Belly Of The Beast: Illicit Photos From Inside The Soviet Ekranoplan
https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html
#Ekranoplan
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A website uses the AudioContext API to send a low frequency audio through the browser to the computer. It then measures how the computer processes this sent data. Based on how this signal is processed, the results from the AudioContext API can help identify the same user across different browsers.
This process doesn’t require access to the device permissions like microphone or speakers. No audio is recorded, collected or played by any means. It gathers the audio signature of a user’s device and uses it to create an identifier to track that user. It simply relies on the difference in the way these generated signals are processed on each device.
Since this technique utilizes the device’s (hardware) capability differences and not just the browser’s — it can be used to track users across different browsers as long as they’re on the same device. Browser compartmentalization (a method where a person uses two or more dedicated browsers for different Internet activities) can be used to escape cookies set by different trackers.
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Une timeline du traitement médiatique de l’interpellation supposée de X. Dupont de Ligonnès
▻https://www.fragil.org/annonce-de-larrestation-de-xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-chronologie-dun-echec-m
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Google Maps’s Moat
►https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moatIn downtown Los Angeles, Google’s buildings are so detailed that you can sometimes see the blades inside the rooftop fans.
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une réaction intéressante dans ce thread
▻https://twitter.com/vtcraghead/status/943531031566659584
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Carte de la « Barbarie » ou "Comment faisait-on de la géographie en 1775 ?"
déjà vue quelque part, mais retrouvée ce matin aux archives municipales de Melilla :
« Carte de la Barbarie contenant les royaumes du Maroc, de fez, d’Alger, de Tunis et de Tripoli avec les déserts limitrophes de l’intérieur de l’Afrique » - Ils avaient le sens du titre court à l’époque.
« Dressée par P. Santini en 1775 à Venise »
« Désert de Barbarie, nommé aussi le grand désert, qui n’est habité que de bêtes féroces, ainsi que les autres de cette partie de l’Afrique, qui sont tous compris sous le nom de Sahara »
« Dans Ptolémée, ce torrent est confondu avec le Bagradas ou Mejerda de Tunis »
« La caravane de Tripoli, qui va tous les ans au pays de Nègres, marche sept journées dans le lit de ce torrent »
« Désert presqu’inconnu aux Européans » (j’ai respecté l’orthographe initiale)
« Contrée moins aride que le reste du désert »
#cartographie #visualisation #afrique_du_nord #cartographie_ancienne #cartographie_historique
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AudioSet
▻https://research.google.com/audiosetAudioSet consists of an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos. The ontology is specified as a hierarchical graph of event categories, covering a wide range of human and animal sounds, musical instruments and genres, and common everyday environmental sounds.
By releasing AudioSet, we hope to provide a common, realistic-scale evaluation task for audio event detection, as well as a starting point for a comprehensive vocabulary of sound events.
#sons #dataset #vocabulaire pour le #machine_learning mais aussi pourquoi pas pour la #radio
ping @intempestive @supergeante @thibnton @lucile(via @archiloque )
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Un reportage audio où les habitants d’une communauté du nord du Canada se font livrer leur ketchup par Amazon...
Amazon Prime offers an alternative for Canada’s North
▻http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/326-the-pain-of-paying-tracking-babies-and-more-1.3752999/amazon-prime-offers-an-alternative-for-canada-s-north-1.3754782 [en]High prices at the local grocery store mixed with the lure of almost unlimited free shipping for a mere 80 dollars a year means Amazon Prime is becoming a favourite website for shoppers in northern cities like Iqaluit.
Joanna and Paul outside the post officeIqaluit residents Joanna and Paul, picking up Amazon Prime packages at the Post Office. (Meg Wilcox)
The delivery times tend to be much longer – a few weeks instead of a few days – but users of the service say the savings are worth it. Stand outside of Iqaluit’s busy post office for any length of time and you’ll see your fair share of Prime boxes as people make their way in and out.
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The secret rules of the #internet | The Verge
►http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speechMora-Blanco is one of more than a dozen current and former employees and contractors of major internet platforms from YouTube to Facebook who spoke to us candidly about the dawn of content moderation. Many of these individuals are going public with their experiences for the first time. Their stories reveal how the boundaries of free speech were drawn during a period of explosive growth for a high-stakes public domain, one that did not exist for most of human history. As law professor Jeffrey Rosen first said many years ago of Facebook, these platforms have “more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.”
#free_speech #modération #surveillance #contrôle #liberté_d'expression #féminisme à plusieurs niveaux (ne serait-ce que parce que la grande majorité des modérateurices sont des femmes et mal payées, et décrivent ce #travail comme une #guerre), des #blackface aussi, etc etc ; énorme article donc, et avec un beau travail d’illustration
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Enfin, lu en entier. Superbe article.
#secret #gafa aussi #histoire d’#internet #relativité_culturelle #violence #nudité #division_du_travail #rémunération #racisme #reddit #harcèlement #droit_a_l_oubli
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Russian takes photographs of random people in the metro and matches them with their social network photos, using neural networks. Your face is big data - your online profiles are no longer anonymous as soon as you publish a photo of your face.
▻https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-face-big-data.html #biométrie #biometrics #face_recognition #facial_recognition #visage #surveillance
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The FBI Now Has The Largest Biometric Database In The World. Will It Lead To More Surveillance?
▻http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-now-has-largest-biometric-database-world-will-it-lead-more-surveillanceIn many ways, the FBI’s biometric program is an extension of the modern-day surveillance technologies that are making average citizens increasingly uncomfortable. Long gone are the days of clunky wiretaps and officers using telephoto lenses from disguised vans. Now local law enforcement agencies increasingly rely on sophisticated technology — largely sourced from the U.S. military — like Stingray devices, which intercept cell phone conversations, and police drones for aerial surveillance.
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2016: January - April Political Notes - Richard Stallman
▻https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_April_2016_(FBI_data_base_of_Americans_faces)Americans, have you the courage to resist the state’s seductive offer to “protect” us from various smaller dangers, at the cost of total monitoring?
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Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/the-underlying-bias-of-facial-recognition-systems/476991Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.
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Stallman en 2016… c’est fou comme les militants peuvent prédire l’avenir.
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’Your face is big data:’ The title of this photographer’s experiment says it all
▻http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055305/analytics/your-face-is-big-data-the-title-of-this-photographers-experiment-says-it-alGot privacy? You may think you do, but a recent experiment by a Russian photographer suggests otherwise.
In a project entitled, “Your face is big data,” Rodchenko Art School student Egor Tsvetkov began by photographing about 100 people who happened to sit across from him on the subway at some point. He then used FindFace, a facial-recognition app that taps neural-network technology, to try to track them down on Russian social media site VK.
It was ridiculously easy to find 60 to 70 percent of the subjects aged between 18 and 35 or so, he found, although for older people it was more difficult.
Along the way, he learned a whole lot about the lives of complete strangers.
via ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/479856
#Art #Big_data #Photographie #Reconnaissance_faciale #Russie #Vidéosurveillance #Vie_privée
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▻http://truth-and-quantity.com
1. Record NPR News
Every day at 8am and 8pm
starting in 2009.
2. Cut out everything,
except the numbers.
3. Listen.Via : ▻http://flowingdata.com/2016/03/17/counting-the-numbers-in-the-news
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Is ’SimCity’ Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? [en]
►http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-simcity-homelessness-a-bug-or-a-feature“That is, can we fix homelessness in SimCity, or because we haven’t fixed homelessness as a problem in real life, therefore we are bound to lose?” Bittanti asked. “Is SimCity a reflection of what’s happening in reality, and therefore is very realistic, or is it a programming issue?”
Bittanti says that it’s impossible to distinguish between videogames and America in the same way that Jean Baudrillard thought it was impossible to distinguish between Disneyland and America. The book, he told me, is about simulation and its discontents, the unexpected convergence and collapse between reality and simulation.
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et moi c’est @recifs
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Comment migre la musique depuis Londres, Paris et Berlin ?
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#Piketty in R markdown on Github - Piketty’s data in a better format than his Excel spreadsheets : ▻http://simplystatistics.org/2014/06/30/piketty-in-r-markdown-we-need-some-help-from-the-crowd
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New York Times : les 7 leçons du mémo sévère sur le numérique | Medialand
▻http://medias.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/05/16/new-york-times-les-8-lecons-du-memo-severe-sur-le-numeriqueComme d’autres grands médias, le New York Times s’est retrouvé au centre d’une crise dans laquelle la partie la plus visible est le départ de sa directrice de la rédaction, Jill Abramson, remplacée, jeudi 15 mai, par Dean Baquet.
Au même moment a fuité, sur le site d’information Buzzfeed, un long mémo sur l’innovation dans le célèbre quotidien américain, peignant un tableau sombre de sa stratégie numérique. Ces 90 pages constituent un document rare.Y a-t-il un lien entre les deux événements ? Parmi les raisons du départ de Mme Abramson, les médias américains ont souvent souligné l’aspect personnel et son style rigide de management. Mais d’autres ont mentionné ses protestations contre l’ampleur des ressources dédiées à la vidéo, ou la pratique trop poussée du native advertising, forme moderne de publi-rédactionnel.
Le document d’audit a été rédigé par un groupe de huit personnes au fait des questions numériques, dont AG Sulzberger, fils et potentiel héritier du propriétaire du journal, qui avaient à l’origine pour mission de trouver une ou plusieurs idées de nouveau produit ou format. Les auteurs suivent un axe délibérément réformateur, soulignant peu que le journal est bénéficiaire, notamment grâce à ses 800 000 abonnés numériques. Mais leurs conclusions sont éclairantes sur les défis du New York Times et, par extension, des grands médias généralistes traditionnels. En voici les points saillants, et pour les plus curieux, le document, en pied de post.
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voir aussi les commentaires très édifiants de Nieman Lab :
►http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-o
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On savait que 20% des chansons de Spotify n’ont jamais été jouées. Les titres joués eux, ont 48.6% de chance d’être écoutés jusqu’à la fin
►http://musicmachinery.com/2014/05/02/the-skipHow often do people skip?
The first and most basic question to answer is: How often do people skip?. Given that skipping is so easy how big of a part does skipping play in our listening. The answer: A lot!Here are the numbers. First, lets look at how often a song is skipped within the first five seconds of play. I call these quick skips. The likelihood that a song will be skipped within the first five seconds is an astounding 24.14%. Nearly one quarter of all song plays are abandoned in the first 5 seconds. The likelihood that a song will be skipped within the first thirty seconds rises to 35.05%. The chance that a song is skipped before it ends is a whopping 48.6%. Yes, the odds are only slightly better than 50/50 that a song will be played all the way to the end.
Skipped in Likelihood of skip
First 5 seconds 24.14 %
First 10 seconds 28.97 %
First 30 seconds 35.05 %
Before song finishes 48.6 %
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