Re: US facial recognition (WRT "Nettime is in bad shape")

2019-07-08 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Google, Facebook and others do facial recognition since decencies, and use it for worldwide formating, Snowden as also revealed how agencies, US and world-wide, use those datas. China is very late compared to US practices. https://switching.social/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/ JN L

Re: Digging out news via the YouTube API

2019-12-07 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Digital side consumption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJn6pja_l8s JN Le 04/12/2019 à 23:53, Steven Clift a écrit : I have a new digital side hustle: I am on a quest to find and organize diverse news video sources from YouTube for global discovery. Any suggestions from your part of the worl

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

2020-03-18 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Individual health and public health are deeply monitored by Google, Facebook and other big-brother companies since decennies, with thousand algorithms spying our life in real time. They store huge files about our intimate life, not only with what we say/search online about the subject, with wher

Re: The Communist Manifesto 2015, written in RNA

2020-03-28 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Le 27/03/2020 à 19:50, Morlock Elloi a écrit : In short, the Chinese designed this thing in the process of destroying the neoliberal capitalism around the world. never heard something so stupid. China is the first beneficiary of capitalism. JN # distributed via : no commercial use w

Re: piece about Julian Assange

2020-11-27 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
sense of your action ? We can criticize his decisions, but we cannot have enough perspective to judge them. We must give total conscious protection to the humanity of Julian Assange, as well as absolute support to the political culture of anti-corruption fights. Jean-Noël Montagné # di

Re: made for TV, made for social media

2021-01-08 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Le 07/01/2021 à 19:25, Brian Holmes a écrit : In my view, far from being a harbinger of possibly worse threats to come, yesterday's events were the most positive thing that could have happened. Hello Even if I appreciate Biden election, and relative happy conclusion of Capitol's coup, I don

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-19 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Le 10/01/2021 à 06:15, Brian Holmes a écrit : The end of the neoliberal period has coincided with a symbolic reversal in politics: the torch of the partisan has passed from the insurgent Left of 1968 to the Qanon nationalists of today. This is a gigantic historical shift. [...] As the old neo

Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

2022-11-30 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Changing the system is a political choice. Any technology is politic. Moving from email technology to web technology is a real politic affair which contradicts the common ideas deployed in this list. Freedom to publish, freedom to communicate. Equality. I receive and read Nettime in a separate

Re: Modest prophet of doom

2023-01-25 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Hello Brian and all, I also watched the video of Tim Lenton's talk. I am quite surprised to see that he does not mention at any time the question of energy resources and mining resources that are supposed to accompany the transition to renewable energy or electric mobility. This is an essenti

Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

2013-04-24 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Have you seen this "proposed European citizen initiative" about unconditional basic income ? it's an old project, and your voices can count if you agree. https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2012-28/public/ JN # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #

call for transparency in the TTIP negotiations

2014-03-28 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Together with 26 networks and organisations, Corporate Europe Observatory has today launched a joint civil society call for transparency in the TTIP negotiations. The call is directed to European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht and is asking for the full disclosure of all negotiation texts

Re: 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 betw

Re: ISEA 2011 fees

2011-05-17 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Hi Nicholas Student fees begin at EUR250, with non-student fees beginning at EUR300---and both jump to EUR400 if you don't register by Sunday. In comparison, fees for last year's ISEA were EUR100 to EUR150 for non-VIP passes, and fees for ISEA 2008 ranged from 100 to 450 Singapore dollars (tran

Re: ISEA 2011 fees

2011-05-19 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
Hi Nicholas Student fees begin at EUR250, with non-student fees beginning at EUR300---and both jump to EUR400 if you don't register by Sunday. In comparison, fees for last year's ISEA were EUR100 to EUR150 for non-VIP passes, and fees for ISEA 2008 ranged from 100 to 450 Singapore dollars (t

Re: Arts cut down

2011-06-20 Thread Jean-Noël Montagné
In France, the situation is also dramatic, we are into the complete berlusconization of culture and education. It started in 2002. But nobody, except the press and conservative parties, can say it's because of a crisis: the fourty biggest french companies, gathered into the CAC 40 indicator,