China steigert die Produktion von Strom aus Kohle weiter. Im Augenblick wird pro Woche eine zusätzliche Kohleverbrennung genehemigt, die ca. 2 durchschnittlichen Kraftwerken entspricht. Diese Entwicklung steht im Widerspruch zu den offiziellen Klimazielen Chinas. Das Hauptziel ist dabei offensichtlich kurzfristige Energiesicherheit. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon

Bericht: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-new-coal-power-spree-continues-as-more-provinces-jump-on-the-bandwagon/

Die französischen Obstbauern müssen ihre Produktion an die globale Erhitzung anpassen. Im Süden werden zunehmend Mandeln, Pistazien und Cashewnüsse angebaut. Dabei muss verhindert werden, dass durch zu viel industrielle Landwirtschaft die Ökosysteme weiter geschädigt werden. Der Agroökonom Serge Zaka fordert ein stärkeres Engagement des Staats bei der Umstellung und weist darauf hin, dass jetzt Entscheidungen getroffen werden, die die "weltweite Geopolitik der Ernährung" 2050 bestimmen werden.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/changement-climatique-pour-larboriculture-lavenir-se-joue-maintenant-20230831_AEJ42FWLRZEKNJAB4TJU2JBUFI/

Bei einer Temperaturerhöhung um 3° wären 91% der europäischen Skigebiete von Schneemangel betroffen. Er ließe sich nur zum Teil durch Schneekanonen ausgleichen. Nicht nur das Verschwinden der Schneedecke, sondern auch zunehmender Wassermangel werden den Wintertourismus erschweren oder unmöglich machen, wie eine neue Studie belegt.

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01759-5

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000184604/neun-von-zehn-skigebieten-in-europa-koennte-wegen-klimawandel-der-schnee-ausgehen

Eine Studie von Greenpeace unter dem Titel "The Dirty Dozen" zeigt, dass die europäischen Fossil-Konzerne ihre enormen Gewinne weiterhin vor allem in fossile Energien investieren. Nur 7,3% ihrer Investitionen flossen 2022 in erneuerbare Energien. Nur 0,3% der von ihnen produzierten Energie stammte aus erneuerbaren Quellen.

https://taz.de/Investition-der-Oelkonzerne/!5951092/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/gigantic-power-of-meat-industry-blocking-green-alternatives-study-finds

• for: polycrisis, Trumpism, Chaos, distraction, climate crisis, climate communication, complexity, adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, adjacency climate change big oil, adjacency climate change politics big oil, quote adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, quote adjacency climate change big oil
• key insight
  • claim
    • One big reason that big oil is funding GOP to keep the chaotic Trump story as the main headline is to foster distraction from climate change impacts
    • big news story in the US is Donald Trump and the election, climate change impacts of extreme weather is minimized
    • the distraction of politics from a chaotic GOP is perfect distraction for the masses to ignore climate change and for big oil to continue BAU
• paraphrase
• quote
  • when you take a step back and look at that part of the distraction and the chaos that Trump and these GOP trolls deliver
  • it's it's a wonderful Boon for the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers and the guys that fund these campaigns and the federal Federalist Society that's owning the Supreme Court
  • they want to keep doing business as usual and the easiest way to do that is
    • to have this big chaotic GOP that ignores climate change and
    • to play into what they want
      • the mainstream media not focusing more on climate change let alone making those two connections
    • a lot of mainstream media is scared to make that connection because oil companies are paying the bills of CNN and every other network
• author
  • Noel Casler

Standard-Artikel über die Schwierigkeiten, in Österreich Großprojekte zur Energiewende administrativ und gegen den Widerstand lokaler Initiativen durchzusetzen. Die drei ausgewählten Beispiele zeigen, dass die Probleme und die Motive für den Widerstand sehr unterschiedlich sind. Die EU will mit dem Net Zero Industry Act die Zeit bis zur Umsetzung von Projekten auf maximal anderthalb Jahre verkürzen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000182417/ueberforderte-behoerden-und-protestierende-buerger-bremsen-die-energiewende-aus

• for: futures, decarbonizing - cultural sector, climate futures - cultural sector, climate futures - cultural industry
• paraphrase
  • more local performances
  • more local purchases
  • leverage point for regional transition
  • reduce capacity
  • slowdown
  • reconceive / eco-conceive the arts so that it may endure
  • educate and change public policy

• for: music industry - touring economics, concert booking arms race, unsustainable booking
  • the intensity of bookings ( number of artists scheduled to perform per year or per season) is increasing
  • the average booking is becoming more geographically widespread ( more kilometers travelled per artist) with fewer performance dates per region
  • increase in artistic fees and technical requirements force organizers to attract more audiences who come from further away, creating a concert booking arms race

• for: carbon emissions of the 1%, carbon inequality, carbon emissions - artists, high carbon lifestyle
• comment
  • top tier entertainers are conditioned to a high carbon lifestyle. This is a challenge to overcome.
  • example given
    • DJ who flew to perform in four different EU cities in the same evening!

• for: carbon footprint - music industry, carbon footprint - concerts, carbon footprint - touring
• paraphrase
  • Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
    • producers,
    • broadcasters,
    • booking agents,
    • distributors, internet platforms
    • studios
    • equipment and service providers
  • are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
  • Music or showbusiness artists, for example, depend more and more on touring and festivals.
  • Namely because with a remuneration of 0,0034 dollars per listened music track,
    • only 1% of music artists receive a minimum wage through streaming and
    • because, in the meantime, sales in the physical media market (CD, vinyl) have collapsed,
      • and streaming has not made up for loss of value.
  • Unsurprisingly, the artists who are most successful at making a living receive the quasi-totality of their revenue from the tours they do via concerts or festivals
    • (which incur high travel carbon footprint)
  • And those have a tendency to increase at an unchecked rate.
  • To attract the largest crowd possible, these artists demand
    • more and more top billings
    • with equally
      • increasing fees and
      • technical requirements.
  • example
    • Coldplay travels with no less than 2 kits of 32 articulated lorries on the road (for their “ecological” tour),
    • Rammstein accounts for
      • almost 100 articulated lorries
      • 7 cargo planes for their tours and
      • burns no less than 1000 litres of heating oil for their pyrotechnical effects at each concert (something the group proudly displays on social media).
• noteworthy
  • due to loss of product sales, touring and concerts is the only way musicians can make money, and that comes at high carbon emission cost

• for: carbon emissions - DJ, carbon footprint - DJ, carbon emissions - music industry, carbon emission - cultural sector, research study - carbon emissions - DJ
• noteworthy
  • some DJ's fly to perform in four European cities in a single evening!

• for: cape town transportation, minibus industry South Africa , Cape Town, sustainable transportation, informal transport
• title
  • Views 0 CrossRef citations to date 32 Altmetric Research Article The spatial and social logic of the Minibus Taxi network: how access may support social inclusion in Cape Town, South Africa
• date
  • May 24, 2021
• author
  • Ruth Joan Nelson
• source
  • Applied Mobilities
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23800127.2021.1926054

• for: greenwashing

• Overall demand for meat is expected to jump more than 70 percent by 2050
• livestock farming currently represents about 15 percent of all current human greenhouse gas emissions (UN FAO).
• To reduce meat consumption now requires a familiar dual approach:
  • provide alternatives available now
    • plant proteins are still the most viable alternative
  • degrowth
    • reduce our meat consumption rather than eliminate it entirely,

Current healthcare trends show movement toward quality-based payments and away from quantity-based payments. These trends reflect efforts to cut healthcare spending by eliminating excess costs and using evidence-based medicine to guide clinical decisions. Dive into the concept of bundled pricing for surgery centers, explore its benefits, implementation strategies, and potential impact on the healthcare industry.

Bericht zu dem Projekt nefi, bei dem es um die Dekarbonisierung der österreichischen Industrie geht. Sie ist schon deutlich vor 2050 möglich, wenn die entsprechenden Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen werden. Dabei geht Thomas Kienberger, der für diesen Artikel befragt wurde, davon aus dass Energie aus südlichen Ländern importiert werden muss, und dass CO₂ durch CCS gespeichert und dann auch außerhalb von Österreich gelagert werden muss. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000175530/schaffen-wir-die-klimaneutrale-industrie-bis-2040

Das neueste Kohlekraftwerk in Bangladesch musste kurz nach seiner Eröffnung bereits zweimal stillgelegt werden, weil Bangladesch nicht über die Devisenreserven verfügte, um die nötige Kohle aus Indonesien zu importieren. Die New York Times stellt ausgehend von diesem Beispiel die zunehmenden wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten wegen der Kosten der Köhleenergie dar. Im Augenblick ist China das einzige größere asiatische Land, das massiv Kohlekraftwerke ausbaut. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/climate/coal-electricity-bangladesh.html

The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.

DAFR

In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.

Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.

RG

This information definitely changed my opinions and views of Wikipedia. I feel like all throughout high school I was taught that Wikipedia was not a scholarly source so I always avoided looking on there because I didn't think it was accurate but reading the results of this study and the article attached about this study has changed my views of Wikipedia.

The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.

DAFR

The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.

DAFR

In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.

Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.

RG

In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.

Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.

RG

30 Industriebetriebe sind einer Untersuchung des ökoinstituts zu Folge für 8% der deutschen Emissionen verantwortlich. Eisen und Stahl, Chemie und Zement sind die schmutzigsten Branchen. https://taz.de/Klimaschutz-in-der-Industrie/!5936194/

Der deutsche Wirtschaftsminister Habeck plant, den Umstieg deutscher Industriebetriebe auf erneuerbare Energien zu fördern, damit diese dadurch keine Mehrkosten haben. Ulrike Herrmann beurteilt diesen Plan in der Pfalz positiv, schränkt aber ein Komma dass Angaben über die gesamtstrommenge, die erneuerbar produziert werden kann, fehlen. In Deutschland können nicht genug Strom für Industrie Heizung und Verkehr zusammen produziert werden. Er müsste deswegen entweder z.b über ammoniak-porte aus Namibia eingeführt werden oder – ein Verstoß gegen Tabus der Industriepolitik – energieintensive Industrien müssten in Länder mit mehr sonnen und Windenergie ausgelagert werden. https://taz.de/Klimasubventionen-fuer-Unternehmen/!5936015/

https://letterboxd.com/bitdepth/lists/

bitdepth has some interesting lists, including films directed by women.

Die Quartalsgewinne von Exxon und Chevron liegen etwas unter dem vergangenen Quartal, aber deutlich über dem gleichen Quatal im Vorjahr. Die Produktion wird nicht deutlich gesteigert, aber die Erschließung neuer Felder z.B. in Guyana wird vorangetrieben. Die globale Nachfrage nach Öl und Gas steigt weiterhin, allerdings langsam. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/business/energy-environment/oil-exxon-chevron.html

Asset Manager großer Investment Fonds, darunter BlackRock, benutzen sogenannte Öko-Fonds mit ESG-Siegel für massive Investitionen in fossile Unternehmen. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/02/green-investment-funds-pushing-money-into-fossil-fuel-firms-research-finds

Bericht über eine Diskussion in der Wirtschaftskammer zu den aktuellen konjunkturellen Problemen der Bauwirtschaft in Graz. Offenbar haben ökologische Überlegungen und Zweifel am Sinn des Wachstums keine Rolle gespielt.

—u/theinvertedform

It's an "industry" now! long live the zettelkasten capitalists!

antecedent: research on Walter Benjamin's Archive

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017674/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12

book idea w/ title:

Uncredited: The Life of Fred Aldrich

was he related to Robert Aldrich?

Mit Total meldet ein weiterer Energiegigant Rekordgewinne. Sie gehen zu einem großen Teil auf den gestiegenen Gaspreis zurück. In erneuerbarer Energie. Total investiert nur einen kleinen Teil der Einnahmen in erneuerbare Energien. Wesentlich mehr Geld fließt in Dividenden und den Rückkauf von Aktien.

Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America Paved the way. pg. 15

https://events.jhu.edu/form/HopInHollywood2023

!- Michael Hudson : The realities of debt writedown of any kind - Not pragmatic because no political party will support it because all political parties are subsidized by banking and financial sector

!- Title : Storytelling Will Save the Earth Emotional resonance, not cold statistics, will bring home the scale of the climate crisis—and the need for action. - See related story: Brian Eno – "We need the creative industry to help inspire climate action" https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imperial.ac.uk%2Fnews%2F241832%2Fbrian-eno-we-need-creative-industry%2F&group=world

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/14-warning-signs-that-you-are-living

From the intermediate linked blog post:

Using a derivative metric of the Global Warming Potential (100), the GWP, aviation emissions are currently warming the climate at approximately three times the rate of that associated with CO2 emissions alone.

pp. 35-36 of EASA report for European Commission, (2020). Updated analysis of the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation and potential policy measures pursuant to the EU Emissions Trading System Directive Article 30(4). https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:7bc666c9-2d9c-11eb-b27b-01aa75ed71a1.0001.02/DOC_1&format=PDF

Every studio has a slate.

What is the source for this?

It's highly related to having a direction in life, or the famous example of Feynman's 12 Favorite Problems that he always kept in mind to slowly be working at.

Part of having a list of purpose dovetails to how one builds their identity too.

The documentary Casting By (2012) shows casting director Marion Dougherty's 3 x 5" index card collection which she used for casting notes. In particular they show an example card for Dustin Hoffman with his details. In Hoffman's case, his card included the older telephone numbers with exchanges (EN2-6933 or Endicott2 6933), so these cards may have also served a contact purpose similar to more modern rolodexes. Different from them however, Dougherty's also included heights, credits, and other observations relevant to the casting process.

Screen capture from the movie

Meet the media startups making big money on vaccine conspiracies. (n.d.). Fortune. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://fortune.com/2021/05/14/disinformation-media-vaccine-covid19/

Guter Artikel, auch als Ergänzung zu der großen Studie von Anderson und anderen. Die Studie, die er vorstellt, geht auf die verschiedenen Player und Interessengruppen ein, die Dekarbonisierung erschweren und manchmal beschleunigen.

She'll und BP geben allein im UK Hunderttausende für Greenwashing-Kampagnen aus. Zur Zeit sollten sie ihnen vor allem die Licence to Operate vor dem Hintergrund von Milliardengewinnen sichern, die sie den durch den Ukraine-Krieg gestiegenen Ölpreisen verdanken.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls538847946/

Indigenous knowledge has been broadly ignored, rejected, and even exploited without any recognition by Western colonizers. Examples of appropriation include knowledge of plants patented for use in food, medicine, and cosmetics.

Zach Baylin is JHU A/S '02 Academy Nomination for Original Screenplay 2022

For some, this is reasonable and rationale. It's the point of the whole enterprise. Yet for others, this take is controversial, as it may threaten the ideals and/or visions of the purpose of Public Education. These stakeholders may ask, "Is it the job of public education to serve industry's needs by preparing proper cogs for the workforce wheels?" At the same time, others may wonder, "Is public education willfully performing a disservice to our students if our credentials are not valued by employers?"

These are important questions to ask, and to answer.

Akanbi, U. (2022). Impact of Covid-19 on cyber Security. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ktr4y

The Culture Industry: Mass Deception in Dialectic of Enlightenment

The culture industry is any industry that is producing cultural products: news, beauty, music, fashion industry has one goal: generate profit. They will produce things that are produced like a factory. They are intended to produce consumerism. In the way that sex sells, rebellion also sells. The industries that are making our culture are feeding us our news so are corporaterized. Adorno and Horkheimer would not be suprised about YouTube. That cultural adversary may be dialectical.

Academia. You know more about less and less.

Backdrop context: Shaky ground of liberal democracy in the beginnings of WW2,rise of social movements, rise of nationalism and facism.

Englightment: Reason & Individual liberty Bacon: a larger system that synthesized knowledge and power as one; a flipping of nature over man and man over nature; but A/H thought that this played out in a human global scale.

If Enlightenment was supposed to create logic and reason why did we experience WW2, for A/H if we're to take Bacon seriously we have to consider DOMINATION in newer notions of freedom.

Regression: Enlightenment as Myth. Englightenment becomes totalitarian it ABSTRACTS. Ex. Hitler youth, a difference among others yet they become homogenous sameness among each other.

The result of the sacrifice continues that is far more reaching that MArx's alienation. --> UNFETTERED ACCEPTANCE

Adorno/H say that positivism: 1) a system of philiospgy were every assertion can be proved 2) as ideoogy where eveyrthing is true by default and questioning it goes against objective foundations.

Kant saw a short-sighted view of self-reason

IDEOLOGY of defintiion #2 the process of Englightenment is brought into analysis of the Culture Industry.

Context: AMerica is becoming global powerhouse, Soviet underwent their own Industrial Revolution, change was everywhere and revolutionary change with one large outlier thus the immediat question. Despite a global population of workers revolitng around the globe then why didnt the United States or Western Countries embrace similar post-capitalist systems seen across teh globe? And how is Soviet existing as a post-capitalist system alongside the capitalist system?

Art is being systematized, newer technology is being synthesized into one and the same narrative. The same repackaged story; subject and authority. This mimics the governance of a few over many.

A/H utilize Kant's idea of schemtaism (being how the midn communicates with objects and other structures aorund us, how to reason and cogantate; synthesize and bring Froyd into the mix, how we suppress ourselves and our desires to how we fit into society. We cognitively pick up how the world is presented to us. Viewership creates the bounds within which we can do art. A psychological realism that is difficult to break for a person who works a 9-5pm; to break it in a capitalist system is used to labor and build wealth. Art becomes the same even when it tries to stand out. There is a unifornm aethetic if you wnat to be different, the sameness and constant

Art is now abstracted a fulfilmmnet of mere numbers rather than aesthetic work and utility. Regarding art in newer creation, A/H bring up autombiles as an example, a film must have a romatic sequence that the industry now demands. This is part of Mechanical reproduction. Art will become tailored to your class relation as well. But it's not only class and poleconomy but it's not just corporate art is entirely based oof profit but rather there is a cyclcial ideology that reinforces this ideology. see

The focus isn't on marvel movies (for their thrist for profit) or to tell consumers to not consume this art but its the industry itself that reproduces the

"Thirst" is not conscious it is a result of the structure that is capitalism the culture industry modling of our desires in the first place.

It's not good enough to tell individuals to not consume said tailored art. Example anti-semitism is a result of essentialist notions of race. Largest incubators of anti-semitism stem from the bourigeoise themselves but a ruling class of people attempting to hide a ruling class domination. Here the bouregoise know the struggles of individuals and pins this to Jewish individuals.

Thus its not really just pushing Jewish people out of certain borders this marks the downfall of bouregoise property.

Look up: > Cultural education became....

The whole world is made to pass through the filter of the culture industry...

Culture is a paradoxical commodity. It is so completely subject to the law of exchange that it is no longer exchanged; it is so blindly equated with use that it can no longer be used. For this reason it merges with the adver­tisement. The more meaningless the latter appears under monopoly, the more omnipotent culture becomes. (pg 131).

Unending sameness also governs the relationship to the past. What is new in the phase of mass culture compared to that of late liberalism is the exclusion of the new.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/business/media/ankler-janice-min-richard-rushfield.html

I thought this was the niche filled by Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood?

The consortium consists of 150 companies in December, 2021. This will increase. Significant community college reaction is (wisely?) sensing an opportunity instead of a threat. They are collaborating and indications are they will benefit across multiple verticals. I'm excited to see how this plays out in 4-year spaces of Higher Ed:

• Will HE react to a threat or an opportunity?
• How might domains like interpersonal and intercultural skills be credentialed in a way that fosters an interoperable ecosystem between HE and industry efforts like this?
• How will HE endeavor to consume credentials issued by non-accredited bodies?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke

So very Hollywood with all the fluff.

Starting with reality television, everything seems to have become entertainment. Social media has accelerated this.

The idea that "making is showbusiness" is an interesting label for this.

We also have "manufacturing"; when will we have digufacturing?

News, A. B. C. (n.d.). COVID-19 vaccine mandates moving the needle, experts say. ABC News. Retrieved November 11, 2021, from https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-vaccine-mandates-moving-needle-experts/story?id=80928249

Kale, S. (2021, November 11). Chakras, crystals and conspiracy theories: How the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/injecting-poison-will-never-make-you-healthy-how-the-wellness-industry-turned-its-back-on-covid-science

Wiseman, E. (2021, October 17). The dark side of wellness: The overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic

ESP

Canadaland: Commons

Introducing our new season… Mining

Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.

Mining is a dirty business, but it is what Canada does best. Three-quarters of the world’s mining companies are best right here in the Great White North.

In our new season, Commons: Mining, we’ll be digging deep into the practices and the history of the extractive industry. From the gold rushes that shaped the country to the cover-ups and the outright frauds at home and abroad.

Canada was built on extracting what lay under the land, no matter the damage it did or who it ended up hurting.

The first episode of Commons: Mining comes out on October 13th.

Canada is fake

Canada is not an accident or a work in progress or a thought experiment. I mean that Canada is a scam — a pyramid scheme, a ruse, a heist. Canada is a front. And it’s a front for a massive network of resource extraction companies, oil barons, and mining magnates.

Extraction Empire

Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.

Canada’s Indian Reserve System served, officially, as a strategy of Indigenous apartheid (preceding South African apartheid) and unofficially, as a policy of Indigenous genocide (preceding the Nazi concentration camps of World War II).

Theft on a grand scale

It’s really been about theft on a grand scale. Look at how the United Kingdom became rich, or England and then Britain as it was, at the time. It was through bleeding India dry, we bled $45 trillion out of India. We taxed the subcontinent until there was virtually nothing left, then used a small amount of that tax money to buy its goods. So we were buying goods with their own money. And then we used the phenomenal profits — 100% profits — from that enterprise to finance the capture of other nations, and the colonization of those nations and the citizens, the railways and the other things we built in order to drain wealth out of them.

— George Monbiot

Michigan seat belt law turns 30 after bitter battle. (n.d.). Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 4 October 2021, from https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2015/07/30/michigan-seatbelt-law-anniversary-air-bags-takata/30242557/

Understanding COVID-19 Registration Form. (n.d.). Google Docs. Retrieved March 31, 2021, from https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrC4krKVHcSm_Wi2VcXcGHa4F8l3cilL2xhbB62etcK4sy4w/viewform?usp=embed_facebook

Before beginning this piece I'm reminded to note some advice given to me by Rick Kurtzman at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) on reading scripts: If you're not going to act on having read (a script), then why bother having read it in the first place?

He meant to make notes, write coverage, create writer lists for rewriting, producer lists for selling, director list for directing, casting lists. One should tell people about the (good) things one read. Make your reading produce something.

Most people plan a journey by seeking advice from the same source — the Internet. As ending the pandemic is becoming more solvable, many of us think about where to travel next.

Ironically, we tend to get easily overwhelmed by the sheer amount of tasks. What place is ok for a night stay? Which is the best camera backpack? Where to refuel?

So today, we will figure out how a travel website works. We will also share tips on how to make your own travel website genuinely shine.

This same thing is being seen in the U.S. Post Office now too. Underfund it into failure rather than provide a public good.

Capitalism definitely hasn't solved the issue, and certainly without government regulation. See also the last mile problem for internet service, telephone service, and cable service.

UPS and FedEx apparently rely on the USPS for last mile delivery in remote areas. (Source for this?)

The poor and the remote are inordinately effected in almost all these cases. What other things do these examples have in common? How can we compare and contrast the public service/government versions with the private capitalistic ones to make the issues more apparent. Which might be the better solution: capitalism with tight government regulation to ensure service at the low end or a government monopoly of the area? or something in between?

Jed Kolko. (2021, June 4). Steady gains in high work-from-home (and better-paid) sectors, now just 1.6% below pre-pandemic employment. After initial slow rebound, now moving back to baseline. In low work-from-home sectors, jobs still way below pre-pandemic baseline. Https://t.co/6zC3RBfek9 [Tweet]. @JedKolko. https://twitter.com/JedKolko/status/1400797111067627520

Dempsey, H., & Parkin, B. (2021, May 5). India’s Covid surge rocks global shipping industry. https://www.ft.com/content/cf40d764-6ab6-4638-bea6-594cc3cd5d53

content is not hosted by Audius, instead being hosted by independent node operators.

This article kind of reads like a smear piece on Audius

How so? Couldn't you just crosscheck the public ledger to verify the uploaders' info??

Scientific paper claiming smokers less likely to acquire Covid retracted over tobacco industry links. (2021, April 22). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/22/scientific-paper-claiming-smokers-less-likely-to-acquire-covid-retracted-over-tobacco-industry-links

Or as we've seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, feature films are debuting on the internet rather than in theaters, so now the big leagues are on the web!

UnHerd. ‘Should Big Pharma Profit from Covid?’, 17 November 2020. https://unherd.com/2020/11/should-big-pharma-profit-from-covid/.

Goolsbee, Austan, and Chad Syverson. ‘Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020’. Journal of Public Economics 193 (1 January 2021): 104311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104311.

Heroy, Samuel, Isabella Loaiza, Alexander Pentland, and Neave O’Clery. ‘Controlling COVID-19: Labor Structure Is More Important than Lockdown Policy’. ArXiv:2010.14630 [Physics], 5 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14630.

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DokkenOfficial (2021) Don Dokken discusses Covid-19 with Dr. Anne Rimoin, Youtube Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3XvmFf23XU&feature=youtu.be

i'm really impressed by the registry of projects being awarded to foreign vendors, seems like a good way to create visibility & self promote domestic industry.

I can't help but see this definition and think it needs to be applied to economics immediately. In particular I can think of a few quick examples of economic anomie which are artificially covering up a free market and causing issues within individual communities.

College Textbooks: Here publishers are marketing to professors who assign particular textbooks and subverting students which are the actual market and consumers of those textbooks. This causes an inflated market and has allowed textbook prices to spiral out of control.

The American Health Care Market In this example, the health care providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.) have been segmented away from their consumers (patients) by intermediary insurance companies which are driving the market to their own good rather than a free-er set of smaller (and importantly local) markets that would be composed of just the sellers and the buyers. As a result, the consumer of health care has no ability to put a particular price on what they're receiving (and typically they rarely ever ask, even more so when they have insurance). This type of economic anomie is causing terrific havoc within the area.

(Aside: while the majority of health care markets is very small in size (by distance), I will submit that the advent of medical tourism does a bit to widen potential markets, but this segment of the market is tiny and very privileged in comparison.)

Chris Reid on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved October 9, 2020, from https://twitter.com/ChrisReidDesign/status/1313540343908970496

Hybrids: Between Industry and Academia ft. Nurit Nobel (Episode 016). (2020, August 9). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRegXaGsTU

Kolko, J. (2020, September 30). Coronavirus and US Job Postings Through Sept 25. Indeed Hiring Lab. https://www.hiringlab.org/2020/09/30/job-postings-through-sept-25/

Thacker, P. D. (2020). A few tiny steps towards transparency: How the Sunshine Act shone light on industry’s influence in medicine. BMJ, 370. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3229

Facebook, Twitter, options, S. more sharing, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Email, URLCopied!, C. L., & Print. (2020, September 19). “Tsunami” of hotel closures is coming, experts warn. Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-19/hotels-out-of-business-covid-pandemic

Sorokanich, L., Sorokanich, L., & Sorokanich, L. (2020, June 16). Six experts on how we’ll live, work, and play in cities after COVID-19. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/90506247/six-experts-on-how-well-live-work-and-play-in-cities-after-covid

The software industry in southeast asia, latam or africa is similar to the US in the 1990s and is more about building than about marketing.

According to Carlotta Perez we are in the Deployment Phase of internet as a technology. Meaning we are exhausting the use cases for the internet and more money is chasing decreasing returns.

As a result companies need to be more efficient with their marketing spend in the 2020s compared to before.

The software industry has become a marketing game