city:newark

  • Donald Trump annule au dernier moment des frappes militaires sur l’Iran
    https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/06/21/trump-annule-au-dernier-moment-des-frappes-sur-l-iran_5479488_3210.html

    Au lendemain de l’attaque d’un drone américain, le président américain a approuvé une opération militaire avant de se raviser, selon le « New York Times ».

    Le président américain Donald Trump qui poursuit sa politique de « pression maximum » sur l’Iran. Il a approuvé une opération militaire devant cibler des installations iraniennes, vendredi, avant de se raviser et d’annuler les frappes au dernier moment, écrit le New York Times, vendredi 21 juin. Le quotidien cite des représentants de l’administration américaine ayant pris part ou étant informés des discussions.

    D’après le journal, le président américain a validé une offensive contre un éventail de cibles iraniennes, telles que des radars ou des batteries de missiles, puis s’est ravisé alors que les avions de chasse avaient décollé et les navires de guerre s’étaient mis en position.

    Aucun missile n’a été tiré, avant que l’opération ne soit annulée, à 19 h 30, heure de Washington (1 h 30 du matin, à Paris), a déclaré un membre de l’administration, cité par le journal. La Maison Blanche et le Pentagone ont refusé de commenter l’information.
    Le New York Times ajoute ne pas savoir à l’heure actuelle si une offensive américaine contre l’Iran est toujours programmée, indiquant ne pas avoir établi si Donald Trump avait changé d’avis ou si le revirement était dû à des interrogations stratégiques ou logistiques.

    Les craintes de confrontation directe entre Washington et Téhéran ont été ravivées jeudi après que l’Iran a abattu un drone RQ-4 Global Hawk américain se trouvant selon lui dans son espace aérien, près du détroit d’Ormuz, ce que contestent les Etats-Unis.
    L’Iran affirme disposer de preuves « irréfutables » montrant que le drone américain a abattu jeudi était entré dans son espace aérien. « Des débris du drone ont même été retrouvés dans les eaux territoriales de l’Iran », a maintenu le ministre des affaires étrangères adjoint Abbas Araghchi lors d’une discussion avec l’ambassadeur de Suisse à Téhéran, qui représente les intérêts américains.

  • Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

    Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day (...)

    #smartphone #GPS #BigData #profiling #géolocalisation #IBM #Foursquare #Goldman_Sachs (...)

    ##Paypal

  • TERRY RODGERS « MILLENIALS’ ORGY »
    https://laspirale.org/peinture-589-terry-rodgers- millenials-orgy.html

    Miroirs souillés et bouteilles de champagne détournées de leur usage initial, les petits cousins de Paris Hilton réclament leur quart d’heure de gloire, bien décidés à en découdre et tenir la dragée haute aux générations précédentes.

    Avant de terminer sur les grands formats réalistes du peintre américain Terry Rodgers, chez lequel on ne saurait dire si le dégoût ou la fascination l’emporte, entre le voyeurisme et cette mise en scène d’une décadence clinquante, déjà croisée dans les romans de Bret Easton Ellis.

    Au sommet de la pyramide, une élite décomplexée jouit par tous ses orifices, préférant s’abîmer dans sa tour d’ivoire et conjurer les grondements en provenance des strates inférieures, dans une énième ligne de poudre blanche.

    https://laspirale.org/peinture-589-terry-rodgers-%C2%A0millenials-orgy.html
    #laspirale

    • Terry Rodgers est connu pour ses monumentales peintures à l’huile figuratives qui abordent le problème du corps politique contemporain. Né à Newark dans le New Jersey le 11 septembre 1947, Rodgers s’installe à Washington, D.C. avant de s’inscrire au Amherst College en 1969. Ses plus récentes toiles représentent des fêtes somptueuses de jeunes privilégiés et contrastent avec ses premières œuvres qui décrivent des relations familiales personnelles dans des décors extérieurs. Son intérêt pour la photographie cinématographique est un exemple de réalisme contemporain figuratif avec un penchant pour la critique de la société ultra-médiatisée. Les peintures de Rodgers sont exposées dans de grandes institutions comme Art Basel, la Biennale de Valence et lors d’une exposition au musée réaliste de Scheringa.

      http://www.artnet.fr/artistes/terry-rodgers/oeuvres-art
      artiste connexe selon artnet.fr David La Chapelle. Pour moi ses grands tableaux sont un peu du Jeff Koons en peinture. Quand t’en as vu un, t’as tout vu !
      #hyperréalisme #peinture

  • Camilo Jose Vergara | Tracking time.
    https://www.camilojosevergara.com/About-This-Project/1

    For more than four decades I have devoted myself to photographing and documenting the poorest and most segregated communities in urban America. I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighborhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. Photography for me is a tool for continuously asking questions, for understanding the spirit of a place, and, as I have discovered over time, for loving and appreciating cities. My focus is on established East Coast cities such as New York, Newark and Camden; rust belt cities of the Midwest such as Detroit and Chicago; and Los Angeles and Richmond, California. I have photographed urban America systematically, frequently returning to re-photograph these cities over time. Along the way I became a historically conscious documentarian, an archivist of decline, a photographer of walls, buildings, and city blocks. Bricks, signs, trees, and sidewalks have spoken to me the most truthfully and eloquently about urban reality. I did not want to limit the scope of my documentation to places and scenes that captured my interest merely because they immediately resonated with my personality. In my struggle to make as complete and objective a portrait of American inner cities as I could, I developed a method to document entire neighborhoods and then return year after year to re-photograph the same places over time and from different heights, blanketing entire communities with images. Studying my growing archive, I discover fragments of stories and urban themes in need of definition and further exploration. Wishing to keep the documentation open, I include places such as empty lots, which as segments of a sequence become revealing. I observe photographic sequences to discover how places evolve, and to formulate questions. I write down observations, interview residents and scholars, and make comparisons with similar photographs I had taken in other cities. Photographs taken from different levels and angles, with perspective-corrected lenses, form a dense web of images, a visual record of these neighborhoods over time. My photographic archive of poor, minority communities across the country evolved over decades. The stages can be divided according to the film and type of camera used. In the early 1970s, as a street photographer who focused on people, I used High Speed Ektachrome. Then, as I concentrated on time-lapse photography of the urban fabric, I turned to Kodachrome 64, a stable color film that came out in the mid-1970s. In combination with a small 35 mm camera, it provided me with the medium speed and fine grain emulsion appropriate for creating a lasting archive of buildings and city blocks. After it was discontinued in 2010, Fujichrome Provia 100 became my film of choice. I have used it concurrently with digital photography since 2005. For quick access to my collection I have made a selection of 2,500 digital images and archived them using Adobe LightRoom, which provides a system for organizing my digital collection according to place, time and subjects. It is also invaluable for gathering images to update, as well as to prepare articles, books and exhibitions.

    Vyse Avenue, South Bronx, NY (1980-2013)

  • Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? | The New Yorker
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy

    Since 2011, Zuckerberg has lived in a century-old white clapboard Craftsman in the Crescent Park neighborhood, an enclave of giant oaks and historic homes not far from Stanford University. The house, which cost seven million dollars, affords him a sense of sanctuary. It’s set back from the road, shielded by hedges, a wall, and mature trees. Guests enter through an arched wooden gate and follow a long gravel path to a front lawn with a saltwater pool in the center. The year after Zuckerberg bought the house, he and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, held their wedding in the back yard, which encompasses gardens, a pond, and a shaded pavilion. Since then, they have had two children, and acquired a seven-hundred-acre estate in Hawaii, a ski retreat in Montana, and a four-story town house on Liberty Hill, in San Francisco. But the family’s full-time residence is here, a ten-minute drive from Facebook’s headquarters.

    Occasionally, Zuckerberg records a Facebook video from the back yard or the dinner table, as is expected of a man who built his fortune exhorting employees to keep “pushing the world in the direction of making it a more open and transparent place.” But his appetite for personal openness is limited. Although Zuckerberg is the most famous entrepreneur of his generation, he remains elusive to everyone but a small circle of family and friends, and his efforts to protect his privacy inevitably attract attention. The local press has chronicled his feud with a developer who announced plans to build a mansion that would look into Zuckerberg’s master bedroom. After a legal fight, the developer gave up, and Zuckerberg spent forty-four million dollars to buy the houses surrounding his. Over the years, he has come to believe that he will always be the subject of criticism. “We’re not—pick your noncontroversial business—selling dog food, although I think that people who do that probably say there is controversy in that, too, but this is an inherently cultural thing,” he told me, of his business. “It’s at the intersection of technology and psychology, and it’s very personal.”

    At the same time, former Facebook executives, echoing a growing body of research, began to voice misgivings about the company’s role in exacerbating isolation, outrage, and addictive behaviors. One of the largest studies, published last year in the American Journal of Epidemiology, followed the Facebook use of more than five thousand people over three years and found that higher use correlated with self-reported declines in physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction. At an event in November, 2017, Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, called himself a “conscientious objector” to social media, saying, “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.” A few days later, Chamath Palihapitiya, the former vice-president of user growth, told an audience at Stanford, “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no coöperation, misinformation, mistruth.” Palihapitiya, a prominent Silicon Valley figure who worked at Facebook from 2007 to 2011, said, “I feel tremendous guilt. I think we all knew in the back of our minds.” Of his children, he added, “They’re not allowed to use this shit.” (Facebook replied to the remarks in a statement, noting that Palihapitiya had left six years earlier, and adding, “Facebook was a very different company back then.”)

    In March, Facebook was confronted with an even larger scandal: the Times and the British newspaper the Observer reported that a researcher had gained access to the personal information of Facebook users and sold it to Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy hired by Trump and other Republicans which advertised using “psychographic” techniques to manipulate voter behavior. In all, the personal data of eighty-seven million people had been harvested. Moreover, Facebook had known of the problem since December of 2015 but had said nothing to users or regulators. The company acknowledged the breach only after the press discovered it.

    We spoke at his home, at his office, and by phone. I also interviewed four dozen people inside and outside the company about its culture, his performance, and his decision-making. I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was plainly unprepared. These are not technical puzzles to be cracked in the middle of the night but some of the subtlest aspects of human affairs, including the meaning of truth, the limits of free speech, and the origins of violence.

    Zuckerberg is now at the center of a full-fledged debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley and the conscience of its leaders. Leslie Berlin, a historian of technology at Stanford, told me, “For a long time, Silicon Valley enjoyed an unencumbered embrace in America. And now everyone says, Is this a trick? And the question Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with is: Should my company be the arbiter of truth and decency for two billion people? Nobody in the history of technology has dealt with that.”

    In 2002, Zuckerberg went to Harvard, where he embraced the hacker mystique, which celebrates brilliance in pursuit of disruption. “The ‘fuck you’ to those in power was very strong,” the longtime friend said. In 2004, as a sophomore, he embarked on the project whose origin story is now well known: the founding of Thefacebook.com with four fellow-students (“the” was dropped the following year); the legal battles over ownership, including a suit filed by twin brothers, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, accusing Zuckerberg of stealing their idea; the disclosure of embarrassing messages in which Zuckerberg mocked users for giving him so much data (“they ‘trust me.’ dumb fucks,” he wrote); his regrets about those remarks, and his efforts, in the years afterward, to convince the world that he has left that mind-set behind.

    New hires learned that a crucial measure of the company’s performance was how many people had logged in to Facebook on six of the previous seven days, a measurement known as L6/7. “You could say it’s how many people love this service so much they use it six out of seven days,” Parakilas, who left the company in 2012, said. “But, if your job is to get that number up, at some point you run out of good, purely positive ways. You start thinking about ‘Well, what are the dark patterns that I can use to get people to log back in?’ ”

    Facebook engineers became a new breed of behaviorists, tweaking levers of vanity and passion and susceptibility. The real-world effects were striking. In 2012, when Chan was in medical school, she and Zuckerberg discussed a critical shortage of organs for transplant, inspiring Zuckerberg to add a small, powerful nudge on Facebook: if people indicated that they were organ donors, it triggered a notification to friends, and, in turn, a cascade of social pressure. Researchers later found that, on the first day the feature appeared, it increased official organ-donor enrollment more than twentyfold nationwide.

    Sean Parker later described the company’s expertise as “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.” The goal: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” Facebook engineers discovered that people find it nearly impossible not to log in after receiving an e-mail saying that someone has uploaded a picture of them. Facebook also discovered its power to affect people’s political behavior. Researchers found that, during the 2010 midterm elections, Facebook was able to prod users to vote simply by feeding them pictures of friends who had already voted, and by giving them the option to click on an “I Voted” button. The technique boosted turnout by three hundred and forty thousand people—more than four times the number of votes separating Trump and Clinton in key states in the 2016 race. It became a running joke among employees that Facebook could tilt an election just by choosing where to deploy its “I Voted” button.

    These powers of social engineering could be put to dubious purposes. In 2012, Facebook data scientists used nearly seven hundred thousand people as guinea pigs, feeding them happy or sad posts to test whether emotion is contagious on social media. (They concluded that it is.) When the findings were published, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they caused an uproar among users, many of whom were horrified that their emotions may have been surreptitiously manipulated. In an apology, one of the scientists wrote, “In hindsight, the research benefits of the paper may not have justified all of this anxiety.”

    Facebook was, in the words of Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google, becoming a pioneer in “ persuasive technology.

    Facebook had adopted a buccaneering motto, “Move fast and break things,” which celebrated the idea that it was better to be flawed and first than careful and perfect. Andrew Bosworth, a former Harvard teaching assistant who is now one of Zuckerberg’s longest-serving lieutenants and a member of his inner circle, explained, “A failure can be a form of success. It’s not the form you want, but it can be a useful thing to how you learn.” In Zuckerberg’s view, skeptics were often just fogies and scolds. “There’s always someone who wants to slow you down,” he said in a commencement address at Harvard last year. “In our society, we often don’t do big things because we’re so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing. The reality is, anything we do will have issues in the future. But that can’t keep us from starting.”

    In contrast to a traditional foundation, an L.L.C. can lobby and give money to politicians, without as strict a legal requirement to disclose activities. In other words, rather than trying to win over politicians and citizens in places like Newark, Zuckerberg and Chan could help elect politicians who agree with them, and rally the public directly by running ads and supporting advocacy groups. (A spokesperson for C.Z.I. said that it has given no money to candidates; it has supported ballot initiatives through a 501(c)(4) social-welfare organization.) “The whole point of the L.L.C. structure is to allow a coördinated attack,” Rob Reich, a co-director of Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, told me. The structure has gained popularity in Silicon Valley but has been criticized for allowing wealthy individuals to orchestrate large-scale social agendas behind closed doors. Reich said, “There should be much greater transparency, so that it’s not dark. That’s not a criticism of Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a criticism of the law.”

    La question des langues est fondamentale quand il s’agit de réseaux sociaux

    Beginning in 2013, a series of experts on Myanmar met with Facebook officials to warn them that it was fuelling attacks on the Rohingya. David Madden, an entrepreneur based in Myanmar, delivered a presentation to officials at the Menlo Park headquarters, pointing out that the company was playing a role akin to that of the radio broadcasts that spread hatred during the Rwandan genocide. In 2016, C4ADS, a Washington-based nonprofit, published a detailed analysis of Facebook usage in Myanmar, and described a “campaign of hate speech that actively dehumanizes Muslims.” Facebook officials said that they were hiring more Burmese-language reviewers to take down dangerous content, but the company repeatedly declined to say how many had actually been hired. By last March, the situation had become dire: almost a million Rohingya had fled the country, and more than a hundred thousand were confined to internal camps. The United Nations investigator in charge of examining the crisis, which the U.N. has deemed a genocide, said, “I’m afraid that Facebook has now turned into a beast, and not what it was originally intended.” Afterward, when pressed, Zuckerberg repeated the claim that Facebook was “hiring dozens” of additional Burmese-language content reviewers.

    More than three months later, I asked Jes Kaliebe Petersen, the C.E.O. of Phandeeyar, a tech hub in Myanmar, if there had been any progress. “We haven’t seen any tangible change from Facebook,” he told me. “We don’t know how much content is being reported. We don’t know how many people at Facebook speak Burmese. The situation is getting worse and worse here.”

    I saw Zuckerberg the following morning, and asked him what was taking so long. He replied, “I think, fundamentally, we’ve been slow at the same thing in a number of areas, because it’s actually the same problem. But, yeah, I think the situation in Myanmar is terrible.” It was a frustrating and evasive reply. I asked him to specify the problem. He said, “Across the board, the solution to this is we need to move from what is fundamentally a reactive model to a model where we are using technical systems to flag things to a much larger number of people who speak all the native languages around the world and who can just capture much more of the content.”

    Lecture des journaux ou des aggrégateurs ?

    once asked Zuckerberg what he reads to get the news. “I probably mostly read aggregators,” he said. “I definitely follow Techmeme”—a roundup of headlines about his industry—“and the media and political equivalents of that, just for awareness.” He went on, “There’s really no newspaper that I pick up and read front to back. Well, that might be true of most people these days—most people don’t read the physical paper—but there aren’t many news Web sites where I go to browse.”

    A couple of days later, he called me and asked to revisit the subject. “I felt like my answers were kind of vague, because I didn’t necessarily feel like it was appropriate for me to get into which specific organizations or reporters I read and follow,” he said. “I guess what I tried to convey, although I’m not sure if this came across clearly, is that the job of uncovering new facts and doing it in a trusted way is just an absolutely critical function for society.”

    Zuckerberg and Sandberg have attributed their mistakes to excessive optimism, a blindness to the darker applications of their service. But that explanation ignores their fixation on growth, and their unwillingness to heed warnings. Zuckerberg resisted calls to reorganize the company around a new understanding of privacy, or to reconsider the depth of data it collects for advertisers.

    Antitrust

    In barely two years, the mood in Washington had shifted. Internet companies and entrepreneurs, formerly valorized as the vanguard of American ingenuity and the astronauts of our time, were being compared to Standard Oil and other monopolists of the Gilded Age. This spring, the Wall Street Journal published an article that began, “Imagine a not-too-distant future in which trustbusters force Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.” It was accompanied by a sepia-toned illustration in which portraits of Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and other tech C.E.O.s had been grafted onto overstuffed torsos meant to evoke the robber barons. In 1915, Louis Brandeis, the reformer and future Supreme Court Justice, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of corporations large enough that they could achieve a level of near-sovereignty “so powerful that the ordinary social and industrial forces existing are insufficient to cope with it.” He called this the “curse of bigness.” Tim Wu, a Columbia law-school professor and the author of a forthcoming book inspired by Brandeis’s phrase, told me, “Today, no sector exemplifies more clearly the threat of bigness to democracy than Big Tech.” He added, “When a concentrated private power has such control over what we see and hear, it has a power that rivals or exceeds that of elected government.”

    When I asked Zuckerberg whether policymakers might try to break up Facebook, he replied, adamantly, that such a move would be a mistake. The field is “extremely competitive,” he told me. “I think sometimes people get into this mode of ‘Well, there’s not, like, an exact replacement for Facebook.’ Well, actually, that makes it more competitive, because what we really are is a system of different things: we compete with Twitter as a broadcast medium; we compete with Snapchat as a broadcast medium; we do messaging, and iMessage is default-installed on every iPhone.” He acknowledged the deeper concern. “There’s this other question, which is just, laws aside, how do we feel about these tech companies being big?” he said. But he argued that efforts to “curtail” the growth of Facebook or other Silicon Valley heavyweights would cede the field to China. “I think that anything that we’re doing to constrain them will, first, have an impact on how successful we can be in other places,” he said. “I wouldn’t worry in the near term about Chinese companies or anyone else winning in the U.S., for the most part. But there are all these places where there are day-to-day more competitive situations—in Southeast Asia, across Europe, Latin America, lots of different places.”

    The rough consensus in Washington is that regulators are unlikely to try to break up Facebook. The F.T.C. will almost certainly fine the company for violations, and may consider blocking it from buying big potential competitors, but, as a former F.T.C. commissioner told me, “in the United States you’re allowed to have a monopoly position, as long as you achieve it and maintain it without doing illegal things.”

    Facebook is encountering tougher treatment in Europe, where antitrust laws are stronger and the history of fascism makes people especially wary of intrusions on privacy. One of the most formidable critics of Silicon Valley is the European Union’s top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager.

    In Vestager’s view, a healthy market should produce competitors to Facebook that position themselves as ethical alternatives, collecting less data and seeking a smaller share of user attention. “We need social media that will allow us to have a nonaddictive, advertising-free space,” she said. “You’re more than welcome to be successful and to dramatically outgrow your competitors if customers like your product. But, if you grow to be dominant, you have a special responsibility not to misuse your dominant position to make it very difficult for others to compete against you and to attract potential customers. Of course, we keep an eye on it. If we get worried, we will start looking.”

    Modération

    As hard as it is to curb election propaganda, Zuckerberg’s most intractable problem may lie elsewhere—in the struggle over which opinions can appear on Facebook, which cannot, and who gets to decide. As an engineer, Zuckerberg never wanted to wade into the realm of content. Initially, Facebook tried blocking certain kinds of material, such as posts featuring nudity, but it was forced to create long lists of exceptions, including images of breast-feeding, “acts of protest,” and works of art. Once Facebook became a venue for political debate, the problem exploded. In April, in a call with investment analysts, Zuckerberg said glumly that it was proving “easier to build an A.I. system to detect a nipple than what is hate speech.”

    The cult of growth leads to the curse of bigness: every day, a billion things were being posted to Facebook. At any given moment, a Facebook “content moderator” was deciding whether a post in, say, Sri Lanka met the standard of hate speech or whether a dispute over Korean politics had crossed the line into bullying. Zuckerberg sought to avoid banning users, preferring to be a “platform for all ideas.” But he needed to prevent Facebook from becoming a swamp of hoaxes and abuse. His solution was to ban “hate speech” and impose lesser punishments for “misinformation,” a broad category that ranged from crude deceptions to simple mistakes. Facebook tried to develop rules about how the punishments would be applied, but each idiosyncratic scenario prompted more rules, and over time they became byzantine. According to Facebook training slides published by the Guardian last year, moderators were told that it was permissible to say “You are such a Jew” but not permissible to say “Irish are the best, but really French sucks,” because the latter was defining another people as “inferiors.” Users could not write “Migrants are scum,” because it is dehumanizing, but they could write “Keep the horny migrant teen-agers away from our daughters.” The distinctions were explained to trainees in arcane formulas such as “Not Protected + Quasi protected = not protected.”

    It will hardly be the last quandary of this sort. Facebook’s free-speech dilemmas have no simple answers—you don’t have to be a fan of Alex Jones to be unnerved by the company’s extraordinary power to silence a voice when it chooses, or, for that matter, to amplify others, to pull the levers of what we see, hear, and experience. Zuckerberg is hoping to erect a scalable system, an orderly decision tree that accounts for every eventuality and exception, but the boundaries of speech are a bedevilling problem that defies mechanistic fixes. The Supreme Court, defining obscenity, landed on “I know it when I see it.” For now, Facebook is making do with a Rube Goldberg machine of policies and improvisations, and opportunists are relishing it. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, seized on the ban of Jones as a fascist assault on conservatives. In a moment that was rich even by Cruz’s standards, he quoted Martin Niemöller’s famous lines about the Holocaust, saying, “As the poem goes, you know, ‘First they came for Alex Jones.’ ”

    #Facebook #Histoire_numérique

  • Ordinateur à l’université : « Combien y’a-t-il d’étudiants dont on ne voit jamais les yeux ? » - Libération

    Par Olivier Estèves, Professeur à l’université de Lille, spécialiste de l’histoire britannique. — 18 septembre 2018 à 17:32

    Alors que l’interdiction des téléphones portables au collège a été officialisée à l’échelle nationale, l’utilisation des ordinateurs portables dans les universités devrait elle aussi faire l’objet d’un débat sérieux.

    Novembre 2017 : lors d’un séminaire de master 2 (en langue anglaise) sur les origines de la révolution conservatrice aux Etats-Unis, je présente les slides d’un PowerPoint qui égrène le bilan morbide des violences urbaines des années 60. Un tableau récapitule les douzaines de morts à Watts (quartier de Los Angeles), Newark, Detroit, Chicago, etc. En parlant, je vois au fond de la salle deux étudiantes, d’ordinaire sérieuses, qui rient ensemble, les yeux rivés sur l’écran de leur ordinateur portable respectif. De toute évidence, leur esprit et attention sont accaparés par un contenu n’ayant absolument rien à voir avec celui du cours. Je les rappelle à l’ordre, une énième fois, tellement ce type de comportement est routinier. Cette anecdote trouve des centaines, pardon des milliers d’échos dans l’expérience quotidienne de collègues universitaires.

    Incapables de participer

    On aurait tort de croire qu’il s’agit là d’un problème lié à la massification de l’enseignement dans l’université française, à laquelle le lamentable et opaque Parcoursup serait censé répondre. En effet, le cours en question est en master 2, pour lequel une sélection existe déjà depuis un an. De toute façon, des filières sélectives en France connaissent exactement le même problème. Ayant animé un séminaire sur la question raciale dans les séries américaines à Sciences-Po Lille, reposant sur un ouvrage que j’avais publié avec mon collègue et ami Sébastien Lefait (Presses de Sciences-Po, 2014), je me souviens distinctement avoir montré des extraits de The Wire, The Sopranos, dont on devait débattre ensuite auprès d’un public dont un tiers avait les yeux rivés sur leurs propres ordinateurs portables tandis que je procédais au visionnage de scènes des chefs-d’œuvre de David Simon et David Chase.

    Une fois ce visionnage terminé, une bonne proportion des étudiants était incapable de répondre aux questions, encore moins de participer au débat en anglais. Rien de plus normal : beaucoup d’entre eux venaient de s’amuser sur Facebook, de faire les soldes en ligne, de répondre à leurs mails, sans oublier qu’un écran d’ordinateur portable sert très souvent à cacher… un téléphone portable d’où l’on envoie des textos. Depuis, notamment dans les Instituts d’études politiques, le nombre de collègues imposant des cours « sans écran » (ni téléphone ni ordinateur portable) n’a cessé de croître. Un certain nombre d’entre eux, en France mais aussi ailleurs, sont des enseignants d’informatique, très bien placés pour connaître les torts que causent ces machines à l’attention étudiante.

    (...)

    La question de la réussite étudiante est, légitimement, dans la bouche de nombreux décideurs, depuis les directeurs d’UFR jusqu’aux cabinets ministériels. Poser sérieusement la question de l’interdiction de ces armes de distraction massive dans certains enseignements ne coûterait rien au gouvernement et réintroduirait les conditions de cours où l’on puisse débattre, discuter, illustrer des contenus et répondre à la contradiction étudiante, sans laquelle les universitaires ne peuvent guère avancer. Avec des étudiants rivés sur leurs écrans d’ordinateurs cela n’est tout simplement pas possible. Le temps est venu de mettre ces problèmes sur la table. A titre personnel, je procéderai à l’interdiction pure et simple de tout appareil connecté dès l’année prochaine, même si je trouve lamentable qu’il soit nécessaire d’en arriver là.❞

    #attention #numerisation #interdiction_de_l'ordinateur

    • Eh ben écoute plutôt pas mal. Je ne suis pas trop arrivé à la faire respecter aux deuxième année (ils avaient déjà pris le pli...) mais pour les première année c’est plutôt efficace. Je les trouve plus attentifs. C’est très subjectif : difficile de distinguer ce qui relève du fait de ne pas avoir d’écran devant les yeux de ce qui relève de « l’effet promo » (d’une année sur l’autre ce n’est jamais pareil). Mais quoi qu’il en soit je vais continuer.

      Je ne crois pas que l’auteur de l’article aie raison de trouver lamentable d’en arriver là. Après tout il s’agit d’un apprentissage des usages.

      En revanche, en TD, donc quand ils sont une trentaine, j’autorise ceux qui veulent à utiliser l’ordi, mais pas pour prendre des notes : ce sont des TD d’algorithmique programmation, donc si certains se sentent de tester leurs solutions s’ils ont le temps, pourquoi pas.

    • @ericw : excuse-moi, mais ça m’intéresse beaucoup, donc je vais te demander des précisions.
      As-tu également demandé aux premières années de ne pas sortir leurs téléphones portables ?
      Qu’est-ce que t’ont dit les secondes années, est-ce que vous avez eu une vraie discussion ?
      Est-ce que tu en as parlé avec des collègues, qu’est-ce qu’ils en pensent ?

    • On a qu’à dire « autre chose » ! Je suis l’affaire de l’appel de Beauchastel — des enseignant-e-s qui désobéissent aux injonctions au tout-numérique dans l’Éducation Nationale — ainsi que celle des tableaux noirs de Gaillac, dont on a déjà parlé sur seenthis. Il commence à y avoir pas mal de professionnel-le-s qui, dans l’enseignement, prennent position, et c’est très précieux.

    • Salut, si tu suis l’appel de Beauchastel tu peux aussi être tenu au courant par « Le rappel de Beauchastel », un format A3 alimenté par des enseignants signataires, qui se photocopie dans les collèges et Lycées et qui peut être envoyé à domicile à condition d’envoyer un carnet de 10 timbres.
      Je crois que nous en sommes au 3ème. Il se diffuse exclusivement au format papier pour éviter les critiques à la noix comme quoi l’Appel est en ligne alors que l’on critique l’informatique - alors qu’il a juste été publié par PMO ou par les journaux qui ont fait des articles.

  • Grandmother on oxygen dies after PSE&G cuts off her power, grieving family says | NJ.com
    https://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2018/07/grandmother_on_oxygen_dies_after_pseg_cuts_off_her.html

    A 68-year-old Newark woman in hospice care, who depended on oxygen to survive, died last week after PSE&G turned off her electric because of an overdue bill, her grieving family said Sunday.

    Linda Daniels was in her Shephard Avenue home with her family for hours after her oxygen tank powered by electricity and air-conditioning stopped working about 10 a.m. Thursday. She died at 4:23 p.m. of heart failure, her family said.

    Pour ceux et celles qui ne lisent pas l’anglais, je résume grossièrement la situation : la vieille dame devait de l’argent depuis un moment à la compagnie PSE&G. Elle a fini par payer mais 2 jours après, ils ont quand même coupé l’électricité pour défaut de paiement un jour où la chaleur était extrême. La dame en question avait une aide respiratoire grâce à un appareil qui fonctionnait à l’électricité. Elle est morte étouffée malgré les appels répétés de la famille à la compagnie pendant la journée. Les faits se sont passés ) Newark aux États-Unis.

    #privatisation #pauvreté #capitalisme #libéralisme_économique

    • Belle sélection américaine pour une si petite liste, mais ce sont les seuls que je n’arrive pas à écouter :

      Atlanta
      Future Mask Off
      Migos Bad and boujee
      Outkast Elevator (Me & You)
      Russ Do It Myself
      Boston
      Guru Lifesaver
      Breaux Bridge
      Buckshot Lefonque Music Evolution
      Brentwood
      EPMD Da Joint
      Chicago
      Saba LIFE
      Dallas
      #Erykah_Badu The Healer
      Detroit
      Clear Soul Forces Get no better
      Eminem The Real Slim Shady
      La Nouvelle-Orléans
      $uicideboy$ ft. Pouya South Side Suicide
      Mystikal Boucin’ Back Lexington
      CunninLynguists Lynguistics
      Los Angeles
      Cypress Hill Hits from the bong
      Dilated Peoples Trade Money
      Dr. Dre The next episode ft. Snoop Dogg
      Gavlyn We On
      Jonwayne These Words are Everything
      Jurassic 5 Quality Control
      Kendrick Lamar Humble
      N.W.A Straight outta Compton
      Snoop Dogg Who Am I (What’s my name) ?
      The Pharcyde Drop
      Miami
      Pouya Get Buck
      Minneapolis
      Atmosphere Painting
      New-York
      A tribe called quest Jazz (We’ve Got) Buggin’ Out
      Big L Put it on
      Jeru the Damaja Me or the Papes
      Mobb Deep Shook Ones Pt. II
      Notorious B.I.G Juicy
      The Underachievers Gold Soul Theory
      Wu-Tang Clan Da Mistery of Chessboxin’
      Newark
      Lords of the Underground Chief Rocka
      Pacewon Children sing
      Petersburg
      Das EFX They want EFX
      Philadelphie
      Doap Nixon Everything’s Changing
      Jedi Mind Tricks Design in Malice
      Pittsburgh
      Mac Miller Nikes on my feet
      Richmond
      Mad Skilzz Move Ya Body
      Sacramento
      Blackalicious Deception
      San Diego
      Surreal & the Sounds Providers Place to be
      San Francisco
      Kero One Fly Fly Away
      Seattle
      Boom Bap Project Who’s that ?
      Brothers From Another Day Drink
      SOL This Shit
      Stone Mountain
      Childish Gambino Redbone
      Washington DC
      Oddisee Own Appeal

      Limité mais permet des découvertes.

      Mark Mushiva - The Art of Dying (#Namibie)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZZrp4TMAgQ

      Tehn Diamond - Happy (#Zimbabwe)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5tjMAy5ySM

      #rap

    • « Global Hip-Hop » : 23 nouveaux morceaux ajoutés dans la base grâce à vos propositions ! Deux nouveaux pays (Mongolie et Madagascar) et 11 nouvelles villes, de Mississauga à Versailles en passant par Molfetta, Safi, Oulan-Bator ou Tananarive ?

  • 1968 riots: Four days that reshaped Washington, D.C. - Washington Post

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/dc-riots-1968

    On April 4, 1968, the country was still reeling from racial tensions that had sparked deadly riots the year before in Detroit and Newark. But the capital city was said to be special. Some whites called it “the colored man’s paradise.” For thousands of blacks, there was a darker side to paradise, one where humiliation, poverty, segregation and discrimination had accumulated for a century.

    Then, shortly after 8 p.m., word reached the District that the Rev. #Martin_Luther_King Jr. had been slain in Memphis. His assassination ignited an explosion of rioting, looting and burning that stunned Washington and would leave many neighborhoods in ruins for 30 years.

    #états-unis #émeutes_urbaines #urban_matter

  • Cryptography: or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898) – The Public Domain Review
    http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cryptography-or-the-history-principles-and-practice-of-cipher-wr

    The last pages of the book consider various modern ciphers: The grill; The revolving grill; The slip-card; The Mirabeau; The Newark; The clock-hands; The two-word. Hulme was worried that some of his Victorian readers would object to the very existence of his book on the grounds that it could facilitate wrongdoing. So he opens the book in the apologetic mode, explaining that any powerful science may be co-opted for wicked ends: “From the researches of chemistry may be derived . . . the healing medicine . . . or the subtle potion of the secret poisoner.” And the last line of the book completes his apology. In time of peril, Hulme argues, a knowledge of cryptology “may save hundreds of lives, or avert catastrophe from the nation itself.” If he had lived long enough to know of Alan Turing and the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, he would have upped that to “millions”.

    #Cryptographie #Domaine_public

  • Europeans invented the concept of race as we know it
    Its origins can be traced to the colonization of the Americas

    https://timeline.com/europeans-invented-the-concept-of-race-as-we-know-it-58f896fae625

    What do you think of when you hear the word “ghetto?” If you’re like most people, you envision black and Latino urban areas. If you know your history, you might think of pre-World War II Warsaw, or the early 20th century migrations of Jews, Italians, and others to the lower East Side tenements of Manhattan. But what comes to mind for the majority of Americans are pictures of the Bronx, Bedford Stuyvesant, Newark, Compton, East LA, West Town, or Englewood. Cities with recognizable earmarks: food deserts, poorly subsidized schools, and inadequate housing. And, like their urban counterparts and Native American reservations, most of these areas were designed to contain particular groups of people and control their movements through economic, political, and physical coercion. The plain fact is that while we sometimes associate ghettos with class, we most frequently see poverty associated with race. But what remains unknown to most Americans is the long and purposeful way that racial categories themselves were brought into existence. Race, as we currently understand it, as we currently live it, is almost entirely a product of the European imagination.
    Much of the existence of race can trace its origins to the colonization of the Americas. The categories and meanings of race have changed over time and geography. Suffice it to say, no one was white or black until the colonization process needed ways of differentiating various rights, privileges, social, and legal standings between various laborers. Fifteenth century European countries were not the modern nation states of today, so there was no concept of being “Italian,” for instance. People identified with regional areas, as Calabrese, Genoan, etc. When Europeans did use the term “race” it was employed to talk about tribal groups, such as the “Teutonic races” and while those categories might have been used as indicators of “types” they were by no means seen as limiting or indicative of innate inferiority. Religion and class were the most important divisions, and race as we know it had not been invented.

  • These striking color photos of the Long Hot Summer riots show the full spectrum of the violence “In 1967, newspapers only ran black-and-white pictures”
    https://timeline.com/these-striking-color-photos-of-the-long-hot-summer-riots-show-the-full-spe

    “The riots of 1967 are a black-and-white story in our minds. In the most common photos from the time, the fires, the blood, and the faces are all in gray scale. That’s because until fairly recently newspapers only ran black-and-white photos. The New York Times, for instance, didn’t introduce color pictures until 1993. So, that is the way we remember and learn about the past. Looking back from the 21st century, such photographs often have the peculiar effect of compartmentalizing history as something distant and settled.
    But the Long Hot Summer happened in full spectrum.
    The riots in Newark and Detroit, in particular, attracted international media attention, including that of the big picture magazines. Stunning color images of the conflicts and their aftermath created for Life by photojournalists like Lee Balterman and Declan Haun would be seen days after the news first broke in the black-and-white dailies. But while they may have appeared after the fact, color pictures would lend deeper context to the story for millions of readers. They carried an impact that black-and-white could no longer deliver — a visual impact not unlike the saturated hellscapes photographers like Larry Burrows and Horst Faas were bringing back from Vietnam. If the story of that summer was superficially one of embattled black Americans raging against the white status quo, it is these color images which deliver a more complicated, nuanced representation of the violence.”

  • Officials Investigating ’Potential Threat’ Aboard Maersk Containership in Port of Charleston,Terminal Evacuated – gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/potential-threat-aboard-maersk-memphis-port-of-charleston

    Officials are investigating a ‘potential threat’ aboard a U.S.-flagged Maersk Line containership at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina.

    The Coast Guard said at approximately 8 p.m. Wednesday authorities were made aware of a potential threat in a container aboard the vessel Maersk Memphis in the Port of Charleston.

    The Maersk Memphis is moored at Charleston’s Wando terminal, which has been evacuated while law enforcement units from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies investigate the threat.

    A 1 nautical mile safety zone has been established around the vessel while law enforcement authorities investigate the threat.

    Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are currently investigating the type of the potential threat,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter.

    Coast Guard officials described the threat as a possible “dirty bomb”, according to Reuters and other media outlets. A #dirty_bomb is a combination of radioactive and conventional explosives. 

    An unified command has been established to oversee the coordinated response, which the Coast Guard described as ‘active and ongoing’ as of 2 a.m. ET. 

    According to Maersk Lines website Maersk Memphis last called the port of Newark on June 12 after sailing from Middle East via the Suez Canal and Algeciras.

  • J – 138 : Aujourd’hui j’ai décidé que j’allais faire une petite séance de défonce de portes ouvertes. Clint Eastwood. Cinéaste de droite, et révisionniste. Son dernier film. Sully . Film de droite jusque dans son esthétique. Vous voyez la démonstration ne devrait pas poser trop de difficulté.

    Et du coup on peut même se poser la question de savoir ce que je pouvais bien faire dans une salle de cinéma pour voir le dernier film de Clint Eastwood, qui plus est avec ma fille cadette, la merveilleuse Adèle, qui mérite sans doute mieux, dans son parcours de formation, notamment au cinéma. De même que j’avoue une prédilection tout à fait coupable pour les films de James Bond, je dois reconnaître que j’aime par-dessus tout le film de catastrophe aérienne, même quand ils sont assez mauvais et j’en rate peu et du coup je peux dire qu’ils sont généralement unanimement mauvais, les pires étant souvent ceux de détournements d’avions avec sauvetage héroïque par des troupes d’élite, autant vous dire que ceux-là ne sont pas mes préférés. Expliquer pourquoi mon goût cinéphile est aussi déplorable, s’agissant des films de James Bond, est assez embarrassant, cela a beaucoup à voir je crois avec une certaine scène du premier James Bond dans laquelle on voir Ursula Andres sortir de l’eau dans un bikini blanc fort chaste à l’époque, complètement ravageur du point de vue de ma libido naissante, pré-adolescent, en colonie de vacances à Villars de Lans, le film projeté avec un vrai projecteur, sur un drap tendu dans la salle de ping-pong, la plupart d’entre nous assis parterre. Pour ce qui est des films de catastrophe aérienne, c’est un peu moins honteux, cela a à voir aussi avec un souvenir d’enfance, mais d’un tout autre ordre. Mon père était ingénieur en aéronautique, et il est arrivé, plus d’une fois, quand nous étions enfants, mon frère Alain et moi, qu’il soit appelé, c’était souvent le soir, au téléphone à la maison, pour conseiller à distance des équipes techniques ou carrément remettre son pardessus et sa cravate et repartir au travail faire face à des situations, dont il lui arrive aujourd’hui de parler plus librement et qui n’avaient rien de simple apparemment, certaines sont assez cocasses comme l’histoire de cette vieille dame qui avait été mal aiguillée, en partance dans un vol pour la Côte d’Ivoire et qui au bout d’une douzaine d’heures de vol s’étonnait auprès d’une hôtesse de n’être toujours pas arrivée, indocte qu’elle fut qu’elle était en fait sur le point de se poser à Singapore. D’autres anecdotes sont sans doute moins plaisantes. Un soir, nous regardions en famille un film dont je viens de retrouver le titre en faisant la rechercher suivante, « film de catastrophe aérienne » + « Burt Lancaster », il s’agit donc d’ Airport , film de 1970, dont de nombreuses scènes se passent dans la tour de contrôle d’un aéroport aux prises avec une situation de crise et dans lequel film un personnage se tourne vers le personnage interprété par Burt Lancaster, « et maintenant qu’est-ce qu’on fait Chef ? » Et mon frère Alain, rarement en manque de répartie, avait répondu : « On appelle De Jonckheere ». Les films de catastrophe aérienne vus à la télévision en famille avaient pour moi cet éclairage particulier que de temps en temps, ils faisaient sourire mon père qui commentait gentiment que certains situations étaient hautement improbables. Bref, je garde pour le souvenir d’Airport de George Seaton, 1970, comme pour celui de ces soirées de télévision familiales lointaines, une prédilection étonnante, eut égard à mon rapport assez critique en général à propos des films de fiction, donc, pour les films de catastrophe aérienne.

    Les films de catastrophe aérienne sont unanimement mauvais, j’aurais bien du mal à en sauver un dans le genre, peut-être le Vol du Phenix de Robert Aldrich avec James Stewart, mais ce n’est pas non plus un chef d’œuvre, mais le récit est assez étonnant.

    Et donc Sully de Clint Eastwood. Avec Adèle en plus. La honte.

    Depuis une dizaine d’années Clint Eastwood réécrit la grande narration performative et nationale des Etats-Unis, ne se contenant d’ailleurs pas toujours de réécrire avantageusement l’histoire de son pays, puisque son récit d’Invictus fait l’éloge inconditionnel de Nelson Mandela et voudrait nous faire croire que la nation multicolore sud africaine s’est bâtie sur la victoire des Bocks sur les All Blacks , comme c’est mignon, comme c’est loin de la réalité et comme surtout ce passe sous silence la pieuse tricherie du bon Mandela ( http://www.desordre.net/blog/?debut=2010-05-02#2487 ), pareillement le récit d’American Sniper est à gerber, qui, même s’il frôle par endroits à quel point quelques soldats américains auront laissé des plumes dans cette guerre d’Irak du fils, continue de remarquablement regarder ailleurs quand il s’agirait de considérer le martyr de la population irakienne, mais que voulez vous Clint Eastwood il est américain, à ce titre, il pense que les éléments de sa nation ont des droits supérieurs et valent mieux que les habitants d’autres pays, pensez s’il va se pencher sur la souffrance d’un pays du tiers Monde même si ce dernier est pétrolifère, il est au contraire plus urgent de construire une statue de commandeur à un gars de chez lui, probablement con et inculte comme une valise sans poignée, mais très doué pour ce qui est de dégommer des Irakiens à distance, aussi con que soit ce type il est aux yeux de Clint Eastwood et d’une nation de lavés du bulbe l’homme providentiel, concert de klaxons à ses funérailles, pauvre type providentiel, pauvres types qui klaxonnent.

    Sully donc, surnom de Chesley Sullenberger admirable commandant de bord qui en janvier 2009, avec une maestria et un sang-froid, un peu hors du commun tout de même, a réussi à amérir sur l’Hudson alors qu’il venait de décoller de La Guardia et quelques minutes plus tard, de perdre les deux moteurs de son airbus A320, d’où la nécessité de se poser, mais, las, aucune possibilité d’aller se poser sur une piste voisine. Cette catastrophe aérienne évitée, les 155 passagers de ce vol, de même que le personnel de bord tous sauvés, par ce geste extraordinaire de Chesley Sullenberger, quelques jours plus tard, le maire de New York lui remet les clefs de la ville et quelques jours encore plus tard il est invité à la première cérémonie d’investiture de Barak Obama, c’est vrai qu’après les huit années catastrophiques de Bush fils, on pouvait y voir un signe prometteur, on remarque d’ailleurs que Clint Eastwood en bon républicain crasse de sa mère coupe bien avant.

    Bon c’est sûr avec un miracle pareil, vous avez un film. Encore que. L’incident en lui-même et le sauvetage, c’est suffisamment répété dans le film, ne durent que 208 secondes, le sauvetage des passagers ayant ensuite trouvé refuge sur les ailes de l’avion, une vingtaine de minutes, du coup évidemment, il faudra recourir à quelques artifices du récit, surtout en amont, le coup des trois passagers qui attrapent leur vol in extremis, le gentil commandant de bord qui connait tout le monde à La Guardia, même la vendeuse de sandwichs pakistanaise, et ensuite en aval, la célébration du héros, foin du miracle trop rapide pour le cinéma, en brodant un peu, vous l’avez votre film.

    C’est sans compter sur la volonté dextrogène du Clint Eastwood républicain de sa mère, il ne suffit pas que l’avion se soit posé, que les passagers soient sauvés, Sully est un homme providentiel et si vous n’aviez pas compris que d’aller poser son coucou sur les eaux glacées de L’Hudson en janvier était miraculeux, on va vous le montrer et vous le remontrer, un certain nombre de fois, quatre ou cinq fois si ma mémoire est bonne, et comme on peut douter que vous ayez vraiment compris que Sully il a vraiment été très fort, on vous montre aussi, cela aussi répété trois fois, ce qu’il aurait pu se passer s’il n’avait pas été assez fort, c’est-à-dire, l’avion aller se cracher sur les banlieues denses du New Jersey, sauf que ces dernières étant peu photogéniques, on dira que c’était l’Hudson River ou le sud de Manhattan et là autant vous dire que cela claque visuellement, et des fois que vous n’ayez toujours pas compris que cette scène est un remake d’un truc qui s’est déjà produit au même endroit un certain 11 septembre, dont la moitié des Américains seulement sont capables de savoir que c’était celui de l’année 2001 — ils savent juste que c’est nine-eleven comme ils disent —, on n’est pas aidé avec un public pareil, pas étonnant que le vieux Clint Eastwood républicain de sa maman il soit un peu obligé de souligner certains passages trois fois en rouge, bref si vous n’aviez pas suivi que c’était à cela que cela faisait référence, vous aurez une scène qui vous dira que oui, un tel miracle à New York cela fait du bien, qui plus est un miracle aéronautique. Bref du lourd, du charpenté, des câbles d’amarrage pour ficeller le récit. Vous avez compris que Sully c’était un héros ? Un type providentiel ? C’est bon je n’insiste pas ?

    Ben Clint Eastwood, républicain, je crois que je vous l’ai déjà dit, qui aime croire à la providence des grands hommes du cru, il ne voudrait pas non plus que vous ignopriez qu’en plus le héros, on l’a emmerdé vous n’avez pas idée, parce que voilà quand même on se demandait si à la base il n’aurait pas commis un erreur de jugement et que si cela se trouve, en fait, il aurait très pu aller poser son coucou sur la piste de Newark dans le New Jersey tout juste voisin et que là quand même, en choisissant un terrain aussi défavorable et risqué il a quand même pris un sacré pari, un pari à 155 âmes. Alors à la commission d’enquête, ils ont peut-être été un peu tatillons, blessants, peut-être, envers le héros national en tentant de lui opposer que certes l’histoire se finit bien encore que le zingue qui a dû coûter un bras, ben il est au fond de l’eau, sans doute pas réparable. A vrai dire, c’est possible, je n’en sais rien, je m’en fous un peu même. Je note aussi au passage que Clint Eastwood de la providence républicaine dans cet endroit du film commet surtout le plagiat assez éhonté d’un très mauvais film, Flight de Robert Zemeckis, et que si cela se trouve c’est avec cette enquête prétendument interminable qu’il comble et qu’il meuble, là où le récit dans sa durée originale n’est peut-être pas suffisant pour tenir le film entier, même répété à l’envi. A vrai dire je ne connais pas bien l’histoire et ma curiosité n’est pas si grande, moi ce que j’aime dans les films de catastrophe aérienne, ce sont les scènes d’avion — et là j’ai bien aimé, faut avouer, la scène avec les deux F4 au dessus du Nevada, mais je m’égare —, il y a sans doute eu une enquête, elle a peut-être été un peu pénible, ce n’est même pas sûr, elle est présentée dans le film comme un péché de l’adminsitration, pensez, Clint Eastwood de sa maman, il a appelé à voter Trump, alors pensez si effectivement il va faire les louanges de quelque administration que ce soit, ce que je sais, et que le film ne dit pas c’est que la semaine suivante, le Chesley Sullenberger il était l’invité de Barack Obama pour sa première investiture à la Maison Blanche, de là à penser qu’il n’avait pas beaucoup de raisons de s’inquiéter sur la suite de la fin de sa carrière...

    Et, finalement, ce n’est pas tout, il y a une chose qui est entièrement passée sous silence dans ce film, dans l’après accident, plutôt que de passer des témoignages, genre télé-réalité de passagers miraculés pour entrelarder le générique, Clint Eastwood s’est bien gardé de nous dire que Chesley Sullenberger, son Sully donc, avait, en fait, intelligemment profité de son quart d’heure warholien pour attirer l’attention du Sénat américain sur les dangers de la dérégulation aérienne aux Etats-Unis, les mauvaises pratiques de la formation des jeunes pilotes et la dépréciation alarmante de la profession (c’était une chose que j’avais lue je ne sais plus où, et dont il me semblait aussi l’avoir vue dans un film, Capitalism, a love story , de Michael Moore, cinéaste dont je ne pense pourtant pas le plus grand bien, mais, vous l’aurez compris, pas autant de mal que Clint Eastwood).

    En fait ce que cela m’apprend, c’est que cette érection de l’homme providentiel m’est insupportable, on l’a bien compris, surtout envers et contre toutes les logiques collectives pourtant possibles, c’est le principe de tout programme de droite, se goberger pendant que cela dure et quand cela ne dure pas, ne plus avoir d’autres alternatives que d’attendre que l’homme providentiel — comme Roosevelt a su le faire en insufflant un peu de communisme dans le moteur capitaliste, ce qu’Obama n’a pas su faire, non qu’il n’ait pas nécessairement essayé d’ailleurs, pourtant, comme le montre Laurent Grisel, dans son Journal de la crise , ce qui marche dans le capitalisme c’est le communisme —, ne sauve la situation pour pouvoir de nouveau se goinfrer, sans comprendre que l’on ne peut pas toujours compter sur les hommes providentiels, parce qu’ils n’existent pas davantage que le père Noël et pas davantage que James Bond.

    Alors si je peux promettre raisonnablement que je n’irai plus jamais voir un film de catastrophe aérienne, cela va me coûter davantage avec les films de James Bond, la faute à Ursula.

    Exercice #53 de Henry Carroll : Utilisez le flash pour capturer l’énergie d’une fête

    #qui_ca

  • Gegenmodelle zu Uber
    http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/platform-cooperativism-2

    Union-Backed Labor Platforms

    There are several examples from Denver to Newark where cabbies and unions started to work together, build apps, and organize the taxi sector. And if companies are smart, they’d welcome the unions because studies show that unionized workers have a better retention rate and at least the same productivity. 67 § In Newark, New Jersey, Trans Union Car service started as a non-for-profit taxi service with driv- ers being part of the United Transportation Alli- ance of New Jersey and affiliates of the CWA lo- cal 1039. Drivers benefit from the union’s many protections such as credit union, immigration support healthcare, as well as pension benefits. The company is planning to expand to Atlantic City, Elizabeth (New Jersey), and Hoboken. $

    Already in 2007, taxi drivers joined the Communications Workers of America local 7777 and two years later, they managed to kick off Union taxi, the first driver-owned cooperative in Den- ver. They are also getting support from the organization 1worker1vote.org that supports unionized cooperatives by helping them figure out how to negotiate wages, benefit plans, and training programs. The upfront capital costs, often a big challenge for cooperatives, are less of an issue here because drivers already own the equipment.

    The California App-Based Drivers Association 68 as a not-for-profit membership organization that unifies drivers from Uber, Lyft, and Side- car and other apps-based companies. CADA’s drivers are not employees and therefore they cannot become full members of the union. However, the Teamsters Local 986 in Califor- nia, can lobby for drive-friendly regulation. They make sure that drivers are working for companies like Lyft and Uber are speaking with a unified voice.

    Co-operatives from Within

    Another alluring if imaginary proposal is the idea of worker cooperatives forming inside the belly of the sharing economy. Uber drivers could use the technical infrastructure of the company to run their own enterprises. Such hostile takeover by workers could be imaginable as a result of an anti-trust lawsuit compa- rable to the one brought forward against Microsoft after its launch of Internet Explorer.

    The Platform as Protocol

    Perhaps then, the future work will not be dictated by centralized platforms, even if they are operated by co-ops. Perhaps, it will be peer- to-peer interactions facilitated by protocols that enable peer-to-peer interactions.

    In Israel, for example, La’Zooz 69 is a distributed peer-to-peer ride rental network. Where Members Media wanted you to think of them as Netflix for filmmakers and fans, owned by those produsers, La’Zooz could be likened to the Bittorrent of ride sharing. Anyone driving around a city can earn crypto tokens by taking in fellow travelers. In difference to the system previously described, this one is entirely peer-to-peer, there is no central point, no HQ.

    #Anti-Uber #Genossenschaft #Kooperative #Gewerkschaft

  • RIDE TCS - Transunion Car Service
    http://www.ridetcs.com/#union_difference

    Drivers of Transunion Car Service (TCS) are members of United Transportation Alliance of New Jersey (UTA), an affiliate of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1039. TCS drivers are the owners of the base. By creating their own base and reinvesting their base fees into the membership, ensures all drivers are happy and getting fair treatment at all times, and ensures that our customers are given superior service, with a safe and reliable and fully licensed and background checked driver. Our super clean and sleek black cars can be seen throughout the Newark, NJ area giving our customers an executive car service at an affordable price. Our customers love the safety and security of payment using their credit cards in our cars as well as the convenience of using the free smart phone App to book their TCS ride.

    Our drivers are proud union members and professionals. When you support TCS, you are supporting drivers that have organized to create a better work environment for themselves and lead the way on raising the standards for drivers everywhere. Our drivers have a pension, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, healthcare assistance, AFLAC Coverage, representation at the taxi division and a growing network of support from community partners that support hard-working professionals, and many more benefits that union membership brings.

    #Anti-Uber #Gewerkschaft

  • Mark Zuckerberg, rendu milliardaire par la création d’un réseau social, a annoncé le 1er septembre qu’il déversera à terme 99 % de ses parts #Facebook — d’une valeur de 42 milliards d’euros — dans une organisation vouée à « l’apprentissage personnel, le traitement des maladies, la mise en relation des personnes et la construction de communautés fortes ». Structure de lobbying et d’investissements établie dans un paradis fiscal, cette structure pas vraiment caritative reflète le rôle trouble de la #philanthropie aux #Etats-Unis, où l’Etat n’est considéré « ni comme l’unique dépositaire de l’intérêt général, ni comme le levier le plus efficace pour combattre les problèmes sociaux ». Lorsque, dans un précédent élan de charité, Zuckerberg « a fait un chèque de 100 millions de dollars aux écoles publiques de Newark, rappelait d’ailleurs Benoît Bréville en décembre 2014, le maire de la ville a sauté sur l’occasion pour combler, en partie, les coupes budgétaires ».

    https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/12/BREVILLE/51013 [#st]

    http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/12442 via Le Monde diplomatique

  • Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), poète afro-américain (1934-2014)

    http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2014/01/15/amiri-baraka-leroi-jones-poete-afro-americain-1934-2014_4348629_3382.html

    Fils d’un postier et d’une assistante sociale, Amiri Baraka, né Everett Leroi Jones à Newark (New Jersey) le 7 octobre 1934, est mort le 9 janvier 2014 à l’hôpital d’État de sa ville natale, entouré des siens, à l’âge de 79 ans. Historien radical du blues, dramaturge à scandale, griot révolutionnaire, poète, éditeur, romancier, infatigable fondateur de revues et de mouvements sociaux, il fut aussi un chroniqueur demandé par toutes les revues (Metronome, Down Beat, et même, à Paris, Jazz Magazine).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SHG60P2ECNk

    Amiri Baraka-Bio

    http://www.amiribaraka.com

    The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. Also, he advocated scientific socialism with his revolutionary inclined poems and aimed at creating aesthetic through them.

    Amiri Baraka’s writing career spans over nearly fifty years and has mostly focused on the subjects of Black Liberation and White Racism. Today, a number of well known poems, short stories, plays and commentaries on society, music and literature are associated with his name. A few of the famous ones include, ‘The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues’, ‘The Book of Monk’ and ‘New Music, New Poetry’ among others.

    Amiri Baraka- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

    http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/445

    Amiri Baraka

    Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934. His father, Colt LeRoy Jones, was a postal supervisor; Anna Lois Jones, his mother, was a social worker. He attended Rutgers University for two years, then transferred to Howard University, where in 1954 he earned his B.A. in English. He served in the Air Force from 1954 until 1957, then moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There he joined a loose circle of Greenwich Village artists, musicians, and writers. The following year he married Hettie Cohen and began co-editing the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen with her. That year he also founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.

    états-unis #littérature #poésie #amiri_baraka

  • Etats-Unis : Le plus haut niveau d’inégalités depuis un siècle

    Les derniers chiffres publiés sur la distribution des revenus aux Etats-Unis montrent que les écarts entre les américains les plus riches et les plus pauvres est le plus grand depuis que ces statistiques existent, c’est à dire un peu plus de cent ans.

    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/krok2vl0nbmkk27/us%20revenues%20poverty.jpg

    Les 1 % d’américains les plus riches sont accaparés 20 % des revenus

    Les 1 % d’américains les plus riches ont eu en moyenne un revenu égal ou supérieur à 394 000 dollars

    les 10 % d’américains les plus riches ont eu en moyenne un revenu égal ou supérieur à 114 000 dollars

    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/j0d7ys0mywcwgim/Poverty_Rates_by_Age_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG

    Les statistiques montrent que plus de 30 % de la population de Newark au New jersey, près de New York, vivent au dessous du seuil de pauvreté selon le calcul américain en 2010.

    Sources :

    BBC News - US income inequality at record high

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24039202

    US income inequality at record high

    The income gap between the richest 1% of Americans and the other 99% widened to a record margin in 2012, according to an analysis of tax filings.

    Største ulikheter i USA på 100 år - Verden - NRK Nyheter

    –-

    http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.11235956

    Ferske tall viser ar de rikeste amerikanerne tjener mer i forhold til resten enn noen gang siden målingene startet.

    Lire aussi ce rapport (fichier pdf) :

    http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2012.pdf

    Striking it Richer : The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

    Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley
    September 3, 2013

    #états-unis #pauvreté #richesse #inégalités

  • Cory Booker’s Silicon Valley Friendships Started at Stanford - NYTimes.com
    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/cory-bookers-silicon-valley-friendships-started-at-stanford

    De l’#université au Sénat, c’est #entre_soi que se compose la #silicon_army

    So how did the mayor of Newark, a city far removed from #Silicon_Valley in many ways, make these friends in the first place?

    The answer is #Stanford University, according to interviews with Mr. Booker’s friends in tech.

  • La chanteuse Lauryn Hill condamnée à trois mois de prison pour fraude fiscale

    http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/la-chanteuse-lauryn-hill-condamnee-a-trois-mois-de-prison-pour-fraude-fisca

    Jugée dans un tribunal de Newark, dans son New Jersey natal, la musicienne de 37 ans a été condamnée à trois mois supplémentaires de résidence surveillée. Elle avait plaidé coupable l’année dernière pour avoir fait défaut sur le paiement de ses impôts, notamment pour ne pas avoir déclaré des revenus d’1,8 million de dollars entre 2005 et 2007.

    Mais elle a toujours tenu à les payer un jour, a-t-elle insisté auprès du juge, expliquant avoir connu des difficultés après des années passées en marge de l’industrie musicale.

    La rappeuse a quelques jours plus tôt sorti une nouvelle chanson, « Neurotic Society Compulsory Mix », la première depuis plusieurs années, disponible sur la plateforme de vente de musique en ligne iTunes. Mais selon son propre compte Tumblr (Ms. Lauryn Hill), elle aurait été « contrainte à publier (le titre) immédiatement », évoquant une « date limite » fixée par la justice.

    En France elle aurait été plus tranquille...
    Cahuzac va-t-il aussi devoir se mettre à chanter pour sa rédemption ?

  • TSA trains Newark airport screeners on checkpoint etiquette http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/tsa_trains_screeners_to_be_goo.html

    La Transporation Security Administration enseigne le doigté à ses employés.

    Fureur des lecteurs, dirigée tant contre le TSA que le journaliste.

    I see now... Screeners are merely “accused” of overly
    intrusive or even (gasp!) “abusive” behavior, yet... “by the same token”.... passengers flat out “subject” tsa agents to hostility both subtle and overt. They’re not “accused” of hostility to screeners; they SUBJECT them to it. And they do it..... BY THE SAME TOKEN.

    Does anyone else share my revulsion to not only being molested at airports but then being mind-raped by reporters who write about it?

    Protect your brains, people. Language can be the most dangerous weapon in any arsenal.

    Good luck! You can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still a pig.

    Via http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/131674.html

  • Archbishop says ‘support marriage equality? Don’t take Communion’ | Gay Star News
    http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/archbishop-says-%E2%80%98support-marriage-equality-don%E2%80%99t-take-c

    Archbishop says ‘support marriage equality? Don’t take Communion’
    The Archbishop of Newark has called on Catholic supporters of marriage equality to refrain from taking Communion until they recant their views on the issue
    05 October 2012 | By Andrew Potts
    Archbishop John Myers

    The Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey has told Catholic supporters of marriage equality that they are not welcome to take Communion on Sundays.

    Archbishop John Myers wrote a pastoral letter in which he warned that Catholic supporters of same sex marriage were ‘seriously harm[ing] their communion with Christ and His Church,’

    ‘I urge those not in communion with the Church regarding her teachings on marriage and family ... sincerely to re-examine their consciences,’ wrote the Archbishop.

    ‘If they continue to be unable to assent to or live Christ’s teachings in these matters, that they must and in all humility refrain from receiving Holy Communion until they can do so with integrity.’

    Myers wrote that gays and lesbians could marry people of the opposite sex and lead ‘faithful and even joyous married lives.’

    Myers was criticized by Cornell University Law Professor Steve Shiffrin on Catholic law blog Mirror of Justice, who wrote that Myers would be more likely to succeed in marginalizing himself rather than Catholic dissenters who disagreed with the church’s teaching on this and other issues.

    ‘If Myers is right about this, it seems to me that the overwhelming majority of American Catholics should not be receiving communion,’ Shiffrin wrote.

    ‘To reject the Church’s teaching on contraception is to reject the teaching authority of the Church, and the overwhelming majority of American Catholics do exactly that.

    ‘There is already a crisis in the teaching authority of the bishops. If they follow the lead of Archbishop Myers in being specific about which moral teaching cannot be rejected while continuing to receive communion, Catholics will either leave the Church or contumaciously receive communion anyway.

  • Overcoming Islamophobia in US elections

    http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=30942&lan=en&sp=0

    Newark, Delaware - Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the country, rising Islamophobia has made it difficult for some Muslims to build mosques and practice their faith, although their right to do so is enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

    In the current race for the presidential nomination, some presidential candidates are invoking Islam and Muslims in a negative fashion in an attempt to bolster their popularity with populations they perceive to be suspicious of Muslims or Islam. For example, if elected, former presidential candidate Herman Cain promised not to appoint Muslims to his cabinet.

    Les musulmans sont les juifs d’aujourd’hui. Le succès de Marine Le Pen aujourd’hui repose sur la certitude de son islamophobie. Elle sera au premier tour de l’élection, j’en suis certain. De la même manière que la montée d’Adolf Hitler n’a pas été contrecarrée parce que le monde entier de l’époque était antisémite, l’islamophobie actuelle est aussi mondiale et un argument pour toute élection.

    #islamophobie