From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Mon Jul  9 03:27:45 2018
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 18:27:45 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> Activist Mirror game is finally ready for public use!
Message-ID: <CACt_=dJgJ6JvkAEJn-eKcQBSHUrDs-vvoOqwQmNGQLUFV-wvig@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Unlikers,


Our Activist Mirror game is finally ready for public use! We probably
shouldn't overestimate its value but the people who have used it have
enjoyed the experience and found it useful. Please try it yourself and
share this note with friends, email lists, and social media. Also ? we
would love your thoughts. The Activist Mirror will be available in other
languages soon and we're also interested in other ways to make it more
useful.


It takes all types of people to make positive change happen!

*What type are you?*


The Activist Mirror <http://labs.publicsphereproject.org/am/> addresses
this question based on  your response to eight quick questions. It also
recommends four patterns from the Liberating Voices pattern language
<http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv> project that are based on
your responses. Give it a try! (By the way, no personal information is
collected.)


Thanks for your interest!


? Doug, for the Public Sphere Project


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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Mon Jul  9 14:05:50 2018
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:05:50 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> The Github drama
Message-ID: <eb911cd9af9e3d927a26cbb2417eb5ea@xs4all.nl>

Github was one of the loose ends of the "open source"
creators. A centralist outfit[1] that uses its closed
source software to host all that open source "stuff."
That was a good reason for me to never use it, to me it
meant that this outfit too suffered from clown disorder.
Clowns often demonstrate the paradoxes of insanity,
e.g. trying to do impossible things and when it doesn't
work, just keep repeating the same thing.

However, Microsoft (and many other outfits) know that
it can indeed be very lucrative to play the clown for
a large audience. It rents out a lot of that open
source "stuff" on its Azure cloud, because customers
seem to love it, and so far the creators have not
yet complained about this bizarre weirdness.

What MS did, was annex some of the best creations.
Now it suddenly controls the whole stellar creation.
The time bomb is ticking, but there is still time to
escape.

Github refugees are setting up camp in rented places.
In some places, it costs 1 dollar per month to get
a space. In some places, it makes you a member of a
community.

So, Github sold us out. But how could we ever think
it would be "free"? All our hard work, just to make the
Github owners filthy rich, and we get *nothing*. The
horror. Why does nobody come up with the brilliant
idea to open a decentralized repo (perhaps a non-profit
org for non-profit creators) that actually allows for
the creators to be paid? And would it make sense to
know where to find a given repo?

[1] Organized wealth extraction that is "unfamiliar"
with ethics.


--g



From geert at xs4all.nl  Tue Jul 10 17:14:34 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:14:34 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <9047E564-624A-4BC5-9393-028000B2FC08@xs4all.nl>

Jaron Lanier on how social media is ruining your life
https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q <https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q>

After harsh criticism, Facebook quietly pulls services from developing countries
https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free-basics-in-myanmar-and-other-countries?zd=1&zi=5ledqznb <https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free-basics-in-myanmar-and-other-countries?zd=1&zi=5ledqznb>

Deceived by Design: How tech uses dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf <https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf>

Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-platform-publisher-lawsuit <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-platform-publisher-lawsuit>

DIEM25 Srecko Horvat about #DeleteFacebook, global communities and social media
https://magazine.areweeurope.com/silentrevolutions/stories/ellyn-valkengoed-protesting-in-the-age-of-social-media


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From geert at xs4all.nl  Sun Jul 15 10:39:09 2018
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:39:09 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Public_Spaces_Manifesto=E2=80=94initiative_?=
 =?utf-8?q?from_a_Dutch_public_broadcasting_coalition?=
Message-ID: <30C85387-5428-4491-9A21-044F195CF585@xs4all.nl>

https://medium.com/publicspaces/manifesto-f67efae6b622 <https://medium.com/publicspaces/manifesto-f67efae6b622>


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From davies at stanford.edu  Sun Jul 15 10:49:04 2018
From: davies at stanford.edu (Todd Davies)
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 08:49:04 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> 
 =?windows-1252?q?Public_Spaces_Manifesto=97initiativ?=
 =?windows-1252?q?e_from_a_Dutch_public_broadcasting_coalition?=
In-Reply-To: <30C85387-5428-4491-9A21-044F195CF585@xs4all.nl>
References: <30C85387-5428-4491-9A21-044F195CF585@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <BYAPR02MB4711FCA0E8BAE159CF53AB0EBB5E0@BYAPR02MB4711.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

Very interesting initiative, especially coming from a public broadcasting agency. They invite others to join them, but there is no contact address or link that I can see.


Todd


Todd Davies
Symbolic Systems Program
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 94305-2150 USA

email: davies at stanford.edu

phone: 1-650-723-4091

office: 460-040C

web: web.stanford.edu/~davies<https://web.stanford.edu/~davies>



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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2018 1:39 AM
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https://medium.com/publicspaces/manifesto-f67efae6b622


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From michael at briarproject.org  Mon Jul 16 12:03:11 2018
From: michael at briarproject.org (Michael Rogers)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:03:11 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> 
 =?utf-8?q?Public_Spaces_Manifesto=E2=80=94initiative?=
 =?utf-8?q?_from_a_Dutch_public_broadcasting_coalition?=
In-Reply-To: <30C85387-5428-4491-9A21-044F195CF585@xs4all.nl>
References: <30C85387-5428-4491-9A21-044F195CF585@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <deaea11a-ef31-2ac5-3b44-c338ef85e9ac@briarproject.org>

On 15/07/18 09:39, Geert Lovink wrote:
> https://medium.com/publicspaces/manifesto-f67efae6b622

It's good to see a project like this starting from a clear statement of
its political goals. But I find it hard to see how they're going to
square the following goals:

* users are verified and provenance of content can be fully disclosed.
* the platform does not hold or own any personal data of its users.
* the platform employs ?privacy by design? as a basic design principle.

Perhaps they've developed a new zero-knowledge proof of non-trolling.

Cheers,
Michael
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From christian.fuchs at uti.at  Wed Jul 18 12:25:35 2018
From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:25:35 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> EX-ART: Liquid Imaginary | Friday 20 July 14.00 - 19.30
 | UoW Little Titchfield St
Message-ID: <977d5a61-bef8-12c7-aa73-1eaf6c2489d5@uti.at>

EX-ART: Liquid Imaginary
Fri 20 July 2018
14:00 ? 19:30
University of Westminster
4?12 Little Titchfield Street
London
Portland Hall & Lecture Theatre G03

Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies is pleased to announce 
EX-ART: Liquid Imaginary, an interdisciplinary event exploring the sea 
and the ocean through artistic use of emerging technologies.

EX-ART 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ex-art-liquid-imaginary-tickets-47765461782> 
brings together acclaimed international artists Shezad Dawood (UK) and 
Charles Lim (Singapore), whose works SEA STATE (Lim) and Leviathan 
(Dawood) were critical highlights of the recent Venice Biennale in 2015 
and 2017 respectively. Exploring their underlying research. the EX-ART 
event will draw upon the critical imaginary and use of emergent 
technology to explore fluid, dynamic or speculative visions of our ocean 
environments.

The proposition is that artists and research practitioners? access to 
data allows them to challenge scientific, economic and political 
assumptions. Like WIAS itself, EX-ART will be a space for discussing 
critical, innovative and creative research with a view to explore the 
challenges and problems we face in culture, nature, art and technology 
today. The event draws on a long tradition at University of Westminster 
of using experimental art and media to imagine art and research?s 
potential futures and WIAS? advancement of interdisciplinary research 
and dedication to critical thought beyond borders.

Introduced by artist Neal White and curator May Ingawanij (CREAM, 
University of Westminster), the artists? critically charged engagements 
with the sea and the ocean, in allegorical, technological and political 
contexts, will draw upon tensions and potentialities that lie between 
the artistic, scientific and social imaginary. In particular, the event 
will ask how artists? access to tools and data allows us to challenge 
underlying scientific classification, the economic and political context 
of our relationship to the marine environment, yet also embrace an 
ethical experimentation with shared visions of the future.

The event is organised by Westminster Institute of Advanced Studies 
(WIAS) together with Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media 
(CREAM).

Programme

2.00 Introduction Neal White and May Adadol Ingawanij

2.20 Shezad Dawood (with Neal White)

3.30 Break

4.00 ? 5.10 Charles Lim (with May Adadol Ingawanij)

5.15 ? 6.15 EX-ART Panel (Transdisciplinary Panel ? speakers TBC)

6.15 ? 6.45 Drinks Reception

6.45 ? 7.30 Screening Programmed by May Adadol Inagawanij

Free and all welcome. Please follow this link to register: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ex-art-liquid-imaginary-tickets-47765461782





From dallovi90 at gmail.com  Thu Jul 19 12:53:33 2018
From: dallovi90 at gmail.com (David Llop)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:53:33 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Job(s): Project Manager & Senior Dev,
 in Blockchain + Commons Research Project @Madrid
Message-ID: <CAH6Nb9doq0rqHL5yUoWuAx-sj4kWdW0Bax46S4P4VHziRBOy5w@mail.gmail.com>

*We want to build a new type of Collaborative Economy organizations, which
are decentralized, democratic and economically sustainable. Would you like
to join us? P2P Models <http://p2pmodels.eu>, a 5-year 1.5M? research
project, is hiring: - a Project/Communication Manager - a Senior Blockchain
DeveloperThey will join an interdisciplinary team in Madrid, doing research
& building tools with social impacthttps://p2pmodels.eu/jobs/
<https://p2pmodels.eu/jobs/> Tweet
thread:https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1017822934222692352
<https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1017822934222692352> Working at P2P
Models is an opportunity to collaborate with people passionate to create
social impact, in an environment which mixes academics, hackers, designers
and activists. We do research on commons-oriented communities, and build
blockchain-driven frameworks and tools to support their sustainability.
More info: - Funded by the largest EU individual research grant, the ERC,
and the first to build blockchain infrastructure - With Principal
Investigator and advisors from Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University,
such as Yochai Benkler or Primavera De Filippi- Dynamic, young,
interdisciplinary team with a horizontal and inclusive culture- Combines
social research + software tool building, focusing on social impact-
Attractive work conditions and perks, with multiple benefitsFeel free to
write any question/doubt to p2pmodels at ucm.es <p2pmodels at ucm.es> including
in the subject ?Open position?. The positions are meant to start in Fall,
so applicants are encouraged to submit asap.*
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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Wed Jul 25 23:08:23 2018
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:08:23 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> E-Democracy?
Message-ID: <296C278A-B03E-401C-86E0-F87198D6E53C@publicsphereproject.org>

Here is a bit of a "debate" from August 2018 Communications of the ACM (CACM) pitting a technology-focused approach and a human-centered approach to information and communication tech support for democracy reform. I'd love to know what you think! Please feel free to distribute if you think it's useful. [PS. The video is intended to supplement the article. It doesn't echo the article. And the production values could be better. :-) ]
Point: Foundations of E-Democracy, Ehud Shapiro

Article: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229759-point/fulltext

Counterpoint: E-Democracy Won?t Save Democracy. Democracy Will Save Democracy, Douglas Schuler 
Article and video: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229760-counterpoint/fulltext
Video only:  https://vimeo.com/281471277. 

 

? Doug

Douglas Schuler
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From kw at berlinergazette.de  Tue Jul 31 10:56:15 2018
From: kw at berlinergazette.de (Krystian Woznicki)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:56:15 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> CfR: "Challenge Artificial Intelligence!"
Message-ID: <100ee132-5c0b-ecff-7f53-8a9405eab901@berlinergazette.de>


Hi Unlike-Us folks,

the Berliner Gazette is launching the Call for Registration (CfR) for
the BG annual conference, this year entitled AMBIENT REVOLTS. You can
register now for five different workshop tracks that will be exploring
political agency in times of autocrats and AI. All info below and on
this website: https://bit.ly/2mXd0bJ

Spread the word on twitter by re-tweeting this:
https://twitter.com/rosaluxstiftung/status/1022515232625909760

Best wishes, Krystian

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*CHALLENGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE*
Join the workshops at the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference! Register by
October 20!

The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is
transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment.
The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended;
already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions ? think of
cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or
hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by
artificial intelligence (AI) ? involving human interaction but seemingly
beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses
the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and
repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What
potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What
regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable
democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference
will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures
and workshops. The 18th edition of this annual Berliner Gazette event
will be held for the second time in collaboration with the ZK/U ? Center
for Art and Urbanistics and will take place on November 7-10, 2018.

*Register + join workshops*

The conference workshops will bring together more than 100 activists
from all over the world. The BG will invite key actors from the
international scene to form the core of the five workshop tracks, and
will issue an open call for the general public to register.

This open call for registration targets (up-and-coming) hackers,
journalists, activists and researchers. A limited number of participants
is able to register by contacting the following email:
info at berlinergazette.de Deadline: October 20. Registration fee: 50 Euro,
incl. catering. Please note: As the five workshops will be running in
parallel,? everyone is invited to commit to a single track. On November
8-10, the workshops will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The
conference hosts will provide catering throughout the entire conference,
including a warm lunch. A series of guided city walks is planned for
lunch breaks!

To tackle the key issues of the conference, five parallel workshop
tracks will offer five different approaches for a pragmatic critique of
citizenship as a framework for political participation, addressing the
following issues: ?Re-Coding Populism??, ?Challenging the Capitalocene?,
?Involuntary Community?, ?Unlearning Learning?, ?Hacking the Urban Backend?.

The workshop groups will communicate before the conference in order to
flesh out the workshop design collaboratively. Led by experienced group
leaders, participants will be invited to come up with possible answers
to the questions outlined in this project paper. The results will be
made available as online resources by Berliner Gazette: they may include
position papers, multimedia storytelling projects and collections of ideas.

*Workshop Tracks*

*Re-Coding Populism*
Right-wing populism (and populism in general) thrives on social media,
which amplifies the voices of the extremist few rather than the voices
of the many. Can the top-down logics of demagogy be reversed or even
transgressed for democratic ends? This workshop tackles the rise of
right-wing populism in the context of social media and explores the
potential of proto-populist bottom-up approaches such as liquid democracy.

*Challenging the Capitalocene*
Capitalism has turned most of its operations into a quasi-automated
matter. If algorithms operate according to discriminatory categories
(race, ethnicity, gender, etc.), then how does discrimination play out
in capitalism's automated processes? What are strategies against
dehumanization? This workshop tackles the connex of automation,
dehumanization and discrimination in AI-driven capitalism.

*Involuntary Community*
Under the conditions of all-encompassing interconnectedness, right-wing
populist moods can spread in a quasi-contagious fashion. What role do
system errors, glitches and other (planned or unplanned) disruptions
play in this context? Can the surprise element of unforeseen
(dis-)connectedness gain a political valence? This workshop explores new
potentials for emerging solidarity and community.

*Unlearning Learning*
Self-learning systems define our age, thereby changing also the domain
of learning. AI-driven social media are coming to provide
pseudo-classrooms. Meanwhile traditional media are losing their
authority as ?educational institutions?. What is the present and future
of pedagogy? What kind of unlearning needs to be done vis-?-vis
self-learning systems? This workshops explores the politics of
(un-)learning in the context of AI and self-learning systems.

*Hacking the Urban Backend*
In today?s smart city the urbanite is challenged to negotiate her/his
entanglement with the programmed environment. What does this mean for
political action? Is public space still available or is the arena of
political intervention being relocated to the invisibilized backend of
the city? This workshop politicizes the rise of the smart city and
searches for means of appropriation.

*More info* http://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de

AMBIENT REVOLTS is the 18th annual conference of the Berliner Gazette.
This project is a cooperation with ZK/U ? Center for Art and
Urbanistics, funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/
bpb, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation.

*Contact us* info at berlinergazette.de

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