Chinese Film

Ang Lee (Taiwan)

1992, Pushing Hands 

1993, The Wedding Banquet

1994, Eat Drink Man Woman 

1995, Sense and Sensibility 

Siao Yu 

1997, The Ice Storm 

1999, Ride with the Devil 

2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 

2002, The Hire 

2003, Hulk 

2005, Brokeback Mountain 

2007, Lust, Caution 

Hollywood Chinese 

2009, Taking Woodstock 

2012, Life of Pi 

2016, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 

Chen Kaige

1984, Yellow Earth, 黃土地, 

1986, The Big Parade, 大閱兵, 

1987, King of the Children, 孩子王, 

1991, Life on a String, 邊走邊唱, 

1993, Farewell My Concubine, 霸王別姬, 

1996, Temptress Moon, 風月, 

1999, The Emperor and the Assassin, 荊柯刺秦王, 

2002, Killing Me Softly 

2002, 100 Flowers Hidden Deep in Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002, Together, 和你在一起, 2

2005, The Promise, 無極, 

2007, Zhanxiou Village inT o Each His Cinema

2008, Forever Enthralled, 梅兰芳, 

2010, Sacrifice, 趙氏孤兒, 

2012, Caught in the Web, 搜索, 2015, The Monk

Clara Law

2015, The Unbearable Lightness of Inspector Fan (2015)

2010, Red Earth Short

2009, Like a Dream 

2004, Letters to Ali Documentary

2000, The Goddess of 1967

1996, Floating Life

1994, Wonton Soup

1993, Temptation of a Monk 

1992, Autumn Moon

1991, Fruit Punch 

1990, Farewell China

1989, The Reincarnation of the Golden Lotus 

1988, The Other Half and the Other Half

1981, Faces and Places

1980, Police Drama 

1977, Below the Lion Rock

Tsai Ming-liang

1992, Rebels of the Neon God

1994, Vive l'Amour

1997, The River

1998, The Hole

2001, What Time Is It There?

2003, Goodbye, Dragon Inn

2005, The Wayward Cloud 

2006, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

2009, Visage (Face)

2013, Jiaoyou (Stray Dogs)

Wong Kar Wai

1988, As Tears Go By, 旺角卡門

1990, Days of Being Wild, 阿飛正傳

1994, Chungking Express, 重慶森林

1994, Ashes of Time, 東邪西毒

1995, Fallen Angels, 墮落天使

1997, Happy Together, 春光乍洩

2000, In the Mood for Love, 花樣年華

2004, 2046, 2046

2007, My Blueberry Nights, 藍莓之夜

2013, The Grandmaster

Zhou Kong

1996, The Emperor's Shadow

Walk the streets of Japan with Rambalac

Walk the streets of Japan on YouTube with Rambalac
"Not a vlog, no intrusive faces or talking, pure Japan."
Global Voices / Posted 21 July 2019 21:37 GMT
https://globalvoices.org/2019/07/21/walk-the-streets-of-japan-on-youtube-with-rambalac/



 shibuya at night
Screencap from ‘Walking in Tokyo Shibuya at night‘, from the YouTube video channel Rambalac.

If you've ever wanted to explore the streets of Japan from the perspective of a pedestrian, YouTube vlogger Rambalac is for you. A non-Japanese resident of Japan, Rambalac has uploaded dozens of videos taken on walks throughout the Tokyo area as well as other parts of Japan.

“Not a vlog, no intrusive faces or talking, pure Japan only,” states Rambalac as in introduction to all of his videos. He simply walks the streets of Japan recording his videos with a Panasonic Lumix GH5 mirrorless camera mounted on a Zhiyun Crane V2 gimbal stabilzer. There is no background music and no commentary, although Rambalac will sometimes ask his subjects for permission to keep filming.

【4K】Backstreets of Japan at night - 3 - Heavy rain
https://youtu.be/Hndf5JRwUL0
Published on Sep 20, 2018

Kurt Vonnegut Report Card

Kurt Vonnegut Report Card


Kurt Vonnegut Creates a Report Card for His Novels, Ranking Them From A+ to D
in Books, Literature, Television | September 4th, 2015  14 Comments
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/kurt-vonnegut-creates-a-report-card-for-his-novels.html



Graded

Player Piano, 1952, B
The Sirens of Titan, 1959, A
Mother Night, 1961, A Cat’s Cradle, 1963, A-plus
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, 1965, A
Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969, A-plus
Welcome to the Monkey House, 1968, B-minus
Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 1971, D
Breakfast or Champions, 1973, C
Wampets, Forma & Grandfalloons, 1974, C
Slapstick, 1976, D
Jailbird, 1979, A
Palm Sunday, C

Ungraded

2BR02B, 1962, P
Deadeye Dick, 1982, P
Galapogos, 1985, P
Blue Beard, 1987, P
Hocus Pocusj, 1980 P.

The 10 Best Kurt Vonnegut Books
By Marc Leeds | Nov 11, 2016
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/72006-the-10-best-kurt-vonnegut-books.html

The Rise of the Computer State

b The Rise of the Computer State

Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
4/28/19, 2:01 AM
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1122380315710803968

1/3 This new book on "Automating Inequality" puts for the thesis (according to the published excerpt) that 40 years ago computers did not help with decisions.
"The Rise of the Computer State" was published in 1980. All of the same, but without "AI", literally only "databases." pic.twitter.com/f8XIBeR66L 

[image] David Burnham, 1980. The Rise of the Computer State
[image] Virginia Eubanks, 2019. Automating Inequality

2/3 I suppose one could say it was right thought it took 40 years and was not the phone company and would happen in a completely different way that put forth.  

The jacket copy and forward from "The Rise of the Computer State" are all too familiar.
[image] Forward by Walter Chronkite 

3/3 How can this dialog get to discussing the humans and institutions and not keep transfering accountability to tools? Inequality, bias, bad/evil/awful choices, bad people, and poorly run institutions have existed before databases and before AI.

2:01 AM - 28 Apr 2019

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Summer Reading 2013: “The Rise of the Computer State” by David ...
By Caroline O’donovan,   Nieman Labs, 8 Aug 2013, 10 A.M.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/summer-reading-2013-the-rise-of-the-computer-state-the-threat-to-our-freedoms-our-ethics-and-our-democratic-process-by-david-burnham-1983/

  David Burnham's The Rise of the Computer State came out in 1983, a time when, for the most obvious of reasons, making comparisons between George Orwell's 1984 and real life was coming into vogue. ... And yet Orwell, with his vivid imagination, was unable to foresee the actual shape of the threat that would exist in 1984.
 
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The rise of the computer state : Burnham, David, 1933- : Free ...
https://archive.org/details/riseofcomputerst00burn
Oct 7, 2010
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The Rise of the Computer State is a comprehensive examination of the ways that computers and massive databases are enabling the nation’s corporations and law enforcement agencies to steadily erode our privacy and manipulate and control the American people. This book was written in 1983 as a warning. Today it is a history. Most of its grim scenarios are now part of everyday life. The remedy proposed here, greater public oversight of industry and government, has not occurred, but a better one has not yet been found. While many individuals have willingly surrendered much of their privacy and all of us have lost some of it, the right to keep what remains is still worth protecting.

Superior: The disturbing return of scientific racism

The disturbing return of scientific racism ...

By Angela Saini, Wired (uK), 12 June 2019,
http://j.mp/2WAfSzk ...

The disturbing return of scientific racism
By Angela Saini, Wired, 12 June 2019
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/superior-the-return-of-race-science-angela-saini

Angela Saini's “Superior” charts the rise of race science that's being enabled by technology and genetics research. Discover the worrying new trend in this extract

This is an edited extract from Angela Saini’s new book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, published on May 30 (4th Estate)

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
By Lilian Anekwe, New Scientist, 22 May 2019
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204322-angela-saini-video-interview-the-return-of-race-in-mainstream-science/

  In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really moved on since the era of eugenics and the racialised scientific ideas that were popular before the second world war. Saini argues science, and society, has not moved on as much as we like to think. Racialised ideas about who we are still exist now, and we need to understand why.

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Is race science making a come back? Angela Saini: Superior on Apple Podcasts
Kathryn Ryan, RNZ: Nine To Noon:, 19 June 2019
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018699220/is-race-science-making-a-come-back

  Kathryn speaks with award-winning British journalist Angela Saini, whose latest book exposes and ... also an anti racism campaigner, Superior: The Return of Race Science looks at racial biases in science history. Angela Saini has been described as one of the world's best science writers, regularly presenting science programmes for the BBC. She writes for the Guardian, and the New Scientist. Holding a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, where she was also an anti racism campaigner, “Superior: The Return of Race Science” looks at racial biases in science history. Exposing the lie at racism's rotten core: that inequality is a result of genetics rather than political power, that race is a biological characteristic instead of a social construct.

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Race science: Angela Saini on the creeping resurgence of racism in science [interview]
By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Science Focus, 24 May 2019
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/race-science-angela-saini-on-the-creeping-resurgence-of-racism-in-science/

  We like to think of science as being balanced, accurate, and devoid of prejudice. Yet according to Angela Saini, racism is insidiously worming its way into research.

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Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – [review]
Alok Jha, The Guardian, M:on 27 May 2019 06.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/27/superior-the-return-of-race-science-by-angela-saini-book-review

  This timely book looks at the toxic origins of racism, which science continues to embrace

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Clive Cookson,  Financial Times, 30 MAY 2019
https://www.ft.com/content/92d2b56c-7ae5-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560

Superior by Angela Saini — are we all created equal?
Race science is undergoing a revival, after its horrific climax in the 20th century

A 19th-century British engraving depicting facial portraits from around the world — and European prejudice © Getty
The image of Neanderthals has been transformed over the past decade. These extinct hominins used to be regarded as stupid, brutish thugs. Now they are increasingly seen, at least in the western world, as intelligent and cultured people whom our aggressive human ancestors wiped out about 40,000 years ago.

The transforming event was the decoding 10 years ago of Neanderthal DNA extracted from fossilised bones, which showed that most living Europeans inherited about 2 per cent of their genome from Neanderthals through interbreeding, while Africans carry no Neanderthal genes. As Angela Saini writes in Superior, her brilliant analysis of race science past and present, the acceptance of Neanderthals as “people like us” is a recent example of a centuries-old European attitude — “casting humanity in our own image”.

Visitor from the Future

Visitor from the Future (Russian: Гостья из будущего, Gostya iz budushchevo) is a five-part Soviet children's science fiction television miniseries, made at Gorky Film Studio, first aired in 1985. It is based on the novel One Hundred Years Ahead (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд, Sto let tomu vperod) by Kir Bulychev.[1][2][3]

Visitor from the Future (Episode 1) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/4dt5RgA2fJY 

Visitor from the Future (Episode 2) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/qLRB0kMwaQI

Visitor from the Future (Episode 3) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/Wrpf7L49XB8

Visitor from the Future (Episode 4) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/Y3XGQtl_UY0

Visitor from the Future (Episode 5) (1985) movie - https://youtu.be/famxbyLgQ9E

 Guest from the Future - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future

DorodANGO 団子 - Dango - Wikipedia Dango Tango Dango San Kyodai - https://youtu.be/gdsvfYf-R0I The Aluminum Ball Challenge’s Messy Beginnings Kyioko Miki Facebook, Humann Condition - https://www.facebook.com/greatbigstory/videos/2033905326657264/ Mudball Human Condition Great Big Story - https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/mudball —— These Perfect, Shiny Spheres Started Out as Dirt | Short Film Showcase Bruce GardnerHikaru dorodango National Geographic, Published on May 15, 2016 - https://youtu.be/HqAfzcJurMM Turning Mud into Art with Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Dorodango | AARP AARP 12 April 2018 - https://youtu.be/J2oW2UKsM3Q The Making of a Dorodango How to Make a Dorodango (Japanese Polished Clay Ball) The Nito Project - https://youtu.be/BDSee1-4bUI

How to have a meeting

How to have a meeting

Pre Meeting

Meeting leader should

invite appropriate people

communicate purpose of the meeting

publish agenda in advance

arrange for room, equipment, and materials

Everyone should

distribute presentation material before hand

do your homework

assemble materials for sharing

notify meeting leader if you cannot attend

Meeting Ground Rules

Meeting leader should

begin and end on time

restate meeting objective

stick to the agenda

encourage others to participate

make sure agreements, issues, and action items are written down and distributed

Everybody should

arrive on time

come prepared to participate

listen carefully, think creatively

be supportive of meeting objectives

take non essential topics "off line"

practice common courtesy

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Source: How to have a meeting, Meeting Room Poster, BBN. Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. 1990
Edited: sjc (at) uvm (dot) edu
Updated 26 Jaanuary 2019

Claudio.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna

& 2018=07-08 - Zefiro Torna

C.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti (N.Rial - P.Jaroussky) (L'arpeggiata Ensemble)
https://youtu.be/zq49rymjvNg

Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna - Eleni Lydia Stamellou - Ivan Petrov
https://youtu.be/Byi27eqA7mI

Monteverdi Zefiro torna feat. Amy Broadbent and Kellie Motter - April 2014
https://youtu.be/YAtUQQ3npBY

[score]
Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti - Fouchécourt, Padmore
https://youtu.be/85tCzdRt6UE

Monteverdi: Zefiro Torna; Thomas Cooley & Christopher LeCluyse with Voices of Music
https://youtu.be/pqgO-J_zjY0

Monteverdi | Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti [á 2 e Continuo; L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar]
https://youtu.be/yKkNJR0Jke0

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The Most Magnificent Madrigal: Zefiro torna (Monteverdi)
https://rm144.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-most-magnificent-madrigal-zefiro-torna-monteverdi/

Poema in versi di Ottavio Rinuccini:

Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti
l'aer fa grato e'il pié discioglie a l'onde
e, mormoranda tra le verdi fronde,
fa danzar al bel suon su'l prato i fiori.

Inghirlandato il crin Fillide e Clori
note temprando lor care e gioconde;
e da monti e da valli ime e profond
raddoppian l'armonia gli antri canori.
Sorge più vaga in ciel l'aurora, e'l sole,
sparge più luci d'or; più puro argento
fregia di Teti il bel ceruleo manto.

Sol io, per selve abbandonate e sole,
l'ardor di due begli occhi e'l mio tormento,
come vuol mia ventura, hor piango hor canto.




MONTEVERDI ciaconna «ZEFIRO TORNA» (1632) – F♯ Portraits
https://youtu.be/UEzIDh4NAak

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Tarquinio Merula: Ciaconna; Hanneke van Proosdij & Elizabeth Blumenstock, Voices of Music
https://youtu.be/1XB1CWuJW1U

Tarquinio Merula's variations on a ground bass, performed live in concert on original instruments by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. A vibrant and imaginative version of the Ciaccona dance, marked by fiery twists and turns, yet with a sweet and sonorous conclusion.

Francesca Caccini - Ciaccona
https://youtu.be/ja7ugHH8DtM

Andrea Falconieri - Ciaccona, by La Ritirata (from our CD "Il Spiritillo Brando")

Amida-do dayori

Letter from the Mountain (Takashi Koizumi 2002)

Amida-do dayori (original title)

2h 7min | Drama | 5 October 2002 (Japan)

As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.

Amida-do dayori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlInf21k080

Digital Youth Project

$ 2017-09-19 Digital Youth Project

#sociology
#smartphone

Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use
Mizuko Ito, University of Southern California Keio University
http://www.itofisher.com/mito/archives/ito.ppp.pdf

  Paper presented at Mobile Communication and Social Change, the 2004 International Conference on Mobile Communication in Seoul, Korea, October 18-19, 2004

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian - Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Edited by Mizuko Ito, Misa Matsuda and Daisuke Okabe
MIT Press, July 2005 (An open access file)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/personal-portable-pedestrian

  The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play.The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. It then discusses the virtually seamless integration of keitai use into everyday life, contrasting it to the more escapist character of Internet use on the PC. Other essays suggest that the use of mobile communication reinforces ties between close friends and family, producing "tele-cocooning" by tight-knit social groups. The book also discusses mobile phone manners and examines keitai use by copier technicians, multitasking housewives, and school children. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian describes a mobile universe in which networked relations are a pervasive and persistent fixture of everyday life.

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out - Kids Living and Learning with New Media The MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hanging-out-messing-around-and-geeking-out

  Conventional wisdom about young people’s use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today’s teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths’ social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces. 

  Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (2 page summary)
Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd,
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson
The John D. and CatherineT. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning | The Digital Youth Project. November 2008
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-TwoPageSummary.pdf


Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd,
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson
The John D. and CatherineT. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning | The Digital Youth Project, November 2008
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf

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Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software
M Ito, MIT Press, ‎2009 - ‎Cited by 144 - ‎Related articles
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262013352_sch_0001.pdf

  The relationship between children and computers occupies a special place in the imagination of those of us inhabiting the United States in the early twenty-first century.

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd, Wiley, November 2015, 160 pages
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745660703.html

  In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by experiences interacting with and around emerging media. 

  Stressing the social and cultural contexts of participation, the authors describe the process of diversification and mainstreaming that has transformed participatory culture. They advocate a move beyond individualized personal expression and argue for an ethos of “doing it together” in addition to “doing it yourself.” 

  Participatory Culture in a Networked Era will interest students and scholars of digital media and their impact on society and will engage readers in a broader dialogue and conversation about their own participatory practices in this digital age.

—


Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums
By Becky Herr Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Dan Perkel and Christo Sims
With Anne Balsamo, Maura Klosterman and Susana Smith Bautista
From MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
MIT Press, January 2011
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-media-and-technology-afterschool-programs-libraries-and-museums
— An open access file (PDF)

The Troll Factory

The Troll Factory
Posted 2017-09-09
Updated

#Trolls
#Bots

The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
By Scott Shane, New York Times, 7 September 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html


Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads
By Scott Shane And Vindu Goel, The New York TImes, 6 Se[tember 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russian-political-ads.html


Facebook sold more than $100,000 in political ads to a Russian company during the 2016 election – TechCrunch
By Taylor Hatmaker, Tech Crunch, 6 September 2017
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/facebook-russia-ads-election/amp/


Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election
By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post, 7 September 2017 at 11:29 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads-to-russian-company-during-2016-election/2017/09/06/32f01fd2-931e-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html


A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined
It could even be flipping elections.
Dylan Matthews, VOX, 8 September 2017, 9:00am EDT
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/8/16263710/fox-news-presidential-vote-study


Fake likes: Researchers uncover Facebook 'collusion networks'
Security flaw allowed at least a million Facebook accounts to generate more than 100 million "likes" and comments.
Michelle Meyers, CNet, 8 September 2017 4:07 PM PDT
https://www.cnet.com/news/fake-likes-researchers-uncover-facebook-collusion-networks/

30 Batsh*t Crazy, Mostly Racist Facebook Memes the Russians Used to Corrupt Your Mind
Facebook finally admitted that the Russians tried to weaponize the social network to sway the election. Here are some of the arms in that propaganda arsenal.
Kevin Poulsen, The Daily Beast, 9 September 2017
http://www.thedailybeast.com/30-batsht-crazy-mostly-racist-facebook-memes-the-russians-used-to-corrupt-your-mind

How to Hack

How to Hack
4 September 2017


Gabriella Coleman, 2017. How to Hack
http://gabriellacoleman.org/category/teaching/


AI
Algorithm
Alphabet
Big Data
Binary
Bots
Byte
Browser Chrome
Code
Encryption
Facebook
Fake News
Google (Deep Google)
Hack
OS Android
OS Linux
Password
Phish
Program
Spam
STEM
Surveillance
Troll
Twitter
Wikileaks
Wikipedea
WWW
Youtube

Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism

$ 2017-09-01 

Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism

With Enormous Harvey Damage, Naomi Klein Warns Against 'Disaster Capitalism' Redux

Now is exactly the time to speak out against free-market exploitation, says author of 'The Shock Doctrine'

by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, 28 August 2017

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/28/enormous-harvey-damage-naomi-klein-warns-against-disaster-capitalism-redux

Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change.

Naomi Klein, The Intercept, 28 August 2017, 4:25 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/28/harvey-didnt-come-out-of-the-blue-now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-climate-change/

Naomi Klein: how power profits from disaster

Naomi Klein, The Guardian, 20 July 2017 14.15 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster

Donald Trump and His Team of Gangster Capitalists Have Been Waiting for a Disaster Like Hurricane Harvey

Corporate greed made the devastation in Houston possible. Now the culprits plan to cash in.

By Chauncey DeVega / Salon, 31 August 2017, 7:32 AM GMT

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/disaster-capitalism-hurricane-harvey

Cosmography of the Local Universe

A dynamic mapping of the "local universe" - out to 300 million light years

Cosmography of the Local Universe

Hélène M. Courtois, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 146, Number 3, 2013 August 14

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/146/3/69/meta

Cosmography of the Local Universe (HD)

Published on Jun 18, 2013

Behold a 3D map of of the universe, showing all galaxies out to 300 million light years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMubF...

A film by Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. All rights reserved.

https://vimeo.com/64868713

Brent Tully, a cosmologist at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy has mapped the universe in detail out to a distance of about 100 million light years. To put that in more human terms: Columbus's maps of the New World described a land 3,000 miles from home, but Tully's map extends 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles out. No wonder he is often referred to as a cosmic cartographer. By filling in the details, Tully has made it possible to discern the true structure of the universe: clusters of galaxies arranged into enormous filaments, bound together by invisible strands of dark matter, and tremendous lonely voids where galaxies are sparse.

S'Cool Nus

The S'Cool Bus is a 10 passenger powered school bus (1 driver, 9 students).  

S'Cool Bus - Présentation à Nantes -
https://youtu.be/dDE5Vw2188s

Ramassage scolaire : le cyclo-bus testé en Normandie
https://youtu.be/ocHz4riR09U

# bicycle
# education
# future cities

I am not an eggplant

- I am not an eggplant … http://bit.ly/2wPQt6S …

- i will say anything you want in front of a pizza
http://i-will-say-whatever-you-want-in-front-of-a-pizza.schloss-post.com

I Will Say Whatever You Want In Front of a Pizza
by Sebastian Schmieg, Schloss Post, 03 July 2017
https://schloss-post.com/will-say-whatever-want-infront-pizza/

I Will Say Whatever You Want In Front Of A Pizza is a speculative Prezi that explores digital labor, the amalgamation of humans and software, and the possibility of interventions inside algorithmic systems. It is narrated from the perspective of a cloud worker.

A Singapore teenager created a Prezi for Trump, because presentations are the worst
BY Sasha Lekach, Mashable. 18 November 2016
http://mashable.com/2016/11/18/singapore-teen-trump-campaign-presentation

# ai
# bot
# digital labor

Trump, Goldwater, and Disturbed Minds

How Trump Could Get Fired. The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?
Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired?

Diagnosing the president was off-limits to experts – until a textbook case entered the White House
Trump's Mental Health: Is Pathological Narcissism the Key to Trump's Behavior?
By Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 5 April 2017
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-and-the-pathology-of-narcissism-w474896

Will Trump Be the Death of the Goldwater Rule?
By Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 23 August 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-trump-be-the-death-of-the-goldwater-rule

The Allure of Trump’s Narcissism
By Elizabeth Lunbeck, Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 August 2017
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-allure-of-trumps-narcissism/

Chirps and Ripples in the Universe

Hypothetical black holes could be eating neutron stars
Once inside, it spins fast enough for the star’s equator to reach escape velocity.
John Timmer, aes Technica, 10 August 2017
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/hypothetical-black-holes-could-be-eating-neutron-stars/

"primordial black holes" - an idea wilder than the idea of black holes themselves- black holes the size of cherry tomatoes!  

Gravitational Waves Reveal the Unexpectedly Weird Behavior of Distant Black Holes
Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo, 23 August 2017
http://gizmodo.com/gravitational-waves-reveal-the-unexpectedly-weird-behav-1798347524

-- beep, beep, http://j.mp/2ggXJlS #sundaypapers

The Chirps and Ripples in the Universe That Prove Einstein Was Right
By James Ryerson, New York Times, 25 August 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/books/review/einstein-relativity-theory-gravitational-waves.html

Oh Happy Day - Die Kult-Songs Der Hippie-Ära

Label:

BMG ‎– 74321 14379 2

Format:

2 × CD, Compilation 

Country:

Germany

Released:

1993

Genre:

Folk, World, & Country

Style:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Oh-Happy-Day-Die-Kult-Songs-Der-Hippie-Ära/release/4551302