aha @ahanon@artoot.xyz

are good jokes a good joke?

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/19/olaf-falafel-edinburgh-funniest-joke-award

@sciss
yes. i agree.
however is it not a bit more complex as well?
levinas gave us the concept of ethics before being - we can hardly do stuff that isn't ethical.
yet ethics differ.
a tory will say that purchasing such techs Is ethical because they help keeping people safe. that buying cheap allows more money for other stuff like nhs..
bs imho.
however, respectfully - their ethics..

@sciss might also be worth noting that, in Protocol development, for example the processes we need to take in case of plane crash in water - were made by nazies experimenting with humans..

@sciss
indeed.

However can such processes of tech development can be made differently in an environment that is - paraphrasing agamben and foucault - is power oriented?

@sciss
however, most of us, when using stuff like search engines, financial algorithms, blockchains as tech we rely upon for various activities -
do we not use the technologies as if they were objective, apolitical arbitrators and tools?

@sciss that's actually an interesting statement sequence, IMHO.

I think it opens up the fact that tech attempts to be beyond politics, yet
being made by, for and in human environs - tech is political.

there's an OLD song by the Beatles called Please Please me
with so much entertainment and self reflective narcissus bubbles around, perhaps I (we?) need:
Please Stop attempting to Please Pleasing me.

happiness via twitter meter - kinda?

https://hedonometer.org/index.html

ever wondered why some find it hard to quit the twitter?

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/08/why-can-t-we-just-quit-twitter

#paris seems to be full of elegance adorned people.

Its kind of a dark joy to watch that flowing elegance while a sense of sublime, like a swell, fails to stop -
being and feeling good about your looks has no visual formula.

One might dress up like i despise - yet look fab
since they feel relaxed with themselves.

One might look clean and elegant yet tensed up since something feels - for them - uncomfortable.

I think that through #greatLeader(tm)'s own actions?

When #trump claims the right to do something since the USA is rather militarily strong, which he seems to like doing -
he is claiming the right to do stuff based on might rather than intelligence.
Moreover, doing stuff by might/power is more limited than by intelligence since it costs more to keep power than maintaining consents.

how may we voice that #greatLeader(tm) AKA #trump who likes to claim being of some kind of considerable intelligence - isn't such, and assert that voice without playing the brutalisation game of imposing an identity and traits another?

I wonder how come the story doesn't mention that Dorothy's mom, whether one agrees with them or not, seems to be acting violently rather than educationally?

taking Twitter away?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/teen-smart-fridge-twitter-grounded

cases for #art linked stuff to let be and be free?

http://www.opsound.org/info/free/

tech inclined #feminists in #Athens?

https://eclectictechcarnival.org/ETC2019/call/

while the research doesnt talk of economics specifically nor about "equality"
i think it might be fruitful to check economy of inequality in terms of exclusion rather than equality.

Equality is a quality that people feel in various individual ways. Where as exclusion is a more tangible quality to share that, in a sense, is an aesthetic of inequalities.

I'd like to have my own home - but prices V salary ratio means no-way.

exclusion vs economix?

https://neurosciencenews.com/social-exclusion-extremism-14691/

https://piksel.org/index.php?conference=piksel&schedConf=p19

#deadline #conference #art (and such..)

or should it be #UK for sale?

Perhaps UK's grand sale?

#'brexit