Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 7

"People close to Musk ... said his drug use is ongoing, especially his consumption of ketamine
...
Tesla’s code of conduct described the electric-vehicle maker as a drug-free workplace and prohibits all employees, including executives, from using them, even out of the office."
https://archive.is/O6a3f

reading Jasper Bernes on the attempted German revolution of 1921:

"Max Hölz, the so-called Robin Hood of the revolution ... and his improvised Red Army burned police stations, opened jails and expropriated banks throughout the rural Vogtland-Erzebirge region."

And now it strikes me: that's where my own grandfather Rudi lived, in the small industrial town of Gornsdorf. I don't know if the Robin Hood gang was communizing exactly there. But in some way or another, their revolutionary actions must have been a huge thing to my grandfather and his comrades.
At the time, he was 17 years old, a factory worker, and indeed a communist. Later he would emigrate, end up in Malmö and live there well into the 21st century, until the age of 102. But I don't know if he ever again talked about Max Hölz.

#Fensterfreitag #Stockholm #Bagarmossen

"The left can and must unconditionally oppose anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim bigotry without endorsing Hamas; it can and must unconditionally oppose antisemitism without endorsing Israeli chauvinism."
https://leftrenewal.net/ 📃🚩🕊️

I recommend everybody to read the whole of this important statement, of which I have now joined the list of signatories:
https://leftrenewal.net/signatories/ ✍️

Here's a recording of the opening set I played at yesterday's housewarming party for @Flamman at Solidaritetshuset, Stockholm. Pretty eclectic, tracklist included: https://hearthis.at/rsmsflschr/flammans-inflyttningsfest-2023/
#dub #breakbeat #acid #house #jazz #crustpunk

For this week's Flamman I also wrote an essay on rave culture and the different ways to approach its history and its potential politics (à propos McKenzie Wark's recent book Raving, also discussing Mark Fisher and afrofuturism).

A left which is not internationalist and universalist is not a left. This text puts it very well:
https://leftrenewal.net/

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I recognize this image from a mixtape I recorded:
https://www.mixcloud.com/rsms/novemberkentaur/

I just found this South African dissertation, drawing on different parts of my own previous research – about Spotify and commodification, as well as the legal history of musical copyrights and its ideological connections to Fascist Italy.

"Copyriot: the political economy of digital music streaming"
https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/c72e4fbe-7a53-49c2-85d8-9ab0098c4b21

@TauPan Great, thank you so much for this input!

Thinking about the best Swedish translation of "concept detection" (as a concept in the field of machine learning).
What would you German speakers say? "Begriffserkennung" maybe?

@jasmine This made me immediately (ADHD-impulsively?) start researching the etymology of the term "inappropriate".

This month's mixtape took its title from Tove Jansson:
https://hearthis.at/rsmsflschr/sent-i-november-2023/
#techno #brokenbeat #lofi #electro #breakbeat #neofolk #ambient

It feels like I spend at least one hour a week on manual copy & past to make the text from webpages printable, in a way that does not just waste paper and/or toner. Really the kind of task that software could easily do, yet none of the tools available really seems to do it and I have zero hope that anyone will ever bother to make the web printable again because, well, I guess printing is out? 🖨️

"I'm interested in people for whom raving is a collaborative practice that makes it possible to endure this life. There's a lot of metaphors I could throw at this: rave as addiction, ritual, performance, catharsis, sublimity, grace, resistance."

-- excerpt from McKenzie Wark, "Raving" (2023)

Given Varoufakis' fondness for Greek-derived terms, it is surprising that he names the new ruling class "cloudalists" (uh) when he could have come up with a neologism like "nephocrats".
And why doesn't he relate this to McKenzie Wark's concept of "vectoralists"?
Well. Unlike Varoufakis and Wark, I think that we still live under the capitalist mode of production.

"During the 20th century, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) became increasingly indispensable as a tool for understanding and managing the economy. Nevertheless, it has never been entirely clear what this index is supposed to measure, let alone how the measurement is to be done in practice.
Not only commodity prices change over time – the commodities themselves change as well. The price of falukorv [a kind of sausage] is meticulously registered each month. But this data might not tell you how much sausage you get for the money, if it is the meat mass is over time diluted with potato flour. When it comes to clothing, it has been proven notoriously difficult to produce price statistics when rapid changes in fashion means that the offerings in stores are constantly shifting. When any new type of product appears on the market, it is an open question whether its price should be considered comparable to any of the prices previously registered in the statistics.

It simply isn't possible to measure inflation without estimating the quality of goods. But the valuation of quality can only be subjective, based on the needs and preferences of an imagined consumer.

"Varors värde" is the first historical study that clarifies how this so-called "quality problem" has been handled in practice, in the work of calculating Sweden's CPI. The book raises questions about fundamental economic knowledge that is usually taken for granted. Alternative valuations of quality could result in radically different histories about the development of living standards over time. At the same time, "Varors värde" sheds new light on 20th-century consumer culture: a very concrete story about Danish pastry, nylon stockings and automobile emissions."

https://daidalos.se/varors-v%C3%A4rde-br-kvalitetsv%C3%A4rderingar-i-konsumentprisindex-under-1900-talet.htm

@luka Thanks Luka, ping @festal

#fediblock (if you don't like racist slurs) bae.st & detroitriotcity.com

So I just received an antisemitic comment posted from an instance for "free-speech absolutists". This instance explicitly allows "racial pejoratives ... and contempt toward differences in sexual orientation and gender identification".

I guess that many other instances would like to defederate that instance, but I don't know what to do with this information.

It is fucked up to see certain American groups of "leftist" claim that every Jew living in Israel is a "settler", i.e. an individual representative of "settler colonialism", therefore killing those persons counts as anti-colonial "resistance".

How the fuck could you be a settler in a place where you were born?

I understand that some of you Americans may experience a lot of settler guilt, but please deal with it yourself, don't just ward it off by projecting your guilt on Jewish people.

No one born anywhere deserves to be killed just because they live where in the same place. It's fucking simple.