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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Anthropology roundup: #AAA2016 = Open Access Strikes Back… “Would Margaret Mead tweet?…

New photo from Facebook September 08, 2016 at 07:00PM

Bu arada Dinant, Belçika. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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210 Photos from the 6-7 September 1955 Istanbul Pogram

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210 Photos from the 6-7 September 1955 Istanbul Pogram

More about the pogrom here

Photos can be found in this blog entry

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My favorite minister: “Latvian minister to miss Bratislava meeting – to play chess” Eurosphere agenda…

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Why the Pirate Party could end up running Iceland

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

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With the Icelandic Pirates crushing it in the polls and set to form the next government of a sovereign, carbon-neutral, strategically located nation, it’s worth asking how a party whose two issues — internet freedom and copyright reform — are wonky, minority interests rose to prominence.

Latvian minister to miss Bratislava meeting – to play chess

EurActiv.com by Matthew Tempest with AFP

Buoyed by her defeat of the best woman player in the world, Latvia’s finance minister is to skip a top EU meeting this week to pursue her passion for chess, her spokesman said Wednesday (8 September.)

Migrant crisis: Conditions worsen in Calais ‘Jungle’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The BBC’s Richard Galpin reports from the migrant camp in Calais known as the Jungle on the deteriorating conditions there, and the possibility of it being closed down.

Britain, not Mexico, is funding a big wall to stop migrants

Mashable! by Gianluca Mezzofiore

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Britain is paying for the construction of a wall in Calais, near the so-called Jungle migrant camp, in an attempt to stop refugees and migrants from boarding lorries heading for the UK, the country’s immigration minister has confirmed

France migrant crisis: Paris to open refugee camp in October

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Paris announces plans to open its first refugee camp in October while another projected centre for asylum seekers is set alight near the French capital.

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary jailed for five years

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary is jailed for five-and-a-half years for inviting others to support so-called Islamic State.

France burkini: Corsica court upholds local ban

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

A court on the French island of Corsica upholds a local ban on the burkini, despite a higher court ruling saying the measure violates freedoms.

Debate: How can other parties respond to AfD?

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The Alternative for Germany has come second in elections to the state legislature in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Commentators discuss to what extent the other parties are to blame for the rise of this national conservative party and whether its advance can be halted before the German elections next autumn.

France Islam: Valls slams New York Times report on burkini ban

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, rejects as “unacceptable” a New York Times article in which French Muslim women complain of discrimination.

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Even Erdoğan complains about labelling people as Gülenists…

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Erdoğan warns media to avoid labelling people as Gülenists

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned media to be more sensitive regarding the probes into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), saying the media should avoid labelling people as Gülenists

Some assholes even labelled me as a Gülenist. A wave of witch-hunt even some hardcore AKP fans began to question…

Turkish PM announces ‘crisis centers’ amid concerns over wrongful post-coup prosecutions

Crisis management centers will be set up across the country to try to combat wrongful prosecutions made as part of the investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced

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Cyberculture agenda: Google Program to Deradicalize Jihadis then to be used for Right-Wing American Extremists…Twitter Emojis for 2016 Paralympic Games

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Google Program to Deradicalize Jihadis Will Be Used for Right-Wing American Extremists Next

The Intercept by Naomi LaChance

A Google-incubated program that has been targeting potential ISIS members with deradicalizing content will soon be used to target violent right-wing extremists in North America, a designer of the program said at an event at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday.

Twitter Unveils Emojis for 2016 Paralympic Games

All Facebook by David Cohen

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games may be history, but Twitter hasn’t packed up and left Rio de Janeiro yet: The 2016 Paralympic Games begin Wednesday.

Twitter launched a series of hashtag-triggered emojis for the Games, and they are available in seven languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

Refreshing our Transparency Report for copyright removals

The Official Google Blog by Google Blogs

Back in 2012, as a part of our continuing effort to increase transparency around the flow of information online, we began disclosing the number of requests we get from copyright owners (and the organizations that represent them) to remove Google Search results because they allegedly link to infringing content.

The report hasn’t changed much since 2012 and was getting a little rusty. So today, we’re releasing a new version of the report that makes it easier for you to understand the data:

Kristin Binns Is In as Senior Director of Communications at Twitter

all Facebook by David Cohen

Anthem vice president of communications Kristin Binns became the latest to try her hand at leading communications at Twitter, joining the social network as senior director of communications.

Kurt Wagner of Re/code reported on the hire, and Binns confirmed the news inresponding to a tweet from chief marketing officer Leslie Berland, to whom she will report.

Instagram is killing off one of its coolest features

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Photo Map, one of my favorite features on Instagram, is getting the ax. The feature allowed you to to check out all the pictures shared by a user in various locations around the globe, with thumbnails representing the photos on a map. Instagram confirmed to Mashable that it was indeed killing Photo Map, having begun disabling the feature for some users last week. It said in a statement, “Photo Map was not widely used, so we’ve decided to remove the feature and focus on other priorities.” You might still be able to see your own Photo Map by visiting your…

Repeat After Me: Humans Run the Internet, Not Algorithms

Wired Top Stories by Davey Alba

With the Facebook Trending mess, people are arguing over whether humans or algorithms should run Facebook. But that makes no sense.

Almost no one really knows how Facebook’s Trending algorithm works, but here’s an idea

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

So how does Facebook’s Trending algorithm actually work? Very few, if any, people outside of 1 Hacker Way really know, but over at Quartz, reporters Dave Gershgorn and Mike Murphy have tried to piece it together.

Facebook last week said it was changing its Trending feature by eliminating the short sentences that described each story. Instead, Trending now just features broad topics surfaced by the algorithm. (On Thursday morning, Van Morrison — it’s his birthday — and Brown Eyed Girls — the South Korean band, not the Van Morrison song — were trending on my Facebook.)

Algorithms are now controlling Facebook’s Trending topics. What does that mean for news?

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

Mere hours after Facebook announced that its Trending section would become more algorithmically controlled, users noticed that the social network was surfacing a fake news story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly.

Megyn Kelly is trending on Facebook for an article that has no basis in reality. http://pic.twitter.com/31f4ERnzHI

The rise of mobile could create “a second-class digital citizenship” of less informed news consumers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

Few would argue that, in theory, the sharp increase in mobile access hasn’t been a good thing for individuals and society as a whole. A more connected public is a more informed one, and increased mobile penetration means more people are able to connect more often than ever before.

Internet activists hail ‘historic’ EU net neutrality rules

EurActiv.com by Catherine Stupp

Internet activists today (30 August) hailed the announcement by EU regulators of new rules to prevent telecoms companies from slowing down some internet traffic as a historic achievement.

Belling the trolls: free expression, online abuse and gender

open Democracy News Analysis – by Bishakha Datta

Freedom of expression is fundamentally about power: about who gets to speak or express themselves and on what terms and platforms.

Lawyers protest against JNU student union president,Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested and accused of sedition, February, 2016. Manish Swarup/Press Association. All rights reserved. The things you learn from search engines. I’d always attributed this iconic quote to the French philosopher Voltaire: “I wholly disapprove of what you say, and will defend to the death your right to say it.” And then, idly googling the exact phrasing, I discover that this profoundly expansive ‘Voltairean principle’ did not spring from Voltaire’s lips at all. No, this quote is by hisbiographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who sometimes wrote under the ‘male’ pseudonym SG Tallentyre.

Machine learning just got more human with Google’s RankBrain

The Next Web by Matthew Capala

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction. – Nathan Bateman in Ex Machina Ex Machina, a Hollywood blockbuster made on a $15 million budget, tells the story of a programmer who is invited by his employer, the eccentric billionaire Nathan Bateman who built a fictional search engine called Blue Book, to administer the Turing test to an android with artificial intelligence, which essentially determines whether a computer can…

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Strange days. “DW interview with Turkish youth minister seized” but ministry refutes…

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DW interview with Turkish youth minister seized by ministry

The record of an interview with Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç that was slated to be published for a program on Deutsche Welle (DW) has been seized by ministry officials after the interview was completed

Turkish Sports Ministry refutes claims on seizure of DW interview

Turkey’s Youth and Sports Ministry has issued a statement over reports on the seizure of an interview by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) with Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç, saying it did not reflect the truth

Turkish government seizes interview tape from Deutsche Welle journalist

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

The director general of Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle condemned Turkey yesterday (6 September) for confiscating the recording of an interview with its Youth and Sports Minister at his office in Ankara

Turkey Convicted of Extrajudicial Killing By Military and Police

Bianet :: English

The European Court of Human Rights has passed judgement on three cases of extrajudicial killing in two different police-military operations. Turkey has been sentenced to pay compensation for having violated “the right to life”.

Bianet :: English

Three journalists, an artist, and an Alevi sage who joined the the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign launched on May 3 have been called to testify.

16 businessmen arrested in coup attempt probe

A total of 16 businessmen were arrested on Sept. 8 as part of an ongoing investigation into the Fetullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which has been accused of staging the failed coup attempt of July 15, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported

Attorneys Ayşe Acinikli, Ramazan Demir Freed

Bianet :: English

Detained since April, the attorneys Acinikli and Demir from the Libertarian Legists Association were released yesterday.

Right.

Turkish FM assures ECHR will be Turkey’s guide

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has sought to assure the Council of Europe (CoE) that the Turkish government will be transparent in the post-coup attempt process

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The 2nd Night of Turkey-style Kristallnacht. Attacks against Kurdish entities, against opposition Press…

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HDP’s Alanya building…

Right in Turkey’s capital, Turkey’s fourth biggest political party’s, pro-Kurdish HDP’s headquarters burnt by a mob along with hundred others all over Turkey…

Hürriyet daily is attacked second time, some vandalism…

All under the watchful eyes of Turkish security forces…

My own Periscope broadcasting in Beşiktaş: