Re: Oliver Leistert: "Blockcian as a Modulator of Existence"

2018-03-21 Thread oli
maybe it takes only five years that blckchain control becomes the reality i worte about in my text, not ten: https://www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/crypto-anchors-and-blockchain/ "Within the next five years, cryptographic anchors and blockchain technology will ensure a product’s authenticity -- from

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread jhopk...@neoscenes.net
Geert - no need to conspire -- simple action suffices ... the most powerful act is to identify the communications protocols one is using, and identify who owns (or controls) those protocols, and stop using the ones that are harvesting your attention in the form of your life-time and your life-en

Re: accelerating eats the world

2018-03-21 Thread Carsten Agger
On 03/21/2018 07:36 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: It doesn't seem likely that the Chinese (4 mints in China mainland control 50+% of the hash power) will agree to such fork (even if it is technically feasible, which I doubt), that is capable of removing arbitrary transactions in the past - that wo

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread carlo von lynX
Could somebody please tell journalists and politicians that this isn't the first time manipulation happens with the help of Facebook? https://theintercept.com/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands/ On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:47:32PM +0100, Geert Lovink wrote: > Is it an idea to organize a t

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread John Haltiwanger
That implies that we do not have any legal standing to launch a lawsuit over a delete button that does nothing of the sort. It's also a tool whose existence does not preclude deleting the account. I've designed it around my own use case, however: leaving FB as a social network (quite visibly so, I

Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread John Haltiwanger
The software I hinted at at the end of my performance at Unlike Us ( https://vimeo.com/51366449) is more or less ready. The idea is to remove all the activity from your timeline (backing up what it can along the way), but to keep the FB account open so that you can have a single post: the details

In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm

2018-03-21 Thread Geert Lovink
Dear nettimers, I know, this is (not) the time for us to speak up… The CA events are taking over, mainstream media are publishing one strange message after the after—and the activists shut their mouth, thinking: I told you so a trillion years ago... What’s do be done? We discussed that question

Re: accelerating eats the world

2018-03-21 Thread Morlock Elloi
It doesn't seem likely that the Chinese (4 mints in China mainland control 50+% of the hash power) will agree to such fork (even if it is technically feasible, which I doubt), that is capable of removing arbitrary transactions in the past - that would make everyone unsafe (like while the legisl

Algorithmic Sovereignty

2018-03-21 Thread Jaromil
dear nettimers, here my sign of life from Academistan: my doctoral thesis, finally awarded after years of hard and joyous work, definitely unusual and as practice based as it can be, is out. Please note this work is dedicated to the memory of my professor Antonio Caronia who guided me through al

Re: accelerating eats the world

2018-03-21 Thread Carsten Agger
On 20-03-2018 22:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: Heavy involvement of technology in social interactions keeps producing new challenges, that someone needs to deal with. That someone is getting more and more busy. The latest event is discovery that someone was/is burning child pornography into ...