The 2015 Russian Sandworm Team Malware Attack on Ukraine
This Russian military malware attack was intended to permanently disable all computers in the Ukraine. However the action soon spread to the world wide web causing near catastrophic results on computer systems big and small with the costs of repair running into untold hundreds of millions of dollars. The storyContinue Reading
Marshall McLuhan messenger of the Counter Reformation.2
McKenzie Wark, Chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College and Liberal Studies at the New School of Social Research in NY gives a brief analysis of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan.Continue Reading
Out of the realm of guilt and into the realm of transformative good.
The science of implicit bias is one of the most promising fields for animating the human change that makes social change possible. The social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji is one of its primary architects. She understands the mind as a “difference-seeking machine” that helps us order and navigate the overwhelming complexityContinue Reading
On Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek is a Lecturer at City, University of London, and author of the book Platform Capitalism, 2017. I just finished this book, recommended and kindly loaned to me by Cheryl, and I found it to be very a concise, clear and instructive read. Quoting McKenzie Wark from the bookContinue Reading
Bannon II, via Morris
Link sent by Richard. You know, I like to think that the human capacity for credulity is unlimited, unfettered. But the human capacity for self-deception— the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited. I look at him and I think to myself: You can’t really believe this stuff. And yet,Continue Reading
Concerning the attack on Sir John A. MacDonald statues and legacy
The historical record speaks for itself concerning MacDonalds white supremacist ideas and deeds in Canada. That he was not alone speaks to a commonly held world view shared with his peers back in the day. The ongoing unresolved project concerning issues regarding treaties and respect for First Nations today isContinue Reading
Italian Director and Actress Asia Argento’s Checkered Past
One of the first to lead in revelations of sexual abuse via #MeToo, Argento gained unqualified support from life partner Anthony Bourdain. However recent revelations cloud and complicate the picture.Continue Reading
It has to start this way.
The issue of Assembling a New Left is an underlying concern for us all. The review reveals this book to take into account the current moment when thinking about progressive politics: social networks, effective decentralized organization in the face of atomization and virtualization, the perils and promises of agency spontaneously but rigorouslyContinue Reading
Platform Content Obedience School
….most platforms never bothered to experiment with meaningful mechanisms for community-based moderation.Continue Reading