Re: Business techno & Detroit 313 list

2020-08-20 Thread Andrew Duke
Appreciated your thoughts, David and Kent. And, yes, very telling that here it is a couple of days and still only us 3 white men took the time to contribute. Poor wifi out in the country for a while helping my parents out so not able to be more responsive. Andrew On Wed., Aug. 19, 2020, 1:19 p.m.

Re: Business techno & Detroit 313 list

2020-08-19 Thread kent williams
Don't worry, the main grief-giver is gone, likely hunkered down in their Ypsi spite-bunker, telling anyone who'll listen how lame this e-mail list is. Frankie Hutchinson is right on, and more than just her words. The focus of Discwoman (on women/nonbinary/people of color) created careers for new,

Re: Business techno & Detroit 313 list

2020-08-18 Thread David A. Powers
Sorry, typo in there, I meant to say: "To what extent does the idea of individuals in competition itself always create a kind of pyramid shaped hierarchy where there are only a few winners at the top and everybody else ends up at the bottom? [How do we ]create a situation where there are more

Re: Business techno & Detroit 313 list

2020-08-18 Thread David A. Powers
Andrew: I don't think there are any easy answers to the problems this article brings up, and especially, these are problems that no individual can solve. They can only be solved by COLLECTIVE ACTION, something that is especially difficult during a pandemic. That means that those of us who really

Business techno & Detroit 313 list

2020-08-18 Thread Andrew Duke
[I am still shaking my head about the extended insanity that erupted on this list the last time I shared a link to dweller (their Juneteeth post compiling a listing of 60 articles related to techno's black history.) Not in a mood to be trifled with. Do some deep research before you give me grief