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La présentation sur la #stylométrie était géniale
https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/Main_Page
– mais tout ce qui touche aux questions de linguistique, style, reconnaissance d’un auteur et identification fictionnelle me touche parce que c’est indirectement lié à la pratique avancée de la #littérature. néanmoins aucune naïveté, comme l’a souligné une question dans l’assemblée c’est aussi une problématique politique très sensible

Il a été question de la « Gay Girl in Damascus », le plus impressionnant hoax de l’année, un Américain qui se faisait passer depuis 5 ans pour une lesbienne américano-syrienne, qui suite aux événements a été interviewé sur CNN et consorts, avant de devoir tomber le masque car il ne pouvait plus gérer l’intérêt qu’il a suscité. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/gay-girl-damascus-tom-macmaster

Beaucoup de curiosité a été suscité par la présentation. Bel outil en version alpha, #anonymouth ; pour lequel l’Université de Drexel cherche de nouveaux participants et développeurs, particulièrement étudiants en master et doctorat.

Bien représentatif aussi de la variété de l’origine des chercheurs qui font les présentations : des hackers hacktivistes, des universitaires, des experts SSI - le congrès est ouvert à toutes les compétences et possibilités de débats autour des travaux et compétences de chacun.

Nicolas Sarkozy makes €1bn commitment to nuclear power | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/27/nicolas-sarkozy-france-nuclear-power

#france #nucléaire #démocratie

Five Saudi women drivers arrested, says activist | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/29/saudi-women-drivers-arrested-jiddah

At least five Saudi women have been arrested after defying the kingdom’s ban on women drivers, an activist has said.

For the past two weeks Saudi women have been driving through the capital, Riyadh, and other cities in a challenge to the ban.

[...]

The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has praised the protesters, while stressing they are acting on behalf of their own rights and not at the behest of outsiders like herself.

The Saudi protests have put the Obama administration, and Clinton in particular, in a difficult position, with Saudi Arabia being a close US ally. The administration supports greater freedom for Saudi women but is increasingly reliant on Saudi authorities to provide stability and continuity in the Middle East and Gulf amid uprisings taking place across the Arab world.

Arrivé au dernier paragraphe de son article, le journaliste se résout à écrire quelque chose qui n’a rigoureusement aucun sens : « to provide stability and continuity in the Middle East and Gulf », mais qu’est-ce que ça veut dire ?

Guatemala becomes killing field as drug wars spread through Central America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/28/guatemala-town-mexico-narco-wars

Twenty-seven farm labourers were decapitated and had their heads strewn across a field one recent night, but ask neighbours and they reply with blank looks and apologetic shrugs, as if it happened in a distant land.

C’est l’occasion de vous suggérer la lecture de l’intéressant

The Candy Machine : how cocaïne took over the world

de Tom Feiling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/05/candy-machine-tom-feiling-review

#Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists « Writing Rights
http://writingrights.org/2011/06/24/iran-giving-out-condoms-for-criminals-to-rape-us-say-jailed-activists

Smuggled letters allege authorities are using mass rape as a weapon inside Iran’s most notorious #prisons

Egypt’s left threatens ’million-strong’ protest to stop Islamists winning power | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/23/egypt-activists-tahrir-square-elections

In an increasingly rancorous debate, which has developed into a proxy war between the nation’s fledgling Islamist and secular political forces, 40 different liberal and leftist movements have joined forces to demand that plans to hold elections in September are dropped.

#égypte #démocratie

Spanish childcare case provokes international campaign - Guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/21/spanish-childcare-case-provokes-campaign
Une mère espagole de 21 ans est séparée de son bébé de un an et demie car accusée de trop lui donner le sein et de le faire dormir dans son lit avec elle. Ils sont fous ces « social workers » !

These criticisms have angered Spanish paediatricians and also prompted childcare activist Sheila Kitzinger and mothers’ groups in Britain, the US and elsewhere to throw their weight behind the campaign to have the baby, known as Alma, returned to her mother.

Social services sources said Habiba was suffering psychological problems, was aggressive, hurled objects at other young mothers, would go weeks without bathing her child, left the baby on its own in potentially dangerous situations and took her out without proper clothes on. She also had a violent relationship with the child’s father, who had been sent to jail for attacking her but whom she still wanted to live with. She had recently turned down a bed at a centre for victims of domestic violence.

Apparemment, c’est une femme déprimée, pauvre, avec un mari taulard, une femme qui a besoin d’aide donc et pas qu’on lui arrache son enfant des bras !

Uncontacted tribe found deep in Amazon rainforest | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/22/new-tribe-discovered-amazon

“Among the main threats to the well-being of these groups are illegal fishing, hunting, logging, mining, cattle ranching, missionary actions… and drug trafficking,” he said. Oil exploration over the border in Peru could also have a negative impact on indigenous tribes in region.

#amazonie

Church of England set to allow celibate gay bishops | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/19/church-england-allow-gay-bishops

News
Legal advice says gay candidates should be considered as long as they have not been sexually active while in the priesthood

#religion #homosexualité

Coalition refuses to ratify UN measure protecting domestic workers | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/15/coalition-refuses-protecting-domestic-workers

On the same day that the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, launched an inquiry by the Centre for Social Justice into tackling the “modern slavery” of trafficking, the coalition revealed it would abstain from voting on the International Labour Organisation’s convention covering domestic workers.

#travail

Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah kidnapped by armed men (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/07/syrian-blogger-amina-abdallah-kidnapped

Author of A Gay Girl in Damascus who had shot to prominence for her outspoken views on Syrian uprising seized by armed men

Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah kidnapped by armed men | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/07/syrian-blogger-amina-abdallah-kidnapped

A blogger whose frank and witty thoughts on Syria’s uprising, politics and being a lesbian in the country shot her to prominence was last night seized by armed men in Damascus.

Amina Arraf, who blogged under the name Amina Abdallah, holds dual Syrian and American citizenship and is the author of the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, which has drawn fans from Syria and across the world.

She was kidnapped last night as she and a friend were on their way to a meeting in Damascus. The kidnapping was reported on her blog by a cousin.

#syrie