<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jaromil <<a href="mailto:jaromil@dyne.org" class="">jaromil@dyne.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: <nettime> Please support the first global facebook user strike</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">11 May 2018 2:04:48 pm GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org" class="">nettime-l@kein.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class="">dear Anni,<br class=""><br class="">On Sat, 05 May 2018, Anni Roolf wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> Thank you for the pros and cons. Did you guys also read the<br class=""> medium article? [1]<a href="http://bit.ly/facebreak2018" class="">bit.ly/facebreak2018</a> In my experience it’s<br class=""> hard to consider such a campaign in advance. To join it can only<br class=""> be a piece of the puzzle, is an experimentation process and will<br class=""> always have unintended — positive and negative — results.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">thanks for this initiative, I really agree with you this<br class="">experimentation process is important and shouldn't be seen as a<br class="">"reformist" approach to the problem. We are dealing with a complex<br class="">body of organisms whose vital functions have never been mapped, rather<br class="">concealed from us and for which I believe angiographic experiments as<br class="">this one are also a possible intervention, besides euthanasia, and can<br class="">inform and inspire future developments.<br class=""><br class="">I have been reluctanctly on FB for years, connected with many people,<br class="">interacting mostly via bitlbee (messenger to IRC gateway). These days<br class="">is becoming obvious to me (just from a sixth sense no need for<br class="">metrics) that FB has been already abandoned by many people over the CA<br class="">scandal and other campaigns. Interactions over potentially interesting<br class="">topics have shrinked a big deal. Things are changing.<br class=""><br class="">Greetings from Dakar, where in the OFF part of the Biennale we had a<br class="">mindblowing debate on "decolonising internet" hosted by Ker Thiossane,<br class="">with Marion, Oulimata, prof. Tonda and others. In this context of<br class="">"non-aligned utopias" and Afropixel festival to me is also clear noone<br class="">believes in the services coming from the so called FANG conglomerate<br class="">and there is big potential for new, ethical, decolonialised media<br class="">platforms.<br class=""><br class="">ciao<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""> Denis Roio a.k.a. Jaromil <a href="http://Dyne.org" class="">http://Dyne.org</a> think &do tank<br class=""> Ph.D, CTO & co-founder software to empower communities<br class="">Book keynotes, lectures, workshops: <a href="https://jaromil.dyne.org" class="">https://jaromil.dyne.org</a><br class=""> ⚷ crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره<br class=""> GnuPG: 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10<br class=""><br class=""># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission<br class=""># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,<br class=""># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets<br class=""># more info: <a href="http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l" class="">http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l</a><br class=""># archive: <a href="http://www.nettime.org" class="">http://www.nettime.org</a> contact: <a href="mailto:nettime@kein.org" class="">nettime@kein.org</a><br class=""># @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>