Updates tagged with sources on GNU social JP!
simsa03: George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia. #sources
simsa03's status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 12:33:54 JST
George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia. sources
simsa03: https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/the-trump-netanyahu-tightrope This is a stellar interview with former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, and Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. and Israel in the current war with Iran. Recommended. #sources
simsa03's status on Monday, 25-May-2026 04:34:44 JST
https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/the-trump-netanyahu-tightrope This is a stellar interview with former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, and Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. and Israel in the current war with Iran. Recommended. sources
simsa03: i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 03:23:14 JST
i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) sources
i24NEWS - Breaking news from the Middle East, Israel and around the world
simsa03: Historical knowledge repositories und encyclopaedias https://enzyklothek.de/en A database of facsimiles! #sources
simsa03's status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2026 10:22:48 JST
Historical knowledge repositories und encyclopaedias https://enzyklothek.de/en A database of facsimiles! sources
ENZYKLOTHEK | Historical Knowledge Repositories
Nonilex: …Even if there is no incriminating evidence in the files, an extensive case file could contain revealing & personal details about #EricSwalwell & his campaign operations.The lengths that Patel’s circle is going to in the bid to pursue a political foe of #Trump has raised alarms within the #FBI, where some ofcls fear that releasing the files—even with redactions—could compromise law enforcement #sources & investigatory #methods, making it harder for the FBI to gain trust with witnesses.#law
Nonilex's status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2026 05:54:44 JST
…Even if there is no incriminating evidence in the files, an extensive case file could contain revealing & personal details about #EricSwalwell & his campaign operations. The lengths that Patel’s circle is going to in the bid to pursue a political foe of #Trump has raised alarms within the #FBI, where some ofcls fear that releasing the files—even with redactions—could compromise law enforcement #sources & investigatory #methods, making it harder for the FBI to gain trust with witnesses. #law
simsa03: Only now did I notice: "The Israel National Archaeological Database" https://discover.iaa.org.il/ #sources #archeology #archaeology https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/45cf0b6eb0c6564aba0875cc14ff5f2142759dffa99c06d998bbe5a9b284025f/view
simsa03's status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:04:48 JST
Only now did I notice: "The Israel National Archaeological Database" https://discover.iaa.org.il/ sources #archeology #archaeology https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/45cf0b6eb0c6564aba0875cc14ff5f2142759dffa99c06d998bbe5a9b284025f/view
Nonilex: A federal judge in Virginia rejected DOJ’s request to search through a #WashingtonPost reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security #leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search. The Tuesday ruling suggested that Magistrate Judge William Porter did not trust the #Trump admin to conduct a narrow search of the devices & feared that such an examination could risk exposing more than 1,000 of the reporter’s govt #sources to the #DOJ.
Nonilex's status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 09:08:34 JST
A federal judge in Virginia rejected DOJ’s request to search through a #WashingtonPost reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security #leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search. The Tuesday ruling suggested that Magistrate Judge William Porter did not trust the #Trump admin to conduct a narrow search of the devices & feared that such an examination could risk exposing more than 1,000 of the reporter’s govt #sources to the #DOJ.
simsa03: Jonathan Watts, "Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/economic-growth-no-longer-linked-to-carbon-emissions-in-most-of-the-world-study-finds That seems to refute 1) "No infinite growth on a finite planet" 2) the claim of Degrowth that only a reduction of production and consumption can cut CEs. Interesting. #energy #infrastructure #postdoom #sources
simsa03's status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 18:59:26 JST
Jonathan Watts, "Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/economic-growth-no-longer-linked-to-carbon-emissions-in-most-of-the-world-study-finds That seems to refute 1) "No infinite growth on a finite planet" 2) the claim of Degrowth that only a reduction of production and consumption can cut CEs. Interesting. energy #infrastructure #postdoom #sources
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
simsa03: John Kemp has published his 2025 reading list of books and articles on #energy, #infrastructure, and history https://jkempenergy.com/favourite-reads/ #sources
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 09:27:02 JST
John Kemp has published his 2025 reading list of books and articles on #energy, #infrastructure, and history https://jkempenergy.com/favourite-reads/ sources
simsa03: Oh, a new book by John Bellamy Foster (author of "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth"): "Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" (2025) monthlyreview.org/9781685901233/ #sources https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1eeba40c0125c28831b90f9cbb20496c5f8b0f51f9ba1fb6b183cbf389abe9da/view
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 08:38:29 JST
Oh, a new book by John Bellamy Foster (author of "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth"): "Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" (2025) monthlyreview.org/9781685901233/ #sources https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1eeba40c0125c28831b90f9cbb20496c5f8b0f51f9ba1fb6b183cbf389abe9da/view
simsa03: Hannah Hindley, "University of Arizona astronomer develops novel method to make AI more trustworthy" https://news.arizona.edu/news/university-arizona-astronomer-develops-novel-method-make-ai-more-trustworthy #sources !reading
simsa03's status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 21:59:08 JST
Hannah Hindley, "University of Arizona astronomer develops novel method to make AI more trustworthy" https://news.arizona.edu/news/university-arizona-astronomer-develops-novel-method-make-ai-more-trustworthy #sources !reading
University of Arizona astronomer develops novel method to make AI more trustworthy
simsa03: Sergei Chekanov, "Top 6 Wikipedia Alternatives You Should Know About in 2025" https://jwork.org/home/top-6-wikipedia-alternatives-you-should-know-about-in-2025 Helpful info on (more or less) general topics encyclopedias with free access. #sources
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 02:09:28 JST
Sergei Chekanov, "Top 6 Wikipedia Alternatives You Should Know About in 2025" https://jwork.org/home/top-6-wikipedia-alternatives-you-should-know-about-in-2025 Helpful info on (more or less) general topics encyclopedias with free access. #sources
simsa03: Mir Faizal et al., "Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything" https://jhap.du.ac.ir/article_488.html Exciting! But just because the universe is proven not to be a simulation doesn't mean that the universe is real or that it is proven to be real. ;-) «Physically these Gödel sentences correspond to empirically meaningful facts—e.g., specific black‑hole microstates—that elude any finite, rule‑based derivation. Gödel’s second theorem deepens the impasse: the self‑referential consistency statement Con(FQG) ≡ ¬ ProvΣQG (⊥) cannot itself be proved by FQG without contradiction [41,42]. A purely computational theory of everything would therefore not be able to establish its own internal soundness.» «The claim that our universe is itself a computer simulation has been advanced in several forms, from Bostrom’s statistical “trilemma’’ [85] to more recent analyses by Chalmers [86] and Deutsch [87]. These proposals assume that every physical truth is reducible to the output of a finite algorithm executed on a sufficiently powerful substrate. Yet this assumption tacitly identifies the full physical theory with its computable slice FQG. Our framework separates the computable fragment FQG from the non-algorithmic meta-layer MToE. Because MToE contains an external truth predicate T (x) that by construction escapes formal verification, any finite algorithm can at best emulate FQG while systemat-ically omitting the meta-theoretic truths enforced by T (x). Consequently, no simulation could in principle reproduce what would otherwise be the full underyling structure of the physics of our universe. Our analysis instead suggests that genuine physical reality embeds non-computational content that cannot be instantiated on a Turing-equivalent device. Since it is impossible to simulate a complete and consistent universe, our universe is definitely not a simulation. As the universe is produced by MToE, the simulation hypothesis is logically impossible rather than merely implausible.» #sources
simsa03's status on Sunday, 02-Nov-2025 02:01:46 JST
Mir Faizal et al., "Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything" https://jhap.du.ac.ir/article_488.html Exciting! But just because the universe is proven not to be a simulation doesn't mean that the universe is real or that it is proven to be real. ;-) «Physically these Gödel sentences correspond to empirically meaningful facts—e.g., specific black‑hole microstates—that elude any finite, rule‑based derivation. Gödel’s second theorem deepens the impasse: the self‑referential consistency statement Con(FQG) ≡ ¬ ProvΣQG (⊥) cannot itself be proved by FQG without contradiction [41,42]. A purely computational theory of everything would therefore not be able to establish its own internal soundness.» «The claim that our universe is itself a computer simulation has been advanced in several forms, from Bostrom’s statistical “trilemma’’ [85] to more recent analyses by Chalmers [86] and Deutsch [87]. These proposals assume that every physical truth is reducible to the output of a finite algorithm executed on a sufficiently powerful substrate. Yet this assumption tacitly identifies the full physical theory with its computable slice FQG. Our framework separates the computable fragment FQG from the non-algorithmic meta-layer MToE. Because MToE contains an external truth predicate T (x) that by construction escapes formal verification, any finite algorithm can at best emulate FQG while systemat-ically omitting the meta-theoretic truths enforced by T (x). Consequently, no simulation could in principle reproduce what would otherwise be the full underyling structure of the physics of our universe. Our analysis instead suggests that genuine physical reality embeds non-computational content that cannot be instantiated on a Turing-equivalent device. Since it is impossible to simulate a complete and consistent universe, our universe is definitely not a simulation. As the universe is produced by MToE, the simulation hypothesis is logically impossible rather than merely implausible.» #sources
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything
simsa03: @band@octodon.social @band@hachydem.io @scribe @woodbark @es0mhi Have you seen this? https://www.thenewatlantis.com/projects/technological-condition https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/confronting-the-technological-society FYI #sources
simsa03's status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:27:27 JST
@band@octodon.social @band@hachydem.io @scribe @woodbark @es0mhi Have you seen this? https://www.thenewatlantis.com/projects/technological-condition https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/confronting-the-technological-society FYI #sources
The Technological Condition — a project of The New Atlantis
simsa03: Izabella Tabarovsky, "Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism" (2019) https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism/ Izabella Tabarovsky, "Zombie Anti-Zionism" (2024) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/zombie-anti-zionism In the first piece the author traces origin and developement of the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Soviet propaganda, primarily in the mid 1960s to the late 1980s. Here she concentrates on the USSR and the relevance of this propaganda in domestic societal control In the second piece she describes in a tour d'horizon how anti-Zionism between the late 1950s to 1990 provided the USSR with a very effective tool against the West by uniting various anti-Western sentiments and movements. Combining allegations of imperialism, genocide, apartheid, Nazism, it unites Western communists (and the Left in general), African, South-American, and Asian liberation struggles, Arab nationalism, as well as Jihadists. In both pieces Tabarovsky describes genalogies, e.g., how in 1982 Abbas wrote a Ph.D thesis equating Zionism and Nazism at the prestigious Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Immensely helpful, not just with regard to the origin of late 20th century Western anti-Semitism on the Left (e.g., George Galloway, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn) but even more with regard to the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Arab (e.g., Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mahmoud Abbas) and Latin American nations (e.g., Lula Da Silva, Gustavo Petro). «What’s so interesting about this half-century-old Soviet propaganda is how precisely it mirrors the language emanating from the anti-Israel left since Oct. 7. Today’s left, too, speaks of Israel as a racist, imperialist, and colonialist state; equates it with Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa; disparages Jews for having turned into oppressors; and proclaims Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist their colonial oppression by any means necessary.» #sources
simsa03's status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 12:54:04 JST
Izabella Tabarovsky, "Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism" (2019) https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism/ Izabella Tabarovsky, "Zombie Anti-Zionism" (2024) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/zombie-anti-zionism In the first piece the author traces origin and developement of the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Soviet propaganda, primarily in the mid 1960s to the late 1980s. Here she concentrates on the USSR and the relevance of this propaganda in domestic societal control In the second piece she describes in a tour d'horizon how anti-Zionism between the late 1950s to 1990 provided the USSR with a very effective tool against the West by uniting various anti-Western sentiments and movements. Combining allegations of imperialism, genocide, apartheid, Nazism, it unites Western communists (and the Left in general), African, South-American, and Asian liberation struggles, Arab nationalism, as well as Jihadists. In both pieces Tabarovsky describes genalogies, e.g., how in 1982 Abbas wrote a Ph.D thesis equating Zionism and Nazism at the prestigious Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Immensely helpful, not just with regard to the origin of late 20th century Western anti-Semitism on the Left (e.g., George Galloway, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn) but even more with regard to the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Arab (e.g., Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mahmoud Abbas) and Latin American nations (e.g., Lula Da Silva, Gustavo Petro). «What’s so interesting about this half-century-old Soviet propaganda is how precisely it mirrors the language emanating from the anti-Israel left since Oct. 7. Today’s left, too, speaks of Israel as a racist, imperialist, and colonialist state; equates it with Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa; disparages Jews for having turned into oppressors; and proclaims Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist their colonial oppression by any means necessary.» #sources
Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism
simsa03: Mikhail Zygar, "The Next Generation: Russia’s future rulers" (July 2025) https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Russia-Tomorrow-The-next-generation.pdf Overview of names to come and names to go—possibly, given Putin's suspiciousness of powerful rivals, his desire to balance people and influences, and the need to bring in a younger generation into office. «It is hardly surprising that a significant portion of this new generation coming to power consists of the children of current top officials and Putin’s closest friends—or even his own relatives. In this sense, Russia increasingly resembles a feudal state, in which power is inherited at all levels. The children of the bureaucratic aristocracy are all, in one way or another, striving for government careers and positions of influence. [...] The ongoing generational shift will, of course, change the face of Russia. The new officials, who were very young when the Soviet Union collapsed, differ from the previous generation in that they lack Soviet psychology and a Soviet background. On one hand, many members of this next generation of Russian leaders tend to idealize the Soviet Union and dream of restoring imperial power. On the other hand, they are full-fledged capitalists, and most of them clearly do not want another Cold War or international isolation for Russia. They are the children of a cynical generation, convinced that business can—and should—be done with everyone: China, Iran, Europe, the United States, and even Ukraine. In many ways, Putin’s personnel policy resembles the dynamics in the final years of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s rule. Castro also tried to cultivate a new generation of Komsomol-style loyalists—and, in some ways, succeeded. The politicians he nurtured, young enough to be his grandchildren, turned out to be even more orthodox and staunchly conservative than the generation of officials who were old enough to be his sons. But when the decisive moment came, Castro still chose to hand power to his own brother, Raúl. Putin has no brother, and he trusts no one. That’s why he is focused on grooming a new, younger, and thoroughly indoctrinated generation—one that he is confident will carry on his legacy.» #sources #russia
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 02:48:04 JST
Mikhail Zygar, "The Next Generation: Russia’s future rulers" (July 2025) https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Russia-Tomorrow-The-next-generation.pdf Overview of names to come and names to go—possibly, given Putin's suspiciousness of powerful rivals, his desire to balance people and influences, and the need to bring in a younger generation into office. «It is hardly surprising that a significant portion of this new generation coming to power consists of the children of current top officials and Putin’s closest friends—or even his own relatives. In this sense, Russia increasingly resembles a feudal state, in which power is inherited at all levels. The children of the bureaucratic aristocracy are all, in one way or another, striving for government careers and positions of influence. [...] The ongoing generational shift will, of course, change the face of Russia. The new officials, who were very young when the Soviet Union collapsed, differ from the previous generation in that they lack Soviet psychology and a Soviet background. On one hand, many members of this next generation of Russian leaders tend to idealize the Soviet Union and dream of restoring imperial power. On the other hand, they are full-fledged capitalists, and most of them clearly do not want another Cold War or international isolation for Russia. They are the children of a cynical generation, convinced that business can—and should—be done with everyone: China, Iran, Europe, the United States, and even Ukraine. In many ways, Putin’s personnel policy resembles the dynamics in the final years of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s rule. Castro also tried to cultivate a new generation of Komsomol-style loyalists—and, in some ways, succeeded. The politicians he nurtured, young enough to be his grandchildren, turned out to be even more orthodox and staunchly conservative than the generation of officials who were old enough to be his sons. But when the decisive moment came, Castro still chose to hand power to his own brother, Raúl. Putin has no brother, and he trusts no one. That’s why he is focused on grooming a new, younger, and thoroughly indoctrinated generation—one that he is confident will carry on his legacy.» #sources #russia
br00t4c: Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report#USIntelligence #Journalists #Trump #Sources #Prosecutionhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-iran-military-strike-report
br00t4c's status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 02:16:47 JST
Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report #USIntelligence #Journalists #Trump #Sources #Prosecution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-iran-military-strike-report
br00t4c: Inside the Oval Office where phone calls during Fox News commercials and desperate world leaders changed Trump's mind on tariff plan#WorldLeaders #PhoneCalls #Sources #Trump #TariffPlanhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-world-leaders-tariffs-reverse-b2731018.html
br00t4c's status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 04:02:51 JST
Inside the Oval Office where phone calls during Fox News commercials and desperate world leaders changed Trump's mind on tariff plan #WorldLeaders #PhoneCalls #Sources #Trump #TariffPlan https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-world-leaders-tariffs-reverse-b2731018.html
simsa03: Seda Motie, Jonas Oesch, Jonas Roth, "Friends, enemies, frenemies: An interactive overview of the key actors in the Middle East" https://nzz.ch/english/interactive-map-the-middle-easts-alliances-and-enmities-ld.1859853 «Who is allied with whom? Who is pursuing what interests? And how do the individual actors relate to each other?» #sources
simsa03's status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 11:03:19 JST
Seda Motie, Jonas Oesch, Jonas Roth, "Friends, enemies, frenemies: An interactive overview of the key actors in the Middle East" https://nzz.ch/english/interactive-map-the-middle-easts-alliances-and-enmities-ld.1859853 «Who is allied with whom? Who is pursuing what interests? And how do the individual actors relate to each other?» #sources
Hidden Alliances in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Who Plays Which Role?
simsa03: Michael Schilliger, "«Anyone can become a torturer. And all of us, in some way, already know how to torture» – Interview with Jonathan Luke Austin" https://www.nzz.ch/english/all-of-us-in-some-way-already-know-how-to-torture-ld.1867657 #sources
simsa03's status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:02:47 JST
Michael Schilliger, "«Anyone can become a torturer. And all of us, in some way, already know how to torture» – Interview with Jonathan Luke Austin" https://www.nzz.ch/english/all-of-us-in-some-way-already-know-how-to-torture-ld.1867657 #sources
«All of us, in some way, already know how to torture»
hist_myth: Hello ! Ce samedi, comme promis, et pendant que le livre VI de Tite-Live me regarde d'un air désapprobateur finir Ursula Le Guin, voici un petit fil sur les sources de la mythologie (et un peu de l'histoire) gréco-romaine !D'où tire-t-on les mythes greczetromains, pourquoi existent-ils en mille versions, d'où certaines sont plus connues que d'autres et toutes les questions que jamais, jamais vous ne vous seriez posées sans moi, un THREAD ⬇️ #mythologiegrecque #sources #littératureantique
hist_myth's status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:29:26 JST
Hello ! Ce samedi, comme promis, et pendant que le livre VI de Tite-Live me regarde d'un air désapprobateur finir Ursula Le Guin, voici un petit fil sur les sources de la mythologie (et un peu de l'histoire) gréco-romaine ! D'où tire-t-on les mythes greczetromains, pourquoi existent-ils en mille versions, d'où certaines sont plus connues que d'autres et toutes les questions que jamais, jamais vous ne vous seriez posées sans moi, un THREAD ⬇️ #mythologiegrecque #sources #littératureantique
inscius: Rumor has it some old statues seek re-erection in the coming years. #sources #nojoke
inscius's status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:38:39 JST
Rumor has it some old statues seek re-erection in the coming years. #sources #nojoke
simsa03: Mireille Roddier, "Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality" https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/degrowth-energy-sobriety-low-tech-towards-an-architecture-of-conviviality/ A recent reading list on #sources from Places Journal.
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 02:30:29 JST
Mireille Roddier, "Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality" https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/degrowth-energy-sobriety-low-tech-towards-an-architecture-of-conviviality/ A recent reading list on #sources from Places Journal.
Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality
simsa03: If you're looking for an early description of this peculiar U.S. fascism now prevalent in the GOP and MAGA, you can find it here: Tom Junod, “The Sore Winners: Will America’s Super Minority Sink Us All?” (Esquire, October 27, 2010) https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a8800/sore-winners-102710/ And if you want to know how today's "Hillbilly" J.D. Vance and the white-working-class-victimization-turned-angry-and-spiteful crowd fits into the above mentioned beginnings of the Tea Party movement, read here: Meredith McCarroll, "J.D. Vance and the Myth of White Exceptionalism" (New Lines Magazine, January 10, 2023) https://newlinesmag.com/argument/j-d-vance-and-the-myth-of-white-exceptionalism/ #sources
simsa03's status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 12:50:48 JST
If you're looking for an early description of this peculiar U.S. fascism now prevalent in the GOP and MAGA, you can find it here: Tom Junod, “The Sore Winners: Will America’s Super Minority Sink Us All?” (Esquire, October 27, 2010) https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a8800/sore-winners-102710/ And if you want to know how today's "Hillbilly" J.D. Vance and the white-working-class-victimization-turned-angry-and-spiteful crowd fits into the above mentioned beginnings of the Tea Party movement, read here: Meredith McCarroll, "J.D. Vance and the Myth of White Exceptionalism" (New Lines Magazine, January 10, 2023) https://newlinesmag.com/argument/j-d-vance-and-the-myth-of-white-exceptionalism/ #sources
Junod: This Is What theTea Party Looks Like
J.D. Vance and the Myth of White Exceptionalism
dw_innovation: "#FactChecking requires the right and ability to find #sources, read widely and interview experts who are free to speak candidly — all as part of a rigorous #methodology and process. (...) Fact-checking is part of a free press and high-quality #journalism, and it contributes to public #information and #knowledge."From the #IFCN 's "Sarajevo Statement" – which comes at a time when free speech, transparency, and the preservation of information are under massive pressure.https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/global-fact-statement-sarajevo/
dw_innovation's status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 00:55:17 JST
"#FactChecking requires the right and ability to find #sources, read widely and interview experts who are free to speak candidly — all as part of a rigorous #methodology and process. (...) Fact-checking is part of a free press and high-quality #journalism, and it contributes to public #information and #knowledge." From the #IFCN 's "Sarajevo Statement" – which comes at a time when free speech, transparency, and the preservation of information are under massive pressure. https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/2024/global-fact-statement-sarajevo/
simsa03: Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing For Emergency Coverage." https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.pdf Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook For Investigative Reporting: A Guide To Online Search And Research Techniques For Using UGC And Open Source Information In Investigations" https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.2.pdf Main website: https://verificationhandbook.com/ Haven't looked into both texts yet but they sound helpful to foster one's skills in critically using media. #sources
simsa03's status on Monday, 20-May-2024 18:23:09 JST
Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing For Emergency Coverage." https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.pdf Craig Silverman (ed.), "Verification Handbook For Investigative Reporting: A Guide To Online Search And Research Techniques For Using UGC And Open Source Information In Investigations" https://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.2.pdf Main website: https://verificationhandbook.com/ Haven't looked into both texts yet but they sound helpful to foster one's skills in critically using media. #sources
simsa03: John Spencer, "Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/memo-experts-stop-comparing-israels-war-gaza-anything-it-has-no-precedent-opinion-1868891 John Spencer, "Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613 Helpful explanations. No need to believe it all but it adds historical and tactical aspects one should keep in mind. #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 00:26:04 JST
John Spencer, "Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/memo-experts-stop-comparing-israels-war-gaza-anything-it-has-no-precedent-opinion-1868891 John Spencer, "Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History | Opinion" https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613 Helpful explanations. No need to believe it all but it adds historical and tactical aspects one should keep in mind. #sources
Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent
Israel Tried to Prevent Civilian Casualties More Than Any Nation in History
simsa03: International Energy Agency, "Electricity 2024 : Analysis and forecast to 2026" https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024 Download (pdf) : https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6b2fd954-2017-408e-bf08-952fdd62118a/Electricity2024-Analysisandforecastto2026.pdf Executive summary : https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024/executive-summary #nuclear #renewables #sources
simsa03's status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 01:18:26 JST
International Energy Agency, "Electricity 2024 : Analysis and forecast to 2026" https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024 Download (pdf) : https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6b2fd954-2017-408e-bf08-952fdd62118a/Electricity2024-Analysisandforecastto2026.pdf Executive summary : https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024/executive-summary #nuclear #renewables #sources
Executive summary – Electricity 2024 – Analysis - IEA
simsa03: Franziska B. Schönweitz et. al., "Solidarity and reciprocity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative interview study from Germany" https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17521-7 This looks promising. What furthered and what hindered collective solidarity in the face of a pandemic? #sources #covid #solidarity https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/a93d3a636945eb27a41dfe551ed536ea5aa316ef90c57890d0f19c9d79899d8c/view
simsa03's status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 08:45:39 JST
Franziska B. Schönweitz et. al., "Solidarity and reciprocity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative interview study from Germany" https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17521-7 This looks promising. What furthered and what hindered collective solidarity in the face of a pandemic? #sources #covid #solidarity https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/a93d3a636945eb27a41dfe551ed536ea5aa316ef90c57890d0f19c9d79899d8c/view
simsa03: Ofir Hauzman, " 'Sinwar isn't a psychopath, but a cunning narcissist' " https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hyw00ksu00a The interview stresses the difference between full-fledged psychopathy and malignant narcissism (which borders on psychopathy). Sinwar, Yassin, and other leaders of terrorist groups are capable of impulse control, delay of gratification, and utter brutality in following thgeir goals. If they were psychopaths, they wouldn't be able to run such highly effecitive organisations. Also important is the emphsis of "secondary psychopathy", i.e., that children raised in organised crime familes and terrorist circles often learn those values and even adopt imitations of such psychopthic behaviour although they may not clinically be malignant narcissists or borderline psychopaths. To me this latter reminder is important as it seems to confirm a bit a thought I was having on authoritarian societies, be it Nazi-Germany, Russia, or Gaza: That there is no significant distinction between populace and regime, esp. not the one typcially made (and used as exculpation) between terrorist regime and suffering but innocent poplace. (I admit that by that I cannot explain the existence of the obvious resistance movement in Iran.) #sources #authoritarianism
simsa03's status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 02:44:29 JST
Ofir Hauzman, " 'Sinwar isn't a psychopath, but a cunning narcissist' " https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hyw00ksu00a The interview stresses the difference between full-fledged psychopathy and malignant narcissism (which borders on psychopathy). Sinwar, Yassin, and other leaders of terrorist groups are capable of impulse control, delay of gratification, and utter brutality in following thgeir goals. If they were psychopaths, they wouldn't be able to run such highly effecitive organisations. Also important is the emphsis of "secondary psychopathy", i.e., that children raised in organised crime familes and terrorist circles often learn those values and even adopt imitations of such psychopthic behaviour although they may not clinically be malignant narcissists or borderline psychopaths. To me this latter reminder is important as it seems to confirm a bit a thought I was having on authoritarian societies, be it Nazi-Germany, Russia, or Gaza: That there is no significant distinction between populace and regime, esp. not the one typcially made (and used as exculpation) between terrorist regime and suffering but innocent poplace. (I admit that by that I cannot explain the existence of the obvious resistance movement in Iran.) #sources #authoritarianism
'Sinwar isn't a psychopath, but a cunning narcissist'
simsa03: Nicola Davis, "Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/27/gut-microbes-may-play-role-in-social-anxiety-disorder-say-researchers Interesting links. #sources
simsa03's status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 01:23:35 JST
Nicola Davis, "Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/27/gut-microbes-may-play-role-in-social-anxiety-disorder-say-researchers Interesting links. #sources
Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers
simsa03: This looks promising: Edward Jeremiah, "The Development, Logic, and Legacy of Reflexive Concepts in Greek Philosophy", Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 74, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 507-529. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43290159 «When and for what purposes does reflexive language enter the philosophical lexicon and become a key component of its discourse, and why do philosophers lean so heavily on reflexive concepts? My argument will limit itself to literal reflexive concepts, in other words concepts articulated via the use of reflexive pronouns, and proposes that the formation of reflexive ideas is primarily shaped by two philosophical goals: firstly, the attempt to think totalities, and secondly, the search for foundational principles, whether they be ontological, epistemological, or ethical. Reflexivity appears to be a general structural tendency of foundational principles and totalities. If this is true, then it can be shown that some of the contemporary philosophical systems which claim to either deconstruct or replace the hierarchies of traditional metaphysics do so mostly in a superficial sense. The essential skeleton of ancient thought is conserved, and with it the conceptual magnetism foundational ideas display for reflexivity. This argument highlights a crucial continuity between ancient and modern philosophy, while at the same time locating an important difference. Though reflexivity is important for both as a primary ontological process, ancient philosophy treasures self-identification, but modern philosophy self-differentiation, as the foremost operation of being. Finally, I suggest that the reflexivity of philosophical "beginnings" (archai) reflects the human being as a reflexive subject.» #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 23:32:14 JST
This looks promising: Edward Jeremiah, "The Development, Logic, and Legacy of Reflexive Concepts in Greek Philosophy", Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 74, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 507-529. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43290159 «When and for what purposes does reflexive language enter the philosophical lexicon and become a key component of its discourse, and why do philosophers lean so heavily on reflexive concepts? My argument will limit itself to literal reflexive concepts, in other words concepts articulated via the use of reflexive pronouns, and proposes that the formation of reflexive ideas is primarily shaped by two philosophical goals: firstly, the attempt to think totalities, and secondly, the search for foundational principles, whether they be ontological, epistemological, or ethical. Reflexivity appears to be a general structural tendency of foundational principles and totalities. If this is true, then it can be shown that some of the contemporary philosophical systems which claim to either deconstruct or replace the hierarchies of traditional metaphysics do so mostly in a superficial sense. The essential skeleton of ancient thought is conserved, and with it the conceptual magnetism foundational ideas display for reflexivity. This argument highlights a crucial continuity between ancient and modern philosophy, while at the same time locating an important difference. Though reflexivity is important for both as a primary ontological process, ancient philosophy treasures self-identification, but modern philosophy self-differentiation, as the foremost operation of being. Finally, I suggest that the reflexivity of philosophical "beginnings" (archai) reflects the human being as a reflexive subject.» #sources
simsa03: Philippe Benoit, "From ‘peak oil’ to ‘peak energy’: What might the world expect?" https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4315138-from-peak-oil-to-peak-energy-what-should-the-world-expect/ «The International Energy Agency now projects oil, gas, and coal use will all peak this decade. This constitutes a dramatic shift from the last 150 years when the thirst for fossil fuels persistently rose. But now this growth is nearing its end sooner than many expected, driven in part by a surge in renewables. This significant event, however, masks a more striking possible future: One in which total global energy use peaks and energy’s weight in world affairs diminishes. [...] In a broader sense, just as history has included the stone, bronze and iron ages, we have been living since the Industrial Revolution in an energy age. But this age, during which energy has dominated so many economic, geopolitical and other dimensions, may be coming to an end with peak energy.» A bit confusing is the author's talk of "energy peak" which seems to lumb together energy and electricity demands. Thus, whereas I can see a decline in energy demands, I don't see them with regard to electricity demands. (Esp. with all the decarbonisation of industries necessary to accomplish mitigation with climate change.) Anyway, an interesting piece with a lot of interesting links. Surely countering my musings on #peakrenewables with #peakenergy as the broader concept. #sources #infrastructure #energy #postdoom
simsa03's status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 03:57:56 JST
Philippe Benoit, "From ‘peak oil’ to ‘peak energy’: What might the world expect?" https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4315138-from-peak-oil-to-peak-energy-what-should-the-world-expect/ «The International Energy Agency now projects oil, gas, and coal use will all peak this decade. This constitutes a dramatic shift from the last 150 years when the thirst for fossil fuels persistently rose. But now this growth is nearing its end sooner than many expected, driven in part by a surge in renewables. This significant event, however, masks a more striking possible future: One in which total global energy use peaks and energy’s weight in world affairs diminishes. [...] In a broader sense, just as history has included the stone, bronze and iron ages, we have been living since the Industrial Revolution in an energy age. But this age, during which energy has dominated so many economic, geopolitical and other dimensions, may be coming to an end with peak energy.» A bit confusing is the author's talk of "energy peak" which seems to lumb together energy and electricity demands. Thus, whereas I can see a decline in energy demands, I don't see them with regard to electricity demands. (Esp. with all the decarbonisation of industries necessary to accomplish mitigation with climate change.) Anyway, an interesting piece with a lot of interesting links. Surely countering my musings on #peakrenewables with #peakenergy as the broader concept. #sources #infrastructure #energy #postdoom
simsa03's status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 09:08:05 JST
^^ #sources #disasters
simsa03: Валерий Гарбузов, "Для самопознания России необходимы знания, а не мифы" https://www.ng.ru/ideas/2023-08-29/7_8812_illusions.html Valery Garbuzov, "Russia needs knowledge, not myths, for self-knowledge" (About the author: Valery Nikolaevich Garbuzov - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for the USA and Canada Academician G.A. Arbatov RAS). The points the author makes are not that different from those Western observers have held for years. Interesting is that this rather scathing critique of Putin and his regime, brought about in a historical narrative of Russia suffering from a post-imperial syndrome that makes her laspe into longings of greatness and imperial expansion that don't fit today's realities, is published in a Russian paper/online magazine at all. Copy and paste it into an online translator. #Russia #Putin #sources
simsa03's status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 05:30:28 JST
Валерий Гарбузов, "Для самопознания России необходимы знания, а не мифы" https://www.ng.ru/ideas/2023-08-29/7_8812_illusions.html Valery Garbuzov, "Russia needs knowledge, not myths, for self-knowledge" (About the author: Valery Nikolaevich Garbuzov - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for the USA and Canada Academician G.A. Arbatov RAS). The points the author makes are not that different from those Western observers have held for years. Interesting is that this rather scathing critique of Putin and his regime, brought about in a historical narrative of Russia suffering from a post-imperial syndrome that makes her laspe into longings of greatness and imperial expansion that don't fit today's realities, is published in a Russian paper/online magazine at all. Copy and paste it into an online translator. #Russia #Putin #sources
Директор Института США и Канады Валерий Гарбузов об утраченных иллюзиях уходящей эпохи / Идеи и люди / Независимая газета
simsa03: Yay! The new book from George Scialabba has arrived in the mail: "Only a Voice: Essays" (2023). Rarely since the early 1990s (with the books by Michael Ventura) has an author from the U.S. influenced me that much. Although his book review essays vary in quality, his style of presenting as a debate the views of selected authors which he confronts with each other to lead that discussion to the topics he's interested in, is of high intellectual and thus educational value. Pursuing such "monologue-styled debates" publicly, in magazines and papers, continues a centuries-old tradition. To have his voice from the (more or less) progressive side is a rare exception to the dominance of the conservative tradition that found its master in the late works of Lionel Trilling (who started out as contributer to the Partisan Review). It's good to see that Scialabba dedicates his new book to Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader and offers his thanks to people like Barbara Ehrenreich and Richard Rorty. #amlesen #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:41:13 JST
Yay! The new book from George Scialabba has arrived in the mail: "Only a Voice: Essays" (2023). Rarely since the early 1990s (with the books by Michael Ventura) has an author from the U.S. influenced me that much. Although his book review essays vary in quality, his style of presenting as a debate the views of selected authors which he confronts with each other to lead that discussion to the topics he's interested in, is of high intellectual and thus educational value. Pursuing such "monologue-styled debates" publicly, in magazines and papers, continues a centuries-old tradition. To have his voice from the (more or less) progressive side is a rare exception to the dominance of the conservative tradition that found its master in the late works of Lionel Trilling (who started out as contributer to the Partisan Review). It's good to see that Scialabba dedicates his new book to Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader and offers his thanks to people like Barbara Ehrenreich and Richard Rorty. #amlesen #sources
simsa03: Bewundernswerte Haltung. Danke für den pointer auf https://www.wildcat-www.de/index.htm Kannte die/das noch nicht. #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 20:18:30 JST
Bewundernswerte Haltung. Danke für den pointer auf https://www.wildcat-www.de/index.htm Kannte die/das noch nicht. #sources
simsa03: In 1977 the German author Klaus Theweleit wrote a two-volumes account of #fascism which he called "Männerphantasien" / "Male Fantasies". Concentrating on the Freikorps soldiers of World War I, who roamed the streets of Weimar Republic and became a bedrock and driving force of the SA of the Nazi reign, he dives into their "fantasies", the absence of their own spouses and children, their pursuit of perennial war, of their "production of death" as a specific way of living. Other than various theories of fascism (Marxist, psychonalytic, etc.), Theweleit insists that the Freikorps men didn't pursue their actions because of delusions or of yearning for substitute enactment, but because they decided to live that way, because they wanted to do what they did. In that, Theweleit insists that "fascism" is not some aberration but ingrained in every "normal man", detectable in his way his prefers to treat women, minorities, communism, the working class... The first volume of Theweleit's book was translated into English by Stephen Conway and published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1987. It can be found here: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a foreword to this translation which I recommend to read. Some connections of themes, thoughts, and justifications sound dated today – in particular the argumentative jump from "male suppression of women" to "human exploitation of nature" (which was a common topos in the late 1970s to 1990s) – but in her preparation of the reader of what is to come in the book, she does a very good job. The first idea that came to my mind reading her was to compare the depiction of the Freikorps men with the mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s «Wagner (PMC)» as well as with the human rights violation by many in the Russian army vis-à-vis Ukrainian civilians. I'm earger to dive into Theweleit because his insistence of fascism and cruelty as deliberate choice is something that sounds very realistic. It may even provide further explanations why in totalitarian regimes the identification of regime and population is so strong till the end. #sources cc @band
simsa03's status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 22:59:57 JST
In 1977 the German author Klaus Theweleit wrote a two-volumes account of #fascism which he called "Männerphantasien" / "Male Fantasies". Concentrating on the Freikorps soldiers of World War I, who roamed the streets of Weimar Republic and became a bedrock and driving force of the SA of the Nazi reign, he dives into their "fantasies", the absence of their own spouses and children, their pursuit of perennial war, of their "production of death" as a specific way of living. Other than various theories of fascism (Marxist, psychonalytic, etc.), Theweleit insists that the Freikorps men didn't pursue their actions because of delusions or of yearning for substitute enactment, but because they decided to live that way, because they wanted to do what they did. In that, Theweleit insists that "fascism" is not some aberration but ingrained in every "normal man", detectable in his way his prefers to treat women, minorities, communism, the working class... The first volume of Theweleit's book was translated into English by Stephen Conway and published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1987. It can be found here: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a foreword to this translation which I recommend to read. Some connections of themes, thoughts, and justifications sound dated today – in particular the argumentative jump from "male suppression of women" to "human exploitation of nature" (which was a common topos in the late 1970s to 1990s) – but in her preparation of the reader of what is to come in the book, she does a very good job. The first idea that came to my mind reading her was to compare the depiction of the Freikorps men with the mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s «Wagner (PMC)» as well as with the human rights violation by many in the Russian army vis-à-vis Ukrainian civilians. I'm earger to dive into Theweleit because his insistence of fascism and cruelty as deliberate choice is something that sounds very realistic. It may even provide further explanations why in totalitarian regimes the identification of regime and population is so strong till the end. #sources cc @band
simsa03: Reading Klaus Theweleit's "Männerphantasien" (1977) ("Male Phantasies" https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf). Its collage technique is reminiscent of Susan Griffin's "Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her" (1978) https://archive.org/details/womannaturero00grif/mode/2up . Indeed, two authors, a year apart, probably not knowing each other, related topics but from different angles, in a similiar literary style. (Interestingly, John Brunner in his "The Sheep Look Up" (1972) https://archive.org/details/sheeplookup0000brun_t1i7 uses the same cut-up technique, although more thoroughly than Theweleit and Griffin.) #sources
simsa03's status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 21:32:13 JST
Reading Klaus Theweleit's "Männerphantasien" (1977) ("Male Phantasies" https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf). Its collage technique is reminiscent of Susan Griffin's "Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her" (1978) https://archive.org/details/womannaturero00grif/mode/2up . Indeed, two authors, a year apart, probably not knowing each other, related topics but from different angles, in a similiar literary style. (Interestingly, John Brunner in his "The Sheep Look Up" (1972) https://archive.org/details/sheeplookup0000brun_t1i7 uses the same cut-up technique, although more thoroughly than Theweleit and Griffin.) #sources
Woman and nature : the roaring inside her
simsa03: A quick reminder and recap what the rebranding of Twitter as X is about: The rebranding of Twitter into X seems to signal that Musk uses the platform as basis for becoming a fintech company.¹ (Musk already registered Twitter Payments LLC with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Twitter-FinCEN-registration-2022.pdf )¹ But Musk is not alone in that or even the first. In 2019 Zuckerberg planned the same for Facebook with the introduction of the crypto-currency Libra.² At that time Libra seemed to have gone nowhere as Visa, Mastercard, ebay, and PayPal pulled out of Libra project in 2019.³ Still, the fintech Libra Networks was registered in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2019 for Facebook (2,5 billion users in 2019) and its subsidaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (each about 1 billion users).⁴ So the difference seems to be that whereas Zuckerberg in 2019 tried to establish financial services based on crypto-currency throughout his platforms, it is not clear whether Musk wants to rely on crypto as well (as crypto was one major reason the aforementioned Visa, Masertcard, PayPal pulled out of Libra). But both projects planned to become an "online bank" of sorts. With the difference that as a fintech, by siphoning off user data, data of purchases, and behavioural statistics no bank is allowed to do, they can create financial products much faster and distribute them via their platofrms far more widespread than any bank could.⁵ In fact, back in 2019 Zuckerberg didn't seem to realise but Musk now does seem to understand that both platforms are not or are no longer in the ad-business but in the online banking business. That is: Hitherto both platforms thought of their business as creating profits by selling ads to users who in exchange for their eyballs are permitted the free use of these platforms. But should the transition from ad-business to fintech prove successful, this will have major impact on the global financial markets and banking sector -- up to the default of major banks. Obviously, the syphoining-off of behavioural user data is not only relevant in the financial and banking sector but in all areas where "prediction products" can contribute to manufactoring, product development, AI training, purchasing optimzation, etc. These "prediction products" can even themselves be traded in what Shoshana Zuboff has called the "behavioural futures markets". Combine state surveillance with capitalist surveillance, and the separation of people in two groups (the more or less hapless customer-citizens on the one hand and the unaccountable producer-citizens on the other) has significant consequences on democracy as "asymmetries of knowledge translates into asymmetries of power".⁶ But even without the societal and political ramifications, the economic and financial look most impactful. No wonder that Musk expects Twitter/X to "be ultimately extremely valuable"¹ And it may explain why Zuckerberg shows interest in the #fediverse. He who creates the first global "banking app" will rule the field. A pretty dire development from the days when m-pesa was created to link African agricultal communities an dcustomers in 2007.⁷ ---------- ¹ Ashley Belange, "Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into 'everything app' " https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fast-moving-musk-makes-very-slow-progress-turning-twitter-into-everything-app/ ² Kari Paul, "Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/18/libra-facebook-cryptocurrency-new-digital-money-transactions ³ Orion Rummler, "Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra" https://www.axios.com/2019/10/12/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony ⁴ Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi, "Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-switzerland-payments/facebook-forms-swiss-fintech-firm-with-payments-focus-idUSKCN1SN1ZT ⁵ Billy Bambrough, "Global Fintech Warning To Traditional Banks -- The Threat Is 'Real And Growing' " https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/10/17/global-fintech-warning-to-tradional-banks-the-threat-is-real-and-growing/ ⁶ John Naughton, " 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook ⁷ NN, "Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time" https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology-news/m-pesa-romania ---------- #fintech #crypto #Twitter #Musk #facebook #Zuckerberg #mpesa #surveillance #capitalism #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 09:56:54 JST
A quick reminder and recap what the rebranding of Twitter as X is about: The rebranding of Twitter into X seems to signal that Musk uses the platform as basis for becoming a fintech company.¹ (Musk already registered Twitter Payments LLC with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Twitter-FinCEN-registration-2022.pdf )¹ But Musk is not alone in that or even the first. In 2019 Zuckerberg planned the same for Facebook with the introduction of the crypto-currency Libra.² At that time Libra seemed to have gone nowhere as Visa, Mastercard, ebay, and PayPal pulled out of Libra project in 2019.³ Still, the fintech Libra Networks was registered in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2019 for Facebook (2,5 billion users in 2019) and its subsidaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (each about 1 billion users).⁴ So the difference seems to be that whereas Zuckerberg in 2019 tried to establish financial services based on crypto-currency throughout his platforms, it is not clear whether Musk wants to rely on crypto as well (as crypto was one major reason the aforementioned Visa, Masertcard, PayPal pulled out of Libra). But both projects planned to become an "online bank" of sorts. With the difference that as a fintech, by siphoning off user data, data of purchases, and behavioural statistics no bank is allowed to do, they can create financial products much faster and distribute them via their platofrms far more widespread than any bank could.⁵ In fact, back in 2019 Zuckerberg didn't seem to realise but Musk now does seem to understand that both platforms are not or are no longer in the ad-business but in the online banking business. That is: Hitherto both platforms thought of their business as creating profits by selling ads to users who in exchange for their eyballs are permitted the free use of these platforms. But should the transition from ad-business to fintech prove successful, this will have major impact on the global financial markets and banking sector -- up to the default of major banks. Obviously, the syphoining-off of behavioural user data is not only relevant in the financial and banking sector but in all areas where "prediction products" can contribute to manufactoring, product development, AI training, purchasing optimzation, etc. These "prediction products" can even themselves be traded in what Shoshana Zuboff has called the "behavioural futures markets". Combine state surveillance with capitalist surveillance, and the separation of people in two groups (the more or less hapless customer-citizens on the one hand and the unaccountable producer-citizens on the other) has significant consequences on democracy as "asymmetries of knowledge translates into asymmetries of power".⁶ But even without the societal and political ramifications, the economic and financial look most impactful. No wonder that Musk expects Twitter/X to "be ultimately extremely valuable"¹ And it may explain why Zuckerberg shows interest in the #fediverse. He who creates the first global "banking app" will rule the field. A pretty dire development from the days when m-pesa was created to link African agricultal communities an dcustomers in 2007.⁷ ---------- ¹ Ashley Belange, "Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into 'everything app' " https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fast-moving-musk-makes-very-slow-progress-turning-twitter-into-everything-app/ ² Kari Paul, "Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/18/libra-facebook-cryptocurrency-new-digital-money-transactions ³ Orion Rummler, "Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra" https://www.axios.com/2019/10/12/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony ⁴ Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi, "Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-switzerland-payments/facebook-forms-swiss-fintech-firm-with-payments-focus-idUSKCN1SN1ZT ⁵ Billy Bambrough, "Global Fintech Warning To Traditional Banks -- The Threat Is 'Real And Growing' " https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/10/17/global-fintech-warning-to-tradional-banks-the-threat-is-real-and-growing/ ⁶ John Naughton, " 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook ⁷ NN, "Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time" https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology-news/m-pesa-romania ---------- #fintech #crypto #Twitter #Musk #facebook #Zuckerberg #mpesa #surveillance #capitalism #sources
Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into “everything app”
Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance
Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus
Global Fintech Warning To Traditional Banks -- The Threat Is 'Real And Growing'
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time
simsa03: Helaine Selin (ed.), "Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technoology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures" (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2008) https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofthehistoryofsciencetechnologyandmedicinenonwesternculturesvol1helaineselin_655_T/mode/2up?view=theater #sources
simsa03's status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 12:06:40 JST
Helaine Selin (ed.), "Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technoology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures" (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2008) https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofthehistoryofsciencetechnologyandmedicinenonwesternculturesvol1helaineselin_655_T/mode/2up?view=theater #sources
Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine Non Western Cultures Vol 1 Helaine Selin
simsa02: Corynne McSherry, "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer[Interesting for every admin, operator, and owner of an instance that resides in the U.S.]#fediverse #sources #resources
simsa02's status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 19:34:49 JST
Corynne McSherry, "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer [Interesting for every admin, operator, and owner of an instance that resides in the U.S.] #fediverse #sources #resources
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer
simsa03: Research tools in the topics of Islamic, Central Asian, Afghan, and Iranian history, languages, the late antique and medieval world. https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/resources-1#collapse4294691 #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 19:16:18 JST
Research tools in the topics of Islamic, Central Asian, Afghan, and Iranian history, languages, the late antique and medieval world. https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/resources-1#collapse4294691 #sources
nando161: #Communities need more #resources, not more #abuse. #Defund the #police and #help #prevent the #sources of #crime. #abolishthepolice
nando161's status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 14:36:02 JST
#Communities need more #resources, not more #abuse. #Defund the #police and #help #prevent the #sources of #crime. #abolishthepolice
Communities need more resources, not more abuse. Defund the police and help prevent the sources of crime. #AbolishThePolice
simsa03: Shannon Mattern, "Tree Thinking" https://placesjournal.org/article/tree-thinking/ #sources
simsa03's status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 10:49:30 JST
Shannon Mattern, "Tree Thinking" https://placesjournal.org/article/tree-thinking/ #sources
simsa04: George Scialabba, "Liberalism’s Two Sides: Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s lifelong argument." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alasdair-macintyre-richard-rorty-liberalism/ The literature reports of George Scialabba are always a pleasure to read. His vast knowledge of the history of cultural debates and his peculiar essayistic style uniquely sketch the contoures of intellectual argumsnts. His essays are essential for orientation. He has a new colection of essays out in August. « In this last book, as in all his writings, Rorty had two purposes: first, to show how little traditional philosophy mattered; and second, to show how little that fact mattered—how little, that is, our moral life rests on deductions from principles and how much, instead, on sympathy, solidarity, and moral imagination. » #sources
simsa04's status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 19:30:46 JST
George Scialabba, "Liberalism’s Two Sides: Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s lifelong argument." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alasdair-macintyre-richard-rorty-liberalism/ The literature reports of George Scialabba are always a pleasure to read. His vast knowledge of the history of cultural debates and his peculiar essayistic style uniquely sketch the contoures of intellectual argumsnts. His essays are essential for orientation. He has a new colection of essays out in August. « In this last book, as in all his writings, Rorty had two purposes: first, to show how little traditional philosophy mattered; and second, to show how little that fact mattered—how little, that is, our moral life rests on deductions from principles and how much, instead, on sympathy, solidarity, and moral imagination. » #sources
Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s Lifelong Argument
simsa04: An interesting booklist on "social infrastructure": https://twitter.com/SimonLennane/status/1650498637368029185 I can't say much on the books but people may find the suggestions valuable. cc @band @scribe @dvdmrsdn @woodbark @andrej #sources #infrastructure
simsa04's status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 11:42:00 JST
An interesting booklist on "social infrastructure": https://twitter.com/SimonLennane/status/1650498637368029185 I can't say much on the books but people may find the suggestions valuable. cc @band @scribe @dvdmrsdn @woodbark @andrej #sources #infrastructure
simsa04: Corynne McSherry, "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer Interesting for every admin, operator, and owner of an instance that resides in the U.S. #fediverse #sources
simsa04's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 12:33:14 JST
Corynne McSherry, "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer Interesting for every admin, operator, and owner of an instance that resides in the U.S. #fediverse #sources