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Happy endings: how a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music opened up a new thread of musical history | Life and style | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/24/happy-endings-how-a-treasure-trove-of-lost-palestinian-music-opened-up-
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My original story in January 2022 on Mo’min Swaitat, a Palestinian actor and film-maker living in London, originally from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, described how he was stranded there when the pandemic began. It was during that time that he found himself drawn to a closed-down music shop he remembered from childhood. The former owner let him while away the lockdown days searching through the archive of tape cassettes on the second floor.
Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: ‘We are not done with #Covid, not even close’ | Long Covid | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close
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Are we getting closer to understanding some of the causes of long Covid?
Long Covid is a blanket term that likely describes multiple diseases with different causes. We still don’t have the answers, but there are some hypotheses that are becoming more likely and others less likely. There’s more evidence now showing either viral proteins or viral RNA in various tissues, months after infection. The hypothesis that long Covid symptoms could be caused by the reactivation of latent viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus is also gaining momentum. The other idea is that changes can occur due to the inflammation from an acute Sars-CoV-2 infection, both at the site of infection, and in distal organs such as the brain. We have a paper that we published last year which demonstrates that even a mild Sars-CoV-2 respiratory infection can result in long term changes in the brain.
More than 200 symptoms have now been associated with long Covid, affecting almost every organ system in the human body. Many are also experienced by chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) sufferers. What similarities have been found in the biology of these two illnesses?
One you’ve probably heard of is microclots, which appear to be happening in a large fraction of people from long Covid and potentially ME/CFS. These are tiny little clots in the blood that may be impairing oxygen exchange and other important functions of the circulation. The way blood oxygen is being utilised by tissues also appears to be impaired, which could be due to microclots as well as mitochondrial dysfunction.
I always have in the back of my mind – how can these insights from long Covid help people with ME/CFS and other post-acute phases of infections, like post Lyme disease? I’m so excited about receiving this new award because it shows that long Covid and ME/CFS are diseases of global significance. It’s validation and acknowledgment for people who have been suffering for decades with ME/CFS, a disease that has been mostly ignored and completely understudied given the amount of suffering it has caused.
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are, by Naomi Klein (The Guardian)
►https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
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There is a world in which generative #AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own, one that had as its purpose the meeting of human needs and the protection of the planetary systems that support all life.
And as those of us who are not currently tripping well understand, our current system is nothing like that. Rather, it is built to maximize the extraction of wealth and profit – from both humans and the natural world – a reality that has brought us to what we might think of it as capitalism’s techno-necro stage. In that reality of hyper-concentrated power and wealth, AI – far from living up to all those utopian hallucinations – is much more likely to become a fearsome tool of further dispossession and despoilation.
I’ll dig into why that is so. But first, it’s helpful to think about the purpose the utopian hallucinations about AI are serving. What work are these benevolent stories doing in the culture as we encounter these strange new tools? Here is one hypothesis: they are the powerful and enticing cover stories for what may turn out to be the largest and most consequential theft in human history. Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.
The Guardian : La Vème est morte. La France est elle prête pour la VIème ? | via PrLogos | 09.05.23
La Cinquième République, qui confie des pouvoirs démesurés à un président-monarque est morte. Le peuple français peut-il sortir de la crise et instituer une démocratie ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/06/vive-la-revolution-but-is-france-ready-to-establish-a-sixth-republic
▻https://piaille.fr/@Pr_Logos/110340042483079164
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Historically, France has changed constitution only in times of war, revolution and existential crisis – which this year’s mass demonstrations, so far at least, are not.
Nor is there any agreement on what a Sixth Republic might look like. A US-style system, in which the powers of executive and legislature are balanced? A European-style regime, with a largely representational head of state? Or, as Mélenchon would like, routine referendums, giving power to the people?
But perhaps the biggest reason a Sixth Republic may not be imminent is that in the current fractured state of French politics, there is no majority for it among MPs – even if it makes parliament stronger. As so often, France is crying out for change. It just cannot agree what actual changes it wants.
Covid left thousands of US children orphans. Few states are addressing the crisis | Coronavirus | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/08/covid-orphans-us
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Black children in the US, like Journee and Anthony, are twice as likely as white children to have suffered loss of a parent or caregiver, according to the international consortium, which includes Imperial College London, Harvard University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Although about 39% of children in the US are Black or Latino, 61% of Covid orphans belong to these categories, said Susan Hillis, co-chair of a group in the consortium.
Half of the nearly quarter-million US children who have lost one or both parents live in only five states – California, Texas, Florida, New York and Georgia, according to Hidden Pain. Georgia’s place on that list, ahead of other, more populous states, reflects higher rates of conditions such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease, which contribute to higher rates of death from Covid, said Hillis. About one-third of Georgians are Black, and the state is now home to an estimated 5,552 Black children who have lost a parent or caregiver due to Covid – the second-highest nationwide, after Florida. But Georgia, like most states, has not developed a comprehensive statewide policy to address the issue.
Paris police ban gatherings on key sites as French pension protests grow | France | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/18/paris-clashes-continue-over-french-pension-age-rise
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While legal under France’s constitution, the move has infuriated opposition parties and led to spontaneous street protests, presenting the greatest challenge to the president’s authority since the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests of 2018.
Refinery strikes escalated on Saturday and rolling strikes continued on the railways as Philippe Martinez, the leader of the CGT union federation, said Macron had been “warned that the situation was explosive. No one can say we didn’t say anything; we told him.”
In Paris, a 13-day bin strike is expected to continue until at least Tuesday, leaving more than 10,000 tonnes of rubbish piled high on the pavements in 10 of the capital’s 20 arrondissements that rely on municipal, rather than private, rubbish collectors.
While the street protests have been largely peaceful, riot police fired teargas and clashed with demonstrators on Friday night in Paris, where 61 people were arrested after a fire was lit on the Place de la Concorde near the national assembly.
France erupts in strikes and protests over pension age rise – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
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France erupts in strikes and protests over pension age rise – in pictures
dessin : TARDI pour le numéro de juin 2016 de Siné Mensuel (qui n’a pas pris une ride)
►https://www.sinemensuel.com
Republicans push wave of bills that would bring homicide charges for abortion | US news | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/republican-wave-state-bills-homicide-charges
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The bills being introduced in Arkansas, Texas, Kentucky and South Carolina look to establish that life begins at conception. Each of these bills explicitly references homicide charges for abortion. Homicide is punishable by the death penalty in all of those states.
Bills in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas also explicitly target medication abortion, which so far has fallen into a legal grey zone in much of the country.
A bill in Alabama has also been announced, although not yet been introduced, by Republican representative Ernest Yarbrough, that would establish fetal personhood from conception and repeal a section of Alabama’s abortion ban that expressly prevents homicide charges for abortion. The state’s current law makes abortion a class A felony, on the same level as homicide, but exempts women seeking abortions from being held criminally or civilly liable.
Emmanuel Macron criticised for giving Légion d’honneur to Jeff Bezos | France | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/emmanuel-macron-criticised-for-ceremony-giving-jeff-bezos-legion-dhonne
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The ceremony was not announced by the Elysée or put in the president’s official diary because it was considered a private occasion, and the date was organised with the Bezos family to coincide with when he was in Paris. Around 300 foreigners are admitted to the Legion d’honneur every year.
The revelation by the news magazine Le Point has caused anger in France where Macron has been branded the “president of the rich” by leftwing critics. Bezos is the world’s third-richest person, behind the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk. The top spot is held by the French billionaire Bernard Arnault, the president-director general of the luxury group LVMH, who attended Thursday’s ceremony.
Le Point described the event, attended by “only a few hand-picked guests”, as “sumptuous but confidential”. The event was not listed in the regular updates to the press detailing Macron’s engagements. A photograph published by the conservative magazine showed Bezos in a pale suit chatting to Macron.
portrait détaillé du : #Yevgeny_Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the top of Putin’s war machine | Russia | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/yevgeny-prigozhin-the-hotdog-seller-who-rose-to-the-top-of-putin-war-ma
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After nearly a decade in prison, the #Wagner_group founder’s ascent was extraordinary. But where does the ceiling of his ambition lie? Some of those who knew him describe his path to power
la suite plus ou moins :
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/wagner-convict-soldiers-return-from-ukraine-russia-mercenary-group
Anatoly Salmin, a convicted thief and murderer, is home from prison years ahead of schedule, his reward for volunteering for a suicide mission in Russia’s war in Ukraine – and then managing to survive.
Hundreds of convicts recruited into the ranks of Wagner, a private military company tied to the businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, have been killed or severely wounded in Ukraine, where the mercenaries have been tasked with some of Russia’s most desperate campaigns.
But a video released last month showed several dozen former convicts – among them murderers, drug dealers and domestic abusers – now heading to their home towns in northern Russia, supposedly having earned pardons by surviving six months in Wagner’s ranks in Ukraine.
#Russie #prison #chiens_de_guerre #crimes_de_guerre #criminels #criminalité #fucking_flip_total #survie
‘There is no standard’: investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women’s bodies | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodies
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‘#ChatGPT needs a huge amount of editing’: users’ views mixed on AI chatbot | ChatGPT | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/08/chatgpt-users-views-ai-chatbot-essays-emails
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ChatGPT has been a godsend for Joy. The New Zealand-based therapist has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and often struggles with tasks such as drafting difficult emails, with procrastination kicking in when she feels overwhelmed.
“Sitting down to compose a complicated email is something I absolutely hate. I would have to use a lot of strategies and accountability to get it done, and I would feel depleted afterward,” says Joy, who is in her 30s and lives in Auckland. “But telling GPT ‘write an email apologising for a delay on an academic manuscript, blame family emergency, ask for consideration for next issue’ feels completely doable.”
While the copy the AI chatbot produces usually needs editing, Joy says this comes at a smaller cost to her psychologically. “It is much easier to edit a draft than to start from scratch, so it helps me break through blocks around task initiation,” she says, adding that she has recommended using it this way to clients. “It avoids a psychological logjam for neurodiverse people. I think it would also potentially have value for people who struggle with professional norms due to neurodivergence and come across as curt.”
Like many students, Rezza, a 28-year-old in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has been making use of the chatbot for academic purposes. “I have so many ideas but only enough time to act on a few of them because I need to write them,” he says, adding that writing is the “most time consuming” part of his work.
He claims it has speeded up the time it takes to write an essay threefold. “With the improved workflow my hands are catching up with my brain,” he says. However, he says the chatbot’s output requires heavy editing, and has not been helpful in creating references; when he tried, it “gave out nonexistent academic citations”.
Atkinson is worried about the “misplaced confidence” the bot gives while providing factually incorrect information. These errors are known in tech jargon as “hallucinations”.
He says: “People are more willing to believe a machine, even when it is telling outright lies. This is dangerous for a number of reasons. For example, if you rely on something like this for basic medical advice. Or if you write code, it can give you examples which are bad practice and error prone.”
‘We see misogyny every day’: how Andrew Tate’s twisted ideology infiltrated British schools | Children | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/02/andrew-tate-twisted-ideology-infiltrated-british-schools
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How to talk to your children about toxic masculinity
A guide by Bold Voices
1 Keep the discussion casual and friendly. Try striking up the conversation in a space without direct eye contact, such as when driving, walking or watching TV, to avoid feelings of confrontation.
2 Be proactive, not reactive. Bringing up the conversation organically, rather than in reaction to a comment or event, will set the tone as objective and minimise defensiveness.
3 Little and often makes it less intense and less awkward.
4 Discuss healthy role models and narratives around masculinity.
5 There are no right or wrong narratives. Inspire agency by offering information and letting them think about it critically.
6 Don’t panic or react with shock. It might be startling or enraging to hear certain views coming from teenagers, but reacting with shock or anger can shut down a conversation.
7 Don’t ban social media. This misses the point. Social media is a vehicle, not a root cause.
‘All you have to do is participate’: how the Shotgun Seamstress zine made space for Black punks | Music | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/21/shotgun-seamstress-zine-black-punk-osa-atoe-interview
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As the DIY publication is collected in a new anthology, creator Osa Atoe and the musicians she inspired reflect on its defiant positivity
cc @supergeante oï
‘Ukraine is not our enemy’: Russians risk arrest to honour victims of war | Russia | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/28/russians-arrest-victims-war-ukraine-kremlin-dissent-memorials
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A woman holds a placard reading ‘Ukraine is not our enemy, they are our brothers’ in front of a monument to Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka in Moscow
Monterey Park shooting: 10 killed at dance studio during lunar new year parties – latest updates
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jan/22/california-mass-shooting-los-angeles-monterey-park-dance-club-latest-ne
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It’s January 22. There have already been 33 mass shootings in the US this year.
‘Tax us now’: ultra-rich call on governments to introduce wealth taxes | Davos 2023 | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/18/tax-us-now-ultra-rich-wealth-tax-davos
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Disney heiress and actor Mark Ruffalo among ‘patriotic millionaires’ who addressed world’s elite at Davos
c’est rituel, cet appel à la taxation après Noël ou c’est moi ? (la fille disney diable, comment tu dois être riche toi)
Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/outlook-terrifying-tv-weather-presenters-on-the-hell-and-horror-of-the-
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What is it like to have a front row seat for the worst show in the world? Four meteorologists describe how they are explaining the reality to viewers – and coping with it themselves
pas lu, mais l’idée du témoignage de madame-monsieur météo me fascine.
Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research
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The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is fast proving that free speech at all costs is a dangerous fantasy | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/28/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-donald-trump-kanye-west
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The ultimate cause of that demise will be the failure of Musk to understand that for some speech to be free, other speech has to be limited. It is generally true that if a service is free then it is by definition exploitative of its users – if you are not paying for a product, the axiom goes, then you are the product. But in the case of social media, the regulation of your speech is the product. If a platform becomes too toxic, then it is useless for anyone except those who want an extremist ghetto of agitators. In that sense, social media is very much like society in general. Political and legal authorities are in the business of content moderation, in order to make our shared space as stable and safe as possible for a majority of people. The public and other stakeholders, such as the press, businesses and social media companies themselves, are in constant negotiations with these authorities on what those limits should be – for instance, whether religious dress is protected speech, or what constitutes incitement to violence.
Old Twitter was far from perfect, and by its own admission its algorithms favoured rightwing accounts. But it was improving because of the drag that advertisers, regulators and users were putting on its algorithmic urge to encourage antagonistic activity. The high-speed destabilisation of Musk’s Twitter should be a warning to free speech absolutists. The set of curbs they object to are those that make users’ experience of social media, and life in general, possible; they protect against, among other jeopardies, libel, impersonation, plagiarism, misinformation and grooming. In essence, all our free speech arguments are about finessing, rather than obliterating a system of functional restrictions.
Those with power have more leeway to define what free speech is, but they can rarely do so without limitation. Twitter’s chance of survival is dependent on whether Musk chooses to accept that, like freedom of speech, his power is not absolute.