Living the Quantified-Self Way: Like a Weirder, Hive-Mindier Weight Watchers | Vanity Fair
▻http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/quantified-self-hive-mind-weight-watchers
Living the Quantified-Self Way: Like a Weirder, Hive-Mindier Weight Watchers | Vanity Fair
▻http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/quantified-self-hive-mind-weight-watchers
Kate Moss dans « Vanity Fair » sur quelques séances photo qui l’ont rendue célèbre #métierderêve
►http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/10/kate-moss-years-of-crying-johnny-depp
Moss tells Fox she regretted doing the 1992 Calvin Klein photo shoot that helped skyrocket her to fame. “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,” she says. “It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die. I went to the doctor, and he said, ‘I’ll give you some Valium,’ and Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, ‘You’re not taking that.’ It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. There’s a massive pressure to do what you have to do. I was really little, and I was going to work with Steven Meisel. It was just really weird—a stretch limo coming to pick you up from work. I didn’t like it. But it was work, and I had to do it.”
Moss also talks about how uncomfortable she was posing nude when she was young. Remembering her now classic photo shoot with Corinne Day for The Face, Moss says, “I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again. So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There’s a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running down the beach—I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”
Sur les soupçons d’anorexie :
I was thin, but that’s because I was doing shows, working really hard. At that time, I was staying at a B and B in Milan, and you’d get home from work and there was no food. You’d get to work in the morning, there was no food. Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don’t get fed. But I was never anorexic. They knew it wasn’t true—otherwise I wouldn’t be able to work.”
Obama explains his probabilistic thinking about making decision under uncertainty with limited information : “Nothing comes to my desk that is perfectly solvable,” Obama said at one point. “Otherwise, someone else would have solved it. So you wind up dealing with probabilities. Any given decision you make you’ll wind up with a 30 to 40 percent chance that it isn’t going to work. You have to own that and feel comfortable with the way you made the decision. You can’t be paralyzed by the fact that it might not work out.” On top of all of this, after you have made your decision, you need to feign total certainty about it. People being led do not want to think probabilistically - ►http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama via ►http://infoproc.blogspot.fr/2012/09/obama-people-do-not-want-to-think.html
Je me demande ce qui le retient de le faire - même d’un point de vue politique cynique il s’agirait pour lui d’une décision bénéfique dont l’aura serait suffisante pour masquer des aspects moins reluisants de son bilan... Et en prime ça ne l’empêche pas de conserver des prisons secrètes dans des pays occupés ou alliés peu regardants sur les subtilités des codes de procédures judiciaires.
A True Paramount Picture : Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and 113 Other Stars in One Photo | Hollywood | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/07/paramount-pictures-100th-anniversary-photo
Il parait que cette photo a couté un argent fou, bof !
Murder by Text
►http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/10/world-of-warcraft-text-murder-201110
Through forensic analysis of the boys’ computers and cell phones, they dug up their Google and Wikipedia searches, as well as old transcripts of texts and instant messages. In total, the Tech Crimes Unit amassed the equivalent of 1.4 billion sheets of paper on the two.
#faits_divers #canada #internet #virtuel #meurtre #adolescence #numérique #violence #sadisme #cruauté #anonymat
Enter the Cyber-dragon | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/chinese-hacking-201109
#Hackers have attacked America’s defense establishment, as well as companies from Google to Morgan Stanley to security giant #RSA, and fingers point to #China as the culprit. The author gets an exclusive look at the raging #cyber-war—Operation Aurora! Operation Shady rat!—and learns why Washington has been slow to fight back.
(article pas clair mais contenant des infos semble-t-il inédites sur l’outsourcing de la recherche des auteurs des attaques contre RSA)
un article en français sur le sujet, un peu plus clair :
►http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/Operation-Shady-RAT-44560
(via @opironet)
et olivier tesquet sur @owni ►http://owni.fr/2011/08/04/espionnage-hacking-chine-etats-unis-cyberguerre
symantec est moins emballée par l’affaire
►http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/truth-behind-shady-rat
The Kingdom and the Towers | Politics | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/08/9-11-2011-201108
Late on the night of the 13th, Prince Bandar’s assistant called the F.B.I.’s assistant director for counterterrorism, Dale Watson. He needed help, the assistant said, in getting bin Laden “family members” out of the country. Watson said Saudi officials should call the White House or the State Department. The request found its way to counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, who has acknowledged that he gave the go-ahead for the flights. He has said he has “no recollection” of having cleared it with anyone more senior in the administration.
An F.B.I. memo written two years after the exodus appears to acknowledge that some of the departing Saudis may have had information pertinent to the investigation. Asked on CNN the same year whether he could say unequivocally that no one on the evacuation flights had been involved in 9/11, Saudi Embassy information officer Nail al-Jubeir responded by saying he was sure of only two things, that “there is the existence of God, and then we will die at the end of the world. Everything else, we don’t know.”
L’Arabie séoudite et le 11 septembre : en France, on a tellement appris à aboyer contre les complotistes et conspirationnistes de tous poils, qu’on est très surpris de lire un tel article dans Vanity Fair.
A l’échelle mondiale, je fais partie de ces « one percenters », et le jour où ça va exploser, je serai certainement parmi ceux qui devront en assumer la responsabilité si je ne suis pas déjà mort.
Mon intérêt immédiat serait donc plutôt de perpétuer ce système en attendant la mort ...
« Vivons heureux en attendant la mort » comme disait Desproges
The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert’s Journal
►http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/04/the_one-percenters.html
"The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
“Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.”
"The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
“Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.”
L’article de Joseph Stiglitz, sur lequel se base ce billet:
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
l’article de Stiglitz est bien plus interessant, d’ailleurs ...
A Declaration of Cyber-War | Culture | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-201104
The cyber-world where #Stuxnet lives is so murky, so hard to know the truth about, that some experts still question certain elements of the public story. From the beginning, many have found it odd that, of all the security companies in the world, an obscure Belarusian firm should be the one to find this threat—and odder still that the serial rebooting that gave Stuxnet away has been reported nowhere else, as far as most of the worm’s top analysts have heard. Such facts moved one former C.I.A. official to suggest that perhaps Stuxnet was not actually discovered—but dropped. Maybe its limited impact on Natanz indicates that it was not fully successful as a cyber-operation. After being detected by Iran, it may have been retooled by the country as “psyops”—psychological operations—against the West. Robert Baer, the former C.I.A. officer and author of The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, says, “The moment Iran caught Stuxnet, they could easily have put out misinformation”—to the effect that their nuclear program had been set back several years—“simply to alleviate meetings in Western capitals. So that everyone will say, ‘All right, Stuxnet worked.’ ”