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---
[[2022-08-19|<< 🗓 Previous ]] &emsp; &emsp; &emsp; [[@Main Dashboard|Back]] &emsp; &emsp; &emsp; [[2022-08-21|🗓 Next >>]]
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style: number
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- 19:12 Fin du livre [[La promesse de l'aube]]
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# Derborence
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> Publié en 1934, Derborence est l'un des plus connus parmi les grands romans de Ramuz. Ce récit, qui restitue la vie d'un village de montagne et celle de l'alpage, accueille les croyances fantastiques et légendaires des populations restées à l'écart de la modernisation. Par l'usage d'une langue expressive et charnelle, Ramuz décrit l'angoisse face au mal, la fragilité de l'Homme et la force de l'amour, où tout un chacun pourra reconnaitre ses propres questionnements existentiels.
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# A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
![Mark with his son this month.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/17/business/00Google-Photo-lede/merlin_211189338_dc79ba5b-75ab-45a5-9531-27efa7093714-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
Mark with his son this month.Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
- Aug. 21, 2022
Mark noticed something amiss with his toddler. His sons penis looked swollen and was hurting him. Mark, a stay-at-home dad in San Francisco, grabbed his Android smartphone and took photos to document the problem so he could track its progression.
It was a Friday night in February 2021. His wife called an advice nurse at their health care provider to schedule an emergency consultation for the next morning, by video because it was a Saturday and there was a pandemic going on. The nurse said to send photos so the doctor could review them in advance.
Marks wife grabbed her husbands phone and texted a few high-quality close-ups of their sons groin area to her iPhone so she could upload them to the health care providers messaging system. In one, Marks hand was visible, helping to better display the swelling. Mark and his wife gave no thought to the tech giants that made this quick capture and exchange of digital data possible, or what those giants might think of the images.
With help from the photos, the doctor diagnosed the issue and prescribed antibiotics, which quickly cleared it up. But the episode left Mark with a much larger problem, one that would cost him more than a decade of contacts, emails and photos, and make him the target of a police investigation. Mark, who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of potential reputational harm, had been caught in an algorithmic net designed to snare people exchanging child sexual abuse material.
Because technology companies routinely capture so much data, they have been pressured to act as sentinels, examining what passes through their servers to detect and prevent criminal behavior. Child advocates say the companies cooperation is essential to combat the rampant online spread of [sexual abuse imagery](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html). But it can entail peering into private archives, such as digital photo albums — an intrusion users may not expect — that has cast innocent behavior in a sinister light in at least two cases The Times has unearthed.
Jon Callas, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties organization, called the cases canaries **“**in this particular coal mine.”
“There could be tens, hundreds, thousands more of these,” he said.
Given the toxic nature of the accusations, Mr. Callas speculated that most people wrongfully flagged would not publicize what had happened.
“I knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be,” Mark said. “But I havent done anything wrong.”
The police agreed. Google did not.
## A Severe Violation
After setting up a Gmail account in the mid-aughts, Mark, who is in his 40s, came to rely heavily on Google. He synced appointments with his wife on Google Calendar. His Android smartphone camera backed up his photos and videos to the Google cloud. He even had a phone plan with Google Fi.
Two days after taking the photos of his son, Marks phone made a blooping notification noise: His account had been disabled because of “harmful content” that was “a severe violation of Googles policies and might be illegal.” A “learn more” link led to a [list of possible reasons](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/40695?hl=en), including “child sexual abuse & exploitation.”
Mark was confused at first but then remembered his sons infection. “Oh, God, Google probably thinks that was child porn,” he thought.
In an unusual twist, Mark had worked as a software engineer on a large technology companys automated tool for taking down video content flagged by users as problematic. He knew such systems often have a human in the loop to ensure that computers dont make a mistake, and he assumed his case would be cleared up as soon as it reached that person.
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![Mark, a software engineer who is currently a stay-at-home dad, assumed he would get his account back once he explained what happened. He didnt.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/19/business/00Google-Photo-02/00Google-Photo-02-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
He filled out a form requesting a review of Googles decision, explaining his sons infection. At the same time, he discovered the domino effect of Googles rejection. Not only did he lose emails, contact information for friends and former colleagues, and documentation of his sons first years of life, his Google Fi account shut down, meaning he had to get a new phone number with another carrier. Without access to his old phone number and email address, he couldnt get the security codes he needed to sign in to other internet accounts, locking him out of much of his digital life.
“The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break,” he said.
In a statement, Google said, “Child sexual abuse material is abhorrent and were committed to preventing the spread of it on our platforms.”
A few days after Mark filed the appeal, Google responded that it would not reinstate the account, with no further explanation.
Mark didnt know it, but Googles review team had also flagged a video he made and the San Francisco Police Department had already started to investigate him.
## How Google Flags Images
The day after Marks troubles started, the same scenario was playing out in Texas. A toddler in Houston had an infection in his “intimal parts,” wrote his father in [an online post](https://googlemessingupmylife.quora.com/Google-incorrectly-judged-my-case-On-February-22nd-2021-Google-disabled-my-account-saying-I-had-seriously-violated-th) that I stumbled upon while reporting out Marks story. At the pediatricians request, Cassio, who also asked to be identified only by his first name, used an Android to take photos, which were backed up automatically to Google Photos. He then sent them to his wife via Googles chat service.
Cassio was in the middle of buying a house, and signing countless digital documents, when his Gmail account was disabled. He asked his mortgage broker to switch his email address, which made the broker suspicious until Cassios real estate agent vouched for him.
“It was a headache,” Cassio said.
Images of children being exploited or sexually abused are [flagged by technology giants](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html) millions of times each year. In 2021, [Google alone](https://transparencyreport.google.com/child-sexual-abuse-material/reporting?lu=total_cybertipline_reports&total_cybertipline_reports=product:GOOGLE;period:2021H1) filed over 600,000 reports of child abuse material and disabled the accounts of over 270,000 users as a result. Marks and Cassios experiences were drops in a big bucket.
The tech industrys first tool to seriously disrupt the vast online exchange of so-called child pornography was PhotoDNA, a database of known images of abuse, converted into unique digital codes, or hashes; it could be used to quickly comb through large numbers of images to detect a match even if a photo had been altered in small ways. After Microsoft released PhotoDNA in 2009, Facebook and other tech companies used it to root out users circulating illegal and harmful imagery.
“Its a terrific tool,” the president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said [at the time](https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/microsoft-tackles-the-child-pornography-problem/).
A bigger breakthrough came along almost a decade later, in 2018, when Google [developed](https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/using-ai-help-organizations-detect-and-report-child-sexual-abuse-material-online/) an artificially intelligent tool that could recognize never-before-seen exploitative images of children. That meant finding not just known images of abused children but images of unknown victims who could potentially be rescued by the authorities. Google made [its technology](https://protectingchildren.google/#tools-to-fight-csam) available to other companies, including [Facebook](https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/preventing-child-exploitation-on-our-apps/).
When Marks and Cassios photos were automatically uploaded from their phones to Googles servers, this technology flagged them. Jon Callas of the E.F.F. called the scanning intrusive, saying a family photo album on someones personal device should be a “private sphere.” (A Google spokeswoman said the company scans only when an “affirmative action” is taken by a user; that includes when the users phone backs up photos to the companys cloud.)
“This is precisely the nightmare that we are all concerned about,” Mr. Callas said. “Theyre going to scan my family album, and then Im going to get into trouble.”
A human content moderator for Google would have reviewed the photos after they were flagged by the artificial intelligence to confirm they met the federal definition of child sexual abuse material. When Google makes such a discovery, it locks the users account, searches for other exploitative material and, as required by [federal law](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2258A&num=0&edition=prelim), makes a report to the CyberTipline at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The nonprofit organization has become the clearinghouse for abuse material; it received 29.3 million reports last year, or about 80,000 reports a day. Fallon McNulty, who manages the CyberTipline, said most of these are previously reported images, which remain in steady circulation on the internet. So her staff of 40 analysts focuses on potential new victims, so they can prioritize those cases for law enforcement.
“Generally, if NCMEC staff review a CyberTipline report and it includes exploitative material that hasnt been seen before, they will escalate,” Ms. McNulty said. “That may be a child who hasnt yet been identified or safeguarded and isnt out of harms way.”
Ms. McNulty said Googles astonishing ability to spot these images so her organization could report them to police for further investigation was “an example of the system working as it should.”
CyberTipline staff members add any new abusive images to the hashed database that is shared with technology companies for scanning purposes. When Marks wife learned this, she deleted the photos Mark had taken of their son from her iPhone, for fear Apple might flag her account. Apple [announced plans last year](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-privacy.html) to scan the iCloud for known sexually abusive depictions of children, but the rollout was [delayed](https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22837631/apple-csam-detection-child-safety-feature-webpage-removal-delay) indefinitely after resistance from privacy groups.
In 2021, the CyberTipline [reported](https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline/cybertiplinedata) that it had alerted authorities to “over 4,260 potential new child victims.” The sons of Mark and Cassio were counted among them.
## No Crime Occurred
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Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
In December 2021, Mark received a manila envelope in the mail from the San Francisco Police Department. It contained a letter informing him that he had been investigated as well as copies of the search warrants served on Google and his internet service provider. An investigator, whose contact information was provided, had asked for everything in Marks Google account: his internet searches, his location history, his messages and any document, photo and video hed stored with the company.
The search, related to “child exploitation videos,” had taken place in February, within a week of his taking the photos of his son.
Mark called the investigator, Nicholas Hillard, who said the case was closed. Mr. Hillard had tried to get in touch with Mark but his phone number and email address hadnt worked.
“I determined that the incident did not meet the elements of a crime and that no crime occurred,” Mr. Hillard wrote in his report. The police had access to all the information Google had on Mark and decided it did not constitute child abuse or exploitation.
Mark asked if Mr. Hillard could tell Google that he was innocent so he could get his account back.
“You have to talk to Google,” Mr. Hillard said, according to Mark. “Theres nothing I can do.”
Mark appealed his case to Google again, providing the police report, but to no avail. After getting a notice two months ago that his account was being permanently deleted, Mark spoke with a lawyer about suing Google and how much it might cost.
“I decided it was probably not worth $7,000,” he said.
Kate Klonick, a law professor at St. Johns University who has written about [online content moderation](https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1598-1670_Online.pdf), said it can be challenging to “account for things that are invisible in a photo, like the behavior of the people sharing an image or the intentions of the person taking it.” False positives, where people are erroneously flagged, are [inevitable](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/136405) given the billions of images being scanned. While most people would probably consider that trade-off worthwhile, given the benefit of identifying abused children, Ms. Klonick said companies need a “robust process” for clearing and reinstating innocent people who are mistakenly flagged.
“This would be problematic if it were just a case of content moderation and censorship,” Ms. Klonick said. “But this is doubly dangerous in that it also results in someone being reported to law enforcement.”
It could have been worse, she said, with a parent potentially losing custody of a child. “You could imagine how this might escalate,” Ms. Klonick said.
Cassio was also investigated by the police. A detective from the Houston Police department called in the fall of 2021, asking him to come into the station.
After Cassio showed the detective his communications with the pediatrician, he was quickly cleared. But he, too, was unable to get his decade-old Google account back, despite being a paying user of Googles web services. He now uses a Hotmail address for email, which people mock him for, and makes multiple backups of his data.
## You Dont Necessarily Know It When You See It
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Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
Not all photos of naked children are pornographic, exploitative or abusive. [Carissa Byrne Hessick](https://law.unc.edu/people/carissa-byrne-hessick/), a law professor at the University of North Carolina who writes about child pornography crimes, said that legally defining what constitutes sexually abusive imagery can be complicated.
But Ms. Hessick said she agreed with the police that medical images did not qualify. “Theres no abuse of the child,” she said. “Its taken for nonsexual reasons.”
In machine learning, a computer program is trained by being fed “right” and “wrong” information until it can distinguish between the two. To avoid flagging photos of babies in the bath or children running unclothed through sprinklers, Googles A.I. for recognizing abuse was trained both with images of potentially illegal material found by Google in user accounts in the past and with images that were not indicative of abuse, to give it a more precise understanding of what to flag.
I have seen the photos that Mark took of his son. The decision to flag them was understandable: They are explicit photos of a childs genitalia. But the context matters: They were taken by a parent worried about a sick child.
“We do recognize that in an age of telemedicine and particularly Covid, it has been necessary for parents to take photos of their children in order to get a diagnosis,” said Claire Lilley, Googles head of child safety operations. The company has consulted pediatricians, she said, so that its human reviewers understand possible conditions that might appear in photographs taken for medical reasons.
Dr. Suzanne Haney, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, advised parents against taking photos of their childrens genitals, even when directed by a doctor.
“The last thing you want is for a child to get comfortable with someone photographing their genitalia,” Dr. Haney said. “If you absolutely have to, avoid uploading to the cloud and delete them immediately.”
She said most physicians were probably unaware of the risks in asking parents to take such photos.
“I applaud Google for what theyre doing,” Dr. Haney said of the companys efforts to combat abuse. “We do have a horrible problem. Unfortunately, it got tied up with parents trying to do right by their kids.”
Cassio was told by a customer support representative earlier this year that sending the pictures to his wife using Google Hangouts violated the chat services [terms of service](https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/9334169?hl=en). “Do not use Hangouts in any way that exploits children,” the terms read. “Google has a zero-tolerance policy against this content.”
As for Mark, Ms. Lilley, at Google, said that reviewers had not detected a rash or redness in the photos he took and that the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman.
Mark did not remember this video and no longer had access to it, but he said it sounded like a private moment he would have been inspired to capture, not realizing it would ever be viewed or judged by anyone else.
“I can imagine it. We woke up one morning. It was a beautiful day with my wife and son and I wanted to record the moment,” Mark said. “If only we slept with pajamas on, this all could have been avoided.”
A Google spokeswoman said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men.
## Guilty by Default
Ms. Hessick, the law professor, said the cooperation the technology companies provide to law enforcement to address and root out child sexual abuse is “incredibly important,” but she thought it should allow for corrections.
“From Googles perspective, its easier to just deny these people the use of their services,” she speculated. Otherwise, the company would have to resolve more difficult questions about “whats appropriate behavior with kids and then whats appropriate to photograph or not.”
Mark still has hope that he can get his information back. The San Francisco police have the contents of his Google account preserved on a thumb drive. Mark is now trying to get a copy. A police spokesman said the department is eager to help him.
Nico Grant contributed reporting. Susan Beachy contributed research.
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# Donald Trump and the Sweepstakes Scammers
It was nighttime in Atlantic City. A man with a tight Afro and a broken ankle hobbled on crutches toward the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. On the covered driveway, bathed in neon light, sat a Cadillac Allanté convertible—the grand prize in Trumps 1987 Drive-In Dreamstakes. The contest had been designed by Charles (Chuck) Seidman, a gregarious, boundlessly enthusiastic pitchman who called his business C.B.S.—short for C. B. Seidman Marketing Group—in the hope that the television station would sue him, giving him free publicity.
By the late eighties, America was in the grip of a sweepstakes mania. The industry had grown to an estimated value of a billion dollars, and every company, from Toys R Us to Wonder Bread, seemed to be running giveaways and promotions. Even Harvard Universitys alumni magazine was offering ten thousand dollars in Sony electronics. C.B.S. had a unique business proposition: it would come up with the promotion, print the entry forms, and even deliver the prizes. Brands hoping to capitalize on Americas obsession would pay C.B.S. one fee for a turnkey operation.
One of those brands was [Donald Trump](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/donald-trump). To entice larger crowds to his flagship casino, he had built a thirty-million-dollar parking garage. But not enough people were using it. Seidman suggested printing half a million promotional parking tickets. If visitors collected enough validation stickers, in the right combination, they could win prizes, including Walkmans, cash, an “Eternity of Vacations,” or even a Cadillac.
The Allanté cost fifty-five thousand dollars, about as much as a family home in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, where James Parker, the man on crutches, lived. Parker was a hypnotist and a magician, and he spoke with a stutter. He greeted the parking attendant and handed over his ticket. “Look, why dont you play?” the attendant said. “You only need one more sticker. Who knows. You might win!”
The attendant applied the final sticker, scratched off the gold coating, and offered his commiserations. Then he did a double take—Parker had won. He was ushered into a promotional booth, and, over the next twenty-four hours, Trumps P.R. machine began to whir. The attendant reappeared wearing a tuxedo. A photographer from the *Trump Today* newspaper popped a flashbulb. Parker held up the key and tried not to overdo his excitement. Those were his orders.
Parker was no lucky winner. He was part of a staggering scam that involved some of the biggest brands of the eighties: Ford, Holiday Inn, Nabisco, Royal Desserts. If you entered a sweepstakes competition in those years, it was likely run by C.B.S. You had no chance of winning—Seidman had built a sprawling network of “paper winners,” including a kung-fu master and a pet psychic, who helped him steal millions of dollars in cash and prizes, pulling off the biggest sweepstakes fraud the country had ever seen.
Chuck Seidman got into sweepstakes because they were the family business. During the sixties, as a teen-ager, he went to work at his fathers promotions company, in Philadelphia. Jack Seidman had been a communications expert with the Armys Signal Corps during the Second World War, and had pioneered the rub-off game card, using gold leaf to conceal a prize message. His company, Spot-O-Gold, created early lottery games for 7-Eleven and Kelloggs, and swiftly dominated the sweepstakes market. He hoped to hand down his business to his son.
Chuck Seidman, who had been forced to leave four separate high schools for showing up to class on drugs, was not an ideal successor. He became addicted to heroin and once was arrested during a methamphetamine sale; Jack had to persuade a judge to let him off. “I was in seven detoxes and none of them worked,” Seidman later told a court. In desperation, Jack hired Steven Gross, a friend of Seidmans in the grade above him, to come work at Spot-O-Gold. “Jack knew that I didnt drink or do drugs,” Gross told me. “So he asked me if I wanted to come to work with him, to keep his son on the straight and narrow.” But that was impossible. “Chuck was the kind of narcissistic personality—you couldnt tell him what to do,” Gross said. He added, “Chuck was fun to hang around.”
Gross, who was sixteen years old, discovered that he had a knack for promotions. When he wasnt looking after Seidman, he worked in the development department, and pitched a “Cone-O-Gold” for Baskin-Robbins, among other campaigns. Spot-O-Gold delivered tamper-proof rub-off cards to supermarkets, in armored Brinks trucks, but light-fingered Seidman stole piles of two-dollar winners. He spent the cash on the [Atlantic City](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-death-and-life-of-atlantic-city) boardwalk, hitting on girls. Gross was his designated driver.
Gross eventually left for college, then sold lingerie, and later cars. Back home, Seidmans addictions consumed him. By twenty-five, he was spending three hundred dollars a day on cocaine. Dealers at a local Lebanese restaurant blackmailed him to steal prizes. “I stole a thousand-dollar game ticket from my fathers company to pay that cocaine debt,” he later confessed. “That was the first time.” In 1984, Jack paid off sixty thousand dollars in drug debt for his son.
The following year, Jack discovered that Seidman, now thirty-four, was regularly stealing winning tickets, and a fistfight broke out. “He went to hit me. I blocked it,” Seidman later recalled. During the spat, Jack crumpled to the ground, cracking his ten-thousand-dollar Rolex. Seidman penned a poisonous letter to his father: “I will fight you with everything and anything I have with a promise to God that whatever happens, you will not walk away from this a very happy man.”
His first act of revenge was to purchase several VCRs and televisions on his fathers charge account, and sell them for cash. “He had no autonomy whatsoever,” Gross told me. “He felt like he was really under his fathers thumb.” Not long afterward, Seidman called Gross to pitch an idea. They would start their own sweepstakes company and beat his father at his own game.
One by one, Seidman lured away his fathers clients with ingenious pitches for new sweepstakes. (He had learned to hide his drug use, and to harness psychedelics for out-of-the-box thinking.) Having grown up coveting his fathers gaudy displays of wealth, he specialized in conceiving elaborate prizes. For Alpo, a dog-food brand, he suggested giving away a luxury holiday to one lucky winner—and forty-nine of their closest friends and family members. He leased a cramped office in the basement of an apartment building, and hired an assistant.
“Thats when we ended up getting company American Express cards,” Gross told me. “I started to see why his father couldnt deal with him.” Seidman spent thousands of dollars on designer suits and purchased sixteen season tickets for Philadelphia Eagles games. He also opened a distribution arm of the company to handle mail-in promotions for brands. To run it, he hired two teen-agers he had met in the parking lot of a Wawa sandwich shop, Timothy Dagit and Louis Mazzio, and encouraged them to work for little money, calling it “sweat capital.” (Neither Dagit nor Mazzio agreed to an interview.)
Out from under Jacks watchful eye, Seidman and Gross realized that they could pilfer some of the prizes. Gross conspired to rig a Royal Desserts competition to win ten supermarket-sweep trips to Toys R Us. At the time, there was little regulatory oversight for sweepstakes. No single set of laws governed contests, and the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission couldnt make up their minds, or work together on enforcement. “To be honest, I looked at it as a victimless crime,” Gross told me. The brands still got their publicity.
Seidman encouraged Gross to buy a limousine so that the pair would “look successful” when they attended meetings. Soon, Seidman co-owned a company, called Ride in Style, that had three. (The limos looked new, but, under the hood, they were falling apart—someone had disconnected the odometers.) Seidman wore cowboy boots and got a Rolex, which he had “won” in a competition, to match his fathers. He had terrible credit; when he wanted a BMW with a portable phone inside, and a luxury Cadillac, Gross signed the leases. Seidman started carrying a .357 Magnum around the office in a holster.
By the mid-eighties, Jack and Spot-O-Gold were in trouble. Competitors had rendered Jacks patent on the rub-off obsolete. “Somebody worked around it and did the *scratch*\-off,” Fred Sorokin, who worked for Spot-O-Gold, and later for C.B.S., told me. “Its a different process. Im sure Jack was furious about it.” This unfortunate turn compounded the pain of losing his relationship with his son. “I think Jack probably had a broken heart,” Sorokin said. In May, 1986, during a walk in Philadelphias Rittenhouse Square, Jack collapsed and died of a heart attack. Without its charismatic owner, Spot-O-Gold shuttered and Seidman stole its remaining clients.
C.B.S. was taking off. It rented an office in the same luxury tower where Charles Barkley lived. Gross, who took smoke breaks by the pool, would see him lying in the sun. “I got kind of tight with Charles,” Gross told me. Dr. J and the rest of the 76ers often hung out in the lobby. Meanwhile, Seidmans substance abuse accelerated. “I was on ten Valium pills or Xanax pills a day, and several tranquillizers,” he later recalled. In desperation, his wife, Susan, dialled a random hypnotherapist from the Yellow Pages. It was James Parker. “I get this phone call from this frantic woman,” Parker told me. “ I need you here—its an emergency. My husband is on drugs or drinking. Hes so messed up. We are about to lose everything.’ ” Parker had started studying hypnosis after watching a carnival stage show when he was seven years old. (He bought a hypnosis book, hoping to control his parents.) By his early twenties, he dreamed of becoming a famous stage hypnotist. In May, 1987, he arrived at Seidmans home. Parker put Seidman in a trance; when Seidman woke up, he announced that he was cured. (Susan declined my requests for an interview.)
Seidman promised to make Parker the most famous hypnotist in America. He said that hed book him on Oprah and Johnny Carson, and even get his image on the front of a Wheaties box. But, before all that, Seidman had a favor to ask. He needed Parker to pose as the lucky winner for the Trump Plaza sweepstakes. According to Parker, Seidman assured him that the scheme, though “not the most ethical,” was completely legal.
Parker had no problem taking from Trump. In the seventies, Trump and his father, who owned an enormous portfolio of rental buildings in New York City, had been accused of refusing to lease apartments to Black people. Parkers mother was part of an investigative team assembled by the citys human-rights division to expose the practice. “They would send a Black couple into a Trump property to rent something,” he told me. When the couple were told that there were no vacancies, a white employee would soon follow, and would be welcomed with open arms. Gross also found a way to justify the sweepstakes scheme. He knew that Trump “was screwing over all these people who worked on the casinos, and put a number of small businesses out of business,” he told me. “He was a con man.” (Trump did not respond to numerous requests for comment.)
Seidman sent his mistress, a legal assistant hed met at a TGI Fridays, to the casino to get the required stickers. “We had to obtain them at different times so that it didnt look like somebody went in there four days in a row,” Gross explained. They gave the fixed ticket to Parker, but there was a snag—he had crashed his motorbike while performing a skid, and his leg was in plaster. Driving to Trump Plaza would be difficult. Seidman and Gross also worried that his stutter might make him seem nervous. “We told him to act excited, but not to go crazy like people on game shows do, you know, jumping and screaming,” Gross said.
Three days after Parkers win, a catastrophic stock-market crash sent tremors through the American economy. Gross had instructed Parker to sell the Cadillac and open a new bank account to deposit the proceeds, but, after Black Monday, there were no buyers for a fifty-five-thousand-dollar luxury car, especially one featured in United Press Internationals annual list of “ins and outs.” (Donald Trump was in; the Allanté was out.) Eventually, they sold it to a dealer for half off. Parker kept four thousand dollars, but, unbeknownst to him, he was on the hook for taxes on the entire prize value. He booked a flight to Paris, where he had a date with a touring opera singer.
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# The architect who became the king of bank robberies
The period between 1850 and 1920 was full of colorful neer-do-wells.
Career criminals like Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Butch Cassidy gained infamy for their brazen bank heists. These rebels and rule-breakers were an unsavory byproduct of American individualism, plundering their way to financial success by nefarious means.
But one oft-forgotten man was more productive than them all.
**George Leonidas Leslie** led a double life: By day, he was a distinguished architect who hobnobbed with New York Citys elite denizens; by night, he was one of historys most prolific bank robbers.
Unlike other heisters of his time, Leslies approach was academic rather than brutish. He studied the anatomy of locks, drafted up blueprints of banks, and invented mechanical safe-breaking devices.
During his “career,” authorities estimated that his exploits accounted for **80% of all bank robberies** in the entire US during his active years of 1869-78.
Altogether, he stole at least $7m (**$200m in todays money**), much of it pilfered from the bank vaults of Americas wealthiest titans.
The final bank heist he orchestrated is still, to this day, the largest in US history — an astounding $81m haul, adjusted for inflation.
But a mysterious murder would prevent him from ever seeing it play out. 
#### **A man of good standing**
Born in 1842 to relative wealth, Leslie enjoyed a much different upbringing than most outlaws of his time, according to biographer J. North Conway, who explored Leslies life in the book “[*The King of Heists*](https://www.amazon.com/King-Heists-Sensational-Robbery-Shocked/dp/1599215381/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+heists&qid=1660886437&sr=8-1).”
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When the Civil War broke out, Leslies father, a successful brewery owner in Toledo, Ohio, paid a sum of $300 (~$10.7k today) to relieve his son of his military obligation.
Instead, Leslie enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, graduated with high honors from the architecture program, and opened his own successful firm.
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cin.png)
*No known photographs of Leslie exist, so heres Cincinnati, his college city, in the 1840s (NYPL Digital Collections; John Caspar Wild, Henry Robinson)*
By all accounts, Leslie was a bright, upstanding businessman with a promising future in legitimate enterprises.
But after his parents died, he had a sudden change of heart.
In 1869, he sold the family home and his architecture firm and set off for New York City. Before leaving town, Leslie explained his motive to friends: He wanted to [pursue](https://www.amazon.com/King-Heists-Sensational-Robbery-Shocked/dp/1599215381/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+heists&qid=1660886437&sr=8-1) “easy money.”
Once in New York, Leslie wasted no time falling in with an impressive cast of characters.
He took up residence at the prestigious [Fifth Avenue Hotel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Hotel) — a gathering place for the ultra-elite of the Gilded Age, including shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and then-president Ulysses S. Grant.
Though he wasnt a millionaire himself, Leslie ingratiated himself into the high-status world, donning the finest suits, attending theater openings, and collecting rare books. 
His apparent wealth and pedigree gained him the friendship of robber barons like [Jim Fisk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)) (a millionaire who cornered the gold market and orchestrated [Black Friday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869))), [Jay Gould](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jay-Gould) (a railroad magnate), and [“Boss” Tweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed) (a corrupt politician who embezzled millions from taxpayers).
These men, and other members of high society, saw Leslie as a bon vivant of the highest order and accepted him with open arms.
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/roberbarons.jpg)
*Jim Fisk (left) and Jay Gould (right) were robbers of their own kind, amassing extraordinary wealth by sometimes ruthless means (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress)*
But Leslie had an ulterior motive.
As Conway wrote, the 27-year-old gentleman was secretly obsessed with pulp Western novels and the hijinks of outlaws like Jesse James.
Hed come to New York City not to hobnob with pin-stripe bankers, but to *rob* the very banks where they were housing their riches.
And before long, he began to seek out a second, much different social group — one that could bring his vision to life.
#### **Dipping a toe in the dark water**
Leslie, of course, faced a problem.
Robbing banks wasnt exactly the kind of profession one could learn from books. It required a strong connection to the criminal underworld. And he found just that in a [woman](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-life-and-crimes-of-old-mother-mandelbaum-71693582/) named **Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum**.
Mandelbaum was New Yorks greatest “[fencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)).”
Working with an expansive band of criminals and pickpockets across the city, she housed and resold millions of dollars of stolen goods — largely with impunity. Like Leslie, she was “in” with the elites, whom she hosted at extravagant parties in a home appointed with ill-gotten luxuries.
Introduced through Fisk, Leslie and Mandelbaum hit it off in grand fashion. 
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mandelbaum.png)
*Top left: Marm Mandelbuam(“Sins of New York: As Exposed by the Police Gazette;” Edward Van Every); Top right: Mandelbaums residence; Bottom: A depiction of a typical Mandelbaum dinner party (“Recollections of a New York Chief of Police,” George Washington Walling; 1877)*
At the time, modern bank vault locks were thought to be unbreakable. Most bank robbers relied on explosives to break into vaults — a loud and messy affair. A few others tried, mostly without success, to crack safes by listening to tiny clinks in the lock with a stethoscope.
Leslie had a different proposal that intrigued Mandelbaum:
1. As an architect, he could study the blueprints of the banks and identify weak spots and points of entry.
2. He was mechanically gifted and had an idea for a small device that could be inserted into a lock to open it by nonviolent means.
3. He was trusted, and nobody would suspect him.
After a few months of feeling out the newcomer, Mandelbaum decided to give Leslie a shot at his first bank robbery.
She assigned him a crew of accomplices, including [Tom “Shang” Draper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Draper_(criminal)), a con artist and lifelong crook; “Red” Leary, a towering, redheaded enforcer; and Johnny Dobbs, a notorious safecracker.
Leslie selected his first target — **Ocean National Bank** in New York City — and began a laborious, three-month-long planning process.
His preparations entailed the following:
1. Months ahead of time, Leslie deposited a large sum of money at the bank and befriended the banks president.
2. He used this new friendship to get a young boy (who was, unbeknownst to the president, a member of the gang) employed at the bank.
3. He took frequent trips to the bank to make withdrawals, carefully observing the layout — the entrances and exits, the furniture, the exact location of the vault — then drew up detailed blueprints from memory.
4. He built a small replica of the bank in an empty warehouse.
5. He determined the exact type of lock used on the vault, then purchased a similar model to experiment with at home.
6. He built a small device, called the “**little joker**,” that he could insert behind the dial of the lock and use to crack the code. 
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/vault.png)
*A typical bank vault in the late 1800s (“Recollections of a New York Chief of Police,” George Washington Walling; 1877)*
His men were not happy with the slow process. They just wanted to blow stuff up.
But Leslie instructed them to do nightly rehearsals for weeks using his replica, playing out various scenarios in a dark warehouse.
In June 1869, Leslie made his move.
First, the planted employee let him in at night, after the guards had gone, and he installed his little joker device, a tiny tin wheel with a metal wire around it that went behind the combination knob of the vaults lock. 
When the tellers used the vault the next day, the little joker, hidden behind the dial, would get etched with deep cuts where the three numbers of the code were, limiting the combination to just a few possibilities.
Several nights later, Leslie and his crew entered the bank again, removed the little joker, and used the etches to crack the lock.
This only gained them entry through the *first* door: The safe had three of them, each built of thick iron. And inside the vault the safes had to be opened, too.
For this, the crew relied on a bevy of “ingenious” tools — jimmies, wedges, sledges, nippers, and drills.
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/tools.png)
*Tools of the bank robber trade, as coiled by a police chief (“Recollections of a New York Chief of Police,” George Washington Walling; 1877)*
The following morning, bank officials arrived at a [chaotic scene](https://books.google.com/books/about/Recollections_of_a_New_York_Chief_of_Pol.html?id=k39DAAAAIAAJ): floors strewn with coins, bank notes, and drill bits. But the main door to the vault was intact, which stumped investigating police officers.
*The New York Herald* declared it “a masterful bank job pulled off by one very special bank robber.” A report in *The New York Times* remarked that a robbery of this type was “a thing never heard of before.”
In sum, Leslie and his crew made off with **$768,879.74** (~$27.5m today) — a record-setting sum.
And that was just the beginning.
#### **Americas most prolific bank robber**
Over the following years, Leslie employed similar tactics in a torrent of robberies across the East Coast.
At a time when the average annual wage in New York was [<$1k/year](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075932602&view=1up&seq=108), Leslies heists often pulled in five- or six-figure sums in one night:
- 1869: Boylston Bank (MA) — **$500k** ($10.8m today)
- 1870: Auburn City Bank (NY) — **$31k** ($701k)
- 1871: South Kensington National Bank (NY) — **$100k** ($2.4m)
- 1871: National Bank of Baltimore (MD) — **$234k** ($5.7m)
- 1872: Lycoming Insurance Company (PA) — **$30k** ($728k)
- 1872: Third National Bank (MD) — **$140k** ($3.4m)
- 1872: Saratoga County Bank (NY) — **$300k** ($7.3m)
- 1873: Wellsboro Bank (PA) — **$90k** ($2.2m)
- 1873: Milford Bank (NH) — **$100k** ($2.5m)
Leslie began to gain recognition in criminal circles around the country and was soon enlisted as a bank robbery consultant, [charging a fee](https://www.amazon.com/King-Heists-Sensational-Robbery-Shocked/dp/1599215381/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+heists&qid=1660886437&sr=8-1) of **$20k** (~$500k) to look over other outfits plans and make suggestions.
In the meantime, he continued to charade as an upstanding member of society, socializing with well-respected members of the gentry class.
He married a woman in Philadelphia, under the auspices that he was an IRS detective. The couple moved into a 10-room, $100k ($2.5m) house in New York, which he furnished with a grand piano, a library, croquet grounds, and imported carpets.
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/newa.png)
*Leslies biggest bank heists were yet to come (various newspaper clippings from the 1870s)*
In 1876, Leslie chose his next big strike: **Northampton Bank**, situated in a quiet town in upstate New York.
Several years earlier, the bank had decided to install a supposedly [invincible](https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/northampton-national-bank-heist-biggest-u-s-history/) new lock that required both a key and a combination. 
Leslie had a trick up his sleeve.
He tracked down the lock salesman whod installed the new system and bribed him with a cut of the action. The employee, William Edson, made a copy of the keys and gave them to the banks cashier.
After weeks of staking out the location, Leslies men kidnapped the cashier and forced him to relinquish the key and the combination.
The robbers made off with **$1.6m** ($39m) in loot — but there was a serious problem. Most of the haul was in nonnegotiable bonds, which could only be cashed in by the person whose name was on the slip; only $12k was cash.
The heist ended up being mostly a bust and led to the arrests of several of Leslies henchmen.
Two years later, Leslie hit another snag: A similar botched bank robbery in Dexter, Maine, left an uncompromising cashier dead.
#### **The beginning of the end**
Beyond the failed robberies, things were beginning to turn sour between Leslie and his fellow delinquents — particularly, Shang Draper.
Draper didnt like that Leslie took 50% of the cut for himself and delegated the other 50% to the rest of the group. He also began to grow suspicious that Leslie was having an affair with his wife.
But Leslie was singularly focused on one thing: the biggest bank heist hed ever planned.
For three years, hed been meticulously mapping out a hit on the **Manhattan Savings Institution**, the largest and most formidable bank in the city.
“It was, by all accounts, a ponderous labyrinth of bolts, locks, and seemingly impregnable doors,” [wrote](https://www.amazon.com/King-Heists-Sensational-Robbery-Shocked/dp/1599215381/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+heists&qid=1660901666&sr=8-1) Conway in “King of Heists.”
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/manhattan.png)
*Top: A depiction of the formidable Manhattan Savings Institution (“Recollections of a New York Chief of Police,” George Washington Walling; 1877); Bottom: A diagram of the banks second story (The Hustle, via news archives)*
Leslie had done all of his regular due diligence:
1. He got to know the banks executives.
2. He planted an inside man as a bank guard.
3. He surveyed every inch of the bank and constructed a replica in his warehouse.
4. He determined the exact type of lock on the vault, bought the same model, and figured out how to crack it.
Except this time, he had a different plan: Hed turn his back on his gang at the last minute and work with another gang on the crime. After this one, he planned to bow out of the robbery game and resettle in another city.
“The bank Premises were as accurately surveyed by Leslie as they would have been had a professional architect been employed,” New York police chief George Walling [wrote](https://books.google.com/books/about/Recollections_of_a_New_York_Chief_of_Pol.html?id=k39DAAAAIAAJ) later.
Everything was in place. But Leslie never got a chance to pull it off.
#### **A paupers grave**
In October 1878, Leslies gang used the architects plans to break into the Manhattan Savings Institution.
The crew made off with **$2,747,700**, ~$81m in todays money — an inflation-adjusted figure never matched even today.
![](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/biggest.png)
*Zachary Crockett / The Hustle*
New York reports at the time dubbed the heist “the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country.”
But its mastermind — a man who police say was involved with more than [100 bank robberies](https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1927-12-31/flipbook/022/) through his nine-year career — wasnt there to see it happen.
On June 4, 1878, several months earlier, Leslies decomposing body had been [discovered](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/530694260/?terms=%22George%20Leonidas%20Leslie%22&match=1) near Yonkers along the Hudson River.
Hed been shot dead at the age of 36.
While the murder was never solved, there was a strong suspicion that Leslies colleague Draper was the culprit.
Leslies funeral was a curious affair. A mishmash of crime lords, cops, and financiers, it was the perfect manifestation of his dual existence.
In obituaries, he was at once described as “a man of refinement and culture, a skillful mechanic,” and someone whose “aid and advice was secured in every one of the larger robberies that have been committed for the past 10 or 12 years.”
The nations most notorious bank robber was buried in an [unmarked grave](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17264205/george-leonidas-leslie) under his real name, George Howard — a fitting conclusion to the life of a man who lived in the shadows.
***Note****: For more on Leslies life and heists, check out “*[*King Of Heists*](https://www.amazon.com/King-Heists-Sensational-Robbery-Shocked/dp/1599215381/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+heists&qid=1660931064&sr=8-1)*” (J. North Conway), “*[*A Burglars Guide to the City*](https://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Guide-City-Geoff-Manaugh/dp/0374117268/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=burglars+guide+to+the+city&qid=1660931168&sr=8-1)*” (Geoff Manaugh), and this incredible* [*1887 memoir*](https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=k39DAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PP8&printsec=frontcover) *from a NYC police chief.*
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# The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval
A great upheaval is coming. Climate-driven movement of people is adding to a massive migration already under way to the worlds cities. The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced people will only become greater and more urgent. To survive climate breakdown will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.
The world already sees twice as many days where temperatures exceed 50C than 30 years ago this level of heat is deadly for humans, and also hugely problematic for buildings, roads and power stations. It makes an area unliveable. This explosive planetary drama demands a dynamic human response. We need to help people to move from danger and poverty to safety and comfort to build a more resilient global society for everyones benefit.
Large populations will need to migrate, and not simply to the nearest city, but also across continents. Those living in regions with more tolerable conditions, especially nations in northern latitudes, will need to accommodate millions of migrants while themselves adapting to the demands of the climate crisis. We will need to create entirely new cities near the planets cooler poles, in land that is rapidly becoming ice-free. Parts of Siberia, for example, are already experiencing temperatures of 30C for months at a time.
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[Arctic areas](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating) are burning, with mega-blazes devouring Siberia, [Greenland and Alaska](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/forests-changes-global-heating-arctic-amazon-studies). Even in January, peat fires were burning in the Siberian cryosphere, despite temperatures below 50C. These zombie fires smoulder year round in the peat below ground, in and around the Arctic Circle, only to burst into huge blazes that rage across the boreal forests of Siberia, Alaska and Canada.
In 2019, colossal fires destroyed more than [4m hectares of Siberian taiga forest](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-on-fire-siberia-hit-by-unprecedented-burning), blazing for more than three months, and producing a cloud of soot and ash as large as the countries that make up the entire European Union. Models predict that fires in the boreal forests and Arctic tundra will increase by up to four times by 2100.
Wherever you live now, migration will affect you and the lives of your children. It is predictable that Bangladesh, a country where one-third of the population lives along a sinking, low-lying coast, is becoming uninhabitable. (More than 13 million Bangladeshis nearly 10% of the population are expected to have left the country by 2050.) But in the coming decades wealthy nations will be severely affected, too.
This upheaval occurs not only at a time of unprecedented climate change but also of human demographic change. Global population will continue to rise in the coming decades, peaking at perhaps 10 billion in the 2060s. Most of this increase will be in the tropical regions that are worst hit by climate catastrophe, causing people there to flee northwards. The global north faces the opposite problem a “top-heavy” demographic crisis, in which a large elderly population is supported by a too-small workforce. North America and Europe have 300 million people above the traditional retirement age (65+), and by 2050, the economic old-age dependency ratio there is projected to be at 43 elderly persons per 100 working persons aged 2064. Cities from Munich to Buffalo will begin competing with each other to *attract* migrants.
![An aerial view of Fairbourne village in Gwynedd, north Wales, expected to be abandoned by 2045.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0acd79a8cb40c9ffb3d13d7d4941589a79f40be9/0_0_8640_5760/master/8640.jpg?width=380&quality=85&fit=max&s=1771ba36b8bd855a8769715147673bab)
An aerial view of Fairbourne village in Gwynedd, north Wales, expected to be abandoned by 2045. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
The coming migration will involve the worlds poorest fleeing deadly heatwaves and failed crops. It will also include the educated, the middle class, people who can no longer live where they planned because its impossible to get a mortgage or property insurance; because employment has moved elsewhere. The climate crisis has already uprooted millions in the US in 2018, 1.2 million were displaced by extreme conditions, fire, storms and flooding; by 2020, the annual toll had risen to 1.7 million people. The US now averages a [$1bn](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2021-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-historical) disaster every 18 days.
More than half of the western US is facing extreme drought conditions, and farmers in Oregons Klamath Basin talk about illegally using force to open dam gates for irrigation. At the other extreme, fatal floods have stranded thousands of people from Death Valley to Kentucky. By 2050, half a million existing US homes will be on land that floods at least once a year, according to data from Climate Central, a partnership of scientists and journalists. [Louisianas Isle de Jean Charles](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/15/louisiana-isle-de-jean-charles-island-sea-level-resettlement) has already been allocated $48m of federal tax dollars to move the entire community due to coastal erosion and rising sea levels; in Britain, the [Welsh villagers of Fairbourne](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/this-is-a-wake-up-call-the-villagers-who-could-be-britains-first-climate-refugees) have been told their homes should be abandoned to the encroaching sea as the entire village is to be “decommissioned” in 2045. Larger coastal cities are at risk, too. Consider that the Welsh capital, Cardiff, is projected to be two-thirds underwater by 2050.
The UN International Organization for [Migration](https://www.theguardian.com/world/migration) estimates that there could be as many as 1.5 billion environmental migrants in the next 30 years. After 2050, that figure is expected to soar as the world heats further and the global population rises to its predicted peak in the mid 2060s.
The question for humanity becomes: what does a sustainable world look like? We will need to develop an entirely new way of feeding, fuelling and maintaining our lifestyles, while also reducing atmospheric carbon levels. We will need to live in denser concentrations in fewer cities, while reducing the associated risks of crowded populations, including power outages, sanitation problems, overheating, pollution and infectious disease.
At least as challenging, though, will be the task of overcoming the idea that we belong to a particular land and that it belongs to us. We will need to assimilate into globally diverse societies, living in new, polar cities. We will need to be ready to move again when necessary. With every degree of temperature increase, roughly 1 billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. We are running out of time to manage the coming upheaval before it becomes overwhelming and deadly.
Migration is not the problem; it is the solution.
How we manage this global crisis, and how humanely we treat each other as we migrate, will be key to whether this century of upheaval proceeds smoothly or with violent conflict and unnecessary deaths. Managed right, this upheaval could lead to a new global commonwealth of humanity. Migration is our way out of this crisis.
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Migration, whether from disaster to safety, or for a new land of opportunity, is deeply interwoven with cooperation it is only through our extensive collaborations that we are able to migrate, and its our migrations that forged todays global society. Migration made us. It is our national identities and borders that are the anomaly.
The idea of keeping foreign people out using borders is relatively recent. States used to be far more concerned about stopping people from leaving than preventing their arrival. They needed their labour and taxes.
Some may think that its flags, anthems and an army to guard your territory thats needed to develop a sense of nationhood. But in fact, the credit should go to a successful bureaucracy. Greater government intervention in peoples lives and the creation of a broad systemic bureaucracy were needed to run a complex industrial society and these also forged national identity in its citizens. For instance, Prussia began paying unemployment benefit in the 1880s, which was issued initially in a workers home village, where people and their circumstances were known. But it was also paid to people where they migrated for work, which meant a new layer of bureaucracy to establish who was Prussian and therefore entitled to benefits. This resulted in citizenship papers and controlled borders. As governments exerted greater control, people got more state benefits from their taxes, and more rights, such as voting, which engendered a feeling of ownership over the state. It became their nation.
Nation states are an artificial social structure predicated on the mythology that the world is made of distinct, homogenous groups that occupy separate portions of the globe, and claim most peoples primary allegiance. The reality is far messier. Most people speak the languages of multiple groups, and ethnic and cultural pluralism is the norm. The idea that a persons identity and wellbeing is primarily tied to that of one invented national group is far-fetched, even if this is presupposed by many governments. The political scientist Benedict Anderson famously described nation states as “imagined communities”.
![An Afghan family relocating from a drought-stricken area the countrys Badghis province in 2021.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/47886f3115b8851acaaa52cf7dfc7d5fac72c7a6/0_157_4716_2830/master/4716.jpg?width=880&quality=85&fit=max&s=46fcf8eab5853d5525595437fa24e7b7)
An Afghan family relocating from a drought-stricken area the countrys Badghis province in 2021. Photograph: Hoshang Hashimi/AFP/Getty Images
It is hardly surprising that the nation-state model so often fails there have been about 200 civil wars since 1960. However, there are plenty of examples of nation states that work well despite being made up of different groups, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Tanzania, or nations created from global migrants like Australia, Canada and the US. To some degree, all nation states have been formed from a mixture of groups. When nation states falter or fail, the problem is not diversity itself, but not enough official inclusiveness equity in the eyes of the state, regardless of which other groups a person belongs to. An insecure government allied to a specific group, which it favours over others, breeds discontent and pitches one group against others this results in people falling back on trusted alliances based on kinship, rather.
A democracy with a mandate of official inclusiveness from its people is generally more stable but it needs underpinning by a complex bureaucracy. Nations have navigated this in various ways, for example, devolving power to local communities, giving them voice and agency over their own affairs within the nation state (as is the case in Canada, or Switzerlands cantons). By embracing multiple groups, languages and cultures as equally legitimate, a country like Tanzania can function as a national mosaic of at least 100 different ethnic groups and languages. In Singapore, which has consciously pursued an integrated multi-ethnic population, at least one-fifth of marriages are interracial. Unjust hierarchies between groups make this harder, particularly when imposed on a majority by a minority.
In April 2021, Governor Kristi Noem tweeted: “South Dakota wont be taking any illegal immigrants that the Biden administration wants to relocate. My message to illegal immigrants … call me when youre an American.”
Consider that South Dakota only exists because thousands of undocumented immigrants from Europe used the Homestead Act from 1860 to 1920 to steal land from Native Americans without compensation or reparations. This kind of exclusive attitude from a leader weakens the sense of shared citizenship among all, creating divisions between residents who are deemed to belong and those who are not.
Official inclusion by the national bureaucracy is a starting point for building national identity in all citizens, particularly with a large influx of migrants, but the legacy of decades or centuries of injustice persists socially, economically and politically.
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The frontline in Europes war against migrants is the Mediterranean Sea, patrolled by Italian warships tasked with intercepting small EU-bound vessels and forcing them instead to ports in Libya on the north African coast. One such warship, the [Caprera](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/world/europe/italy-warship-migrants-libya-cigarettes-smuggling.html), was singled out for praise by Italys anti-migrant interior minister for “defending our security”, after it intercepted more than 80 migrant boats, carrying more than 7,000 people. “Honour!” he tweeted, posting a photo of himself with the crew in 2018.
However, during an inspection of the Caprera that same year, police discovered more than 700,000 contraband cigarettes and large numbers of other smuggled goods imported by the crew from Libya to be sold for profit in Italy. On further investigation, the smuggling enterprise turned out to involve several other military ships. “I felt like Dante descending into the inferno,” said Lt Col Gabriele Gargano, the police officer who led the investigation.
The case highlights a central absurdity around todays attitude to migration. Immigration controls are regarded as essential but for people, not stuff. Huge effort goes into enabling the cross-border migration of goods, services and money. Every year more than 11bn tonnes of stuff is shipped around the world the equivalent of 1.5 tonnes per person a year whereas humans, who are key to all this economic activity, are unable to move freely. Industrialised nations with big demographic challenges and important labour shortages are blocked from employing migrants who are desperate for jobs.
Currently, there is no global body or organisation overseeing the movement of people worldwide. Governments belong to the International Organization for Migration, but this is an independent, “related organisation” of the UN, rather than an actual UN agency: it is not subject to the direct oversight of the general assembly and cannot set common policy that would enable countries to capitalise on the opportunities immigrants offer. Migrants are usually managed by each individual nations foreign ministry, rather than the labour ministry, so decisions are made without the information or coordinated policies to match people with job markets. We need a new mechanism to manage global labour mobility far more effectively and efficiently it is our biggest economic resource, after all.
![The aftermath of wildfires that burned more than 1m hectares of forests in Siberias Krasnoyarsk territory in 2019.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/52587bb1895a647b7e92d833be9d2d2e8c0cceaa/0_342_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=880&quality=85&fit=max&s=ca4081de6bdbcaa96298cf94ae25d194)
The aftermath of wildfires that burned more than 1m hectares of forests in Siberias Krasnoyarsk territory in 2019. Photograph: Donat Sorokin/Tass
The conversation about migration has become stuck on what ought to be allowed, rather than planning for what will occur. Nations need to move on from the idea of controlling to managing migration. At the very least, we need new mechanisms for lawful economic labour migration and mobility, and far better protection for those fleeing danger.
Within days of Russias invasion of Ukraine in February, EU leaders enacted an open-border policy for refugees fleeing the conflict, giving them the right to live and work across the bloc for three years, and helping with housing, education, transport and other needs. The policy undoubtedly saved lives but additionally, by not requiring millions of people to go through protracted asylum processes, the refugees were able to disperse to places where they could better help themselves and be helped by local communities. Across the EU, people came together in their communities, on social media, and through institutions to organise ways of hosting refugees.
They offered rooms in their homes, collected donations of clothes and toys, set up language camps and mental health support all of which was legal because of the open-border policy. This reduced the burden for central government, host towns and refugees alike.
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Migration requires funds, contacts and courage. It usually involves a degree of hardship, at least initially, as people are wrenched from their families, familiar surroundings and language. Some countries make it almost impossible to move for work, and in others, parents are forced to leave behind children who they may never see grow up. An entire generation of Chinese children has reached adulthood seeing their parents only for a week or so once a year, during spring festival.
In China, hundreds of millions of people are caught in limbo between the village and cities, unable to fully transition due to archaic land laws and the lack of social housing, childcare, schools or other public facilities in the cities. The villages are sustained through remittances from absent workers, who cannot sell their farms for fear of losing their land, which is their only social security. Left-behind, isolated children then become primary caregivers for their ageing relatives. Migrant workers cannot afford to buy homes in the city and so return to the village on retirement, restarting the cycle.
In other cases, migrants pay huge fees to people traffickers for urban or foreign work, only to find themselves in indentured positions that are little better than slavery, working out their “contracts” until they can get their passports back and return home. What little money they do earn will be sent home. These include Asian construction workers and domestic workers in the Middle East and Europe, who have little protection and may end up in forced labour in the sex industry or in inhumane conditions in food processing or garment factories. Most migrants are trying to improve their lives, as we all do, by moving. Some are migrating to save their lives.
Ive visited people in refugee camps in different countries across four continents, where millions of people live in limbo, sometimes for generations. Around the world, whether the refugee camps were filled with Sudanese, Tibetans, Palestinians, Syrians, Salvadorans or Iraqis, the issue was the same: people want dignity. And that means being able to provide for their families being allowed to work, to move around, and to make a life for themselves in safety. Currently, too many nations make this wish though it is very simple and mutually beneficial impossible for those most in need of it. As our environment changes, millions more risk ending up in these nowhere places. Globally, this system of sealed borders and hostile migration policy is dysfunctional. It doesnt work for anyones benefit.
![A woman takes animals to safety as flood water rises in the coastal area in Khulna, Bangladesh, in August 2022.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/08847caf35ea1857e519c50f59bdee38506957fe/0_112_3360_2016/master/3360.jpg?width=880&quality=85&fit=max&s=ce360d8aa0b4ffa172a7d546b8423caf)
A woman takes animals to safety as flood water rises in the coastal area in Khulna, Bangladesh, in August 2022. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
We are witnessing the highest levels of human displacement on record, and it will only increase. In 2020, refugees around the world exceeded 100 million, tripling since 2010, and half were children. This means one in every 78 people on earth has been forced to flee. Registered refugees represent only a fraction of those forced to leave their homes due to war or disaster.
In addition to these, 350 million people are undocumented worldwide, an astonishing 22 million in the US alone, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates. These include informal workers and those who move along ancient routes crossing national borders these are the people who increasingly find themselves without legal recognition, living on the margins, unable to benefit from social support systems.
As long as 4.2 billion people live in poverty and the income gap between the global north and south continues to grow, people will have to move and those living in climate-impacted regions will be disproportionately affected. Nations have an obligation to offer asylum to refugees, but under the legal definition of the refugee, written in the 1951 Refugee Convention, this does not include those who have to leave their home because of climate crisis.
Things are beginning to shift, though. In a landmark judgment, in 2020, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled that climate refugees cannot be sent home, meaning that a state would be in breach of its human rights obligations if it returns someone to a country where due to the climate crisis their life is in danger. However, the rulings of the committee are not internationally binding.
Today, the 50 million climate-displaced people already outnumber those fleeing political persecution. The distinction between refugees and economic migrants is rarely a straightforward one, and further complicated by the climate crisis. While the dramatic devastation of a hurricane erasing whole villages can make refugees of people overnight, more often the impacts of climate breakdown on peoples lives are gradual another poor harvest or another season of unbearable heat, which becomes the catalyst/crisis that pushes people to seek better locations.
This should give the world time to adapt to the mass migrations to come that ultimate climate adaptation. But instead, as environments grow ever more deadly, the worlds wealthiest countries spend more on militarising their borders creating a climate “wall” than they do on the climate emergency. The growth in offshore detention and “processing” centres for asylum seekers not only adds to the death toll, but is among the most repugnant features of the rich worlds failure to ease the impact of the climate crisis on the poorest regions. We must be alert to “climate nationalists” who want to reinforce the unequal allocation of our planets safer lands.
The planetary scale crisis demands a global climate migration pact, but in the meantime, regional free movement agreements of the kind EU member states enjoy would help. Such agreements have helped residents of disaster-hit Caribbean islands find refuge in safer ones.
Climate change is in most cases survivable; it is our border policies that will kill people. Human movement on a scale never before seen will dominate this century. It could be a catastrophe or, managed well, it could be our salvation.
This article was amended on 19 August 2022 to remove the suggestion that there were arboreal forests in Greenland.
*This is an edited extract from Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince, published by Allen Lane on 25 August. To order a copy, go to [guardianbookshop.com](https://guardianbookshop.com/nomad-century-9780241522318)*
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# U.S. Ship Sunk by Germans in 1917 Is Found Off English Coast
The ship, the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, was the first U.S. destroyer to be lost to enemy action. It had been missing for more than a century.
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The U.S.S. Jacob Jones, sunk by a German submarine in 1917, was the first U.S. destroyer to be lost to enemy action.CreditCredit...U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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The wreck of the first U.S. Navy destroyer lost to enemy action has been found off the coast of southwest England, 105 years after it was sunk by a German submarine.
A team of British divers announced the find on [Facebook last week](https://www.facebook.com/steve.mortimer.121/posts/pfbid0p1Y7AnkWmNeLwaAuDFkGgwS2WJhnsNHRo2adfU1LGzSDfU6VDbJSm97vE4e48vk6l), saying it was thrilled to have located the World War I ship, the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, about 60 nautical miles south of Newlyn, a fishing harbor in Cornwall.
Rick Ayrton, a retired dentist and one of the six divers on the expedition, said that when he reached the ship, which lies nearly 400 feet (120 meters) below the oceans surface, he could see the base of a gun mount on the deck of the ship, a sign that it had been a warship, not a cargo vessel.
Then, Mr. Ayrton found its rusty bell, lying in the mud to the side of the ship. He turned it upright, and once he made out the name “Jacob” on its side, the divers knew they had the right ship, which was named for a U.S. Navy officer from the early 19th century.
“We whooped through our breathing apparatuses, and we shook hands,” said Mr. Ayrton, who lives near Bristol, England. After spending about 20 minutes exploring the 260-foot shipwreck, the divers returned to the oceans surface, which took about three hours.
Mark Dixon, the leader of the diving group, called Darkstar, said the teams members were elated when it found the shipwreck on Aug. 11. “Its like a football team or baseball team that just won the trophy,” he said. (Just the day before, he noted, the group dove to another target that turned out to be a different shipwreck.)
The seas off the coast of Britain are filled with thousands of shipwrecks. But finding specific ones can be exceptionally difficult and risky, with some lying several hundred feet below the oceans surface, like the U.S.S. Jacob Jones.
More than a century ago, in 1917, after the U.S. entered World War I against Germany, the Jacob Jones left Boston for Ireland, where it performed rescue operations, picking up survivors from British steamships that had been hit by German submarines and escorting convoys through dangerous waters.
On Dec. 6, 1917, the warship left Brest, France, for Queenstown, Ireland, [according to U.S. naval records](https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/uss-jacob-jones-dd-61.html?fbclid=IwAR2-u1FdToU_G7M441Dr7JvEo4nQnek825Bw36XaQp8f-vEG8NgA5NrqQRE). About 20 miles off the coast of southern England, a German submarine torpedoed the Jacob Jones, rupturing its fuel oil tank. There were seven officers and 103 crew members aboard the ship at the time of the attack. Eight minutes later, the ship sank, and 64 men lost their lives. Some survivors, helped on to life rafts and boats by Lt. j.g. [Stanton F. Kalk](https://www.history.navy.mil/research/underwater-archaeology/sites-and-projects/ship-wrecksites/uss-jacob-jones-dd-61.html?fbclid=IwAR2-u1FdToU_G7M441Dr7JvEo4nQnek825Bw36XaQp8f-vEG8NgA5NrqQRE), were able to escape, though Kalk died of exhaustion and exposure.
As the warship sank, the captain of the attacking ship, the U-53, radioed to the U.S. base in Queenstown with the approximate location.
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![The Jacob Jones was sunk by a German submarine on Dec. 6, 1917. Seaman William G. Ellis escaped from the ship and took this photograph as it sank.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/16/science/16xp-shipwreck2/16xp-shipwreck2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Credit...Smithsonian
Out of respect for the ship and the people who died on it, the dive team members who located the shipwreck did not remove anything from the site, Mr. Ayrton said. “For all of our excitement and adventure now, they were fighting a life-and-death struggle over a hundred years ago,” he said. Darkstar is liaising with the U.S. Embassy in London and the [U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command](https://www.history.navy.mil/).
Among the first steps in attempting to locate the Jacob Jones was poring over U.S., British, German and French records to find out where the ship was most likely to be. Witness reports are often imprecise, Mr. Dixon said.
“Normally the sinking positions are really dodgy,” since survivors are worried about getting on lifeboats, not recording their exact positions, he said.
Dive team members consulted with Michael Lowrey, a naval historian and adjunct professor of economics based in Charlotte, N.C., who translated reports written by the German submarines commanding officer, Hans Rose, that included the position of the attack and a description of what had happened. Researchers examined British and American archives and looked at decades-old sonar surveys of the seabeds and looked for anomalies that might indicate wrecks.
“Its a really big deal, to be blunt,” said Mr. Lowrey, the naval historian. “The U.S. Navy got into World War I late, and they didnt lose a lot of major ships. The one destroyer they lost in combat was the Jacob Jones.”
After the discovery, the Darkstar diving team celebrated over crab salads and ales at the Red Lion Inn, a pub in Cornwall, and planned their next adventures. Among the targets: The H.M.S. Nottingham, a British ship that was sunk by a German submarine in 1916. Darkstar has tried to find it 19 times.
“Eventually itll be the one,” Mr. Ayrton said, “and itll turn up.”
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# Welcome to Philip K. Dicks dystopia
Philip K. Dick, whose novel *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* inspired the film *Blade Runner*, did not live to enjoy his Hollywood success. He died on March 2, 1982, three months before the film was released.
In the years since, the novelist once dismissed as a gutter pulp sci-fi weirdo has steadily climbed the ladder of posthumous literary reputation. The case for Dicks genius has never rested on his dystopian vision of technology, which he shared in common with masters like HG Wells and Stanislaw Lem, and with hundreds of sci-fi writers since. Good science fiction — as opposed to fantasy novels set on other planets — is defined by a quasi-philosophical examination of interactions between men and machines and other products of modern science. It is part novel and part thought-experiment, centered on our idea of the human.
What made Dick a literary genius, then, was not any special talent for predicting hand-held personal devices or atom bombs the size of a shoe which might have led him to a job in Apples marketing department. His gift was for what might be called predictive psychology — how the altered worlds he imagined, whether futuristic or merely divergent from existing historical continuums, would feel to the people who inhabited them. Dicks answer was, very often: “Not good.”
Dicks dystopian-psychological approach marks him less as a conventional science fiction writer than as a member of the California anti-utopian school of the Sixties, whose best-known members include Robert Stone, Thomas Pynchon, Ken Kesey, Joan Didion and Hunter Thompson. Seen from this angle, Dick was perhaps the most powerfully and sweepingly paranoid of a group of writers whose stock-in-trade was conspiracy and paranoia, the hallmarks of a society marked — at that moment, and this one — by violent street crime, drug-induced psychosis, and visionary promises gone terribly wrong. Of his anti-utopian peers, Dicks sci-fi genre background made him the only one who had any particular feel for the proposition that technology was inseparable from, and would therefore inevitably alter, our idea of the human.
Technology was and is perhaps the most Californian aspect of the American mythos. The idea that the universal constants of human nature were at war with the mutilating demands of technology-driven systems was a very Sixties Californian conceit, to which Dicks fellow anti-utopians each adhered in their own way: In Keseys showdown between man and the castrating nanny-state; in Didions emphasis on the vanishing virtue of self-reliance; in Pynchons degenerate Ivy League Puritanism; in Thompsons drug-addled primitivism; and in Stones Catholic idea of devotion to a God that might somehow salve the wounds of the survivors once the great American adventure goes bust.
What Dick saw, and what his fellow anti-utopians did not, was that human psychology and technology are not separate actors, and that whatever emerged from the other side of the future would be different to the human thing that entered it.
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Seeing and describing how large numbers of people will perceive reality before anyone else does requires imagining states of consciousness that, in the moment, seem deeply strange. It is no accident that the greatest of works of speculative psychology were written by revolutionaries whose outlook was often bleak to the point of despair. The negative tone of these works often led future generations to describe their authors as conservatives, though artistically and psychologically speaking, they are radicals. Or rather, in their rejection of the dominant order, they are radicals and reactionaries at the same time.
The anti-utopian tradition emerged in earnest in 19th-century Russia. The Russian pioneers of the genre were superior to their rivals in England and elsewhere because the latters visions were constrained by attachments to a settled society, which one can argue never really existed in Russia — and because the ideas of revolution and violent reaction have always been so closely allied in the Russian psyche. Fyodors Dostoyevskys *Notes From Underground* struck many of its initial readers as a kind of artless mental vomit, before revealing itself as a Rosetta Stone for the century of Adolf Hitler and Lee Harvey Oswald. Yevgeny Zamyatins *We* is probably the greatest of at least a dozen weirdly prophetic novels written in the years immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution. In *We*, Zamyatin predicted what a surveillance society run by engineers would feel like to its inhabitants with a nauseating accuracy that did not become fully apparent until the rise of the modern tech surveillance complex.
The Dick novel that directly predicted our information-addicted, socially-networked 21st-century society, *A Scanner Darkly*, was both a prophecy of future psychological states and a half-veiled memoir of Dicks own experiences in the California drug culture. Published in 1977, the book was a detective noir set in a druggy future in which large portions of the population appear to spend their lives scheming and snitching on each other to feed their addictions to a drug called Substance D — the “D” standing for Death, of course.
*A Scanner Darkly*, a reference to the line in Corinthians in which men at first see God “as in a glass, darkly”, is Dicks rawest book and the one that reads least like science fiction. The books protagonist is simultaneously a narcotics agent known to his peers as Fred and a Substance D addict named Bob Arctor. Fred/Arctor lives in a house — his former marital abode — with two fellow addicts, and is in love with another addict named Donna, who comes to visit him there. Donna helps Arctor obtain Substance D, which he consumes, while Fred uses Donna to attempt to climb higher on the drug distribution ladder. At the end of the novel, Donna turns out to be a drug agent, who is spying on Bob Arctor.
Whats so striking about the book is not Dicks heartfelt, if futuristically bent, portrayal of the evils of Sixties drug culture. For that, read Stone, who was a master of connecting the physical, mental and moral corruption of drug dealing and dependency, and the fantasies those pursuits inevitably engender to the deeper corruption of mans nature.
What Dick uniquely captured was something else: The degenerative effects of the split-screen existence of a human brain ceaselessly spying on and doubting and implicating itself while at the same time being spied on by others, all of whom are embedded within machine systems that record everything for reasons that humans cannot understand. Over the course of this machine-and-chemical fed process of human self-contradiction and self-destruction, of which Fred/Arctor is only intermittently aware, we see his thoughts and perceptions being short-circuited and reduced to gibberish.
Drug-induced paranoia aside, the psychology of Dicks addicts and narcs is as good a description as exists of the spreading incoherence of todays information ecosystem, which none of us are able to fully see or understand. As a thought experiment, it doesnt matter that Dick chose a drug rather than the stories we tell about ourselves and our world. Its not the technology; its the psychology. What Dick saw was that the process of splitting ourselves in two — into subject and narc — was a brutal assault on the idea of being human and would make thoughts and communication impossible.
“What does a scanner see?” Arctor wonders, after examining the surveillance apparatus that has been planted, with his knowledge, in his own home. “I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infra-red holographic scanner like they used to use, or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me into us clearly or darkly? I hope it does, see clearly,” Arctor continues, “because I cant any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyones sake, the scanners do better.” They dont.
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Jeremy Benthams panopticon, which the English philosopher sketched out in a series of letters between 1786 and 1788 while visiting  the Mogilev district of the Russian Empire, was an architectural system of control in which all inmates of an institution could be made visible to a single guard. Benthams utopian-utilitarian idea was widely applied in Victorian England to a range of public and private spaces including prisons, asylums, hospitals, factories and even schools. The unique horror of the Benthamite set-up was not the power imbalance inherent in places like prisons and factories, whose existence is obvious to guards and prisoners alike. It was the attempt to eliminate privacy, which is a necessary precondition for being human.
Over the last decade, Benthams architecture of unfreedom has been replaced by the architecture of machines. This has created a new social reality where everyone is at once inmate and guard; a panopticon where nothing is private and no one is free. The invisible operations of the machines and programmes we use every day to buy books or food or communicate, which are linked to each other and to the surveillance operations of large government agencies in a single net, induces in most sentient beings a kind of free-floating paranoia of the type that destroys the inhabitants of *A* *Scanner Darkly*. On the one hand, everyone knows that everyone is being watched. On the other, it is necessary to deny that knowledge in order to appear to be functioning normally.
One of the most unpleasant characteristics of the weird split-screen mentality of our times is how people must routinely speak against themselves — deny what they see, hear, feel and believe  — in order to maintain the appearance of sanity. It is now routine, for example, to hear Americans on the Left and the Right deride their political opponents for believing in far-reaching conspiracy theories — while in the next breath revealing their own.
No doubt both sides are at least half right. During lockdowns, it became normal for public officials in Western countries to issue draconian edicts in the name of “science” for the supposed good of large numbers of people, only to violate those edicts themselves. The meaning of “science”, it turned out, had nothing to do with the “common good”, or with demonstrating a theory through evidence; it was “one rule for me and another for thee”.
The flagrant doublespeak that is nurtured in the surveillance societies of the West, which have sprung up around us unnoticed, is characteristic of totalitarian societies and mental asylums. The difference is that both totalitarian societies and asylums allow for nonthreatening zones of privacy in order to make life easier for the guards. What we live in today is something else, a set of mirrors into which we are encouraged to look so that our reflections can be distorted and then returned to us. As Bob Arctor puts it, reflecting on the words of Corinthians: “it is not *through* glass but reflected *back* by a glass. And that reflection that returns to you: it is you, it is your face, but it isnt.”
Powerful people in Western societies have lately become convinced of their ability to accomplish great feats of moral and social engineering by controlling these mirrors, altering our reflections and selling them back to us, while undermining our ability to think coherently. The mirrors are not meant to help anyone think; they are systems of control. They are mechanisms of profit, which foster dependence. They are used to mete out punishment, and spy on us.
Whats alarming is that the people who delight in their mastery of these devices seem not to have thought very hard about the damage they are doing to the people who shoot up, a category that includes those who shoot up schools and malls. None of them seem to calculate what creating a miasma of nonsensical conspiracy theories will do to the psyches of their own children, who will inherit “the murk”. They appear to believe that people with minds that have been permanently broken by their gibberish machines will make the perfect workers on their farm. Lets see how that turns out for them.
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&emsp;
---
`$= dv.el('center', 'Source: ' + dv.current().Link + ', ' + dv.current().Date.toLocaleString("fr-FR"))`

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---
Tag: ["Art", "Cinema", "Blockbuster"]
Date: 2022-08-21
DocType: "WebClipping"
Hierarchy:
TimeStamp: 2022-08-21
Link: https://www.economist.com/business/2022/08/21/game-of-thrones-v-lord-of-the-rings-a-tale-of-old-v-new-hollywood
location:
CollapseMetaTable: Yes
---
Parent:: [[@News|News]]
Read:: No
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-GameofThronesvLordoftheRingsNSave
&emsp;
# “Game of Thrones” v “Lord of the Rings”: a tale of old v new Hollywood
[Business](https://www.economist.com/business/) | Dragons against hobbits
## A century-old studio wages a big-budget war against a streaming upstart
Half a billion dollars worth of swordplay, sorcery and sex is on its way to a small screen near you. On August 21st Warner Bros Discovery will launch “[House of the Dragon](https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/08/19/house-of-the-dragon-is-a-slick-follow-up-to-game-of-thrones)”, a spin-off of its racy smash-hit, “Game of Thrones”, made at a reported cost of over $150m. Hot on its heels, on September 1st Amazon Prime Video will release “The Rings of Power”, a more chaste but even pricier drama based on the “Lord of the Rings” books. With a rumoured pricetag of $465m, Amazons offering will be the most expensive piece of television ever made.
The near-simultaneous releases will make for an epic ratings battle. But they are also part of a longer-running war that pits old Hollywood studios against new streaming upstarts. Warner Bros, one of Americas most venerable film studios, will mark its 100th birthday next year. Amazon, which makes its money from e-commerce and cloud computing, launched its video sideline only five years ago. As the [streaming wars](https://www.economist.com/business/disney-netflix-apple-is-anyone-winning-the-streaming-wars/21807591) intensify, each side believes it has an advantage over the other.
Lately the dragons of old Hollywood have gained ground. Investors flocked to streaming specialists during the lockdowns of 2020-21, but have lost interest as [new subscribers have dried up](https://www.economist.com/business/netflix-sheds-subscribers-and-170bn-in-market-value/21808847). Netflix, which once talked of a potential market of 800m households, appears to have stalled at 220m and has seen its share price fall by 60% this year. On August 10th old Hollywood claimed a symbolic victory when Disney announced that it had overtaken Netflix, with 221m streaming subscriptions. That figure double-counts subscribers to Disneys various services, and ignores the fact that many are in low-paying countries like India. But Disneys success has banished any doubt that ageing studios can play the streaming game.
![](https://www.economist.com/img/b/608/814/90/media-assets/image/20220827_WBC596.png)
Hollywoods old hands are also refocusing on the business of making money, after two expensive years of chasing subscribers. Disney says its main streaming service, Disney+, will see its losses peak this year before turning a profit in 2024. A steep price rise, beginning in December, will help. On a recent earnings call David Zaslav, Warners new boss, bluntly criticised the old approach of “spend, spend, spend and then charge very little”. Warner will aim for its streaming business to generate a gross operating profit of $1bn by 2025, he said. “If we do that, I dont really care what the \[subscriber\] number is…We want to make sure we get paid.”
Old media formats will play a role in that. Cinemas, whose worldwide takings fell by 80% in 2020, are open again. The box office is still not what it was: Cineworld, the worlds second-largest theatre chain, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to the *Wall Street Journal*. But Paramount, a 110-year-old Hollywood dragon, held back the release of “Top Gun: Maverick” during the pandemic and was rewarded in May with a box-office run of over $1bn. Warner, which in 2021 released all its films on its streaming platform at the same time that they launched in cinemas, has gone back to exclusive theatrical runs.
Theme parks are full again, too, with Disneys American ones generating record revenues and margins. Even broadcast and cable tv, long in decline, look like relative safe havens as the streaming business gets tougher. “We effectively have four, five or six cash registers,” Mr Zaslav told investors. “And in a world where things are changing, and theres a lot of uncertainty and theres a lot of disruption, thats a lot more stable and a lot better than having one cash register.”
That may be a convincing argument against an upstart like Netflix, which depends entirely on streaming. The trouble for old Hollywood is that some of its new competitors have even bigger and more varied cash registers. Whereas Warners path to profit will involve drastic cuts—it has already scrapped its streaming news service, cnn+, and canned unfinished productions including “Batgirl”—Amazon shows no sign of tightening its belt. Besides the lavish “Rings of Power”, it [recently bought](https://www.economist.com/business/2021/05/22/amazons-future-beyond-jeff-bezos) Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the studio behind “James Bond”, for $8.5bn, acquired rights to the Americas National Football League worth a reported $1bn a year, and expanded its international output with its first Nigerian originals. Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, estimates that Amazon will spend $16bn on media content this year, the bulk of it video. That is more than Netflixs $14bn. Next year Amazons spending could reach $20bn.
Unlike the old Hollywood dragons, some new streamers dont even need to make sure they get paid, in Mr Zaslavs words. Amazon Prime Video exists to keep people signed up to Prime, whose main benefit is free delivery of Amazon purchases. Apples steadily expanding tv\+ service is geared towards keeping customers in Apples ecosystem of phones and computers, where the company makes its real money. The video services from Amazon and Apple also provide future real estate for advertising, a business in which both companies have ambition to grow.
Old Hollywood is fighting back, offering viewers bigger “bundles” of content at a reduced cost. Warner plans to combine its main streaming service, hbo Max, with Discovery+ next summer. Disney is experimenting with discounted packages of services like espn\+ and Hulu; some wonder if entry to its parks could one day form part of a Disney mega-bundle.
Yet Hollywoods new rivals offer bundles of a different sort. Apples video vault is far smaller than that of Disney or Warner, but its “Apple One” package includes not just tv but music, games, storage, news and fitness. (A subscription to the iPhone itself is reportedly in the works.) Amazon Prime comes with a similarly eclectic bunch of benefits. As households look for savings, all-media deals like these may prove tempting.
That may be why some old Hollywood dragons are deciding to do business with the upstarts. On August 15th Paramount announced a deal with Walmart, a giant retailer, in which members of Walmart+, the stores answer to Amazon Prime, will get free access to the Paramount+ streaming service. Like Amazon and Apple, Walmart sees media as a way to keep customers loyal to its main business. It recently added music to the Walmart+ bundle, via a deal with Spotify, the leading audio streamer.
As competition for viewers intensifies, the battle between old and new Hollywood is proving as bloody as an episode of “Game of Thrones”. For consumers, who have more choice and more deals than ever, it is just as entertaining.■
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---
Tag: ["Economics", "Nike", "MJ"]
Date: 2022-08-20
DocType: "WebClipping"
Hierarchy:
TimeStamp: 2022-08-20
Link: https://economicinsights.substack.com/p/republicans-buy-sneakers-too
location:
CollapseMetaTable: Yes
---
Parent:: [[@News|News]]
Read:: [[2022-08-21]]
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-RepublicansBuySneakersTooNSave
&emsp;
# “Republicans Buy Sneakers Too”
**The situation** 
38 years ago, Michael Jordan began his business relationship with *Nike*, establishing the still culturally dominant *Jumpman* brand. In 1990, Harvey Gantt, a Democrat and experienced former mayor of Charlotte, challenged the Republican incumbent and known racist Jesse Helms, for the Senate seat in Jordans home state of North Carolina. When Gantt lost, rather than focusing on the effective conservative campaign machine ensuring Helms victory, political observers zeroed in on Jordans refusal to endorse the progressive, after being quoted saying that “Republicans buy sneakers too”. Years later, for many, Jordans brand is intrinsically tied to this choice. So what is the potential friction between business interests and partisanship, and its long-run impact?
**The complication** 
The “partisan business cycle” is impactful, self-reinforcing, but self-defeating in the long-run. People naturally are attracted to others who think like them. Academic [research](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30182) finds that business owners are significantly likely to employ co-partisan workers. Research also finds that political matching is larger than matching along gender and racial lines. Our desire to be in tribes feels natural. And when we dont match with the dominant tribe in the private sector, there are consequences. Workplace preferences see co-partisan workers paid more and promoted faster, despite at times being less qualified. And in the long-run, because of these misplaced interests for ideological purity, for the practicing partisan firms, they grow less than comparable firms that dont filter non-believers out.
Who is being most impacted by this pursuit? Engelbergs research notes that on average, Republicans are more entrepreneurial. Conservatives start more firms than liberals, when reviewing a sample of 40 million party-identified Americans between 2005 and 2017, but this prevalence is cyclical. Republicans tend to increase their business activity during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic years of power; within similar results in reverse. The change of political regimes is more sensitively felt by male entrepreneurs, where men are 3.7 percent less likely to engage in entrepreneurship when politically mismatched with the *White House,* and for women this likelihood is only 1.6 percent lower.
An individuals economic agency is sensitive to their political identity. Individual confidence and the propensity to take on financial risk is dependent on believing in those with power, and we are more optimistic about the economy when our tribe leads. And this impact isnt just limited to immediate national borders. Though so far this narrative has been about the United States, [research](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1062940809000060) finds that Canadian equity investments and the *loonie* perform better when there is a Democratic *White House*. Seeing how interwoven politics and business has become, how does this hyper polarization end?
**The resolution**
In some respects, the worst case scenario is already playing out. Returning to the “partisan business cycle”, with our natural propensity to engage with like-minded people, division can be further fostered by the stop-and-go pattern of how economic regimes are cultivated by political elites. At a basic level, politicians seek to reduce unemployment and reward special interests in the advance of elections, only then to impose austere mandates in government through the *discipline of power* to temper inflationary pressures. This cycle intensifies existing political tribalism. The choosing of economic action once ones tribe is in power, or choosing to sit on the bench when the other party leads, plus the strategic machinations of politics itself, finds the boom-and-bust of conventional business cycles becoming unnecessarily dramatic. The electorates inability to engage, let alone acknowledge, the *other*, creates economic fragility.  
Maybe the young Michael Jordan had a point. Cooling political minds may require a new generation of leadership, in order to rehabilitate governing institutions. Changes that realize however uncomfortable, that we are better-off with *Jordans rule*. Plus, engaging in this process may have its own benefits. For FY2021, decades after its launch for *Nike*, the companys *Jordan* brand generated double-digit [sales growth](https://sports.yahoo.com/jordan-brand-leads-nike-resurgence-215515624.html) at 17 percent, valued at $42.3 billion (USD), remaining a culturally dominant brand for boomers, millennials, and Gen-Zers, alike. Amid growing political polarization that spills over national borders, America is best placed to build bridges of common interests, rather than deepen the divide, even if its one sneaker at a time.  
[Share Economic Insights](https://economicinsights.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share)
**Go deeper**
*Barack Obama Weighs in on Michael Jordan's Comment,* [CBS Sports](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/the-last-dance-barack-obama-weighs-in-on-michael-jordans-republicans-buy-sneakers-too-comment/) 
“When it was reported that Michael said 'Republicans buy sneakers too,' for somebody who was at that time preparing for a career in civil rights law and public life, and knowing what Jesse Helms stood for, you would have wanted to see Michael push harder on that," Obama said. "On the other hand, he was still trying to figure out, 'How am I managing this image that has been created around me, and how do I live up to it?. What Obama is referring to is Helms being one of the last open segregationists on Capitol Hill during his time as a Senator, who, in opposing the Civil Rights Act, called it "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress.” Jordan did not openly endorse the man opposing Helms, Harvey Gantt, while Obama apparently did back in the day. Helms would go on to win the 1990 election by a 53-47 margin."
*Partisan Entrepreneurship,* [Joseph Engelberg - NBER](https://www.nber.org/papers/w30249)
“We find sharp changes in partisan entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically active partisans: those that donate and vote.”
*Do Business Cycle Peaks Predict Election Calls in Canada?,* [European Journal of Political Economy](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0176268012000584)
“Our results suggest that business cycle peaks lead federal elections rather than the other way around. Such a finding reinforces the hypothesis of strategic election timing for such countries and is insightful in helping to explain why the presence of a political business cycle is harder to establish for parliamentary governments where the date of the next election is under the control of the incumbent governing party than in democratic systems where governing durations and election dates are fixed.”
*How Liberals and Conservatives Shop Differently,* [Nailya Ordabayeva - Harvard Business School](https://hbr.org/2018/06/how-liberals-and-conservatives-shop-differently) 
“Consumers are putting more pressure on companies to choose sides. But new research suggests consumers brand preferences are shaped not only by where companies stand on politically polarizing issues, but also by consumers own political affiliations and subtle brand associations. A series of surveys suggests that people who identify as conservative are more likely to want to do this by buying products marketed as “better,” while liberals are more drawn to messaging that emphasizes that the product is “different.”” 
*Michael Jordan Photos By David Banks,* [RollingStone Magazine](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-pictures/michael-jordan-photos-david-banks-chicago-bulls-1042672/2_jordanaboveshot011620-priority-1992-against-la-lakersc/)
[
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&emsp;
- [ ] :moneybag: [[@Finances]]: Transfer UK pension to CH 📅 2022-08-29
- [x] :moneybag: [[@Finances]]: Transfer UK pension to CH 📅 2022-08-29 ✅ 2022-08-21
- [x] [[@Finances]]: Closing accounts with [[hLedger]] 📅 2022-01-28 ✅ 2022-01-22
- [x] [[@Finances]]: Set up 2022 & CHF 📅 2022-01-23 ✅ 2022-01-22

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location:
CollapseMetaTable: Yes
TVShow:
Name: "The Wire"
Name: "Game of Thrones"
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Episode: 3
Source: Internal
---

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- [x] [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-02-15 ✅ 2022-02-14
- [x] [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-02-01 ✅ 2022-01-31
- [x] [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-01-18 ✅ 2022-01-17
- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-08-23
- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-08-23
- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-08-09 ✅ 2022-08-08
- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-07-26 ✅ 2022-07-25
- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2022-07-12 ✅ 2022-07-10
@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ This section on different household obligations.
- [ ] 🛎 🛍 REMINDER [[Household]]: Monthly shop in France 🔁 every month on the last Saturday 🛫 2022-08-01 📅 2022-08-27
- [x] 🛎 🛍 REMINDER [[Household]]: Monthly shop in France 🔁 every month on the last Saturday 🛫 2022-07-04 📅 2022-07-30 ✅ 2022-07-29
- [x] 🛎 🛍 REMINDER [[Household]]: Monthly shop in France 🔁 every month on the last Saturday 🛫 2022-05-30 📅 2022-06-25 ✅ 2022-06-24
- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-22
- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-29
- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-22 ✅ 2022-08-20
- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-15 ✅ 2022-08-12
- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-08 ✅ 2022-08-06
- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper 🔁 every week 📅 2022-08-01 ✅ 2022-07-31

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### Birthday
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Amaury de Villeneuve|Papa]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-08-30
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Amaury de Villeneuve|Papa]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2022-08-30
- [x] :birthday: Papa 🔁 every year 📅 2021-08-30 ✅ 2021-10-01
&emsp;

@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ style: number
&emsp;
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Hilaire Bédier|Hilaire]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-08-26
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Hilaire Bédier|Hilaire]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2022-08-26
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ style: number
&emsp;
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Laurence Bédier|Maman]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-04
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Laurence Bédier|Maman]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-04
- [x] :birthday: Maman 🔁 every year 📅 2021-09-04 ✅ 2021-10-01
&emsp;

@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ style: number
&emsp;
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Ophélie Bédier|Ophélie]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-05
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Ophélie Bédier|Ophélie]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-05
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ style: number
&emsp;
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Timothée Bédier|Timothée]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-24
- [ ] :birthday: **[[Timothée Bédier|Timothée]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2022-09-24
&emsp;
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Location: Soho
Country: UK
Status: Tested
CollapseMetaTable: yes
---

@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_place", {country: "CH", placetype: "Restaura
&emsp;
#### Middle Eastern
[[#^Top|TOP]]
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/query_place", {country: "CH", placetype: "Restaurant", style: "Middle Eastern"})
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;

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---
Alias: [""]
Tag: [""]
Date: 2022-08-19
DocType: "Place"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp:
location: [47.3745198,8.5206088]
Place:
Type: Restaurant
SubType: Fusion
Style: "Middle Eastern"
Location: Wiedikon
Country: CH
Status: Tested
CollapseMetaTable: yes
Phone: <a href="tel:+41442971100">044 297 11 00</a>
Email: "[info@bebek.ch](readdle-spark://compose?recipient=info@bebek.ch&subject=Reservierung)"
Website: "[Home - bebek](https://bebek.ch/)"
---
Parent:: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]], [[@Restaurants Zürich|Restaurants in Zürich]]
&emsp;
`= elink("https://waze.com/ul?ll=" + this.location[0] + "%2C" + this.location[1] + "&navigate=yes", "Launch Waze")`
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-BebekSave
&emsp;
# Bebek
&emsp;
> [!summary]+
> Note Description
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Contact
&emsp;
> [!address] 🗺
> Badenerstr. 171
> 8003 Zürich
> Switzerland
&emsp;
☎️ `= this.Phone`
📧 `= this.Email`
🌐 `= this.Website`
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Notes
&emsp;
Loret ipsum
&emsp;
&emsp;

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---
Alias: [""]
Tag: [""]
Date: 2022-08-20
DocType: "Place"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp:
location: [47.3740519,8.5135241]
Place:
Type: Restaurant
SubType: Fusion
Style: "Middle Eastern"
Location: Wiedikon
Country: CH
Status: "Not Tested"
CollapseMetaTable: yes
Phone: <a href="tel:tel:+41445360725">044 536 07 25</a>
Email: "[info@mezzerie.ch](readdle-spark://compose?recipient=info@mezzerie.ch&subject=Reservierung)"
Website: "[Home | Lemezzerie](https://www.mezzerie.ch/)"
---
Parent:: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]], [[@Restaurants Zürich|Restaurants in Zürich]]
&emsp;
`= elink("https://waze.com/ul?ll=" + this.location[0] + "%2C" + this.location[1] + "&navigate=yes", "Launch Waze")`
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-LeMezzerieSave
&emsp;
# Le Mezzerie
&emsp;
> [!summary]+
> Note Description
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Contact
&emsp;
> [!address] 🗺
> Bertastrasse 36
> 8003 Zürich
> Switzerland
&emsp;
☎️ `= this.Phone`
📧 `= this.Email`
🌐 `= this.Website`
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Notes
&emsp;
Loret ipsum
&emsp;
&emsp;

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---
Alias: [""]
Tag: ["Zürich", "Sport", "Polo"]
Date: 2022-08-20
DocType: "Place"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp:
location: [47.53507105,8.707479726475132]
Place:
Type: Sport
SubType: Polo
Style: Argentine
Location: Wintherthur
Country: CH
Status: Frequent
CollapseMetaTable: yes
Phone: <a href="tel:+41523350200">052 335 02 00</a>
Email: "[info@polopark.ch](readdle-spark://compose?recipient=info@polopark.ch&subject=Reservierung)"
Website: "[Startseite - Polopark](https://polopark.ch/)"
---
Parent:: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]], [[@Sport Zürich|Sport in Zürich]]
&emsp;
`= elink("https://waze.com/ul?ll=" + this.location[0] + "%2C" + this.location[1] + "&navigate=yes", "Launch Waze")`
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-PoloParkZurichSave
&emsp;
# Polo Park Zürich
&emsp;
> [!summary]+
> Note Description
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Contact
&emsp;
> [!address] 🗺
> Rietstrasse 12
8472 Seuzach 
Switzerland
&emsp;
☎️ `= this.Phone`
📧 `= this.Email`
🌐 `= this.Website`
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Notes
&emsp;
Loret ipsum
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
---
Alias: [""]
Tag: [""]
Date: 2022-08-20
DocType: "Place"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp:
location: [47.376432,8.5162699]
Place:
Type: Restaurant
SubType: Wirthaus
Style: German
Location: Wiedikon
Country: CH
Status: "Not Tested"
CollapseMetaTable: yes
Phone: <a href="tel:+41442916825">044 291 68 25</a>
Email: "[mail@rosi.restaurant](readdle-spark://compose?recipient=mail@rosi.restaurant&subject=Reservierung)"
Website: "[Restaurant ROSI | Zürich](https://www.rosi.restaurant/)"
---
Parent:: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]], [[@Restaurants Zürich|Restaurants in Zürich]]
&emsp;
`= elink("https://waze.com/ul?ll=" + this.location[0] + "%2C" + this.location[1] + "&navigate=yes", "Launch Waze")`
---
&emsp;
```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-RosiSave
&emsp;
# Rosi
&emsp;
> [!summary]+
> Note Description
&emsp;
```toc
style: number
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Contact
&emsp;
> [!address] 🗺
> Sihlfeldstr 89
> 8004 Zürich
> Switzerland
&emsp;
☎️ `= this.Phone`
📧 `= this.Email`
🌐 `= this.Website`
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Notes
&emsp;
Loret ipsum
&emsp;
&emsp;

@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/book_query", {sourcetype: "Book", language: "EN"})
#### International literature
[[#^Top|TOP]]
```dataviewjs
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/book_query", {sourcetype: "Book", language: ["BR", "ES", "NG"]})
dv.view("00.01 Admin/dv-views/book_query", {sourcetype: "Book", language: ["BR", "ES", "NG", "CH"]})
```
&emsp;

@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ Source:
Language: FR
Published: 2013
Link:
Read:
Read: 2022-08-20
Cover: https://books.google.com/books/content?id=QiHQMXVUcFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api
CollapseMetaTable: yes
---
Parent:: [[@Reading master|Reading list]]
ReadingState:: In progress
ReadingState:: [[2022-08-20]]
---

@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
---
type: "movie"
title: "Django"
englishTitle: "Django"
year: "1966"
dataSource: "OMDbAPI"
url: "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/"
id: "tt0060315"
genres:
- "Action"
- "Western"
producer: "Sergio Corbucci"
duration: "91 min"
onlineRating: 7.2
image: "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTA4M2NmZTgtOGJlOS00NDExLWE4MzItNWQxNTRmYzIzYmM0L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc1NTYyMjg@._V1_SX300.jpg"
released: true
premiere: "01/12/1966"
watched: true
lastWatched: "2022/08/19"
personalRating: 7
tags: "#mediaDB/tv/movie"
CollapseMetaTable: yes
---
Parent:: [[Cinematheque]]
---
```dataviewjs
dv.paragraph(`> [!${dv.current().watched ? 'SUCCESS' : 'WARNING'}] ${dv.current().watched ? 'last watched on ' + dv.current().lastWatched : 'not yet watched'}`)
```
&emsp;
# `$= dv.current().title`
&emsp;
`$= dv.current().watched ? '**Rating**: ' + dv.current().personalRating + ' out of 10' : ''`
```toc
```
&emsp;
### Details
&emsp;
**Genres**:
`$= dv.current().genres.length === 0 ? ' - none' : dv.list(dv.current().genres)`
`$= !dv.current().released ? '**Not released** The movie is not yet released.' : ''`
&emsp;
```dataview
list without id
"<table><tbody><tr><td><a class=heading>Type</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.type + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>Online Rating</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.onlineRating + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>Duration</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.duration + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>Premiered</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.premiere + "</span></td></tr>"
+
"<tr><td><a class=heading>Producer</a></td>"
+
"<td><span style='color: var(--footnote);'>" + this.producer + "</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"
FROM "03.04 Cinematheque/Django (1966)"
```
&emsp;
---
&emsp;
### Poster
&emsp;
`$= '![Image|360](' + dv.current().image + ')'`

@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ Overview of tasks & todos for lebv.org
&emsp;
- [ ] [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="background:grey">Lieux</mark>: que sont devenus Fleurimont & Le Pavillon aujourd'hui? 📅 2022-09-15
- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="background:grey">Lieux</mark>: que sont devenus Fleurimont & Le Pavillon aujourd'hui? 📅 2022-09-15
- [ ] [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="background:grey">membres de la famille</mark>: reprendre les citations militaires (promotion/décoration) 📅 2022-09-30
- [ ] [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="Background:grey">membres de la famille</mark>: éplucher les mentions du Nobiliaire de Guyenne & Gascogne 📅 2022-08-31
- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="Background:grey">membres de la famille</mark>: éplucher les mentions du Nobiliaire de Guyenne & Gascogne 📅 2022-08-31
- [x] [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: <mark style="Background:grey">Archivage</mark>: compléter les fichiers de Source
&emsp;

@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh
#### Ban List Tasks
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-08-20
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-08-27
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-08-20 ✅ 2022-08-19
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-08-13 ✅ 2022-08-12
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-08-06 ✅ 2022-08-05
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-07-30 ✅ 2022-07-29
@ -260,7 +261,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh
- [x] [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-04-02 ✅ 2022-04-02
- [x] [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-03-26 ✅ 2022-03-26
- [x] [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2022-03-19 ✅ 2022-03-18
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-08-20
- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-08-27
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-08-20 ✅ 2022-08-19
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-08-13 ✅ 2022-08-12
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-08-06 ✅ 2022-08-05
- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2022-07-30 ✅ 2022-07-29

@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ All tasks and to-dos Crypto-related.
[[#^Top|TOP]]
&emsp;
- [ ] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19
- [ ] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-26
- [x] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19 ✅ 2022-08-19
- [x] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-12 ✅ 2022-08-12
- [ ] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2022-09-06
- [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2022-08-16 ✅ 2022-08-15

@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ Note summarising all tasks and to-dos for Listed Equity investments.
[[#^Top|TOP]]
&emsp;
- [ ] 💰[[Equity Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Equity news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19
- [ ] 💰[[Equity Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Equity news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-26
- [x] 💰[[Equity Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Equity news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19 ✅ 2022-08-19
- [x] 💰[[Equity Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Equity news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-12 ✅ 2022-08-12
&emsp;

@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ Tasks and to-dos for VC investments.
[[#^Top|TOP]]
&emsp;
- [ ] 💰[[VC Tasks#internet alerts|monitor VC news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19
- [ ] 💰[[VC Tasks#internet alerts|monitor VC news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-26
- [x] 💰[[VC Tasks#internet alerts|monitor VC news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-19 ✅ 2022-08-19
- [x] 💰[[VC Tasks#internet alerts|monitor VC news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-08-12 ✅ 2022-08-12
- [x] :bar_chart: [[VC Tasks]] Integrate 'Current Valuations' in note 📅 2022-08-16 ✅ 2022-08-10

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