Lénie Blue @LenieBlue@octodon.social
j'habite de l'autre côté de la rive là où l'eau claire et gélive est bonne à boire
https://www.lenieblue.com
The #DaphneProject, the work of OCCRP and other media organizations, is dedicated to continuing the work of killed investigative journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia on investigations into corruption in #Malta.
Although three men have been taken into custody for #DaphneCaruanaGalizia's murder, questions still remain as to who ultimately ordered her killing. Juliette Garside of the Guardian tells the story here. Read it: https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/death-of-journalist-still-echoes-in-malta
Shoes of protest. For all fights. Designed from the 'Protest Slogans Catalog' project available for humans, intelligent machines, others (foreign civilizations including alien lives).
On sale at: http://m.artsadd.com/shop/shoes_of_protest_we_are_an_army_women_s_high_heels_model_044-2436110.html
$ USD 54,30 / 43,99€ / £39.64
#politics #rights #citizenship #democracy #inequalities #power #protest #revolution #shoes #highheels #heels #slogan #shopping #print #activism #digitalart #art #newmediaart
#Oceanresearch.
In the face of #climatechange, #research on the #Ocean must move forward quickly. Confronted with the challenge of financing our scientific missions, the Tara Foundation innovates #OceanMiner, a new system imagined by FF Los Angeles for generating #Bitcoins from tidal energy in order to support Ocean research. http://www.taraexpeditions.org
There are 2,500 to 4,000 data brokers in the US whose business is buying and selling our personal data.
PayPal quietly published a list of over 600 companies it might share your personal data with. What will it be like when every company has to publish this sort of information, and explicitly explain how it's using your personal #data?
#surveillance #capitalism #spying
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/opinions/data-company-spying-opinion-schneier/index.html
Six months ago, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb just meters from her home. The investigation into her killing is ongoing, but there is little doubt that she was murdered because of her work. With a brazen, unapologetic and uncompromising style, she denounced corruption, nepotism, clientelism, and all kinds of criminal behaviors in her tiny EU member state.
On April 17, we will start revealing what Daphne left behind. Watch this space:
https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/
#Gaza: 2 millions de civils enfermés dans une bande de terre de 40 km sur 10. Un blocus depuis 10 ans. 43 % de la population condamnée au chômage. 50 % des #Palestiniens dépendants exclusivement de l'aide humanitaire pour leurs besoins alimentaires de base, etc. #Blocus #Israel #petition
https://www.change.org/p/urgence-humanitaire-%C3%A0-gaza-lev%C3%A9e-du-blocus-opengaza?recruiter=255662791&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=304836
Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good? http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
"Digital colonialism is the new deployment of a quasi-imperial power over a vast number of people, without their explicit consent, manifested in rules, designs, languages, cultures and belief systems by a vastly dominant power"
Renata Avila #internethealthreport #IFJ18 #DigitalColonialism
https://internethealthreport.org/2018/resisting-digital-colonialism/
From the PROTEST SLOGANS CATALOG project. Screenshot of a print preview where this project is posted online:
https://www.pictorem.com/profile/lenie.blue
Free download also available for printing:
https://www.lenieblue.com/download
For more details about the project:
https://www.lenieblue.com/protest-slogans-catalog
#citizenship #power #protests #slogans #PrintOnDemand #POD
#prints #murals #digitalart #art #contemporaryart #newmediaart #mediaart
'Fog in Northern Italy during the XIX and early XX centuries'
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/8bhn79/fog_in_northern_italy_during_the_xix_and_early_xx/
As announced I've done some research in the distribution of our mastodon instances regarding the network (AS) they use.
The top five countries with mastodon instances:
- 36 GB
- 356 DE
- 786 FR
- 810 JP
- 1284 US
(full data: https://drop.leah.is/dEepjMnN )
Top 7 networks:
- 149 HETZNER-AS
- 173 INTERQ GMO Internet
- 187 SAKURA-B SAKURA Internet Inc.
- 195 AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com
- 232 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean
- 244 ONLINE S.A.S.
- 400 OVH
(full data: https://drop.leah.is/kYXmJJmy)
"Alternatives To Capitalism - Proposals For A Democratic Economy"
by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright
#book free #pdf 👇
https://ssc.wisc.edu/%7Ewright/Published%20writing/Alternatives%20to%20Capitalism.pdf
“Today at Facebook [art] works to create the illusion that the public sphere and the firm are one and the same. It is precisely this illusion on which surveillance capitalism depends.” – Fred Turner
http://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-Art-at-Facebook-Poetics-Preprint.pdf
This is spot on and an engrossing read on how surveillance capitalism works to legitimise itself via its aesthetics.
Via @charlyblack
Looking forward to taking part in "Navigating Finance and the Imagination" this weekend. A walking tour of the City of London with activists, artists and academics. rival.lakeheadu.ca/LondonTour/
I'll be talking about almanacs and attempting to weave a diagram between finance, astrology, and data science. An opportunity to test the chapter I'm currently writing, which is due in ... 2 weeks 🙀
"Resisting digital colonialism"
https://internethealthreport.org/2018/resisting-digital-colonialism/
"Digital Colonialism & the Internet as a tool of Cultural Hegemony"
http://www.knowledgecommons.in/brasil/en/whats-wrong-with-current-internet-governance/digital-colonialism-the-internet-as-a-tool-of-cultural-hegemony/
The Universal Declaration of Cyborg Rights (https://cyborgrights.eu) gets a shout out in Cosmos Magazine:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/round-up-a-short-guide-to-cyborg-rights
(Although the focus of the article is on the traditional/sci-fi definition of cyborg that’s limited to people with implanted technology whereas I argue that anyone who uses modern technology today is a cyborg. That distinction has important implications for personhood in the digital and networked age. See: https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/)
great #essay on how "surveillance-based for-profit media such as Facebook" are co-opting artistic narratives:
"The arts at Facebook: An aesthetic infrastructure for surveillance
capitalism"
by Fred Turner
http://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-Art-at-Facebook-Poetics-Preprint.pdf
La #Chine a commencé à attribuer une note de «crédit social» à ses citoyens. Ce système permet de surveiller les activités des citoyens (griller un feu rouge, payer une facture en retard, poster un contenu jugé néfaste sur les réseaux, acheter un grand nombre de jeux vidéo...) et de les priver de certaines libertés si leur comportement est mauvais. Certaines conséquences sont déjà visibles. #masssurveillance https://www.presse-citron.net/chine-a-commence-a-attribuer-note-credit-social-citoyens/
Les ventes d'#armes de la #France à l'#ArabieSaoudite pour 19 milliards € (2ième plus gros client après l'Inde) participent au 'rayonnement de la France' à l'étranger, en s'illustrant notamment à travers la guerre au #Yémen. La France boute l'embargo recommandé par l'UE. Seules les coopérations culturelles seront annoncées.
http://fr.euronews.com/2018/04/09/paris-et-ryad-freres-d-armes-
"Do you trust this computer ?"
a documentary about the extension of global AI in the actual context of data extorsion .
some good points, including the fact nobody knows what they do really, and the correlation between personal data and algorythms for psychological manipulation (CA/FBgate included).
a bit too much optimistic imho about the power of AI over nature, and "technological TINA inside" but still interesting...
