Re: Librarian Schipwreck: Imagine the End of Facebook

2021-10-30 Thread olivier auber
021 à 08:37, patrice riemens a écrit : > Aloha, > > (original to: > > https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/imagine-the-end-of-facebook/) > > > The Wired article that triggered me into looking for, and now 'filtering' > this one is here: > > https://w

Librarian Schipwreck: Imagine the End of Facebook

2021-10-30 Thread patrice riemens
Aloha, (original to: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/imagine-the-end-of-facebook/) The Wired article that triggered me into looking for, and now 'filtering' this one is here: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-whistleblower-wont-change-anything/ Imagine the End

Re: Facebook

2019-11-08 Thread voyd
policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes and biased recommendation algorithms. given that

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread Geert Lovink
Dear nettimers, the Facebook Question is a timely and necessary debate. It turns out that we’re trapped. It is neither politically correct to leave, nor is it to stay. This is the perfect example of the current stagnation (also known as The Great Regression). This topic was already discussed

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
. I'd be curious about the server farms YouTube must use; they seem unimaginable to me. Best, Alan On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Craig Fahner wrote: maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Craig Fahner wrote: > > maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad > (of > course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure > (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine > facebook's

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread voyd
wrote: maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread voyd
they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes and biased recommendation algorithms. given that a lot of people use facebook

Re: Facebook

2019-11-05 Thread tacira
Tube must use; they seem > unimaginable to me. > > Best, Alan > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Craig Fahner wrote: > >> maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of >> course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes and biased recommendation algorithms. given that a lot of people

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Craig Fahner
maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, mp wrote: On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: The loss is more important to me On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;? 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the possibility of

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Similar example. I never had a Facebook account, either personal or with my projects in the fields of media and participative urbanism, but often had to lurk through my collaborators or intern in order to get to circles I wanted to access. Now I am starting a new project curating

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
in August concerning the Financial Action Task Force (FATF): "Government does not create innovative solutions. In a capitalist system, we rely upon the private sector for that." So does this mean that we will allow Facebook and Google to continue to operate so long as they make sure that our

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread mp
On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > The loss is more important to me > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: >> 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;? >> 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the possibility of >>

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread Carsten Agger
On 11/3/19 5:28 PM, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on > Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this > &q

Re: Facebook

2019-11-04 Thread olivier auber
ur cognitive asymmetries, and the different types of anoptical perspectives of networks and their conditions of legitimacy, Facebook could be overcome the day when these points would become evident to a large part of the population. It will one day, but when? Anoptikon, preface of Philippe Quéau:

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
About eight and a half months ago I quit Facebook and all social media. My reasons are given here: https://medium.com/@premckar/a-farewell-to-social-media-33db26074498 <https://medium.com/@premckar/a-farewell-to-social-media-33db26074498> Having said that, I echo the sentiments exp

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread José María Mateos
-20180129.pdf This looks like the "Internet money" that was central to a South Park episode: https://southpark.cc.com/clips/165195/meet-the-internet-stars I think we have more than enough awareness. We can't have more awareness. Everybody knows what's Facebook, its limitations and

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread olivier auber
useful and it gives more scope to > > textual > > work than Instagram. > > > > Alan > > > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to know if so

Re: Facebook / MZ, "trust," and "mythic forces"

2019-11-03 Thread Frederic Neyrat
ection of these "mythic forces" (or whatever we call them), MZ will be powerful *ad vitam aeternam*. My best, FN On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 2:17 PM Geoffrey Goodell wrote: > P.S. I should have included a link to an article I co-authored about > Facebook > Libra: &

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
work than Instagram. Alan On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook > and

Re: facebook (Frederic Neyrat)

2019-11-03 Thread Renée Lynn Reizman
I'm on facebook because I have to manage social media for my employer. Truly the only reason I'm on there! Renée Reizman On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:53 AM wrote: > Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > nettime-l@mail.kein.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the Wo

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
P.S. I should have included a link to an article I co-authored about Facebook Libra: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441707 Abstract: The announcement by Facebook that Libra will "deliver on the promise of 'the internet of money'" has drawn the attention of the financial world.

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Geoffrey Goodell
that there are some people who stand to benefit from this dystopia we are building, or others who think that they stand to benefit because they have not considered the implications of this new emerging morality in which common people are transparent but powerful interests have many faces, then w

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Frederic Neyrat
ay social media is too vast to accurately > assess. > > /:b > > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributor

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Frederic Neyrat
> > > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on > Facebook > > and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (?) > > netwo

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
Instagram. Alan On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Frederic Neyrat
sts, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on > >Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this > >"social" (?) network. > > I've been off Facebook (see caveats below), but the reasons people > typically have to stay there are essentially th

Re: Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread José María Mateos
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:28:01AM -0600, Frederic Neyrat wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (

Facebook

2019-11-03 Thread Frederic Neyrat
Hi, I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (?) network. This article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2

Re: Libra: The Bank of Facebook

2019-06-19 Thread olivier auber
t's a completely different logic than LIBRA that you have to buy in dollars from Facebook before you start trading Of course, Duniter is free and can be forked to create other monetary communities Ğ2, Ğ3, Ğn or something else. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:29 AM Rachel O' Dwyer wrote: > Belo

Libra: The Bank of Facebook

2019-06-19 Thread Rachel O' Dwyer
Below is a response to Facebook's announcement that it's releasing a digital currency and wallet. Rachel *The Bank of Facebook* Marshall McLuhan argued that money is communication. This rings particularly true at a time when so many platforms are entering the payments space. The US payments

First Dog on the Moon: Facebook, Google, Twitter: they'd still be dreadful without the fascists

2019-03-20 Thread Patrice Riemens
And then, as usual, First Dog on the Moon outclasses all text only comments "If Facebook’s algorithms are clever enough to send you ads for things you’ve talked about, they are clever enough to get rid of Nazis" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/faceb

Re: The smog covering Facebook transparency

2019-03-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
, 09:57, Allan Siegel wrote: Hello, All roads lead to Rome, or the the CIA, NSA, MI6, etc. etc. What happens when you try to follow the money and reach a seemingly dead end? "Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook / Britain’s Future has spent £340,000 prom

The smog covering Facebook transparency

2019-03-09 Thread Allan Siegel
Hello, All roads lead to Rome, or the the CIA, NSA, MI6, etc. etc. What happens when you try to follow the money and reach a seemingly dead end? "Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook / Britain’s Future has spent £340,000 promoting hard exit – but n

Carole Cadwalladr: A digital gangster destroying democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook (Guardian)

2019-02-17 Thread Patrice Riemens
From our "we always thought it, but now we know" Dept. ... Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/a-digital-gangster-destroying-democracy-the-damning-verdict-on-facebook A digital gangster destroying democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook Parliamen

"Facebook is the New Crapware"

2019-01-28 Thread Geert Lovink
Dear nettimers, a. you have all left Facebook by now (or ages ago), b. you are still on it, c. could not be bothered, d. are busy with more relevant topics. Here is some material in case you want to be uptodate about the social media question. We’re now ten months into the Cambridge Analytica

Re: Manipulating individuals, your wife or Jeremy Corbin, by micro-targeting Facebook ads

2018-07-17 Thread Sivasubramanian M
what the party itself was doing. The whole story is below, and most > likely not satire. Felix] > > > Facebook ad micro-targeting can manipulate individual politicians > Anonymous Labour Party official to Tom Baldwin > > > https://theoutline.com/post/5411/facebook-ad-micro-tar

Manipulating individuals, your wife or Jeremy Corbin, by micro-targeting Facebook ads

2018-07-17 Thread Felix Stalder
y campaign also ran a campaign targeting an individual, the party leader Jeremy Corbin (and his closest associates) trying to warp his perception of what the party itself was doing. The whole story is below, and most likely not satire. Felix] Facebook ad micro-targeting can manipulate individual po

Re: Towards a Non-facebook

2018-05-28 Thread David Garcia
Thanks happy to join Pit’s initiative > Lets call it #non-facebook. > https://www.facebook.com/groups/217513475509054/ I am interpreting Pit's challenge to the tactics of anti-Facebook movement as being based on a recognition that we live in a world where the digital and the social

Re: Towards a Non-facebook (Pit Schultz)

2018-05-25 Thread Brian Holmes
Kristoffer Gansing wrote: As someone who > never joined facebook in the first place, I can’t help wondering what > then to do. Is a facebook user strike strictly for users, since we have > frequently been told you cannot really be outside facebook whether you > are i

Re: Towards a Non-facebook (Pit Schultz)

2018-05-25 Thread Kristoffer Gansing
Pit wrote: > Towards a Non-facebook > a pretext > > > The current facebook debate is a chance to get your act together and > get organized - just a little. Thanks for this call to action Pit, much needed in these times of inflated and often misinformed social media critiq

Towards a Non-facebook

2018-05-24 Thread Pit Schultz
Towards a Non-facebook a pretext The current facebook debate is a chance to get your act together and get organized - just a little. What does it mean to get dis-, re- or co-organized? To the worse, or to the better? A further 'balkanisation', a migration to the cryptoanarchist waste

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-11 Thread Jaromil
dear Anni, On Sat, 05 May 2018, Anni Roolf wrote: >Thank you for the pros and cons. Did you guys also read the >medium article? [1]bit.ly/facebreak2018 In my experience it’s >hard to consider such a campaign in advance. To join it can only >be a piece of the puzzle, is an

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Juergen Fenn
Well, I quit Facebook on Quit Facebook Day back in May 2010 already, and such activism today seems like going on a diet without much changing your eating behaviour in the long run. https://schneeschmelze.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/facebook-is-a-closed-shop-xvi-schlus/ I don't have any more social

Fwd: Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Juergen Fenn
Well, I quit Facebook on Quit Facebook Day back in May 2010 already, and such activism today seems like going on a diet without much changing your eating behaviour in the long run. https://schneeschmelze.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/facebook-is-a-closed-shop-xvi-schlus/ I don't have any more social

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Juergen Fenn
Well, I quit Facebook on Quit Facebook Day back in May 2010 already, and such activism today seems like going on a diet without much changing your eating behaviour in the long run. https://schneeschmelze.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/facebook-is-a-closed-shop-xvi-schlus/ I don't have any more social

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Anni Roolf
<olivieraub...@gmail.com>: > A good day to make your bill to Facebook? > Why? Because Facebook stole your digital labor. > The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to > bring with you a summary archive. But this archive is empty! > > It doe

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread olivier auber
A good day to make your bill to Facebook? Why? Because Facebook stole your digital labor. The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to bring with you a summary archive. But this archive is empty! It does not contain: - Links included in your personal posts (just

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread olivier auber
A good day to make your bill to Facebook? Why? Because Facebook stole your digital labor. The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to bring with you a summary archive. But this archive is empty! It does not contain: - Links included in your personal posts (just

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Felix Stalder
On 2018-05-05 11:20, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > I agree if the goal is to learn about facebook's reaction. But you are > not addressing the root of the problem ie, the whole business model of > facebook depends on collecting and monetizing the user data. What > change/response ar

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread sebastian
> On May 5, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Anni Roolf <anni.ro...@dezentrale.eu> wrote: > > Here's the call: > Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregarded the spirit of our > user agreements. To demonstrate our collective power as users, log out of > Facebook and I

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ശ, മേയ് 5, 2018 at 2:40 വൈകു, Anni Roolf <anni.ro...@dezentrale.eu> wrote: Why it makes sense for me to support the strike as a still facebook user? Raising awareness within the system, giving a hopefully powerful sign that there's a big mistrust of the users, observing how the

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Anni Roolf
Why it makes sense for me to support the strike as a still facebook user? Raising awareness within the system, giving a hopefully powerful sign that there's a big mistrust of the users, observing how the system reacts (especially if the strike is powerful), letting fb users who

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Karin Spaink
For those looking for an alternative to FB, try WeMe,com. No ad, no trackers, no bullshit. > On 5 May 2018, at 10:01, Patrice Riemens wrote: > > I thought we'd be going out of FB altogether. - K - -- Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ശ, മേയ് 5, 2018 at 1:25 വൈകു, Anni Roolf <anni.ro...@dezentrale.eu> wrote: Here's the call: Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregarded the spirit of our user agreements. To demonstrate our collective power as users, log out of Facebook and Instagram May 25 –

Re: Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Patrice Riemens
-05-05 09:55, Anni Roolf wrote: Here's the call: Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregarded the spirit of our user agreements. To demonstrate our collective power as users, log out of Facebook and Instagram May 25 – June 1. #facebreak2018 [1] #newpower [2] bit.ly/facebreak2018 [3] L

Please support the first global facebook user strike

2018-05-05 Thread Anni Roolf
Here's the call: Facebook has disrespected our personal data and disregarded the spirit of our user agreements. To demonstrate our collective power as users, log out of Facebook and Instagram May 25 – June 1. #facebreak2018 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/facebreak2018?source=feed_t

Un-friend my Heart - Ilana Gershin on Facebook

2018-03-24 Thread David Garcia
Un-friend my Heart - Revisiting Ilana Gershin on Facebook Despite being nearly a decade old its a good time to take another look at the work of anthropologist Ilana Gershin’s work The Ethics of Disconection in Neo-liberal Age on Fb pioneering role of schooling a generation in becoming

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

2018-01-19 Thread olivier auber
quot; > > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 18:50 olivier auber <olivieraub...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of >> Research in Artificial Intelligence a

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

2018-01-18 Thread Dante-Gabryell Monson
ortability On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 18:50 olivier auber <olivieraub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of > Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. > > From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

2018-01-10 Thread Frederic Neyrat
Dear Olivier, Really, people don't know what Facebook is? Holy cow! Happy new year out of FB! :) Frederic Neyrat 2018-01-10 11:49 GMT-06:00 olivier auber <olivieraub...@gmail.com>: > Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of > Research i

Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

2018-01-10 Thread olivier auber
Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. >From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) Dear Yann as a researcher as you are too, but in another area, that is Natural Intelligence (NI), I wo

Fred Turner: Fascism and The Historical Irony of Facebook

2016-11-25 Thread nettime's avid reader
https://medium.com/initialized-capital/fascism-and-the-historical-irony-of-facebooks-fake-news-problem-d744b05045fd#.pcxf34w0r Kim-Mai Cutler, 24.11.2016 <...> I wanted to catch up and get his [Fred Turner's] reflections on the election and Facebook and Twitter’s impact on American po

Facebook Helped Drive a Voter Registration Surge

2016-10-13 Thread Felix Stalder
Another story about Facebook's increasing power to affect the vote. Two years, Jonathan Zitrain showed how FB was able to increase voter turnout by sending out reminders during the mid-term elections [1]. [1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117878/information-fiduciary-solution-facebook

NYT > Zeynep Tufekci > The Real Bias Built In at Facebook

2016-05-23 Thread nettime's_observatory
< http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html > The Real Bias Built In at Facebook by Zeynep Tufekci NYT, MAY 19, 2016 FACEBOOK is biased. That's true. But not in the way conservative critics say it is. The social network's powerful ne

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-22 Thread Florian Cramer
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:51 AM, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: I think we need distributed social networking, with nodes that act like a Facebook on your own device but only interact through a network of agnostic relays, Tor style, with zero ex

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-22 Thread morlockelloi
server-assisted app to fuck off. The real solution, as usual, is ideological, and the technology will follow. This is a huge amount of work, uphill and against the wind, and there is no way around it. I think we need distributed social networking, with nodes that act like a Facebook on your own

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-22 Thread carlo von lynX
at can corrupt our basic freedoms that may even not be important to us as individuals but spell an end to democracy by dilution of its constitution. See also the power of Google and Facebook to influence the vote of 20-40% of the population in most countries and the conclusions Assange describes in rec

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-21 Thread Carsten Agger
Den 20-03-2016 kl. 11:43 skrev Patrice Riemens: original to: http://sivertimes.com/richard-stallman-wants-to-destroy-facebook-to-protect-privacy/17274 original interview in Le Devoir (Montreal) (in French): http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/465389/eradiquer-facebook-pour

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-21 Thread morlockelloi
t is another. It's conceivable, just slightly, that Facebook could open-source all their software and not change their behavior a bit. If someone really wants to smother you, they can probably smother you with # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook! And as to apple case

2016-03-21 Thread Michael H. Goldhaber
: it is interesting to note that Facebook is one of the companies that have publicly supported Apple in the case against the FBI seeking access to encrypted data of iPhone. Facebook has also signed a motion in court. Best, Michael via iPhone, so please ecuse misteaks. > On Mar 20, 2016, at 3:43

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-21 Thread morlockelloi
t is another. It's conceivable, just slightly, that Facebook could open-source all their software and not change their behavior a bit. If someone really wants to smother you, they can probably smother you with # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated

Re: Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-20 Thread David Mandl
ting data on people's every movement is another. It's conceivable, just slightly, that Facebook could open-source all their software and not change their behavior a bit. If someone really wants to smother you, they can probably smother you with a cute photo of a kitten. --Dave. # distributed vi

Richard Stallman: Eradicate Facebook!

2016-03-20 Thread Patrice Riemens
original to: http://sivertimes.com/richard-stallman-wants-to-destroy-facebook-to-protect-privacy/17274 original interview in Le Devoir (Montreal) (in French): http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/465389/eradiquer-facebook-pour-sauver-la-democratie Richard Stallman wants

Moglen and Choudhary: Fictional internet policy is bad for India, good only for Facebook

2015-09-29 Thread nettime's_cybercolonist
< http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/fictional-internet-policy-is-bad-for-india-good-only-for-facebook-282664.html > Fictional internet policy is bad for India, good only for Facebook 28 Sep 2015 , 08:26 By Eben Moglen & Mishi Choudhary Manu Joseph is widely

nettime Feed my Feed: Radical publishing in Facebook Groups

2015-07-23 Thread allan siegel
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2015-06-24 Thread Geert Lovink
Dear nettimers, on this day of the Facebook Farewell Party, which will be held tonight in the National Theater in Amsterdam on Leidseplein our Institute of Network Cultures is very proud to present the release of: In the Facebook Aquarium—The Resistable Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism by Ippolita

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2014-12-21 Thread allan siegel
Allan Resposted from Berfrois Laurent Berlant performs as clicking by Lauren Berlant Today I introduced Facebook to someone older than me and had a long conversation about what the point of networking amongst friends is. The person was so skeptical because to her stranger

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2014-08-28 Thread michael gurstein
Version with formatting, links and comments: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/ooh-la-la-the-french-get-internet-n eutrality-right-its-all-about-the-monopolies-google-amazon-facebook-twitter- etc/ http://tinyurl.com/qzlbzwc Ooh-la-la, the French Get (Inter)Net Neutrality Right: It's All

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, part III, section 6 (continued)

2014-08-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
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nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, part III,

2014-08-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part III The Freedoms of the Net Beyond technophobia: let's build convivial technologies together (section 6) Worldwide congenital blather, the 'global tribe' imagined by McLuhan, is now with us. Our world is now balkanized, fragmented

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium,

2014-08-08 Thread Patrice Riemens
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nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium,

2014-08-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part III The Freedoms of the Net Orwell, Huxley, and the Sino-American model (section 2, concluded) Profiling techniques used by Google, Facebook, and others can be applied to improve upon the relevance of individually targeted advertisements just

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Three,

2014-07-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part III The Freedoms of the Net On-line revolution and couch activism: between myth and reality (section #1, concluded) The best organized repressive regimes also know how to make use of the same methods as their dissenters, something that yet

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two Anonymous, or out-of-the-box activism (section 8, continued) Viewed from out the media, the reaction of the church of Scientology, just as that of all Anonymous' (many) casualties afterwards, was to portray the members of the group

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
With this installment, we reach the end of the second part of Ippolita Collective's In the Facebook Aquarium. The third part ('The freedoms of the Net') is the last one, and is only very marginally shorter than the first and second parts. I propose to make the next installments longer (and hence

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-07-17 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two The Wikileaks Fracas: senseless challenge - or sensible defiance? (continued) Back to the Wikileaks Affair. The publication on July 25th 2010, in five major newspapers (/The New York Times/, /The Guradian/, /Der Spiegel/, /Le Monde/, /El

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-07-16 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two . . . . . . . . . . NB. Three corrections made to previous installment(s): influent influential also, everywhere: monicker moniker Pirate Partiet documentation: from Wikisource, not Wikipedia (note 56). . . . . . . . . . . The Wikileaks

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-07-15 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two . . . . . . . . . . NB. Three corrections made to previous installment(s): influent influential also, everywhere: monicker moniker Pirate Partiet documentation: from Wikisource, not Wikipedia (note 56). . . . . . . . . . . The Wikileaks

Re: nettime Facebook Does Mind Control

2014-07-10 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Facebook Does Mind Control FB has always done mind control. There will never be an I don't like' button in FB. FB wants only positive messages, better for business. All their ergonomy and features are parts of the mind control. They want happiness and they provoke constant interaction

nettime Facebook Does Mind Control

2014-07-09 Thread michael gurstein
With links and comments: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/facebook-does-mind-control/ Facebook Does Mind Control Michael Gurstein News is coming out about Facebook initiated and largely conducted social research experiment examining the effects of various types of emotionally loaded

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two, section #5 (concluded)

2014-07-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two The Hacker Spirit and the disease of Anarcho-Capitalism: long time buddies? (concluded) (from previous installment: In the 17th and up to the beginning of the 18th century, pirates in the New World had a more adventurous, and also more

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two, section #5 (continued)

2014-06-23 Thread Patrice Riemens
Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two The Hacker Spirit and the disease of Anarcho-Capitalism: long time buddies? (continued) /Nerd supremacy/ has ancient roots. In a society that is run by machines, it is quite logical to assume that those who master the machines also command society. Though

nettime Video of the talk The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo

2014-06-22 Thread Orsan
very interesting talk by Fuchs, followed by exchange Christian Fuchs Talk at the COST Action Dynamic of Virtual Work's Workshop The Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age The Open University of Israel June 16, 2014 https://vimeo.com/98719144 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-05-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, Part Two The Libertarian World Domination Project: Hacking, Social Network(s), Activism and Institutional Politics Social networks as seen through the anarcho-capitalist lens - or the management of sociality through Big Data. (section 4, continued

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-05-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, Part Two The Libertarian World Domination Project: Hacking, Social Network(s), Activism and Institutional Politics Social networks as seen through the anarcho-capitalist lens - or the management of sociality through Big Data. (section 4, continued

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-05-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium, Part Two The Libertarian World Domination Project: Hacking, Social Network(s), Activism and Institutional Politics Section 3: Technological Darwinism from the Paypal Mafia to Facebook: the resistible rise of anarcho-capitalism.) (Thiel) often

nettime Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two,

2014-05-14 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part Two, section #3 (continued) (Section #3) Technological Darwinism from the Paypal Mafia to Facebook: the resistible rise of anarcho-capitalism. (...) It is therefore appropriate to provide information on these initiatives - actually each

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