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* The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures.
* Colleges Can't — or Won't — Track Where Ph.D.s Land Jobs. Should Disciplinary Associations?
* A couple recent novel recommendations, just because I've had a bit more time to read lately, and because it's been a while: I enjoyed both The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts and The Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.
* I thought ranking the 5th through 20th Beatles was an especially good episode of Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk about the Beatles, too, while I'm in a recommendin' mood.
* Calling all folks who have a conference paper or short piece they're not sure what to do with. You've got a friend in the SFRA Review!
* Foundation #130 has been published.
* An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You. And a deep dive into the ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize.
* N.K. Jemisin's first short story collection is coming this fall. And elsewhere on the Afrofuturism beat: Nnedi Okorafor will be writing Shuri.
* Claremont Graduate University closed its philosophy department and laid off the program's two main tenured professors this summer, just a year after approving a promising master's degree-only model for the department.
* Understanding the CV vs the cover letter.
* A lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay has apparently been found.
* The secret history of Marxist alien hunters.
* Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth. Inside J.R.R. Tolkien's Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work. "Saint Tolkien": Why This English Don Is on the Path to Sainthood.
* From Peter Frase: On the Politics of Basic Income.
* How Should Children's Literature Deal with the Holocaust?
* The Sci-Fi Sex Scene That Changed My Life: Before I was old enough to fully understand I was transgender, I found Asimov's The Robots of Dawn.
* Who Is Brett Kavanaugh? Inside the Right-Wing History of Trump's Supreme Court Nominee. To Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump, Immigrants Have No Rights. Senators, Don't Pretend You Don't Know Where Kavanaugh Stands On Roe. Brett Kavanaugh's Record on the Rule of Law Is Much Worse Than His Defenders Contend. Yes, Normal Republican Elites Are a Threat to Democracy.
Saw this at the National Portrait Gallery—titled "Behind the myth of benevolence," by artists Guillermo Nicolas & Jim Foster. I'll share this with my students. pic.twitter.com/Fkz657qBYw
— KatherynRussellBrown (@KRussellBrown) July 16, 2018
* As local newsrooms shrink, college journalists fill in the gaps.
* White House Reviewing Plan to Relax Child Labor Laws.
* Trial runs for fascism are in full flow.
* Family Separations Are Still Happening Along The Border, As This Father's Case Shows.
* I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine.
* Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child's Days in Detention.
* Immigrant mothers are staging hunger strikes to demand calls with their separated children. Army abandons legal effort to expel immigrant soldier on path to citizenship. The Army as a whole, and every individual soldier involved, should be ashamed of itself for participating in this nonsense. Judge will temporarily halt deportations of reunited families. Sexual Assault Inside ICE Detention: 2 Survivors Tell Their Stories. After an ICE raid in Postville, Iowa. Two teens wait in Boston after being separated from their father at the border. The prison-industrial complex, ICE edition. Look who's profiteering now.
* The Trump administration's policies on family separation and abortion are driven by one view: A woman's pain is fitting punishment.
* Most Trump Voters Say MS-13 Is A Threat To The Entire U.S.
* What Does It Mean to Abolish ICE?
* Trump and Putin: what we know is damning. It got worse.
Trump is about to meet with Putin for 90 minutes with no other Americans and hasn't even come up with a perfunctory reason why
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 16, 2018
Imagine it's 2012 and someone described to you everything we would know in 2018. Would this sound like a hazy, unclear state of affairs? Or would it sound like we actually knew more than enough — indeed, a terrifying amount?
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 16, 2018
the ridiculous obsession with the pee tape is people not wanting to realize that trump just agrees with putin. this isn't a mystery
— alex (@betterbecoffee) July 17, 2018
* Meanwhile, House conservatives prep push to impeach Rosenstein.
* The borrowed kettle, war on poverty edition.
* Trump has said 1,340,330 words as president. They're getting more dishonest, a Star study shows.
* As the GOP increasingly comes to resemble a personality cult, is there any red line—video tapes? DNA evidence? a war with Germany—President Trump could cross and lose party support? "Very doubtful," say a dozen GOP members of Congress stuck hard behind the MAGA eight ball.
Whatever game-changing thing you think happened today, Republican voters won't even hear about it, and wouldn't care if they somehow did. Same as all the other times and all the other times to come.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 16, 2018
The real political question is whether Donald Trump will voluntarily exit the Presidency on January 20, 2025, or whether he will try to avoid this by amending or suspending the Constitution.
— Steven Shaviro (@shaviro) July 17, 2018
'There Are Things That Exist Which Are Not Good,' Says Obama In Stunning Rebuke Of Trump https://t.co/BTuJKbd0RO pic.twitter.com/6CuB2HcRX5
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 17, 2018
Live from @JeffFlake's office. pic.twitter.com/Bxb1a4Oz3w
— Jason P. Woodbury (@jasonpwoodbury) July 16, 2018
* Records obtained by the Miami Herald suggest that during the tenure of former chief Raimundo Atesiano, the command staff pressured some officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.
* With last charges against J20 protestors dropped, defendants seek accountability for prosecutors.
* Nineteen tenants of 18 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, contend that Kushner Cos. tried to convert the majority of the 338 apartments in the building from rent-stabilized units to luxury condos starting in June 2015. To do so, Kushner's firm harassed the rent-stabilized tenants with major construction all over the building, the lawsuit charges. The construction at the Austin Nichols House unleashed dangerous toxins into the air and caused a litany of issues, according to the legal filing. Rent-stabilized tenants allege Kushner Cos. harassed them.
* The woman in the #PlaneBae saga breaks her silence — she says she's been 'shamed, insulted, and harassed' since the story went viral and asks for her privacy. Don't stalk random strangers for clicks!
* Don't feed the trolls, and other hideous lies: The mantra about the best way to respond to online abuse has only made it worse.
* E.U. Fines Google $5.1 Billion in Android Antitrust Case.
* The Weirdest and Most Wonderful Alternate Dimensions in the Marvel and DC Universes.
* Left Politics Can Win All Over the Country.
* In about 20 years, half the population will live in eight states.
* Something is up with Elon Musk. Keep your eye on it. Really!
It's a DISCO spoiler but there's actually a great brick joke in Discovery that ties in nicely here with regard to the Elon Musk worship @pefrase is talking about. #SFRA18 https://t.co/0WAZLAztgE
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 2, 2018
* All class: MGM Preemptively Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting.
* Handmaid's Tale season two sounds like a real mess. A roller-coaster season – and its mind-boggling conclusion – have left Hulu's flagship drama with nowhere to go.
* Mad as a Mars Hare as the first Vietnam War film.
* A new law makes it illegal to vote if you're a Democrat. But critics say…
* Why Aren't We Still Talking About Treasure Planet?
* Pushback against immunization laws leaves some California schools vulnerable to outbreaks.
* Autism and the tech industry. The World Doesn't Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents).
* Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates.
* Today in the charter school scam.
* Trump is so bad that presidency-ending scandals don't even get any airtime.
* Could Ancient Humans Have Lived as Long as We Do?
* Wildfires In The U.S. Are Getting Bigger. Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing. The disturbing reason heat waves can kill people in cooler climates. How Climate Change in Bangladesh Impacts Women and Girls. Global warming could make India literally uninhabitable.
the weird planet
planetary bodies
the broken places
life after aftermath
These are some of the concepts I theorize and use in these chapters. Some directly from the novels, some cobbled together from other scholarship, and some just made up.
— Ben Robertson (@BenRobertson) July 14, 2018
* Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign.
* Stop-and-Frisk Settlement in Milwaukee Lawsuit Is a Wakeup Call for Police Nationwide.
* "Sacha Baron Cohen Tricked Me Into Saying We Should Arm Preschoolers."
* Why isn't the liberal media focusing on the one good trip?
* Incompetence all the way down.
* Abortion is immoral, except when it comes to my mistress.
* In Praise of Incivility: The Appropriate Posture in a State of Emergency.
* Historical memory and moral witnessing have given way to a bankrupt nostalgia that celebrates the most regressive moments in US history.
* Nintendo Labo Contest Winners Include A Solar-Powered Accordion And A Teapot Minigame.
* The Most Important Video Game on the Planet: How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.
* Disney will control about 40% of the annual box office if it buys Fox.
* Money is literally speech, but 'Access to Literacy' Is Not a Constitutional Right, Judge in Detroit Rules.
* I'm sure there's a reason you'd set this story in the Victorian period that wasn't about smuggling in sexist tropes under the sign of historical verisimilitude, but.
* Venmo's "public by default" transactions reveal drug deals, breakups, more.
* We'll never know what combination of incentives and forces and genuine beliefs are at play in one person's shifting positions. And like I said, I welcome the change that is happening today. But I would be less than honest if I didn't say that I was sometimes unsettled by it. Particularly when it's unacknowledged.
* In this disorienting moment of hope, despair, and opportunity, it is this vision that must continue to glow, incandescent, as our guiding light. From the archives.
* Ocasio-Cortez's Blueprint for a New Politics. More from the New Yorker. Making the right enemies.
Ask your next Uber/hail service driver what their life is like.
Many are teachers, or work retail, or have another job.
Unemployment isn't the major problem for those folks.
It's that, on one wage at 40 hours a week, they aren't paid enough to live.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 17, 2018
* Raising a child in a doomed world.
* The second civil war just got interesting.
* In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes.
There is plenty of
hope, infinite hope,
but not for us.
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/ づ#SignBunny
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) July 14, 2018
* An exciting opportunity to read your own kids' memoir, today.
* Sorry guys, this one is my bad.
* And a plastic straw update: A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo. Well done, everyone!
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July 18, 2018 at 10:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Saturday Morning Post-SFRA Links! All! Tabs! Closed!
* SFRA is over, but ICFA season has only just begun! The theme for ICFA 2019 is "Politics and Conflicts" and the special guests are Mark Bould and G. Willow Wilson.
* And keep saving your pennies for SFRA 19 in Hawaii! Stay tuned for more information soon.
* Ben Robertson put up his SFRA talk on the MCU and abstraction as well as his opening statement for the Avengers vs. Jedi roundtable (which coined the already ubiquitous term "naustalgia"). My opening statement was this image, more or less…
* Other piping hot SFRA content at #SFRA18! It was a great conference.
In the process of his SF reading @pefrase throws off the deep key to all post-70s cop shows: "All Cops Are Bastards, Except Us." That is: they must concede obvious corruption of the system, but posit a fantasy space of exception, of nobility and decency, inside it. #SFRA18
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 2, 2018
Echoing Mark Bould's own Pilgrim speech from two years ago, Freedman notes the irony of science fiction studies becoming "respectable" at the moment the humanities and the academy writ large find themselves under cataclysmic, existential attack. #SFRA18
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 4, 2018
* The Economics of Science Fiction.
* A book I'm in won a Locus Award: Check out Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler! Congratulations to Alexandra and Mimi.
* Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: an interview with Octavia E. Butler from 1986.
* CFP: TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance. CFP: Childhoods of Color.
* The early career academic: learning to say no.
* The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What? Jobs Will Save the Humanities.
* Revised Course Evaluation Questions.
Your professor appeared to conceive of the seminar as
1) a psychoanalytic session
2) a Reddit thread
3) an opportunity to talk about themselves
4) a lawsuit waiting to happen
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) June 25, 2018
* Essentially total victory for John McAdams over Marquette at the WI Supreme Court. I don't talk about "Marquette stuff" on here because of the slippery nature of my status as an agent of the university, but noted for history. More here. Marquette "agrees to comply" but doesn't concede wrongdoing.
"The undisputed facts show that the university breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract's guarantee of academic freedom," states the ruling, written by Justice Daniel Kelly.
* Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union. So good.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
– living five adults to a two room apartment
– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
* Since it isn't, a simple question arises: where's all the fucking money? Piketty's student Gabriel Zucman wrote a powerful book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2015), which supplies the answer: it's hidden by rich people in tax havens. According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity.
* If Elon Musk can save the trapped Thai soccer team though I'll definitely forgive him for everything else, for at least a couple weeks. In the meantime…
* Trump's ethnic cleansing operation is blowing past boundaries that would have been considered utterly sacrosanct only a few years ago. The Trump administration just admitted it doesn't know how many kids are still separated from their parents. "In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a "family identification number," according to two officials at the Department of Homeland Security." The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. Toddlers representing themselves in court. USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force. Trump's Travel Ban Has Torn Apart Hundreds of Families. Trump's catch-and-detain policy snares many who have long called U.S. home. At 9 He Lost His Mom to Gang Violence. At 12 He Lost His Dad to Trump's Immigration Policies. After being released from custody in El Paso on Sunday, the parents have now learned the whereabouts of their children, a shelter director said. But there are more hurdles before they're reunited. Lawful permanent resident freed nearly three weeks after arrest. Sick Child Couldn't Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom. Painful memories of Michigan for immigrant girl, 7, reunited with mom. The Awful Plight of Parents Deported Without Their Children. From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Dad, I'm Never Going to See You Again. Feds failing to put migrant parents in touch with separated kids. Former Seattle Chief Counsel sentenced to 4 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft scheme. "At night, Andriy sometimes wakes up screaming in the bunk bed he shares with his mother and baby brother." "My Whole Heart Is There." "My son is not the same." "Are You Alone Now?" There was a pilot program. Transport Fees. A Migrant Mother Had to Pay $576.20 to Be Reunited With Her 7-Year-Old Son. Letters from the Disappeared. Listen. Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant's Daughter Up for Adoption, ACLU Says. A New Border Crisis. Separated Parents Are Failing Asylum Screenings Because They're So Heartbroken. A Twitter Bot Has Joined the Immigration Battle to Fight ICE With Facts. A Twitter Bot Is Posting the Names and Locations of Immigrant Detention Centers Across the U.S. Over the course of three weeks, a major U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with no kitchen and only a few toilets. The Immigrant Children's Shelters Near You. Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution. The Trump administration is not answering basic questions about separation of migrant families. Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up. This is what Trump and ICE are doing to parents and their children. A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century. It's only going to get worse. Torn apart. Don't you know that we hate you people? (Only) 17 states sue Trump administration over family separations. News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. We might not even have ever known. New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious 'Tent City' in South Texas. Potemkin camps. Research suggests that the family of Anne Frank attempted to escape to the U.S., but their efforts were thwarted by America's restrictive immigration policy. Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum. We're Going to Abolish ICE. Woman Climbs Statue of Liberty to Protest Family Separations, Island Shut Down. How to Abolish ICE. And just for fun: ICE Training Officers in Military-Grade Weapons, Chemical Agents. Dogsitting.
I can't tweet everything I know. Some of it is off-the-record. Some of it is uncorroborated. Some of it is embargoed until we publish.
But I can tweet this: this thing where the government took children from their parents atthe border? It's more horrific than we have imagined.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) July 6, 2018
* The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.
* I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.
* I feel pretty confident the buried story here is that Trump blackmailed Anthony Kennedy by threatening to destroy his son's life; I suppose it'll all come out during Truth and Reconciliation in the 2040s. Anyway this is just about the final end of America, buckle up.
* All of American history fits in the life span of only three presidents.
* Trump Confidant Floats Crazy RBG-For-Merrick-Garland SCOTUS Swap. I am a huge proponent of this deal but you'll have to confirm Garland first. You understand.
In that spirit, an out-of-the-box solution for desperate times: Trump should name Knicks owner James Dolan to replace Anthony Kennedy as a justice on the Supreme Court, forcing him to sell his ownership of the Knicks. Outlandish? Perhaps. But worse than what we have now? 4/17
— danielbenaim (@danielbenaim) July 5, 2018
* There's no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed. Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics.
* What can we learn from 1968?
* Trump Inauguration Day rioting charges against 200+ people abruptly dropped by U.S.
* A major Republican leader in the House has been accused of facilitating the sexual abuse of huge numbers of children in his previous career as a wrestling coach. No, not him, this is a new guy.
* Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers.
* Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me.
* In the richest country in all of human history.
* A country of empty storefronts.
* $117,000/year is now considered low income in San Francisco. Class and America.
* How Flint poisoned its people.
* 'A way of monetizing poor people': How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans. With special appearance by Obama Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner!
* Rosa Parks's Arrested Warrant.
* The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars.
20 years next year I faced a media backlash that still affects my career today. This was the place I almost ended my life. It's still hard to talk about. I survived and now this little guy is my gift for survival. Would this be a good story for my solo show? Lemme know. pic.twitter.com/NvVnImoJ7N
— Ahmed BEst (@ahmedbest) July 3, 2018
* Every parent's secret suspicion confirmed: She was worried how a 'teacher of the year' treated her 5-year-old son. So she made a secret recording.
* Lows of 80 degrees and higher, now commonplace, were once very rare. They occurred just 26 times from 1872 to 1999 or about once every five years. Since 2000, they've happened 37 times or twice every year on average. Probably nothing.
* It's So Hot Out, It's Slowing Down the Speed of Stock Trades.
Yesterday was Africa's hottest reliably measured temperature in recorded history: 124.3°F (51.3°C) in Algeria
Africa has 16% of the world's population—and produces just 3.8% of all greenhouse gases.
Climate change is fundamentally a story of injustice.https://t.co/UuNTd0aDGt
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 6, 2018
* Flood insurance is completely broken.
* Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now.
* Facebook destroyed online publishing, then quit the business.
* The US Left Has Only Four Tendencies.
* Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren't Taught to Read.
* Doesn't seem like a great sign, no.
* A great ideas as long as you know nothing about either writing or computers.
Turns out that's an easy question to answer, thanks to MIT research affiliate, and longtime-critic of automated scoring, Les Perelman. He's designed what you might think of as robo-graders' kryptonite, to expose what he sees as the weakness and absurdity of automated scoring. Called the Babel ("Basic Automatic B.S. Essay Language") Generator, it works like a computerized Mad Libs, creating essays that make zero sense, but earn top scores from robo-graders.
To demonstrate, he calls up a practice question for the GRE exam that's graded with the same algorithms that actual tests are. He then enters three words related to the essay prompt into his Babel Generator, which instantly spits back a 500-word wonder, replete with a plethora of obscure multisyllabic synonyms:
"History by mimic has not, and presumably never will be precipitously but blithely ensconced. Society will always encompass imaginativeness; many of scrutinizations but a few for an amanuensis. The perjured imaginativeness lies in the area of theory of knowledge but also the field of literature. Instead of enthralling the analysis, grounds constitutes both a disparaging quip and a diligent explanation."
"It makes absolutely no sense," he says, shaking his head. "There is no meaning. It's not real writing."
But Perelman promises that won't matter to the robo-grader. And sure enough, when he submits it to the GRE automated scoring system, it gets a perfect score: 6 out of 6, which according to the GRE, means it "presents a cogent, well-articulated analysis of the issue and conveys meaning skillfully."
* Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
* In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis.
* California reconsiders felony murder.
* William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie.
William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie. @uwmaaup stands with @BrigField, @clfs_uw, and @Ebonyteach! pic.twitter.com/g8T9fm1V3R
— UWM AAUP (@uwmaaup) July 4, 2018
* Six decades after being told her mother was dead, she found her — 80 minutes away and 100 years old.
* Between 1984 and the mid-1990s, before better HIV drugs effectively rendered her obsolete, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She buried more than three dozen of them herself, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
* How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups' Harassment of Students and Faculty.
* A location scout's view of California.
* Not all heroes wear capes: How an EPA worker stole $900K by pretending to be a CIA agent.
* How Pixar's Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column).
* Reality Winner pleads guilty.
* When copyright goes wrong, EU edition.
* Academic minute: Geoengineering.
* Anglo-Saxon Studies, Academia and White Supremacy.
* The Millennial Socialists Are Coming. How Ocasio-Cortez Beat the Machine. A Conversation with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power. Next: Julia Salazar Is Looking to Land the Next Blow Against the New York Democratic Machine. The socialists are coming! But huge, if true.
optimism watch: I think things are going to get so terrible in the next few years, and so quickly, that we will have full blown socialism in the US by the time my kids are grown. We just have to survive and destroy Trumpism.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 28, 2018
* The clearest lesson, which holds now as it did then, is that to rearrange international order in an egalitarian way, you need an egalitarian and internationally oriented domestic politics in the richest and most powerful countries. Otherwise, your best-laid plans can be scuttled by something like what happened then—the neoliberal revolt of capital, the crushing of the labor unions, the turn to the construction of the current international regime of relatively free flow of goods, services, and capital, but not people. Today's nationalist revolts, most notably the catastrophe in the United States, are another body blow to progressive internationalist aspirations. Ironically, they are directed in part against some of the pieties of the neoliberal order—although certainly not in any constructive or progressive direction.
* A Subreddit Dedicated to Thanos Is Preparing to Ban Half of Its Users at Random.
* lol
* The UK is committing national suicide to satisfy a laughably illegitimate referendum that never should have happened in the first place and no one is going to stop it.
* Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, "How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?" The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
* If there is hope, it lies with the Juggalos.
It is tragic. I'm not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he's involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation—'All You Need Is Love', 'peace and love'.
I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: 'By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.' So I'm one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.
* The first superhero movie is more than 100 years old.
* Rest in peace, Harlan Ellison. Rest in peace, Steve Ditko.
* NASA's Policies to Protect the Solar System From Contamination Are Out of Date. We're not going to is the thing.
* Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal.
* Man suspected of killing 21 co-workers by poisoning their food.
* There could be as many as 7000 tigers living in American backyards.
* "When I Was Alive": William T. Vollmann's Climate Letter to the Future.
* Remembering Google Reader, five years on.
.@Google killed its Reader in 2013 because RSS as a format gives readers agency, doesn't track browsing to sell ads, and lets the user chose what they want to read. As opposed to algorithmic personalisation which siloes us into increasingly homogenous demographics for advertisers https://t.co/YAThAP6bdO
— Luc Lewitanski (@LucLewitanski) July 2, 2018
* Very cool: If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email.
* A classic edition of "our brains don't work": that's because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.
* Sports corner! The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap. A Literary Lineup for the World Cup. We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate. Catching "the world's most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches."
* Physics says that our perception of smoothly flowing time is a cosmic accident. So why do we think the future always comes after the past?
* A Dunbar number for place: At any point in life, people spend their time in 25 places.
* Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age. Don't do it, guys, it's not worth the hassle.
* I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn't like what he saw.
* Life as a professional dungeon master.
* Naked Japanese hermit forced back into civilization after 29 years on deserted island.
* An Oral History of ASSSSCAT.
* Peyton Reed (director of Ant-Man and the Wasp) remembers writing Back to the Future: The Ride.
* The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, July 7, 1978.
* Someone in the club tonight is stealing my ideas.
* The arc of history is long but seriously they really took their time with this.
* What should we read if we want to be happy?
* And Incredibles 3 looks wild. Don't miss Old Man Incredible! I'm here for it.
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Monday Morning Snow Day Links
I posted a link dump last night at sort of an odd time, so you might have missed it. It included my review of Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent New York 2140 at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Utopia in the Time of Trump, so read that! Here's everything that's happened since then…
you can't restore civilization with someone else's babies
the ritual requires the lives of your own children
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 12, 2017
same sort of joke but about making sure you have a save game from before the romans build the great library https://t.co/r0quBr43pC
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 12, 2017
I hope Steve King has shelvesful of jars of his own semen to preserve the white race & I hope he trips & knocks them over & gets drenched
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) March 13, 2017
* Q&A: Kim Stanley Robinson Explains How He Flooded Manhattan.
* Fukuyama once declared the end of history. But lawmakers in several states, tired of turning the clocks back, want to
leave Eastern Standard Time and join the Atlantic Standard time zone.
* Welcome To Mars! Enjoy Perpetual Jet Lag Under An Eerie Red Sky.
* True stories of employed English majors.
* One of the most brutal reviews of anything I've ever read.
* The Trump administration is exploring how to dismantle or bypass Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from drone attacks, commando raids and other counterterrorism missions outside conventional war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.
* Every day some clown in this administration does something that would have brought down the government 18 months ago.
Skeletor now reports directly to Gargamel, who reports to Cobra Commander, who reports to the giant robot sentinels, who report to Bannon. pic.twitter.com/yZVwb5p7GK
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 13, 2017
* Uncomfortable Friends: Revising the American Jesuits.
They decried nationalism as a source of division, materialism, and militarism. They warned that the unfettered pursuit of profit destroyed communities and undermined human dignity. They sued to have the King James Bible removed from public schools. Contemporary progressives? No: 19th-century Jesuits. The same 19th-century American Jesuits who allied themselves with slaveholders, believed that the ideal polity promoted one "true faith," and considered modernity a bitter, but eventually vanquishable foe. In a deeply learned and delightfully readable new book, John T. McGreevy explains the principles, circumstances, and personalities from which this apparently contradictory set of positions emerged, and outlines the consequences for the nation's religion and politics. At a moment when we are riveted anew by arguments over the meaning of community and liberty — and reminded that one man's desired future can be another man's rejected past — McGreevy's account of these surprising Jesuits feels like an essential read.
* If every European secession movement succeeded.
* 1. AAA game developers attempt to remain relevant to an aging core demographic by producing an entire generation of games about sad dads protecting their kids; owing to the gaming industry's collective discomfort with male-male emotional intimacy, nearly all of these kids are girls. You'll never guess what happened next…
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary will boldly move forward with filming.
* Well, it's not all bad news: A lot of people who make over $350,000 are about to get replaced by software.
* And Marquette made March Madness, with a surprisingly high seed! Who would win the NCAA's Division I men's basketball tournament if academics trumped athletic skill.
┳┻| _ I don't care if your team
┻┳| •.•) made the tournament.
┳┻|⊂ノ Pay the players.
— Dr. Bluman* (@drbluman) March 13, 2017
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Monday Morning Links!
Gorblex-12's log, day 5875. We have now replaced 95% of human society with cartoonish nonsense, and literally none of them have noticed.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 4, 2016
* A personal announcement: I'll be the Vice President of the Science Fiction Research Association for the next three years. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
* CFP: "Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince."
* Huge, if true: Reading Literature Won't Give You Superpowers. And meanwhile: What's Wrong With Literary Studies? Some scholars think the field has become cynical and paranoid. Only some?
* Use Data to Make a Strong Case for the Humanities.
* They did it: Army Corps of Engineers Statement Regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline. More from Vox.
Entire #DAPL project has to be killed to avoid h2o contamination of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. pic.twitter.com/T3qo97ee6B
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) December 4, 2016
* Is there any branch of literature so insecure, so uncertain of its own status, as science fiction?
* Inside the world of Chinese science fiction, with "Three Body Problem" translator Ken Liu.
* Marquette in the ne– oh come on.
* Dan Harmon's story circle at YouTube.
* Trouble in the Heartland: Listening to Springsteen in Wisconsin in 1979.
* Well, that seems fine: GOP rep: Trump has 'extra-constitutional' view of presidency. Donald Trump risks China rift with Taiwan call. BREAKING: US President-elect Trump told Rodrigo Duterte that Philippines was conducting its drug war "the right way." That's bad. Trump's education pick says reform can 'advance God's Kingdom.' What the Nazis were doing was not describing what was true, but what would have to be true to justify what they planned to do next. A People's History of the Third Reich: How Great Man theory allows us to abdicate collective responsibility. Facts are stupid things: Here's Where Donald Trump Gets His News. Trump and the coming failed state. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Now Is The Time To Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About. Another visit from the goon squad. Trump and the Bush Legacy.
TFW you're aboard a 747 and the pilot has never flown any kind of plane before and he feels *great* about this.
— Fritz Bogott (@fritzbogott) December 4, 2016
It's hard to imagine a way that Trump could signal "I'm very dangerous, do not give me any power" more than he has. https://t.co/6LCL4uhGo3
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 2, 2016
when your day's going ok for five minutes then you remember all over that trump's about to be president pic.twitter.com/fE6hcIq6Ed
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 4, 2016
* New SPLC reports reveal alarming pattern of hate incidents and bullying across country since election. Note the category just labeled "Trump — general."
* Identity politics and the alt-right.
* Premised on the possibilities of political struggle, here was the Douglass Option: "a party in the Southern States among the poor."
* Seems like this guy is Trump's very worst pick, clearing a very tough field:
During a tense gathering of senior officials at an off-site retreat, he gave the assembled group a taste of his leadership philosophy, according to one person who attended the meeting and insisted on anonymity to discuss classified matters. Mr. Flynn said that the first thing everyone needed to know was that he was always right. His staff would know they were right, he said, when their views melded to his. The room fell silent, as employees processed the lecture from their new boss.
Flynn also helped promulgate the "Pizzagate" hoax that nearly led to a mass shooting today.
if you die in an Internet conspiracy theory, you die in real life
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 5, 2016
* Google, democracy and the truth about internet search.
* Steve Bannon, on the other hand, is winning me over.
* It's true that racism is a powerful and durable force in our politics. But it is also true that Donald Trump is an incompetent clown who ran an amateurish campaign rife with mistakes. The Democrats should have won this election in a landslide. They did not, and there is no nobility or reassurance for them in a narrow loss in the electoral college or a win in the popular vote. And continuing to insist that a Donald Trump win was either some kind of strange fluke or completely inevitable is a recipe for repeated defeat.
* When the Democrats didn't like monopolies. On not going high when they go low.
* Can the good parts of Obamacare survive Trump?
* Friedman just got finished telling us that a black elephant is half black swan, and half elephant in the room that will inevitably become a black swan. But now that half-swan, half swan-within-an-elephant is being contrasted with a black swan: in the near future, things that are really black elephants will be misidentified as black swans.
* Understanding survivorship bias.
* Podcast idea of the week: Like Random Trek, but for Rod Serling.
* Which Famous Actor Hustled Chess Games in New York City?
* What does elephant taste like?
* Here's Why You Should Be Watching Netflix's Brazilian Sci-Fi Series 3%. And on the SF kick: Aaron Bady explains Westworld.
* …there is no reason to assume Uber's obliteration of local competition across the planet will create a sustainable business in the long term. Costs are costs, even if you're a monopoly. As long as people have cheaper alternatives (public transport, legs), they will defect if the break-even price is higher than their inconvenience tolerance threshold.
* Trump could face the 'biggest trial of the century' — over climate change. But really, show's over, folks.
* The trans brain and gender dysphoria.
* This is brilliant and I'm shocked it took the good guys this long to figure it out.
* Kazuo Ishiguro on the coming race of super clones. Never Let Me Go 2: The Revenge.
* Every villain is the hero of their own story.
* And this is pretty much my actual teaching philosophy.
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Blogging from the Mid-Atlantic!
* Modern conservatism came onto the scene of the twentieth century in order to defeat the great social movements of the left. As far as the eye can see, it has achieved its purpose. Having done so, it now can leave. Whether it will, and how much it will take with it on its way out, remains to be seen. Clinton Opens Double-Digit Lead in National Poll.
* Virginia GOP Delegate Files Suit To Get Out Of Voting For Trump At Convention.
* All agree that we have entered an era in which "peace" coexists uncomfortably with interminable global violence (for those non-state actors that risk committing it or those state actors powerful enough to do so and avoid condemnation). All agree that executives have pushed the boundaries of national and international legality and redefined the scope and timeline of legal violence with little apparent constraint — except, theoretically, a wayward public, which has not done much to push back yet.
* "Protestors on both sides of the fray were stabbed."
* I wouldn't say this is great news, given the franchise's recent experiments in that direction: The New Star Trek Series Can Feature All the Sex, Blood, and Profanity It Wants.
* Scremain, or Scoveto? I'm sticking with my gut: Brexit May Well Never Happen. "Bracksies." All told, quite an achievement.
Truly British solution: never invoke Article 50, hope everyone else too polite ever to mention it.
— Alan Beattie (@alanbeattie) June 26, 2016
* How to Prep for Your PhD If You're Poor.
* Study Links 6.5 Million Deaths Each Year to Air Pollution.
* This amount of rain in such a short time is likely a "one-in-a-thousand-year event," the weather service said. A zunguzungu flashback.
* Texas Gun Rights Advocates Fatally Shoots Her Two Daughters.
* They call it the seagullypse.
* A New League Of 'Barefoot Lawyers' Will Transform Justice In The Next 15 Years.
* Strange days: The Icelandic translator of Stephen King will likely be the country's next president.
* This tweet seems sweet but is actually ice cold. Truly chilling.
* And it Looks Like Pluto Has a Liquid Water Ocean. Last one in is a rotten egg…
Speaking as a member of the Illuminati, I'd like to apologise for 2016 so far. We acknowledge it has not been our best work.
— MichaelMarshallSmith (@ememess) June 26, 2016
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Brecial Brexit Brexddendum
There Is A Small But Real Possibility That Brexit Will Never Happen. Brexit as Nostalgia for Empire. Six Implications for Brexit (Through the Eyes of a Foreign Resident). Britain Just Killed Globalization As We Know It. Britain's EU Problem Is a London Problem. Brexit and Ireland. Brexit and Sociology. Brexit and Elite Failure. Brexit and Big Lies. You Talk About the Collapse of Western Civilization As If It Would Be a Bad Thing.
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Saturday Morning's All Right for Linking
* Bryan Fuller Reveals New 'Star Trek' Details, Says Series Will 'Eventually' Revisit Characters. Interesting interview that suggests a lot of what is circulating about this series is wrong.
* On the deep, abiding, and highly dispersed influence of Gordon Lish.
* West Virginia in the Anthropocene: At least 23 people have been killed after powerful storms swamped West Virginia on Thursday night, forcing high water rescues across the state and leaving thousands of customers without power through Friday evening, officials said.
#Flood water pushes a burning #home down a creek in #WestVirginia. #wvwx
🎬 Amanda Carper pic.twitter.com/zJSMe95nLk
— AMHQ (@AMHQ) June 24, 2016
* CDC: Flint water crisis "entirely preventable."
* Why Brexit Is Much Scarier Than You Think. Brexit: The Crisis Begins. The Sterling Depreciation of 2007-2008 and Its Implications for Brexit. A timeline of the coming slow-motion car-crash. "Clusterfuck." We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors. David Cameron Has Secured His Place as One of the Worst Prime Ministers Ever. Boris already flinching. Article 50 as Stalemate. No Takebacks. Brexit and the university. The A-Z of Brexit. Brexit Impact Will Be Felt in Wisconsin. The United Kingdom is the fourth-largest export market for Wisconsin goods, with $824.2 million worth of products shipped from the Badger State last year, or about 3.7% of the state's exports. Morexit?
* "Worst 'Zombie States' in America 'Deteriorate Faster, Further.'
* Oil Made Venezuela Rich, And Now It's Making It Poor.
* The central problem is that employment policies that are gender-neutral on paper may not be gender-neutral in effect. After all, most women receive parental benefits only after bearing the burden of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and often, a larger share of parenting responsibilities. Yet fathers usually receive the same benefits without bearing anything close to the same burden. Given this asymmetry, it's little wonder some recently instituted benefits have given men an advantage.
* Six weeks before the Summer Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, the laboratory that was set to handle drug testing at the Games has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a new escalation of the doping crisis in international sports.
* FBI Says There's No Evidence Orlando Gunman Omar Mateen Had Messaged Men or Had Secret Gay Affairs.
* Can Daenerys Fly to Westeros on Her Dragons?
* What's The Matter With Poetry?
* This is near my neighborhood, and I can confirm this intersection is singularly terrible.
* And I know things seem bad, but here's a preview of Civilization 6's gameplay. Hang in there!
[breathing extremely heavily]
West Virginiain't
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 24, 2016
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I searched to find if anyone else suffered from the same tension in the left shoulder blade - hits me about 6km when I do a 10km and I too have to pull my arm either behind, in front or let hang - and am relieved to find that it is quite common (not for other sufferers I assume!). I spoke to one of the instructors in the gym this evening and he basically said the same as the physio quoted above - need to strengthen the shoulder blades with exercises similar to rowing (he will show me more when I go next to gym and I will try to explain them on this thread). It is to do with posture and usually affects the shoulder blade that is not regularly used i.e. it is my left that hurts as my right hand is used to write with and use the mouse, etc..... Hope this helps. i am going to check out the links given above too. Thanks for advice
Have any of you considered you may be dehydrated when the pain occurs? I have found in the past year and a half that I no longer feel thirsty before I become dehydrated. My first result was kidney stones. Got rid of them with the hot water and lemon juice remedy and the blssings of GOD! But lately I have noticed this cramp like aching happening under my left shoulder blade, used to only happend when driving but now is happening more, and I am realizing it happens mostly when the weather is hot. I Just read on another website this was a common dehydration symptom. So I grabbed my gallon of distilled water and I literally drank 2/3 the bottle down comfortably! (I didnt feel thirsty but obviously I needed water) Its been leass than 10 minutes and the shoulder pain is gone now! Thank you GOD again. If your running I would think dehydration could develop very rapidly, maybe like me your not feeling as thirsty as you should be. Best hopes.
Twinklemel wrote (see)
I asked some people at running club last night and they all said it was a stitch, but I'm not believing that!
Stitches can occur in the shoulder, though most runners experience them in the abdominal area. The general consensus for stitch is internal organ movement caused by the impact on these organs while running.. some of these attach to the diaphragm. The diaphragm is innovated by the phrenic nerve which comes from the neck, which is why sometimes a pain is felt in the shoulder area.
SOME QUICK EXERCISES - Good for everybody
Exercises given by Physical Therapy didn't help me;
Keep your feet under your thighs when sitting in a computer chair.
When walking and running mentally keep your weight above your feet. Move different heights of your body (knees, hip, chest) back and forth to find equillibrium and power in your stances and movements.
Simply pull with the back of your neck up and a little back.
Protrude your stomach by pushing from the back of the bottom of the ribcage.
Sit at end of a chair, put armpits covering over kneecaps and fingers under your arches of your footz. Move all around your back and shoulders.
Sounds like a combination of poor posture (hunching as mentioned) and weakness of muscles (also mentioned). Too many runners forget that outside of legs, core and the cardiovascular system there are a whole bunch of other parts that play a role (if relativley small) in your running motion: chest, back, arms, shoulders and even neck. If these are neglected then you will never be able to perform to your best.
Sounds like you need some time on a rowing machine, or some low weight high repetition weights. Good ones for upper back include: seated row, bent over row, reverse flys and lat pull downs.
Oops, jus noticed this is an 8yr old thread. Taxi for one....
Perfect recommendation for rowing machine! Totally forgot about that one
For those with pain:
-Lay on your belly or stand. Slowly stretch both your thighs by pulling both your feet with your hands (one at a time if standing). Move/flex your shoulders around. Adjust for Maxiumum Effectivenss. Alternatively;
-Flex all the muscles, arching near the shoulder blades. Stretch out the muscles from your head pulling up. To a degree this is the desired posture 24/7. Keep your chin down. Try tightening your stomach and chest.
-Keeping your head pulled up by an invisible force, stand at arm's length from a doorway. Put your hands on either side of doorway and lean forward, adjusting your legs, body and shoulders as you go up/down for Maxiumum Effectiveness.
I personally need to use cyclobenzaprine oral or skin cream as I waited long to address it
Haha what does 'taxi for one' mean?


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Vans Hi-Standard Series, Mount St. Louis-Moonstone 2014 event.
Commissioned to design and paint artwork for a massive (easily size 22) Vans® shoe, live at the Vans® Hi-Standard Series 2014 event/Ontario.
During this event, Vans® gave out 10 blank pairs of shoes complete with coloured markers to contestants in the base lodge of Mt. St. Louis-Moonstone. Their task was to decorate these shoes however they saw fit, I was there as inspiration, drawing and painting on the massive model shoe. At the end of the event my shoe, now completed was awarded to one of the participants in a random draw. The lucky guy was super stoked (both he and his dad were extremely grateful people). Ten minutes after winning his prize shoe he posted it up on Instagram for all to see (photo attached).
The event follow up promotional video.
Here's the finished product at the end of the day.
Dudeman Colour Therapy Show
Parkdale Sound Barrier Wall
I was provided the awesome opportunity to participate by painting on Canada's largest graffiti wall.
More to come on this description.
Tiffany Blossom.
• 72'x54″
• Latex
• Spray Paint
• Enamel
• Epoxy Resin
• Canvas
Colour Jam, 2012
• 72″x54″
• Spray Paint
• Latex
• Epoxy Resin
• Canvas
The Garden.
• 84″x48″
• Spray Paint
• Enamel
• Epoxy Resin
• Canvas
Hancock Massive.
Merchandise Loft murals, Toronto, Canada.
Spray paint on multiple walls: Bedroom, Hallway and Living Room.


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David J. Stewart #sexist #fundie #racist dividedbytruth.org
Harvest allows female staff members to wear spandex, black leather, halter tops, immodest clothing. Sadly, I have many HBC staff members and church members living in my neighborhood. Even the pastor's daughter wore tight black spandex while walking her children down the street. I am a man, and that makes it harder for me to think right. But who cares right? This is America where everyone just does whatever they please. I can understand a church member who is carnal and still growing in the Lord who doesn't dress right, but the church and school staff ought to set the dress standard high, not lower it!!! But this is a minor problem at Harvest, compared to the poisonous Alexandrian Bible versions that they sell, use and promote. One grossly obese assistant pastor shamefully tried to justify their evil, by saying that their church has 18 bilingual groups of people who cannot understand the archaic King James Bible. Well then let them learn to speak fluent English!


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Ten Ton Hammer:
So the legitimacy of video games is just waiting for our latest
generation of youth to grow up?
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Most likely, but this is not enough for me. I would rather do
something instead of just sitting on my hands and waiting for things to
happen "naturally." I want to be able to
design games
that reach people and have a meaningful impact on their
lives. I
can do this already, but the prejudice against games being a
"kiddy medium" prevents some people from enjoying
my work.
I want the
best and brightest creative minds to want to create games. A
friend of mine is a very creative person and a wonderful writer, but he
has turned his back on games and is trying to break into movie
writing. It saddens me that as an avid game player he
didn't want to get into games to tell stories.
Unfortunately, for some people, video games are just a place for people
who couldn't break into movies.
have to wonder
how many other people feel the same way. If games were more
legitimate and respected, and therefore had more smart people working
on issues relating to engaging players and telling meaningful stories
in an interactive environment, how much more interesting would games be
if we had more smart people working on them?
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Few veteran designers have worked on making a
tasteful "mature" themed game, due to the subject matter. Vampire the
Masquerade: Bloodlines is one of the few mainstream titles that
included a sex-scene.
Ten Ton Hammer:
I've heard rumors
that you're working on an "adult"
you go into any details about it? Is it going to be an MMO?
style="font-weight: bold;">Brian:
I've done a fair amount of consulting for various
And, yes, one game has a very heavy focus on sexual interaction, but
the focus was more on social interaction rather than gameplay as it is
traditionally defined.. I can't name the project
specifically, but there is definitely some interest in developing
sexually-themed games. The problem is, of course, that few
"legitimate" game developers are willing to make
such as
risqué game so you have inexperienced developers making the
newbie mistakes we struggled with in the past. It's
whole cycle of learning happening again.
Ten Ton Hammer:
Will making a
"good" pornographic game help bring sex and video
closer to attaining that legitimacy we were discussing earlier?
style="font-weight: bold;">Brian:
I talked about this on my blog at href="http://www.psychochild.org/?p=285">http://www.psychochild.org/?p=285
after reading an essay by Alan Moore about this topic. As I
I think one way for games to be considered legitimate is to stop using
juvenile sexual titillation in our games. Treating sex as a
mature topic would be a great step forward, instead of treating it like
a locker room topic.
not sure if this idea is feasible or possible in games, but I thought
it is an interesting idea.
Ten Ton Hammer:
Judging from your blog,
you seem to have a fascination with "jaded" gamers.
these sort of gamers hold a high place in your vision, or are they just
fun to watch rant and rave? Can the average gamer gain anything of
value from a "jaded gamer"?
style="font-weight: bold;">Brian:
Sometimes you don't just the community, sometimes it chooses
you. The "jaded gamers" are the community
I fell into
when I was working on M59. There were a lot of kindred
there, people who enjoyed these types of games and could see their
think it's
important to remember that the jaded people aren't all jaded
the sake of being jaded. I think some people, like me, are a
disappointed how online games aren't living up to their
potential. Why do we see so many clones of a single type of
gameplay? What's the reality check behind the new
claiming to be bigger and better than all the others? Despite
negative attitudes, these people have perspective that is useful for
developers and other gamers.
there's also the downside. Sometimes the jadedness
them a poor audience to attract. And, some of the people who
been jaded for so long that they cannot get excited about something
that is truly new and original. It's easy to
anything new that comes along when you think you've seen it
Ten Ton Hammer:
Can you talk about your
current MMO project that you're heading up with Jessica
Or is everything still under pretty tight wraps?
style="font-weight: bold;">Brian:
All I can say is that it's an unannounced title currently
pre-production. I will add that it's a project
very excited about because it's not the same old type of game.
Ten Ton Hammer:
In your opinion, what
do you think is the future of MMO games, both big and small? Where are
our virtual worlds headed, and what sort of advancements should we
expect to see in the future?
style="font-weight: bold;">Brian:
It's hard to predict the future accurately.
It's hard
to take much science fiction written before the 90s seriously because
few people predicted the internet, which changed how our world worked
on a massive scale. I like to think I've got my
finger on
the pulse of how these things will work, but I know I'm more
likely to be wrong as right.
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According to Brian Green, smaller games, like Myst
Online, are going to be
the future of the industry.
that in mind,
I think the future is in smaller games. One point I made in
talk at the recent conference is that WoW has changed our perceptions,
so that many games are considered "small" these
I think the future will be defined more by the games with 100,000 to
200,000 players rather than games with the numbers WoW claims.
funny thing is
that a game at this level is still highly profitable. As long
you manage your development and maintenance costs, you can make a lot
of money off of "only" 100,000 users.
Especially if
you start looking at other business models besides subscriptions,
because you can make more money per user and have a higher profit
margin. So, there is little reason not to make this type of
if, like most developers, you cannot afford to make a game to compete
directly with WoW.
think it is also
exciting because it has the chance to give us a wider variety of games
to choose from. If you plan your game to cater to 100,000
you can make a game that appeals more directly to them instead of
watering down content to satisfy the least common denominator.
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that happens, then I think we'll see all sorts of changes
make any predictions we could make now completely moot. This
would be very exciting to see, in my opinion!
Make sure you check out the
first part
of our interview with Brian Green!
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Team works: The insider's guide to hiring the perfect superyacht crew
by Caroline White
Yachts need the right staff, made of the right stuff, to ensure a happy ship. Caroline White discovers the secrets of crew casting...
The wrong superyacht crew will transform your precious days at sea from the grandest holiday money can buy into the world's most expensive purgatory. You're trapped. And you're paying for it. So while it might be more tempting to ponder the marble top for your sundeck bar, it's also worth learning a little about how to find the right crew – and how to remedy the situation if you end up with the wrong ones. Or you might spend more time than you'd intended at that bar.
To a degree, the traits desirable in potential crew are obvious. Ian Pelham, director of crew agency Preferred Crew, reels off qualities such as attention to detail and teamwork, as well as broader attitudes such as a sense of adventure and "getting joy out of watching people end up happy". Similarly, Louise Cailbourdin, crewing manager at the Crew Network, Fraser's crewing arm, lists pride in appearance and good personal hygiene, adding "the light in their eyes that shows enthusiasm".
When he's hiring, Tripp Hock, captain of 45 metre Heesen motor yacht Amore Mio, looks for a certain grit in that enthusiasm. "The one thing you can never teach is that ability to be pleasant 24/7. I am often judging candidates during interviews – imagining, after endless weeks of back to back charters, will their smile win the battle over the fatigue or not?"
What's more surprising is that, leaving aside dishonesty and major psychological problems, Pelham thinks that most character types can be accommodated on one yacht or another – it's just a matter of finding the right match. "I've got a client who had been through a number of different deckhands," he says. "The problem was that everybody on deck was from a particular region of Australia, where their sense of humour was a little aggressive, even insulting. Folks that came in without that same cultural niche felt very quickly isolated – and with this particular group if you reacted negatively or were embarrassed by the way they picked on you, the picking became harder. So they needed somebody who had a thick skin so that they would fit in."
This is where crew agencies earn their stripes, really getting to know crew and building up a portfolio, with someone to suit every boat. The logical extension of that is psychometric testing (the best known example of which is the Myers-Briggs test) to establish personality types, strengths and weaknesses and therefore help a captain or owner build a rounded and cohesive team. "I am 100 per cent in favour of them," says Pelham. "The only reason we don't use them is that they're outrageously expensive, but if somebody created psychometric testing 'lite' I am convinced that it would do very well in yachting."
Pelham finds the major issues come when crew aren't honest with themselves. "Where we bump into the most trouble is if somebody hasn't really given thought to what they want. If they don't know what they're looking for and if they have some charisma, they may be able to sell themselves for a position or a programme, but once they get on board they don't fit and they end up not staying very long."
So how do you cut through the charm and get to a truth that a potential employee doesn't want you to know? Sometimes the flaw in a candidate is so brazenly on show that very little insight is required. "There was one occasion when a crew member swore blind they didn't smoke, but had a packet of cigarettes in their breast pocket throughout the interview," Cailbourdin says.
Most of the time, though, this is where interview experience pays dividends. "If you ask somebody the same question in two different ways – one where it seems that you're trying to bring out one particular answer and another where you're trying to bring out the opposite – if they haven't given thought to what they want to do, they'll try to answer the question the way they think you want to hear the answer," says Pelham, "and you will end up with diametrically opposed answers from the same person. That's usually an indication that they're not solid in what they're seeking."
Cailbourdin points to body language: "Lack of eye contact, slouching, folded arms or, if you ask probing questions, their eyes start rolling or they become defensive. Fortunately this contrasts with our usual interview experience." She also warns that sometimes enthusiasm comes with a drawback. In years gone by, when becoming a crew member didn't require someone to invest in basic training, newcomers were often only motivated by fun and adventure. "So the smell of alcohol at 9am, for example, or slurred telephone conversations at lunchtime were frequent red flags."
That doesn't mean, however, that "green" crew members are always a bad idea. "There are huge benefits in going with crew that are fresh to the industry," says Pelham. "The number one complaint I get from captains, mates, chief stews about somebody with a year or so under their belt is they go back to 'well, that's not the way we did it on our last boat'. Bad habits don't necessarily mean knowing how to sneak around work or avoid doing things. Fresh crew come in like a sponge, ready to absorb whatever that particular manager has to offer."
Hock thinks that experimenting with unconventional hires can have huge potential benefits. "For example, at the moment I have a 40-year-old junior deckhand," he says. "While not the traditional demographic for that role, he brings a freshness, an eagerness to start in the industry at this age – and a maturity – that makes him a really wonderful crew member."
But whatever their experience, surely the most obvious way to find out about a potential crew member is through their CV and references. "I'd recommend that even if you have a written reference, you or your agent call and do a verbal reference check," says Pelham. "There are things that nobody puts in writing. Nobody says, 'would you please put down that I adhered to the boat's drug and alcohol policy'. But that's a question that needs to be asked." Also, sometimes people just lack integrity. "Checking licences is important. There have been cases where licences have been fake," says Cailbourdin.
As important as selecting the crew of your dreams, though, is ascertaining your respective rights and responsibilities – particularly if one or two turn out to be less dreamy than you'd expected. "We're split into two camps," says John Leonida, a partner at UK law firm Clyde & Co. "If it's a commercial boat it's governed by the Maritime Labour Convention. Crew will have an appropriate employment contract and disciplinary procedures, in the way that a big corporation or any serious company has onshore."
If it's a private boat, not governed by the MLC, things can get more complex. Leonida gives an example: "You are a crew employment company or an owner and you decide that a crew member's contract is governed by BVI law but the yacht is permanently berthed in France and the crew member has some connection with France – they have an apartment there, they pay taxes there. It may then be that French law applies. We've seen it on several occasions over the years, that the crew member is dismissed and suddenly we find ourselves within the French legal system. Then you've got to take the decision – do you challenge jurisdiction or do you just go with it?"
In general terms, avoiding such complications often boils down to being a reasonable employer – yet there are some obvious no-nos that still come up time and again in superyachting. "You hear the stories that a stewardess will be hired, but then madam might find that she is too pretty and wants to get rid of her," says Danny McGowan, strategic organiser focusing on superyachts at maritime trade union Nautilus International. He suggests the wisest way to proceed is to adhere to the Merchant Navy Code of Conduct, which has been ratified both by Nautilus and the MCA and which he describes as "one of the fairest disciplinary processes that we could see somebody taken through".
What you don't do, says Leonida, "is just fire on a whim, unless there is gross misconduct or the safety of the vessel is at risk, at which point you can offload them, but not necessarily fire them. And, of course, you can't just abandon a crew member on a small atoll in the middle of nowhere. You have an obligation to get them back home."
McGowan suggests getting in contact with his union before things get nasty in the first place. "For example, companies like Shell and Maersk and huge shipping companies have voluntary agreements with us where we're able to do [mediation]," he says. "They maintain those agreements with us because they'd rather deal with an organisation of our standing and history when it comes to discipline and dismissals than either individuals or solicitors engaged by someone looking in the phone book."
And, of course, that will leave you more time to enjoy your sundeck bar, on a voluntary basis.


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Giving thanks comes easily for Guitar Dad. I'm deeply grateful for all I have, for all I've ever had, and for all I hope to have in the days ahead.
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them," instructed the oh-so-quotable John F. Kennedy.
In other words, feel the love then show the love. That makes a lot of sense.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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The next two articles are from The New York Times, February 3,1858; page 5. This one has a more satisfying ending. The kidnapped "slave" mentioned in this article is George Anderson.
Just click on the images to read them.
|Michigan City Evening Dispatch, 30 July 1887, page 4, col. 4.
|Michigan City News, 14 October 1903, page 5, col. 3.
I don't know when Frances wrote this (she doesn't either -- lol), but it was many years ago.
Niels and Rebecca (Bake) Madsen
In May of 1900 Rebecca and Niels (pronounced "Nels") Madsen left their home in Southern Idaho to join a group of pioneers called by the Mormon Church to settle in the Big Horn Basin of Northern Wyoming. They were members of Company #___, which made the 400 mile trip by wagon. With them were their 7 living children: Orson, 19, Oliver, 17, Hazel, 14, Sarah Ronella (called Roie), 11, Vida, 9, Ivy, 4, and Franklin, 17 months old. Hazel remembered the trip in this way: "Mother and I and the younger girls rode in the wagon, but Roie, always a tomboy, was on horseback out in front of the wagon with the boys. Mother and I took turns holding baby Frank during the long days in the wagon. I particularly remember a night when the wagon train was camped on the Western side of the Wind River and the Indians were camped on the other side. It was a very strange and different place from home." Hazel always remembered the wind and the sand and the sagebrush. The Madsen children who accompanied their parents to the Big Horn Basin must be counted among the original settlers as well.
Once they arrived in Wyoming, Niels and his older two boys went to work immediately on the Sidon canal and were participants in the completion of the project. Niels is in the group picture taken at "Prayer Rock" as it split in half and rolled out of the canal's path. The devotion of the Madsens to their church is not well documented, but is evident by their willingness, well into their middle age, to uproot their family and move to an unpopulated, severe, and desolate place in order to follow the Church objectives.
The Madsens set up their home in the Southwest corner of the Byron town plot, and received 80 acres of farmland on the upper bench just west of the townsite. That summer and into the fall they constructed a log cabin, from timber brought down from the Prayer Mountains, in which he family lived for the next 60 years. They dug a root cellar, constructed out buildings, and planted lilacs. By 1956, surrounded by giant cottonwood trees, the house was one of only three of the original log homes built in 1900 that was still standing, with relatively few changes from when it was built. While cold running water had been piped in from the well, no other modern plumbing had ever been installed. The property was sold around 1959 and the house torn down. This was the end of all evidence that these brave and devout pioneers played a part in the founding of the town of Byron.
Background: Niels and Rebecca were not new to immigration and following the call of the Mormon church. Niels was born in Denmark on December 4, 1846. When he was 10 years old, his whole family were converted to Mormonism during the European missionary movement. They later immigrated to the United States and followed the emigration of the Saints to the Salt Lake Valley in or around 1860. They set up their first home in this country in Ogden, UT, where the last of Niels' siblings was born. Sometime later the family relocated to the Bear Lake regions of Southwestern Idaho where Niels met and married Rebecca Bake.
Rebecca's mother was born in Wales and her father in England. Her parents didn't meet on the other side of the Atlantic, however. Her mother had married in Wales and immigrated to Pennsylvania where her first husband died in 1848. It seems reasonable to assume that Rebecca's parents meet in Pittsburg sometime around 1851. Her mother must have been converted early in the Church's history, possibly in Wales, since Rebecca's brother, Oliver Cowdry Bake, carried the name of one of the church founders and early missionaries. After their marriage, it appears that the Bakes went to Kentucky for a time before returning to Pittsburg, where Rebecca was born on January 25, 1857. According to family anecdotal history, Rebecca's father was a physician and he continued to practice medicine throughout his lifetime. When Rebecca was 4 years old, the family joined the LDS migration by wagon and handcarts to Zion, where they settled in Goshen, Utah. But by 1864 records show that they had moved to Bloomington, Idaho.
Niels and Rebecca were married in Bloomington on February 8, 1877. It was here that all of their children were born. But it was not a joyous beginning of their family. Rebecca's first two babies were stillborn and the third baby, named Elizabeth, lived only for a few hours. Subsequently, they had 8 more children. Their 10th baby born when Hannah was 40 years old, was also stillborn and two years later she gave birth to their last surviving child. He was just over one year old when they journeyed north to the Big Horn Basin. Niels died in Byron on September 7, 1921 and Rebecca survived him by another 18 years. She died in her home on October 26, 1939 at the age of 82 years.
Their Legacy -- the children: Henry Orson worked with his father on the Sidon Canal and on the farm; he never married. Sometime in 1931 he injured his leg and as a result requird progressive amputations which were unsuccessful in deterring the spread of infection. He died from gangrene poisoning at the age of 50. Jacob Oliver, the second son, also remained a bachelor. He contracted influenza when he was 35 and was a victim of the great flu epidemic of 1918.
Hazel, the oldest daughter, returned to Bloomington, where she married William Piggott in 1910. They had a long and happy life together and raised their family of four sons and one daughter in Bloomington, whre she died on January 1, 1968. Roie, always headstrong and willful, moved to the Big Horn area of Montana where she married Robert Stewart Smith. They were the parents of seven daughters and one son. She died in Billings at the age of 70. Ivy, also left Byron when she was a young woman, and in 1919 married Malcolm Crocker in the Big Horn area of Montana where she lived out her life. They had one son and one daughter. She died in 1979 at the age of 85.
Franklin Bake Madsen, the last of Rebecca and Niels' children, lived in and around Byron for most of his life. After his mother's death, Frank moved to the Madsen homesite where he lived with his family and grew his incomparable vegetable gardens. He was a self-taught musician, with a lovely tenor voice -- his talent inherited by a grandson he never knew. His singing as he accompanied himself on the mandolin, or the sound of the old tunes he played on his harmonica, are cherished memories. He worked in the oil fields, and farmed the 40 acres* he inherited from his mother. Frank died of cancer in his family's original log house in 1953. He is buried in the Madsen family plot in the Byron cemetery beside his parents and his brothers. Frank was married three times. In 1926, he married Dezzie McLamore Lindsay (who had two children == Tommy and Virginia Lindsay; they lived with their father in Byron). Frank and "Dez" had one daughter, Frances, who would be the last direct descendant of Niels and Rebecca to carry the Madsen name (although later his stepsons changed their names to Madsen). In 1945, Frank married Helen Dudley, mother of two sons, Neil and Larry. While the children all attended and graduated from Byron High School, no one bearing the Madsen name has lived in Byron for over 40 years.
*Of possible interest: Sometime in the 1940's Frank sold 15 acres of the farm to Don and Lou Snyder. Today, the D&L Motel and Café sits on original land homesteaded by the Madsen's in 1900. Another forty acre plot across the highway, on the river bluff, lies fallow. It is presumed this land is still titled to multiple Madsen heirs (under the trusteeship of Roie Smith's only son, Robert since the early 1960's) However, since his death two or three years ago, it is unclear what the status of the land is at this time. An inquiry will be made at the County offices in the near future.
This narrative of the Madsen family, original settlers of the town of Byron, was provided by Frances (Madsen) Towle. This is a "work in progress", prepared from memory and assumption. Anyone who can add stories, facts, or corrections, please contact her. Particularly interested in personal information about her father and mother.
William C. Piggott May 7, 1885 - Nov 7, 1971 & Hazel R. Piggott Apr 14, 1886 - Jan 1, 1968.
Randolph, Feb. 9-- William Piggott, 79 years of age, and a pioneer of the early sixties, died here yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice C. Reay. The cause of death was Bright's disease, from which Mr. Piggott had been a sufferer four years. He was a resident of Bloomington, Idaho where he had been postmaster and prominient in business circles for many years. He moved from Utah to southern Idaho about 30 years ago, and engaged in the lumber business, building up a large trade and becoming known as a leading merchant of the community.
Mr. Piggott was born in Massachusetts where he joined the Church of Jeseus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1870 he married Elizabeth Cannon, youngest sister of the late President George Q. Cannonn. At the time of his death Mr. Piggott was visiting at the home of his daughter where he was stricken with his last illness. He is survived by his widow and the following children: Mrs. John A. South and Mrs. Alice C. Reay of Randolph; Mrs. Leonora Hatch of Georgetown and William and George Q. Piggott of Bloomington. He also has a sister in Salt Lake City, Mrs. Abbie Piggott Slater, living at 237 east Sixth South street.
Funeral services will be held at Bloomington Tuesday Feb 11.
--Deseret News Feb 10, 1913
Funeral Services Held For Frank Madsen
Funeral services for Franklin Bake Madsen were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Byron LDS chapel with Bishop Ernest Jensen officiating. Haskell Funeral Home was in charge.
Mr. Madsen passed from this life Saturday morning at 11:40 a.m. at his home in Byron following a lingering illness. Those present at his bedside were his immediate family, two sisters, and one brother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Roy (should say William) Piggott.
Mrs. Charles Hessenthaler played soft organ music for the prelude and postlude. The invocation was given by Louis Wolz. The choir under the direction of Mrs. Louis Wolz sang, "Not Now But in the Years to Come," accompanied by Naomi Abraham. Vern Wilcock accompanied by Miss Abraham sang "Going Home." The sermon was given by Dess Wilson of Cowley. Miss Abraham and Mrs. Hessenthaler sang "Beyond The Sunset," accompanied by Mrs. Walter Stevens. Mrs. Nellie Vail gave the obituary, Cliff Powelson gave the benediction.
Pallbearers were Ed Pryde, Harry Leslie, Melvin Knopp, Rheudy Meredith, Al Davis and Solomon Sena. Burial was in the Byron cemetery with Wilford Mower dedicating the grave.
Franklin Bake Madsen was born Jan. 3, 1899 in Dingle, Idaho, the son of Neils and Rebecca Bake Madsen, the youngest of seven children. His parents, two brothers and one sister have preceded him in death.
Frank came with his family to the Big Horn basin n 1900 when but one year old. He received his schooling in Byron where he was active in athletic programs, taking part in baseball, basketball and other sports.
While still very young he was left with his mother and brother to care for. After his brother Orson's death he stayed home to care for his mother until her passing.
On Sept. 1, 1936 he married Mrs. Virginia Lindsay and to this union one daughter, Francess Ann, was born. On Jan 8, 1945, he married Mrs. Helen Rominger Dudley of American Fork, Utah , the mother of two sons, Neil and Larry. These boys with his daughter make up his family.
Frank has been employed in the oil fiedls in and near Byron except for the few years he worked in the oil fields at Lusk and Lance Creek, and the short time he was employed at Geneva Steel in Utah.
He is surived by his wife, Helen; one daughter, Frances Ann; two sons, Neil and Larry, and three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Piggott of Bloomington, Idaho, Mrs. Sarah Smith of Bilings, and Mrs. Ida Crocker of Sayle, Montana.
Those coming from Utah to attend the funeral were Mrs. Madsen's mother, Mrs. Rominger, her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Almond Bain of American Fork, Mr. Madsen's sisters, Mrs. Piggott and husband and Mrs. Smith.