> On Jan 7, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
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> 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 Fr
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 b
"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 guerri
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 displaci
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 i
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 is
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:
https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomsky-is-no-friend-of-the-syrian-revolution/
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 computer-s
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 obligated
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
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" wr=
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22105322
>
> So much for utterly stable market dynamics.
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...or maybe all people who "speak from the heart."
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Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz got the Federal Communications =
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I take it you haven't seen this:
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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. L
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 on
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 l
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, whene
Hi Armin--
On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Armin Medosch 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
> and equities; t
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
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
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 yea
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
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...There are (at least) two different models for building a movement, only one
of which does Joreen acknowledge: a mass organisati
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
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...There are (at least) two different models for building a movement, only one
of which does Joreen acknowledge: a mass organisatio
It seems clear that the New Yorker is no longer home of the best
fact-checking/copyediting humankind can achieve.
When they started a blog as a separate entity from the magazine I heard writer
and editor friends complain about errors all the time. It had very different
(i.e., lower) standards t
(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 a
http://mashable.com/2014/12/14/uber-sydney-surge-pricing/
An executive in the city's Central Business District (CBD) sent
Mashable screenshots of the Uber app that showed the company was
charging up to four-times the normal rate because "demand is off the
charts."
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: "For e
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
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The Shut-In Economy
By Lauren Smiley
Angel the concierge stands behind a lobby desk at a luxe apartment
building in dow
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.
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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 l
> 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 interview, but I almost
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 d
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