> The ability to understand what is inscribed in such algorithms, what are
the consequences of their execution and what is the agency left for the
living world is crucial.
Congratulations Jaromil. Your point "what is the agency left for the
living" will increasingly be more important. Looking forw
unDear nettimers,
And what about a life without 'social' media? - and hence without
'discussions' about 'social media'?
Ciaoui, p+7D!
("Actionism - the infantile malady of activism")
On 2018-03-21 19:47, Geert Lovink wrote:
Dear nettimers,
I know, this is (not) the time for us to speak up…
Group return didn't work and send my post into the nettime walhalla ...
Original Message
Subject: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm
Date: 2018-03-22 17:10
From: Patrice Riemens
To: Geert Lovink
Cc: a moderated mailing list for net criticism
unDear nettimers,
> From: olia lialina
> Subject: Re: In the eye of the Cambridge Analytica storm
> Date: 22 March 2018 5:18:07 pm GMT+1
> To: Geert Lovink
> hi!
>
> i wanted to answer to the list, but as it seems i am blocked on nettime, so i
> answer to you :)
> Apropos "trillion years ago" and Unlike Us <--
Twitter thread from GOOGL ML employee:
François Chollet
The world is being shaped in large part by two long-time trends: first,
our lives are increasingly dematerialized, consisting of consuming and
generating information online, both at work and at home. Second, AI is
getting ever smarter.
Before the Internet, people used to read papers aligned with their
ideology. Just by looking at the paper selection you could tell who you
are dealing with. The more eclectic ones would read several papers,
which was the whole point of the 'free press'.
There is absolutely nothing preventing (
Some of you may be interested in this profile of Qian Xuesen and his
influence/leadership in the Chinese military-industrial complex: a bit of
Chinese systems thinking:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/revered-rocket-scientist-set-motion-china-s-mass-surveillance-its-citizens
JH
--
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here in bombay, no-one cares about the cambridge analytica storm.
there's wind from the east, an unprecedented heatwave, the aadhar
cyclone, and a series of savage social media shitstorms that just
doesn't want to end. south asia's largest garbage dump (deonar),
however, is currently not on fire, a
