The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/technology/uber-eats-ghost-kitchens.html
Food delivery apps are reshaping the restaurant industry — and how we eat — by inspiring digital-only establishments that don’t need a dining room or waiters. At 9:30 on most weeknights, Ricky Lopez, the head chef and owner of Top Round Roast Beef in San Francisco, stacks up dozens of hot beef sandwiches and sides of curly fries to serve hungry diners. He also breads chicken cutlets for another of his restaurants, Red Ribbon Fried Chicken. He flips beef patties on the grill for a third, TR (...)
#Deliveroo #UberEATS #Uber #algorithme #smartphone #domination #FoodTech #nourriture (...)
Will the Millennials Save Playboy ? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/business/woke-playboy-millennials.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
In the office, members of the staff use terms like “intersectionality,” “sex positivity,” “privileging” and “lived experience” to describe their editorial vision — and tout their feminist credentials. Two editors are former employees of Ms., the magazine co-founded by Gloria Steinem.
The photography looks different, too. Playmates — who no longer appear on the cover — are primarily shot by other women, with artsy angles and intimacy coordinators on the set.
Le nouveau Playboy est queer et féministe... mais montre toujours des femmes à la beauté normée à l’attention du regard des hommes.
All Your Data Is Health Data
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/opinion/health-data.html
And Big Tech has it all. Here’s a terrifying sentence : Hackers are “becoming increasingly interested in the susceptibility of health data.” At least that’s the takeaway from researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing. They were at the Blackhat hacker conference in Las Vegas recently, where programmers set up a fake hospital environment and invited medical tech companies to bring their devices for a live stress test. “There was a lot of talk about the ease (...)
##santé
Let This Recipe Change How You Cook - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/dining/easy-risotto-recipe.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Perfecting the technique for a seasonal risotto, like this tomato dish, opens up a year’s worth of meals.
Le vrai secret d’un bon risotto c’est... le bon type de riz (carnaroli par exemple) et un bon bouillon fait maison...
Et puis un peu de technique... quels ingrédients à quel moment... :-)
Je n’aime ni l’alcool ni la cuisine à l’alcool mais c’est vachement bon, un risotto au vin blanc ! Et je confirme que le bouillon fait pas mal...
J’apprends ce soir la disparition cet été de ma chère Barbara Crane dont je mentionnais encore le travail pas plus tard qu’il y a deux jours ( ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/802058 ). C’est justement en visitant son nouveau site, en utilisant le formulaire de contact que je lui ai envoyé un petit mail histoire de lui donner de mes nouvelles comme elle me demandait de temps en temps. Le pire étant que dans ce mail d’il y a deux jours je lui demandais des nouvelles de la santé de son mari, le peintre (et quel !) John Miller lequel est atteint de la maladie d’Altzheimer. C’est la dernière assistante de Barbara qui m’a répondu ce soir pour me dire que Barbara était partie cet été à l’âge de 91 ans.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/arts/barbara-crane-dies.html
▻http://www.artnews.com/2019/08/08/barbara-crane-dead
Robert Frank la semaine dernière, il y a deux ans j’apprenais le départ de Bart Parker et en cherchant une chouette image de Barbara je tombe naturellement sur les baseball card de Mike Mandel parmi lesquels je commence à compter pas mal de disparus.
Ce soir j’étais au cinéma, et juste avant de partir j’avais lancé dans le garage le calcul de remontage du blues du suceur de bite de Robert Frank que je voudrais libérer dans le Désordre, mon idée un peu tordue d’un hommage. Mais là ce soir je mesure grandement l’écart, Robert Frank en dépit de mes efforts je ne l’ai jamais croisé. Barbara Crane j’ai passé des journées avec elle, notamment parmi les plus belles de ma vie dans sa maison forestière dans le Michigan, maison autour de laquelle elle avait construire une très grande terrasse en bois en préservant ça et là le passage pour quelques arbres au travers même de sa terrasse. Sous les toits, juste derrière les gouttières il y avait de puissantes mandarines qui éclairaient avec beaucoup de contraste les branches environnantes tout en maintenant le fond noir, c’était un peu son jardin de Giverny.
Je dois tant de choses à cette toute petite femme devant laquelle je tremblais comme une feuille morte quand elle dardait son regard quand je tentais vainement de la contredire lorsqu’elle passait en revue mes boîtes de tirages.
Cela va sans doute me prendre un peu de temps, mais je tenterais de fabriquer un petit quelque chose pour elle
Alors pour le coup je vous invite ce soir à plutôt visiter son premier site internet ►http://barbaracrane.desordre.net
The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/health/vaping-marijuana-ecigarettes-sickness.html
... vaping has its own problems: Nicotine or THC, the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, is mixed with solvents that dissolve and deliver the drugs. The solvents, or oils, heat up during aerosolization to become vapor. But some oil droplets may be left over as the liquid cools back down, and inhaling those drops may cause breathing problems and lung inflammation.
“Inhaling oil into your lungs is extremely dangerous behavior that could result in death,” said Thomas Eissenberg, who studies vaping at Virginia Commonwealth University. “That is probably the biggest message we can get out of this.”
#Cigarette_électronique : deux pistes pour expliquer les cinq décès liés au #vapotage
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/drogue-addictions/cigarette-electronique/cigarette-electronique-deux-pistes-pour-expliquer-les-cinq-deces-lies-a
Shortchanged : Why British Life Expectancy Is Falling
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/europe/uk-life-expectancy.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
The 2010 turning point in mortality statistics coincided with the aftermath of the financial crisis, as Britain reined in public spending. Danny Dorling, a professor of geography at Oxford University, argues that “the link with austerity is not easy to correlate, but it is incredibly strong.” Hartlepool’s representative in Parliament, Mike Hill, agrees. “There is no doubt that austerity has hit Hartlepool, and that there is a connection with life expectancy,” said Mr. Hill, a member of the opposition Labour Party. Hartlepool has had to cut around 20 percent of its budget of 100 million pounds, about $120 million, and shed about 500 employees. Local officials say the town has dipped into reserves and increased local property taxes, but acknowledge some cutbacks in programs. Others see (...)
Shortchanged : Why British Life Expectancy Is Falling - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/europe/uk-life-expectancy.html
The 2010 turning point in mortality statistics coincided with the aftermath of the financial crisis, as Britain reined in public spending.
Danny Dorling, a professor of geography at Oxford University, argues that “the link with austerity is not easy to correlate, but it is incredibly strong.”
Hartlepool’s representative in Parliament, Mike Hill, agrees. “There is no doubt that austerity has hit Hartlepool, and that there is a connection with life expectancy,” said Mr. Hill, a member of the opposition Labour Party.
Hartlepool has had to cut around 20 percent of its budget of 100 million pounds, about $120 million, and shed about 500 employees. Local officials say the town has dipped into reserves and increased local property taxes, but acknowledge some cutbacks in programs.
Others see austerity as an aggravating factor in a complex picture of unhealthy lifestyles compounded by poverty, lack of opportunity and hopelessness.
Le point annuel par l’ONS (MàJ en septembre) sur les stats d’espérance de vie au R.-U.
National life tables, UK: 2015 to 2017
▻https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2015to2017
Curbs on #Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, to Be Relaxed in U.S. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/climate/epa-methane-greenhouse-gas.html
Opinion | Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/economics-milton-friedman.html
Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”
[...] Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies is that the average American’s life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health. Life expectancy rose for the wealthiest 20 percent of Americans between 1980 and 2010. Over the same three decades, life expectancy declined for the poorest 20 percent of Americans. Shockingly, the difference in average life expectancy between poor and wealthy women widened from 3.9 years to 13.6 years.
Israël a bombardé un dépôt d’armes en Irak
Par Le Figaro avec AFP Publié le 23/08/2019
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/israel-a-bombarde-un-depot-d-armes-en-irak-20190823
Israël a mené au moins une frappe contre un dépôt d’armes en Irak, a rapporté le New York Times jeudi. Un haut responsable du renseignement au Moyen-Orient a déclaré qu’Israël avait bombardé une base située au nord de Bagdad en juillet, tandis que deux responsables américains ont indiqué que l’Etat hébreu avait effectué plusieurs frappes en Irak ces derniers jours, selon le New York Times. (...)
Israeli Airstrike Hits Weapons Depot in Iraq
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/world/middleeast/israel-iraq-iran-airstrike.html
I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.
Loretta Ross, The New-York Times, le 17 août 2019
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/cancel-culture-call-out.html
Recently, someone lied about me on social media and I decided not to reply. “Never wrestle with a pig,” as George Bernard Shaw said. “You both get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
Similarly problematic is the “cancel culture,” where people attempt to expunge anyone with whom they do not perfectly agree, rather than remain focused on those who profit from discrimination and injustice.
A rajouter à ma compilation sur la culture du #Callout #Call-Out #social_justice_warriors #harcèlement #internet :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/758243
A Nun, a Doctor and a Lawyer — and Deep Regret Over the Nation’s Handling of Opioids - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/health/opioids-purdue-pennington-gap.html
PENNINGTON GAP, Va. — Years before there was an opioid epidemic in America, Sister Beth Davies knew it was coming.
In the late 1990s, patient after patient addicted to a new prescription painkiller called OxyContin began walking into the substance abuse clinic she ran in this worn Appalachian town. A local physician, Dr. Art Van Zee, sensed the gathering storm, too, as teenagers overdosed on the drug. His wife, Sue Ella Kobak, a lawyer, saw the danger signs in a growing wave of robberies and other crimes that all had links to OxyContin.
The Catholic nun, the doctor and the lawyer were among the first in the country to sound an alarm about the misuse of prescription opioids, the beginnings of a cycle of addiction that would kill 400,000 people in the ensuing two decades as it spread to illegal opioids like heroin and counterfeit versions of fentanyl. They led a burst of local activism against Purdue Pharma, OxyContin’s maker, that the company ultimately crushed. It would eventually help kindle national awareness that led to a wave of legal actions that are still awaiting resolution.
The three also believe that the Justice Department could have changed the behavior of other opioid makers if it had charged executives of Purdue Pharma in 2007 with felonies, as federal prosecutors had recommended, in connection with OxyContin’s illegal marketing.
Instead, department officials negotiated a deal under which the executives pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges that did not include jail time. In the years that followed, executives of other opioid makers and distributors kept shipping millions of addictive pain pills into towns like this one apparently without fear of serious penalties.
“I think the trajectory would have been completely different,” Dr. Van Zee said recently. “It would not have reached the magnitude that it did.”
A local pharmacist, Greg Stewart, said a sales representative for Purdue Pharma had told him that OxyContin was safe because it was a long-acting narcotic and so would not appeal to drug abusers who liked Percocet and other short-acting pain pills because they delivered a quick high. But teenagers and others in town quickly discovered that crushing an OxyContin pill released large quantities of the narcotic oxycodone.
Sister Beth recalls getting a phone call from Mr. Stewart as she was starting to see people addicted to the drug.
“Beth, believe me,” she recalled him saying, “this is going to be the worst disaster that ever hit Lee County.”
Sister Beth, Dr. Van Zee and Ms. Kobak, who is now retired, have been reading with fascination the new documents about Purdue Pharma and its owners, members of the wealthy Sackler family, that have recently emerged in lawsuits and elsewhere. As it turns out, it was in 2001, the year they and others in town confronted Purdue Pharma executives about the overzealous marketing of OxyContin, that a son of one of company’s founders, Dr. Richard Sackler, wrote a now infamous email about the need “to hammer on the abusers in every way possible” for the drug’s problem.
“You lie so much you believe your own lies,” Sister Beth said. “That’s what devastates me; it was always profits over people.”
Both Purdue Pharma and a representative for Dr. Sackler insist that the email and others cited in recent lawsuits have been taken out of context.
The lawyers assured him, he said, that they wanted exactly what he did: to finally see all of Purdue Pharma’s internal documents brought to public light.
“I was impressed by what looked like their commitment to get some type of accountability and responsibility,” he said.
But that never happened. In March, Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $270 million to settle. As a result, all its internal documents remain sealed. Oklahoma state officials said they struck the deal because of concerns that Purdue Pharma, which faces thousands of lawsuits, might soon file for bankruptcy.
India Plans Big Detention Camps for Migrants. Muslims Are Afraid. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/world/asia/india-muslims-narendra-modi.html
NEW DELHI — More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.
The hunt for migrants is unfolding in Assam, a poor, hilly state near the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Many of the people whose citizenship is now being questioned were born in India and have enjoyed all the rights of citizens, such as voting in elections.
State authorities are rapidly expanding foreigner tribunals and planning to build huge new detention camps. Hundreds of people have been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign migrant — including a Muslim veteran of the Indian Army. Local activists and lawyers say the pain of being left off a preliminary list of citizens and the prospect of being thrown into jail have driven dozens to suicide.
But the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not backing down.
Instead, it is vowing to bring this campaign to force people to prove they are citizens to other parts of India, part of a far-reaching Hindu nationalist program fueled by Mr. Modi’s sweeping re-election victory in May and his stratospheric popularity.
The stated purpose of the citizenship dragnet in Assam is to find undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh — a predominantly Muslim country to its south. Amit Shah, India’s powerful home minister, has repeatedly referred to those immigrants as “termites.’’
#Fascisme #Narandra_Modi #Inde #Camps_concentration #Immigration
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/bodycams-privacy.html
Albert Fox Cahn, directeur du Projet pour la supervision des technologies de surveillance au Centre de justice urbaine, revient sur certains problèmes posés par les caméras-piétons :
« Les caméras-piétons qui ont été vendues au public comme une promesse d’une plus grande transparence ont fini par renforcé la vision policière des choses. Cette dynamique est un exemple supplémentaire d’une tendance dérangeante : les solutions technologiques aux problèmes humains ont souvent des effets collatéraux désastreux qui ne sont pas forcément compris avant que la technologie ne soit massivement utilisée. »
The Secret History of ‘Easter Eggs’ - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/technology/easter-eggs-tesla-google.html
Every car can accelerate, brake and turn. But only the Tesla Model X can put on a three-minute dance performance.
The windows open, the speakers blast a holiday carol, the exterior lights flash in sequence, the front doors open and close, and the gull-wing doors rise, arch and flap to the music.
That roboshow is an Easter egg: an undocumented feature in a tech product, set in motion by a sequence of commands that nobody would hit accidentally.
Over the years, Easter eggs in tech products have largely disappeared (except in video games). Like any other software, Easter eggs, so named for the hunt to find them, cost time and money to design, build and debug. Why would a tech company develop features it can’t advertise or even reveal?
Google’s Mario maps
At Google, there is a long tradition of Easter eggs, which have the full support of the company.
“It helps establish software as an art form, following in the footsteps of painters and musicians and craftspeople sneaking little jokes and references into their work for literally centuries,” said Dan Sandler, who works on the Android smartphone software.
Mr. Sandler has built an eggy surprise into every version of Android since 2011. For the current version — Android P — he created a secret painting app.
“One of the themes in the P release was ‘digital well being,’ the idea that you should be able to choose a balance of screen time and non-screen time,” he said. “In my paint app, over time, the strokes you draw fade away to nothing, like a Zen drawing board.” (He notes that you can tap the hourglass to pause the timer, “if you must.”)
There’s no Save command, either. “This is another Zen thing: Don’t cling to your creations,” he said.
In the Google Maps division, the best-known Easter egg appeared on March 10, 2018. It was International Mario Day (Mar10, get it?), celebrating the goofy Italian plumber from Nintendo’s video games.
How Jaywalking Could Jam Up the Era of Self-Driving Cars
Eric A. Taub, NYTimes, 1er aout 2019
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/business/self-driving-cars-jaywalking.html
In New York, the unwritten rule is plain: Cross the street whenever and wherever — just don’t get hit. It’s a practice that separates New Yorkers from tourists, who innocently wait at the corner for the walk symbol. But if pedestrians know they’ll never be run over, jaywalking could explode, grinding traffic to a halt.
One solution, suggested by an automotive industry official, is gates at each corner, which would periodically open to allow pedestrians to cross.
[...] an example of the thinking by those who worry about planning for the future.
“With autonomous vehicles, the technical stuff will get worked out . It’s the societal part that’s the most challenging,”
How society will adjust , or what we can do to mitigate cultural upheavals, is just beginning to be discussed. Today, there are few answers.
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 2, 2019, Section B, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Make Way for Self-Driving Cars.
@mad_meg Un autre exemple de censure sur le titre.
Go wild, go Jay !
Trump Is a White Nationalist Who Inspires Terrorism
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/trump-white-supremacy.html
“The fact that they’re still operating at a high level during a Republican administration goes against all the trending I’ve seen in 40 years,” Johnson told me. Donald Trump has kept the far right excited and agitated. “He is basically the fuel that’s been poured onto a fire,” said Johnson.
8chan, Megaphone for Gunmen, Has Gone Dark. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator. - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html
Mr. Brennan started the online message board as a free speech utopia. But now, 8chan is known as something else: a megaphone for mass shooters, and a recruiting platform for violent white nationalists.
And it has become a focal point for those seeking to disrupt the pathways of online extremism. On Sunday, critics characterized the site as a breeding ground for violence, and lobbied the site’s service providers to get it taken down. One of those providers, Cloudflare, a service that protects websites against cyberattacks, said it would stop working with 8chan on Sunday night and the site went dark about 3 a.m. Eastern time. And Mr. Brennan, who stopped working with the site’s current owner last year, called for it to be taken offline before it leads to further violence.
“Shut the site down,” Mr. Brennan said in an interview. “It’s not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except the users that are there. And you know what? It’s a negative to them, too. They just don’t realize it.”
The site remained on the fringes until 2014, when some supporters of GamerGate — a loose reactionary collection of anti-feminist video gamers — flocked to 8chan after being kicked off 4chan.
Since GamerGate, 8chan has become a catchall website for internet-based communities whose behavior gets them evicted from more mainstream sites. It hosts one of the largest gatherings of supporters of QAnon, who claim that there is an international bureaucracy plotting against the Trump administration. And it has been an online home for “incels,” men who lament being “involuntarily celibate,” and other fringe movements.
“8chan is almost like a bulletin board where the worst offenders go to share their terrible ideas,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s become a sounding board where people share ideas, and where these kinds of ideologies are amplified and expanded on, and ultimately, people are radicalized as a result.”
8chan has been run out of the Philippines by Jim Watkins, a United States Army veteran, since 2015, when Mr. Brennan gave up control of the site.
Mr. Brennan, who has a condition known as brittle-bone disease and uses a wheelchair, has tried to distance himself from 8chan and its current owners. In a March interview with The Wall Street Journal, he expressed his regrets over his role in the site’s creation , and warned that the violent culture that had taken root on 8chan’s boards could lead to more mass shootings.
After the El Paso shooting, he seemed resigned to the fact that it had.
“Another 8chan shooting?” he tweeted on Saturday. “Am I ever going to be able to move on with my life?”