From Breastfeeding To Gender Neutrality: Unicode’s New Emojis Are Signs Of The Times
▻https://www.fastcompany.com/40432698/breastfeeding-to-gender-neutrality-unicodes-69-new-emojis-signs-of-the-
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▻https://www.fews.net
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web? | Coin Center
▻https://coincenter.org/entry/why-is-decentralized-and-distributed-file-storage-critical-for-a-better-
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The team behind #IPFS and #Filecoin explain how advances in distributed data storage and strong alignment of market incentives are combining to create a much more secure and efficient #web.
BY JUAN BENET, JESSE CLAYBURGH, & MATT ZUMWALT / June 20, 2017
#cccp
The number of forcibly displaced people grew to a record in 2016
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/06/daily-chart-13
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Three countries account for more than half the world’s refugees (…)
Prolonged conflict in Afghanistan, and younger wars in Syria and South Sudan, have created large refugee outflows and also uprooted people from their homes
Amid overdose crisis, China’s opioid producers embrace the Dark Web - The Globe and Mail
▻https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/amid-overdose-crisis-chinas-opioid-producers-embrace-the-dark-web/article35355090
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most of the opioids such as fentanyl and its chemical precursors arrive in small packages through the mail from China, predominantly in the Vancouver area.
(…) a formal intelligence-sharing agreement between the RCMP and Ministry of Public Security.
In exchange for Chinese co-operation to stop the flow of illicit synthetic opioids, Beijing expects the RCMP to provide intelligence and help track down Chinese nationals living in Canada who are accused of economic crimes such as money laundering, bribery and theft.
Chief Supt. Doran said Chinese authorities are just as frustrated as the Mounties in trying to arrest the opioid dealers who are embracing the Dark Web and sending the deadly drugs to Canada.
Advocates Denounce UN Breaking Promise of Compensation for Cholera Victims
▻http://www.ijdh.org/2017/06/projects/advocates-denounce-un-breaking-promise-of-compensation-for-cholera-victims
Human rights advocates denounced yesterday’s UN announcement that it will unilaterally replace compensation for victims of the UN-caused #cholera outbreak in #Haiti with “community projects,” in violation of its promise to involve victims in that decision.
OpenWHO
▻https://openwho.org
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#OpenWHO est la nouvelle plate-forme Web interactive de transfert de connaissances, proposant des cours en ligne pour améliorer la réponse aux urgences sanitaires. OpenWHO permet à l’Organisation ainsi qu’à ses partenaires clés de transmettre à un grand nombre d’intervenants de première ligne des connaissances pouvant sauver des vies.
Efforts to Rescue Migrants Caused Deadly, Unexpected Consequences - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/14/world/europe/migrant-rescue-efforts-deadly.html
Smugglers use flimsy boats and provide just enough fuel to reach the edge of Libyan waters. Drivers can remove the engine and head back to Libya on another boat, leaving the migrants adrift until help arrives.
Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That’s OK. (For Now.) - Reason.com
▻http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/13/young-men-are-playing-video-ga
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Basic income proposals vary (see “The Indestructible Idea of the Universal Basic Income”), but the core idea is to provide everyone, rich or poor, with a guaranteed payment (…)
Left unanswered is the question of what happens after one’s basic needs are provided for. (…) What, in other words, would people do with their time?
Hurst’s research suggests that many people, or at least many low-skilled young men, would use it to play video games. Those living with and off of their parents are, in effect, already receiving a kind of basic income, administered privately at the family level. That is enough to survive, but for most people it is not enough to feel content.
That’s where games come in.
Solange Brand, Chine 1966
▻http://solange-brand.com
Passionnée par le monde qu’elle découvre et la rue chinoise où elle aime déambuler, elle acquiert un Pentax à Hong Kong et photographie ce qu’elle voit pour tenter de retenir des moments vécus à titre personnel – sans intention et sans savoir que le mouvement de fond qui s’annonce s’inscrira comme un épisode majeur de l’histoire chinoise.
La Révolution culturelle éclate au printemps 1966. Solange Brand voit la folie s’emparer petit à petit des rues ; les jeunes de la campagne découvrent/envahissent la ville ; plus tard, lycéens et étudiants seront envoyés à la campagne. Au début, joie, ferveur de la jeunesse, déplacements à travers le pays, espoir… puis le chaos
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The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/magazine/the-long-lonely-road-of-chelsea-manning.html
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Australia agrees to pay $70 million to Manus Island detainees - CNN.com
▻http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/asia/australia-manus-island/index.html
The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the “largest settlement in a human rights class-action” in the country’s history.
More than 1,900 detainees had alleged they suffered serious physical and psychological injuries during their time in the Australian government’s offshore asylum seeker detention center on the Papua New Guinea island, between 2012 and 2016.
Inside ProtectWise, the Futuristic Startup That Ran Cybersecurity for the Super Bowl | Inc.com
▻https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/protectwise-futuristic-cybersecurity-startup.html
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“Most cybersecurity systems have the same interface as the cable modem in your house,” he says. “That needed to change.”
ProtectWise, which Chasin co-founded in 2014 in Denver with former McAfee exec Gene Stevens, completely reimagines the way cybersecurity software looks. Instead of staring at pie charts and seemingly infinite strings of characters, you’re presented with something much more visual: a three-dimensional cityscape. Your company’s entire network is laid out in front of you, and you can easily detect and observe abnormal behavior in real time—or rewind to see when and how an attack occurred.
To create the company’s futuristic interface, Chasin recruited Jake Sargeant, a Hollywood designer who has worked on visual effects for CGI-intensive films like Tron: Legacy and Terminator Salvation.
#interface #visualisation #cybersécurité aussi (mais ça je m’en fous un peu)
Une passerelle #Hollywood > #Silicon_Valley dans le sens inverse
Death in early Johannesburg : Braamfontein Cemetery
▻https://theworldelsewhere.com/2014/12/15/death-in-early-johannesburg-braamfontein-cemetery
Reflecting the demographic pattern of the surrounding city, the cemetery was strictly demarcated by religion and ethnicity, zones that are immediately apparent from even just a casual of inspection of the tombstones – or the lack of tombstones. “Civic fathers”, Mark Gevisser points out, “set boundaries in death as in life”:
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On first glance it had, quite reasonably, to do with religion. The southern portion of the Old Cemetery [….] had been consecrated for Christian denominations – ‘Dutch Reformed’, ‘Nonconformist’, ‘Roman Catholic’, and ‘Church of England’ – while the northern portion seemed to be reserved for other faiths: ‘Chinese’, ‘Coolies’, ‘Cape People’, ‘Mahomedans’, ‘Kaffirs’, and – my favourite – ‘Christian Kaffirs’, this last exposing the fiction that it was about religion at all. It was, of course, about race.
(en train de lire ce merveilleux #livre de #cartographie qui parle d’#enfance, de nostalgie, d’#apartheid et d’#afrique_du_sud, de #Lithuanie et de #migrations, de mines et de #cimetières…)
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“Représentation de la surface entière de la terre dans un triangle équilatéral”
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une petite contribution au logiciel libre #d3.js et à l’histoire des #projections_cartographiques :
La projection conforme de Cox, par Philippe Rivière - @visionscarto
▻https://visionscarto.net/la-projection-conforme-de-cox
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North Korea Missile Tests — vis.design
▻http://vis.design/north-korea
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a unique look into the most comprehensive dataset available on North Korea missile launches, compiled by The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Culprit hidden in plain sight in #Alzheimer disease development
▻https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-culprit-hidden-plain-sight-alzheimer.html
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highly oxidative, combustion nanoparticles entering young developing brains—the culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer’s disease development—constitute a very serious public health issue, with grave social and economic consequences.
Efforts should also be aimed to identify and neuroprotect high risk young populations. Unfortunately, to date that is not happening.
Les grandes gueules du Grand Conseil
▻http://longforms.tdg.ch/grandconseil
« Une femme ne s’exprime que si c’est utile »
Surreprésentés, les députés masculins parlent aussi 27% plus longuement que les femmes en moyenne. Cet écart s’accentue dans tous les partis sauf chez les Verts et l’UDC, qui contrebalancent la tendance générale. Chez les Verts, seul parti à atteindre la parité, les élues s’expriment plus que les hommes. L’UDC ne compte plus de femme au Grand Conseil, mais Christina Meissner, avant d’être exclue de son groupe, parlait plus que la moyenne.
Hommes-femmes : qui parle le plus par parti
Dans la plupart des partis, les femmes s’expriment moins que les hommes, même en divisant le nombre de mots par le cumul du nombre de présences des hommes et des femmes.
The high price of anticancer drugs: origins, implications, barriers, solutions
Vinay Prasad, Kevin De Jesús and Sham Mailankody
Globally, annual spending on anticancer drugs is around US$100 billion, and is predicted to rise to $150 billion by 2020. In the USA, a novel anticancer drug routinely costs more than $100,000 per year of treatment. When adjusted for per capita spending power, however, drugs are most unaffordable in economically developing nations, such as India and China. Not only are launch prices high and rising, but individual drug prices are often escalated during exclusivity periods.
High drug prices harm patients — often directly through increased out‐of‐pocket expenses, which reduce levels of patient compliance and lead to unfavourable outcomes — and harms society — by imposing cumulative price burdens that are unsustainable. Moreover, high drug prices are not readily explained by rational factors, including the extent of benefit patients are likely to derive, the novelty of the agents, or spending on research and development. Herein, we summarize the available empirical evidence on the costs of anticancer drugs, probe the origins and implications of these high costs, and discuss proposed solutions.
▻https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6takKKJGjsrczhDeE05MGN0WTA/view
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Il paraît qu’il y a des #livres par ici :
▻http://sci-hub.cc
▻http://gen.lib.rus.ec
▻http://textbooknova.com
▻http://en.bookfi.org
▻https://archive.org
▻http://www.gutenberg.org
▻http://ebookee.org
▻http://www.manybooks.net
▻http://www.giuciao.com
▻http://www.feedurbrain.com
▻http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380
▻http://www.alleng.ru
▻http://www.eknigu.com
▻http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn
▻http://2020ok.com
▻http://www.freebookspot.es
Attention à vous : je n’ai pas fait de distinction entre #partage et #piratage !
Dylan Moriarty
▻https://dylanmoriarty.github.io/blog/foggy-spaces.html
Above is a mental map of the route I would take to elementary school as a kid. Between the ages of 2~10 this was “the know world” to me. Sure, I knew there was an Olive Garden somewhere in the aether, but where it was relative to my home and how to get there were beyond me. Here’s 1996 Janesville according to six year old Dylan
Review: ‘This Land’ is whose land, exactly? | Daily Maverick
▻https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-06-08-review-this-land-is-whose-land-exactly
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▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzq2650g7c
The issue of writing new songs and slogans is powerfully symbolic. “We must not sing the songs of the ANC, because this government is oppressing us,” Mavuso tells Daily Maverick. “We need our own slogans. We will say: power to us by force. We are not asking. We are not requesting. We are now fighting the people we thought liberated us.
#GuptaLeaks: How Eskom was captured
▻http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-06-09-guptaleaks-how-eskom-was-captured
An explosive cache of emails from inside the Gupta empire has provided evidence of how the family captured the president, the government and key state-owned entities. This is the story about one of their most important conquests: Eskom.