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Navigating Data for Social Change: Lessons from the Abolitionists’ Database Project
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Drawing from the abolitionists’ database project, we identify five key lessons about data collection, analysis, and advocacy.

#data_exploration #Data_Humanism

BlueTag TH10 Bluetooth temperature humidity data logger

Temperature humidity data logger can be used for environmental temperature and humidity monitoring in cold chain management, laboratories, hospitals, greenhouses, museums, archives, etc. The BlueTag TH10 Bluetooth temperature humidity data logger launched by Freshliance uses advanced Bluetooth technology and sensor technology. It can use the APP to monitor and record the ambient temperature and humidity in real time. It operates stably and has high accuracy. It is very popular in the market.

BlueTag TH10 is a multi-purpose, configurable temperature and humidity data logger based on Bluetooth wireless communication technology, allowing users to more conveniently view real-time and historical data on the APP without unboxing. The Bluetooth temperature data logger temperature and humidity monitoring ranges are -30℃~+70℃ (Internal sensor), -40℃~+85℃ (External probe); 0-100%RH. The Bluetooth temperature humidity data logger has the following characteristics:
1. Remote data reading at any time
2. Free cloud data storage and synchronization service
4. Intelligent APP alarm
5. Filter data by date, normal/abnormal data
6. Gateway networking optional
7. Optional external probe
8. Each probe reads data independently

With the continuous improvement of Bluetooth temperature humidity data logger technology, its stability and accuracy have met industry standards. It can provide environmental temperature and humidity management efficiency in cold chains, hospitals, greenhouses, laboratories, etc. to ensure that the environmental temperature and humidity meet the requirements . Moreover, the Bluetooth temperature recorder provided by Freshliance is cheap, has guaranteed after-sales service, and has a very good reputation among users!
#bluetooth #temperaturehumiditydatalogger #datalogger #coldchain

▻https://www.temperaturehumidityloggers.com/bluetag-th10b-th10r-bluetooth-temperature-humidity-data-

taxi.eu -The taxi app in Kopenhagen
▻https://www.taxi.eu/en/cities/kopenhagen

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Copenhagen is a mixture of a historically important port city and a young and modern student city, which attracts many visitors every year.

Anyone visiting Copenhagen cannot do without a visit to Denmark’s most famous landmark, the Little Mermaid. The fairy tale figure from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale is a magnetic attraction for all tourists. Equally popular are Tivoli Park, one of the oldest theme parks in the world, Christiansborg Castle, which is the seat of the Danish Parliament, and Amalienborg Castle, where Danish Queen Margrethe II resides and which invites you to watch the royal guard change of guard every day at 12 midday.

Copenhagen has a well-developed transport network so that the urban area, which is spread over several islands, is accessible to everyone. The Copenhagen taxi dispatch centre Amager-Øbro Taxi 4×27 is the best contact to get from one place of interest to the next – quickly and anytime. Amager-Øbro Taxi 4×27 can be reached 365 days a year by phone on +45 27 27 27 27 27 or via taxi.eu, the taxi app for Europe. The taxi dispatch centre is committed to being the best English-speaking taxi dispatch centre in Denmark. That is why they are always working to improve their already excellent service level even further.

Whether you need a taxi in Nørrebro, Østerbro, Valby, Bispebjerg, or in Vanløse – or in another city in Europe – one of the many taxis you can reach with taxi.eu is with you in a few minutes.

Antwerp
Barcelona
Berlin
Bremerhaven
Cologne
Hamburg
Kopenhagen
Luxembourg
Madrid
Munich
Paris
Vienna
Zurich

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This city lost Uber, here’s how it’s doing
▻https://www.cnet.com/culture/uber-copenhagen-denmark-ride-sharing

29.7.2017 by Eric Mack - If Uber disappeared what would you do? One city’s story

Commentary: Up to a quarter of Copenhagen’s 1.2 million residents were using Uber — until it went away. I visited to see how the Danes are coping.

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about energy, renewables, science and climate to bring educational content to life on topics around the solar panel and deregulated energy industries. Eric helps consumers by demystifying solar, battery, renewable energy, energy choice concepts, and also reviews solar installers. Previously, Eric covered space, science, climate change and all things futuristic. His encrypted email for tips is ericcmack@protonmail.com.

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Finalist for the Nesta Tipping Point prize and a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

When I passed through Copenhagen earlier this month and decided to visit Tivoli Gardens, I fired up the Uber app to help me navigate narrow congested alleyways. The map showed zero cute little black cars. Instead, a terse message informed me the service was no longer available in Denmark’s charming capital city.

“Wait … what?” I literally said out loud to no one.

Isn’t this supposed to be one of those Scandinavian techno-utopias where everything is digitized and you can visit the world’s largest 3D printer store? Isn’t that how they justify charging 12 euros for weak beer?
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There is life after Uber, but it helps if your country is one of those bike-obsessed, Scandinavian techno-Utopias.
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I felt a distinctly new sinking feeling — similar to the one I get when the signal on my phone switches from “LTE” to “3G,” but with added dread. No Uber means having to deal with foreign taxis and their malfunctioning meters and credit card machines, not to mention drivers who don’t have turn-by-turn directions and won’t offer me bottled water.

For travelers and the otherwise vehicularly challenged, Uber, and competitors like Lyft, have become a convenient means of getting around cities. It’s easy to imagine the pain it would cause the peripatetic who have come to depend on ride-sharing apps were the services they provide to vanish overnight.

Yet that’s exactly what happened in Denmark. Uber, which operates in more than 600 cities, shut down operations in Denmark on April 18 in response to new laws that would force ride-sharing drivers to essentially convert their vehicles to taxis. Major competitors like Lyft had yet to launch in the city when the law came into effect.

“(New regulations) will not allow drivers to use their privately owned cars for ride sharing and requires the installation of expensive, old-style taximeters and seat-sensors — effectively blocking the use of modern technology, like smartphones, which can serve the same functions,” Uber said in a statement announcing its withdrawal from the Nordic nation.

So about two and a half years into Denmark’s Uber era, some 2,000 Uber drivers and 300,000 Danish riders were plunged back into the dark ages of transit. That’s according to numbers from Uber itself. The service launched in Denmark in late 2014, but only operated in Copenhagen.

Finally arrived in Copenhagen for #3daysofdesign - who knew Uber was banned here?!.
— Nest.co.uk (@nest_co_uk) June 1, 2017

What? No Uber in Copenhagen any more?! End of days!!
— Food Geek (@FoodGeekUK) May 13, 2017

Yet, as I learned a few months after the Danish Uberpocalypse, everyone is moving on (and around) in that city just fine.

As it turns out, getting around Copenhagen before Uber launched there wasn’t hard. On social media, mostly foreigners and travelers lamented the loss of ride sharing, while local taxi companies and developers of at least one app designed to connect Copenhageners with taxis — similar to Uber but within the bounds of Danish law — began planning to move in on the territory now abandoned by Silicon Valley.

Denmark isn’t the only nation to be stripped of its Uber-ing privileges. Bulgaria and Hungary have their own regulations favoring taxis, essentially forcing the world’s largest ride-hailing company to suspend operations in each country in 2016. Neither of those runs lasted as long as Uber’s time in Copenhagen, but like in the Danish city both withdrawals were met with delight from taxi companies.

I asked a few Copenhageners how Uber’s disappearance had affected them, and for the most part, they were indifferent. Most said they hadn’t used the service much. Perhaps that’s not a surprise in the bike-crazy Vesterbro neighborhood where I asked.

Bikes and bike lanes abound to such a degree in Copenhagen that even famously bicycle-friendly Portland, Oregon, could learn a thing or two about two-wheel transit from the Danes. Two weeks ago during the annual Distortion festival, which “celebrates youth culture” with electronic dance music and cheap beer-fueled block parties around the city, the bikes piled up on every corner, locked to every inch of fence, spilling into sidewalks.

Clearly the locals were having little trouble getting around in the post-Uber age, but it was more of a challenge for bikeless tourists like me left bewildered by the lack of buses (many lines were temporarily suspended because of the festival).

Even after Uber, taxis aren’t nearly as prevalent in Copenhagen as in other cities with ride sharing like New York. Waiting at a taxi stand in a busy shopping district for several minutes and then wandering the streets for several blocks hoping to come across a unoccupied cab left me and my family on foot.

Second day in #Copenhagen with hour+ wait for taxi. Bring back #uber
— Kenny Powers (@VMelson) May 11, 2017

When we finally found the number of a local taxi service, the driver filled us in on the drill. Cabs are pretty quick to respond to calls and web orders (within 10 minutes in our case) and most companies have mobile apps that mimic many of the same features as the ride-sharing apps.

After installing a few local taxi apps, I was right back to hailing and scheduling rides, as well as tracking and messaging my driver. It was all a strangely familiar experience, even if there wasn’t any bottled water.

#Dänemark #Kopenhagen #Uber #Taxi

Is There Uber In Copenhagen In 2024?
▻https://abackpackersworld.com/uber-copenhagen

15.2.2024 byJosh Band -‎ Copenhagen is one of my favourite cities in the world, and I try to visit the city a few times each year.

In the modern world, Uber is used to get around cities all across the world. But is there Uber in Copenhagen?

The city is known for being an amazing destination to visit and it’s one of the most popular destinations in Scandinavia. But how are you going to get around?

This is a question I had too before I visited Copenhagen. I couldn’t find a concrete answer online, and when I arrived in the city, I was surprised by the answer, so as soon as I got home, I created this guide to help you get a straight answer to this important question.
Is There Uber In Copenhagen?

To summarise this article and put it bluntly, no, Copenhagen does not have Uber.

Uber is technically illegal in Denmark due to the national taxi laws which protect the local taxi firms in Denmark, including Copenhagen.

I remember one of the guys I met in the hostel I stayed in telling me they tried to get an Uber from the airport but he wasn’t able to- well, this is why!

It is quite frustrating that there isn’t an option to use the service in Copenhagen, especially if you use it frequently.

Many people assume you can use Uber worldwide, and while this is somewhat true due to the large number of countries, Denmark isn’t one of them.

The history between Uber and Danish laws is a long story. They were operating in Denmark from 2014 to 2017 like they would in any other country.

There were some disputes between the company and the government before then, as there have been in other countries too. But when new taxi laws in 2017 made Uber technically illegal unless they changed how they operated, they pulled out of operating in Denmark.

Since then, there has been a back and forth between the ride-hailing company and the Danish government where Uber have been trying to reach a compromise, but it seems that the final judgement is that Uber won’t be returning to Denmark or Copenhagen any time soon.
A picture of a taxi in Copenhagen. Is there Uber Copenhagen? No.

The reason is that the new law introduced in 2017 required all taxi cabs in Denmark to have a fare meter, video surveillance and seat sensors among other things.

Of course, if you have been in an Uber before, you will know that the ride fee isn’t calculated using a fare meter and is paid for in advance.

As a very modern city, it’s quite weird that there isn’t Uber in Copenhagen.

If you ask me, the reason that the Danish government are being so strict is because they want to protect the local taxi firms and keep the money in Denmark. They have a strong economy and don’t want money generated through both locals and tourists to go to international companies.

But it’s not the end of the world, there are other alternatives available which I will discuss in a moment, but in answer to the question “Is there Uber in Copenhagen?“, no, there isn’t.
Equivalent Of Uber In Copenhagen

There are a few services similar to Uber (an app-based taxi or ride-hailing app) that operate in Copenhagen. When I was in Copenhagen, I saw quite a lot of taxis, but it seemed to be mainly tourists who used them rather than locals.

The first alternative is Viggo, a ride-hailing service which fits right in with the Copenhagen way of life. The company only uses zero-emission cars, getting you from A to B in a modern electric vehicle.

Viggo is a relatively small taxi firm, with around 100 cars in the city, but the size does not take away from the quality. The taxis are top-class and I’d recommend using them.

As you may be aware, Copenhagen is expensive to visit, so the price of Viggo’s taxis may seem high but it’s pretty in line with the economy in the city. Unfortunately, it’s just one of those places that are costly to visit. But worth it!
A picture of the rates for Viggo, Copenhagen’s Uber alternative.

If you want to travel with the environment in mind, Viggo is the perfect company. Personally, I can see them expanding outside of Scandinavia in the near future.

Another option similar to Uber in Copenhagen is Taxa 4×35. The “preferred taxi company in Copenhagen” is definitely a fair phrase for them to use.

During my 3 days in Copenhagen, I definitely saw the 4×35 cars the most. The taxi firm started as a regular firm but grew to have an app similar in functionality to Uber.

It’s really easy to book a ride, you just follow the same steps as normal by putting in where you want to go, when you want to go and where you want picked up, and it’ll give you a price.

Taxa 4×35 emailed me to let me know that they also aim to go 100% electric by 2025, with around half of their current fleet being zero-emission taxis.
A picture of the rates for Taxa 4x35, another Uber Copenhagen alternative.

As you can see, the prices of Viggo and Taxa 4×35 are pretty similar, so it’s a personal preference of who you wish to use in Copenhagen.

Both companies provide a great experience. Like the rest of Copenhagen, the rides are efficient but laid-back.

Also- if you are wondering how safe ride sharing is in Copenhagen, Copenhagen is safe 100%. It’s actually the safest city I have ever visited and one of the safest in the entire world.

So there are two very strong options that replace Uber in Copenhagen: Viggo and Taxa 4×35.

Even though Uber doesn’t operate in Denmark, the Copenhageners aren’t short of ride-hailing apps, that’s for sure.
Transportation Options in Copenhagen

If you decide not to use one of the two ride-hailing apps offered above, you may wonder what your other options for getting around Copenhagen are. There are 5 main options to choose from.

Bus
Walking
Cycling
Car Rental
Harbour bus

When you get to Copenhagen, you will quickly see that all the locals get around the city by cycling. Copenhagen is one of the world’s most cycle-friendly cities after all.

Side note, taking a bike tour of Copenhagen is actually one of the best ways to see the city’s main sights.
A picture of people cycling in Copenhagen.
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The public transport in Copenhagen is very reliable, prompt and affordable. So you can be sure that if you choose to use it, you will easily get from A to B.

Public transport is also included in your Copenhagen Card! It’s one of the reasons I suggest buying the card in my Copenhagen Card review.

And if you were wondering, the harbour buses are buses that go through Copenhagen’s harbour and canals to get you from A to B via the water. It’s a pretty cool experience! If you’re visiting Copenhagen on a budget, it’s a cheeky way to get a quick canal tour rather than paying for a proper tour.

Thankfully, Copenhagen is an easy city to navigate and get around, and there are lots of options to do so.
FAQs

Below are some questions related to “Is there Uber in Copenhagen?” along with my answers.
Is there a taxi app in Copenhagen?

Yes, there is the Taxa 4×35 app which allows you to book a taxi on their app. Another app is the Viggo app which is a ride-hailing app using 100% zero-emission cars.
What is Denmark version of Uber?

There are two options to choose from as the equivalent of Uber in Denmark: Taxa 4×35 which is the main taxi firm in Copenhagen who have an app. Or Viggo, a ride-hailing company that only uses zero-emission cars for your journeys.
Why is Uber banned in Denmark?

Uber withdrew from operating in Denmark as new taxi laws required all taxis to have fare meters, video surveillance and seat sensors. Shortly after this law was introduced, the ride-hailing service pulled out of Denmark.
Is there Uber Eats in Copenhagen?

Yes, even though there are no Uber rides in Copenhagen as the service is outlawed, you can still avail of fast food delivery using the Uber Eats app.
Conclusion

And there you have it, a complete guide to “Is there Uber in Copenhagen?“.

Remember, the answer is unfortunately no.

But there are other ride-hailing apps like Taxa 4×35 and Viggo.

And of course, the other transport options too.

However you choose to get around Copenhagen, I hope you have a great trip even though Copenhagen has no Uber! 🙂

Now that you know there is no Uber in the city, you can start planning other aspects of your trip. I recommend starting with how to get from Copenhagen airport to the city.

Read more about Copenhagen:

Is Copenhagen Worth Visiting? Things To Do & Reasons To Visit
How Many Days In Copenhagen Is Enough?
Copenhagen In January: Ultimate Guide & Travel Tips
Does it snow in Copenhagen? Copenhagen in Winter
Copenhagen Solo Travel: Ultimate Guide
How to say Copenhagen in Danish
Copenhagen to Legoland: Ultimate Guide

Josh Band

Josh Band is the founder of A Backpacker’s World. He is a full-time traveller currently on a mission to visit every country in the world. As a full-time traveller, Josh knows exactly how to make the most of any trip and shares these tips with his readers. Josh mostly travels as a backpacker on a budget, so he is also an expert when it comes to getting the most of your money while travelling.

Who I am
A young man with a short brown haircut and a smile stands in Amsterdam in front of a scenic canal, trees, and a clear sky, wearing a casual light blue t-shirt and carrying a dark shoulder bag.

Hey! My name is Josh, I’m 20 years old and I travel full-time on a budget as well as run this travel blog providing tips and tricks for how you can make the most of your money while travelling.

I’m on a mission to visit every country in the world and so far, I’ve visited 26 countries and I’m so happy to be able to say that I help tens of thousands of people save money on travel each month. Learn more about me by clicking here.
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#Dänemark #Kopenhagen #Uber #Taxi

3 Data Points from New DVS Board Members
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/3-data-points-from-new-dvs-board-members

The start to 2024 saw the induction of seven new #Data_Visualization Society board members. As they begin their respective duties to elevate DVS, we wanted to offer them the chance to introduce themselves, asking them a few questions along the way. Get to know the new DVS board members!

#Community

The evolution and future of interactive #Data_Visualization (Part 2)
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/the-evolution-and-future-of-interactive-data-visualization-part-2

The second installment in a series on the evolution and future of interactive data visualization. The early years of the internet.

#interactive_dataviz

Flags and Figures
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/flags-and-figures

In both vexillology and data visualisation, the elegance lies in simplicity, the power in clarity, and the beauty in purposeful #Design.

#Charts #Data_Visualization

Taxe « lapin » pour limiter les rendez-vous médicaux non honorés, une fausse bonne idée ?
▻https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-biais-d-esther-duflo/taxe-lapin-pour-limiter-les-rendez-vous-medicaux-non-honores-une-fausse-

https://www.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production-eu3/2024/04/b3753ea4-1fbc-449e-b64a-215c4a0673f1/1200x680_sc_pret-pour-les-patients-gettyimages-1321736089-3000-x-2000-1.jpg

Nous savons bien que les humains ne sont pas motivés exclusivement par l’argent. C’est d’ailleurs pour avoir démontré l’importance des limites de la rationalité économique que Daniel Kahneman, un psychologue, qui est décédé la semaine dernière, a reçu le prix Nobel en économie. Ses travaux ont ouvert la voie à un nouveau chant de l’économie, l’économie comportementale, qui montre comment prendre en compte la psychologie nous permet de mieux comprendre pourquoi les individus ne se comportent pas toujours d’une manière parfaitement rationnelle.

Une des leçons de Kahneman, c’est que la manière dont une décision est présentée compte beaucoup dans les décisions que nous prenons, particulièrement quand nous devons décider rapidement (ses idées sont popularisées dans le livre Système 1, système 2, les deux vitesses de la pensée).

Reconnaissance faciale : Gérald Darmanin veut enterrer « l’affaire Briefcam »
▻https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/reconnaissance-faciale-gerald-darmanin-veut-enterrer-laffaire-briefcam

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En novembre, à la suite des révélations de Disclose sur l’utilisation par la police du logiciel de reconnaissance faciale Briefcam, Gérald Darmanin annonçait le lancement d’une enquête indépendante dont les conclusions devaient être rendues « sous trois mois ». Alors que le ministère de l’intérieur refuse de communiquer sur le sujet, un rapport confidentiel démontre que la fonction reconnaissance faciale est « activée par défaut » depuis 2018. Lire l’article

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86. danah boyd on freaks, geeks, queers, and lying to the US Census - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
▻https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/86-danah-boyd

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Ethan Zuckerman:
Hey everybody, welcome back to “Reimagining the Internet.” I am your host, Ethan Zuckerman. I am here today with a dear friend of mine, danah boyd is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown. She’s the founder of the celebrated research institute Data and Society, where she remains an advisor. She’s one of the most cited scholars on social media. Her book, “It’s Complicated the Social Lives of network teens” is really one of the key works on understanding youth and the social internet. I could keep talking about her, but you would eventually turn off this podcast.
danah, it’s so great to have you. Welcome to the show.
danah boyd:
Thank you. It’s a total delight to be here with you today.

And so when we put in regulatory frameworks, where the goal is to segment young people from these other things, we’re doing it for a political agenda and we’re not focused on a socialization process. The key to speech for me is that you socialize young people and understanding the speech acts of our world, why they play out the way they do, what is really at play, what is being contested, how do you make sense of the language that’s being thrown around you? 
Because the other thing that I also struggle with is in the United States where we valorize that idea of quote unquote freedom of speech. We miss the whole point of freedom of speech is to be able to be a responsible speaker for an informed citizenry. It doesn’t mean the right to be amplified. Those are two different things. 
And so I think for me, it’s this process of like, what are the consequences of your speech? If your speech hurts another person, you have to learn to pay consequences for that. 
And that’s by the way, what young people are learning, you know, even in the school environment, like we take something like bullying. Bullying is worse in the school than it ever is at home. And we’ve known that in our data for a very long time, the irony of COVID was that bullying is integrated. 
Turns out when kids don’t go to school, they can get bullied. It’s not that they actually went up higher because of online. The online bullying went through the floor. So it was this weird natural experiment for all of us where like school actually turns out to be the main site of meanness and cruelty and nobody’s going to be sitting there like, “let’s ban school.”

You know, and again, we can take other parallels. Right? We have a law that says you cannot drink alcohol under 21. I’m sorry, we know the date on of this. This is not what stops people from drinking alcohol under 21. They drink it. But unfortunately they drink it in a way that they’re again not being socialized into thinking about it housely and anybody on a college campus knows that like the drinking dynamic in the United States is far more toxic than in most other countries around the world. And so this is where I find these bans are playing one set of politics and not thinking about the consequences of them, let alone how to negotiate it.

Ethan Zuckerman:
You and I are part of a generation who get dismissed as cyberutopians, but maybe a healthy way of looking at it is to say, we actually imagine these technologies being built consistent with our values and towards some of the goals that we hold dear, we did not did a good enough job politically ensuring that our values got built into those technologies. I think one of the interesting questions at this point is, you know, how redeemable are these spaces as we head into 2024 do we still have idealistic views of how these spaces might get used in the backdrop of our politics or is the project dismantling them building alternatives to them keeping them in a box to one extent or another?
danah boyd:
So I think my very definition of activism is to fight for a better future than a present. And one of the things that I love are the various versions of dreamers and activists who you do imagine and strive for and work towards a better future that doesn’t necessarily accept the present. And I think there’s really reasonable differences of view of how to get to that, you know, various versions of better futures, more inclusive futures, more equitable futures. And I think the things that I, you know, that has sort of shifted over my career is like certainly growing up as, you know, this queer kid in, you know, rural America, I saw technology in my youth as the thing that would be allowing me to go to that better future because the technology of my youth and the ways in which these technologies that I was living with were already marginalized, already appeared to align with it. So I thought that that was something I could hook to.
At this point, the technologies of the present are entirely entangled with forms of late-stage capitalism that are about exploitation at its core. So I’m not as committed to saying that hooking my activist future and my belief of towards a better future on a fight for these technologies is going to necessarily work towards an aligned arrangement. And so I think a lot of what I’m struggling with personally and intellectually is like, how do I fight for a better future? Because I’m not committed to thinking that it’s technology.
And this is where for me, I think like you, I was always seen as like, you know, a techno-optimist. And I think that that was, you know, a misnomer because I think that what I was, I’m an optimist that it’s possible to get to a better future. I for a long time saw technology as one of the tools in that and one of the sites where those things could play out. And I do believe that many, it’s been an amazing site of contestation that’s like made visible a whole set of values and enables so many people to come together.
But it’s not, I’m not a tech determinist. I don’t believe that the technology is the thing. It just, it was the thing that made sense to use at the time. And I think I’m asking myself, what are the things to use now to fight for a better future.

And so this is also one of those moments where it’s like, where do we have the political will? And we’re going to regulate technology. We’ve seen state level regulations. But I’d also like to note, most of these are actually to encourage parents to be more surveillant of young people.
And this is one of my also big sites of frustration because I think a lot of people think that that’s actually a good thing because they imagine all parents are good. And one of the heartbreaking things about my work is learning that, like, no, not always are parents the best actor for young people.
And it’s worse than that. When we’re in the middle of a cultural war, where we’re trying to actually encourage parents to have control over children’s bodies, you know, in this way that’s actually strategically oppressive, these are laws that are about trying to enable and encourage large mechanisms of oppression that will actually cause more damage long-term than they will actually address the problems at bay.
So this is one of the reasons why these current debates are very disheartening for me, very confusing for me, because it’s not actually about privacy, or it’s not actually about helping young people. It’s about maximizing surveillance, giving parents power over their children, and actually making certain that we cause more harm long term under this sort of fantasy of moral values and oppression. And that scares me.

#danah_boyd #Ethan_Zuckerman #Census #Recensement #Médias_sociaux #Parents

Faire payer les rendez-vous non honorés : l’avis des médecins
▻https://www.slate.fr/story/235324/faire-payer-rendez-vous-manques-non-honores-avis-medecins-consultation-medical

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... certaines personnes ne sont pas en mesure de venir à tous leurs rendez-vous médicaux et (...) se retrouvent souvent dans l’incapacité de prévenir. « Mes patients ont 75 ans de moyenne d’âge. Ils ont fait un AVC, plus de 30% ont des troubles de la planification, 25% ont des troubles moteurs séquellaires. Ils ont de multiples suivis parallèles. C’est très compliqué d’honorer des rendez-vous dans ces conditions. C’est d’autant plus compliqué que leur accès aux SMS de rappel peut être difficile, que les politiques de réduction des coûts en matière de secrétariat dans les hôpitaux et cliniques les rend quasi injoignables pour annuler ou déplacer des rendez-vous », assure sur Twitter R., neurologue.

« Une partie de la patientèle, déjà marginalisée, a des difficultés –à cause par exemple d’addictions ou de troubles cognitifs– à honorer systématiquement les rendez-vous », atteste Yannick, médecin généraliste avec lequel nous avons échangé.

Ces éléments vont dans le sens d’une étude irlandaise publiée en 2019, qui écrit dans sa conclusion : « Les patients souffrant d’un plus grand nombre d’affections de longue durée ont un risque accru de manquer des rendez-vous en médecine générale malgré le contrôle du nombre de rendez-vous pris. Ceci est particulièrement vrai chez les patients souffrant de troubles mentaux. » Elle indique également que ces patients « qui manquaient plus de deux rendez-vous par an ont un risque de mortalité toutes causes confondues plus de huit fois supérieur à ceux qui ne manquaient aucun rendez-vous. Ces patients sont décédés prématurément, généralement de facteurs externes non naturels tels que le suicide. »

#Santé #médecine #rendez_vous_non_honorés #taxe-lapin #darwinisme_social

Naître discriminé.e au Népal : la lutte des Dalits pour abolir le système de caste

Tout au long du Forum social mondial 2024, des banderoles #DalitsLivesMatter étaient exhibées. En s’inspirant du phénomène mondial du #BlackLivesMatter, les Dalits cherchent à attirer l’attention internationale. Lalbabu Ram Mahara est l’un d’entre eux. Alors que la réalité des Dalits au Népal est peu médiatisée, la communauté se mobilise pour atteindre l’égalité de droits et de traitement avec les autres castes.

L’instauration d’un système discriminant
Le Népal est encore organisé selon le système de caste qui s’est implanté dans la région il y a plus de 1500 ans. Malgré la parenté, il se distingue du système indien. Instaurées lors du règne du 11e roi Jayashtiti Malla, les castes sont déterminées selon le modèle Indu : les quatre grands groupes sont sous-divisés en plusieurs castes. Au Népal, il existe plus de 125 castes.

Les Brahmins étaient des chercheurs, les Kshatriya des militaires et les Vaishyas des commerçants. Les Shudras, la caste basse, étaient des serviteurs. Ce modèle les empêchait d’accéder entre autres à l’éducation, à la propriété privée et à certains temples religieux.

▻https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/naitre-discrimine-e-au-nepal-la-lutte-des-dali

#international #nepal #caste

Stop Trying to Prove Yourself with a Viz
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/stop-trying-to-prove-yourself-with-a-viz

Every #Data_Visualization job that I have held has included introducing my work to teammates and then feeling like I have to impress them.

#Career #Early_Career

Ex-Israeli Negotiator Slams U.S. Arming of Israel Following Aid Convoy Attack & Iran Consulate Bombing | Democracy Now!
▻https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/israel_us_arms_gaza_iran_consulate

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#daniel_levy

If, by contrast, the U.S. wants to be within the law and wants to end this war, and, by the way, to successfully advance the negotiations to get a ceasefire and to get the hostages out, if that’s the goal of the Biden administration, stop telling me you’re heartbroken. Stop telling me, “This is so sad. We’re talking to the Israelis. They should do it differently. Let’s work out how to do Rafah.” Stop telling me that Netanyahu is a problem. You’re the problem, because you’re the enabler, you’re the facilitator ,

#états-unis #genocide_joe

The Evolution and Future of Interactive #Data_Visualization (Part 1)
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/the-evolution-and-future-of-interactive-data-visualization-part-1

As humans, we have always had the urge to chart the world around us. This urge has pushed us to improve the way we collect, process, and communicate information throughout history.

#interactive_dataviz

#Liban. Sur les #traces des #disparus de la #guerre_civile

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Comment filmer la #disparition ? Traduire par l’image ce qui n’est plus ? C’est un travail de #remémoration contre l’#amnésie_officielle et collective, et donc un travail pour l’histoire, que propose l’équipe du film The Soil and the Sea (« La terre et la mer »), qui sillonne le Liban sur les traces des #charniers de la guerre civile.

Image trouble, son étranglé, vagues menaçantes… The Soil and the Sea (« La terre et la mer ») commence littéralement à contre-courant, la caméra submergée dans une lutte contre les vagues, dont nous tire la voix de l’écrivain libanais Elias Khoury lisant en arabe son poème « La mer blanche ». Ce sauvetage n’est pourtant qu’une illusion : c’est bien une noyade longue d’un peu plus d’une heure qui commence avec le film réalisé par Daniele Rugo, véritable plongée cinématographique dans la violence de la guerre civile libanaise.

Partant de la côte beyrouthine, le film nous fait entrer au Liban par le charnier méditerranéen qui le borde, cette mer dans laquelle la guerre a souvent dégurgité ses #cadavres. The Soil and the Sea interroge les disparitions, exhume les histoires des #victimes et de leurs familles, creuse les bas-fonds de près de quinze années de #guerre_civile.

Un pays amnésique et imprégné de #violence

Au Liban, 17 415 personnes auraient disparu de 1975 à 1990, pendant la guerre civile qui a opposé de très nombreuses factions locales et internationales, mais dont les victimes ont été en majorité libanaises, palestiniennes et syriennes. Ce chiffre est tiré de la recherche constituée par le Lebanon Memory Archive, un projet piloté par l’équipe du film qui met en lumière cinq sites libanais abritant des #fosses_communes datant de la guerre1. Massacres délibérés, emprisonnements, torture, enlèvements, assassinats arbitraires ou ciblés, des lieux tels que #Damour, #Chatila, #Beit_Mery, #Aita_Al-Foukhar ou #Tripoli, sont emblématiques de toutes les facettes de la violence devenue routinière dans le Liban des années 1980. Leurs noms seuls suffisent à réveiller le souvenir d’une opération militaire, d’une prison ou d’une hécatombe dont les histoires sont tues dans un pays qui s’est remis de la guerre civile en instaurant un fragile statu quo.

Afin de saisir la force de The Soil and the Sea, il faut comprendre la portée politique du simple geste de prise de parole proposé par le film. Dans les années 1990, la principale barrière mise en place pour éviter de retomber dans les méandres d’un affrontement civil a été le #silence. Aucune #politique_mémorielle n’a été mise en place à l’échelle du pays, les programmes scolaires s’arrêtent notoirement à la veille de la guerre civile, et la guerre est un arrière-plan anecdotique dans les conversations des Libanais·es. Des organisations de la société civile plaident pourtant depuis longtemps en défense des familles des personnes disparu·es, et une loi de 2018 promettait même d’éclaircir leur sort, mais le silence reste de mise pour la majorité de la société libanaise. La faute en revient surtout à l’absence de politiques publiques et d’institutions dédiées : il n’existe pas au Liban d’histoire « objective » de la guerre, scientifiquement constituée, et admise par l’État et la population. The Soil and the Sea donne un exemple saisissant de cette #amnésie_collective avec l’anecdote d’une mère qui pose une plaque et plante un olivier en mémoire de son fils Maher, disparu devant la faculté des sciences dans la banlieue sud de la capitale. Alors que cette faculté relève du seul établissement supérieur public du pays - l’Université libanaise -, les étudiant·es et les professeur·es rencontré·es par la mère de Maher sont effaré·es d’apprendre qu’une fosse commune « de trente mètres de long » a été enfouie sous les dalles de leur campus à la suite d’une bataille entre des factions libanaises et l’armée israélienne pénétrant dans Beyrouth en 1982.

Pour recomposer l’histoire d’un pays amnésique, The Soil and the Sea choisit d’enchaîner les #témoignages, comme celui de la mère de Maher. Les #récits sont racontés en « voix off », superposés à des images montrant les lieux banals, gris, bétonnés, où les Libanais·es foulent souvent sans s’en douter - ou sans y penser - les corps de centaines de leurs semblables. Les voix des proches ou des survivant·es qui témoignent sont anonymes. Seuls ces lieux du quotidien incarnent la violence. Le film offre l’image d’un Liban pâle et quasi désert, où l’immobilier aussi bien que la végétation ont recouvert les plaies mal cicatrisées de la guerre. Des silhouettes lointaines parcourent ruines antiques et bâtiments modernes, gravats et pousses verdoyantes, mais on ne verra jamais les visages des voix qui racontent, par-dessus des plans savamment composés, les disparitions des proches, l’angoisse des familles, parfois de précieuses retrouvailles, plus souvent des vies passées dans l’errance et la nostalgie. Filmant le présent pour illustrer les récits du passé, The Soil and the Sea met au défi l’expérience libanaise contemporaine en montrant des lieux imprégnés jusque dans leurs fondations par une violence rarement nommée, qui prend enfin corps à l’écran dans les récits des familles laissées pour compte. Le travail de mise en scène du témoignage oral est aussi soigné du point de vue de l’image que du son, les mots crus des proches étant délicatement accompagnés par les arrangements légers et angoissants de Yara Asmar au synthétiseur.

Géographie de l’oubli

Faut-il déterrer les cadavres ? Serait-ce rendre justice aux familles que de retourner aujourd’hui la terre, et risquer ainsi de raviver les blessures d’un pays jamais guéri de la violence ? Ces questions, posées par un survivant du massacre commis par les milices palestiniennes à Damour en 1976, reçoivent plus tard une réponse indirecte de la part de la mère de Maher : « S’ils exhument des restes, où est-ce que je les mettrais ? » Juxtaposant des témoignages qui se font écho, The Soil and the Sea devient un jeu de questions et réponses qui exprime le paradoxe de l’#amnésie libanaise. Aux dépens de nombreuses victimes et de leurs familles, l’oubli a été un geste d’amnistie qui a permis à la société libanaise de se reconstruire, d’élever des banques et de déployer des champs sur une terre ravagée par le conflit. Beaucoup de victimes ont aussi été acteur·rices de la violence, à commencer par Maher, mort au service d’une milice, dont le récit de la disparition entame et conclut le film. En exhumant leurs corps, on risquerait de raviver des colères enfouies avec eux. Au lieu de prendre un tel risque, et outre l’impossibilité matérielle et politique d’une telle entreprise, le documentaire et le projet de recherche auquel il s’adosse se contentent de recueillir des #souvenirs sans les commenter autrement que par des images du quotidien, familières à tous·tes les Libanais·es.

L’absence de protagonistes à l’écran, le choix de filmer les lieux représentés à des moments où ils sont inhabituellement déserts, illustrent d’abord la #disparition, thème principal de l’œuvre. Nous, spectateurs et spectatrices, sommes invité·es dans ces espaces comme dans des arènes cinématographiques qui réverbèrent les récits de la violence et abattent le quatrième mur, nous mettant au centre d’un récit oral, musical et visuel. Nous qui foulons le sol libanais, nous qui partageons sa mer et contemplons ses espaces, sommes responsables de constater la violence gravée en eux, nous dit le film. Si on ne peut résoudre les disparitions sans raviver la violence qui les a causées, si on ne peut déterrer les cadavres sans risquer d’exhumer la guerre qui les a tués, on peut au moins admettre l’amnésie, s’en reconnaître responsable, et apaiser par des #actes_mémoriels la violence fantôme qui hante le Liban.

The Soil and the Sea apporte sa pierre à l’édifice mémoriel par la constitution d’une #géographie qui relève un à un des #lieux de l’oubli libanais. Les récits qui permettent l’enquête ne sont jamais exhaustifs. Ils permettent d’incarner cette géographie, lui donnant le relief et la profondeur qui manquent aux images du quotidien libanais contemporain. Par des procédés fins et dépouillés, le film de #Daniele_Rugo nomme l’innommable, montre ce qui ne peut être montré, et parvient ainsi à nous remémorer notre #oubli.

▻https://orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/liban-sur-les-traces-des-disparus-de-la-guerre-civile,7167
#film #documentaire #film_documentaire

Visualizing the History of Saturn and its Rings
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/visualizing-the-history-of-saturn-and-its-rings

In March 2025, Saturn’s rings will disappear. Well, this isn’t entirely true. NASA has confirmed that the rings will disappear, yes, but they will only disappear from Earth’s view.

#Charts #Data_Visualization #Design

Berliner Gebietsreform 1938
▻https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwaltungsgeschichte_Berlins

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Aus heutiger Sicht zeigt die Karte einen Bezirk zuviel, dafür fehlen ein bzw. zwei neue im Osten der Stadt.

Mit Wirkung zum 1. April 1938 wurden zahlreiche Begradigungen der Bezirksgrenzen sowie einige größere Gebietsänderungen vorgenommen. Dabei kamen unter anderem

– die Siedlung #Eichkamp vom Bezirk Wilmersdorf zum Bezirk #Charlottenburg
– der westliche Teil von #Ruhleben vom Bezirk Charlottenburg zum Bezirk #Spandau
- der nördlich des #Berlin-Spandauer_Schifffahrtskanal s gelegene Teil der #Jungfernheide vom Bezirk Charlottenburg zu den Bezirken #Reinickendorf und #Wedding
- #Martinikenfelde vom Bezirk Charlottenburg zum Bezirk #Tiergarten
– das Gebiet um den #Wittenbergplatz und den #Nollendorfplatz vom Bezirk Charlottenburg zum Bezirk #Schöneberg
– das Gebiet südlich der #Kurfürstenstraße vom Bezirk #Tiergarten zum Bezirk Schöneberg
– ein großer Teil des #Grunewald s vom Bezirk #Wilmersdorf zum Bezirk #Zehlendorf
– ein Teil von #Dahlem vom Bezirk Zehlendorf zum Bezirk Wilmersdorf
- der östliche Rand des Bezirks Zehlendorf (in Dahlem nur ein schmaler Streifen, sich in Richtung Süden verbreiternd bis hin zu einem größeren Gebiet im Südosten) zum Bezirk #Steglitz
- #Späthsfelde vom Bezirk #Neukölln zum Bezirk #Treptow
– Bohnsdorf vom Bezirk Köpenick zum Bezirk Treptow
– #Oberschöneweide und die #Wuhlheide vom Bezirk #Treptow zum Bezirk #Köpenick
- die westlich der #Ringbahn gelegenen Gebiete von #Boxhagen-Rummelsburg und #Friedrichsberg vom Bezirk #Lichtenberg zum Bezirk #Friedrichshain, damals #Horst-Wessel-Stadt.
- #Wilhelmsruh vom Bezirk #Reinickendorf zum Bezirk #Pankow
- das Gebiet um die #Wollankstraße westlich der Berliner #Nordbahn vom Bezirk Pankow zum Bezirk #Wedding.

Bereits in den Jahren 1928 und 1937 war es zu Verschiebungen zwischen Schöneberg und Tempelhof gekommen.

Unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs machte die sowjetische Militärverwaltung aus heute unbekannten Gründen #Friedenau zwischen dem 29. April und dem 30. Juni 1945 zum 21. Bezirk mit Willy Pölchen (KPD) als Bezirksbürgermeister; danach wurde Friedenau wieder wie vorher ein Ortsteil von Schöneberg. Entsprechend bestand in der Zeit das #Amtsgericht_Friedenau.

#Berlin #Geschichte #Verwaltung #Bezirke #Nazis

Bluetooth temperature humidity data logger for refrigeration

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#refrigeration #temperaturehumidity #bluetooth #datalogger

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A Jijel en Algérie, les inondations révèlent le laisser-aller de la gouvernance.
▻http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article4589

Les autorités s’efforcent encore de dégager les routes bloquées et les infrastructures endommagées. Mais elles devaient aménager les voies et autres infrastructures pour qu’à l’avenir, elles restent opérationnelles et ne devaient mettre en blocage la vie et les activités de la population. Le pays a un lourd retard avec les bricolages des dirigeants qui montrent leurs travaux sans efficacité sur l’existence des citoyens. #nationale,_fait_politique,_une_et_première_page,_médias,_actualité,_pays,_france,_afrique,_maghreb

/ Maghreb, Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, Libye, Africa, population, société , #calamités_naturelles, #Ecologie,_environnement,_nature,_animaux, #Journalisme,_presse,_médias, Data - (...)

#Maghreb,Algérie,_Tunisie,_Maroc,_Libye,_Africa,_population,_société #Data_-_Données

Visualizing Music Through Data: Are The Most Popular Ghost Songs Statistically More Metal?
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/visualizing-music-through-data

Ghost, the Swedish satanic metal band that blew up during the summer of 2022 when their song “Mary On A Cross” went viral on TikTok, now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify—rising from around 2 million before summer of 2021.

#Charts #Data_Visualization

Le 18 mars 1871 : La Naissance de #La_Commune_de_Paris
▻https://bascules.blog/2024/03/18/le-18-mars-1871-la-naissance-de-la-commune-de-paris

Un Récit [Source ▻https://fr.crimethinc.com/2017/03/18/le-18-mars-1871-la-naissance-de-la-commune-de-paris-un-recit ] Nous sommes en 1871. La révolution vient d’établir un gouvernement démocratique en France, suite à la défaite de l’empereur Napoléon III dans la guerre l’opposant à la Prusse (devenue depuis le 18 janvier de cette même année l’Empire allemand). Mais la nouvelle République ne satisfait personne. Le gouvernement provisoire est […]

#Anarchisme #La_forme-Commune #Date_anniverssaire #Histoire

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Three Questions with… Alejandra Arevalo
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/three-questions-with-alejandra-arevalo

Alejandra Arevalo is a Peruvian multimedia journalist and engineer based in San Francisco. A self-taught coder, she currently works as a developer at Hearst Newspapers where she focuses on #Data_Visualization and interactive storytelling.

#3_Questions_With #Community

Dschuang Dsï: Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland.
▻http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Zhuang+Zi+(Dschuang+Dsi)/Das+wahre+Buch+vom+s%C3%BCdlichen+Bl%C3%BCtenland/2.+Exoterisches/Buch+VIII/Wider+die+Kultur+I

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Wider die Kultur I

Schwimmhäute zwischen den Zehen und ein sechster Finger an der Hand sind Bildungen, die über die Natur hinausgehen und für das eigentliche Leben überflüssig sind. Fettgeschwülste und Kröpfe sind Bildungen, die dem Körper äußerlich angewachsen und für die eigentliche Natur überflüssig sind. In allerhand Moralvorschriften Bescheid wissen und sie anwenden, ist ebenfalls etwas, das von außen her dem menschlichen Gefühlsleben hinzugefügt wird und nicht den Kern[103] von SINN und LEBEN trifft. Darum, wer Schwimmhäute am Fuße trägt, dessen Zehen sind einfach durch ein nutzloses Stück Fleisch verbunden; wer sechs Finger an der Hand hat, dem wächst einfach ein nutzloser Finger zu viel. Wer solche überflüssigen Auswüchse im innerlichen Gefühlsleben zeigt, der läßt sich hinreißen zu einem zügellosen Moralbetrieb und zu einem Gebrauch der Sinne, der das rechte Maß übersteigt. Denn solche überflüssige Verfeinerung des Gesichtssinnes führt zu weiter nichts als dazu, daß die natürlichen Farbenempfindungen in Unordnung geraten und man zu einem übertriebenen Kultus der Linien und Farben kommt. Wer des Guten zuviel tut in Beziehung auf den Gehörsinn, der bringt es zu nichts weiter als dazu, daß die natürlichen Gehörsempfindungen in Unordnung geraten und man zu einem übertriebenen Kultus musikalischer Verfeinerung kommt. Auswüchse der Moral führen zu nichts weiter, als daß man in willkürlicher Tugendübung die Natur unterbindet, um sich einen Namen zu machen, daß die ganze Welt mit Trommeln und Pfeifen einen als unerreichbares Vorbild rühmt. Überflüssige Pflege logischer Spitzfindigkeiten führt zu nichts weiter, als daß man (seine Beweise) wie Dachziegel aufeinanderschiebt oder wie Stricke zusammenbindet, daß man sich in seinen Sätzen verklausuliert und sich ergötzt an leeren begrifflichen Unterscheidungen und mit kleinen vorsichtigen Schritten überflüssige Sätze verteidigt. Das alles sind Methoden, so überflüssig wie Schwimmhäute und sechste Finger, und nicht geeignet, als Richtmaß der Welt zu dienen.

Das höchste Richtmaß vernachlässigt nicht die tatsächlichen Naturverhältnisse. Darum, wo es zusammenfaßt, bedarf es nicht der Schwimmhäute, wo es trennt, entstehen keine sechsten Finger. Das Lange ist für diesen Standpunkt nicht überflüssig, das Kurze nicht ungenügend. Die Beine einer Ente sind wohl kurz; wollte man sie strecken, so täte es ihr weh. Die Beine eines Kranichs sind wohl lang; wollte man sie kürzen, so empfände er Schmerz. Darum: was von Natur lang ist, soll man nicht kürzen; was von Natur kurz ist, soll man nicht strecken. Dann gibt es keinen Schmerz, den man beseitigen müßte. Ach, wie widerspricht doch die Moral der[104] menschlichen Natur! Was macht diese Moral doch für viele Schmerzen!

Aber freilich, wenn einer Schwimmhäute zwischen den Zehen hat und man will sie ihm durchschneiden, so weint er; wenn einer einen sechsten Finger an der Hand hat und man will ihn abbeißen, so schreit er. Im einen Fall hat er ein Glied zuviel, im andern Fall (weil durch eine Haut verbunden) ein Glied zuwenig; aber der Schmerz ist derselbe. Die moralischen Menschen von heutzutage jammern blinzelnden Auges über die Leiden der Welt. Die unmoralischen Menschen verkümmern den tatsächlichen Zustand ihrer Natur und gieren nach Ehre und Reichtum. Darum halte ich dafür, daß die Moral etwas ist, das nicht der menschlichen Natur entspricht. Was hat sie doch seit Anbeginn der Weltgeschichte für unnötige Verwirrung angerichtet!

Wer mit Haken und Richtschnur, mit Zirkel und Richtscheit die Leute recht machen will, der verkümmert ihre Natur; wer mit Stricken und Bändern, mit Leim und Kleister sie festigen will, der vergewaltigt ihr Wesen; wer Umgangsformen und Musik zurechtzimmert, um die Moral dadurch aufzuschmücken und so dem Herzen der Welt Trost zu spenden, der zerstört ihre ewigen Gesetze. Es gibt ewige Gesetze in der Welt, und was nach diesen ewigen Gesetzen krumm ist, das ist nicht durch einen Haken so geworden; was gerade ist, ist nicht durch eine Richtschnur so geworden; was rund ist, ist nicht durch einen Zirkel so geworden; was rechteckig ist, ist nicht durch das Richtscheit so geworden. Die Vereinigung des Getrennten bedarf nicht des Leims und des Kleisters, und die Verbindung bedarf nicht Strick noch Schlinge. Die gegenseitige Anziehung auf Erden entsteht, ohne zu wissen, warum sie entsteht; die Einheit wird erreicht, ohne zu wissen, wodurch sie erreicht wird. Vom Uranfang an bis auf den heutigen Tag war es nicht anders, und das soll man nicht verderben. Was hat hier nun die Moral zu schaffen mit ihren Einigungsmitteln, die nichts anderes sind als Leim und Kleister, Stricke und Schlingen? Was braucht sie sich einzudrängen in das Gebiet urewiger Naturordnungen? Sie bringt die Welt nur in Zweifel. Entstehen Zweifel über Nebendinge, so wird dadurch[105] die Richtung verschoben; entstehen Zweifel in wichtigen Sachen, so wird die Natur verschoben. Woher weiß ich, daß das so ist? Seit der große Schun die Moral herangezogen hat, um die Welt zu verwirren, rennt die ganze Welt den Geboten der Moral des Rechts und Unrechts nach, und die Moral verschiebt ihr Wesen. Ich werde versuchen, das genauer auszuführen.

Seit Anbeginn der Weltgeschichte gibt es niemand auf der Welt, der nicht durch die Außendinge sein Wesen verschieben ließe. Der Gemeine gibt sein Leben um des Gewinnes willen, der Richter gibt sein Leben her um des Ruhmes willen; der Heilige gibt sein Leben her um der Welt willen. Alle diese Herren stimmen zwar nicht überein in ihren Beschäftigungen und nehmen einen verschiedenen Rang ein in der Schätzung der Menschen, aber was die Verletzung der Natur und die Preisgabe des Lebens anlangt, darin sind sie sich gleich.

Ein Knecht und eine Magd hüteten einmal miteinander Schafe, und beide verloren sie ihre Schafe. Als man den Knecht fragte, was er getrieben, da hatte er Bücher mitgenommen und gelesen; als man die Magd fragte, was sie getrieben, da hatte sie sich mit Würfelspiel vergnügt. Die beiden stimmten zwar nicht überein in ihren Beschäftigungen, aber was das Verlieren der Schafe anbelangt, waren sie einander gleich.

Bo I starb um des Ruhmes willen am Fuße des Schou-Yang-Berges; der Räuber Dschï starb um des Gewinnes willen auf dem Gipfel des Osthügels. Die beiden Leute stimmten zwar nicht überein in dem, wofür sie starben; aber darin, daß sie ihr Leben vernichteten und ihr Wesen verletzten, waren sie sich gleich. Was hat es nun für einen Sinn, dem Bo I recht zu geben und dem Räuber Dschï unrecht? Alle Menschen auf der Welt geben ihr Leben preis. Ist das, wofür einer sein Leben hergibt, die Moral, so ist es Sitte, ihn einen großen Mann zu nennen; gibt er sein Leben her für Geld und Gut, so ist es Sitte, ihn einen gemeinen Kerl zu nennen; aber die Preisgabe des Lebens ist dieselbe. Und dabei soll der eine ein großer Mann sein und der andere ein gemeiner Kerl? In der Art, wie er sein Leben vernichtete und sein Leben zu Schaden brachte, war der Räuber Dschï auch so etwas wie Bo I. Wie[106] will man also den großen Mann und den gemeinen Mann unter den beiden herausfinden?

Daß nun einer seine Natur der Moral unterordnet, und ob er es noch so weit darin brächte, ist nicht das, was ich gut nenne. Daß einer seine Natur dem Geschmackssinn unterordnet, und wenn er es noch so weit darin brächte, ist nicht das, was ich gut nenne. Daß einer seine Natur den Tönen unterordnet, und wenn er es darin noch so weit brächte, ist nicht das, was ich Hören nenne. Daß einer seine Natur den Farben unterordnet, und wenn er es noch so weit darin brächte, ist nicht das, was ich Schauen nenne. Was ich gut nenne, hat mit der Moral nichts zu tun, sondern ist einfach Güte des eigenen Geistes. Was ich gut nenne, hat mit dem Geschmack nichts zu tun, sondern ist einfach das Gewährenlassen der Gefühle des eigenen Lebens. Was ich Hören nenne, hat mit dem Vernehmen der Außenwelt nichts zu tun, sondern ist einfach Vernehmen des eigenen Innern. Was ich Schauen nenne, hat mit dem Sehen der Außenwelt nichts zu tun, sondern ist einfach Sehen des eigenen Wesens. Wer nicht sich selber sieht, sondern nur die Außenwelt; wer nicht sich selbst besitzt, sondern nur die Außenwelt: der besitzt nur fremden Besitz und nicht seinen eigenen Besitz, der erreicht nur fremden Erfolg und nicht seinen eigenen Erfolg. Wer fremden Erfolg erreicht und nicht seinen eigenen Erfolg, dessen Erfolg ist, ganz einerlei, ob er der Räuber Dschï heißt oder Bo I, unwahr und falsch, und ich würde mich seiner schämen angesichts der urewigen Naturordnungen. Darum halte ich mich auf der einen Seite zurück von allem Moralbetrieb und auf der andern Seite von allem zügellosen und unwahren Wandel.

Übersetzung von Richard Wilhelm

Zhuangzi
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Zhuāngzǐ (chinesisch 莊子 / 庄子, W.-G. Chuang-tzu; * um 365 v. Chr.; † 290 v. Chr.) bedeutet „Meister Zhuang“. Sein persönlicher Name war Zhuāng Zhōu (莊周 / 庄周). Zhuangzi war ein chinesischer Philosoph und Dichter. Ein berühmtes, zu Teilen von seiner Hand stammendes Werk wird ebenfalls „Zhuangzi“ genannt. Es bekam im Zuge der Verehrung Zhuang Zhous als daoistischer Heiliger im Jahre 742 unter Kaiser Xuanzong auch noch den Ehrentitel „Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland“ (南華眞經 / 南华真经, Nánhuā zhēnjīng, abgekürzt 南華經 / 南华经, Nánhuājīng).

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