104. We were going to tell you how to fix the Internet in four easy steps,
but the only one we could remember is the last one: profit. So instead,
here are some random thoughts…

Xenophobic but not against immigration reform

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications
Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams
of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These
dreams must now be born anew in us.

What's it doing? Sitting on your shelf, unused, because you've already
upgraded?

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message
opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the
past. Will you join us?

- peer-to-peer networks

9. Slow Media are distributed via recommendations not advertising:
the success of Slow Media is not based on an overwhelming advertising
pressure on all channels but on recommendation from friends, colleagues
or family. A book given as a present five times to best friends is a
good example.

Everybody should have unencumbered access to the internet and other
public information and communication networks and have the possibility
to protect all data transfer with good privacy. To ensure this we, the
European Pirates, advocate for a discrimination-free Internet, which
does not permit operators, governments and other bodies to either block
or prioritise certain kinds of applications, services or contents nor
limits the access depending on the location of sender or receiver.

I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot
manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But
we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the
street making faces, and starving. We do something else.

**“Programmers need to make a living somehow.”**

- Participate in the Nettime retirement plan, zero work by age 40.

077. Ensure that there is no conclusive evidence of Ikko giving monki

017. Create a prize that is awarded.

63. The more machines sound human, the more they slide down into the
uncanny valley where everything is a creep show.

54. If we want to know the truth about your products, we’ll find out
from one another.

Winer wants to demystify the server. "Engineers sometimes mystify what
they do, as a form of job security," writes Winer, "I prefer to make
light of it... it was easy for me, why shouldn't it be easy for everyone?"

3. Slow Media aim at perfection. Slow Media do not necessarily represent
new developments on the market. More important is the continuous
improvement of reliable user interfaces that are robust, accessible and
perfectly tailored to the media usage habits of the people.

For example, the patent system was established to encourage inventors
to disclose the details of their inventions. Its purpose was to help
society rather than to help inventors. At the time, the life span of 17
years for a patent was short compared with the rate of advance of the
state of the art. Since patents are an issue only among manufacturers,
for whom the cost and effort of a license agreement are small compared
with setting up production, the patents often do not do much harm. They
do not obstruct most individuals who use patented products.

27b. ctrl + c

7. Methods for the decryption of messages hidden inside 3D objects.

Why is there so little explicit, organized effort to repurpose
technologies for progressive gender political ends? XF seeks to
strategically deploy existing technologies to re-engineer the world.
Serious risks are built into these tools; they are prone to imbalance,
abuse, and exploitation of the weak.  Rather than pretending to risk
nothing, XF advocates the necessary assembly of techno-political
interfaces responsive to these risks.  Technology isn't inherently
progressive.  Its uses are fused with culture in a positive feedback loop
that makes linear sequencing, prediction, and absolute caution impossible.
Technoscientific innovation must be linked to a collective theoretical and
political thinking in which women, queers, and the gender non-conforming
play an unparalleled role.

Access is important. Don't lock your creativity into a format we
can't see.

The zero dollar laptop has already been distributed. (You weren't told
about it at the time of distribution.)

Computers are simply a necessary and enjoyable part of life, like food
and books. Computers are not everything, they are just an *aspect* of
everything, and not to know this is computer illiteracy, a silly and
dangerous ignorance.

In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccountable
secret agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance
programs. Sometimes the agencies even deliberately try to hide their
surveillance of high officials or the public. While the NSA and GCHQ
seem to be the worst offenders - this is what the currently available
documents suggest - we must not forget that mass surveillance is a global
problem in need of global solutions.

the death of the flow capital is a new stage for the necrotization
of capitalism.

012. Don’t think outside the box. Build a box.

There is probably no other word that would be as overused in the media
discourse as ‘generation’. I once tried to count the ‘generations’
that have been proclaimed in the past ten years, since the well-known
article about the so-called ‘Generation Nothing’; I believe there were
as many as twelve. They all had one thing in common: they only existed
on paper. Reality never provided us with a single tangible, meaningful,
unforgettable impulse, the common experience of which would forever
distinguish us from the previous generations. We had been looking for it,
but instead the groundbreaking change came unnoticed, along with cable TV,
mobile phones, and, most of all, Internet access. It is only today that we
can fully comprehend how much has changed during the past fifteen years.

Like other migrant media tactitions Wodiczko has studied the techniques
by which the weak become stronger than the opressors by scatering ,
by becoming centreless, by moving fast across the physical or media and
virtual landscapes. 'The hunted mustdiscover the ways become the hunter.'

The open source, open access and open data communities were essential
to enabling the web as we know it today and have become the main drivers
of the digital economy. A further key element that we currently lack is
open access to the information distributed across the web.

One more thing: we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that
remind us of our childhood, the music that accompanied us ten years ago:
in the external memory network these are simply memories. Remembering
them, exchanging them, and developing them is to us something as natural
as the memory of ‘Casablanca’ is to you. We find online the films
that we watched as children and we show them to our children, just as you
told us the story about the Little Red Riding Hood or Goldilocks. Can
you imagine that someone could accuse you of breaking the law in this
way? We cannot, either.

- Der Zugang zu Computern und allem, was einem zeigen kann, wie diese
Welt funktioniert, sollte unbegrenzt und vollständig sein.

096. Dismiss expressions like “from farm to table” as superstition.

6. Force the audience to voyage the acousmatic videoscape.  Create
conceptually synaesthetic artworks, that exploit both visual and aural
glitch (or other noise) artifacts at the same time. Employ these noise
artifacts as a nebula that shrouds the technology and its inner workings
and that will compel an audience to listen and watch more exhaustively.

040. Participate in lively Internet discussions that don’t interest you.

The radical opportunities afforded by developing (and alienating)
forms of technological mediation should no longer be put to use in the
exclusive interests of capital, which, by design, only benefits the few.
There are incessantly proliferating tools to be annexed, and although
no one can claim their comprehensive accessibility, digital tools have
never been more widely available or more sensitive to appropriation than
they are today.  This is not an elision of the fact that a large amount
of the world's poor is adversely affected by the expanding technological
industry (from factory workers labouring under abominable conditions to
the Ghanaian villages that have become a repository for the e-waste of
the global powers) but an explicit acknowledgement of these conditions as
a target for elimination.  Just as the invention of the stock market was
also the invention of the crash, Xenofeminism knows that technological
innovation must equally anticipate its systemic condition responsively.

005. Design a three-step program.

- contest the algorithm

079. Express yourself vaguely if anyone asks you, “How much is a
bandwidth?”

The unstable media are the media of our time. They are the showpieces
in our modern homes. We promote their comprehensive use, instead of the
often practiced misuse of these media.

We strongly believe that all people have the right to fair and equal
treatment. As everybody belongs to a minority, it is essential that
society respect the rights of minorities.