On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 01:21:54PM +0100, Stefan Heidenreich wrote:
I invite Stefan to explain what he suggests we should do instead.
nothing.
Let people make their own judgement and cite whomever they want to cite.
And by all means complain when someone provides additional context.
--
José
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:00:44AM +0200, Felix Stalder wrote:
apps etc are more or less the same than five years ago. In response,
lots of VC-capital is funding blockchain technologies, which, so far,
have proven completely useless. A real dead-end.
They're very good for scamming people,
On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:15:37AM -0400, charlie derr wrote:
However, what i found is
https://seclists.org/interesting-people/
and while there are archives available (and an RSS feed), i can't see
how i might add my email address to the recipient list. Perchance does
anyone have any direction
Hi,
This might be of interest to members of the list. I've attended a few of
these virtual encounters and they're very, very interesting.
I'm currently enjoying "ReadMe!" and many of the discussions there could
have been chapters of the book. One thing is what's planned, another
what ends
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:50:44PM +0100, Felix Stalder wrote:
David,
thanks for pointing this out. Quite strange, because this is the same
person from bellingcat who shared the text in the first place,
including some background how he checked the authenticity. Now he does
not even mention
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 10:22:37AM +, Andre Rangel wrote:
Hi Alex,
Thank you for your text. Just a minor correction.
Unfortunately. In Portugal, the extreme right “Chega” was the third most voted
in the last election (7.15% of the votes). In Spain Vox is the political
umbrela for
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 11:45:43AM +, David Garcia wrote:
.. The commodification of ignorance ..
Missing from your message (but implicit in the contents) is the name for
this phenomenon: agnotology. Wikipedia gives a good introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
Cheers,
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:48:33AM +0100, Felix Stalder wrote:
Amazingly, the book is still in print and can be ordered via the
Autonomedia website.
https://autonomedia.org/product/read-me/
Yep, thanks a lot. Brian contacted me off-list yesterday with that link
and I've already ordered a
On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 07:10:12PM +0100, Felix Stalder wrote:
people are desperate. In the 1999 nettime reader, there is an account
of the Albanian pyramid scheme which brought the country to the brink
of collapse.
SUBJECT: PYRAMID SCHEMES:
ALBANIA 1996–98
FROM: GENC GREVA
DATE: WED, 30 SEP
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 05:44:23PM +0100, Bruce Sterling wrote:
Do you believe that? Or are you one of those people who think the
blockchain and crypto boom is just a massive, decade-long fraud—the
bastard child of the Dutch tulip bubble, Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme,
and the wackier reaches
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 12:50:52PM -0500, Brian Holmes wrote:
political-economic curves. There's a democratic pathway toward just
transition, which demands a break with the industrial power structure and a
willingness to spend time and resources - including your own time and
resources, right now
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 06:13:30PM -0400, tbyfield wrote:
> As a rule, we discourage bare URLs on nettime, but with this one there's no
> other way:
>
> https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Based on the page contents, what happened is that there was no Bitcoin.
Also, they live in the same month
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:29:27PM +0100, olivier auber wrote:
I'm still on FB to increase #MyFacebookInvoice
Olivier Auber
BTW, I wonder why this campaign got quite a big success in european media
but not a word in US ones...
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:28:01AM -0600, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists,
environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on
Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this
"social" (?) network.
On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 10:51:08AM +0200, Felix Stalder wrote:
For me, the benefits have decreased, but are they close enough to zero?
What could be done to increase them? What would constitute a benefit,
and to whom?
I don't think anything can be done to increase the benefits, other than
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 05:15:38PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> A comprehensive Italian study "The Political Legacy
> of Entertainment TV" came out recently (available at
> https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20150958 ), providing
> compelling evidence that TV exposure in young age
A good write up of the 737 Max fiasco, which has popped up here
recently.
Cheers,
- Forwarded message from Dave Farber -
Subject: [IP] 737Max issues, breakdown and analysis
From: Dave Farber
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:37:07 +0900
To: ip
Reply-To: far...@gmail.com
Distinguished
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 11:04:37AM +0200, Keith Hart wrote:
> Thanks for the Current Affairs article, Andre, and for your commentary,
> Brian. I subscribe to CA, like it and this particular article. Your post
> led me to share it with a friend in Rio. Here is his response:
Very similar reasoning
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:30:56PM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
> *Note: */This is a review of Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley. I
> did not buy this book on Amazon, and if, after reading this post, you
> consider buying it, I strongly urge you not to buy it on Amazon.
> Amazon is a proprietary
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 11:52:45AM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
Just by looking at the Athalye et. al. turtle, you can see that the
system associates rifles with the texture of polished wood. And indeed
when you look in the ImageNet rifle category you see a lot of wood,
not only in the guns
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:05:22PM -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Longer version and remarks: current ML systems appear to be linear, so
it's possible to synthesize diversions even without knowing how a
particular system works. Systems can be fooled to miscatergorize visual
images (turtle gets
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 07:33:51AM +0200, Patrice Riemens wrote:
surveillance technology. Helicopters are permanently “parked” in the
clouds, so the sound of their rotors becomes a sort of background music
you soon stop noticing. Perpetual police and ambulance sirens,
In Madrid, around 2011,
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:48:02PM +0100, Richard Barbrook wrote:
>The City boys in the pub last night said that the banks are warning
>their employees that their jobs will be relocated to Frankfurt or
>Dublin if Brexit ever happens for real ...
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