#Julie Goldman

[nando161mando]

9 Jul 1917 anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were sentenced to two years prison, a $10,000 fine and deportation to Russia for vi

9 ژوئیه 1917، اما گلدمن و الکساندر برکمن، آنارشیست های به دلیل نقض قانون سربازی اجباری در جریان جنگ جهانی به دو سال زندان، 10000 دلار جریمه نقدی و اخراج به روسیه محکوم شدند.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Dexter: The First Season 2006

[probablyasocialecologist]

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the countless billions of dollars being invested in AI, an overconfidence they warn could result in a massive bubble. As the Washington Post reports, investment bankers are singing a dramatically different tune than last year, a period marked by tremendous hype surrounding AI, and are instead starting to become wary of Big Tech's ability to actually turn the tech into a profitable business. "Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful," Goldman Sach's most senior stock analyst Jim Covello wrote in a report last month. "Overbuilding things the world doesn’t have use for, or is not ready for, typically ends badly."

[...]

According to Barclays analysts, investors are expected to pour $60 billion a year into developing AI models, enough to develop 12,000 products roughly the size of OpenAI's ChatGPT. But whether the world needs 12,000 ChatGPT chatbots remains dubious at best. "We do expect lots of new services... but probably not 12,000 of them," Barclays analysts wrote in a note, as quoted by the WaPo. "We sense that Wall Street is growing increasingly skeptical." For quite some time now, experts have voiced concerns over a growing AI bubble, comparing it to the dot-com crisis of the late 1990s. "Capital continues to pour into the AI sector with very little attention being paid to company fundamentals," tech stock analyst Richard Windsor wrote in a March research note, "in a sure sign that when the music stops there will not be many chairs available." "This is precisely what happened with the Internet in 1999, autonomous driving in 2017, and now generative AI in 2024," he added.

27 July 2024

[swiftletinthecloud]

― William Goldman (insp)

Moon in the Day 낮에 뜨는 달 (2023)

@asiandramanet july bingo: blending | Kang Yeong Hwa / Han Ri Ta & Kim Do Ha

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 9 July 1917, in New York City, anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, were sentenced to serve two years in prison, to pay fines of $10,000 each, and to be subsequently deported to for violating conscription law during World War I. The pair had previously formed a No-Conscription League, and agitated against the war. They defended themselves at trial, and used the opportunity to talk about their political ideas. Before they considered the verdict, the judge then told the jury: "In the conduct of this case, the defendants have shown remarkable ability. An ability which might have been utilised for the great benefit of this country, had they seen fit to employ themselves in behalf of it rather than against it. In this country of ours we regard as enemies those who advocate the abolition of our government and those who counsel disobedience to our laws by those of minds less strong. American liberty was won by the forefathers, it was maintained by the civil war, and today there are the thousands who have already gone, or are getting ready to go, to foreign lands to represent their country in the battle for liberty." He then instructed the jury that "whether the defendants are right or wrong can have no bearing on the verdict. The duty of the jury is merely to weigh the evidence presented as to the innocence or guilt of the defendants of the crime as charged." With their sentencing, US Marshal McCarthy stated: "This marks the beginning of the end of Anarchism in New York." We have works by Goldman, and items celebrating her life, here in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emma-goldman https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=659133522926533&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

[broadwaydivastournament]

DONNA MURPHY IN FOLLIES, I REPEAT DONNA MURPHY IN FOLLIES

On June 20th, 2024, Transport Group will stage a one-night-only concert at Carnegie Hall. The cast will feature our beloved Divas in unannounced roles, including Donna Murphy, Katie Finneran, Karen Ziemba, and Carolee Carmello.

Full cast: Julie Benko, Mikaela Bennett, Michael Berresse, Alexandra Billings, Klea Blackhurst, Harolyn Blackwell, Stephen Bogardus, Norbert Leo Butz, Len Cariou, Carolee Carmello, Jim Caruso, Nikki Renée Daniels, Christine Ebersole, Katie Finneran, Santino Fontana, Alexander Gemignani, Miguel Gil, Olivia Elease Hardy, Erika Henningsen, Grey Henson, Fernell Hogan, Jennifer Holliday, Rachel Bay Jones, Isabel Keating, Adriane Lenox, Norm Lewis, Ryan McCartan, Donna Murphy, Thom Sesma, Barbara Walsh, Nina White, Jacob Keith Watson, and Karen Ziemba.

[nightpool]

The CEO of Goldman Sachs is no longer a DJ

For a while there seemed to be a small but real and hilarious chance that David Solomon, the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,[1] who is also a DJ, might lose his job, as CEO of Goldman Sachs, because he is a DJ. The New York Times reported on the conflicts of interest arising from Solomon’s CEOing and DJing, somehow. The Wall Street Journal reported on Goldman partners plotting mutinies, “saying it wasn’t a good look for the CEO of one of Wall Street’s most formidable firms [to also be a DJ].”

And now the Financial Times reports that, in fact, Solomon has resolved these conflicts by stepping down from his job. As a DJ. He’s still the CEO of Goldman Sachs. But not also a DJ:

> Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon has decided to stop DJing at high-profile events following criticism that his hobby created a distraction from his work leading the Wall Street firm, according to people with knowledge of the decision.

> What started as a colourful side hustle that softened Solomon’s public image became a lightning rod for criticism of him inside Goldman from bankers disgruntled over strategic mis-steps and lower pay.

> Solomon, 61, made the decision to pull back from DJing about a year ago because it generated unwanted media attention, the people said.

> The last notable event where Solomon DJed was in July 2022 at Lollapalooza, a four-day music festival in Chicago.

> Following a request for comment, Goldman spokesman Tony Fratto said: “This is not news. David hasn’t publicly DJed an event in well over a year, which we have confirmed multiple times in the past.”

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Does he still DJ birthday parties? Client meetings? Are there secret underground clubs deep in Bushwick throwing 3 a.m. raves where David Solomon DJs to a small but enthusiastic crowd of electonic-music cognoscenti? No. Anyway I am going to forget about this immediately and continue to tell everyone that the CEO of Goldman Sachs is also a DJ.

between this and last month's story about how everybody hates him because he's too autistic about banking I'm starting to feel kinda bad for the guy

[philosophybits]

"Property" means dominion over things and the denial to others of the use of those things.... It is the private dominion over things that condemns millions of people to be mere nonentities, living corpses without originality or power of initiative, human machines of flesh and blood, who pile up mountains of wealth for others and pay for it with a gray, dull and wretched existence for themselves. I believe that there can be no real wealth, social wealth, so long as it rests on human lives — young lives, old lives and lives in the making.

Emma Goldman, "What I Believe", New York World, 19 July 1908

[reverberation-layla]

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, co-founders of BioWare. Left simultaneously on September 18, 2012, officially ending the Classic BioWare era.

Casey Hudson, producer and director of KotOR and the original Mass Effect trilogy. Left in August 2014, but returned in July 2017 to lead the Anthem development and BioWare as a whole, then left again in December 2020.

David Gaider, designer on BG2, NWN, and KotOR, lead writer of the first three Dragon Age installments. Left in January 2016 to join Beamdog, before co-founding Summerfall Studios in 2019.

Aaryn Flynn, programmer on BG2, NWN, KotOR, JE, and DAO, studio head during the production of Dragon Age II, Inquisition, and Mass Effect 3. Left in July 2017 to join Improbable in September 2018.

Mike Laidlaw, lead writer on JE, creative director of the first three Dragon Age games. Left in October 2017 to join Ubisoft Quebec (for the record, this was around the time that Project Joplin, the original iteration of Dragon Age IV, was canceled), but left in January 2020 after his new project was canceled to co-found Yellow Brick Games.

Steven Gilmour, lead animator on BG1–2, NWN, KotOR, ME1, and DA1–3. Left in October 2017.

Drew Karpyshyn, designer on BG2 and NWN, lead writer on KotOR, JE, ME1–2, and SWTOR. Left in February 2012, returned in September 2015 to work on Anthem, left again in March 2018.

James Ohlen, writer/designer on BG1–2, lead designer on NWN, KotOR, JE, and DAO, and game director of SWTOR. Left in July 2018 to design D&D adventures with Karpyshyn and one more BW alumnus, Jesse Sky, and later joined Wizards of the Coast.

Jacques Lebrun, engine programmer and tech director on the Dragon Age series, left in September 2018 to join Improbable.

Fernando Melo, technical manager on JE and (online) producer on DA1–4, left in August 2019.

Mark Darrah, programmer on BG2, NWN, and JE, and executive producer of the Dragon Age series. Left in December 2020.

Matt Goldman, artist on BG1–2 and NWN, art director on JE and DA1–3, creative director of Dragon Age after Laidlaw's departure. Left in November 2021.

Mac Walters, designer on KotOR, writer on JE and ME1, lead writer on ME2 and ME3. Left in January 2023.

[microtheory]

Concerning Atrocities

– James Peter Warbasse

From ‘Mother Earth: Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature’, July 1915, New York City, published and edited by Emma Goldman

The air is surcharged with atrocities. Incriminations and recriminations are hurled hither and thither by press, post, wire, and wireless. The Germans have been atrocious in Belgium; the Russians in East Prussia; the Austrians, in Servia; and the English — nowhere, because they have not been able to invade the enemies’ country, but in their own country they got themselves into practice upon their own innocent girlhood before they set sail for virgin foreign fields. Atrocities are the order of the day. The crowning atrocity to date seems to be the sinking of the Lusitania.

As one views this holocaust of fire, rapine, plunder, debauchery, and murder, one must be impressed with the observation that the atrocities themselves are less dreadful than their common causes. The distressing fact is that the causes of all of these atrocities existed before the Great War, and perpetrated quite as great atrocities; and, what is still more distressing, they will continue to provoke atrocities after the war is over. The world is making the grievous error of isolating the acts of this war from the rest of social conduct as though it were something unusual, unexpected, cataclysmic, unique. We hear the expressions that this war is “the failure of civilization,” or “the breakdown of Christianity,” or “the debauchery of governments.” How foolish are these expressions. How can that fail which has not succeeded? How can that break down which has not been built up? How can that become debauched which already is debauched and debauching?

There is no new principle nor unique manifestation in the Great War. The atrocities which the Germans have committed in Belgium are no greater than those unspeakable atrocities which the Belgians committed in the Congo. The atrocities which the Germans have committed against the English are incomparably trivial beside the brutalities which the English committed in the Sudan. As to the bestialities of the Russians in Eastern Prussia, Russia out-does them every day in times of peace against her own helpless people. The destruction by Germany of a hundred odd American citizens who were packed around a cargo of ammunition, is less atrocious than the atrocities which the United States perpetrates upon its own peaceful Indians.

The history of every one of these nations is a series of broken treaties and atrocities committed under the protection or by the instigation of government. Not one of these nations, which prates so glibly of the sins of the others, is taking a step to abandon its own atrociousness. They are all committing greater atrocities at home than abroad. The United States officially and by executive fiat went upon its knees with a heart full of hypocrisy, prayed for peace; and then rose from its knees and proceeded with the production of shot and shell, to be employed in killing men, women, and children — all manufactured and exported with the knowledge, co-operation and approval of that same Government which had ordered the prayers for peace. Now that same hypocrisy, which stood calmly by while men, women, and children in Colorado were murdered in the interest of a privileged property-owning class, threatens to sacrifice thousands more of American lives in a world war, as though that might atone for those already lost!

This war is something more than a ruling-class enterprise. It is an expression of the governments which are maintained in the interest of the privileged property-owning class, and which in their brutal zeal for the interests of their pet class have fallen at one another’s throats. Let us not make the mistake of holding German, English, French, Russian, or American human beings guilty. The people in all of these countries are better at heart than they act. The atrocities are more the atrocities of governments than of men and women. It has been government that has instigated and kept alive the militarism that has poisoned the minds of school children and now puts guns in their hands and sends them forth to commit atrocities.

Shooting men is not less of an atrocity than raping women, burning girls in Triangle fires, or drowning people at sea because of the inhuman quest for profits of a transatlantic transportation company. When the truth becomes known it will be discovered that the people who perished with the Lusitania could have been saved but for the ruthless disregard of means for saving lives which would have cost the company some small fraction of its profits.

Deprived of his liberty, coerced into becoming a wheel in a machine, which moves or stops at the word of command from the government above, the soldier and his doings are but the expressions of the State. In Belgium, it appears that the attacks upon non-combatants were instigated from above; they were manifestations of government. The free German, had he not been deprived of his liberties by the state, would prefer to remain at home, till his fields by day, and play with his children after supper.

There is one great atrocity in this wretched business of which we should not lose sight; that is the State. The State exists because there are privileged people, whose privileges would pass from them were they not protected by the powerful machinery of government. A privileged class means a class which enjoys advantages which others do not have; and there can be no class having advantages unless there is another class suffering disadvantages. The several governments, top-heavy with militarism, which they had built up for the protection of their privileged people, have toppled over into the vortex.

This is the historic fate of governments. It threatens to be the fate of the United States. When it becomes the interest of the privileged economic forces of the United States to have war with Mexico, we shall have it. At present our property-privileged class desires the exploitation of the markets of South America, and the natural and human resources of that virgin country. Hence the Monroe doctrine. But the Monroe doctrine is political buncombe, unless backed by a powerful navy. Still in the face of it our Government holds out to the world the hypocrisy that we are a non-belligerent nation. The day approaches when militarism will drag us into war, because the privileged interests require the State and the Monroe doctrine, and militarism is their natural offspring.

Hope lies in the abolition of the twin interests, privilege and the State, and supplanting them with a free society in which human brotherhood and mutual aid shall become the dominant forces.

Concerning Atrocities

-James Peter Warbasse, 1915

[davidhudson]

Bo Goldman, September 10, 1932 – July 25, 2023.

Flanked by Richard Brooks and Gore Vidal on the picket line outside 20th Century Fox during the 1981 WGA strike.

[wildflowerteas]

hella couldn't read today cause she was busy so she's gonna catch up tomorrow🫶 despite the fact that there was one less person, I still have enough screenshots for two asks cause we can't stop yapping. in my defense im pretty sure this chapter is like 15k minimum. and you stuffed it with plot. anyway yeah part 1

IM SO SERIOUS ABOUT RESPONDING TO THESE YOU GUYS MAKE ME SO INSANE.

just going to preface by saying i seriously appreciate these so much. you're not at all obligated to send me these and I'm just really grateful that I get to see the real-time reactions to the chapters. it makes the work extra worth it. and I always have the most stupid smile on my face while I'm reading . . . seriously. tysm

*cracks knuckles* shin-soukoku being unbearable was such a fun way to start this chapter. i think because of the pace of skk in the 50s they feel too slow at times, but it's been like . . . two weeks since they got together and the 70s timeline only lasts from july to . . . october ( but don't quote me on that, since there is a plan for an epilogue ). they get more moments like this, compared to dazai and chuuya jumping forward weeks at a time. and they're so fun to write.

"the first chapter was set up where we kinda bounced from povs to avoid what atsushi was THINKING we don't know why he took the case" TALS YOU ARE CRAZY FOR NOTICING THAT. Yes. Atsushi's pov is avoided like the plague unless it's about Ryuu for a very specific reason. His past too. I think the most vulnerable he's been with the reader is during his conversation with Mori and the moment right after his dream about Brown's murder, when he's alone in his apartment. And as Stendec ( beloved and fellow writer ) mentioned in their comment about this chapter, a lot of personal details about Atsushi are glossed unless it's Ryuu noticing them ( like his watch, an Enicar ). Rori your comment "This is also a dazaism i think" is spot on.

my lips are sealed about the watch though. but you are pretty close with that BEAST connection.

CACKLING AT THE KUNIDAZAI MENTION. It definitely can be read as that! It hasn't been mentioned yet, but Sasaki Kunikida and Dazai work on cases often ( as evident by their closeness ) but that closeness didn't just come out of nowhere ( think Dazai's Entrance Exam ). No matter how much Dazai tries to deny his relationships at the precinct, they're real ( as seen with his hesitance and the fact that he has yet to report Tachihara to Mori ).

ohhhhughhgf this case. the formatting of these transcripts is also a detail i really liked sorting out. the ones from the interlude chapter are in a more modern format ( late 60s onward i believe, I don't remember the exact year the switch was made ). so formatting this case as it would have been back in the 50s was fun! extra details are always fun!

omg i'm so sorry the wording about goldman was off. no canon murders are reported in the six months between De la Mare and Goldman, but all the non-canons happened before Chuuya!

Hella you are missed. I hope she sees this and knows that I started watching ATLA and BNHA ( again) because of her posts. I'm gearing up to consume taob content.

[mutant-distraction]

Anthony Goldman

White -bellied Go Away Bird inside the camp at

Amboseli,Kenya in July 2023.

[elizadushkudaily]

Throwback to the 2007-2008 WGA Strike

December 7, 2007. Eliza Dushku joined the WGA picket line outside FOX Studios for Mutant Enemy Day. Fans and other actors also joined writers, leading to about 400 people on the picket line.

Eliza said: "I think [the fan turnout is] impressive and it's strong and it's really showing what these people are made of. Their support is deep that they'll walk the walk. We all will." For her the strike was about: "[the writers] being taken care of properly in the fairest way, so we'll stand here and support that as long as it takes... You don't have shows without writers and writers can't live without their respect and the compensation and their rights. So we gotta join together..." (quote source)

THROWBACK: The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike was held from November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008. Roughly 12,000 film and television screenwriters were on strike for 100 days. One issue in that WGA strike was residuals from DVD sales. At that time the SAG-AFTRA actors were not on strike. (Wikipedia source)

CURRENTLY (Nov 7, 2023): The 2023 WGA strike lasted 148 days and one of its issues was residuals from streaming media. While that strike has ended, the SAG-AFTRA actors' strike is ongoing. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike started July 14th, and has lasted over 100 days.

For more information about the current 2023 SAG-AFTRA actors' strike - including picket schedules and locations - check their website: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/

photo credits to: - (top) IGN article by Eric Goldman - chanting thanks to joey_breizh - (left and right) LA ist article by Koga - pointing at sign and last 3 photos thanks to joey_breizh

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 14 July 1896, legendary Spanish anarchist and civil war fighter Buenaventura Durruti was born. At the age of 14 he left school and began training as a mechanic in a railway yard. In 1917 he took part in a strike which was crushed by the army who killed 70 workers, injured over 500 and imprisoned 2000. He later joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) union, fought against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo do Rivera and was forced into exile, where he travelled to Latin America, where he undertook bank robberies in Chile and Argentina to fund the workers' movement. Durruti later returned to Spain, and with the right-wing military rising of general Francisco Franco, he joined the fighting in Barcelona, during which the coup attempt was crushed and CNT workers took over the city. He then headed a column of 3000 revolutionary militia members and travelled to the Saragossa front to fight the nationalists. Lithuanian Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman asked him how, with no military training, he was leading thousands of fighters. He replied: "I have been an anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed, had I to turn into a general and rule the men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship." Durruti and his column later came to Madrid to defend the city which was under attack, during which he was killed. His body was transported back to Barcelona where half a million workers took to the streets to attend his funeral. Learn more about the Spanish civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=661459119360640&set=a.602588028581083&type=3