More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
▻https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked
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#nlp #bots #trolls #manipulation
This new Twitter account hunts for bots that push political opinions — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1110481/this-new-twitter-account-hunts-for-bots-that-push-political-opinions
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Des nouvelles de notre ami #Facebook – mai 2017
▻https://framablog.org/2017/05/10/nouvelles-ami-facebook
La revue de presse de #Jonas, qui paraît quand il a le temps. Tiens ça faisait un moment qu’on ne vous avait pas parlé de Facebook — Hein ? On en parle tout le temps ? Oui bien sûr, mais son emprise est … Lire la suite
#Dégooglisons_Internet #Internet_et_société #Libr'en_Vrac #Bots #Leviathan #ViePrivee #Zuckerberg
Pula! Botswana at 50: love, race and duty in the struggle for freedom
▻http://www.groundup.org.za/article/pula-botswana-50-love-race-and-duty-struggle-freedom
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Here was the future King of the Bamangwato, a border people, whose labour was interwoven with South African capitalism, whose capital was at Mafikeng, within South Africa, presuming to transgress the most basic prejudices of the racial order.
The rush of correspondence to stop this abominable wedding was intense. The British government hired lawyers, mobilised diplomats and succeeded in getting a Church of England Bishop to refuse the marriage. Seretse’s uncle forbade him to proceed and Ruth was cast out of her family for a while.
(…) Jan Smuts intervened and changed Churchill’s mind, convincing him that support for Seretse would only harden the Nationalists who had defeated Smuts in South Africa. “Natives traditionally believe in authority,” Smuts explained, “and our whole Native system will collapse if weakness is shown in this regard.”
#Botswana #Afrique_du_Sud #colonialisme #histoire #mariage #racisme #beau
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMswBd8AND4
Secondary education and HIV infection in #Botswana - The Lancet Global Health
▻http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(15)00252-1/fulltext
We found a large causal effect of upper secondary schooling on HIV infection, but no association with primary schooling. In a natural experiment in Zimbabwe, secondary schooling led to delayed sexual debut, delayed fertility, and reduced child mortality.6 There is mounting evidence of health returns at the secondary level.