Month: July 2017

Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA)  now hiring for three different positions:
∙ Digital Media Specialist, Part-Time (Los Angeles)
∙ Arts in Corrections Program Coordinator, Full-Time (Los Angeles)
∙ Arts in Corrections Program Manager, Full-Time (Fresno)
The Digital Media Specialist will be taking over some of my duties as I transition into to a program director role, so will be working closely with me. This is going to be a really cool gig, open to a lot of creativity + growth potential over time.
The other two positions will oversee ACTA’s artist-led workshops in So Cal + Central Valley prisons, respectively. Some of ACTA’s very best work!
The full job descriptions can be accessed at the link below. Please pass on widely! All positions are open until filled. Reach out to Amy Kitchener (akitch – at – actaonline.org) and I with any questions.
http://www.actaonline.org/content/jobs-acta

#Finlit
“There was no one with the political or regulatory strength who could control these companies” in China. Until now.

#Health
EmCare Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills overcharging as a business model
Before EmCare, about 6 percent of patient visits in the hospital’s emergency room were billed for the most complex, expensive level of care. After EmCare arrived, nearly 28 percent got the highest-level billing code.$EMHC
No matter how you tweak it, CBO scores show #Trumpcare is a tax cut for billionaires and drug companies, and it’s terrible for everyone else

#Health
Texas Republican has problem with women  “GOP Rep: Fight To Fix O’Care Is Women’s Fault, Could Be Solved With A Gun Duel  http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-fight-to-fix-ocare-is-womens-fault-could-be-solved-with-guns
Cancer agency left in the dark over glyphosate evidence
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/glyphosate-cancer-data/
When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France in March 2015, there was something he wasn’t telling them.
#Voter Suppression
Vice-chair of fraud commission, who’s asking states for personal data on voters, has track-record of suppression. Uncovering Kris Kobach’s Anti-Voting History President Trump is expected to name Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach vice-chair of a new body to investigate supposed “voter fraud” issues in the 2016 election. Kobach is hardly a household name, but for the better part of the last decade, he has been a key architect behind many of the nation’s anti-voter and anti-immigration policies.
#IOT

a nice bedtime tale

of a coffee machine

TAKING DOWN A CHEMICAL FACTORY'S NETWORK

🤔https://t.co/Z3JOYGieP9 pic.twitter.com/jirAlqWR7D

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) July 24, 2017

 
 
 
 
 
 

Definition of Boodle, Boodle Boys and the Good Ole’ Boy Network

PR Steve Lombardo & Richard Fink Strategy behind the Koch Bros $900 million for 2016 elections campaigns https://archive.is/ztAaG

 

In 1995, this astronomer predicted the Internet’s greatest failure And, of course, we trolled him for it for decades.

By Rob Howard
Jul 18 2017
<https://medium.com/the-mission/in-1995-this-astronomer-predicted-the-internets-greatest-failure-68a1c3927e46>
 

Rebutal – no, no, no, no, no, no! No, not that again!

Doom and gloom sells. Cassandras have prophesied accounts of war and doom, and people have been keen to echo their most terrible experiences to reinforce their own morose forecasts about the future of the world – and that it used to be so much better before. Well, I am sorry, but I maintain quite the opposite: that things are a lot better today than they ever were.
Let’s take Cliff Stoll’s predictions. Now before I start, I must say that I have the uttermost respect for him, whilst having never met him in person, but having devoured his excellent book the Cuckoo’s Egg back in 1989. Cliff shared an early version of his “predictions” on the USENET newsgroup comp.dcom.telecom – aka Telecom Digest (apparently the Internet’s oldest mailing list) in a post entitled
“Thrills of Long Distance”, on 27 July 1992 – The posting can be found on:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.dcom.telecom/V4Dja8lt27Y/huUlemiwhq0J
nearly 25 years ago – and I suspect took it several years to amplify them into a longer, more polished publication.
Back then, I was an inexperienced PhD student with obviously too much time and optimism on my hands and a rosy view of the future. My response to Cliff’s points, archived on:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.dcom.telecom/IOkWaiFZ0uI/PVPmVQ83_YMJ might have been impertinent, and looking back now, having passed 40 years old many years ago, outrageously age-discriminatory, *but* I still maintain that we should not be longing for the “good old days”. USENET might have withered away for all sorts of reasons, but the Internet itself has brought more good things to the world that any other technology I can think of – except, perhaps, the Wheel and Fire. Admittedly the cacophony of voices, fake news, information wars and hate propaganda have bruised and stretched the limits of our cosy but fragile democracies, but I still shed a tear of joy when I physically meet people from very       deprived communities in Soweto, Dakar, Nakuru, Mumbai, Cairo, Cusco, X’ian, Ourika and so many other places, people from indigenous communities and people who are physically disabled, who tell me what the Internet has done for them, how it has improved their life, how it has enabled them to make a living, to put food on the family’s table every evening. These are people who tell me they cannot find words strong enough to thank the people who have       invented the Internet, because it has completely changed their life for the better. And yes, in their world, things were not better in the “good old days”.
Focussing on crying about the Internet of Hate and the angst that this is procuring us, including the stress of information overload, might well be a western world social disease as we reminisce about how much more harmonious our world used to be without the Internet. For the majority of the world out there, from what I hear and see, today appears to be way better than yesterday and the Internet often has something to do with this improvement.
Cliff’s Stoll’s piece in 1995 has been regularly dug out as it was ridiculed by some people. Whilst I had an opposite view to his predictions I do admit that he was partially correct on some – and that’s the great thing about the Internet: the diversity of views. Some call it a cacophony.
Kindest regards,
Olivier
—
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

Sue Googe
See the Republican 4th district in South Carolina  http://www.suegooge.com/
“The corruption and cronyism in our political system is threatening our nation’s prosperity.  I want to be a new voice for the people of North Carolina’s 4th District, to ensure the American Dream is alive and thriving for all Americans.”
https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/166578/sue-googe

• No political experience information on file.
• Attended, Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2005

 
China’s N.C. love affair 
http://businessnc.com/chinas-n-c-love-affair/
Across the state line, Virginia’s faded South Hill was once a thriving tobacco town. After wrapping up a meeting here, Garrett heads back to North Carolina, pleased with his day. The tobacco buyers he met agreed to pay about $2.18 a pound for 19 bales. At more than 700 pounds per bale and 15 cents or more per pound than others are offering, the deal will gross more than $30,000. “We’ve done pretty well,” he says. Farmers like Garrett are the soul of Tar Heel agriculture, powering the state’s economy. “It’s made a life for me,” says Garrett, who farms about 100 acres of tobacco near Vicksboro.
On this day, though, the buyers crucial to his future are from the opposite side of the globe. Deqing Liang and his delegation from China Tobacco International (North America) Ltd. are based in Raleigh, but Garrett’s tobacco will eventually go up in the smoke of premium Chinese cigarette brands such as Huanghelou and Panda. Last year, North Carolina sent China about $184 million in tobacco, while overall exports to the Asian nation topped $2.1 billion.

Garrett’s tobacco sale exemplifies the degree to which China has penetrated North Carolina commerce, from bucolic family farms to golf courses, urban apartment projects and pharmaceutical and computer factories, plus new industries in moribund towns.

Then read the propagandspin China puts on the canidate