#IstanbulAirportAttack Not surprising: Turkish authorities block Twitter, Facebook and Google Play (at least)

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If you need to download a VPN application, you cannot, because so cunning authorities also blocked Google Play Market…

Turkey Blocks News Sites, Twitter, Facebook After Deadly Attack

Once again, Turkey’s government has cracked down on media after a terror attack

By Efe Kerem Sözeri

Confirmed: Twitter and Facebook blocked in #Turkey by throttling at 1:06AM after #Ataturk #Istanbul airport attacks http://pic.twitter.com/LoEblca3G9

— Turkey Blocks (@TurkeyBlocks) June 28, 2016

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Islamic State behind Istanbul airport attack | The daily briefing

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Edward Helmore in New York

Turkey airport attack kills at least 41; European position on Brexit hardens; Kerry raises prospect of a ‘walk back’ and the Benghazi report explained

Istanbul Atatürk airport attack: Turkey declares day of mourning

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch in Istanbul and Emma Graham-Harrison

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says attack in which 41 people died should mark turning point in global fight against terrorism

Turkey has declared a day of national mourning after 41 people were killed in suicide attack on Istanbul’s main airport, and the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the international community to make the attack a turning point in the global fight against terrorism.

Terror shakes Istanbul hours after Turkey’s big diplomatic campaign to mend Russia, Israel ties

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another terror attack shook Turkey late on June 28, just as the country has launched a multifaceted diplomatic move to mend its broken ties with both Israel and Russia following major disputes

Aftermath of Istanbul Airport Blasts

NYT > Turkey by By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Video shared on social media shows the aftermath of two explosions that rocked Istanbul’s main airport on Tuesday.

Scenes from Atatürk airport after explosions kill at least 36 – video

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Guardian Staff

Turkish emergency services help wounded people outside Istanbul’s Atatürk airport on Tuesday evening after a series of blasts left at least 41 people dead and scores more injured. Officials have blamed the attack on the Islamic State terror group

Istanbul airport attack: death toll from explosions in Turkey as high as 50 – rolling report

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ben Doherty

Series of deadly explosions tear through crowds at Atatürk international airport on Tuesday evening, leaving up to 50 dead and many more injured in attack officials blame on Islamic State

PM Yıldırım: Evidence Point ISIS

 Bianet :: English

Prime Minister Yıldırım has proclaimed that the attack launched on the Atatürk Airport last night was carried out by three suicide bombers and that 36 people have lost their lives.

Victims in Istanbul Airport Attack Reflect City’s International Character

 NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO, SABRINA TAVERNISE and CEYLAN YEGINSU

Hours after the bombings, a limited number of flights resumed and workers continued clearing debris and replacing shattered windows at the airport.

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Ghadamis, Libya… via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Cyberculture agenda: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality in Europe… “Reddit Turns 10…

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Europe: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality

 EFF.org Updates

Americans won big on net neutrality in February, when the FCC voted to adoptnew rules that would allow it to rein in the abusive and discriminatory practices of big telecommunications operators, such as blocking or throttling of Internet data, and charging content providers for access to an Internet “fast lane.”

Four months later, while the dust hasn’t quite settled here in the United States (due to court challenges and a defunding bill), across the Atlantic the fight is still hotting up. The European Commission (the unelected executive body of the European Union) kicked things off in 2013 with a proposal to cover net neutrality, along with other telecommunications topics such as mobile phone roaming charges, in a new Telecommunications Single Market Regulation.

Reddit celebrates its 10th birthday with a ton of wacky stats

The Next Web by Napier Lopez

It’s been 10 years since Reddit first launched – basically an eternity in Web time – and it’s celebrating its birthday by looking back at its history, as well as some statistics on where the platform is today.

Reddit Turns 10: The History and Opportunity of The Internet’s Front Page

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Today marks the tenth birthday of ‘the front page of the internet’, Reddit. The social media-via-bulletin board site has long been a source of divisive and controversial content, but it’s also built a reputation as a leader in online trends and hold many opportunities for those who go looking.

With Its French NSA Leak, WikiLeaks Is Back

 Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

After a long hiatus, WikiLeaks is back in the business of leaking top-secret documents that even world leaders can’t ignore.

 

Slack doubles in size in four months to 1.1 million daily active users

 The Next Web by Owen Williams

Slack, the much buzzed about team communications service that’s shaking up business communications, has announced that it’s passed one million active users per day. The news comes just four months after the company shared that it had passed 500,000 daily active users. The growth is fast, but not unprecedented: over the same time period in 2010, Yammer saw similar growth hitting the 1 million mark within 18 months of launching. Those figures, however, were overall user signups and not how active its user base was. Since February, Slack has also grown its paid customers to 300,000, up from 135,000. The company opened up to the world for the…

IS online: Can it be stopped?

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Can police block Islamic State propaganda?

What’s ‘Value Added’ About Tech Tools in the Classroom?

DML Central

I always cringe when educational pundits talk about evaluating teachers according to “value-added” assessment models, as if the value that teachers offer their students could be easily quantified or evaluated according to any standardized metric.

Google’s Cars are Now Smarter, and Slower

MIT Technology Review

Custom-made, and painfully slow, self-driving cars are now roaming the streets of Mountain View.

How the entire internet is reacting to SCOTUS gay marriage ruling (and it’s beautiful)

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

How to make your site mobile ready

The Next Web by Frances Donegan-Ryan

Mobile has the moxie and if your business hasn’t stepped up to the mobile bar, there is no doubt you’re missing out. Today we’re talking about the single most critical mobile component of your business: Your website. Is it mobile-friendly?

Deutsche Welle’s Bobs award honors online activists

Raif Badawi, a 31-year-old Saudi blogger and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and flogged in public 50 times simply for blogging about free speech

Accused Turkish cybercriminal extradited to U.S. to face charges of hacking ATMs worldwide

Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

The so-called unlimited cash out operations used hacked debit cards with withdrawal limits removed to make ATMs spew money. Read the rest

TorrentTags: A Database of ‘Risky’ Torrents

 TorrentFreak

You’ve spotted a hot music torrent in the top 100 most popular downloads on The Pirate Bay. You’re keen to obtain it but if you grab it now, the chances are that several anti-piracy companies will monitor the transaction.

 

Saudi Arabia warns against sharing ‘faked’ cables

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Citizens urged not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in response to WikiLeaks’ publication of 60,000 cables.

Understanding Facebook Insights & Twitter Analytics

 Social Media Today by Lucy Rendler-Kaplan

Twitter and Facebook have been doing more and more to allow users to monitor results on their platforms while in the app (or desktop). This post will highlight the important areas of Facebook Insights and Twitter Analytics so that you can reach your goals and grow engagement.

How to Enable Facial Recognition in your Google Photos

Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit Agarwal

Google Photos, like Facebook or Apple Photos, has built-in facial recognition and the software can automatically organize your photos based on people’s faces. While you cannot assign names to the recognized faces, at least yet, the software algorithms can smartly identify and group photos of people to help you visually find photos quickly.

New attempts to organize Twitter: Project Lightning and Nuzzel’s email newsletters

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Twitter criticism has reached critical mass in the past couple of weeks, topped off by CEO Dick Costolo’s departure. One frequent complaint is that Twitter is too unorganized; when you log in and look at your stream, it’s hard to tell what the day’s most important events are.

Wikileaks’ new batch of Sony files reveals a survey asking stars if they’ve had oral herpes

 The Next Web by Natt Garun

Teaching image-recognition algorithms to produce nightmarish hellscapes

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

In “Inceptionism,” scientists at Google Research describe their work training neural nets with sets of images, then tweaking the “layers” of neural net nodes to produce weird outcomes. Read the rest

 

The Dawn of Online Music Piracy

TorrentFreak by Stephen Witt

The Dawn of Online Music Piracy

By 1994, the development of the first mp3 encoder was complete. Working at an audio research laboratory at Germany’s state-funded Fraunhofer Institute, engineers had labored for seven years and spent millions of dollars to develop a functioning prototype.

 

Twitter Is Killing Twitter to Save Twitter

Wired Top Stories by David Pierce

Google says government forced it to hand over Jacob Appelbaum’s data for WikiLeaks grand jury

 Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Privacy activists mass-quit U.S. government committee on facial recognition privacy

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is trying to work out the rules for facial recognition — whether and when cameras can be put in public places that programatically identify you as you walk past and then save a record of where you’ve been and who you were with. Read the rest

Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test

 EFF.org Updates

If you click around Facebook’s “Government Request Report,” you’ll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of “content restrictions” the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship.

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Ayşe Özer: BİZ BU DAVANIN MÜBAŞİRİYİZ

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BİZ BU DAVANIN MÜBAŞİRİYİZ

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“Soma’da, Ermenek’te, Reyhanlı’da AKP birinci parti olmuş. O zaman bu halk kendi celladına aşık, bir Stockholm sendromu içinde azizim, başına gelen her türlü felaketi hak ediyor, herkes layık olduğu şekilde yönetilir, sizin için döktüğümüz göz yaşları haram olsun”. Fularları aynı zamanda yularları olan “solcu bünyelerin” bu sözleriyle yıkıldı sosyal medya 7 Haziran gecesi. Bir madencinin yetiminin gözlerine bir kez olsun fotoğrafından dahi bakmamış, herkese bir karakter kazandıran sosyal medya ortamında gösterdiği duyarlılıkla hayli solcu abiler ve ablaların bombardımanı, makarna-kömür muhabbetinden sıkıldıklarını ve kendilerine yeni bir “geyik” alanı aradıklarını ortaya koyuyordu. Her protestoya, her itiraza “milli irade” diye belirtisiz bir isim tamlamasıyla cevap veren, kendisine karşı duran herkesle sandıkta hesaplaşacağını söyleyen muktedirin dilinin aynısıydı bu muhalif abiler ve ablaların dili de. Sandığı kutsayan, her yurttaşı oy verdiği parti ile tanımlayan bu hastalıklı dildi aslında Soma’yı, Ermenek’i, Reyhanlı’yı yaratan.

Bir sol/sosyal demokrat partinin, 301 emekçinin toprak altında can verdiği, binlercesinin insanlık dışı koşullarda çalıştığı Soma’da devrimi örgütlemesi gerekirken, o partiye gönül vermiş insanların olanca lümpenlikleriyle “bu halkın kafası çalışmıyor, yine bize oy vermedi” diye ahlanıp vahlanmalarını izledik bu kez de. Sığırcık kuşları avcılara kolay lokma olmamak için örgütlü bir halde uçarken, “temsilde adalet ve yönetimde istikrar” lafazanlıkları havada uçuşuyordu insan cenahında. Yanık yanık ego kokuyordu her sol örgütün bacasından. Ne seçmen yapısından haberleri vardı, ne madenci yakınlarının hangi bölgede ikamet ettiklerinden, ne de seçmenin hangi saiklerle oy verdiğinden. Bir “nankör kedi” şarkısı çalıyordu arabesk hoparlörlerden. Ciğercinin kedileri, kedi türünün tek temsilcisi oldukları iddiasıyla, trafodaki kedi geyikleri ile tükettiler bir seçim dönemini daha. Flash TV nasıl ki hiçbir şekilde yayın politikasını değiştirmiyorsa, seçim sonrası söylemi de değişmiyordu ezici sol çoğunluğun. Hayli avam bir muhabbetti siyasetin pavyonunda dönen.

Sandık güvenliği ve çalınan oylar meselesi gündeme getirildi her seçim sonrası olduğu gibi. Sandık, hiçbir zaman güvenli değildi oysa ki. Çeyiz sandığında bile gizli oy, açık sayım yapılırdı da, o kanaviçelerin üzerindeki sandık lekeleri kadınların gözyaşlarıyla temizlenirdi sonra. Deniz’lerin kefeni bir kutu içi çarşaftı, her yeri sandık ve demokrasi ve dahi milli irade lekesiyle dolu. Dava unutulmuş, sandığa endekslenmişti hayat. Her seçim ayrı birer celseydi, halkı yargılamak için her 4 senede bir tekrarlanan.

Yüzme bilmeyen oğulların, son nefesinde “hakkını helal et oğlum” demeyi düşünen babaların, babaları yedi kat yerin altındayken annelerinin karnında olanların, gencecik yaşında dul kalan kadınların hakkını aramak için Soma ve Ermenek davaları vardı. Oturduğunuz yerden kimlere oy verdiklerini sorgulayarak yargıladığınız insanların hakları için yargılamalar devam edildi. Seçim sizin, çoğunlukta olan açlığı görmezden gelip, sıcak koltuklarınızda pesto soslu ravyoli eşliğinde döktüğünüz küçük burjuva gözyaşlarınıza acımaya devam edebilirsiniz, ya da davanızı hatırlar, avukatı olamasanız da “biz bu davanın mübaşiriyiz” diyerek avazınız çıktığı kadar bağırırsınız: davacı bütün ezilenler, davalı devlet ve şirket! Yeryüzü belki o zaman aşkın yüzü olur, o haritadaki bütün kara parçaları da umuda boyanır, Soma ve Ermenek hariç değil.

 

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Literati roundup: “Five politics classics every activist should know about….

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Five politics classics every activist should know about

open Democracy News Analysis – by Tom Butler-Bowdon

And they’re not all what you think…

1. Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals (1971)

The McCarthy era decimated the ranks of American radicals, yet it did not stop the disillusionment that America’s young felt in the 1960s about politicians and institutions. When Saul Alinsky heard young people saying they wanted a better world, this pioneering community organiser felt like asking: exactly what kind of world, and how would you achieve it? He wrote Rules for Radicals for people who were committed to real change, not merely to talking about a world of peace and love.

The romantic Englishman

Eurozine articles by Enda O’Doherty

George Orwell is often credited with elevating political writing to an art. However, argues Enda O’Doherty, it’s probably worth separating out the terms “political” and “writing”. For while Orwell’s writing is undoubtedly of the highest order, the quality of his political judgment remains questionable.

Congratulations to the 2014 Nebula Award winners!

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Best novel: Annihilation;, Jeff VanderMeer; Novella “Yesterday’s Kin,” Nancy Kress; Novelette “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” Alaya Dawn Johnson; Short story “Jackalope Wives,” Ursula Vernon; Movie Guardians of the Galaxy; YALove Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson. Read the rest

Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art

Open Culture by Josh Jones

Art lovers who visit my hometown of Washington, DC have an almost embarrassing wealth of opportunities to view art collections classical, Baroque, Renaissance, modern, postmodern, and otherwise through the Smithsonian’s network of museums. From the East and West Wings of the National Gallery, to the Hirshhorn, with its wondrous sculpture garden, to the American Art Museumand Renwick Gallery—I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming, and far too much to take in during a weekend jaunt, especially if you’ve got restless family in tow. (One can’t, after all, miss the Natural History or Air and Space Museums… or, you know… those monuments.)

The Sketchbook Project Presents Online 17,000 Sketchbooks, Created by Artists from 135 Countries

Open Culture by Ayun Halliday

Artist: Helen Sanderson

If you love something give it away.

If it doesn’t come back to you, it was never really yours…

Collection of occult images was a last ditch blow against the Englightenment [NSFW]

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

 

Average Masters thesis lengths charted by discipline

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

 

John Nash’s recommendation letter for Princeton may be the best of all time

 Mashable! by Brian Koerber

“He is a mathematical genius.”

On Allen Ginsberg’s 89th birthday, read his FBI file

 Boing Boing

Mike from Muckrock sez, “‘My name is Allen Ginsberg and I sleep with whoever I want.’ So noted the FBI, in its 89 pages tracking the life, lovers, and political activism of the American poet, who was born this day in 1926.” Read the rest

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