Look inside the web of connections between companies and individuals in Belgium
- openthebox.de
▻https://openthebox.be
https://openthebox.be/app/images/torfs.png
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Guess how many giant patches of garbage there are in the ocean now? | Popular Science
▻http://www.popsci.com/south-pacific-garbage-patch
http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/images/2017/07/woman_-_beach_clean_up.jpg?itok=3eeH4B_P “If plastic is the new god,” says Moore, “we haven’t been treating it with the fear and the respect that it’s due. We’ve been treating it as throw away—as trash. But we’re going to have to learn to fear plastic, because it’s extremely dangerous, both to our health and to the health of the ecosystem that we live in.”
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Los Angeles Should Ignore Elon Musk and Build Subway Tunnels to Relieve Traffic | Urbanize LA
▻https://urbanize.la/post/los-angeles-should-ignore-elon-musk-and-build-subway-tunnels-relieve-traffi
https://urbanize.la/sites/default/files/boringco.png At a time when Los Angeles is dealing with the worst traffic in the country, it needs to rely on proven solutions—that is, subway tunnels. There is a lot of room for innovating and doing better, but freeway tunnels run into a basic capacity problem. The cost difference between Los Angeles and European cities, especially Madrid, is immense, but Musk seems uninterested in learning why and figuring out solutions.
Ajoutons que dans le métro, tu peux lire, travailler ou dormir.
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Codéine : les usagers pris de court par l’arrêté ministériel
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2017/07/22/codeine-les-usagers-pris-de-court-par-l-arrete-ministeriel_5163704_1651302.h
http://img.lemde.fr/2017/07/22/243.5/0/2144/1072/644/322/60/0/18ca30f_21447-1d1wfd7.dw5qaor.jpg Dans les commentaires :
En soi l’idée n’est pas mauvaise. La codéine se transforme en morphine dans l’organisme. La molécule a d’ailleurs été considérée comme un antalgique de 2ème niveau pendant longtemps avant d’être de moins en moins utilisée en raison de la difficulté à anticiper son action d’un individu à l’autre. Cependant une interdiction subite, sans moyen pour prendre en charge les consommateurs, expose à des aspects pervers qui en pousseront certains vers des marchés illégaux.
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Gabrielle Hecht. Uranium africain, une histoire globale | Cairn.info
▻http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AFCO_258_0181&WT.mc_id=AFCO_258la disparité de traitement par les experts des ouvriers blancs et noirs – ces derniers ayant été exclus des études pendant longtemps à cause de préjugés raciaux. Une exclusion, certes, qui a contribué à l’invisibilisation des risques liés aux radiations pour les populations africaines, alors même que ces risques étaient rendus visibles lors des études sur les expatriés et les ouvriers européens.
L’une des qualités qui fait de ce livre une œuvre majeure est sans aucun doute l’information qualitative et quantitative que Gabrielle Hecht a pu repérer dans les archives des pays africains où elle a mené ses terrains de recherche : archives inédites pour la plupart
#livre (pas lu) #afrique #nucléaire #extractivisme
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Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts | The Scientist Magazine®
▻http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49906/title/Major-German-Universities-Cancel-Elsevier-Contracts
http://photos.the-scientist.com/articleImages/49000/49906-1.jpg These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.
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Prudence Mabele was a radical who led the struggle for openness about HIV, by Zackie Achmat | GroundUp
▻http://www.groundup.org.za/article/prudence-mabele-was-radical-who-trail-blazed-hiv-openness
http://www.groundup.org.za/media/uploads/images/Unknown%20photographer/20156123_10203266983592882_2669102259741585435_n.jpg Prudence was radical because she was a black woman: the first to come out in national newspapers as living with HIV, and unafraid of people knowing that she loved women. She was followed by Mercy Makhalemele, the first black heterosexual woman and mother to live openly with HIV. Prudence was radical in her own right and brought a vivaciousness to radicalism in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
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Eros, un Uber de la prostitution version blockchain
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/eros-uber-prostitution-blockchainles vendeurs :
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/usb-prd-upload/images/thumb_700xh/596cdb3a7faac.png les produits :
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Cholera Is Slaughtering Yemen and We’re Letting It Happen, by Laurie Garrett | Fortune.com
▻http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/cholera-is-slaughtering-yemen-and-were-letting-it-happen
https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/gettyimages-815606282.jpg?w=720 This is the worst #cholera epidemic in modern history, and it has already spread well beyond the borders of Yemen, though neighboring nations decline to officially report “cholera,” preferring the ambiguous phrase, “acute watery diarrhea.” Even the new director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, plays the name game (…)
Confronting this catastrophe commands honesty: Cholera is now rampant not only in Yemen, but South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and in refugee camps across the Middle East. Last month, the disease broke out in a luxury hotel in Nairobi, sickening attendees to a health conference. By that time, UNICEF head Anthony Lake said, the #Yemen disaster was growing by 5,000 new cases per day—a pace it has since well exceeded. The true toll may well reach half a million before July ends, and the agony is evident everywhere one looks.
The horrible irony is that cholera is spreading primarily because Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state allies have been bombing Yemen’s infrastructure to smithereens for months, rendering every water supply contaminated. The reluctance of Ethiopia and other cholera-afflicted nations to truthfully state their health plights is due to the same countries’—Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies—policies of boycotting all trade and food from nations that admit to having the disease. And historically the greatest scourge of the annual Hajj is—you guessed it—cholera.
et il faut que ce soit publié dans Fortune (!!)
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Spectral Graph Theory
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XJes6XFjxMPartitionnement spectral
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#Logiciel_Libre en #Afrique - RMLL - Web TV
▻https://rmll.ubicast.tv/permalink/v12585c6da239cdmmkrtPrésentateur remplacé au pied levé par un autre car « problème de #visa ». Merci la France et sa grande ouverture.
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Gupta Leaks – A collaborative investigation into state capture
▻http://www.gupta-leaks.com▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_KVenBEmY
“We knew we were captured—we just didn’t know how bad it was” -
a web thing to help #trace data from old paper figures:
▻http://tracey-mctraceface.surge.shby @isa_kiko
demo: ▻https://twitter.com/Isa_Kiko/status/767526073311518720/photo/1
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The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment – Valerie Aurora’s blog
▻https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment
https://valerieaurora.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/al-capone-mural-cropped.jpg Initially, the connection eluded us: why would the same person who made unwanted sexual advances also fake expense reports, plagiarize, or take credit for other people’s work? We remembered that people who will admit to attempting or committing sexual assault also disproportionately commit other types of violence and that “criminal versatility” is a hallmark of sexual predators. And we noted that taking credit for others’ work is a highly gendered behavior.
Then we realized what the connection was: all of these behaviors are the actions of someone who feels entitled to other people’s property – regardless of whether it’s someone else’s ideas, work, money, or body. Another common factor was the desire to dominate and control other people.
encore un coup des #pervers_narcissiques
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Experience the Best Dinosaur Fossil of Its Kind in 3-D
▻http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/nodosaur-3d-interactive-dinosaur-fossil
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/rights-exempt/2017/06/Nodosaur/nodo-og.ngsversion.1494875583665.adapt.1900.1.jpg le making-off plein de #three.js et de #webgl
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Lethal opioid delivery seized by Finnish customs | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi
▻https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/lethal_opioid_delivery_seized_by_finnish_customs/9728264
https://img.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/article9727780.ece/ALTERNATES/w940h529/karfentaliini+tulli%20tappava%20m%C3%A4%C3%A4r%C3%A4#.jpg Finnish Customs said Tuesday that the agency had confiscated the highly dangerous drug #carfentanil. Officials intercepted the potent opioid in the post and have warned that merely handling the narcotic could be lethal.
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Qui se souvient de PlanetAll ?
▻https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/amazon-messaging-app-anytimeBack in 1998, nearly 20 years ago, #Amazon acquired a startup out of Boston called #PlanetAll, which might best be described as a very early predecessor to Facebook (right down to the Harvard pedigree).
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, at the time noted that PlanetAll was “the most innovative use of the Internet I’ve seen… It’s simply a breakthrough in doing something as fundamental and important as staying in touch. The reason PlanetAll has over 1.5 million members–and is growing even faster than the Internet–is simple: it creates extraordinary value for its users. I believe PlanetAll will prove to be one of the most important online applications.”
Wise words, considering what #Facebook has come to represent in our world today. However, Amazon ended up shutting down PlanetAll in 2000, incorporating some of its recommendation technology into its Marketplace.
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Facets - Visualizations for ML datasets
▻https://pair-code.github.io/facetsFacets contains two robust visualizations to aid in understanding and analyzing machine learning datasets. Get a sense of the shape of each feature of your dataset using Facets Overview, or explore individual observations using Facets Dive.
▻https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/facets-open-source-visualization-tool.html
#visualisation #csv #datasets (l’application est présentée comme un outil pour le #machine-learning)
@lazuly
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Animated optimal routes from San Francisco to ~2000 locations in the U.S. [OC] : dataisbeautiful
▻https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6o7j58/animated_optimal_routes_from_san_francisco_to
https://i.redd.it/i9fmp9brwiaz.gif from London : ▻https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/879589091964317696
#cartographie #routes #accessibilité via @jasmine
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Invitation des Zapatistes du Chiapas, Mexique, à l’édition Cybernétique du festival pARTage « contre le Capital et ses murs : tous les arts ! »
Dans un communiqué publié il y a une semaine, l’EZLN se demande :
"Un autre #internet, c’est-à-dire un autre réseau, est-il possible ? Peut-on y lutter ? Ou cet espace sans géographie précise est-il déjà occupé, monopolisé, coopté, bouclé, neutralisé, ? Ne peut-il pas y avoir là de résistance et de rébellion ? Peut-on faire de l’Art sur la toile ? Cet Art, comment est-il ? Peut-il se rebeller ? L’Art sur la toile peut-il résister à la tyrannie des codes, des passwords, du spam en tant que moteur de recherche par défaut, des j’aime-j’aime pas associés aux actualités sur les réseaux sociaux où les millions de likes donnent l’avantage à l’ignorance et la stupidité ? L’Art sur, par et pour la toile banalise-t-il et minimise-t-il la lutte, ou au contraire lui donne-t-il plus de puissance et lui permet-il de grandir, ou « rien à voir, mon cher, c’est de l’art, pas une cellule militante » ? L’Art sur la toile peut-il faire ses griffes sur les murs du Capital et le blesser d’une brèche, ou approfondir celles qui existent déjà et y persévérer ? L’Art peut-il sur, par et pour la toile, résister non seulement à la logique du Capital, mais aussi à la logique de l’Art « connu », de « l’art réel » ? Le virtuel est-il aussi virtuel dans ses créations ? Le bit est-il la matière première de sa création ? Est-il créé par un être individuel ? Où se trouve le vaniteux tribunal qui, sur la Toile, dicte ce qui est Art et ce qui ne l’est pas ? Le Capital range-t-il l’Art sur, par et pour la toile dans la catégorie du cyberterrorisme, de la cyberdélinquence ? La Toile est-elle un espace de domination, de domestication, d’hégémonie et d’homogénéité ? Ou est-ce un espace en conflit, enlutte ? Peut-on parler d’un matérialisme digital ?"
"Vous qui créez sur internet, voyez-vous la tempête ? La subissez-vous ? Y résistez-vous ? Vous rebellez-vous ?"
Pour cela les compañer@s invitent les personnes, collectifs, organisations, groupes réels ou virtuels qui travaillent depuis des zones autonomes en ligne qui utilisent des plateformes coopératives, à construire nos réponses ou à les déconstruire.
Ainsi, ils proposent de présenter nos espaces, pour raconter, montrer, faire partager, une invitation à construire quelque chose collectivement et d’envoyez notre link pour construire ensemble la salle d’exposition en ligne de ce pARTage digital.
Les comp@s proposent aussi un hébergement.
La page où seront notés les links pour participer et qui sera fonctionnelle du 1er au 12 Août 2017 est : ▻http://comparte.digital
Vous pouvez envoyer vos travaux ici : compas@comparte.digitalSi vous avez besoin d’aide pour la traduction en espagnol avant l’envoi, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter !!
Lire le communiqué complet (fr) :
▻https://espoirchiapas.blogspot.mx/2017/07/un-autre-internet-est-il-possible-lezln.htmlSaludos !
Espoir Chiapas - Esperanza Chiapas
(le communiqué est sur google-blogspot… nul n’est parfait)
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Out in the Open: Take Back Your Privacy With #Briar (title edited) | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/2014/05/briar
https://media.wired.com/photos/59325c652a990b06268aa005/191:100/pass/briar-feat.jpg You and your contacts keep complete control your data, but you needn’t setup your own computer server in order to do so. Plus, you can send messages without even connecting to the internet. Using Briar, you can send messages over Bluetooth, a shared WiFi connection, or even a shared USB stick. That could be a big advantage for people in places where internet connections are unreliable, censored, or non-existent.
Briar is the work of computer scientist Michael Rogers, security expert Eleanor Saitta, interaction designer Bernard Tyers, software engineer Ximin Luo, and a few other volunteers.
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When scientists become ’data parasites,’ everybody wins
▻https://massivesci.com//articles/when-scientists-become-data-parasites-alison-gilchrist
https://takeshape-prod.imgix.net/fd194db7-7b25-4b5a-8cc7-da7f31fab475%2Fdev%2F429c9c60-4498-4705-876e-b3c79362d6d7%2Fdata-parasites.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=faces&fit=crop&fm=jpg&h=630&q=75&w=1200 As the term may suggest, these scientists are sometimes discredited because they did not do any of the work involved in producing or paying for the original studies. To combat that stigma, there are people who are celebrating these scientists for using publicly available data in new ways. Casey Greene, a computational biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, started the Research Parasite Awards in 2016. He gives these awards to people who conduct rigorous secondary analysis on data shared by other researchers.
For example, one of the award winners in 2016 was Dr. Erick Turner, from the Oregon Health & Science University. Turner studied the published results of FDA-registered clinical trials for antidepressants, and discovered a significant publication bias.
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The Bank of England printed a flirtatious lie on its new Jane Austen banknote — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1032117/janeausten200-jane-austen-is-on-the-new-uk-banknote
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/screen-shot-2017-07-18-at-1-45-09-pm-e1500400019605.png?w=1600 
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/mw00230.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=940
