Michael Seemann

author, cultural scientist, lecturer, speaker … english speaking ghost of @mspro.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

also, finally, my essay on digital capitalism is available in english language.

an unsettling question for digital capitalism.

https://t.co/Ak7fdAEzTL

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

just tax billionaires out of existence. how hard can it be?

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Once again from the top.
Billionaire foundations serve two purposes:
1. social license for their profiteering (greenwashing, social-washing etc)
2. to keep the money from public scrutiny and democratic decision-making.
Moderna CEO amassing private fortune by overpricing vaccines

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

at this point „fud“ generally translates to „financial uncertainties and defaults“

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

More FUD incoming, will ignore!

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[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

„what about the construction workers in the still scaffolded death star in star wars episode vi?“

[Mark Krutov @kromark]

More than 80 Russians were killed during Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a school in occupied Lantrativka, Luhansk oblast of Ukraine. Not mobiks, but civilian contractors, who came there to dig trenches and build fortifications.🧵about our new OSINT investigation with @pustota

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

this time as a farce?

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

how it started vs. how it’s going

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

so lots of people can deduct their losses.

[Axios @axios]

The IRS is coming for crypto — but it’s complicated https://t.co/djZxclNFMq

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

covieniently conflating the difference between: „there is shadowbanning“ and „there is shaddowbanning targeting exlusively the right.“

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Conservatives: The reach of our tweets is being limited by a progressive Twitter workforce.

Dems: That's an insane conspiracy theory.

Bari Weiss: Here are the docs proving this.

Dems: Everyone knew this already. It's an -- all together now -- nothing burger.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

another problem, which we can already assess with journalism on the web: when you make providing access to information voluntary, mostly sources with agenda setting interests will do so. which, in the case of ai language models, will lead to heavy polical biases.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

idiot. very few people will delete their account. actually everybody advices against it b/c someone could claim the user name an impersonate oneself. so like 90 % of users leaving the platform will just cease tweeting.

[Andrew Prokop @awprokop]

I have (I presume) mostly liberal followers, my follower count has dropped ~3% since Elon’s takeover (could be my own bad tweets).

That's not catastrophic. If that rate of decline keeps up, it's bad. But that could be low-hanging fruit.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

you are a fucking nazi, sir!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@getpaidwrite I am neither conventionally right nor left, but I agree with your point.

The woke mind virus has thoroughly penetrated entertainment and is pushing civilization towards suicide.

There needs to be a counter-narrative.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

and is it reported or confirmed hate speech? because experience is that reports aren‘t followed up any more.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

What even is this lol. How is one unit of hate speech defined

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

- „we can offer you a $100 m stake in twitter out of the ftx insolvent assets …“

- may i have second look at the ftt tokens?“

[your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 @davidgerard]

lol, turns out Sam Bankman-Fried ended up putting $100m into Twitter. CLAAAAAWBAAAAACK https://t.co/CrrY7cVq8h

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

no doubt about it: Donald Trump was absolutely telling the truth about his meeting with Elon Musk.

he's doing it right now in public

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

maybe your friend refers to the not so secret fact that cryptocurrencies are actually worthless?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

sure, every ponzi cycle is bigger then the one before. more money, more victims, and richer fraudsters on the run.

[Quit @0xQuit]

Those of us old enough to remember Mt Gox can't help but feel we're repeating history, and understandably but wrongly interpret that as having not made progress.

We've made progress. We've made SO MUCH progress.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

i certainly didn‘t expect this one

[Mark Riedl @mark_riedl]

Oh boy…

Buy access to a model that will make a professional image for your LinkedIn profile

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

so, @mattyglesias is one of these rare creatures where you can take everything he says and assume the opposite is right. a real oracle of sorts.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

for like 3 hours

[anthony @fascinated]

imagine sleeping at the office to ship this

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

sure. its the exchanges. crypto as concept is just fine.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Custodial exchanges were a mistake.

[Michael Seemann @mspro_en]

the bitcoin chart looks like a war of attrition back and forth the $ 20.000 line