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RT @C_LeqRth@twitter.com

"Etat plateforme", "modernisation de l'administration", "digitalisation des services publics",c'est aussi ça : l'exclusion accrue des invisibles de la République et des gens qui crèvent.

Je lance ici un #thread sur les pratiques et les dérives de l'administration 2.0.👇

Don’t watch TV coverage of Covid-19!

— by Richard Stallman

Don't watch TV coverage of Covid-19! (Or "social media"; the details are different.) Watching repetitive coverage of something frightening can interfere with clear thinking, even traumatize people.

TV news coverage of a crisis struggles to fill 24 hours a day with "information", notwithstanding the fact that the actual flow of new information about the crisis is nowhere near sufficient to fill that time. What do they do? They repeat. They present tangential and minor details. They make the same points in different ways. They belabor the obvious. They repeat.

If your goal is to be informed, you don't need to dwell on the crisis for hours every day. Not even one hour a day. Getting your news in this inefficient matter will waste a lot of time — and worse.

In addition, it will make you more and more anxious. Someone I knew in 2001, who lived in California. spent all day on Sep 11 and following days watching the TV coverage. Afterward perse was afraid to go outside, watching for terrorist airplanes. TV made it possible for per to be traumatized by events 3000 miles away.

That was an unusually strong case. Most people did not get so traumatized as that. That does not imply it did not affect them. I suspect that the TV coverage may have shifted millions of people's perceptions, so that they overestimated the danger of terrorism while downplaying the danger of laws that take away freedom. This would have smoothed the path for careless passage of the dangerous USA PAT RIOT Act and its massive surveillance.

In any a good, general textual news site, you can read the things you really want to know about Covid-19 in 10 or 20 minutes a day. Then you won't fall behind on your work, and you won't be brainwashed into panic.

Keep calm and carry on!

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De l'urgence d'interdire la reconnaissance faciale au niveau européen. #BanFacialRecognitionEU

RT @technopolice_fr@twitter.com

#PPLSurveillanceGlobale : Le député @ECiotti@twitter.com propose un amendement pour ajouter au code de la sécurité intérieur un nouveau chapitre. Il est intitulé :

« De la reconnaissance faciale ».
assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/15/

Gageons que le gouvernement verra tout ça d'un bon œil...

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@Electronics

I feel like this is how the Raspberry Pi should have been packaged from day one, just built directly into a keyboard.


QT: bananachips.club/@nev/10514197

nev  
Holy shit y'all. A Raspberry Pi in a keyboard, $100, just add monitor. Waaaaaaaant. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-deskto...
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« Il n’existe rien de tel qu’une science, il n’y a que des sciences, et chacune d’elle a ses usages et ses limites propres ». lundi.am/Sur-la-pandemie-actue

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"Nils Melzer, why is the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture interested in Julian ?

The case falls into my mandate in three different ways : First, Assange published proof of systematic torture. But instead of those responsible for the torture, it is Assange who is being persecuted. Second, he himself has been ill-treated to the point that he is now exhibiting symptoms of psychological torture. And third, he is to be extradited to a country that holds people like him in prison conditions that Amnesty International has described as torture. In summary : Julian Assange uncovered torture, has been tortured himself and could be tortured to death in the United States. And a case like that isn’t supposed to be part of my area of responsibility? Beyond that, the case is of symbolic importance and affects every citizen of a democratic country."

From WeeklyLeaks (7 september 2020)

challengepower.info/_media/wee

Via lundi.am

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TIL: there was a unix-haters handbook published back in 1994, lol

web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.p

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