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you would never have thought to look for yourself perhaps you didn t even know they existed in contrast the online catalogs i ve used on the exceedingly rare occasions i ve bought books off the internet cases in which the particular book i was looking for just couldn t be found anywhere in the physical realm have been set up with the assumption that you already know what you want none of the online directories i have experience with are able to replicate the ease of browsing of having your attention drawn by a particular book s spine or title or cover sometimes it s the unexpected finds that are the sweetest like when i found a weathered copy of the third industrial revolution in powell s a book that s been out of print for decades the migration to electronic readers takes away a lot of that nothing has to go out of print when it s digital and there goes the thrill of finding something that s hard to find so too goes the ease of serendipity granted it s not like things are on the ropes yet though things aren t looking quite as resilient as they were a few years ago but if places like powell s end up closing then we might as well just let the world wind down posted by phoebe barton at 12 44 no comments labels books culture future tech sunday june 24 2012 photo demonstration and authority what i know of protests in the united states comes from books and the media i sure as hell don t involve myself in them when i m down there being a foreigner and all i stumbled upon one while i was in portland though a small one assembled on the occasion of mitt romney being in town for some reason or another what struck me were the number of police officers on the scene practically one cop per demonstrator i wouldn t be surprised if this is a normal sort of turnout i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 09 38 no comments labels creative commons people photo portland saturday june 23 2012 a girl thing down the memory hole long ago back in a far off and golden time that some of us call the 1990s people like bill nye appeared regularly on our television sets to tell us that science rules but there was a problem here more and more people came to the realization that scientific fields were disproportionately male that a lot of women just didn t seem to be that interested in science it s an issue that people and organizations have been trying to crack for years yesterday the european commission that is the european union s executive branch launched a minute long teaser advertisement for its science it s a girl thing project launched as a well intentioned effort to convey that science well rules that it s okay for women to be interested in it it s sad that something this basic is a necessary message in this day and age but the fact is that for decades and centuries women were told that science was off limits to them there s a lot that needs to be done to make up for our unenlightened white dude focused past as for the european commission s offering well what was apparent from the start was that it must have been conceived scripted designed and produced entirely by traditionally minded men i mean if you want to get women interested in science you ve got to appeal to what they re already interested in right women love makeup and high heels don t they focus on the high heels make it look like a fashion commercial and pink don t forget pink women love pink just slather it everywhere and where there s the word science at the end replace the i with a lipstick applicator it s the sort of thing you d expect to find accompanying an onion article but it was completely sincere it took so much flak from the internet all of it justified that by 4 30 pm pacific time yesterday the original video had been made private on youtube what the european commission forgot though is that the internet never forgets brought to you by the same people who thought it was a good idea to create a fiscal union without a political union look at that just look at it ignore the fact that until the very end if you encountered this on television you wouldn t have any living idea what this was trying to sell you hell i don t watch tv anymore maybe commercials honestly do look like this now consider instead the layers that this had to pass through to go from concept to realization consider the number of people who would have had to weigh in on this consider this sign off on this before it appeared on youtube you have to ask yourself how could they be so stupid not only that but in asking you realize the scope of the problem i personally have difficulty believing that women were involved in creating something something so facile so patronizing so utterly vacuous what i would expect to find is that the european commission tendered the work to some public relations agency and this pink slathered mess is the result this is the sort of thing we can t forget they would like it they d like it very much if it would just slip away down the memory hole and be quietly forgotten but this sort of thing is the problem ouroboros like it tries to encourage women to study science by itself encouraging the perceptions that discourage women from studying science it was made by people whose hands are made of ham they are ham handed at least it s not all for the bad it can be argued that the european commission did in fact conduct a scientific experiment to determine whether people get pissed off when women are condescended to in the guise of extending a helping hand in that case ec i d like to see your error bars posted by phoebe barton at 08 55 no comments labels culture government science friday june 22 2012 photo go on the tracks back in july 2008 when the temperature in toronto wasn t high enough to make the railway tracks themselves deform i staked out the part of the route behind my parkdale apartment and waited for the morning go trains to come by this here is a milton line train only a few minutes out from union station and even with twelve cars being dragged behind that engine i would be surprised if there was an empty seat in any one of them while the west coast express here in the lower mainland feels like something of a sideshow the greater toronto area would grind to a halt if it wasn t for go i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 12 24 no comments labels creative commons go transit photo toronto thursday june 21 2012 serve the private profit margin you don t have to look hard on the internet these days to find someone going on about the prophetic nature of robocop maybe not when it comes to cybernetic police officers not yet anyway but in terms of the ongoing decay of detroit michigan and the growth of corporations seeking to take over parts of the public sphere for pure profit sometimes it seems that every day brings us closer to a world of corrupt corporate executives and robots unable to climb stairs and privatized police forces you might expect that to all be happening in the united states in that you d be wrong instead the spectre of a police force that is accountable not to a government and citizens but to a board of directors and shareholders is emerging in the united kingdom where the local head of g4s a private security company probably the world s largest employer you ve never heard of and the official security provider for the upcoming 2012 summer olympics has gone on record with his prediction that by 2017 much of what british police services do today will then be done by private agencies it s already begun of course with the united kingdom battered by recession earlier this year the surrey police and west midlands police entertained bids for a seven year 1 5 billion privatization scheme while supporters are mainly drawing attention to middle and back office functions that would be given over to private companies a contract note made public by the guardian indicated that some of the fields up for privatization included beat patrols management of high risk individuals the investigation of crimes suspect detention case development you know the sort of things that are at the core of police work though the plans have been put on hold and were unpopular with citizens and police officers alike i can t help but think this is a juggernaut that s going to keep on rolling the first stabs have been taken there s blood in the water and the corporate sharks are circling this badge was worn by my grandfather les parkinson in the manchester city police from 1939 to 1968 this news would probably make him turn in his grave if he hadn t been cremated they re already working to shape the discussion in their favor david taylor smith g4s s head of uk operations tried to cast aspersions on opponents of privatization saying that the thought that everyone in the private sector is primarily motivated by profit and that is why they come to work is just simply not accurate they are primarily motivated by pretty much the same as would motivate someone in the public sector i don t think anyone s questioning the motives of the actual people on the line there chief generally speaking someone who works a job will want to do well at that job if for no other reason than they ll be fired if they don t this is not about the employees this is about the bosses bosses that will cease to have even a theoretical responsibility to the actual citizens because keep in mind that g4s is publicly traded on the stock exchanges in london and oslo and it is the duty of such companies under capitalism to make as much profit as they possibly can in some circumstances this sort of setup is all right but when these companies are providing necessary services services like policing and criminal justice service and profit are incompatible one of them s gotta give and i m pretty sure which one it d be it s ridiculous that s what it is policing is one of the core responsibilities of a state if things have got to the point where you think you can t afford it where you re seriously considering farming out not just back office stuff but actual boots on the ground to entities that exist solely to make money then that s it you re done you have failed as a state well done dudes stephen fry and hugh laurie saw all this coming of course posted by phoebe barton at 12 34 no comments labels corporations money police uk wednesday june 20 2012 photo it s a pretty obscure angle although i picked up plenty of portland streetcar photos while gathering the details for a future tunnel visions post most are from very similar perspectives thanks to the limited choices available to me not having access to the upper story of a building along the streetcar route where i could camp out and wait for one to come by i had to take what i could get for alternate views fortunately streetcar 007 was kind enough to head off northbound just as the aerial tram was crossing moody avenue that roof is a real departure from the streetcar s otherwise smooth streamlined appearance but all that mechanical stuff has gotta go somewhere i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 11 59 no comments labels creative commons photo portland streetcars tuesday june 19 2012 hello passengers we re listening some folks are naturally suspicious of government and thereby primed to react strongly whenever it suggests an action they disapprove of take the example of the united states where a general distrust of the government is one of the unifying factors of the modern right wing while it s wise not to take anything a government says at face value with no critical analysis it s equally wise to do the same for everything in many respects for profit corporations have far more incentive to do things worthy of suspicion than do governments in canada that anti government suspicion has been surfacing in fits and starts over the last year ever since stephen harper got his majority and decided it was time to show canadians what happens when the conservatives have no checks on their power for the record what happens is along the lines of fuck you we re doing this anyway the petulant refusal of the conservatives to even consider breaking up their omnibus budget bill last week the robotic party discipline which fuels the flames that lick at canadian democracy what i ask are they trying to hide from us that is the sort of thing we should be focused on the sort of thing we should hold the government to account over the sort of thing we should make sure that we do not forget when it comes to this sort of situation it s all about picking battles but some people are so fired up that they want to pick them all recently the canada border services agency stated that it is working toward the installation of hd cameras and microphones capable of eavesdropping on travellers conversations it didn t take long for this news to spread across the internet boing boing pointed to it with the delightfully unbiased headline canadian government wants to fill airports with kgb style hidden microphones i ve seen others react with surprise at the announcement 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