Nick White: Fwd: Class composition in black economies and the micro-contract e-lance phenomenon - network economies... ?: [...]
Jonathan Zittrain touched on some of these issues in a recent talk at the Berkman Centre; it's well worth listening to. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/02/22/jonathan-zittrain -minds-for-sale-2/
Nick

nettime's avid reader: Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites:
EFF Posts Documents Detailing Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites
Deeplink by Marcia Hofmann March 16th, 2010 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/eff-posts-documents-detailing-law- enforcement
EFF has posted documents shedding light on how law enforcement [...]

Alan Sondheim: Rachel:
Rachel
I sit down to read Rachel, Her Stage Life and Her Real Life, by Francis Gribble, 1911 - 90 years after Rachel's birth, fifty-three years after her death.
I stop. I can't go on. I don't know why I'm reading this. I feel in my bones - incessantly - that I'm close to death. [...]

dr.woooo: Fwd: Class composition in black economies and the micro-contract e-lance phenomenon - network economies... ?: Class composition in black economies. e-lancing and txting refugee workers...
Hello, I have been thinking about work-type trends, what I have clumsily tagged as http://delicious.com/dr.woooo/micro-contracts-beyond-temping
The e-lancing phenomenon, jobs like refugees being texting services [...]

dr.woooo: Fwd: Virtual Participation / Live Notes From Bolivia: Hi all,
There's some interesting progress on the idea of providing some kind of live notes from Bolivia and perhaps some form of two way communication. It appears it's definitely going to be happening in some form. There's a guy in Argentina on the case and somebody already [...]

Chad Scovi11e: Time and the Post-Information Age: Time and The Post-Information Age
March 2010
Chad Scoville
Technological innovation decimates the fuzzy myth of time. Higher levels of automation, media and communication equate to progressive levels of information. Humanity has surpassed the point of inundation; [...]

John Young: fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!): A good occasion to note that all Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are bogus -- terms of artifice to evade responsibility and in the worse cases subterfuges to covertly spy on citizenry and site visitors for commercial and authoritative purposes. All of them [...]

t byfield: fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!): Well done, Jamie.
I'm a bit chagrined at having read too much into it, of course, though not enough to feel the temptation (as you did hypothetico-vicariously- jokingly-etcly-etcly, apparently) to make out like I was somehow in on the secret. But that's less important than the 'fact' (because Clements said so!) that this thing turns out to be much more innocuous than I'd feared. Though 'art' that somehow manages to be innocuous yet (IMO) vaguely destructive at the same time is getting a bit tired and tiring. 'Overidentification,' meet Gaddis's _Recognitions_:
"If by any stretch of imagination I could accuse you of being literary, I might accuse you of sponsoring this illusion that one comes to grips with reality only through the commission of evil. It's all the rage."
A really neurotic discourse: OT1H to withdraw into a hypothetical realm in which an utterance is liberated by irony to mean anything or nothing (because it's said to be art), OT0H to compensate for this pantomime by striking ever-more grotesque postures. It isn't hard to see how or why ~actionist no-globos and their imagery (which is self-defined, right?) would be an attractive target for ideologically committed ironists. But we don't need to go that far, because even 'real petition services' -- pretty weak tea -- are too much. Or, in Clements's 'own' words, from the curious document "disclaimer.php" at repetitionr.com:
Repetitionr is an artwork by Les Liens Invisibles. The main
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Repetitionr in not connected in any way to any petition service, it just works as a petition software, but it grants the result generating fake identities.
< www.repetitionr.com/disclaimer.php>
(Nothing quite kills that ludic feeling than being told that someone wanted to inspire a ludic point of view in you, IMO. YMMV.)
It continues:
2. Terms of use
Repetitionr makes no claims that the Materials are appropriate for any particular purpose or audience. Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Materials. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.
We make every effort to ensure that individuals or groups hosting petitions at Repetitionr respect these Terms of Use. However, we cannot assume responsibility for any violations of these Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy by users. In the event of a concern that a petition host may have committed a violation, we encourage you to contact us directly. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY, ITS PARTNERS, OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO ANY USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR LOST PROFITS) RESULTING FROM VIOLATIONS OF TERMS OF USE ARISING FROM YOUR PETITION, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE COMPANY IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
3. Warranty
WE TRY TO KEEP REPETITIONR UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING REPETITIONR &quot;AS IS&quot; WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT REPETITIONR WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. REPETITIONR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION, DATA OF THIRD PARTIES.
So much for irony or 'ludism.' It looks like Arolfini and Clements themselves *know* the law trumps aesthetic blabla. Maybe that's because the law actually means what it says.
But, yeah, still, sloppy of me to miss the Arnolfini stamp.
Cheers, T
jamie at jamie.com (Fri 03/12/10 at 10:56 AM +0100):
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jamie king: fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!): ... or it could an arrrrrrt project :)
Just saying... being a bit jealous of Ted's sleuthing (seriously, why do I never think of doing things like this instead of -- for exampleOnly two such contexts resulted. One is really more of an academic pun and I won't bother you with it. [...]

t byfield: fun with ACTA astrohoovering (was Re: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!): richard.deboer at xs4all.nl (Wed 03/10/10 at 06:19 PM +0100):
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You're far too kind. "Notworking Youth's" timing couldn't be better: they denounced the EP right before it voted against ACTA 663-13 -- and NWY did so as "digital natives [and] web-enthusiasts" (WTF? [...]

Flick Harrison: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!: From my unpublished novel,
Home is in the Hard Drive. (publish it, someone!)
"The other students scurried out behind Mikil, looking for a private place to jack into the nets. Time to start speculating, sharing info, looking for the openings. A blow against nature. It sounded epic. [...]

Alan Sondheim: cull, culling cull (oud, strategy of poetics/poetry-poet):
cull, culling cull (oud, strategy of poetics/poetry-poet)
http://www.alansondheim.org/ound0.mp3 (played with risha* 1st time) http://www.alansondheim.org/ound2.mp3 (played with risha* 2nd time) http://www.alansondheim.org/ound1.mp3 culling sound from everything i know on oud: "if you are going to listen to one oud piece tonight, either of the first two are the one oud piece you should listen to." * risha = pick; these are made from plastic straps from a construction site.
cull, culling cull
world picture culled from internet text sat dec 26 01:11:02 est 2009 - editing or culling into the texts i wrote - and i've been meaning to write this for a long time, culling the words, that they represent, as processes or cullings of unbounded universes, dojoji has disappeared, culling dead texts, the results of culling 'deconstruction' from the internet text: this text is culled from an outline of current work prepared for my _renitency,_ caught culling their dreams, drawn down their drowning, culled from other things, blocks are taken out - sequences culling, (from past sins) culling nothing, i remained shaken but alive, culling online offline until real or virtual disappearance, culling shadow as well as that of others or textus vitual virtualis editing or culling into the texts i wrote - first assembled into files, hands, my hands, my book, culled from these texts, and i'm tired of this. it doesn't make any sense, culling from the lost, everything and nothing escaping wryting without conclusion, culling meaning, culling in the fields of desire, culling 'existentialism' from the internet text, a phenomenology of analog and digital, culled from poetics if not poetry itself, in-formed by _culling,_ Ah! ripples in forgotten corners of the universe - culled work emerging, texts culled from my everything; my commanding, perhaps grep -h cull
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Richard de Boer: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!: NotWorking Youth declaimed:
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So, instead of demanding immediate termination of intransparant institutions like the European Council of Ministers, the European Commission or one of its Directorates-Generale, some shady backdoor lobby or working group, the armchair anarcho-activists focus their anger on one of the very few democratic control mechanisms we have on a European level.
Interesting contrast #1. Representational democracy is declared dead for the umpteenth time while the European Parliament today demonstrated what it can mean for the internet by massively voting against the secretive anti-piracy treaty known as ACTA: http://bit.ly/9M1ABK
Interesting contrast #2: Some 2,500 people support the demand to shut down the EP, while some 1,266,000 people support the demand to shut down only the Strasbourg location of the EP: http://www.europafederalisterna.se/oneseat/
But then again, as oligarchs would say, who cares for majorities when representational democracy is dead anyway.
Cheers Richard

Tjebbe van Tijen: Radovan Karadzic & Saddam Hussein and the advantage of slow justice: Limping Messenger/De Hinkende Bode
http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/radovan-karadzic-saddam-hussein-and-the-advantage-of-slow-justice/
Radovan Karadzic & Saddam Hussein and the advantage of slow justice March 10, 2010 by Tjebbe van Tijen | [...]

NotWorking Youth: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!: Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now!
http://www.internetfordemocracy.net http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/sign.php http://www.internetfordemocracy.net/petition.php
"Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It's called Democracy. [...]

Michael H Goldhaber: A scenario for World War III: [...]
At least dating back to Vietnam, the main justification for ongoing American Wars have been the necessity of "supporting our troops," and not wasting the lives that have already been lost. Doing that with robots alone seems fairly difficult, and the robots are not, as yet, cheap. [...]

Bruce Sterling: Victims to their own volatile intent: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/formalnotation.pdf
1 Digital / Media Art and the Need for a Formal Notation System
Digital and media art forms include Internet art, software art, computer-mediated installations, as well as other non-traditional art forms such as conceptual art, [...]

Keith Hart: A scenario digest [Rob Myers, Heiko Recktenwald, John Hopkins]: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: multipart/alternative Size: 996 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.kein.org/pipermail/nettime-l/attachments/20100308/a8132c5a/attachment.bin

nettime's dr doom: A scenario digest [Rob Myers, Heiko Recktenwald, John Hopkins]:
From: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> Subject: Re: <nettime> A scenario for World War III Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:22:59 +0000 To: nettime-l at kein.org
On 05/03/10 10:52, Keith Hart wrote:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_2000#Original_setting [...]

Jeebesh: Trickster City / Authors Launch text: dear all,
enclosed is the authors intro text on the launch of the book Trickster City : Writings from the belly of a metropolis. (Penguin, 2010). The authors shared their thoughts on writing and the city during the launch of the book. Here is the english translation.
happy reading. [...]