• How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
    https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime

    2.11.2023 by Jacob Juda - Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau’s .tk domain had more users than any other country. Here’s why.

    Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.

    Just three years later, the islands received a fax with an unlikely business proposal that would change everything.
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    It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain, or ccTLD—the short string of characters that is tacked onto the end of a URL.

    Up until that moment, Tokelau, formally a territory of New Zealand, didn’t even know it had been assigned a ccTLD. “We discovered the .tk,” remembered Aukusitino Vitale, who at the time was general manager of Teletok, Tokelau’s sole telecom operator.

    Zuurbier said “that he would pay Tokelau a certain amount of money and that Tokelau would allow the domain for his use,” remembers Vitale. It was all a bit of a surprise—but striking a deal with Zuurbier felt like a win-win for Tokelau, which lacked the resources to run its own domain. In the model pioneered by Zuurbier and his company, now named Freenom, users could register a free domain name for a year, in exchange for having advertisements hosted on their websites. If they wanted to get rid of ads, or to keep their website active in the long term, they could pay a fee.

    In the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau became an unlikely internet giant—but not in the way it may have hoped. Until recently, its .tk domain had more users than any other country’s: a staggering 25 million. But there has been and still is only one website actually from Tokelau that is registered with the domain: the page for Teletok. Nearly all the others that have used .tk have been spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals.

    Everyone online has come across a .tk––even if they didn’t realize it. Because .tk addresses were offered for free, unlike most others, Tokelau quickly became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could be weaponized against internet users. Scammers began using .tk websites to do everything from harvesting passwords and payment information to displaying pop-up ads or delivering malware.
    a proliferation of .Tk emails with faces crying exclamation point tears

    Many experts say that this was inevitable. “The model of giving out free domains just doesn’t work,” says John Levine, a leading expert on cybercrime. “Criminals will take the free ones, throw it away, and take more free ones.”

    Tokelau, which for years was at best only vaguely aware of what was going on with .tk, has ended up tarnished. In tech-savvy circles, many painted Tokelauans with the same brush as their domain’s users or suggested that they were earning handsomely from the .tk disaster. It is hard to quantify the long-term damage to Tokelau, but reputations have an outsize effect for tiny island nations, where even a few thousand dollars’ worth of investment can go far. Now the territory is desperately trying to shake its reputation as the global capital of spam and to finally clean up .tk. Its international standing, and even its sovereignty, may depend on it.
    Meeting modernity

    To understand how we got here, you have to go back to the chaotic early years of the internet. In the late ’90s, Tokelau became the second-smallest place to be assigned a domain by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, a group tasked with maintaining the global internet.

    These domains are the address books that make the internet navigable to its users. While you can create a website without registering a domain name for it, it would be like building a house without an easily findable postal address. Many domains are familiar. The UK has .uk, France .fr, and New Zealand .nz. There are also domains that are not tied to specific countries, such as .com and .net.

    Most countries’ domains are run by low-profile foundations, government agencies, or domestic telecom companies, which usually charge a few dollars to register a domain name. They usually also require some information about who is registering and keep tabs to prevent abuse.

    But Tokelau, with just 1,400 inhabitants, had a problem: it simply didn’t have the money or know-how to run its own domain, explains Tealofi Enosa, who was the head of Teletok for a decade before stepping down in July 2023. “It would not be easy for Tokelau to try and manage or build the local infrastructure,” Enosa says. “The best arrangement is for someone else from outside to manage it, trade it, and bring in money from it.”

    This is precisely what Zuurbier, the businessman from Amsterdam, wanted to do.

    Zuurbier had come across Tokelau while chasing the internet’s next big idea. He was convinced that just as people had adopted free email addresses by the millions, the natural next step was for them to have their own free websites. Zuurbier intended to put advertisements on those sites, which could be removed for a small fee. All he needed to turn this billion-dollar idea into reality was a place with a ccTLD that had not yet found a registrar.

    Tokelau—the last corner of the British Empire to be informed about the outbreak of World War I, where regular shortwave radio wasn’t available until the ’70s and most people were yet to even see a website—was the perfect partner.

    Representatives from Tokelau and Zuurbier met in Hawaii in 2001 and put pen to paper on a deal. Quickly, .tk domain names began to pop up as people took advantage of the opportunity to create websites for free. He still had to convince ICANN, which oversees the domain name system, that Tokelau couldn’t host its own servers—one of the criteria for ccTLDs. But Tokelau—which switched off its power at midnight—would still need a reliable internet connection to keep in touch. In 2003 Zuurbier took a grueling 36-hour boat ride from Samoa to Tokelau to install internet routers that he had bought for $50 on eBay.

    Gone was the unreliable dial-up. Tokelau had met modernity. “He provided all the equipment, got all the three atolls connected up, and then he also provided some funding which I used to share with the community,” says Vitale, who established internet cafés that could be used for free by anybody from Tokelau’s four hamlets.

    For the first time, thousands of Tokelauans in New Zealand were able to easily connect with home. “What was important for Tokelau was that we were getting some money that could help the villages,” says Vitale. Many of the initial sign-ups on .tk were completely innocuous individuals wanting to blog about thoughts and holidays, as well as gaming communities and small businesses.

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    Zuurbier sent Teletok regular reports about .tk’s growth, and they indicated that the free-domain model was working better than anybody expected. Tiny Tokelau, which was being paid a small cut of the profits Zuurbier was making, was going global.

    “We were hearing how successful .tk was. We were bigger than China,” says Vitale. “We were surprised, but we didn’t know what it meant for Tokelau. What was more meaningful at the time was that we were getting money to help the villages. We didn’t know about the other side of it then.”

    As the decade wore on, however, it looked to Vitale as if things were beginning to blow off course. “We went in blind,” he says. “We didn’t know how popular it would be.”
    Things fall apart

    It took until the late 2000s for Vitale to realize that something had gone badly wrong. After problems first arose, Zuurbier invited ministers and advisors from Tokelau to the Netherlands, paid for their flights, and explained the business’s nuts and bolts in an effort to reassure them. They went to watch Samoa play at the Rugby World Cup in France.

    “He [Zuurbier] appeared to be a really nice person,” Vitale remembers. “There was all this nice stuff that felt homely, warm fuzzies.” .Tk had hit the milestone of 1 million domain users.

    But soon after this trip, he says, Zuurbier started falling behind on scheduled payments to Tokelau worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. (MIT Technology Review requested an interview with Zuurbier. He initially accepted but subsequently did not answer the phone or respond to messages.)

    Meanwhile, Vitale had begun receiving complaints from concerned members of the “internet community.” He and his peers started to become aware that criminals and other questionable figures had cottoned onto the benefits that registering free domains could bring—providing an almost unlimited supply of websites that could be registered with virtual anonymity.

    “It was obvious from the start that this was not going to turn out well,” says Levine, coauthor of The Internet for Dummies. “The only people who want those domains are crooks.”

    Levine says that .tk had started attracting unsavory characters almost immediately. “The cost of the domain name is tiny compared to everything else that you need to do [to set up a website], so unless you’re doing something weird that actually needs lots of domains—which usually means criminals—then the actual value in free domains is insignificant,” he says.

    What started as techies complaining to Vitale about spamming, malware, and phishing on .tk domains soon turned into more worrisome complaints from the New Zealand administrator tasked with overseeing Tokelau, asking him whether he was aware of who .tk’s users were. Allegations surfaced that .tk websites were being used for pornography. Researchers had found jihadists and the Ku Klux Klan registering .tk websites to promote extremism. Chinese state-backed hackers had been found using .tk websites for espionage campaigns.

    “Satanic stuff” is how Vitale describes it: “There were some activities that were not really aligned with our culture and our Christianity, so that didn’t work very well for Tokelau.” With Zuurbier not replying to worried emails, Vitale moved to unplug him. He opened negotiations with Internet NZ, the registry that runs New Zealand’s squeaky-clean domain, about how Tokelau might be able to wiggle out of its arrangement. He didn’t manage to get an answer before he moved on from Teletok.

    His successor, Enosa, tried to set the relationship on a new footing and signed new deals with Zuurbier on the understanding that he would clean up .tk. However, that never happened. One of Enosa’s final acts as general manager at Teletok, in the summer of 2023, was to reopen negotiations with Internet NZ about how Tokelau might be able to extricate itself from the deal once and for all.

    Meanwhile, most of Tokelau’s residents weren’t even aware of what was happening. Elena Pasilio, a journalist, saw firsthand how much this was hurting her home. When she was studying in New Zealand a few years ago, people—knowing that she was Tokelauan—started to tag her on social media posts complaining about .tk.

    At first, she felt confused; it took time before she even realized that .tk meant Tokelau. “I was really surprised by how many users it had, but then I realized that a lot of people were using .tk to make dodgy websites, and then I felt embarrassed. I was embarrassed because it had our name on it,” Pasilio explains. “It has got our name tangled up there with crimes that people here would not even begin to understand.”

    There is a sense from both Vitale and Enosa that Zuurbier cared little as Tokelau’s reputation was dragged through the mud. “I would argue with Joost,” Enosa says, adding that he would remind him he was the custodian for a legal asset that belonged to Tokelau alone. According to Enosa, he would shoot back: “I built this infrastructure from my own pocket. I spent millions of dollars building it. Do you think that was easy? Do you think that Tokelau can build this kind of infrastructure itself?”
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    “I said: ‘Okay. Understood,’” Enosa recalls. “I understood how a white man looks at it. You know? This is how white men look at things. I understand that.”
    Digital colonialism

    What has happened to Tokelau is not unique. The domains of small islands across the Pacific are cited in numerous stories either celebrating dumb luck or complaining of massive abuse.

    Tuvalu has managed to turn .tv into approximately 10% of its annual GDP. Micronesia’s .fm has been pushed heavily at radio stations and podcasters. Tonga’s .to has been favored by torrent and illegal streaming websites. Anguilla, in the Caribbean, is heavily marketing its .ai at technology startups.

    But these success stories seem to be the exception. In 2016, the Anti-Phishing Working Group found that alongside .tk and .com, the Australian Cocos Islands (.cc) and Palau (.pw) together represented 75% of all malicious domain registrations. They had been flooded by phishers attacking Chinese financial institutions. The Cocos Islands made headlines in Australia when websites allegedly hosting child sexual abuse images were recently found on its domain.

    Those domains whose names—by linguistic luck—seemed to mean something tended to attract better managers. Sharks seem to have circled around those that did not, or had a market that was less clear.

    While the abuse of Pacific Islands’ domains has waxed and waned over the years, the islands’ tiny size means that even small associations with crime can have damaging consequences.

    “There is a problem in Polynesia,” says Pär Brumark, a Swede who represents the Pacific island of Niue abroad. “You had these internet cowboys running around taking domains everywhere.”

    Niue lost control over the domain .nu after it was “stolen” by an American in the late 1990s, Brumark says. Its management was given to the Swedish Internet Foundation—which manages Sweden’s native .se—in a “shady deal” in 2013, he claims. .Nu has been wildly popular in Sweden, as it translates directly to “now.” Niue, which is also linked to New Zealand, is now fighting a David-versus-Goliath battle in the Swedish courts. It is seeking as much as $20 million in lost revenue—almost one year’s worth of Niue’s annual GDP.
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    “Digital colonialism,” claims Brumark. “They exploit resources from another country without giving anything back. They have never spoken to the government. They have no permissions. They exploit. Colonialism to me is if you take resources from a country that you do not have the permission to take.”

    But now there may finally be some accountability—at least in the case of Zuurbier.

    In December 2022, courts in the Netherlands found in favor of an investor suing Freenom, the company that managed .tk and four other domains—those of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, and Mali—that were subsequently added to the model it pioneered. The courts found that Freenom had fallen foul of various reporting rules and appointed a supervisory director.
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    And in March of this year, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, also sued Freenom for damages, claiming that sites hosted on .tk and the four African domains were engaging in cybersquatting, phishing, and trademark infringement. Meta provided examples of websites that appeared to be registered at .tk with the express purpose of deceiving users, such as faceb00k.tk, whatsaap.tk, Instaqram.tk.

    In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC, Zuurbier denied Meta’s allegations about the “proliferation of cybercrime.” But the Cybercrime Information Center recently reported that “in past years Freenom domains were used for 14% of all phishing attacks worldwide, and Freenom was responsible for 60% of the phishing domains reported in all the ccTLDs in November 2022.” Zuurbier says that Freenom distributed to over 90 trusted organizations, including Meta, an API that allowed them to take down offending sites and that Meta itself failed to continue using it. But many in the tech industry resent what they see as Freenom shifting the cost of policing its domains onto others.

    As of January 2023, it is no longer possible to register a .tk domain. All four African countries—many thousands of times larger than Tokelau—have broken ties with Freenom. Tokelau, which did not seem aware that there were other countries in the same boat, is still trying to figure out what to do next.

    It now looks as if Freenom is essentially finished as a company. But Enosa doesn’t believe that’ll stop Zuurbier from pursuing more shady schemes. “Joost always wins,” he says.
    Shifting tactics

    Without access to the unlimited pool of free domain names that were available through .tk and the four other Freenom ccTLDs, many cybercrime groups that relied on them are being forced to adapt. Certain scattergun approaches to spamming and phishing are likely to go out of fashion. “Spammers are fairly rational,” explains Levine, the spam expert. “If the spam is cheap and the domains are free, they can afford to send out a lot of spam even though the likelihood of response is lower. If they actually have to pay for the domains, then they are likely to make it a lot more targeted.”
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    “Bad things online require a domain name at some point,” says Carel Bitter, head of data at the Spamhaus Project, which tracks malicious activities online. “You need people to go somewhere to fill in their account details. If you can’t get domains for free, you will have to get them somewhere else.” Analysts have noted upticks in malicious use of cheap “new” generic TLDs such as .xyz, .top, and .live, whose reputations have been wrecked by dodgy dealers.

    While other domains may only cost $1, a drop in the ocean for the largest gangs, the fact that they now need to be purchased may limit the damage, says Bitter: “Any cybercrime business that relies on domain names will have some sort of natural limit that determines how much they can spend on domain names.” Others, though, may seek to compromise existing websites with low security.

    It is likely that “basement” operations—so-called “ankle-biters”—will feel the biggest pinch. “What is possible is that the guys that are just doing it as a dabble won’t want to put the money up, but the professionals are not going away,” says Dave Piscitello, director of research activity at the Cybercrime Information Center. “They will go elsewhere. If you are staging a revolution and the cost of a Kalashnikov goes from $150 to $250, you aren’t going to say ‘Forget it.’ It is the business.”
    An existential issue

    The media sometimes reports that Tokelau makes millions from the use of .tk. Zuurbier himself claims on his LinkedIn that his relationship with Tokelau adds over 10% to the atolls’ GDP.

    “Bullshit,” says Enosa when asked. “That’s a lie.”

    Enosa claims that .tk provided a “very small” proportion of Teletok’s income: “It doesn’t give us good money. .Tk was nothing to my revenue.”

    While the arrival of the internet on Tokelau promised to zip information across the Pacific instantaneously, the islands have remained isolated. Even while I was reporting this story, it took weeks to get in touch with Pasilio and other sources there. Interviews were repeatedly delayed because of the price of data packages. Internet in Tokelau is among the most expensive in the world, and NZ$100 (US$60) worth of data can sometimes last only 24 hours at a time. Phone calls to Tokelau from Europe did not connect.

    “I feel sorry for our Tokelau,” Pasilio says. “We have been taken advantage of. I think people would be shocked if they knew what had been going on with .Tk.”
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    Even many Tokelau elders had not fully understood the problem, at least until recently.

    There are other, arguably more existential problems the islands need to deal with, including climate change, emigration, and the atolls’ future relationship with New Zealand. “Our islands are already shrinking as it is, with the sea levels rising,” says Pasilio. She says her father tells her about reefs and sand banks that have sunk beneath the Pacific. “They would rather worry about things that they can see physically and that they know more about, rather than fighting back on this .Tk thing,” she says.

    But the issue of the abused .tk domain was recently raised in the General Fono, or Parliament, indicating that the issue had finally broken out of its technical niche and into the wider public.

    Those existential issues facing the islands are not wholly unrelated to .tk. Questions over the future of the domain have arisen at the same time that a debate over Tokelau’s political future has been revived.

    Tokelau is classified by the United Nations as a “non-self-governing territory” under the oversight of the Special Committee on Decolonization. In 2006 and 2007, referenda on whether Tokelau would enter “free association” with New Zealand—a possible stepping stone toward eventual independence—was approved, but not enough of Tokelau’s population voted to meet the turnout threshold. In May 2022, it was decided that another referendum on Tokelau’s future would be held ahead of the centenary of New Zealand rule in 2025.

    Repairing Tokelau’s devastated international reputation by cleaning up .tk will be a necessity if the atolls are to make any serious bid for sovereignty. Vitale is now the general manager of Tokelau’s government and wants to see its internet domain make a triumphant return to make it clear that the islands are turning a new page.

    “We are building nationhood here,” he explains. “We are on a pathway toward self-determination. We want to use the .tk as a catalyst to promote our nationhood and be proud of it—our domain name and our identity among the internet community.”

    All of Tokelau’s email and website addresses are currently hosted on New Zealand’s .nz. “What does that mean to people? It means that we are in New Zealand,” says Vitale with a sigh. “We should be selling ourselves as being in Tokelau, because .tk is the domain—the identity—for Tokelau.”

    “When you have people coming to knock on your door with attractive packages,” he adds, “you see it as an opportunity you hook onto—not realizing what the consequences will be further down the road.”

    Correction: This story has been updated post-publication as the previous version incorrectly stated that Antigua was the Carribean island with the .ai domain. It is in fact Anguilla. Our apologies.

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    // Note de Cabrioles : Paru le 4 juillet 2022 sur le journal canadien _The Tyee l’article Préparez-vous pour la peste éternelle de Andrew Nikiforuk - dont nous avons publié une traduction le 6 juillet - est rapidement devenu viral, sucitant des centaine de milliers de vue ainsi que de vifs débats et critiques. L’auteur, Andrew Nikiforuk, a apporté une réponse à celles-ci le 8 juillet. Voici notre traduction de sa réponse. //_

    En tant que journaliste, mon travail ne consiste pas à édulcorer la réalité, à encourager le statu quo ou à défendre les puissant·es. Ma responsabilité est de mettre les tendances émergentes sur le radar de tout le monde, en particulier pendant une nouvelle pandémie qui affecte de manière disproportionnée les pauvres.

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    Il avertit les gens que les variants d’Omicron évoluent à une vitesse record. De plus, ces nouveaux variants sont des experts en matière d’évasion immunitaire et de transmission rapide.

    Mon article ajoute que les réinfections sont un phénomène croissant et d’une ampleur nouvelle. Il mettait en garde contre le fait que les réinfections s’accompagnent de risques plus élevés de conséquences néfastes pour la santé https://www.businessinsider.com/who-official-individuals-coronavirus-infection-unlucky-long-covid-2. Il ajoute que nos vaccins, à ce jour, sont de moins en moins efficaces pour protéger contre les infections.

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    Mais de nombreuses juridictions en Amérique du Nord ont abandonné ou minimisé ces outils importants. Beaucoup ont pratiquement renoncé à combattre le feu du COVID par des mesures de santé publique autres que la distribution de vaccins. Malheureusement, la responsabilité personnelle n’est pas un substitut efficace à l’action commune pendant une pandémie.

    Ce que je pensais être un simple avertissement sur la prochaine vague a, contre toute attente, touché une corde sensible. Cette histoire est devenue aussi virale qu’un sous-variant d’Omicron. Elle a suscité un débat énorme et souvent acrimonieux dans les réseaux sociaux. Certain·es ont loué l’article pour avoir souligné les nouveaux risques et pour ne pas avoir minimisé la menace du COVID.

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    http://liminaire.fr/derives/article/fascination-shibuya

    https://youtu.be/iU7TEzhqDYI

    J’avance. Je ne vois rien. La musique des immeubles avec leurs publicités aux images obsédantes et répétitives, lumières clignotantes, signes enchevêtrant, et ce bruit inouï qui se mêle aux sons de la circulation, des métros aériens, de la gare toute proche, et des avions dans le ciel. Une jeune femme dans un long manteau vert kaki qui porte une besace de couleur bleu, la lanière en cuir au creux de son bras replié, dans le pli du coude, la main serrée sur son téléphone portable tout contre son cœur. J’avance. Je ne peux pas regarder les immeubles qui entourent le carrefour et traverser sans risquer de me heurter à l’un des passants qui vient en sens inverse. Une femme brune, lunettes aux fines montures, vêtue d’une robe en jean, d’une veste en laine côtelée bleu marine, elle porte son sac à dos noir sur sa poitrine, elle fouille à l’intérieur pour en sortir un titre de transport sans y jeter le moindre regard, la force de l’habitude. J’avance. Les regards sont fuyants. Le pas pressé. (...) #Journal / #Vidéo, #Architecture, #Écriture, #Sons, #Tokyo, #Japon, #Shibuya, #Paysage, #Ville, #Visages, #Regard, #Dérive, #Ciel, #Voyage, (...)

  • Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu planétaire : Un événement perecquien sur Twitter le 3 mars 2022

    http://liminaire.fr/liminaire/article/tentative-d-epuisement-d-un-lieu-planetaire

    Le 3 mars prochain marquera les 40 ans de la mort de Georges Perec. À cette occasion, célébrons son esprit encore vivace, le temps d’une performance collective éphémère, inspirée de son œuvre.

    Jeudi 3 mars 2022, de 12h30 à 13h30 heure de Paris, participez à la « Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu planétaire ». [1]

    Mode d’emploi : chacun(e) se poste dans un lieu de son choix et décrit, à la manière « infraordinaire », ce qu’il voit et perçoit, le banal, le quotidien, et le poste en série sur Twitter. Chacun des tweets est accompagné systématiquement d’un hashtag donnant le nom de la ville où il/elle se trouve (#Kinshasa #Malakoff #Paris #Bruxelles #Poitiers #Tours #Marseille #Montevidéo #NewYork #Montréal #Rome #Madrid #Tokyo...), et du hashtag de l’événement #Perec40. (...) #Perec, #Écriture, #Histoire, #Langage, #Livre, #Lecture, #Récit, #Poésie, #Hommage, #Performance, #Twitter (...)

  • Jack Dorsey and Marc Andreessen’s Crypto Feud Puts Web3 at Risk - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/business/dealbook/web3-venture-capital-andreessen.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20220123&ins

    “You don’t own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do.”

    Jack Dorsey tweeted this esoteric salvo in late December, not long after he stepped down as the head of Twitter to focus on advancing his Bitcoin ambitions. The post, swiping at the power held by venture capitalists and their limited partners as they try to reorganize the internet around blockchain technology, an effort known as web3, soon set off a public feud among members of the Silicon Valley ruling class. The dispute over what many herald as the next arena of technological revolution has drawn increasingly hard lines. Elon Musk is with Mr. Dorsey; Marc Andreessen is his enemy.

    The web3 revolution, backers say, promises the democratization of commerce and information by building a better internet on blockchain networks — distributed ledger systems that form the basis of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It theoretically would cut out traditional middlemen and gatekeepers, letting users transact directly and have a greater stake in the programs they use.

    But Mr. Dorsey has a different view. “It will never escape their incentives,” continued his post about the role of venture capitalists in web3. “It’s ultimately a centralized entity with a different label.”

    Tokenisation de l’internet

    Essentially, web3 refers to an internet operating on so-called tokenomics. Tokens are digital units of cryptocurrency, and in web3, developers and users have mutual financial interests and everyone can earn crypto. Users benefit directly from their contributions — creativity, play, engagement or deposits, say. They can also help govern futuristic community-run companies, where they can vote on decisions with tokens created by the particular project.

    Yet big investors also appear attracted to the infinite frontier. Last year, venture capitalists backed about 460 blockchain projects, spending nearly $12.75 billion, up from 155 deals worth $2.75 billion in 2020, per Pitchbook data provided to The New York Times. And the venture arms of crypto exchanges like Coinbase and FTX are some of the biggest deal makers, compounding concerns about corporate concentration. That means major players increasingly control the decentralized entities said to democratize everything for little guys.

    “While cryptocurrency industry insiders promote the ‘democratized’ benefits of digital assets,” Ms. Goldstein testified, “in truth, crypto concentrations of money and power match or surpass those in traditional financial markets.”

    Proponents across the web3 ideological divide have been working to woo lawmakers. Venture capitalists are pushing policy proposals meant to influence officials to embrace web3. Believers in the revolution, like Mr. Selkis of Messari, have compiled lists of politicians to support. But the movement still appears to lack a unified front.

    The debate that Mr. Dorsey sparked last month has continued online, though it appears he has begun to direct his attention elsewhere. On Thursday, he started a Bitcoin legal defense fund for developers who face “legal headaches,” and he said Block would get involved with mining Bitcoin.

    Andreessen Horowitz’s policy team has been looking beyond Washington, publishing proposals for global leaders on how to become “web3 republics.”

    Crypto, however, is not the only issue on every tech billionaire’s mind.

    #Web3 #Tokenisation #Internet #Capital_risque #Cryptomonnaies

  • #Israel : Mobileye lance un programme-pilote de voitures autonomes à #Paris
    https://fr.timesofisrael.com/mobileye-lance-un-programme-pilote-de-voitures-autonomes-a-paris

    Les employés d’un magasin de luxe pourront réserver des déplacements pour se rendre à leur travail dans des "robotaxis


    Un véhicule autonome à l’essai à Paris, alimenté par Mobileye, au mois de décembre 2021. (Crédit : Mobileye)

    La compagnie Mobileye, qui développe des systèmes de conduite autonome, a annoncé jeudi qu’elle allait mettre en œuvre un programme-pilote de trajets sur demande à Paris en collaboration avec une firme de transport public française.

    Mobileye, filiale d’Intel, a reçu une autorisation pour faire des essais de ses véhicules autonomes à Paris, ce qui ajoute la capitale française à une liste croissante de villes où la compagnie teste actuellement ses technologies de conduite autonome. Parmi ces villes, Detroit, New York City, Tokyo, et Jérusalem ainsi que Tel Aviv et Munich, où Mobileye va lancer des taxis autonomes et des services de VTC ou « robotaxis » l’année prochaine.

    Les personnes qui souhaitent avoir accès à ce service pourront le faire à travers Moovit, la compagnie israélienne de données de transit rachetée par Intel l’année dernière pour un montant d’environ 900 millions de dollars. Moovit a développé l’application MoovitAV pour les clients désireux de faire du covoiturage avec Mobileye.

    Dans la phase initiale, les employés des Galeries Lafayette, un magasin de luxe parisien, pourront jouir de ce service en demandant ou en programmant un déplacement pour se rendre à la célèbre enseigne du Boulevard Haussmann, quatre jours par semaine. Ce projet-pilote est lancé en partenariat avec l’entreprise française de transport public RATP.

    Ces véhicules, lors de l’essai, pourront transporter deux passagers à la fois. Ils seront accompagnés par un chauffeur de Mobileye, qui sera chargé d’intervenir en cas de problème, et d’un « co-pilote » de la RATP.

    « La conduite autonome dans les rues de Paris est un nouveau tournant dans notre volonté de mettre en œuvre notre vision de mobilité autonome inclusive. Nous sommes heureux de non seulement avoir obtenu cette autorisation de lancer notre programme-pilote mais aussi de le faire aux côtés de partenaires importants à Paris », a déclaré Johann Jungwirth, vice-président du département de la Mobilité en tant que service au sein de Mobileye, dans un communiqué publié jeudi.


    Un véhicule autonome à l’essai à Paris, alimenté par Mobileye, au mois de décembre 2021. (Crédit : Mobileye)

    Côme Berbain, directeur de l’innovation à la RATP, explique que « c’est une opportunité pour la RATP de tester quelque chose de totalement nouveau – un service de voitures autonomes pour les entreprises – mais c’est également l’occasion de tester l’intégration possible de la technologie des véhicules autonomes pour d’autres modes de transport, comme les bus ou les minibus ».

    Cette nouvelle, rendue publique jeudi, survient une semaine après l’annonce par Intel de son projet de faire entrer Mobileye sur le marché boursier en 2022 avec une évaluation d’approximativement 50 milliards de dollars. Intel avait acheté Mobileye en 2017 pour plus de 15 milliards de dollars. La compagnie avait été cotée en 2014 à la bourse de New York.

    Intel a expliqué que cette initiative permettra de « débloquer la valorisation de Mobileye pour les actionnaires d’Intel en créant une entreprise cotée en bourse, ce qui développera encore les réussites de Mobileye au service de son large marché ».

    Intel a précisé que la firme resterait actionnaire majoritaire de Mobileye et que les deux entreprises continueraient à travailler ensemble « à la poursuite de la croissance informatique dans ce secteur de l’automobile ». L’équipe en charge de Mobileye restera en place et le co-fondateur de la compagnie, Amnon Shashua, conservera son poste de directeur-général.

    La multinationale a expliqué que Mobileye s’attendait à générer 40 % de revenu de plus en 2021 en comparaison avec l’année dernière, à travers un certain nombre de produits et de programmes en place, avec plus d’une trentaine de fabricants automobiles et autres partenaires dans le monde.

    Mobileye joue un rôle déterminant dans les opérations globales d’Intel. Au début de l’année, Intel avait indiqué investir 400 millions de dollars dans une nouvelle structure de Recherche & Développement pour Mobileye, devenu le pôle principal de développement de véhicules autonomes pour Intel. Une fois que le centre sera construit, Mobileye devait employer 4 000 personnes supplémentaires.

    « Mobileye est une entreprise connaissant une croissance majeure qui sera assurément un acteur important de l’avenir d’Intel », a souligné la firme.


    ¨ Une voiture Mobileye à New York City, en juillet 2021. (Autorisation) _

    Mobileye avait commencé à tester des véhicules autonomes à Munich, l’année dernière, après avoir obtenu une autorisation pour son programme-pilote de la part du fournisseur de services techniques indépendant TÜV SÜD. Cela avait été le tout premier programme de ce type lancé en Europe qui s’était inspiré du programme qui avait été mis en place en Israël, où Mobileye teste des véhicules autonomes depuis 2018.

    De plus, Mobileye a établi un certain nombre de partenariats qui sont en cours concernant la délivrance de systèmes de conduite autonome à la start-up californienne Udelv, qui prévoit de déployer une flotte de véhicules de livraison autonomes sur les routes d’ici deux ans. L’entreprise Mobileye s’est aussi associée à deux firmes françaises concernant le développement et le déploiement conjoint de navettes commerciales autonomes de transport en commun en Europe en 2023.

    #Intel #startup #Voiture_autonome #MobilEye #Paris #robotaxis #Moovit #Galeries_Lafayette #RATP #Udelv #voiture #voiture_autonome #algorithme #voiture_autopilotée #transport #autopilote #voitures_autonomes #mobilité #automobile #robotisation #technologisme #surveillance #chômage #licenciements #gafa #gafam #domination #licenciements

  • Lecture d’un extrait du livre « Plasmas » de Céline Minard

    http://www.liminaire.fr/radio-marelle/article/plasmas-de-celine-minard

    Le livre de Céline Minard décrit une Terre devenue inhabitable, où la nature telle que nous la connaissons a cessé d’exister, désormais recréée de toute pièce, dans des bulles, un univers dans lequel vivent de nombreuses créatures à l’intelligence supérieure à celle des humains, où des bots enregistrent les données humaines. (...) #Radio_Marelle / #Écriture, #Histoire, #Langage, #Livre, #Lecture, #Récit, #Vidéo, #Amour #En_lisant_en_écrivant, #Mémoire, #Corps, #Podcast, #Tokyo (...)

    http://www.liminaire.fr/IMG/mp4/en_lisant_plasmas_ce_line_minard.mp4

    https://www.payot-rivages.fr/rivages/livre/plasmas-9782743653675

  • Lecture d’un extrait du livre « G.A.V. » de Marin Fouqué

    http://www.liminaire.fr/radio-marelle/article/g-a-v-de-marin-fouque

    G.A.V., c’est l’abréviation de garde à vue, et la plus grande partie du récit de Marin Fouqué se déroule, en effet, pendant le séjour contraint de quelques interpelés, tout au long d’une nuit, dans les différentes cellules d’un commissariat. Parmi eux, il y a Angel, arrêté en possession du sac de son copain S-Kro et la barre de shit qu’il contenait. Il y a K-vembre qui travaille comme intérimaire dans un entrepôt logistique, écrivaine en attente d’édition... » (...) #Radio_Marelle / #Écriture, #Histoire, #Langage, #Livre, #Lecture, #Récit, #Vidéo, #Amour #En_lisant_en_écrivant, #Mémoire, #Corps, #Podcast, #Tokyo (...)

    http://www.liminaire.fr/IMG/mp3/en_lisant_gav_marin_fouque_.mp3

    https://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/g-v

  • Lecture d’un extrait du livre « La semaine perpétuelle » de Laura Vazquez
    http://liminaire.fr/radio-marelle/article/la-semaine-perpetuelle-de-laura-vazquez

    Sara chante et se filme, Salim diffuse des vidéos sur Internet et écrit des poèmes qu’il envoie à son ami Jonathan. Ils passent leurs journées sur Internet où ils s’informent du monde et où ils communiquent entre eux sur les réseaux avec un étonnant détachement. Leur grand-mère est à l’hôpital. Leur père « rêve d’une éponge qui lave le passé. » (...) #Radio_Marelle / #Écriture, #Histoire, #Langage, #Livre, #Lecture, #Récit, #Vidéo, #Amour #En_lisant_en_écrivant, #Mémoire, #Corps, #Podcast, #Tokyo (...)

    http://liminaire.fr/IMG/mp4/en_lisant_la_semaine_perpe_tuelle_laura_vazquez.mp4

    http://www.editions-du-sous-sol.com/publication/la-semaine-perpetuelle

  • Lecture d’un extrait du livre « Châtelet-Lilas » de Sébastien Ortiz

    http://liminaire.fr/radio-marelle/article/chatelet-lilas-de-sebastien-ortiz

    Un conducteur de métro de la ligne 11 qui traverse du sud au nord la rive droite Parisienne, se met soudain à capter très distinctement les pensées, forcément secrètes, de ses passagers. Leurs souvenirs comme leurs fantasmes, leurs nobles sentiments comme leurs haines mesquines. « Ils ne me connaissent pas, ils ne me verront jamais, mon histoire jamais ne leur sera dévoilée quand je peux lire la leur comme dans un livre ouvert ». (...) #Radio_Marelle / #Écriture, #Histoire, #Langage, #Livre, #Lecture, #Récit, #Vidéo, #Amour #En_lisant_en_écrivant, #Mémoire, #Corps, #Podcast, #Nourriture, #Beyrouth, #Japon, #Tokyo (...)

    http://liminaire.fr/IMG/mp4/en_lisant_cha_telet-lilas_se_bastien_ortiz.mp4

    http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/Chatelet-Lilas

  • Le réacteur à fusion chinois atteint un nouveau record du monde !
    https://trustmyscience.com/reacteur-fusion-chinois-atteint-une-temperature-10-fois-plus-elevee-

    C’est un nouveau record du monde : la Chine a maintenu la température de son réacteur à fusion, l’Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), à 120 millions de degrés Celsius pendant 101 secondes ! Le réacteur a par ailleurs atteint une température de 160 millions de degrés Celsius pendant 20 secondes.

    Pendant ce temps là, en France, on conçoit des tramways à deux places.

    • 160 millions de degrés Celsius j’ai quand même du mal à me faire une idée, par rapport à la météo prévue demain

    • Rien que ça pour faire bouillir de l’eau ... Et moi, comme un crétin, de m’interroger :
      « Mais quels matériaux sont susceptibles de résister à ça ? ... »

      Parce qu’il a bien fallu qu’il eût un contenant, ce plasma, non ?

    • Et, à terme, c’est sensé avoir un semblant de rentabilité ce genre de bouzin ? Je me souviens qu’en 1977, à Creys-Malville dans l’Isère, on nous avait déjà promis la Lune (non, pas encore Soleil) avec un surgénérateur sensé produire plus de plutonium qu’il n’en consommait avec (accessoirement) production d’électricité. Faudrait que je plonge (en scaphandre antiradiations) dans les entrailles du ouèbe pour retrouver ce qui avait merdé, hormis la baston avec la flicaille de l’époque. Enfin, c’est un autre débat.

    • Je reviens à nos moutons nucléaires. Le problème avec la littérature de vulgarisation scientifique est que, la plupart du temps, ça envoie du rêve, ça joue sur les vieilles cordes nationales-patriotes et avec les docteurs es sciences, la probabilité est forte que le rêve finisse par tourner au cauchemar.

      Avec le #tokamak, on entend parler de « confinement » et de « disruption ». Là, déjà, on est en droit de se méfier (naaan, j’déconne, hein, c’est très pointu ces questions).
      Ensuite, il est question de « bilan énergétique » ou « facteur Q », la partie qui doit (en principe) intéresser le quidam : plus ce facteur Q s’élève plus on approche du Saint-Graal, le moment où les réactions de fusions nucléaires pourront s’auto-entretenir sans avoir à maintenir le plasma à très haute température en s’obligeant, pour ce faire, à cramer un max de Mégajoules. Et là, ça confine à l’orgasme car on est enfin parvenu à produire plus d’énergie qu’on en consomme et c’est pas trop tôt car on est parti de loin pour en arriver à cette phase et on aura dû en balancer des mégatonnes de cette précieuse énergie avant que tout ce bordel ne devienne rentable. Mais fi de cette vulgarisation réductrice ;
      Je vous laisse méditer toute la difficulté d’arriver au « grand œuvre » grâce à cette (mal)saine lecture :

      https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak

  • Le report des JO de #Tokyo 2020 : des conflits d’aménagement à la crise sanitaire
    https://metropolitiques.eu/Le-report-des-JO-de-Tokyo-2020-des-conflits-d-amenagement-a-la-crise

    Conséquence de la pandémie du #Covid-19, les #Jeux_olympiques de Tokyo 2020 ont été reportés à l’été 2021. Au-delà de la crise sanitaire, Raphaël Languillon-Aussel décrypte les dessous de ces JO, au cœur de multiples conflits et enjeux. Le 24 mars 2020, le gouvernement central japonais annonce sa décision de reporter d’un an les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Tokyo initialement prévus pour l’été 2020. Décision inédite dans l’histoire de l’événement sportif, elle s’inscrit dans le contexte de la crise #Terrains

    / #Japon, Tokyo, Jeux olympiques, Covid-19, #aménagement

    https://metropolitiques.eu/IMG/pdf/met_languillon3.pdf

  • Reading the city: #Roland_Barthes in Paris and Tokyo | Essay | Architectural Review
    https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reading-the-city-roland-barthes-in-paris-and-tokyo/10038988.article

    From ‘The Eiffel Tower’ to Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes teaches architects how to interpret places

    We all dream of the Eiffel Tower.

    A kiosk halfway to the sky. Where you can buy paper aeroplanes, burnt sugar-coated peanuts, dense rolls of newspaper, shiny magazines and innumerable keyrings in the shape of the Eiffel Tower. You can probably buy a stamp on the Eiffel Tower to affix to your postcard showing the very same site. I would like to write to the tower. It might be the beginning of a flirtatious correspondence. I know it has been married before.

    It is a friendly building, seen throughout the day by the inhabitants of a city. Winking here, blinking there, but never failing to touch them all with its kindly glance from time to time, as though to say ‘Hello, we’re both still here’.

    #architecture #urban_matter #paris #tokyo

  • [Fade to Pleasure ] #63.2 feat #snooba
    http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/ftp/-63-2-feat-snooba

    Broadcasted & hosted &mixed by Snooba on Panik (Brussels-Be) Grenouille (Marseille) Canal B (Rennes-Fr) C’rock (Vienne-Fr) Diversité FM (Dijon-Fr) Louiz radio (Belgique-LLN)You FM (Mons-Be) Woot (Marseille) Campus FM (Toulouse-FR)

    the thumb holds its right foot behind its left ear its left hand in its right hand on its left leg jumping over its right ear

    PLAYED

    #tokimonsta Fried for the Night (feat. EarthGang)

    Kid Ink ft. Dej Loaf - Be Real (WHIPPED CREAM & SBF Editt)

    Le Motel Enono

    Umlilo Gobi Sandla

    Ase Manual - KEY! - It Gets Better (Ase Manual Remix)

    Twinpeaks Here To Stay

    Karizma - Just A Thing (Gianni Junior reFix)

    Hugo Massien - Ghost Note

    Chrissy In Paradise

    Chrissy Composition for Sampler, Flexatone, & Vibraslap

    Thirtyoneseven Raptor

    The James Lestraunge (...)

    #deep #groove #drill #funky #letfield #deeper #breakbeat #snooba,deep,groove,drill,funky,letfield,deeper,breakbeat,tokimonsta
    http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/ftp/-63-2-feat-snooba_08172__1.mp3

  • #Tokyo_fiction

    Au travers de trois grands thèmes -la structure du #chaos, les #mécanismes et les #artefacts- j’ai tenté d’offrir des grilles de lecture pour comprendre Tôkyô. Le premier thème, la structure du chaos, regroupe des données quantitatives et esquisse une analyse macro-urbaine. Le second, les mécanismes, tente, par un bricolage intellectuel, une analyse des dynamiques à l’oeuvre dans la ville. Le troisième, les artefacts, offre un début d’inventaire des objets ou typologies qui constituent le tissu construit.


    https://www.tokyofictions.com
    #Tokyo #Japon #cartographie #visualisation #carte_interactive #urban_matter
    ping @reka

  • #Journal du regard : Novembre 2019
    http://liminaire.fr/journal/article/journal-du-regard-novembre-2019

    https://youtu.be/cHJzXg9MZdQ

    Chaque mois, un film d’une demie heure environ, regroupant l’ensemble des images prises au fil des jours, le mois précédent, et le texte qui s’écrit en creux. « Une sorte de palimpseste, dans lequel doivent transparaître les traces - ténues mais non déchiffrables - de l’écriture “préalable” ». Jorge Borges, Fictions Une direction à prendre. Lever les yeux au ciel. Les fils se déploient comme une toile d’araignée, un réseau à ciel ouvert au dessus de nos têtes. On ne sait pas ce qui se construit, ou ce (...) #Journal / #Architecture, #Paris, #Gare, #Cimetière, #Tokyo, #Ville, #Osaka, #Paysage, #Nature, #Bonheur, #Poésie, Journal, #Voix, #Vidéo, #Sons, (...)

    #Voyage

  • Image du monde flottant
    http://liminaire.fr/derives/article/image-du-monde-flottant

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/liminaire/49073777966

    Flickr

    Pendant quinze jours, nous avons traversé le Japon, passant par #Osaka, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Okayama, Nara, Himeji, Kobe, pour terminer notre périple à #Tokyo. Ce n’est pas la première que nous nous rendons au Japon, c’est la huitième fois pour Caroline, la quatrième pour moi, mais ce séjour représente un tournant dans notre approche du Japon, avec l’envie d’y passer un temps plus long que ces brefs mais passionnants séjours. C’est aussi la première fois où nous parvenons à créer ensemble un carnet de (...) #Dérives / #Art, #Architecture, #Inventaire, #Photographie, #Voyage, #Écriture, #Numérique, #Regard, #Ville, Osaka, #Cimetière, #Paysage, (...)

    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/Osaka
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/hiroshima
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/miyajima
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/okayama
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/nara
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/himeji
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/kobe
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com/tagged/Tokyo
    https://imagedumondeflottant.tumblr.com

  • « Travailler pour des plateformes ne peut pas rendre heureux »
    https://www.liberation.fr/france/2019/10/21/travailler-pour-des-plateformes-ne-peut-pas-rendre-heureux_1758964

    Deux anciens livreurs qui se sont retournés contre les multinationales ont visionné « Sorry We Missed You » de Ken Loach. Ils racontent à « Libération » en quoi le film fait écho à leur expérience. Ils ont eu l’impression de se voir à l’écran. Avant la sortie de Sorry We Missed You, décrivant le quotidien d’une famille victime de l’ubérisation, Libération a convié deux anciens livreurs à une projection presse du dernier film de Ken Loach. Au fil de l’histoire, on les a vus parfois amusés, parfois émus de (...)

    #Deliveroo #Uber #algorithme #travail #terms #CLAP #TokTokTok #Amazon #géolocalisation