Rampant hypocrisy aside, it's interesting to note that regulating MAGAf
would result in the almost exact "chinese" model as it is today. Which
may explain the rabid opposition to it from the surveillance-industrial
complex.
For those that didn't pay attention, what Huawei is accused of was
Is there some small country Spain can engage in a war with? That would
work for all parties involved.
On 10/6/17, 10:08, chml wrote:
So...let's say, this is like House of Cards, but real. It's disgusting,
but it is like this. This situation led to an unprecedented polarization
in wich (like in
The point is that it does take place, and that it places severe
constraints on the organization that suffers from it. Whether the
celeb-status is sought as a reward or loathed does not make any
difference. Celeb-status creates a vulnerable focus point for the
organization.
In today's
Kudos to JY for discovering this, an unwritten mission statement for
nettime :)
https://consentfactory.org/2016/05/01/how-to-herd-your-potential-critics-into-fake-communities-and-waste-their-time-part-1/
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We can add this (pretty good) description of the dismal state of
affairs to the growing collection. The previous ones did not do us
much good, but one can always hope.
It seems that at the core of these issues are two very different time
constants.
One is very short, and describes the time
One interesting aspect about stylometry and its counter-measures, is
that it appears possible to use counter-measures as the noise channel
for steganography.
In other words, instead of positioning oneself randomly within the crowd
for each text (which is what, for example, Anonymouth does),
My limited exposure to Anonymouth was in 2013 - presentation, brief
contact with Rachel Greenstadt, look at the published code, and few
experiments. The conclusion was that stylometry works and it is very
hard, if not impossible, to counter it without help of machines. Style
goes deep. As a
These are connected, however unpalatable it sounds. The single
prevailing reason for the mass people movements, voluntary or
involuntary, in the last few centuries, since governments had solid
means of closing the borders, is to lower the local wages and increase
profits, thus the local
Is there evidence for this? Any existing service where users pay
curators for links/search results?
On 5/22/16, 23:48, Jaromil wrote:
but then why not simply release the archive
in a torrent file? nowadays curatorial activities
take place also within private trackers and there
more people
Maybe I'm missing something, but exchanging some gold (or BC) for some
oranges or sex does not create a debt relationship. It's unclear how
possessing an asset implies debt.
Debt can exist without any obvious exchange medium in sight. You can owe
somebody oranges, sex, or diamonds. Some of
If the currency is inflationary, then it's useless as a vehicle for
savings, leaving only local-force-monopoly-backed notion of "property"
as the savings method. If it is not global, it's useless outside the
local fiefdom and subject to whims of the local government.
The above has been
To enumerate what we know about the unknowable future shifts:
1. The change will not happen by violently interacting with keyboards,
touchscreens and displays;
2. The change will not happen by violently interacting with others on
the street.
What envisionable venues does this leave
The widespread imposed or voluntarily adopted anonymous (or not so
anonymous) ideologies, that facilitate the demise of their believers,
are hardly a new phenomenon. Expecting that naming them is going to
change anything is a fallacy.
The current predicament is exactly this - assumption that
If "community" means 100-200 people, the size of clan/tribe that
persisted long enough for brains to get hardwired to it, there is no
need for any technology. Everyone knows everything that needs to be
known about everyone.
Beyond this size, some technology is required, and today that means
It is hard on Android and very hard on iOS to have a handset receive
unsolicited messages, which is the only way to avoid centralized
servers, even the rendezvous-only ones. This is by design. Tor is not
the solution because the number of exit nodes is many orders of
magnitude lower than the
Open or closed software doesn't make much difference, it's all about
data. An operator cannot 'open' data (like in letting everyone know
what the data and its derivatives are) without factoring itself out
of the business. On the other hand, there are (yet) no signs that
consumers will stop
Open or closed software doesn't make much difference, it's all about
data. An operator cannot 'open' data (like in letting everyone know
what the data and its derivatives are) without factoring itself out
of the business. On the other hand, there are (yet) no signs that
consumers will stop
The question is, does it matter at all?
The degree of mind-engagement is irrelevant if not properly coupled with
feet-engagement.
In other words, whatever you do with your fingers touching plastic
surfaces and your eyes scanning electronic screens, your brain
constructing fantastic models
It should be noted that blockchain/bitcoin are inherently fascist - they
blindly enforce the majority rule. Plus, this majority is not really the
majority, as it is represented by less than ten (9, I think) privately
operated minting outfits.
Technology is the message.
What is funny about
Looks like another in the series of endless surprises that precarity is
not just for the poor. Tune in 'first they came for ...',
>Can we make sense of the Malheur mess?
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The trend(s) that Europe is seeing itself dragged to are not result of
'wrong' thinking and misbehaviour of supposedly powerful masses. They
are the result of material circumstances, and no amount of magical
(group)thinking will change that.
Material circumstances are mostly related to
> I think you are overrating technologies of control, neither the Stasi
> nor the KGB could save their systems from collapse (though the ruined
> a lot of lives).
I think that the conclusion that nothing really changed and that power
grabbing and re-grabbing mechanisms are the same as they
Well, it started as elite platform (one needed computer, modem, access,
time, IQ), unregulated, then it was commercialized, commoditized, masses
came in, and finally it got heavily regulated. Compare with European
conquest of North America. Looks like 'space'.
On 2/9/16, 11:05, Florian Cramer
The capital of the notion of something being 'legal' is wearing thin.
It's interesting to observe what will replace it - make no mistake, the
working system will pop up, so that the business can go on, and it won't
be something simple as ad-hoc brute force threats.
I guess that a
Here (
https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
) is a proper requiem for Bitcoin, written by the insider:
...
Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed.
What was meant to be a new, decentralized form of money that lacked
So you will keep and feed your own poet in your basement?
Or is he going to be paid by the enlightened government?
Or we'll just have to do with:
- the already existing poetry?
- bad poetry by Uber drivers written in their spare time?
- free propaganda poetry funded by various parties?
Pick
This reminds of sentiments of small software publishers in the 90s (but
they used to express themselves in more colorful ways.) Ease of copying
killed the cottage software industry (only the big 5 survived), and it's
only now slightly recovering due to proprietary appstore/device platforms.
Would it be possible, for those who don't want their names ending on
TWTR disks, to have a Subject: tag that bypasses the bot - for example
"MO:" (mail only), like in:
MO: Re: introducing @nettime_bot
Alternative to the full bypass would be omitting [Sender] field.
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The idea of opening
This is obviously an engineered backlash on the pot culture, as THC
makes you lose short term memories and dissolves the Now. I wonder what
happens to Facebook products when they get high on pot ... what's left?
On 12/24/15 10:12 , nettime's_about_face wrote:
and negotiate it for search and
Equating 'freedom' with 'right' to consume unpaid commercial content was
the biggest meme hijack of the decade. It reminds of the sinister side
of some hippie communities, where 'free love' was used to excuse rape.
The worst part is that 'free' re-distribution of the commercial content
causes
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This concern also applies to other lowly workers in data mining
industries (which is really the only thing going on in
This concern also applies to other lowly workers in data mining
industries (which is really the only thing going on in data centers today.)
Colocations (one 'l') are cold, noisy, often locked down to the point
where one needs an escort to go pee, there are surveillance cameras all
around the
Compared to the trust in traditional currencies, the trust in Bitcoin is
in the fanaticism end of the scale, due to the simple math - how much
does it cost to subvert a currency:
Traditional currencies, operated by the state-size actors, lose value
when the state's economy and the state
IaaS indeed. Technology is the cause of everything, ideology is there
to explain it.
By 'technology' I didn't really mean things that happened in the
last 10-20 years. The only recent developments of significance are
establishment of vigorous keyboard punching as effective honeytrap
for
IPv4 is here to stay. The first consumer that gets IPv6-only line from
ISP will find out that he/she cannot visit sites that did not convert to
IPv6, and that would be the end of business for that ISP. This means
that all servers that this consumer needs will have to convert *first*
to IPv6,
It's all about the economy, stupid, and the end game is straightforward:
1. All databases will be public
When there is more than N records on one machine, and the cost of a
breach is less than the value of each record times N, then records will
grow legs. Looking at pricing trends for 0days
Consumers have been at the mercy of technology vendors for a long time.
The novelty here is that it is the government that found itself in the
subordinate role.
The lowdown is that the technology one doesn't fully understand and have
full transparency into ("user") can and will screw you, and
I was present when people with pointy ears entered IETF meetings and
ordered this. Is this the answer you expect?
Perhaps search engines can provide better answers. Worth trying:
ex. http://www.quora.com/Why-is-ADSL-asymmetric
Without getting in codecs and frequency allocations, consider that
Exonerating makers of malicious tools because they did it only for the
irresistible appeal of money (as opposed to being inherently evil and
wanted to screw activists) is ridiculous. They knew exactly what they
were doing. Just following orders is not a valid defense, for some time now.
Isn't the biggest fear of all that it won't, and that Greece and Greek
will continue to exist in relative order? To ensure that such
catastrophe does not happen, chaos must be created by any means.
On 6/28/15 1:06 , Felix Stalder wrote:
If Greece is being pushed into the wilderness outside the
To state the obvious, non-commercial and detached moderation is valuable
and sought after, and cannot be bought.
The reward chain is obviously broken, as all moderators get is some
amount of unsaid appreciation from several hundred people around the
world. I guess it may feel unreal - nothing
One of definitions of kitsch is that it shifts the focus from the object
to both the subject and subject's peers. Emotions are triggered because
it's so nice to have those emotions, and because it's so nice to have
the same emotions others will also have - fuzzy ad nauseam. The object
itself
Look what you've done - now everyone is going to try this!
On 2/5/15, 12:47, Flick Harrison wrote:
money taken from the mouths of babes
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This is exactly the issue - the (assumed) need for interpretation.
If there is a small number of potential interpreters who really
understand issues (1 in 1000?), and even smaller number among those who
are willing to interpret to the public for altruistic reasons (1 in
1,000,000?), then it
The nature of political challenges has changed *due* to the
technology, and there is no way to enroll the unwashed into the action
without understanding the said technology.
In 19th and 20th century it was relatively easy to explain issues and
causes - the rich get all the pussy and power,
The main cognitive dissonance here is in the (implied) claim that
creativity should be rewarded by the prevailing (capitalist) system
currencies.
Remove that requirement, and suddenly everything works like a charm !
On 11/19/14, 22:46, Geert Lovink wrote:
artists can only participate if
The problem is more fundamental, but was encountered before: literacy.
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illiteracy_france.png
- we're somewhere in the computer literacy where France was in the
traditional literacy in early 1700s. And it will probably take us as
long to get
This is not a change in the production pipeline - the product was always
the same.
The change is in the demand - the herd of independent thinkers is no
longer being *paid* for the product (through tenures, foundations,
royalties), as that particular venting method became obsolete. There are
We should not. The average nettimer earns 3x more than the average SF
evictee, and we like it that way.
Now back to the noble cause of helping the poor ...
Should we not be more concerned with the classic issues of wealth and
income distribution and Piketty's extremely vaiid point that Europe
This is a slippery slope.
What is natural about diversity, or letting the poor live?
Nothing natural about capitalism!
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Just doing a survey on a startup idea:
Would you use a free condom with BT IPV6 address ?
Totally free.
On 3/25/14 19:58 , John Hopkins wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/
Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red
Herring
This seems like beneficial evolution from central authority to multiple
authorities, and in the future probably to the truly decentralized
personal level, as technology advancements begin to support smaller
entities controlling their own namespaces and the routing.
The Internet was never like
I find this crass anthropocentric approach to be unworthy of this
list.
These chauvinists draw an arbitrary line in the past when the air
was good and water unpolluted, and then scream about pollution
and exhaustion of the natural resources.
What a BS. I didn't notice any matter destroyed in
One of the hardest things with machines is to generate sufficient
unpredictability, to create good encryption keys or quality simulations.
Randomness is hard to come by, for computers. Usually this is done by
listening to the supposed outside world, network interrupts, A/D noise,
disk seek
This is not the problem, but it would be interesting to see who is
behind declaring this to be a problem (or perhaps journalistic
incompetence is indistinguishable from malice).
A cursory search on de-identifying will provide insights about
technologies that have been around and have been
Where is the evidence that the present situation is not stable?
The caste systems - and we do live in one - have been known to endure
for centuries (compared to them, egalitarian societies are ephemeral
flashes.) The steep pyramid of ruling class/praetorian guard/token
citizenry/rabble
Maybe we should look at the demand side for answers.
This recruitment of gargoyles could be another attempt to create content
surrogates. Looks similar to taping of video game walkthroughs, where
hapless game consumers are compelled to record their 'experiences' and
show them to the world.
The real problem is quantifying the consequences, the danger and
negative outcomes of the surveillance.
Why is surveillance bad? How does it affect one's life in unambiguous
terms? What really happens to the victims of surveillance?
Do they get less income/benefits in the future?
Do they buy
This realization per se is pretty much useless, as are endless
ruminations regarding how free we were, once upon time. The old Marxist
postulate that awareness will save the species is blatantly false - look
around you.
These technologies came to rule the world because their proponents made
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