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Eleanor Saitta : Performing States
▻https://vimeo.com/269226211

Eleanor parle aussi des #LARP ce qui manquait sur seenthis.

Avec pas mal de cartes pas belles mais très intéressantes (la zone frontière des Etats-Unis ; l’aéroport avec une approche complémentaire à #DFS…), et aussi des #cartes_manquantes, comme celle des Zones économiques spéciales

All Queens Must Die
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/25/12608928/santa-cruz-island-argentine-ants-extermination-nature-conservancy
Sur l’île de Santa Cruz, au large de la Californie, depuis les années 1980, on a tué des dizaines de milliers de vaches, moutons et cochons (avec snipers néo-zélandais spécialisés dans la traque d’animaux domestiques)...

The snipers tracked the collared, so-called Judas pigs back to their kind and, only if and when they could destroy a group all at once, opened fire. Any pig left alive, even wounded, would become all the more skittish and difficult to find. It would teach others to fear helicopters overhead.

...en plus des colonies d’abeilles, ceci dans le but de faire revenir l’île à son état virginal.
Maintenant, la dernière espèce invasive à éliminer, c’est la fourmi d’Argentine, et ça a l’air coton.

Boser needed to poison all the queens at once. If she did that, Santa Cruz would be one step closer to perfection.

Les questions sur ce massacre viennent à la fin.

Still, the eradication effort seemed extreme, like a grand experiment in whole system ecology. By trying to turn the island back into what it once was, undoing the human hand with more human hands, where were we going?

Apparemment le même genre de plan pour « préserver la #biodiversité » (celle-ci justifiant de telles extrémités aux yeux des scientifiques impliqués) a déjà été déployé aux Galapagos avec l’éradication (c’est le terme scientifique) de 80000 chèvres (sur l’île de Santiago seulement, parce que ça a atteint 100000 sur Isabela).
▻http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/09/galapagos-week-when-conservation-means-killing

The logistical details are fascinating. The first phase, from December 2001 to January 2004, was ground hunting. Researchers recruited locals, many of whom had never hunted before, and taught them how to use hunting dogs, rifles, radios, telemetry and GPS. Then they started the cold and systematic business of killing.

Puis on retrouve les snipers néo-zélandais.

[...] The ground-hunting phase of the project killed 53,782 goats. The second phase was three months of aerial attacks, by specialized hunters from New Zealand using semi-automatic rifles.

Semblerait toutefois qu’il y ait d’autres techniques un peu moins barbares qui existent, genre déplacer ces pauvres bêtes ailleurs.

“Eradications are simply the most cost-effective approach,” he said.

Niantic is now permanently banning #Pokémon_Go cheaters | The Verge
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/12/12461136/pokemon-go-niantic-permanent-game-ban-cheating-bots

Game maker Niantic, the developer behind mobile sensation Pokémon Go, is now issuing permanent bans to players who violate its terms of service. Though TOS violations vary, these bans appear to be directed at cheaters who rely on #GPS_spoofing, bots, and other software techniques that allow Pokémon Go to be played beyond the realm of Niantic’s design parameters. For instance, GPS spoofing lets you trick a smartphone into thinking you’re located in a different country, allowing you to catch pokémon that may be more easily located in that area or restricted to certain regions. Bots, on the other hand, let you automate portions of the game.
[…]
It’s still unclear how Niantic is going about detecting the use of GPS spoofing, emulators, bots, and other hacks. A number of threads on Reddit’s Pokémon Go developer community, where much of the discussion around these techniques takes place, have popped up in the last two days. It seems users cannot seem to lock down what exactly results in a ban and how Niantic’s internal systems may be seeking out #cheating behavior.

Ou comment favoriser le développement de compétences qui pourront être utiles ultérieurement…

Welcome to AirSpace, by Kyle Chayka | Illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg | The Verge
►http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/M7G2Q7Vk7nOWrB2HczFUB_2lRy0=/0x15:1273x731/1600x900/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/50282523/vrg_1170_airspace_05.0.0.gif

“Every coffee place looks the same,” Schwarzmann says. The new cafe resembles all the other coffee shops Foursquare suggests, whether in Odessa, Beijing, Los Angeles, or Seoul: the same raw wood tables, exposed brick, and hanging Edison bulbs.

It’s not that these generic cafes are part of global chains like Starbucks or Costa Coffee, with designs that spring from the same corporate cookie cutter. Rather, they have all independently decided to adopt the same faux-artisanal aesthetic. Digital platforms like #Foursquare are producing “a harmonization of tastes” across the world

(...)

#Airbnb is a prominent example. Even as it markets unique places as consumable goods, it helps its users travel without actually having to change their environment, or leave the warm embrace of AirSpace.

(...)

In April of this year, another [Airbnb] spot parodied tourist behavior — selfie sticks, Segway tours — and set it against the “authentic” activities — falling asleep on the couch reading a book or watching your child build a pillow fort — enabled by a stay with one of the platform’s hosts. It offered a vision of possessiveness, in which visitors consume recognizable symbols rather than encountering unfamiliar ones: “The local coffee shop is yours, too.”

#design #uniformisation #faux #goût #silicon_valley #tourisme #gentrification

New database aims to track the global surveillance industry
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/1/12340348/surveillance-industry-index-database-privacy-international

Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a murky industry. Created in collaboration with Transparency Toolkit, the Surveillance Industry Index (SII) includes information on more than 520 surveillance companies, as well as (...)

#Gamma_International #Cerebro #surveillance #surveillance #surveillance #Privacy_International #spyware (...)

##FinFisher