#Snowden in the Labyrinth, by Jonathan Lethem | The New York Review of Books
▻https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/edward-snowden-labyrinth
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#book #review #book_review #livre „Permanent Record”
Snowden’s book is straightforward, admirably so. He has taken the risk of assuming that his reader is interested not only in his “moment of vision” and the brazen act that earned his fame and notoriety, but also in the formation of his personality, and the slow growth of his understanding of technology, espionage, surveillance, and human rights. Despite his gifts at computer programming, he has no interest in persuading you that he’s unusual; quite the opposite.
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Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan (ht...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9072407Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan
HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19949739 Posted by hef19898 (karma: 1779) Post stats: Points: 107 - Comments: 109 - 2019-05-18T21:12:05Z
#HackerNews #all #cost #cutting #expenses #musk #new #plan #review #teslas HackerNewsBot debug: Calculated post rank: 107 - Loop: 54 - Rank min: 100 - Author rank: 21
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Peer Community in … – A free recommendation process of scientific preprints (and published articles) based on peer-reviews (photo credit : Martin Grandjean : A force-based network visualization)
▻https://peercommunityin.orgPrésentation complète du projet PCI (création de « communautés de pairs » pour le « reviewing » des articles scientifiques publiés en accès ouvert)
The “Peer Community in” (PCI) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to create specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending, for free, unpublished preprints in their field (i.e. unpublished articles deposited on open online archives like arXiv.org and bioRxiv.org). To a lesser extent, they may also recommend articles already published in journals.
En relation avec ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/771342
#PCI #Peer_Community_in #open_publication #review #open_science #bien_public
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Stablecoins in 2019 (Are we are not there yet ?)
▻https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-in-2019-are-we-are-not-there-yet-1e5686eea203?source=rss----Stablecoins in 2019 (Are we are not there yet ?)Traditional e-money still dominatesIn 2017 USDT (Tether USD) is no doubt an undeniable market dominant. A year later — 2018 there were a bit more than several dozen projects reported. As of 2019, there are now more than two hundred of them. Some projects out of the “first pack” have already shut down, some are for the time being are still only #news of intentions, but it can be safely said that at least hundreds of stablecoin projects are at different stages of development now.As for the stablecoins that are in production and live, those traded on the exchanges, there isn’t much to track as well. With the help of CoinMarketCap, I managed to find data on the 23 stablecoins so far. It will be easier to group the coins by the binding object and the (...)
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LTO Network Review
▻https://hackernoon.com/lto-network-review-35a5cdc6044?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4IntroductionThe purpose of this report is to cover the LTO Network.For those that have not heard about this project, it has received a fairly significant amount of buzz in the #cryptocurrency community as of late.In specific, its price trajectory since launch has been a significant source of attention since its launch as well.However, this report will not provide a price analysis. Instead, this report will seek to answer the following questions about the LTO Network:What are they?Who are they?What does it do?How does it do it?Can it work?Transparency/Disclosure and Background InformationMuch of the background information for LTO Network can be found on Messari.The link is provided below for convenience:LTO NetworkLTO Network submitted their information to be posted publicly on Messari via the (...)
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Why this cryptocurrency may have a good future ahead of it
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-this-cryptocurrency-may-have-a-good-future-ahead-of-it-12cdd29db29d?Stellar Lumens stands out from a lot of cryptocurrenciesStellar Lumens (XLM)This project really sets itself apart from many others, it functions as cryptocurrency as well as a development platform, in many ways it is similar to #ethereum, yet it is alot faster and cheaper, this allows applications and smart contract built on it’s contracts to operate at a faster speed and with almost no cost.Stellar Lumens (XLM) was developed by the co-founder of Ripple so it is no suprise that they are also similar, they both have ultra-fast transactions and extremely low fees.Here is why I believe Stellar has a great future:Transactions cost a fraction of 1 cent to complete which means that you can send money, execute smart contracts and run ICO’s with really low overhead costs. Imagine sending $1,000 to a (...)
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Two Weeks on Matrix/Riot Short Review (▻https://lobste.rs/s/sxqf0p/t...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7122039Two Weeks on Matrix/Riot Short Review | #matrix #review #riot
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By the #Light of the arrivals gate
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/by-the-light-of-the-arrivals-gateFor more than a decade, night-time arrivals at Gbessia International Airport in #Conakry, #Guinea, were greeted by dozens and sometimes hundreds of secondary school students studying in the parking lot. A foreign visitor’s bemusement would quickly evaporate, however, as they noticed that beyond the bright lights of the partially French-owned and operated airport, block after…
#CULTURE #documentary #education #Film #Future #infrastructure #Power #Review #Youth
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#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-south-africaThe cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #criminology #gang_culture #Johannesburg #Literature #police #reviews
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#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-cape-townThe cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #gang_culture #Literature #police #reviews
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Gang Town’s focus on Cape Town’s longue durée corruption of the social fabric of working class communities (…) sketches a city that has repeatedly deformed and destroyed social institutions that would otherwise channel the natural rebellions of young people away from gangs, drug abuse and violence. In a particularly insightful passage Pinnocks describes how forced removals under the Group Areas Act ripped up “networks of streets, houses, corner shops and shebeens, but also social webs of kin, friendship
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Power against Power
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/power-against-powerJesus is coming. Jesus is here. Jesus is killed by local preachers worried about the drastic downturn in business. His arrival portends for their collection of tithes and offerings. The #Music video from 2012 for the eponymous Ghanaian band, Fokn Bois, unlike much of their other work unwinds at a slow tempo. Multiple narratives – […]
#CULTURE #Accra #Arts #Film #Ghana #highlife #hip_hop #nationalism #Nkrumah #Review
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Made-in-China: The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/made-in-china-the-lives-and-times-of-africans-in-guangzhouGuangzhou, in Southern #China, has a long tradition as a trading port. More recently, in the wake of the Chinese state’s aggressive foreign and trade policies to Africa, the city is also home to a growing community of migrants and businesspeople from that continent. The latter buy goods in bulk in Guangzhou to sell back […]
#CULTURE #Film #Ghuangzhou #Guangzhou_Dream_Factory #migration #Review
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Inheritances of our fathers
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/inheritances-of-our-fathersThere’s #History, with a capital ‘H’ – the one you find written up, memorized and recited as facts, dates, inaugurations, wars, victims and statistics. And then there is the one in small caps – the history that gets under your skin: when great political systems are embodied in the tiny details of everyday life; when […]
#CULTURE #Apartheid #Books #Literature #memory #reviews #South_Africa
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#Africa : Why Western Economists Get It Wrong
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/09/africa-why-western-economists-get-it-wrongDevelopment #economics as a field of study was formally launched in the 1950s by the Afro-Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis who, out of necessity, wanted to understand how his own country, Saint Lucia, could transform from an agro-based economy into a modern industrial state (later, in 1979, Lewis was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics […]
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Getting beyond the usual South African reporting on “Africa”
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/09/getting-beyond-the-usual-south-african-reporting-on-africaIt is still not uncommon to hear South Africans say that they’re going on a business trip or holiday “in #Africa” – as if their own country lies on another continent. We could blame this attitude on our history. During Apartheid, #South_Africa was politically and socially isolated from the rest of the continent (South […]
#CULTURE #Books #Journalism #Literature #representation #reviews
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The Roots of Africa’s Present Condition
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-roots-of-africas-present-conditionToday sees the relaunch of the famed #Review_of_African_Political_Economy, this time on the web. We are happy to report that we will partner with #ROAPE and its editor,.....
#ACADEMY_PAGE #African_Intellectuals #Intellect #Left_Politics
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A book for George Clooney and college classrooms on #humanitarianism
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/a-book-for-george-clooney-and-college-classrooms-on-humanitarianismIn the world of transnational activism, there is a pre- and post-#Kony2012 era. In fact, #Kony2012 constituted a cathartic moment, a psychotic disturbance – both literally and figuratively – that unleashed.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #advocacy #Books #Celebrity #Literature #reviews
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Borderlines : The tale of a state in limbo
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/borderlines-the-tale-of-limbo-stateBorderlines (2015) is #Michela_Wrong’s debut novel. Taking the perspective of a British narrator named Paula, it tells the tale of a newly-independent fictitious African nation named North Darra, which relapses into.....
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Why should the colonist and his crimes be placed at the centre of the narrative? Kamel Daoud’s ‘Meursault, contre-enquête’
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/why-should-the-colonist-and-his-crimes-be-placed-at-the-centre-of-tKamel Daoud (b.1970) is a journalist who lives in Oran and writes a regular column for #Algeria’s bestselling daily Francophone newspaper. His first novel, Meursault, contre-enquête, was published in Algeria.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Books #colonialism #France #Literature #Review
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The Futuristic #Lagos of #Nnedi_Okorafor’s Lagoon
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/the-futuristic-lagos-of-nnedi-okorafors-lagoonThere are some who might think that the very premise of Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon —aliens landing in Lagos — is a bit far reaching. After all, if the #science_fiction.....
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Body Politricks and the Worlds in Between: A #Review of #Ta-Nehisi_Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/body-politricks-and-the-worlds-in-between-a-review-of-ta-nehisi-coaTa-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me is part memoir and part testimonial, but it is also a Black father’s textual and public initiation of his Black son into the.....
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‘Contemporary #design Africa’ book highlights African innovation, challenging dominant perceptions of the continent
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/contemporary-design-africa-highlights-african-design-innovation-to-Tapiwa Matsinde’s book, Contemporary Design Africa, challenges perceptions of African creativity by focusing on design and innovation on the continent. Tapiwa Matsinde is a British-Zimbabwean designer, creative business consultant, blogger.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Art #Books #Review
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PLATINUM: Public expressions of waiting with patience and pangas
►http://africasacountry.com/2015/07/platinum-public-expressions-of-waiting-with-patience-and-pangas-by-On 27 June, I went to check out the launch of PLATINUM, a mini-publication by photographer #Jason_Larkin and writer #Jack_Shenker. It’s a combination of large format posters and.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Books #Fourth_Wall_Books #Literature #Marikana #Review #South_Africa
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PLATINUM: Public expressions of waiting with patience and pangas
▻http://africasacountry.com/platinum-public-expressions-of-waiting-with-patience-and-pangas-by-On 27 June, I went to check out the launch of PLATINUM, a mini-publication by photographer #Jason_Larkin and writer #Jack_Shenker. It’s a combination of large format posters and.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Books #Fourth_Wall_Books #Literature #Marikana #Review #South_Africa
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For Love of God, Love of Laughing: An #interview with Okey Ndibe
▻http://africasacountry.com/for-love-of-god-love-of-laughing-an-interview-with-okey-ndibeForeign Gods, Inc. is the rare novel that makes you laugh about religion. A young Nigerian named Ike has graduated with honors from the prestigious Amherst College in Massachusetts, but.....
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