Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memory - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/05/introducing-sans-forgetica-font-designed-boost-your-memory
@tetue
Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memory - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/05/introducing-sans-forgetica-font-designed-boost-your-memory
Scooter use is rising in major cities. So are trips to the emergency room. - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scooter-use-is-rising-in-major-cities-so-are-trips-to-the-emergency-room/2018/09/06/53d6a8d4-abd6-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?noredirect=on
Attention aux faux-amis, ici scooter veut dire trottinettes electriques.
Il faudra un jour repenser la question de ces systèmes qui n’ont pas de points fixes (dont qui encombrent les villes, sont moins biens réparés et plus abîmés). Ce modèle est une certaine idée du partage qui en réalité est ouverte... à la « tragédie des communs ». Effectivement, dans ce modèle, le partage et la conservation du système devient second par rapport à l’utilité pour chaque usager. Les conditions de la tragédie des communs sont alors réunies : il n’y a pas de communauté pour « se parler » (communs, communautés et communication viennent de la même racine latine) et donc régler les problèmes.
They have been pouring into emergency rooms around the nation all summer, their bodies bearing a blend of injuries that doctors normally associate with victims of car wrecks — broken noses, wrists and shoulders, facial lacerations and fractures, as well as the kind of blunt head trauma that can leave brains permanently damaged.
When doctors began asking patients to explain their injuries, many were surprised to learn that the surge of broken body parts stemmed from the latest urban transportation trend: shared electric scooters.
In Santa Monica, Calif. — where one of the biggest electric-scooter companies is based — the city’s fire department has responded to 34 serious accidents involving the devices this summer. The director of an emergency department there said his team treated 18 patients who were seriously injured in electric-scooter accidents during the final two weeks of July. And in San Francisco, the doctor who runs the emergency room at a major hospital said he is seeing as many as 10 severe injuries a week.
As the injuries pile up in cities across the country, the three largest scooter companies — operating under the names Bird, Lime and Skip — have seen their values soar as they attempt to transform urban transit, following the successes of ride-hailing and bike-sharing companies. The scooter start-ups have attracted massive investments from Uber, the prominent technology venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, with some analysts estimating that some of the privately held companies might be worth more than $1 billion.
A commuter rides a scooter on 15th Street NW in Washington. (Robert Miller/The Washington Post)
But a growing number of critics — including doctors, former riders, scooter mechanics and personal injury lawyers — say the devices may look like toys but inflict the same degree of harm as any other motorized vehicle on the road, only without having to comply with safety regulations. These critics add that some electric-scooter fleets are poorly maintained by a loose-knit flock of amateur mechanics, making them prone to dangerous mechanical failures.
Bird and Skip have programs that give helmets to riders who request them, and Lime notes that riders must go through an “in-app tutorial” on helmet safety to unlock one of the company’s scooters for the first time.
“We also strive to reduce injuries though our vehicle design and include key safety features such as headlights and taillights, independent suspension, and a wider and higher footboard to improve stability,” a statement from Skip said.
But Bird is also lobbying against legislation in California that would require users to wear helmets.
The injured might quickly discover that their ability to sue the scooter industry is limited.
Bird and Lime, the two biggest companies, require consumers to agree to not sue — either individually or as part of a class-action suit — and instead turn to a form of mediation known as “binding arbitration” as a condition of using their scooters. They both name specific arbitration companies, while Bird also names a preferred location for arbitration and Lime requires users to first engage in a 60-day “dialogue” with the company.
Bird says its user agreement “represents an industry standard” among “transportation technology companies.”
Skip recently informed users that its arbitration agreement would be binding for users beginning Friday. Skip said the company is adding the arbitration provision as part of a revamp of its user agreement as the firm expands across the country. In a statement, Skip said the changes “make the terms and conditions more clear, more informative, and more efficient.”
Consumer advocates have long criticized binding arbitration as putting consumers at a disadvantage. Arbitration clauses — often appearing as fine print in user agreements and employee contracts — have become a defining feature of corporate contracts used by many of the nation’s most recognizable brands across multiple industries.
#Véhicules_partagés #Tragédie_des_communs #Accidents #Economie_collaborative(_mon_c..)
In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich — but rise for the poor - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-expensive-cities-rents-fall-for-the-rich--but-rise-for-the-poor/2018/08/05/a16e5962-96a4-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html
Rising rents for the poor threaten to add to the nation’s homeless population, and put an additional severe strain on tens of millions of families, often forcing them to forgo other basic needs to avoid losing their housing.
‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-way-of-monetizing-poor-people-how-private-equity-firms-make-money-offering-loans-to-cash-strapped-americans/2018/07/01/5f7e2670-5dee-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html?noredirect=on
Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in the U.S. economy. The company enables some of the nation’s wealthiest investors and investment funds to make money offering high-interest loans to cash-strapped Americans.
Mariner Finance is owned and managed by a $11.2 billion private equity fund controlled by Warburg Pincus, a storied New York firm. The president of Warburg Pincus is Timothy F. Geithner, who, as treasury secretary in the Obama administration, condemned predatory lenders. The firm’s co-chief executives, Charles R. Kaye and Joseph P. Landy, are established figures in New York’s financial world. The minimum investment in the fund is $20 million.
Mariner Finance operates more than 450 branches in 22 states, according to company filings. It is especially active in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Florida. Above, a store in District Heights, Md. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
Dozens of other investment firms bought Mariner bonds last year, allowing the company to raise an additional $550 million. That allowed the lender to make more loans to people like Huggins.
“It’s basically a way of monetizing poor people,” said John Lafferty,
WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-founder-plans-to-leave-after-broad-clashes-with-parent-facebook/2018/04/30/49448dd2-4ca9-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html
The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, according to people familiar with internal discussions. Koum, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for more than $19 billion in 2014, also plans to step down from Facebook’s board of directors, according to these people. The date of his departure isn’t (...)
Lockheed Martin got $35.2 billion from taxpayers last year. That’s more than many federal agencies.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-trumps-budget-lockheed-looms-almost-as-large-as-the-state-department/2018/02/15/e7eb3aa8-11c1-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html
Un bug rappelle que Google espionne les Google Docs - Arrêt sur images
▻https://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/2017-11-01/Un-bug-rappelle-que-Google-espionne-les-Google-Docs-id10289
Mais plusieurs journalistes, qui se sont plaint sur Twitter du blocage de leurs documents, évoquaient des textes n’entrant apparemment pas dans les catégories pouvant être qualifiées d’abusives. Ainsi, une journaliste de National Geographic, Rachel Bale, s’est vu refuser l’accès à un article qu’elle rédigeait sur les crimes animaliers. Un autre journaliste, Bashar Sunkara, a expliqué que son article sur les partis post-socialistes dans l’Europe de l’Est avait également été bloqué.
A relier aux difficultés de tous les gauchistes pour avoir une place dans le moteurs de recherche de Google (cf. WSWS) ?
Dans le WP :
Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-ads-now-publicly-released-show-sophistication-of-influence-campaign/2017/11/01/d26aead2-bf1b-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html
Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of ads that Russian operatives bought on Facebook, providing the fullest picture yet of how foreign actors sought to promote Republican Donald Trump, denigrate Democrat Hillary Clinton and divide Americans over some of the nation’s most sensitive social issues.
Et sur NRK :
Offentliggjør annonser fra russiske trollfabrikker - NRK Urix - Utenriksnyheter og -dokumentarer
▻https://www.nrk.no/urix/offentliggjor-annonser-fra-russiske-trollfabrikker-1.13760759
▻https://gfx.nrk.no/cX7KIv5q5_EYs9uYKQZTewo-Bcf8yc8gzb2Wjw7w5s7g
Offentliggjør annonser fra russiske trollfabrikker
De målrettede Facebook-annonsene tok opp betente politiske saker, som innvandring og våpenlover i ett forsøk på å påvirke amerikanske velgere.
This miracle weed killer was supposed to save farms. Instead, it’s devastating them.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/this-miracle-weed-killer-was-supposed-to-save-farms-instead-its-devastating-them/2017/08/29/33a21a56-88e3-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html
The #dicamba system, approved for use for the first time this spring, was supposed to break the cycle and guarantee weed control in soybeans and cotton. The herbicide — used in combination with a genetically modified dicamba-resistant soybean — promises better control of unwanted plants such as pigweed, which has become resistant to common weed killers.
The problem, farmers and weed scientists say, is that dicamba has drifted from the fields where it was sprayed, damaging millions of acres of unprotected soybeans and other crops in what some are calling a man-made disaster. Critics say that the herbicide was approved by federal officials without enough data, particularly on the critical question of whether it could drift off target.
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicamba
Dicamba came under scrutiny due to its tendency to vaporize from treated fields and spread to neighboring crops.[12] Monsanto began offering crops resistant to dicamba before a reformulated and drift resistant herbicide, which they claimed would be less likely to affect neighboring fields, had gained approval from the Environmental Protection Agency. Incidents in which dicamba affected neighboring fields led to complaints from farmers and fines in some US states.[A] A lower volatility formulation, M1768, was approved by the EPA in November 2016.[14] However, this formulation has not been evaluated by experts outside of Monsanto.[15]
Why your ‘organic’ milk may not be organic - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-your-organic-milk-may-not-be-organic/2017/05/01/708ce5bc-ed76-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html
The “USDA Organic” seal that appears on food packaging — essentially a USDA guarantee of quality — was created by federal rules in 2000.
Until then, convincing customers that a product was “organic” could be a murky proposition — everyone relied on informal definitions of organic and informal measures of trust.
The “#USDA_Organic” seal changed that, standardizing concepts and setting rules. It has proved a boon: Organic food sales rose from about $6 billion annually in 2000 to $40 billion in 2015, according to the Organic Trade Association.
The integrity of the new label, however, rested on an unusual system of inspections.
Under organic rules, the USDA typically does not inspect farms. Instead, farmers hire their own inspectors from lists of private companies and other organizations licensed by the #USDA. An inspector makes an annual visit, arranged days or weeks in advance. Only 5 percent of inspections are expected to be done unannounced.
#bio #Etats-Unis #fraude #bizness
‘Big, beautiful’ walls don’t stop migrants in the US or Europe
The next barbed wire fence, not quite a wall, was erected by Greece in 2012 in an effort to seal its land border with Turkey. This was a relatively unsophisticated fence that ran through the land strip of the Greek northeastern border with Turkey for 12.5km. It was originally budgeted at €5.5 million but eventually cost €3.16 million. The fence was fully financed by Greece, as the European Commission refused to contribute.
▻https://theconversation.com/big-beautiful-walls-dont-stop-migrants-in-the-us-or-europe-72040
#murs #barrières_frontalières #coût #frontières #Grèce #USA #Etats-Unis #Trump #contrôles_frontaliers #asile #migrations #réfugiés
cc @albertocampiphoto @daphne @marty
Trump wants to build 30-foot-high wall at Mexican border
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump’s promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” at the Mexican border.
The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose: Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million
▻http://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-visa-overstays-border-wall
#overstayers
Archdiocese of Mexico : Working on border wall immoral
In its weekly newsletter the Archdiocese warns, “Any company intending to invest in the wall of Trump, would be immoral, but also all its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland.” It also stresses, “Signing up for a project that is a serious affront to dignity, is shooting yourself in the foot.”
▻http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/03/27/archdiocese_of_mexico_working_on_border_wall_immoral/1301521
Ma (troisième) journée avec Trump
The Positive Reframe: Why Trump’s Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era — but the End
▻https://shift.newco.co/https-medium-com-peteleyden-why-trumps-inauguration-is-not-the-beginning
Why Trump’s Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era — but the End
“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterized the 19th century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down — at any rate in Great Britain; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us.
I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us. We are suffering, not from the rheumatics of old age, but from the growing-pains of over-rapid changes, from the painfulness of readjustment between one economic period and another…”
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White House to issue executive order on “safe zones” in Syria, ban on Muslim immigrants and refugees - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/27/syri-j27.html
White House to issue executive order on “safe zones” in Syria, ban on Muslim immigrants and refugees
By Niles Niemuth
27 January 2017
US President Donald Trump declared in an extended interview with ABC News broadcast Wednesday that he will sign an executive order directing authorities to implement US controlled “safe zones” in Syria. The order would also block the entry of refugees and immigrants from a number of majority Muslim countries, including Syria.
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Breakdown in Mexico-US relations as Trump threatens trade war - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/27/mex-j27.html
Breakdown in Mexico-US relations as Trump threatens trade war
By Eric London
27 January 2017
On Wednesday Donald Trump announced the construction of a wall along the US’s southern border, provoking a diplomatic crisis without precedent in the modern history of US-Mexico relations. When Trump repeated his ultimatum that Mexico pay for the cost of construction, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled a visit to the White House that had been planned for January 31.
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Trump’s meeting with the UK’s Theresa May and the US/European conflict - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/27/pers-j27.html
Trump’s meeting with the UK’s Theresa May and the US/European conflict
27 January 2017
UK Prime Minister Theresa May expected today’s meeting with US President Donald Trump to be a political coup. It was to prove that Britain had a powerful ally in pursuing its exit from the European Union and could obtain a US trade deal to compensate for the possible loss of access to Europe’s Single Market. Trump’s support could even strengthen May’s hand in negotiations with Germany and France.
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Trump is starting a trade war we don’t need - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-trade-war-we-dont-need/2017/01/26/9d6bb964-e416-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html
UNTIL A few days ago, the U.S.-Mexico relationship was a strong one that benefited both countries. In the first week of his term, President Trump seems determined to change that — and for no good reason.
After decades of economic integration, the United States and its southern neighbor have established a valuable trading relationship exchanging $1.4 billion in goods every day. Mexico is the second-largest foreign market for U.S.-made products.
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White House says Mexico border wall might be funded by tax on imports - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexican-president-cancels-visit-to-washington-as-tensions-with-trump-administration-intensify/2017/01/26/ececc3da-e3d9-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html
MEXICO CITY — A deep rift opened Thursday between the United States and its southern neighbor as the Trump administration pressed forward with a plan for a giant border wall and insisted that Mexico would pay for it, possibly through a U.S. tax on imports.
President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday called off a trip to Washington after emphasizing that Mexico would not finance the wall. Hours later, Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, said the border barrier would be funded by a 20 percent import tax on goods from Mexico.
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Trump lays groundwork to change U.S. role in the world - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-lays-groundwork-to-change-us-role-in-the-world/2017/01/26/812998e6-e404-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html
President Trump began this week to reshape the U.S. role in the world, laying the groundwork, in a series of planned and signed executive actions and statements, for the “America first” foreign policy on which he campaigned.
Already, Trump has mandated construction of a border wall with Mexico and a clampdown on local immigration enforcement. Other directives drafted but not yet signed would halt all refugee admissions and entry into the United States of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries deemed terrorist hotbeds; declare a moratorium on new multilateral treaties; and mandate audits of U.S. funding for international organizations, including the United Nations, with a view toward cutting U.S. voluntary contributions by 40 percent.
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In these six American towns, laws targeting ‘the illegals’ didn’t go as planned - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-these-six-american-towns-laws-targeting-the-illegals-didnt-go-as-planned/2017/01/26/b3410c4a-d9d4-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html
HAZLETON, Pa. — Starting a decade ago, a group of small U.S. cities began passing laws to block undocumented immigrants from living within their borders.
They were a collection of mostly white exurbs and faded manufacturing towns whose populations suddenly were transforming. More Latinos were arriving in search of jobs, and the towns’ leaders complained of burdened schools and higher crime.
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@reka Je trouve que tu devrais taguer cette série. « Mes jours et mes nuits avec Trump », un truc de ce genre. Pour ma part j’avais essayé avec Sarkozy en 2007 mais me suis épuisé. Je préfère te prévenir. Mais une vision panoptique de cette série ne serait pas pour me déplaire.
Résurrection du mythique minibus Volkswagen en version tout électrique autonome. Pour l’instant, juste un #concept_car
Auto show concepts: Would you build them or forget them? - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/auto-show-concepts-would-you-build-them-or-forget-them/2017/01/14/ebe3d60e-da6f-11e6-a0e6-d502d6751bc8_story.html
In a Jan. 9, 2017, file photo, Herbert Diess, chairman of the Volkswagen brand, poses with the #I.D._Buzz all-electric concept van, at the North American International Auto Show, in Detroit. The I.D. Buzz seats up to eight and lets the driver’s seat face the rear when the minivan is in self-driving mode. VW minibuses haven’t been sold in the U.S. since the 1970s, but the company has released several concepts over the years that take their styling cues from the beloved minibus.
Tiens, WP le nomme #Budd-e.
Volkswagen Combi — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Combi
Malgré le scandale du « dieselgate » de Volkswagen, cette marque a dévoilé une première photo teaser d’un concept-car électrique qui est dévoilé au salon CES de Las Vegas en 2016, qui s’ouvre du 6 au 9 janvier. Ce concept prend l’aspect d’un fourgon : ce serait alors la renaissance d’un Combi qui sera 100 % électrique et autonome et qui se situera entre les véhicules utilitaires de VW, les Caddy, Transporter et Crafter. Il s’appellera Budd-e et sera produit en 2019.
Le WaPo fait désormais précéder son (fameux) article sur le rôle de la propagande russe dans les fake news qui auraient permis l’élection de Trump d’un avertissement : « attention, cet article repose sur une source dont le manque de sérieux est désormais reconnu, il se base sur une liste de médias farfelue, et maintenant vous pouvez continuer à lire… »
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html
Editor’s Note: The Washington Post on Nov. 24 published a story on the work of four sets of researchers who have examined what they say are Russian propaganda efforts to undermine American democracy and interests. One of them was PropOrNot, a group that insists on public anonymity, which issued a report identifying more than 200 websites that, in its view, wittingly or unwittingly published or echoed Russian propaganda. A number of those sites have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list.
Drone warfare heads under the seas as U.S. seeks advantage over rivals
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/drone-warfare-heads-under-the-seas-as-us-seeks-advantage-over-rivals/2016/11/24/9f756572-9c61-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html
Despite the immense difficulties, the Navy has been testing and fielding several new systems designed to map the ocean floor, seek out mines, search for submarines and even launch attacks. While the unmanned crafts are now able to stay out for days or weeks, the goal is to create an underwater network of service stations that would allow the vehicles to do their jobs for months — and eventually years.
Military officials say there is a sense of urgency because the undersea domain, while often overlooked, could one day be as contested as the surface of the sea, the skies — and even space.
[...] In 2015, the Navy appointed its first deputy assistant secretary for unmanned systems. And the Pentagon plans to invest as much as $3 billion in undersea systems in the coming years.
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say - The Washington Post
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html
PropOrNot’s monitoring report (…) identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans. On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times.
Some players in this online echo chamber were knowingly part of the propaganda campaign, the researchers concluded, while others were “useful idiots”
(…) Some of these stories originated with RT and Sputnik, state-funded Russian information services that mimic the style and tone of independent news organizations yet sometimes include false and misleading stories (…)
The speed and coordination of these efforts allowed Russian-backed phony news to outcompete traditional news organizations for audience. Some of the first and most alarming tweets after Clinton fell ill at a Sept. 11 memorial event in New York, for example, came from Russian botnets and trolls, researchers found.
(…) a variety of other false stories — fake reports of a coup launched at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and stories about how the United States was going to conduct a military attack and blame it on Russia — to Russian propaganda efforts.
(…) supposed election irregularities, allegations of vote-rigging and the potential for Election Day violence should Clinton win, researchers said.
(…) the U.S. government has few tools for detecting or combating foreign propaganda. They expressed hope that their research detailing the power of Russian propaganda would spur official action.
A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael A. McFaul, said he was struck by the overt support that RT and Sputnik expressed for Trump during the campaign, even using the #CrookedHillary
hashtag pushed by the candidate.
Hum :
the U.S. government has few tools for detecting or combating foreign propaganda
… would spur official action.
ie renforcer le contrôle de l’information.
#Anastasie
On peut aussi mettre #propagande (manquant particulièrement de finesse, au passage)
Oui, le sujet est intéressant car bourré de contradictions de ce type. Révolution orange à l’envers ? Nouveau McCarthyisme dirigé contre le président-élu ? Taste of their own medecine ? etc.
On dirait qu’un gouffre s’est ouvert d’un seul coup sous les pieds de toute cette intelligentsia. C’est marrant, mais pas spécialement rassurant non plus.
Le thème des fake news et de leur nécessaire répression, notamment sur (et par) Facebook est devenu le truisme du moment (thème central notamment dans les journaux qui se sont fait un devoir de publier, quelques heures avant le résultat, qu’Hillary avait 98% de chances d’être élue). Après le thème des pédonazis, les fake news russes qui ont fait élire Trump et le nécessaire contrôle de l’interwebz.
Le contrôle des internets sera probablement un sous-produit de cette transition étrange, mais je ne crois pas que ce soit le but premier de ces discussions. C’est plutôt, il me semble, le reflet d’un appareil (militaro-industrialo-intellectuel) qui se rend compte (à tort ou à raison) que son futur commander-in-chief est le produit d’une ingérence non seulement étrangère mais russe.
Non, je pense que le terme fake news indique que l’on cible spécifiquement le contrôle de l’internet et que pas grand monde ne croit sérieusement à cette histoire de manipulation russe (en dehors des besoins de la propagande interne).
(1) D’abord, Trump n’est pas le candidat d’un petit parti marginal et extrémiste (genre pro-russe) : c’est le candidat officiel du parti républicain. Les mêmes médias qui se passionnent pour les fake news présentent désormais John McCain comme un parangon de pragmatisme, alors qu’il avait fait campagne avec Sarah Palin (sérieusement, ça me troue, ça, plus personne ne semble se souvenir de Sarah Palin). La question des fake news, c’est tout de même passer à côté du fait que tout l’appareil du parti républicain est au service depuis des années d’une invraisemblable collection de débiles profonds néofascistes, racistes, islamophobes, homophobes, fondamentalistes born again, Tea Party et compagnie, sans jamais avoir eu besoin de l’aide de Vladimir Poutine et ses usines à fake news…
(2) Pourquoi l’internet : parce que personne ne pose ici la question des fake news en dehors de l’internet. C’est quoi, sérieusement, l’influence de RT et de Spoutnik par rapport au tuyau à merde qu’a toujours été la télévision ? Fox News par exemple, c’est quelle audience aux États-Unis par rapport aux sites web russes ?
(3) Qu’on passe de la question de l’hégémonie culturelle de Gramsci et du modèle de propagande de Chomsky à la dénonciation des fake news russes, alors que les Ricains viennent de nous imposer un néo-nazi comme nouveau Président du monde, ça me semble indiquer qu’on est dans le détournement d’attention, ce qui me ramène à l’idée du divertissement pédonazi et que le contrôle de l’internet est le seul objectif consensuel du moment.
Pour aller dans le sens de @Nidal, il est frappant que les fake news données en exemple dans l’extrait (je n’ai pas été voir le reste de l’article, je dois avouer) sont d’abord des informations avérées : le malaise de H. Clinton, l’isolement d’Incirlik pendant et après la tentative de coup. Qui ont en commun de gêner les narratives officielles et donc de ne trouver qu’une maigre reprise dans les médias « responsables ».
Smear-Mongering: a Mea Culpa for the Age of McCarthyism 2.0
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/25/smear-mongering-a-mea-culpa-for-the-age-of-mccarthyism-2-0
The story is a smear piece just like Tailgunner Joe and Roy Cohn used to make. It makes a direct equation between dissent and treason, using the crudest, stupidest kind of cod-reasoning: if you have criticized a policy or action that Vladimir Putin has also criticized at some point (even if the reasons for your critique might differ wildly from his), then you are automatically a Russian agent or a “useful idiot.”
Présentation "objective" de l’article et du " dialogue assez violent " qui l’a suivi.
►http://www.lemonde.fr/big-browser/article/2016/11/30/le-spectre-de-la-desinformation-russe-derriere-les-fake-news-sur-internet_50
Côté équilibre de l’analyse, toute la fin est un "rappel" de l’efficacité de la machine informationnelle russe. Juste un exemple :
Cette tactique de désinformation et de perturbation est perfectionnée depuis la guerre civile en Ukraine en 2014, où le « récit » officiel russe s’opposait à celui des médias occidentaux.
Enlevons le pronom : où le « récit » officiel russe s’opposait [au récit] des médias occidentaux. Guillemets ou pas guillemets à la place de mes crochets ?
En mode coquin : où le « récit » officiel russe s’opposait à la narrative des médias occidentaux.
Explosion d’une fusée de SpaceX sur son pas de tir en Floride
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2016/09/01/explosions-sur-la-rampe-de-lancement-d-une-fusee-de-spacex_4991175_3222.html
Une fusée #Falcon_9 de #SpaceX a explosé sur son pas de tir jeudi 1er septembre au centre spatial Kennedy au cap Canaveral en Floride lors d’un test de ses moteurs. Le lanceur et son satellite ont été détruits, a indiqué un porte-parole de la société privée américaine, ajoutant qu’il n’y avait aucun blessé. Falcon devait lancer le satellite israélien de communication Amos-6 tôt vendredi.
SpaceX : énorme explosion sur le pas de tir du lanceur Falcon 9 - Sciencesetavenir.fr
▻http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/espace/exploration/20160901.OBS7288/une-enorme-explosion-sur-le-pas-de-tir-du-lanceur-falcon9-de-spacex
Le lanceur dont le décollage était initialement prévu samedi 3 septembre 2016, devait mettre en orbite le satellite de télécommunications Amos 6, de l’opérateur israélien Spacecom Ltd. En octobre 2015, Marc Zuckerberg, le directeur de Facebook, avait annoncé avoir loué une partie de la bande passante de ce satellite dans le cadre de son projet « Internet.org » qui vise à étendre la couverture d’Internet dans les pays en développement. SpaceX a confirmé que que le satellite était à bord du lanceur lors de l’explosion. « SpaceX confirme que dans le cadre des opérations de préparation en vue d’un test de tir statique, il y a eu une anomalie sur le pas de tir qui a entraîné la perte du véhicule et de sa charge utile. Dans le cadre des procédures standard, le pas de tir était désert et personne n’a été blessé » affirme l’entreprise dans un court communiqué.
Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/implication-of-sabotage-adds-intrigue-to-spacex-investigation/2016/09/30/5bb60514-874c-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html
As part of the investigation, SpaceX officials had come across something suspicious they wanted to check out, according to three industry officials with knowledge of the episode. SpaceX had still images from video that appeared to show an odd shadow, then a white spot on the roof of a nearby building belonging to ULA, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
[...] Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, has called the failure “the most difficult and complex” the company has ever had. About a week after the explosion, he pleaded with the public to turn in video or audio of the blast and said the company has not ruled out sabotage as a factor.
The Information Sage by Joshua Yaffa | The Washington Monthly
▻http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php?page=all
Alors : un long portrait de celui qu’on appelle le gourou de la visualisation, Edward Tufte. A lire et à discuter.
One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members of the Obama administration. A few weeks earlier, he had received a phone call from Earl Devaney, a former inspector general in the Department of the Interior, who is best known for leading that agency’s investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Devaney had recently been appointed head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, the body created by the Obama administration to keep track of the $780 billion in federal stimulus money that has spread out across the country.
Whereas Devaney once led a team of professional investigators responsible for sniffing out waste, fraud, and abuse, he was now faced with a rather different, but related, task: designing a Web site. In the stimulus bill, Congress had called for the creation of “user-friendly visual presentations” of data that would allow the American public to watch over the disbursement of the giant funding package. This wasn’t exactly familiar territory for Devaney, a career lawman. Perhaps Tufte could offer some advice?
bizarrement le site gouvernemental pour lequel il a travaillé, recovery.gov, a été trappé :
Data on $800 billion in stimulus spending will disappear this year. Here is why. - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/data-on-800-billion-in-stimulus-spending-will-disappear-this-year-here-is-why/2014/09/09/ad277ff4-350a-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html
Lien corrigé. Il faudra faire pour le livre™ une évocation critique de son approche je crois.
a very strange fact about drug prices: They do not really exist
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/this-drug-is-defying-a-rare-form-of-leukemia--and-it-keeps-getting-pricier/2016/03/09/4fff8102-c571-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
This drug is defying a rare form of leukemia — and it keeps getting pricier - The Washington Post
List prices are nothing more than a starting point for bargaining between drugmakers and the companies that provide prescription drug benefits. The cost for patients varies widely, influenced by discounts and rebates developed behind closed doors and applied in #secret.
To track how Gleevec became a multibillion-dollar drug, The Washington Post used the median amount paid by privately insured patients and their health plans before discounts and rebates, an analysis prepared by health services researcher Stacie Dusetzina of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill using data from Truven Health Analytics.