It begins

Most writing on the energy transition in North Africa and the Arab region is dominated by international neoliberal institutions. This essay collection is different: It exposes greedy power structures shaping the response to climate change. 👉longreads.tni.org/just-transitio…

"Calculation is not a response to institutional deficiency. The challenge consists in reinventing institutions capable of anti-anthropic transformations that act beyond calculation: only deliberation still allows hope for a shift that is not completely chaotic" Stiegler/Bifurcate

“What’s driving them is true of Gen Z everywhere. The world around them is falling apart…A generation handed nothing but death. People who have been suicidal or have attempted suicide, and are like, “you want to kill me. I’m already dead.” anarchiststudies.org/comradefromira…

Operation CyberHope: Join the Cloud Exodus world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-…

Another example of why we need our own technical infrastructure that doesn't rely on big tech

New Ways of Reading: Publishing Experiments For All, TUE 25 OCT | 19:00–21:30 @ Framer Framed, Amsterdam. "Cultural critical publishing practices require new strategies to respond to the contemporary realities of online media." networkcultures.org/goinghybrid/ev…

A friendly reminder of how insane property prices are. Here is 400 years of data from Amsterdam. We're living through the biggest real estate bubble ever.

I am not sure what is worse, the peak privatization logic at #DDW2022, or the fact that nobody realizes that pretending to ‘solve’ social issues with design just means moving money from healthcare, housing, and poverty budgets to designers so they can make their pretty objects.

Few days ago in Amsterdam Mokum Kraakt squatted the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 302 and renamed it The Monument. From Friday 28.10-Sunday 30-10 they organize the Piep Knars Krijs Kraak exhibition with 13 contributions by different artists and activists. Come! networkcultures.org/events/piep-kn…

Uncertain how much (online) attention this detailed investigative research already got. "Remote killers. Who is guiding missiles towards Ukrainian civilian targets and how?" theins.ru/en/politics/25… It's related to the Bellingcat findings, please read both bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

"Blocking or being blocked is not an interference with freedom of expression or democracy but an interface function of social media platforms. These are easily confused." Tweet in German from @StrickSimon DieAusnahmeUndDieRegel

Weaponization of the Visuality During the War in Ukraine by Lesia Kulchynska "A post revealing self-destructive feelings invoked by massive media presence of atrocities made me start thinking about the capacity of the image to be an instrument of violence."networkcultures.org/tactical-media…

Must-see documentary on unknown Dutch manufacturer of chips machines ASML and the ultra-strategic diplomatic war between the US, China, Taiwan and the EU, centred around Velthoven, a village south of Eindhoven youtube.com/watch?v=zQu_TM… For those in NL, the video is on the VPRO site

"We're getting the best minds of our generation to think about how to make people click ads." As the tech bubble deflates, might we see a reallocation of talent towards solving actual societal problems?

New! INC Theory on Demand #45: Overload, Creep, Excess-An Internet from India by Nishant Shah, Ashish Rajadhyaskha & Nafis Hasan on India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history- an unprecedented reorganization of social and political life. networkcultures.org/blog/publicati…

"So what's the alternative for Twitter?" Whatever. What counts is to migrate together. This should not be a personal consumer choice because this is doomed to fail. Discuss it with friends, comrades and communities and decide together where to go before you announce the exodus.

so that's it. twitter no more where instead? not sure. nowhere, somewhere, tbd

"We don;t wanna become the next Twitter. Mastodon has proven that social media can be fun and safe without bullies! Engage in discussions without being harassed. Respect for each other is important here. You don't have to agree with everyone. Talking is better than name-calling."