2012-01-29
you wont understand and neither will i the ditch running between us running along roads cold/warm grey/bright des/in/formed escape/escape still, hardly do we share the independence with anyone but us, nomadic concentrated bonds we, hardly share needs just a fate i am fortuned, you say while you hate every reminder of the ditch we don't call it anything let it be, let her just be, because i can listen, sometimes to hate and the shape of the road in between stations i see you thinking
private messages on a dating site
When my new flatmate was introduced to me, he was described as a “little bit queer” which seems a wired measurement. What is a full queer, or a small one? How can these things be measured? Everything needs a value! (… and i hope i catch myself when i do the same.)
So, it is hard to say “how far am i”? Did i passed this step, or another?
Do i know more, then those few people in the square today? Having the neighborhood assembly in a small corner. They know how to listen to each other, to actually support each other in the real world. Yesterday, Sunday evening, they all came together, another weekly update. And last week, they prevented that this pregnant woman would lose her flat, standing in the entry of the house, getting beaten and arrested by the cops.
i have heard all these kinds of stories in the last 10 years, and most of the time from the distance. Sometimes from the ground, sometimes first hand, sometimes i wrote down my own.
We knew 10 years ago, that the G8 is going this way, it was clear that “the crisis” (for us) is coming and that they move all the money to the top. Everywhere.
And you can observe and follow every little step of it.
So yes, my perspective might be different, my concerns, intentions and motivations. My ideals of free access to information seem rather idealistic in the light of the real world troubles. And still i know, it can go hand in hand.
And i write you all this because your profile was full of simple loving words of understanding. You write you are grown up, but your English is as honest and direct as a little kid.
That will have to do, for some wishes of “love and anarchy” of today.
main mile was busy
with cheap attractors
but you played at the empty back road
with a empty cup
jeans open at the knees
hair self cut
with a voice like
twist in your sobriety
excuse the comparsion
as i know, that the kid
was first to drop change
third
being in accident went over his lips like a too often told story
it wasn’t news, but i see, that we don’t share the empathy - as i had assumed
but rather, we share the needs, habits and behaviors.
not promoting violence, but not allowing any weakness either.
this is not me.
i have seen the men
you allowed to be
who waited for
the fear to calm down
taking the cold
out of the body
i see me, i see him
he is nothing
i am used to
let me be the new men
turning around, the back against
a past in happy fear
while ahead is setup for the coming days of war
walk a little closer, this train is not taking me back
Tage des Krieges
Die vergangenen Tage waren voller Krieg; und wie Antwortet mein Körper und Geist? Mit drei Nächten voller Wärme. In dem Traum aus dem ich gerade erwacht bin, kann ich mich endlich in deine Seite kuscheln, mich an dich schmiegen, dich halten und drücken. Und du, im vollem Wissen über die Tage, im Wissen über die Kraft der Erlösung durch diese sanfte Heimlichkeit, du sagst nur “Und, besser?”, ohne wirklich eine Antwort zu erwarten.
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The lives of lee miller arrived yesterday and kept my awake till early in the morning. Her perception off WW2 is astonishing. With the surrealist eye and the realization that “This is a new and disillusioning world. Peace with a world full of crooks who have no honor, no integrity and no shame is not what anyone fought for.” (1945, Page 147)
And only once the adjective fearless is used to describe her, and i still can no grok the essence of the word.
Please be fearless - it’s the perfect balance.
Privacy Wars: I want access to MY data - always.
I just posted a little feature request on the Flickr Ideas Forum. You could also understand it as a open letter to Flickr.
Dear Flickr Goddess,
i would like to ask for a very simple feature: I want access to ALL my photos ALL the time, unless i canceled / deleted my account.
There is a very simple solution:
I would like to a see a separation between the public view of my photo stream and how i with my account see the photo stream.
My view always includes all my pictures. It is my data, and i should always have access to it.
The public view for everyone else can be limited to the 200 pictures.
I don’t mind all the other limitations on the upload and set’s etc. But i would like to have full access to MY data. I am totally willing to pay for sharing. To give everybody the possibility to access my pictures. But i am NOT willing to pay to get access to MY data.
Why?
Well, i put “Privacy Wars” into the topic for a reason: With the recent privacy issues on Facebook, more and more people started to realize to what extend a company has control over their data. The asynchronous access to my photos and the resulting dependency is a major problem of the current privacy issues. With a similar dependency Facebook is able to adjust the privacy terms and therefor control the users data.
In my opinion Flickr always had a very good understanding of sharing and privacy. 90% of the decisions Flickr made in the last years related to that topic where transparent and comprehensible. They in general went into the direction to empower the user.
I know that some people at Flickr understand the current issues of the “Privacy Wars” very well. It would be wonderful if Flickr could send out the right signal to the Flickr Users.
“We understand: You need the free access to your data, we give it to you.”
Even if that means to adjust the Terms of Services.
Thanks
occam, 2010-06-11
the decentralized social web
The idea
As I mentioned before, one good solution of the current fundamental privacy problems might be the use of a decentralized social web. The idea isn’t new but the talk on Freedom in the Cloud by Eben Moglen on February 2nd 2010, outlined the broader context that was needed to understand the puzzle of problems.
As a direct reaction to the talk, the Diaspora projects now starts taking off and already collected >10 times the amount of money they asked for.
However, both Diaspora and Eben Moglen don’t mention one of the major crucial problems: The accessibility of the huge amount of data we collect from our friends and us.
The semantic web and the so called “triple-store” provide the technology to store all the information in one place with the huge possibility to combine data in ways we never thought of before. However, what is still missing is the easy access to all information in such a triple-store.
But before we come to possible solutions, let us imagine the “Mensch-Maschine”, the cyborg, us IT-humans, in ten years.
The device
In ten years, we might have a device we can carry around, that constantly accumulates information’s about what we are doing. It stores the streets and ways we walk, it continuously takes pictures of our environment, records audio, recognizes text, speech, music, voices and faces. We then can review the menu from the Asia restaurant, just because we looked at it. We can always roll-back in time and access a moment we missed, or forgot. And that is the main point, our forgetfulness. Who would not like to have device that remembers for you? Because we are obviously not able to handle it all?! Imagine you could always access the “memories” of your childhood.
You can build such a device already, it might be a bit clumsy and and less fancy, but all the components and technologies are available.
In the ideal world, such a device is only accessible to us and we can always decide what we want to share and what not. Also, if Catherine shares some information with Jules, only Jules should be able to read it, and not Jim.
With sharing and the semantic web the device starts to unfold the full potential. The device will not just store the information about us, but also provide us with the data we got from our friends. The combined data might unfold a view of the world, we never saw before. More or less directly with the eyes from our friends.
The possibility of such a device should make clear how fundamentally important the discussion about privacy in the social network is.
The first step
But what is possible now? What could be the outcome of the Diaspora project?
The Diaspora project might provide two essential features:
- a combined storage of all our “social data” under our direct control
- a encrypted decentralized network to share social data
The combined data store, at best a triple-store, holds the potential to a new way to access information’s about our friends and us. We no longer have to visit multiple websites, go through our RSS reader, check e-mails, IM and micro-blogging - instead everything gets accumulated into one storage. To access the information’s we want, we apply filters. We select a group of people, set a time-frame and get all updates from the different sources.
The current web technologies make it possible to provide easy access to data, but they hardly scale as soon as the amount of data gets bigger. Long lists of micro blogging messages are very hard to go through without the proper context.
The proper context, or ways of accessing information’s are very easy to outline.
- a person
- a group of people
- a location
- a topic / tag / keyword
- the link between these elements
Future applications should provide the functionality to focus on a certain context. The view should be different if we select a person, a group or a location. If we select a location, we want to see what persons and topics are related to it. However, we want to see a map, not a long lists of elements.
The second step
The fact that a decentralized social web will store the information’s on the users hard disk, holds the possibility for dynamic desktop applications. Such a application could go beyond the current web techniques and try new ways of visualizing the semantic web.
I have specific ideas about such a desktop application and hope that i can bring them into some sort of a visual demo. Hopefully in another post.
Three steps ahead
What else? The open source aspect of the Diaspora project will not prevent the commercial copycats. With the resources of bigger companies, it might even be possible to outrun the project, provide a “even nicer” user interface, or certain specific functionality. However, the open source world has learned a lot in the last 10 years. People “demanded” a proper web browser and Mozilla was born. If people keep demanding a direct control over their data and actually have the alternatives, sites like Facebook might never surface again.
Or let my rephrase that: Your data should have the same cultural and legal protection as your body. You better demand that.
(male) liberation 0.1: violence
A full and more extended (male) liberation might never happen, without the transformation of (male) violence into something positive. Or at least it should be understood, accepted (!) and included in a form that does no or fewer damages.
The (male) violence is the major factor of separation between the genders.
Abortion is violence as well. It is the necessary and justified murder of a person, one (!) act of violence we might have to accept.
It is not the acceptance of the violent act itself, it is the acceptance of the violent aspects of a human being. The instinct of self-preservation or self-protection of the freedom of one person, not the protection of a nation.
i ask the male population to understand and reflect on their violence. I don’t ask for the acceptance of rape.
i don’t ask “what is justified or not”, i ask for the reasons and motivations, i ask for the influences and structures that support violence. How does violence influence male identity? What aspects of the normal daily life are (indirect) violent?
This reflection might be the only way to solve the current victim-hood situation of the male/female conflict.
But it is not just that. I posted this in contrast to the extract from susie bright’s book, because of the direct connections between sex and violence. Both of them play a major part in (male) liberation.
