From spiritsparrow at riseup.net  Tue Apr  3 19:34:51 2018
From: spiritsparrow at riseup.net (spiritsparrow at riseup.net)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:34:51 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links of today
In-Reply-To: <CFD5F82C-45F4-46D8-8404-D675499AEDA4@xs4all.nl>
References: <CFD5F82C-45F4-46D8-8404-D675499AEDA4@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <04341a0e-7321-5ba7-36c3-074edfc3ded2@riseup.net>


"Facebook hat lange ein Auge zugedr?ckt" article in swiss newspaper
republik with Zeynep Tufekci (german only, sorry): ~why the european
data protection law won't prevent another case like? cambridge analytica~

https://www.republik.ch/2018/03/27/menschen-wuerden-ihre-daten-verkaufen-wenn-sie-koennten






Am 31.03.2018 um 13:34 schrieb Geert Lovink:
> How Facebook handles account deletions
> https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/
>
> History of Facebook Privacy Violations
> https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-a-history-of-mark-zuckerberg-apologizing/
>
> Facebook Shadow Profiles: What You Need to Know
> https://mashable.com/2013/06/26/facebook-shadow-profiles/#C1UU.lX1yZqF
>
> De-Googlify Internet
> https://degooglisons-internet.org/
>
> Return to RSS Architecture as Alternative for Social Media?
> https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/
> http://scripting.com/2018/03/29/151338.html
>
> Bruce Schneier: ?One of the responses to the Cambridge Analytica
> scandal is that people are deleting their Facebook accounts. It's hard
> to do right, and doesn't do anything about the data that Facebook
> collects about people?who don't use Facebook. But it's a start. The
> market can put pressure on these companies to reduce their spying on
> us, but it can only do that if we force the industry out of its secret
> shadows.?
>
> From https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/311334:
>
> *No Replacement for Facebook:*
>
> *Vikas Tiwari, Founder of What a Story,*?emphasized that many
> businesses will not stop using Facebook advertising.
>
> ?They make a lot of revenue by targeting audience and ads. My guess is
> that there is a replacement of Uber (In India its OLA), replacement of
> Flipkart but there is no replacement for Facebook yet. I know many
> people in rural as well urban areas, who have just learned Facebook,
> and they are not going to use Snapchat or LinkedIn or Twitter anytime
> soon,? said Tiwari
>
>
>
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From awake at 0324am.net  Tue Apr  3 23:45:29 2018
From: awake at 0324am.net (awake)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:45:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: <unlike-us> facebook dealing with its size and influence
Message-ID: <1511677102.35339503.1522791929309.JavaMail.zimbra@sn0wcrash.net>

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg: 

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge

Interesting bits are IMO in between the lines. Centralised means not private and not requiring personal involvement /responsibility for one's actions. This is the choice all of the Facebook users have made and that all of them can undo at any time.

o/
rad0


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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr  4 08:12:55 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 08:12:55 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links of the day
Message-ID: <1FCD4643-C848-4C1E-97EF-D5EBFFE6D632@xs4all.nl>

Facebook's Growth at all Cost Memo (2016)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data

Ever Record a Video on Facebook? Facebook Still Has It
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/facebook-secretly-saved-videos-users-deleted.html

Cambridge Analytica: The Mexico Allegations
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-the-mexico-allegations

A social fiction story: US government nationalized Facebook as public utility
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gym59j/facebook-nationalized-public-utility <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gym59j/facebook-nationalized-public-utility>

Who do you follow on Mastodon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116

A mainstream US marketing and sales guru on the Facebook Question
https://www.webinknow.com/can-we-no-longer-trust-facebook

Death of the Newsfeed
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed







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From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Apr  6 08:56:08 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 08:56:08 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> more links
Message-ID: <4BF6850D-E513-4430-ADBD-64E188589C68@xs4all.nl>

Dutch liberal politician Marietje Schaake:  Algorithms have become so powerful we need a robust, Europe-wide response
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/algorithms-powerful-europe-response-social-media

Scammers abused Facebook phone number search
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43656746

Michael Seemann on CS, Kontrollverlust and the Post-Privacy Approach to Data-Regulation
http://www.ctrl-verlust.net/cambridge-analytica-the-kontrollverlust-and-the-post-privacy-approach-to-data-regulation/

Data of 2.2 billions FB users stolen
https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/facebook-data-privacy.html

Facebook real-time stock value
http://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/fb-stock

Naive open letter to Zuckerberg, in German
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/de/facebook_open_letter_loc_/?wBoOnbb










From gertml at xs4all.nl  Sat Apr  7 10:36:06 2018
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:36:06 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Tim Wu: What comes after Facebook?
Message-ID: <86c90c71c88037dc9f146517cff4ab10@xs4all.nl>

what we most need now is a new generation of social media platforms that 
are fundamentally different in their incentives and dedication to 
protecting user data.

If we have learned anything over the last decade, it is that advertising 
and data-collection models are incompatible with a trustworthy social 
media network. The conflicts are too formidable, the pressure to amass 
data and promise everything to advertisers is too strong for even the 
well-intentioned to resist.

One set of Facebook alternatives might be provided by firms that are 
credibly privacy-protective, for which users would pay a small fee 
(perhaps 99 cents a month). In an age of ?free? social media, paying 
might sound implausible ? but keep in mind that payment better aligns 
the incentives of the platform with those of its users.

?network effects? are not destiny.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html

--G



From TTScanada at riseup.net  Sat Apr  7 16:26:48 2018
From: TTScanada at riseup.net (Heather Marsh)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 15:26:48 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Facebook fallout
Message-ID: <793442d5-a919-5864-60f0-a781e00a76a3@riseup.net>


An interesting circle - corporations and states manipulate social media
to escalate division and use that as a reason that corporations and
states need more control over online dialogue.
https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/democracy-vs-cambridge-analytica-and-facebook/

This EU commission report is frightening and extremely predictable given
the members of the commission. Did anyone else bother responding to
them?
https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/response-to-eu-commission-on-fake-news/

All the best,

Heather






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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:55:12 -0400
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> Scammers abused Facebook phone number search
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Apr  9 12:12:45 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:12:45 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> recent links
Message-ID: <08279778-717D-4EFA-9AFF-70AD0BED218F@xs4all.nl>

FT interview with Max Schrems
https://www.ft.com/content/86d1ce50-3799-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c544

Suggestion of breaking up Facebook
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/facebook-zuckerberg-regulation-wyden/

WEF crowd struggles to understand Facebook (remark the primitive level of debate here)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-thought-facebook-could-solve-a-lot-of-problems-but-the-world-is-more-divided-than-he-expected
https://twitter.com/wef/status/982710358900174848

MoneyLab meets Unlike Us: Tipper (?Turning likes into tips")
https://www.tippereconomy.io/

Frank Rieger/CCC: Facebook zerschlagen
https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/zuendfunk/frank-rieger-facebook-muss-zerschlagen-werden-100.html








From kw at berlinergazette.de  Tue Apr 10 09:31:45 2018
From: kw at berlinergazette.de (Krystian Woznicki)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:31:45 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> open call : AMBIENT REVOLTS
Message-ID: <45cbe5cf-4189-36b3-f8f6-1270ca8e484c@berlinergazette.de>

Hi Unlike-Us folks,

What does it mean to act politically when, like in this very moment, we
are confronting the spread of right-wing populism as an ambient force
that polarizes all of us? What, in other words, does it mean to oppose
the imperceptible power of an atmosphere that outrules a collectivity
that is inclusive of all? What does it mean to counter the
quasi-environmentalization of proto-fascist tendencies that further
foster segregation?

Posing these questions in its 19th year, the Berliner Gazette continues
a long-term engagement with contemporary forms of political agency and
the common. In this open call for contributions, we wish to invite
activists, journalists, researchers, cultural workers, coders and
artists to join us looking for answers.

We want to invite you to participate! There are two different formats of
participation: conference workshops (deadline: May 20, 2018 ) and online
newspaper (deadline: June 20, 2018). ?

The structure of this email is as follows:

1. Development, context, goal
2. Conference workshops | call for contributions
3. Online-newspaper | call for contributions

Links, that are implemented in the email text as footnotes, you will be
able to find at the very bottom.

1. Development, context, goal

*Development*

The BG team [1] began developing the AMBIENT REVOLTS project in July
2017. We started right after the G20 summit in Hamburg where some of us
joined the alternative media center FCMC [2]? and witnessed with many
other journalists the most severe execution of preemptive state violence
in Germany?s recent history [3,4,5]. The ensuing recreation of the
political landscape echoed the authoritarian approach of the G20 police
force: a shift of politics to the right and even radical right, a
restriction of demonstration rights and of expressions of political
dissent, scaling and expanding security measures, etc. Against this
backdrop we developed the concept for AMBIENT REVOLTS, including the
general idea for our 2018 annual project consisting of a special section
in our online-newspaper and a series of events culminating with our
annual conference.
?
Shortly after the g20-summer the BG annual conference FRIENDLY FIRE [6]
took place and provided many fruitful possibilities to reflect the
politics of citizenship under current conditions. Then, in December
2017, the BG team contributed to the #LutherLenin festival at the Studio
Hrdinu in Prague [7]. Here we were able to test some of the ideas for
AMBIENT REVOLTS. Finally we launched the project with first
contributions to our online newspaper [8] and with a panel at the
transmediale festival [9] in February 2018. Documents of the launch
event are available in audio [10] and video [11,12]. ?

After that few members of the BG team went on a month-log tour, visiting
some of the nodes of the BG network in Europe, including cities such as
Genoa, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Paris and Brussels. We learned
a lot about how the people who contribute to our online-newspaper or to
our annual conferences live and work in their respective local contexts.
This helped substantially honing some of the key ideas of the AMBIENT
REVOLTS project.

*Context*

When we returned to Berlin in the beginning of March 2018, the
atmosphere was literally spooky as the ghosts of the G20 summit came to
the fore again. Symptomatic of this was the career step of Olaf Scholz
[13]. Instead of paying for the consequences of his ?bad management? as
the mayor of Hamburg ? we are, to reiterate, talking about the most
severe execution of state violence in Germany?s recent history ?, Scholz
became finance minister and even vice chancellor in Angela Merkel?s
fourth cabinet. This disturbing move echoed the later day promotion of
many high ranking policemen and politicians who had been responsible for
the excesses of violence during the G8 in Genoa 2001 [14].

If such things can happen ?in bright daylight? and if they are taken to
be normal, rather than causing a public debate, then the public sphere
is in peril. After all, Scholz?s promotion was followed by a silence
that is telling inasmuch it expresses an implicit framework for
censorship. As such this silence is a constitutive condition for the
post-G20 public sphere: while (left-wing) criticism of the government
and its interpretation of democracy is quelled, right-wing populists are
elevated, e.g. when readily given stages, even by liberal media.

If, in other words, the broader spectrum of the Left is delegitimized
while the far Right is legitimized, then the public sphere is being
constricted through two simultaneous moves. Both moves, as different as
they are, have in common that they contribute to closing the public
discourse for opposition, for dissent and, above all, for the biggest
possible plurality of contributions ? the latter would also include
marginalized, invisibilized and illegalized actors for whom discursive
openings generally tend to be highly precarious.

Needless to say, the aforementioned features have always been the vital
basics of any democracy, yet, remarkably, it is in this historic moment
? in Germany, Europe and beyond ? that the greatest collective courage
needs to take hold to actually perform any of such basic democratic
engagement. As it is we are challenged to explore how this courage can
manifest itself in many different ways.

*Goal*

Against this backdrop the AMBIENT REVOLTS project takes an international
approach, foregrounding cross-border exchange and cooperation. More
specifically, the project aims at accompanying and advocating an
engagement with the public sphere at the molecular level. There are two
reasons for that.

Firstly, we wish to understand better how ambient forces operate today,
meaning: how they colonize the micro-textures of the everyday, how they
enable the contagion of bodies and the modulation affect, and, more
concretely, how they foster right-wing populism. Secondly, we wish to
explore possibilities for interventions upon the ambient forces at their
operational level. Hence the AMBIENT REVOLTS project focuses on
micro-politics in the expanded micro-worlds of the networked public
spheres: small acts and minor gestures in the everyday ? be it when
engaging in the class room or chat room, on the street or online, with
friends or colleagues.

2. Conference workshops | call for contributions

Who: activists, journalists, researchers, cultural workers, coders and
artists
What: responses, ideas, commentary, material, links
Deadline: May 20, 2018
Email: info(at)berlinergazette.de

The AMBIENT REVOLTS conference will take place November 8-10, 2018 at
the Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U) in Berlin []. There will be
five workshop tracks bringing together civil society actors from more
than 20 countries. We are now inviting activists, journalists,
researchers, cultural workers, coders and artists to submit ideas,
questions, material, links. All of this will contribute to the shaping
of the respective five workshop tracks. Please respond to the questions
below by May 20, 2018.

Workshop Track: Rebooting Populism?
Keywords: Populism, Authoritarianism, Social Media, Liquid Democracy
Questions: If right-wing populism (and populism in general) today hinges
upon social media, are then the top-down logics of demagogy reversed? Is
populism nowadays a bottom-up affair? If so, can this reversed logic be
deployed for emancipatory and, ultimately, democratic ends?
? ?
Workshop Track: Hacking the Urban Backend
Keywords: Smart City, Programmed Environments, Appropriation, Hacking
Questions: If in today?s smart city the urbanite is becoming one element
of the programmed environment, then how are the boundaries for political
action being redefined in the course of this? What happens to public
space as a realm in which political actors voice their concerns? Is the
arena of political intervention being relocated to the invisiblized
backend of the city?? ?

Workshop Track: Involuntary Community
Keywords: Interconnectedness, Disruption, Social Networks, Community
Questions: If under today?s conditions of all-encompassing
interconnectedness right-wing populist moods can spread in a viral,
quasi-contagious fashion, then what role do system errors, glitches and
other (planned or unplanned) disruptions play? Can the surprise element
of involuntary connectedness or disconnectedness gain a political
valence? What forms of community can emerge, when technologies such as
"Near Sensing" are deployed for unexpected social ends?

Workshop Track: Challenging the Capitalocene
Keywords: Capitalocene, Automation, Dehumanization, Racism
Questions: If capitalism in the current stage is a quasi-automated
matter, then what role can human actors play? If algorithms operate
according to racialized categories, then how does racism play out in
quasi-automated capitalism? What are possible strategies against
dehumanization?

Workshop Track: Unlearning Learning
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Self-Learning, Politics of Learning
Questions: If self-learning systems define our age, if, at the same
time, AI-driven social media come to provide pseudo-classrooms while
traditional media lose their authority as ?educational institutions?,
then what is the present and future of pedagogy? What kind of unlearning
needs to be done? What, if at all, do we need to learn from
self-learning systems? In what kind of networked public spheres (and
atmo-spheres) do we want to be learning tomorrow? ?
?
3. Online-newspaper | call for contributions

Who: activists, journalists, researchers, cultural workers, coders and
artists
What: essays, interviews and reports (9.500 chars)
Deadline: June 20, 2018
Email: info(at)berlinergazette.de

At the beginning of this year we have started publishing essays,
interviews and reports in a special section of the Berliner Gazette
dedicated to AMBIENT REVOLTS [16]. We are planning to publish
approximately 50 contributions by the end of the year. Assembling this
material we would like also to elaborate a concept for a book with a
selection of texts on our annual theme ? expanding the BG series of by
now eight books (5 of them anthologies/readers).

If you have not heard about the BG annual projects before, please have a
look at our most recent projects UN|COMMONS [17], TACIT FUTURES [18] and
FRIENDLY FIRE [19]. ?

Please spread the word about this open call for contributions. And
please let us know if you have any questions regarding the call.

Stay tuned,

Krystian (for the BG team)

Links

1. https://bit.ly/2GK2LQb
2. https://fcmc.tv/
3. https://bit.ly/2IEJH6i
4. http://berlinergazette.de/g-20-gewalt-aus-der-zukunft
5. https://g20-doku.org
6. https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire
7. https://studiohrdinu.cz/en/predstaveni/lutherlenin
8. https://bit.ly/2HiFdTu
9. https://bit.ly/2uZV6M8
10. https://voicerepublic.com/talks/ambient-revolts
11. https://vimeo.com/262355303
12. https://vimeo.com/262354951
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Scholz
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_G8_summit
15. http://www.zku-berlin.org/
16. https://bit.ly/2HiFdTu
17. https://berlinergazette.de/uncommons
18. https://berlinergazette.de/tacit-futures
19. https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire

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CHECK DOCU OF LATEST BG EVENTS:

FRIENDLY FIRE ? BG Annual Conference 2017
https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire

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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Tue Apr 10 14:28:06 2018
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:28:06 +0800
Subject: <unlike-us> Tim Wu: What comes after Facebook?
In-Reply-To: <86c90c71c88037dc9f146517cff4ab10@xs4all.nl>
References: <86c90c71c88037dc9f146517cff4ab10@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <F62AB1AF-5172-40FC-B7FF-7B8F0B72CBD5@publicsphereproject.org>

I couldn?t agree more Gert and I think we?ve reached a shit or get off the pot moment. I?m all in favor of critique but we also need to build and use systems ourselves. I think it?s imperative and viable. I.e. I have a lot of faith in you all!!

Thanks 

? Doug

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:36 PM, gertml <gertml at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> what we most need now is a new generation of social media platforms that are fundamentally different in their incentives and dedication to protecting user data.
> 
> If we have learned anything over the last decade, it is that advertising and data-collection models are incompatible with a trustworthy social media network. The conflicts are too formidable, the pressure to amass data and promise everything to advertisers is too strong for even the well-intentioned to resist.
> 
> One set of Facebook alternatives might be provided by firms that are credibly privacy-protective, for which users would pay a small fee (perhaps 99 cents a month). In an age of ?free? social media, paying might sound implausible ? but keep in mind that payment better aligns the incentives of the platform with those of its users.
> 
> ?network effects? are not destiny.
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html
> 
> --G
> 
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Tue Apr 10 20:37:39 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:37:39 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links of the day
Message-ID: <914CB5F6-EF1C-49B0-A4DF-5A69EB123BD0@xs4all.nl>

RSS is Undead
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead/

Dutch TV comedian starts Bye Bye Facebook campaign
https://in.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-netherlands/widely-watched-dutch-comedian-says-bye-bye-facebook-idINKBN1HG290

Zuckerberg?s testimony in Washington DC (txt of his speech)
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20180411/108090/HHRG-115-IF00-Wstate-ZuckerbergM-20180411.pdf

Cronology of the Zuckerberg Sorry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebook-zuckerberg-apologies/

Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives Movement
https://medium.com/@YESHICAN/an-open-letter-to-facebook-from-the-data-for-black-lives-movement-81e693c6b46c

Quick Guide to The Free Network (thanks to Roel at nettime-nl)
https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

New Yorker Authors on How to Fix Facebook
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-to-fix-facebook













From rlatham1 at yorku.ca  Wed Apr 11 14:53:07 2018
From: rlatham1 at yorku.ca (Robert Latham)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:53:07 -0400
Subject: <unlike-us> unlike-us Digest, Vol 81, Issue 8
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3.1523440803.10077.unlike-us_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
References: <mailman.3.1523440803.10077.unlike-us_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
Message-ID: <C6695571-5998-4894-8A9B-5302A8D0F142@yorku.ca>

Unfortunately the ?critical? voice about Facebook in the US is Zeynep Tufekci who is either clueless about social theory (e.g., her notion of authoritarian reveals a complete absence of the theoretical underpinnings and history of thought and critique about power and communication) or is purposefully channeling critical inclinations and impulses into very narrow collaborationist terms (thereby doing the work of reactionary, soft reform that the corporations require in this context).  Even having a journalist like Glenn Greenwald as this ?critical? voice would be much better.   
Robert
 
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> I couldn?t agree more Gert and I think we?ve reached a shit or get off the pot moment. I?m all in favor of critique but we also need to build and use systems ourselves. I think it?s imperative and viable. I.e. I have a lot of faith in you all!!
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>> On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:36 PM, gertml <gertml at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> what we most need now is a new generation of social media platforms that are fundamentally different in their incentives and dedication to protecting user data.
>> 
>> If we have learned anything over the last decade, it is that advertising and data-collection models are incompatible with a trustworthy social media network. The conflicts are too formidable, the pressure to amass data and promise everything to advertisers is too strong for even the well-intentioned to resist.
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>> One set of Facebook alternatives might be provided by firms that are credibly privacy-protective, for which users would pay a small fee (perhaps 99 cents a month). In an age of ?free? social media, paying might sound implausible ? but keep in mind that payment better aligns the incentives of the platform with those of its users.
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>> ?network effects? are not destiny.
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>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html
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> RSS is Undead
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead/
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> Dutch TV comedian starts Bye Bye Facebook campaign
> https://in.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-netherlands/widely-watched-dutch-comedian-says-bye-bye-facebook-idINKBN1HG290
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> Zuckerberg?s testimony in Washington DC (txt of his speech)
> http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/20180411/108090/HHRG-115-IF00-Wstate-ZuckerbergM-20180411.pdf
> 
> Cronology of the Zuckerberg Sorry
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebook-zuckerberg-apologies/
> 
> Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives Movement
> https://medium.com/@YESHICAN/an-open-letter-to-facebook-from-the-data-for-black-lives-movement-81e693c6b46c
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> Quick Guide to The Free Network (thanks to Roel at nettime-nl)
> https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334
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> New Yorker Authors on How to Fix Facebook
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr 11 23:14:29 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:14:29 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links of the day
Message-ID: <397E3134-0CC7-483E-A991-AB3D8F6030BF@xs4all.nl>

Ashkan Soltani takes us back to FB of 2010
https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/983725115903852544

NYT Zucc Fact Check
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/technology/zuckerberg-elections-russia-data-privacy.html

Zuckerberg memes
https://twitter.com/ZuckerbergMemes

Gab: The Free Speech Network
https://gab.ai/

Good, lengthy analysis of Zuckerberg?s appearance before the US Senate
https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-current/

Facebook and Competition
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-competition/








From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Apr 12 22:06:08 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:06:08 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links of the day
Message-ID: <AE9F9E17-C7D9-4CD5-9640-21BC5037726E@xs4all.nl>

Escape the Echo Chamber
https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

"Unstoppable microblogging: Peepeth is a decentralized alternative to Twitter. It's unstoppable and uncensorable because it runs on the Ethereum blockchain. No company or government controls the data on Peepeth."
https://peepeth.com/about

Why feminists should abandon social media
https://cyberwanderlustblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/why-feminists-should-abandon-social-networks-ideology/ <https://cyberwanderlustblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/why-feminists-should-abandon-social-networks-ideology/>  

From Orkut to Hello
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Apr 13 10:17:08 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:17:08 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> link
Message-ID: <DF9B8ED1-7574-4C32-9EC1-F8D953F3FD7F@xs4all.nl>

FB?s evolution of ads
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/11/technology/facebook-sells-ads-life-details.html

Telegram vs. Copyright
https://theoutline.com/post/4143/telegram-is-the-hot-new-source-for-illegal-downloads?zd=2&zi=d6u2xwa7







From paulmx at tuta.io  Fri Apr 13 10:27:07 2018
From: paulmx at tuta.io (Paul Sulzycki)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:27:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: <unlike-us> Sunday with Lubach without Facebook
Message-ID: <L9y6N2f--3-0@tuta.io>

Hi everyone, this came across my Diaspora feed and I immediately knew I had to share it because a/ the fellow comprehensively explains everything wrong with Facebook (so it's a great resource to send to any friends who have questions), and b/ it's in Dutch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa-SzNepsA&t=3s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa-SzNepsA&t=3s>

In the event someone's already shared this on the list, I'm sorry for the duplicate. I've been away from my email forever and am just returning now.

Lastly, this is where I found it: https://diasp.org/posts/9228073 <https://diasp.org/posts/9228073>. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I've been seeing more and more people coming to Diaspora, and this wave seems... different than the last ones. More informed. And more open to exploring new networks. If anyone is on the Fediverse (Diaspora/Friendica/Hubzilla, etc), I'd love to connect with you too: https://diasp.org/u/zulu <https://diasp.org/u/zulu>.


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Paul Sul?ycki


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From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Apr 13 20:07:16 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:07:16 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> How to run a global investigation into Facebook with
 machine learning
Message-ID: <8B0E6B97-D00B-4733-AD03-48F616AA94F7@xs4all.nl>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZbPn5NR3sE

From July to December 2017 ProPublica and partners from seven countries collected political ads published on Facebook. After Russia ran a disinformation campaign on the site in 2016, the company promised to crack down on misleading political advertising. However, ProPublica and its partners have found that those measures have missed many questionable political ads published on Facebook. ProPublica asked its readers to install a browser extension so ProPublica could collect ads and targeting information to discover unregulated political messages running on Facebook. Readers sent ProPublica over three hundred thousand ads and by using machine learning ProPublica discovered over eighteen thousand political ads.

Without the ProPublica project these ads would have disappeared, and the ads ProPublica found led to stories that would have been impossible to tell otherwise. In Germany, ProPublica worked with Spiegel Online, S?ddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesschau and found a seemingly well financed anti-green party group that disappeared shortly after the German elections. In Australia, the Guardian tracked down ads run by anti same sex marriage outfits, and found ads and Facebook pages may have violated a civil rights law. In the United States, ProPublica found politically flavored ads that tried to hack user?s computers and others that were aimed at scamming users with questionable products. As of December 2017, the partnership had produced fifteen stories with more on the horizon, and a database has been published of the German, the Australian, and US ads. ProPublica has also open sourced its code. In this talk, we?ll go over the machine learning technology behind the project, and the challenges and rewards of running an international investigation focused on one of the world?s largest technology companies.

With: Christina Elmer (head of data journalism Spiegel Online), Jeff Larson (reporter ProPublica), recorded at the Perugia International Journalism Festival (Italy), April 13, 2018.




From gertml at xs4all.nl  Sun Apr 15 16:12:36 2018
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:12:36 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Is FB deflating?
Message-ID: <1d9829cb17c3c926c7b56e78c868e4bb@xs4all.nl>

9% of Americans in study report deleting Facebook

Thirty-five percent said they were using Facebook less than they used 
to.

...lower engagement is actually the real risk for Facebook, not 
necessarily people deleting their accounts.

http://www.businessinsider.com/delete-facebook-statistics-nearly-10-percent-americans-deleted-facebook-account-study-2018-4?r=UK&IR=T




From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr 18 17:41:26 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:41:26 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <D5BD44E8-43BB-47E7-B1AD-D6253E3163B0@xs4all.nl>

Questioning the Dopamine Myths
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17169446/dopamine-pleasure-chemical-neuroscience-reward-
motivation

TED lecture of Jaron Lanier on ?how we need to remake the internet'
https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet <https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet> 

Facebook container for Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/

"Dear Yogatrail customer,

It may be convenient, but the Facebook login option raises privacy
concerns ? and that's no longer OK. So, YogaTrail will be eliminating
our integration with Facebook this Friday. For you this means: NO MORE
LOGGING IN WITH FACEBOOK!

If you were connected with Facebook on YogaTrail before, _please make
sure your email and password are set in your account settings._ (Manage
Settings Here ?? [1]).?




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From paulmx at tuta.io  Wed Apr 18 23:12:46 2018
From: paulmx at tuta.io (Paul Sulzycki)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:12:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: <unlike-us> FB definitely deflating
Message-ID: <LAPaZJk--3-0@tuta.io>

"13 South Africans installed the Facebook app from Cambridge Analytica and exposed 96,121 friends' personal data.
"So it is not always about what you do yourself, but also what your friends do and what data you have shared with those friends (well at least on Facebook). And of course it is not just what is in the raw data, it is about the conclusions drawn from lots of data that describe patterns of behaviour.
"For me personally, the trust is most certainly broken and whatever they now want to start doing, is too late for me to go back to Facebook. I'm glad to see many privacy based donor-funded alternatives doing very well now. It may be a new era of social networking dawning where a single monolithic autocratic network is no longer the norm."
-- https://techcentral.co.za/more-south-africans-exposed-in-facebook-data-scandal/80777 <https://techcentral.co.za/more-south-africans-exposed-in-facebook-data-scandal/80777/>
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MSc, RMT, spmx.ca <https://spmx.ca/bio>
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From cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com  Mon Apr 23 10:48:52 2018
From: cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com (Sajber Vanderlast)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:48:52 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Weaponizing Data to Subvert Democracy by Julian Vigo
Message-ID: <CAASUUgCK2_k6oX++OTFMUqc60hohCZG4nC+aaEHoc5-bn39cQg@mail.gmail.com>

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/weaponizing-data-to-subvert-democracy/

Sajber Vanderlast

I am the chimera of a data-driven society,
where the role of the human subject
is practically irrelevant.
??? RESISTANCE ???
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From spiritsparrow at riseup.net  Mon Apr 23 14:59:06 2018
From: spiritsparrow at riseup.net (spiritsparrow)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:59:06 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Weaponizing Data to Subvert Democracy by Julian Vigo
In-Reply-To: <CAASUUgCK2_k6oX++OTFMUqc60hohCZG4nC+aaEHoc5-bn39cQg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAASUUgCK2_k6oX++OTFMUqc60hohCZG4nC+aaEHoc5-bn39cQg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <988897ec-24ab-b45c-bf62-a5c5fc9b6411@riseup.net>

I thought instead posting an article I might also pose a question:

Does somebody know good and readable articles on how google's and
facebook's users are their mechanical turks, which might be forwarded to
friends and colleagues who are still not taking the downsides of using
these services serious? Like how we are working for these corporations
and how they generated billions of income and subsequently have gained
political/societal influence (beyond reconfiguring how we communicate).

If that's not already asked too much, it would be great to have articles
in different languages, too.

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From spiritsparrow at riseup.net  Mon Apr 23 15:01:42 2018
From: spiritsparrow at riseup.net (spiritsparrow)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:01:42 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Articles on being "mechanical turks"
In-Reply-To: <988897ec-24ab-b45c-bf62-a5c5fc9b6411@riseup.net>
References: <988897ec-24ab-b45c-bf62-a5c5fc9b6411@riseup.net>
Message-ID: <bfbe3821-d784-3580-9c49-0792be98bf38@riseup.net>

Sorry this time with the correct subject.

I thought instead posting an article I might also pose a question:

Does somebody know good and readable articles on how google's and
facebook's users are their mechanical turks, which might be forwarded to
friends and colleagues who are still not taking the downsides of using
these services serious? Like how we are working for these corporations
and how they generated billions of income and subsequently have gained
political/societal influence (beyond reconfiguring how we communicate).

If that's not already asked too much, it would be great to have articles
in different languages, too.

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From douwe at fairphone.com  Mon Apr 23 15:28:11 2018
From: douwe at fairphone.com (Douwe Schmidt)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:28:11 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Articles on being "mechanical turks"
In-Reply-To: <bfbe3821-d784-3580-9c49-0792be98bf38@riseup.net>
References: <988897ec-24ab-b45c-bf62-a5c5fc9b6411@riseup.net>
	<bfbe3821-d784-3580-9c49-0792be98bf38@riseup.net>
Message-ID: <BCF6AFAD-D438-423F-800D-7F2FE7B518B8@fairphone.com>



https://xkcd.com/1897/

> On 23 Apr 2018, at 15:01, spiritsparrow <spiritsparrow at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Sorry this time with the correct subject.
> 
> I thought instead posting an article I might also pose a question:
> 
> Does somebody know good and readable articles on how google's and facebook's users are their mechanical turks, which might be forwarded to friends and colleagues who are still not taking the downsides of using these services serious? Like how we are working for these corporations and how they generated billions of income and subsequently have gained political/societal influence (beyond reconfiguring how we communicate).
> 
> If that's not already asked too much, it would be great to have articles in different languages, too.
> 
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr 25 19:25:18 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:25:18 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <50007940-BC71-443B-9B07-6E2155E2481B@xs4all.nl>

Third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/18/no-boundaries-for-facebook-data-third-party-trackers-abuse-facebook-login/ <https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/18/no-boundaries-for-facebook-data-third-party-trackers-abuse-facebook-login/>

EFF takes distance from #deletefacebook
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/deletefacebook-or-not-deletefacebook-not-question <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/deletefacebook-or-not-deletefacebook-not-question>

Neo-liberal arguments why we should support the open web
https://chrishardie.com/2018/04/rebuilding-open-web/ <https://chrishardie.com/2018/04/rebuilding-open-web/>

Do you feel trapped by the #dotcons? There is a vibrant rebooting of the #openweb just a step away. Activism, Campaigning and Search https://activism.openworlds.info <https://activism.openworlds.info/> - https://campaign.openworlds.info <https://campaign.openworlds.info/> - https://openworlds.info <https://openworlds.info/> 

From Berliner Gazette:

Der Camebridge-Analytica-Skandal hat den Facebook-Widerstand weltweit befluegelt. Eine Antwort lautet Aussteigen, der Hashtag ist #deletefacebook. Die virale Initiative hat nun eine Debatte entfacht, die vom Entweder-oder-Denken der sozialen Netzwerke gepraegt ist: Daumen rauf, Daumen runter. Dieses Drama der Extreme nivelliert nicht nur feine Unterschiede, sondern auch Widerstand und Widerspruch. Die WissenschaftlerInnen Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zeigen, wie dabei auch wichtige [daten]politische Fragestellungen vergluehen. [https://berlinergazette.de/deletefacebook <https://berlinergazette.de/deletefacebook>]




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From cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com  Thu Apr 26 10:42:53 2018
From: cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com (Sajber Vanderlast)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:42:53 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?What_Good_Is_=E2=80=98Community=E2=80=99_Wh?=
	=?utf-8?q?en_Someone_Else_Makes_All_the_Rules=3F?=
Message-ID: <CAASUUgCxnhbqhXMpq+9t=VeuTiGUTRAuR0eHCE7kHGoVLPzd6Q@mail.gmail.com>

 *?Community? is derived from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French communit?,
meaning, primarily, ?joint ownership.? A community, at least in theory, is
a site of collective decision-making; it is maintained by the people who
built it, for their own benefit. It monitors itself and invests in its own
health. It rewards participation with a real stake in the common good. It?s
no wonder, then, that community tends to strike us as a positive thing; the
Welsh Marxist theorist Raymond Williams once wrote that the word?s most
salient attribute was that it ?seems never to be used unfavorably.? *

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/magazine/what-good-is-community-when-someone-else-makes-all-the-rules.html

Sajber Vanderlast

I am the chimera of a data-driven society,
where the role of the human subject
is practically irrelevant.
??? RESISTANCE ???
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From bani at theinfluencers.org  Thu Apr 26 18:12:00 2018
From: bani at theinfluencers.org (Bani Brusadin)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:12:00 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> call for participants: FREEPORT 0 - Trespassing the
 data factory
Message-ID: <15259ceb-7083-7195-7e04-287be4677ed4@theinfluencers.org>

dear Unlikers

I'm organizing an early-summer camp led by Vladan Joler and Share Lab
(http://labs.rs/) in Barcelona. It's especially aimed at *artists,
designers, technologists, hacktivists, graduate and post-graduate
students, visual storytellers, writers*. It's an experiment we're
launching out of The Influencers festival (http://theinfluencers.org/)
and, ideally, we would love to mix people with lots of experience with
young experts. The program looks very technical but we're actually want
to promote a creative approach to the complex technical, aesthetical and
political issues at stake.

Here are the basics:

FREEPORT 0: Trespassing the data factory is a 5-day program led by
Vladan Joler and the Share Lab. Together we will perform a data-driven
investigation with the purpose of understanding infowar, performing
data, and telling stories.

DAY ONE : Network Topology and Tracking Forensics
DAY TWO : Email Metadata Analysis (Do-It-Yourself NSA)
DAY THREE : Browsing Surveillance
DAY FOUR : Mapping Information Warfare
DAY FIVE : Investigating Corporate Black Boxes

Applications deadline May 20
Contents, guidelines, price ? https://freeport.institute/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffreeport.institute%2F&h=ATPb9iV4K2GB7FhIADcv4PbqeopDPIVPqsrtK3oHpZdH6ZnGZsZHBdLPty7Eosb4tsEfSgklCY5JbA_0N9lVlGs3wChaISDKTLnBYVMT_umafQt1dl1Zbqzt0D0>

-- 

Bani Brusadin
The Influencers http://theinfluencers.org/
FREEPORT https://freeport.institute

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From bani at theinfluencers.org  Thu Apr 26 22:00:59 2018
From: bani at theinfluencers.org (Bani Brusadin)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:00:59 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> call for participants: FREEPORT 0 - Trespassing the
 data factory
Message-ID: <fc6d02ab-9194-a2fb-d967-847b26ab571c@theinfluencers.org>

In my last email to the list a facebook link appeared instead of the
legitimate link, which is obviously https://freeport.institute (as a
project it doesn't even have a FB page).

Of course it was a mistake, probably due to some copy-paste from browser
autocomplete function. Facebook toxic waste invading everything on line,
including free software browser and navigation in general.

Of course I apologize. It was not a funny mistake.

bani



From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Fri Apr 27 21:31:12 2018
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:31:12 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> Info on a pre-conference event before rightscon?!
Message-ID: <CACt_=dLp87bZE_dbPjKkzjsVbyuNbB7+gH8Q=uKFNCRnpL8Dzw@mail.gmail.com>

While I was abroad I received some sort of invitation for a preconference
event on Tuesday May 15, the day before Rightscon conference in Toronto. It
seemed pretty relevant and I blocked out time to attend it.

Unfortunately I can find no trace of that message at all! Does anybody on
this list know about anything going on that day that might be what I'm
thinking about? Or whom I could talk to about this?

Thanks for any ideas!

? Doug
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From cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com  Mon Apr 30 11:06:01 2018
From: cyber.wanderlust at gmail.com (Sajber Vanderlast)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:06:01 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy
 Society
Message-ID: <CAASUUgCUp=Rn0FePRYNjfkrWj2GDxipKoZqsWkCynjRUUxpSJQ@mail.gmail.com>

>
> When their technocrat proponents talk about the market or the state, it
> tends to be in terms that strongly resemble those of programming and
> computer science. Both institutions are supposed to take their strict
> parameters and make the most of them, building on information and learning
> from past experiences toward a more perfect union and/or a lot of money.
> And, like computers, when you look at the actual functioning of either of
> these systems, they?re full of glitches and exploits.
>

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html


Sajber Vanderlast

I am the chimera of a data-driven society,
where the role of the human subject
is practically irrelevant.
??? RESISTANCE ???
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