Re: Guardian > Monbiot > Neoliberalism -- the
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:17 AM, John Young wrote:
>
> Rise of the Internet and other personal devices for handy-witted exposition
> has affirmed wealth accumulation by digital technology's inventors, producers
> and distributors, and thereby neoliberalism and ordoliberalism in shrewd
> disguises especially that of digitally empowered expositors quite satisfied
> at reaching far more consumers than by paper and ink and talks, thereby
> empowering (i.e, enslaving, aka educating) consumers who are taught and
> instructed and seduced to affirm intellectual wealth accumulation at their
> student-indebted expense and thrillingly diverting fandom of very own
> smartest of personal devices and brilliantly cogitating bold-name digitally
> dropping heros, heros of dual-hatted complicity with neo-ordo contributors to
> intellectual dole, aka socialism of the top 5% of finest minds social
> engineering for <1% grant-masters and prize bestowers.
Wondering if this should be subject to Hanlon’s Razor ("never assume bad
intentions when assuming stupidity is enough” is Wikipedia’s version) regarding
the intent of the digital producers, whether they are pop stars or corporations
or (ugh) ‘thought leaders’
So those digital technology inventors, producers and distributors _might_ just
be behaving economically rationally. Bread and circuses sells quite nicely,
thankyouverymuch. The net corrosive impact on society might just be an
unfortunate externality. "We have met the enemy and he is us" and all that.
Or maybe someone wants to argue that ProPublica could actually beat TMZ’s user
metrics, but the only thing holding them back is a skewed playing field….
Eric
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Re: Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution
> On Jun 5, 2016, at 3:25 PM, nettime's consitutional hobbyist > wrote: > > Mexico is launching a big experiment in democracy that promises to turn > people’s ideas into the new law of the land. > > By Rafa Fernandez De Castro > http://fusion.net/story/298572/how-mexico-city-is-using-the-internet-to-crowdsource-its-new-constitution/ Because after all, direct democracy has a sterling track record of sensible and effective governance. Just look north to California. 'Proposition 13 changed political culture. Up to this point, the initiative process had been described as a “safety valve”. Now it became an industry and a circus' http://www.economist.com/node/18548109 (not that I have a better idea, but still…) Eric # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?
So I live in a very blue coastal state. Every couple months I manage to get up into the mountains. And every time I’ve been up there in the past couple years, I’ve passed a large truck in testing camouflage. It’s an autonomous truck, being run around and around and around the mountain to perfect self-driving technology. When that technology is perfected, that’s 3.5 million jobs at risk in the US alone. So that’s what I don’t get about the current discourse. Sure, we can and should acknowledge the glaring deficiencies of capitalism and find ways to change the system and to ameliorate the impact. But that’s not the whole picture. Pennsylvania steel mills didn’t go out of business in the 70s because of cheap Chinese steel, they went out of business because their mills weren’t competitive against small domestic mini-mills. Domestic auto manufacturing employment didn’t slump in the 80s just because Japanese cars were cheaper and better, it slumped because improving automation meant fewer workers were needed. And right now my company is busy working with machine learning technologies, which we have to acknowledge will be disruptive to a lot of white-collar positions vulnerable to AI-driven automation. This change has worked out well for us out on the coasts, but it sucks for my family members back in the Midwest who are living through the hollowing out of their communities due to globalization, automation, and the emergence of capital-dominant business models. We can’t just focus on the flaws of capitalism. To me, Trump’s election is Exhibit A in what we can expect if we don’t find a way to give people meaningful lives in an emerging world of automation owned by big capital. Maybe that’s Basic Income, maybe it’s something else we haven’t come up with yet. But the longer it takes, the more disruption we can expect in social and political realms when substantial swaths of the population continue to feel unmoored from their communities and themselves. Eric Eric Miller PRINCIPAL → SQUISHYMEDIA O: 503 488 5951 / M: 503 780 1847 / SQM.IO > On Nov 9, 2016, at 12:44 AM, Brian Holmes > wrote: > > Capitalism requires that everyone compare their earnings to your > neighbor's. But democratic capitalism demands at least some > redistribution, so that your neighbors do not become the object of > envy and hatred. What's more, democratic capitalism demands from > everyone some sense of higher mission, so that the competitors in the > struggle of all against all can at least temporarily forget the fire > of their competition. The Democratic Party has been unable to offer > either redistribution or a shared sense of purpose. They claimed > to support minorities, but they denied that support with their own > actions. Their strategy has been an abysmal failure. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: important announcement
I think this is awesome! Can’t wait to see how this takes Nettime in a new direction. Especially today. (insert amused emoji here) In all seriousness, is it really a bad idea to look at engaging on channels other than email? The young’uns don’t email. Facebook over SSL would arguably offer more privacy compared to email. I can’t imagine what Nettime would look like on Snapchat but I also don’t necessarily think it’s a bad idea to consider how Nettime’s comms footprint could evolve. Eric Eric Miller PRINCIPAL → SQUISHYMEDIA O: 503 488 5951 / M: 503 780 1847 / SQM.IO > On Apr 1, 2017, at 3:00 PM, nettime's_mod_squad wrote: > > Nettime now has a Facebook group: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/neime/ > <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: The age of Googlejugend ?
Kind of hard to make the argument that the foot soldiers are ???easier to indoctrinate and control??? then hold them personally responsible for the ramifications of their controller???s actions. ERIC MILLER PRINCIPAL ??? SQUISHYMEDIA O: 503 488 5951 M: 503 780 1847 On Jan 7, 2014, at 3:44 AM, Gando Antalcia wrote: > The workforce in Silicon Valley is extremely young. Coders, engineers, > product managers, marketing directors and other staff look like they > are coming from young adult fashion catalogs. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)
> The elephants in the room are the breaking of the unions (starting with > Reagan's breaking of the air-traffic controllers, a blow still being felt > both as implied threat and lowered safety of air travel in the us) In absolute numbers, fatalities have declined significantly since the strike in ’81. Proportionally, it’s even greater when considered in terms of fatalities per mile travelled. So if we’re going to accept a causal link between breaking the union and air traffic safety results, our conclusion must be “good thing Reagan broke PATCO.” Presumably, that’s not the conclusion to be drawn, though….correct? We just simply can’t blame union busting for technologically-driven reductions in the number of jobs. I don’t know that anyone on this list getting on a plane would prefer an ATC system without GPS and automation and collision avoidance systems, even though those systems cost some controllers their jobs. Eric # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nottime: the end of nettime
Thanks to Ted and Felix for all their effort over the years managing Nettime. And thanks to this community. I first subscribed in the late 90s during the height of the dot com boom here on the west coast. Nettime was a welcome counterpoint to the Wired magazine ethos of the era. This list is also how I learned about the work of David Garcia, which intrigued me, so I went to the Netherlands to study under him at HKU. And now, over 15 years later, I still find that the writing here provides insight I don???t get elsewhere in my firehose media diet. Thank you, all. Eric ERIC MILLER PRINCIPAL ??? SQUISHYMEDIA O: 503 488 5951 M: 503 780 1847 > On Mar 31, 2015, at 10:35 PM, nettime mod squad wrote: > So we've decided to fold up shop on 30 May, the day before the list would > turn twenty. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
