facility:glasgow university

Lauri Love
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Lauri Love is a computer scientist from Stradishall in the UK who has a long history of involvement in political activism. A dual UK-Finnish national on his mother’s side, Lauri registered as a conscientious objector in Finland for his national service in 2009, before he enrolled on a degree in Computer Science and Physics at Glasgow University.

Anti-austerity activism

A wave of anti-austerity protests swept across the UK in 2010-2012, starting with the biggest student protests in a generation in late 2010 and running through to the Occupy movement, which reached the UK roughly a year later.

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2013 arrest and bail

In October 2013, the United States government unsealed three indictments against Lauri Love, for alleged hacks of governmental agencies.

#objecteurs_de_conscience #anonymous #répression #hackers #prisonniers_politiques (dans ce cas, en lutte contre une procédure d’#extradition)

Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking | Books | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/30/metaphor-map-charts-the-images-that-structure-our-thinking

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Huge project by Glasgow University researchers plots thirteen centuries of startling cognitive connections

Metaphor is not the sole preserve of Shakespearean scholarship or high literary endeavour but has governed how we think about and describe our daily lives for centuries, according to researchers at Glasgow University.

Experts have now created the world’s first online Metaphor Map, which contains more than 14,000 metaphorical connections sourced from 4m pieces of lexical data, some of which date back to 700AD.

While it is impossible to pinpoint the oldest use of metaphor in English, because some may have been adopted from earlier languages such as Germanic, the map reveals that the still popular link between sheep and timidity dates back to Old English. Likewise, we do not always recognise modern use of metaphor: for example, the word “comprehend” comes from Latin, where it meant to physically grasp an object.

#cartographie #langues #languages #cognition

Edward Snowden elected Rector of Glasgow University - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/20/snow-f20.html

Students at the University of Glasgow in Scotland voted Tuesday to elect Edward Snowden as Rector of the University, in a powerful display of opposition to attacks on democratic rights by the NSA and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

The former National Security Agency consultant and whistle-blower received 3,124 votes, more than double his nearest challenger, Kevin Holdsworth, a local clergyman and gay rights campaigner. Snowden received 51 percent of the vote, and will serve as Rector for three years.

#snowden