Wayne Cochran - Goin Back To Miami (Swingin’ Time - Sep 10, 1966)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHbCLLtm-6M
Wayne Cochran - Goin Back To Miami (Swingin’ Time - Sep 10, 1966)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHbCLLtm-6M
Ah ben zut, ça faisait longtemps que j’avais pas commis un #googlage_fatal : je viens de tuer Wayne Cochran
Wayne Cochran, Singer With High Energy and Big Hair, Dies at 78 [novembre 2017]
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/obituaries/wayne-cochran-singer-with-high-energy-and-big-hair-dies-at-78.html
Battling to Save James Baldwin’s Home in the South of France
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/arts/battling-to-save-james-baldwins-home-in-the-south-of-france.html
L’éternel problème des veuves et autres héritiers sous les régimes capitalistes frappe la mémoire de James Baldwin. La tentative de préservation du domaine de Baldwin par un groupe d’Europénnes rajoute des problèmes.
4.4.2017 by Rachel Donadio - SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, France — From 1970 until his death in 1987, James Baldwin lived and wrote in a house with an idyllic garden in this medieval village on the Côte d’Azur, with the Alps at its back and the Mediterranean visible far below.
But those who arrive today to pay homage to Baldwin won’t find anything commemorating that American novelist, playwright and essayist. No house museum greets them, or even a plaque with his name. The wing where Baldwin lived was torn down a few years ago. The remaining two houses on the property are in disrepair, the once-verdant garden unkempt. And the local real estate developer who now owns the property, after the Baldwin family lost control of it more than a decade ago, plans to build three apartment buildings and a swimming pool.
Heartsick at the prospect, a group started last year by an American novelist in Paris began fund-raising to buy the property, which is nearly 6 acres, and convert it into a writers’ retreat dedicated to Baldwin. But the group does not have the blessing of the Baldwin family, some of whose members question its tactics and even its standing to champion the cause.
“To me the issue is very straightforward: It’s about representation,” said Aisha Karefa-Smart, a niece of Baldwin’s. “Who gets to represent James Baldwin’s legacy and who gets to speak about who he was.”
The interest in the house comes at a time when Baldwin, with his prescient insights into race relations in the United States, is having something of a posthumous revival, fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement and the Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”
Baldwin, who had lived in Paris earlier in his life, first came to Saint-Paul-de-Vence in 1970, at the age of 46, after a breakdown. He had been excoriated by fellow members of the civil rights movement — some called the author, who was gay, Martin Luther Queen — and believed he was under surveillance by the United States government. In France, he found the tranquillity and distance to write.
At the time of his death from cancer, he had been buying the house in installments from his landlady, Jeanne Faure, who grew up in Algeria under French colonial rule. Despite her right-wing politics, she and Baldwin had become the best of friends. (When President François Mitterrand of France made Baldwin a commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986, one of the country’s highest honors, the author brought Ms. Faure to the ceremony.)
Friends of Baldwin in Saint-Paul recall that Ms. Faure was adamant that he have the house after her death. But a complex legal battle ensued among the Baldwin family, relatives of Ms. Faure and a woman who had worked as Ms. Faure’s housekeeper. In 2007, a court ruled in favor of the former housekeeper, Josette Bazzini, who said that Ms. Faure had bequeathed her the house, according to Jules B. Farber’s book “James Baldwin: Escape From America, Exile in Provence.”
Shannon Cain, the American novelist leading the campaign to create the writer’s retreat, said she was inspired to rescue the house after reading an opinion piece in Le Monde last March, “France Must Save James Baldwin’s House,” by Thomas Chatterton Williams, a writer in Paris.
“I cannot believe I have the privilege to be alive at this moment on earth when James Baldwin’s house is in danger and I happen to have the skills and temperament to do this work,” Ms. Cain said.
But her efforts have upset the Baldwin estate and family members.
Ms. Karefa-Smart said that she and her relatives were offended by Ms. Cain’s registration of a website without the family’s permission and offering family members seats on the board of a group aimed at saving the house they had lost. Last year, the Baldwin estate threatened legal action for the group’s registering a website using James Baldwin’s name without permission. Gloria Karefa-Smart, Aisha’s mother, is the sole executor of the writer’s estate, and is known by scholars for her protectiveness over the rights to cite his work. (She did not return requests for comment.)
“We don’t know who she is, and this organization is not legit, it’s not a 501(c)(3),” Aisha Karefa-Smart said, referring to its lack of nonprofit status under the United States tax code. (Ms. Cain, who is white, later sent a letter to the family introducing herself and in an interview said the organization would apply for nonprofit status in the United States this week.)
Ms. Cain’s lack of connection to Baldwin has also played a role. “It’s not whiteness per se, but your experience as a white person does not give you proximity for what you’re trying to represent,” Ms. Karefa-Smart said in the interview. She likened the group’s approach to that of a white artist, Dana Schutz, whose painting of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose lynching by two white men in Mississippi in 1955 helped set off the civil rights movement, drew protests last month from some who said the artist was co-opting black pain.
It’s not only Baldwin family members who are concerned by Ms. Cain’s efforts; several others initially involved with her have distanced themselves. Others were taken aback that Ms. Cain squatted in the house last summer, and intended to draw a salary from the fund-raising.
The Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. backed away after learning that the Baldwin family didn’t support the group, though he says he would love for the house to become a “place of pilgrimage.”
Ms. Cain does not apologize for seeking a salary. “A successful nonprofit needs a professional running this place,” she said.
But she called herself “an imperfect candidate for this job” because of her race. She added that she would leave the organization if her presence hindered efforts to save the house.
In recent months, the group, now called His Place in Provence, has expanded; among the principals are Dereke Clements, an African-American dancer in France, and its advisory board includes the writer Rebecca Walker, daughter of the novelist Alice Walker. Hélène Roux Jeandheur, whose mother was close to Baldwin and whose family still runs the art-filled Colombe d’Or hotel here, where Baldwin used to spend time in the evenings, is helping set up a French nonprofit.
“She cannot change being a white woman,” Mr. Clements said of Ms. Cain, as the two sat beneath a makeshift whiteboard with the names of major African-American cultural figures they hope to enlist. “But this is not an individual effort anymore.”
But even if the revamped group can raise more money, it’s not clear that the house can be reclaimed. In November a local developer, Socri, said it would consider selling the property for 9 million euros (about $9.5 million), according to an email from Socri’s real estate agent provided by Ms. Cain. But in an email last month, Mendi Leclerc, an assistant to the developer, said construction will move ahead “very soon.”
“We are not ready to sell this project, especially not to people who illegally occupied the site for many days,” Ms. Leclerc added, referring to Ms. Cain. Ms. Leclerc said that the company could “envision” putting a commemorative plaque on the site.
The mayor of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Joseph Le Chapelain, who signed the building permit last year, said the project was out of his hands. “It’s a private company,” he said. “The city has no power over it.”
An employee at the French culture ministry said that the ministry could not intervene to declare the house a historic site unless the private owner requested that.
But for some in France, the lack of recognition shows disrespect for Baldwin in a town that honors other cultural figures who lived here, including Matisse and Chagall.
For others, the family’s loss of the house speaks to the difficulties faced by African-Americans in owning property and their cultural heritage.
The essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, one of several African-American writers who have recently made pilgrimages here, said a visit raised the painful issue of the “paradoxical and the elusive nature of never being able to declare our work our own, and to say, ‘You can’t take this from me.’”
Aisha Karefa-Smart said that she would consider supporting the effort if donors she trusted tried to buy the house and dedicate it to Baldwin, the way several African-American artists bought Nina Simone’s house in March.
“If it happens, wonderful. If not, it’s not going to impact the power and the scope of his legacy,” she added.
Trevor Baldwin, one of Baldwin’s nephews, who helped get a street in Harlem named for the author, said in an email that he would like something more tangible in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. “I hope there will be a commemorative vestige to honor his dedication to elevating humanity through enlightenment with appreciation for his love of the country that saved his life,” Mr. Baldwin wrote. Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where his uncle “chose to die,” Mr. Baldwin said, was deeply meaningful to the writer.
Baldwin left behind an unfinished play, “The Welcome Table,” about an African-American living in the South of France. Its title refers to the table in his garden here, where friends would talk late into the night. In the developer’s plans, that patch of lawn will become the entrance to an underground garage.
#USA #France #Saint-Paul-de-Vence #activisme #lettres #capitalisme
#migrants #covid-19 #frontières #Pakistan
Closed Afghan-Pakistani Border Is Becoming ‘Humanitarian Crisis’
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-border.html
Gifts Tied to Opioid Sales Invite a Question : Should Museums Vet Donors ? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/arts/design/sackler-museum-donations-oxycontin-purdue-pharma.html
The New York Times surveyed 21 cultural organizations listed on tax forms as having received significant sums from foundations run by two Sackler brothers who led Purdue. Several, including the Guggenheim, declined to comment; others, like the Brooklyn Museum, ignored questions. None indicated that they would return donations or refuse them in the future.
“We regularly assess our funding activities to ensure best practice,” wrote Zoë Franklin, a spokeswoman for the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was listed as receiving about $13.1 million from the Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation in 2012. “The Sackler family continue to be an important and valuable donor to the V & A and we are grateful for their ongoing support.”
De l’usage de la philanthropie comme écran de fumée
Robert Josephson, a spokesman for the company, pointed to its efforts to stem the opioid epidemic — distributing prescription guidelines, developing abuse-deterrent painkillers and ensuring access to overdose-reversal medication — and noted that OxyContin has never had a large share of total opioid prescriptions. In an email, he added, “Many leading medical, scientific, cultural and educational institutions throughout the world have been beneficiaries of Sackler family philanthropy.”
The Soviet Propaganda Fabrics We Probably Shouldn’t be Lusting After
▻http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/10/the-soviet-propaganda-fabrics-we-probably-shouldnt-be-lusting-after
CC @simplicissimus @reka
via : ▻http://www.messynessychic.com/2018/07/19/things-the-soviets-made
Merci @mad_meg !
En tirant le fil,…
blog initial (?) juin 2012
The Russian Fashion Blog Soviet Textiles: Wearable Propaganda
▻http://www.russianfashionblog.com/index.php/2012/06/soviet-textiles-wearable-propaganda
What can be a more stunning example of fashion and politics going hand in hand?
These textiles were produced in limited quantities during the early years of Soviet Russia by the finest designers of that time. Despite being a manifestation of constructivism they look surprisingly modern and fun to me. I was delighted to see Tata Naka revisiting this wonderful piece of history in their F/W 2002-03 collection. Today, when everybody is crazy about prints, I hope more designers would draw inspiration from this gorgeousness!
Soviet textiles : designing the modern utopia : selected from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection (Livre, 2006) [WorldCat.org]
▻http://www.worldcat.org/title/soviet-textiles-designing-the-modern-utopia-selected-from-the-lloyd-cotsen-collection/oclc/71004542
Between 1927 and 1933 a fascinating experiment in textile making took place in the Soviet Union. As the new nation emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young designers began to create thematic textile designs. They believed that by mass-producing fabrics depicting locomotives, factories, and other symbols of collective modernity for clothing and household use, they could mold the buyers into ideal Soviet citizens. While the experiment ultimately failed as propaganda (the ideal citizens clung to their traditional floral motifs), it yielded many bold and intriguing new designs. Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia presents some forty of these textiles and discusses the political and artistic contexts that gave rise to them. Author Pamela Jill Kachurin identifies major themes and motifs that permeate the designs: industrialization, transportation, electrification, youth, agriculture and collectivization, and sports and hobbies. In the final account, few of these designs ever saw mass production; but their graphic power - and their value as elements of artistic and social history - is undiminished
Lloyd Cotsen, Collector of the Ordinary and the Odd, Dies at 88 - The New York Times (17/05/2017)
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/lloyd-cotsen-collector-of-the-ordinary-and-the-odd-dies-at-88.html
If you had called Lloyd Cotsen a collector, he might have corrected you and said that he was really an accumulator. With an eclectic eye, he accumulated Japanese bamboo baskets, small pieces of textiles, bronze Chinese mirrors and illustrated children’s books.
Collecting beguiled him as a child when he amassed baseball cards and matchbooks. The habit continued when he was a Navy lieutenant on layovers; an executive at Neutrogena, the skin and hair-care company his father-in-law founded; and a man of great wealth, after he sold the company to Johnson & Johnson in 1994 for $924 million.
“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell, they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”
He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was no more space to put anything.”
By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif., Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about half of the material in his collections to institutions like the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
Fragmentary Tales: Selections from the Lloyd Cotsen “Textile Traces” Collection | LACMA (exposition en 2014)
▻http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/fragmentary-tales-selections-lloyd-cotsen-%E2%80%9Ctextile-traces%E2%80%9D-co
Visually and intellectually compelling, textile fragments hold clues and tell stories about the past. An excerpt from the extensive collection of fragments assembled by Lloyd Cotsen, this exhibition presents mysterious and tantalizingly incomplete segments of textiles from throughout history and from around the world, from Peru to Uzbekistan to China and representing a span of more than 2,000 years.
Fragmentary Tales traces a collector’s interest in pattern, color, and texture; the tension between chaos and order; and the exquisite trace of what was once a masterpiece, now isolated because of time or circumstance.
Examining these fragments out of any context is instructive, and Cotsen seeks to share his wide-ranging collection with the public to challenge the visual experience of objects. Despite existing as remnants of a whole, each fragment reveals much about its purpose, method of construction, and aesthetic sensibility of its time and place.
CFAR – Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research
▻http://cfarfoundation.org
The Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research (CFAR) is dedicated to expanding both public and scholarly knowledge of the arts, making the renowned art collections of Lloyd Cotsen, businessman, collector, and philanthropist, accessible to museums and the academic world.
“All of these objects strike some emotional bell within me, they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary, to my sense of humor, to my search for the beauty in form and simplicity.”
Lloyd Cotsen
Les autres collections…
Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump ; Many Scoff
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-analytica.html
Standing before political and business leaders in New York last fall, Alexander Nix promised a revolution. Many companies compete in the market for political microtargeting, using huge data sets and sophisticated software to identify and persuade voters. But Mr. Nix’s little-known firm, Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have developed something unique : “psychographic” profiles that could predict the personality and hidden political leanings of every American adult. “Of the two candidates left (...)
#CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #algorithme #élections #manipulation #électeurs #BigData (...)
100 missing women: Drawings at African American museum tell a powerful story of loss
▻http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-kenyatta-hinkle-caam-20170327-htmlstory.html
One hundred drawings by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle of 100 missing African American women simultaneously startle and beguile. Their subject represents the tip of a statistical iceberg of almost unfathomable scope — thousands of black women disappear every year in the United States, whether through criminal activity or for other motives, but their names and faces most often remain obscure.
autre source
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/arts/design/one-artists-melancholy-look-at-missing-african-american-women.html
“It’s sublime,” Ms. Hinkle said, “64,000 missing African-American women. For all of those faces, there’s a family. There’s a whole set of circumstances. They have favorite colors. All of those things that they like to do.”
To evanesce means to disappear gradually, vanish or fade away, and Ms. Hinkle’s work is poignant, timely — and coincidental. In March, a social media campaign was started to raise awareness about missing young women of color in Washington. The hashtag, #MissingDCGirls, started trending, helped by celebrities like Ludacris and Viola Davis. [...]
In Ms. Hinkle’s eyes, it was a major theft of identity. “My mother always taught me that if I feel an injustice or an abuse of authority, to never be afraid to speak up about it,” she said. “She really instilled in me this powerful self-possession.”
From Sex Object to Gritty Woman : The Evolution of Women in Stock Photos - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/upshot/from-sex-object-to-gritty-woman-the-evolution-of-women-in-stock-photos.html
The change from women lounging naked (or perhaps laughing alone with salad) to women demonstrating physical or professional prowess was driven in part by the Lean In collection, which Getty developed in 2014 with Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit to seed media with more modern, diverse and empowering images of women. The collection, now with 14,000 photos, has the unofficial tagline, “You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Je reste sceptique, ça semble une bonne occasion de se faire de la pub, à voir sur le long terme #getty #photos #femmes_images
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings ? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html
Pas mal ce graphique
#états-unis #arms_légères #meurtrs_de-mass #visualisation_classique_mais_puissante (ce qui veut dire que pour être puissante une visu n’est pas nécessairement un truc super designé)
Est-ce qu’il ne manque pas le Canada plus « en bas à droite » que l’Inde ? De ce dont je me rappelle du film de Moore, le Canada a beaucoup beaucoup d’armes. S’il manque un pays clef dans ce genre de statistiques, le graphique ne veut plus dire grand chose (cherry picking quoi)
C’est parce que le graphique retenu (et mis en tête de l’article du NYT) est en chiffres bruts. Rapporté à la population, le Canada (un peu plus de 10% de la population états-unienne, un peu moins que la Californie) sort du paquet.
De plus :
Note: Includes countries with more than 10 million people and at least one mass public shooting with four or more victims.
ce qui exclue les « champions d’Europe »…
Armes à feu : Une carte d’Europe des pays où les habitants sont les plus armés | VoxEurop.eu : actualités Europe, cartoons et revues de presse
▻http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/news-brief/4918131-une-carte-d-europe-des-pays-ou-les-habitants-sont-les-plus-armes
En Europe, la Serbie est en tête (et numéro deux au monde, derrière les Etats-Unis), avec 69,7 armes à feu pour 100 habitants. Elle est suivie de la Suisse, avec 45,7 armes pour 100 habitants, et Chypre, avec 36,1. Quatre pays scandinaves (Suède, Norvège, Islande et Finlande) sont parmi les dix pays les plus « armés ». La Roumanie ferme la marche, avec moins de 0,5 armes pour 100 habitants.
(même source : Small Arms Survey mais en 2007)
merci @simplicissimus !
Du coup, pour toi la carte du NYT est-elle pertinente, sincère, etc ? Parce que je me dis que le nombre d’armes du’un pays est quand même moins pertinent que le nombre d’armes par habitants
Carte ? je n’en vois pas ; j’imagine que tu parles des graphiques. Et oui, c’est assez idiot (bon d’accord, très peu pertinent) de mettre en avant le graphique avec les données en nombre. Pour la sincérité, je ne sais pas, j’imagine que la raison du choix est que celui qu’ils retiennent accentue l’effet É.-U. contre reste du monde (mais que Chine et Inde ne figurent sur le graphique qu’à cause de leur population).
Le choix de filtrer pour les pays de plus de 10 M d’habitants, justifié par l’autre variable (nombre de fusillades collectives), fait disparaitre un pays comme la Suisse, ce qui est dommage dans la mesure où la suite de l’article indique clairement que c’est un problème de culture. En Suisse, par exemple, l’ensemble de la population masculine de plus de 20 ans (et de moins de 50 ans (?)) est équipé d’une arme de guerre (en général un fusil d’assaut…) avec ses munitions. Ainsi, dans mon patelin d’origine, 3 de mes cousins se partageaient, outre leur arme individuelle, un mortier, l’un le tube, l’autre l’embase, le troisième trois obus (peut-être avec le bipied, je ne me souviens plus) stocké chez eux…
Google Play Store : plus de 250 applications armées à l’ « Alphonso », un logiciel qui analyse les contenus TV pour les annonceurs
▻https://www.developpez.com/actu/181863/Google-Play-Store-plus-de-250-applications-armees-a-l-Alphonso-un-logici
Il s’agit d’un module destiné à collecter des données à l’intention des annonceurs TV, ce, en enregistrant les sons ambiants desquels il extrait l’empreinte qui correspond à une publicité. L’outil permet ainsi aux annonceurs, auxquels ces data sont revendues, de garder un œil sur leur audience. Ils savent quelles sont les publicités auxquelles les possesseurs d’ordinophones sont exposés chez eux, chez des amis ou dans la rue. Le stratagème permet également de savoir lesquelles ont poussé les utilisateurs à se rendre dans une boutique physique ou à une vente aux enchères pour effectuer un achat. Pour couronner le tout, ces informations sont, dans certains cas, combinées à des données de géolocalisation.
L’article original en anglais :
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html
“When you see ‘permission for microphone access for ads,’ it may not be clear to a user that, Oh, this means it’s going to be listening to what I do all the time to see if I’m watching ‘Monday Night Football,’” Mr. Brookman said. “They need to go above and beyond and be careful to make sure consumers know what’s going on.”
In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
(Sept 2017)
“A cellphone and some earbuds are all it takes to place yourself in your own world, isolated from the rest of society,” Mr. Wesner said. “In some sense that is profoundly anti-Amish.”
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/amish-technology.html
The Amish have not given up on horse-drawn buggies. Their rigid abstinence from many kinds of technology has left parts of their lifestyle frozen since the 19th century: no cars, TVs or connections to electric utilities, for example.
But computers and cellphones are making their way into some Amish communities, pushing them — sometimes willingly, often not — into the 21st century.
[...]
But for people bound by a separation from much of the outside world, new tech devices have brought fears about the consequence of internet access. There are worries about pornography; about whether social networks will lead sons and daughters to date non-Amish friends; and about connecting to a world of seemingly limitless possibilities.
[...]
John, the woodworker at Amish Country Gazebos, spends part of his time operating the computer-guided saw, which would look at home in any modern cabinetry shop. His mastery of the machine, at 68, can be a source of teasing at home.
“We call him the computer geek sometimes,” said his son, Junior, laughing as the family sat down to supper.
[...]
Lizzie said she was upset by how people had become so attached to their phones.
“People are treating those phones like they are gods,” she said. “They’re bowing down to it at the table, bowing down to it when they’re walking. Here we say we don’t bow down to idols, and that’s getting dangerously close, I think.”
‘The Daily’ Transcript : Interview With Former White Nationalist Derek Black - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/podcasts/the-daily-transcript-derek-black.html
(article du 22/08/2017, après les événements de #Charlottesville)
Derek Black, a former white nationalist and a godson of David Duke, spoke with Michael Barbaro in an episode of “The Daily” that received a particularly intense response on Tuesday. In the podcast, Mr. Black describes his experience growing up in a white nationalist family, taking part in a radio show on his father’s website Stormfront.org and how he turned on the white nationalist movement.
This is an unedited transcription from the podcast. Please listen to the corresponding audio before quoting from it.
Et ça continue...
Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman’s Accounts, Raising Policy Questions, Megan Specia, The New York Times, le 28 décembre 2017
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/world/europe/chechnya-kadyrov-facebook.html
Facebook did not respond to questions about [...] discrepancy in removals.
Nouveau tag : #critiques_de pour recenser les critiques de #facebook, #google and co :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/670745
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html?_r=0
At first glance, the gaming apps — with names like “Pool 3D,” “Beer Pong: Trickshot” and “Real Bowling Strike 10 Pin” — seem innocuous. One called “Honey Quest” features Jumbo, an animated bear.
Yet these apps, once downloaded onto a smartphone, have the ability to keep tabs on the viewing habits of their users — some of whom may be children — even when the games aren’t being played.
It is yet another example of how companies, using devices that many people feel they can’t do without, are documenting how audiences in a rapidly changing entertainment landscape are viewing television and commercials.
More than 250 games that use Alphonso software are available in the Google Play store; some are also available in Apple’s app store.
“A lot of the folks will go and turn off their phone, but a small portion of people don’t and put it in their pocket,” Mr. Chordia said. “In those cases, we are able to pick up in a small sample who is watching the show or the movie.” Mr. Chordia said that Alphonso has a deal with the music-listening app Shazam, which has microphone access on many phones. Alphonso is able to provide the snippets it picks up to Shazam, he said, which can use its own content-recognition technology to identify users and then sell that information to Alphonso.
Shazam, which Apple recently agreed to buy, declined to comment about Alphonso.
Erica Garner, Activist and Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/nyregion/erica-garner-dead.html
Black Lives Matter vient de perdre une figure de proue. La fille de Eric Garner, assassiné par la police newyorkaise, vient de décéder suite à une crise d’asthme sévère.
Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who became an outspoken activist against police brutality after her father’s death at the hands of a New York police officer, died on Saturday, according to her mother. She was 27.
Ms. Garner became a central figure in the charged conversation about race and the use of force by the police after a New York Police Department officer placed her father into an unauthorized chokehold on Staten Island in 2014 while responding to complaints he was selling untaxed cigarettes.
As Mr. Garner, who also suffered from asthma, was being choked by the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, he repeated the words “I can’t breathe” 11 times — a phrase that became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and other activists.
“Erica took the truth with her everywhere she went, even if that truth made people uncomfortable,” he said, recalling her willingness to confront President Barack Obama and demand that he take a stand against racially charged policing tactics.
Civil rights activists and celebrities flooded social media with tributes to Ms. Garner.
Even as Ms. Garner pressed politicians and law enforcement officials to hold the police accountable for her father’s death, she was emphatic that her personal tragedy was also a public one.
“Even with my own heartbreak, when I demand justice, it’s never just for Eric Garner,” she wrote in The Washington Post in 2016. “It’s for my daughter; it’s for the next generation of African-Americans.”
Unfiltered Fervor : The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html
La méfiance de certains Etats-uniens envers l’#eau du robinet et l’eau de source mise en bouteille rapportée au seul #complotisme, sans jamais aborder la réelle #pollution de ladite eau.
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Par ailleurs l’intérêt de la Silicon Valley pour l’"eau naturelle non traitée", abordée ici comme une des explications de l’engouement croissant pour cette eau, ne pourrait-il pas expliquer en partie la négligence des autorités quant à l’état de l’eau théoriquement potable ?
#Etats-Unis
U.S. to Roll Back Safety Rules Created After Deepwater Horizon Spill - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.html
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.
Il faudra boire la coupe jusqu’à la lie.
Environmental groups warned that reversing the safety measures would make the United States vulnerable to another such disaster.
“Rolling back drilling safety standards while expanding offshore leasing is a recipe for disaster,” Miyoko Sakashita, director of the oceans program at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “By tossing aside the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump is putting our coasts and wildlife at risk of more deadly oil spills. Reversing offshore safety rules isn’t just deregulation, it’s willful ignorance.”
U.S. to Roll Back Safety Rules Created After #Deepwater_Horizon Spill - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.html
The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.
“This proposed rule would fortify the Administration’s objective of facilitating energy dominance” by encouraging increased domestic oil and gas production, even as it strengthens safety and environmental protection, the proposal says.
In April Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to “reconsider” several oil rig safety regulations. Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, at the time did not specify which specific equipment regulations would be reviewed, saying only the review would apply “from bow to stern.”
C’est vrai quoi #l'environnement_ça_commence_à_bien_faire …
#Recy_Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala., on the night of Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men.
The crime was extensively covered in the black press and an early catalyst for the civil rights movement. The N.A.A.C.P. sent a young activist from its Montgomery, Ala., chapter named Rosa Parks to investigate. African-Americans around the country demanded that the men be prosecuted.
But the attack, like many involving black victims during the Jim Crow era in the South, never went to trial. Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the men, even though one of them had confessed.
#France Fails to Face Up to Racism - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/france-racism-rokhaya-diallo.html
The term institutional racism, which in French is called state racism, is seen by many as an affront to the colorblind ideal of a universalist French republic. In France, it is illegal to classify people by their race or ethnicity.
Incredibly, the French education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said last month that he would sue a teachers union for using the words “institutional racism” during education workshops in ethnically diverse Seine-St.-Denis northeast of Paris. Mr. Blanquer has also threatened to sue Ms. Diallo. She has invited him to go ahead.