Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication
The production of cheap talk relies everywhere on the depoliticisation of communication. Cheap talk displaces a shared traversal of difference with a technocratic exchange of messages. […] This is a thoroughly sterile ecology of communication: minds making speech to transfer information to other minds. […] It is not [stuttering] but fluency that ensnares life with a type of deathly repetition.
Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins
How fiercely independent Christian communities in America are slowly being forced to adopt modern technology and the strategies they are inventing to resist that technology’s destabilizing effects.
Some good pieces published recently about the #FTX #CryptoPlatform scandal. This one provides some helpful context.
Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown:
The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist delusion.
— By Timi Iwayemi in The Nation (@thenation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/money-from-nothing/
#SamBankmanFried #FTXscam #FTXExchange #ctypto #InfoCapitalism #EffectiveAltuism #MoneyFromNothing #MoneyForNothing
Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown
The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist delusion.
The Open Buddhist University
Mark McGuire