of Zuckerberg’s Meta
demo.
I also see a huge
"Sad by Manovich" or "Sad by Ars Electronica" ;)
Six false statements in four sentences is a lot!
"New media art never deals with human life, and this is why it does not enter
museums. It's our fault. Don't blame curators or the "art world." Digital art
is "anti-human art," and this is why it
Dear nettimers,
allow me please to share some false memories with you
online for some weeks only (not for the sake of scarcity, but due to
high costs of running publicly accessed virtual machines)
http://art.teleportacia.org/tmp/
False Memories, Olia lialina, 2020
For Internet Explorer 6
...@posteo.net wrote
>Don't feed the Google, just say no to Chrome!
>
>Bypass Beaker here:
>https://dat.bovid.space/f1a5ed8cd08dc9704d6261c899bbd0f5a0851e596f132d6edc562c1a4948c43e/
>
>On Monday, July 1, 2019 9:24:29 PM CEST, olia lialina wrote:
>> Dear Nettimers
Dear Nettimers,
apropos E2E, P2P, networks and their limits, tactical media and their
impact.
two weeks ago we released Digital Folklore Reader (2009) on dat://
go to dat://digitalfolklore.org/ if you are on Beaker already
or follow instructions at https://digitalfolklore.org/
I keep my
not the most urgen question, but still: does anybody understand or saw a
proper explanation of why RT's proxy agency was the only crew filming? (RT's
explanation, that they are the last professionals left I've seen) # distributed via : no commercial use without permission
#is a moderated
form pilots about the new software is through additional computer-based
training, which can be done on their personal computers."
*in 2014 i wrote about desktopization of remote piloted aircrafts for Interface
Critique http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/
Olia Lialina wrote
&
i was rereading today this 5 y. o. article about a decade old accident
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash/amp
following are parts of IV. Flying Robots and the article's final statement
It takes an airplane to bring out the worst in a pilot.
[... ]
"- Disable the bots - At least verified partners have the right to speak
to a real person if you plan to remove their channel."
Indeed, Felix
this demand makes it very strong. So honest and down to earth, and so desperate in its
"at least"
On 22.10.18 13:11, olia li
power to the soviets! peace to the people! land to the peasants!
factories to the workers! ad money to the youtubers!
On 22.10.18 12:56, wrote:
[It doesn't seem like gaining much traction beyond the occasional media
story. But still, it's interesting in terms of the demands. Two new
basic
so many options, tools and manuals!
but nothing will bring back Hyves :/
http://profolia.org/access/material/25.jpeg
On 12.04.2018 16:52, Geert Lovink wrote:
Dear nettimers,
it’s been a busy week here in NL with the Facebook exodus movement.
Numbers of people that left are of course very
ingless" only to skeptics and
non-believers. (And we know what can happen to such heretics...)
Francis Hunger calls it "Enhanced Pattern Recognition"; but it is
unlikely that the believers and ideologues of "AI" will follow his
suggestion.
Regards,
-a
Am 23.03.18 um 1
what really strikes me (not only in this text but in so many of the last
three years) is arbitrary, inconsistent and just meaningless use of the
term AI. And this from people who are actually doing it!
On 22.03.2018 18:37, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Twitter thread from GOOGL ML employee:
Dear nettimers,
Earlier this month I had a chance to introduce my thoughts on what media
theory's role in universities of applied arts could be in times when
Media is vanishing and Technology is raising.
Let me share it with you. I paste the first part below but suggest to
follow the link for
On 10.10.2015 00:48, Kristoffer Gansing wrote:
But as I hinted at in the beginning, part of the problem is that we are
always busy somewhere else. This might be both the biggest asset and
curse of media art and digital culture : that it is always moving on.
The next place, the next site, the
Dear Richard
It's impossible to disagree, the only problem is that there are no
digital citizenship and digital citizens.
In the end of the day this form of address is more sedative than empowering.
We are computer users. And I don't mean that we should accept it. We
should rather insist on
On 18.01.2015 18:03, Florian Cramer wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:27 PM, olia lialina o...@profolia.org wrote:
and the morning after UX, when people (formerly known as users)
beiing fooled into invisible computing paradigm, find out that
computers
Dear Felix
I'm afraid you are mixing up value of personal data and value of time
spend filling a service with this data.
related, two demands on the User Rights:
The Right to get Revenue
http://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/u0ibb/
The right to be the (prime) beneficiary of
Dear nettimers, especially Dutch ones
Hyves.nl is closing on Friday
There are still some hours left to grab your stuff!
You could also help Archive team by runningthe warrior
http://tracker.archiveteam.org/hyves/
I was not an active Hyves user. So after getting a note that the service
was
Dear Burak
so nice to here from you. what do u think about Turing Complete User
article?
and thank you for reminding about user labor! a great project indeed.
did it develop any further?
do u think u can formulate some write for userrights that would link and
remind about this initiative. i
with the right links
best
olia
Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk
Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightmare of Files and Directories
http://youtu.be/Qfai5reVrck
Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
Hello nettimers
I'm absolutely indifferent to top level domains and domain names in
general. Would not give a cent for .art after my name, not even for .lol
At the same time I'm a big old fan of both URLs and the location bar.
http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes/ (1999)
I'm fascinated
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