#cathy o neil

[quotes-by-dilanka]

The privileged are processed by people, whereas the poor are processed by algorithms.

—Cathy O'Neill, in her book Weapons of Math Destruction

[spiceygoblin]

Comprehensive list of my ocs: fandom edition

Cyberpunk 2077:

Ali (AI possessing human via biochip)

Star Wars (i made a clone squad so yeet):

Vanish (clone from a failed experimental female unit. Captain of The Flash Squad)

Crashcourse (Second in Command)

Rumble

Grim

Glide

JJBA:

Joji Higashikata

The Boys:

Cathy Battinger/ Diamond Dust (Supe with diamond like skin)

Dorohedoro:

Primrose (Sorcerer who uses blood to make weapons)

Dead By Daylight:

Katya/ The Survivor (A killer. The name was me trying to be ironic and cute)

Yelena Tasker (A survivor)

The Walking Dead:

Ellie-May Byrne ( A survivor who was thirteen when the outbreak happened)

Outlast:

Leslie Snow (A college student) whose studying journalism)

The Evil Within:

Marilyn Robinson (Was put into STEM as a child)

Gorillaz:

Eddie O Neil (Idk yet, im reworking the fuck out of her rn)

FNAF:

Annabelle Theodora (Nightguard)

Transformers:

Ignia (Former decepticon, malformed personality of Omnia)

Omnia (former decepticon)

One Piece:

Tusk (A pirate)

Skyrim:

Thana S'Tham (Dunmer)

[cowboypdf]

god give me strength not to make magicians 8tracks mixes before i finish this third of my sociology midterm. at least i get to read about credit alogirthms next which ill enjoy 

[omg-erika]

Are You a "Pre-Criminal"?

Are You a “Pre-Criminal”?

by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext Background journalism instead of court reporting. Independent. Uncomfortable. Incorruptible. An American IT company has developed software that is supposed to track down criminals before they become one. To do this, she analyzes what people are doing on the Internet – a perfect control tool for the approaching “New World Order.” The police, secret services,…

[luci-cunt]

This may be madness, but: Aaron & Neil (not Aaron/Neil unless you super want to); 24 & 63

Hello darling, this is INTRIGUING and I’m HERE for it!!! <3333 (it didn’t end up being shippy tho lol)

24. Soulmate AU + 63. Everybody Knows/Mistaken for Couple

K so, the setting is an office-type au-ish-thing--

Neil works as the company’s accountant, he’s fidgety, and pissy, and weird, and Aaron can’t fucking stand him

Aaron works in regular old sales, he’s surprisingly good at his job but he likes purposefully spilling coffee all over his record sheets so that Neil has to get the copies online instead of physically like he likes better and Neil HATES him

They both have a kind of rivalry, with Neil trying every fucking step to audit Aaron and catch him in something--

One time he watched Aaron smack the vending machine and nab a chip bag without paying and he legitimately tried to get Aaron fired over it

(it didn’t work, but it did mean war) 

Another detail you should know: everyone in the office KNEW they were soulmates

The thing about soulmates in this universe is that you both get matching marks, but, if one person messes with the mark (i.e covers it up/ adds to it) those changes also appear on your soulmates arm

Cathy from HR saw it first--Neil usually only wears the company policy dress shirts (never ironed) but one day Aaron “accidentally�� spilled chai on him and he had to change, exposing his right shoulder where there was the distinct black-and-white outline of a snake eating it’s own tail. There was also a key in the middle of the circle. 

Don from finance saw Aaron’s later--the same design on the same shoulder

The whole office was in a tizzy over it, Neil and Aaron were none-the-wiser as their feud came to a head when Neil audited Aaron for the fourth time that week and Aaron threw the printer out the window so Neil couldn’t get physical copies of anything until they got a replacement one

However--the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back was when Aurelia saw Aaron and Neil kissing in his office

She immediately ran to some of the others, spilling the news

“You’re sure it was Aaron?” Ken said--he was the only one still skeptical about the apparent office romance.

“I’m sure!! Though.... he was wearing a leather jacket for some reason...” 

“A leather jacket?” 

“Hey--Don,” Aaron interrupts them suddenly, making all of them jump and curse. He gives them all a weird look. “I was just wondering how those reports were coming along....” 

“Right--yeah--uh I’ll go grab them--” and Don scurries away

“Where’s your jacket?” Aurelia asks, because she can’t help herself. 

“Neil dumped kim chi all over it, I threw it away” 

“Really? I’m sorry, it looked expensive” 

“It was a blazer, I’ll get a new one at target” and then he walks away

They all share looks--“blazer--????”

But then they have to get back to work and the chatter dies off for the day

The mystery of the jacket is only solved when they discover Neil is cheating on Aaron--not only just cheating, but cheating with his twin brother!! 

“We have to tell him” Don says somberly

“No! It’s not our business!” Cathy says frantically

“I think it’d be funny” Jessica says--she’s promptly banned from gossip circles

Eventually they decide one of them needs to speak up, so Don slides into Neil’s office one night, stomach rolling, and tells him “cheating isn’t cool man”

Neil blinks “uh--yeah?” 

Don watches him, clears his throat, and watches him some more

“Can I get you something?” Neil asks, brow furrowing a bit

and then Don breaks and spills the whole situation. Neil’s eyebrows go into his hair line and he kicks Don out with a succinct “I would rather eat my own legs than go on a date with Aaron Minyard” 

because Neil is an asshole--and so is Aaron for that matter--no one in the building ever finds out what the fuck is going on with that

(the secret is that Andrew and Aaron had to be completely identical when they were younger so they matched up their tattoos. If you look closely, the snake on Neil and Andrew’s shoulder is really fucking shitty cuz it was done by a 9 y/o with a stolen tattoo gun. Aaron and Katelyn’s keys are also shitty tattooed)

<3333 !!!!

Send me some prompts + some characters or a ship and I’ll tell ya how I’d mash em

[ruthlangdon]

(Download Book) The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation - Cathy O'Neil

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 A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America?s ?shame industrial complex? in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics?from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math DestructionShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O?Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is increasingly being weaponized?used as a way to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals. Shaming children for not being able to afford school lunches or adults for not being able to find work lets us off the hook as a society. After all, why pay higher taxes to fund programs for people who are fundamentally unworthy?O?Neil explores the machinery behind all this shame, showing how governments, corporations, and the healthcare system capitalize

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[ID: screenshots of various book covers. The titles and authors of these books are listed down below:

Far off Metal River, by Emilie Cameron

Under Osman’s Tree, by Alan Mikhail

Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest, by Nathan Freeman Sayre

Do Glaciers Listen? by Julie Cruikshank

Wetlands in a Dry Land, by Emily O’Gorman

Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, by Katherine McKittrick

Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film, edited by Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga

The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, by Alison Mountz

Shells on a Desert Shore, by Cathy Moser Marlett

Colonial Cataclysms, Bradley Skopyk

Animal Places, edited by Jacob Bull, Tora Holmberg, and Cecilia Asberg

Pests in the City, by Dawn Day Biehler

Saguaro Cactus, by David Yetman, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine, and Michael Sanderson

Seeds of Control, by David Fedman

Wastelanding, by Traci Brynne Voyles

The Lost Land of Lemuria, by Sumathi Ramaswamy

Hinterland, by Phil A. Neel

The Tanoak Tree, by Frederica Bowcutt

Ghostly Matters, by Avery F. Gordon

Sweetness and Power, by Sidney W. Mintz

Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin

Rubber and the Making of Vietnam, by Michitake Aso

Caribbean Literature and the Environment, edited by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Renee K. Gosson, and George B. Handley

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Prison Land, by Bretty Story

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking, edited by Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

The Great Cacti, by David Yetman

Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff

Big Water, edited by Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas

Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, by Joao Biehl

Obeah and Other Powers, by Maarit Forde, edited by Diana Paton

Sami Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North, by Coppelie Cocq and Thomas A. Dubois

Consuming Ivory, by Alexandra Celia Kelly

Landscapes of Fear, by Yi-Fu Tuan

Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest, by W. L. Minckley and Paul C. Marsh

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt, by Alan Mikhail

The Extractive Zone, by Macarena Gomez-Barris

The Platypus and the Mermaid, by Harriet Ritvo

An Ecology of Knowledge, by Micha Rahder

Decoloninzing “Prehistory”, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Christen Mucher

Gothic Animals, edited by Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson

Tropical Freedom, by Ikuko Asaka

Radical Botany, by Natania Meeker and Antonia Szabari

Centering Animals in Latin American History, edited by Martha Few and Seb Tortorici

Unfreezing the Arctic, by Andrew Stuhl

Trash Animals, edited by Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson III

Singing the Turtles to Sea, by Gary Paul Nabhan

Images of Animals, by Eileen Crist

The Earth on Show, by Ralph O-Connor

No Species Is an Island, by Theodore H. Fleming

Walking the Clouds, edited by Grace L. Dillon

Non-places, by Marc Auge

Imperial Debris, edited by Ann Laura Stoler

The Herds Shot Round the World, by Rebecca J. H. Woods

The Retreat of the Elephants, by Mark Elvin

Implosions/Explosions, edited by Neil Brenner

We are the Ocean, by Epeli Hau’ofa

Green Imperialism, by Richard H. Grove

Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Tidalectics, edited by Stefanie Hessler

Mountain Islands and Desert Seas, by Frederick R. Ghelbach

A Billion Black Anthropecenes or None, by Kathryn Yusoff

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt

Environments of Empire, edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M Bennett

Reptiles of the Northwest, by Alan St. John

Whale Show, by Chie Sakakibara

The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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do you have any book recommendations about geography/ecology?

hello. hmm, sure. thanks for trusting me enough to ask; don’t trust me too much, though. i'm always learning and criticizing my past/previous perspectives, but there are still some "classic" books that i'd recommend. something i say often, though: i actually spend much more time reading essays and journal articles, rather than full-length books (especially since so much of the best decolonial viewpoints, Indigenous and non-Western perspectives, and newer/fresher geographical thought and "critical geography" takes are being actively revised/discussed in these newer forums without having to appease popular or profit-oriented press/publishing companies).

the subjects that i read about: human relationships with other-than-human creatures; extinction; environmental history of empires, imperialism, colonization; traditional ecological knowledge; resistance, fugitivity, and carceral geography; eerie, weird, and uncanny ecology; regional geography, specific microhabitats, endemic species; Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene; ruins, ruination, haunting, trauma, and emotional geography; reptiles/amphibians; temperate rainforest and deserts; Pleistocene fauna and Paleolithic/ancient anthropogenic environmental change; islands, the sea, Oceanic worldviews, archipelagic thinking, solidarity across islands/regions; frontiers, borderlands, hinterlands, sacrifice zones, wastelanding, social abandonment, and extraction zones; Indigenous geography/ontology; decolonization

generally, i don't distinguish much of a difference between the subjects of geography/ecology -- or human and other-than-human environments -- since lifeforms and places and (cosmo)politics are all so entangled. anyway, here are some books involving a bit more geography and human ecology (the last time i was asked for recommendations, i focused a bit more on ecology and other-than-human environments, which i'll also re-post below these newer recs):

and then, i'll say again that essays and journal articles are often a great source for some of my favorite authors (though of course none of them are perfect; they can be problematique in their own ways): Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; Elizabeth DeLoughrey; Paulo Tavares; Anna Boswell; Achille Mbembe; Hugo Reinert; Tim Edensor; Anna Tsing; Frantz Fanon; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Kyle Whyte; Kathryn Yusoff; Iyko Day; Audra Simpson; Ann Laura Stoler; Pedro Neves Marques

so here are the books i've previously recommended:

hope some of these are interesting.

[janothar]

This is really important.  We need to start by basically having a Data Science/ML Union that enforces ethical standards on membership and will cut off businesses that hire non-Union or force ethics violations.  We also need to have federal regulators who can enforce these ethics.  Behaving unethically with big data should ruin your career and put you in legal trouble, and pushing your people to do so should result in huge fines and not being able to hire new people.

[smashpages]

Nominees for the 2018 Eisner Awards announced

Comic-Con International has announced the nominees for the 2018 Eisner Awards, presented annually in San Diego at the convention.

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris each received five nominations across various categories; other comics with multiple nominations included Mister Miracle, Black Hammer, The Flintstones, Grass Kings, Eartha and Hawkeye.

Check out the complete list of nominees below.

Best Short Story

“Ethel Byrne,” by Cecil Castelluci and Scott Chantler, in Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix) “Forgotten Princess,” by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Antonio Sandoval, in Adventure Time Comics #13 (kaboom!) ”A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green,” by Nick Sousanis, in Columbia Magazine (Summer 2017), https://ift.tt/2I41VPy “Small Mistakes Make Big Problems,” by Sophia Foster-Dimino, in Comics for Choice (Hazel Newlevant) “Trans Plant,” by Megan Rose Gedris, in Enough Space for Everyone Else (Bedside Press)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Barbara, by Nicole Miles (ShortBox) Hellboy: Krampusnacht, by Mike Mignola and Adam Hughes (Dark Horse) Pope Hats #5, by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books) The Spotted Stone, by Rick Veitch (Sun Comics) What Is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (ShortBox)

Best Continuing Series

Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and David Rubín (Dark Horse) Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Liz Fleming (BOOM! Box) Hawkeye, by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, and Mike Walsh (Marvel) Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image) The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Limited Series

Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel) Extremity, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound) The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC) Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC) X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor (Marvel)

Best New Series

Black Bolt, by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward (Marvel) Grass Kings, by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins (BOOM! Studios) Maestros, by Steve Skroce (Image) Redlands, by Jordie Belaire and Vanesa Del Rey (Image) Royal City, by Jeff Lemire (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Adele in Sand Land, by Claude Ponti, translated by Skeeter Grant and Françoise Mouly (Toon Books) Arthur and the Golden Rope, by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye/Nobrow) Egg, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books) Good Night, Planet, by Liniers (Toon Books) Little Tails in the Savannah, by Frederic Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci, translated by Mike Kennedy (Lion Forge/Magnetic)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)

Bolivar, by Sean Rubin (Archaia) Home Time (Book One): Under the River, by Campbell Whyte (Top Shelf) Nightlights, by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow) The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill (Oni) Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel) Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

The Dam Keeper, by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi (First Second/Tonko House) Jane, by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia) Louis Undercover, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi) Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image) Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Humor Publication

Baking with Kafka, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly) Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, by Tom King, Lee Weeks, and Byron Vaughn (DC) The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC) Rock Candy Mountain, by Kyle Starks (Image) Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)

Best Anthology

A Bunch of Jews (and Other Stuff): A Minyen Yidn, by Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins et al. (Bedside Press) A Castle in England, by Jamie Rhodes et al. (Nobrow) Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press) Now #1, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) The Spirit Anthology, edited by Sean Phillips (Lakes International Comic Art Festival)

Best Reality-Based Work

Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow) The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Abrams ComicArts) Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903, by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (IDW) Lennon: The New York Years, by David Foenkinos, Corbeyran, and Horne, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger (IDW) Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Graphic Album—New

Crawl Space, by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) Eartha, by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) Stages of Rot, by Linnea Sterte (Peow) The Story of Jezebel, by Elijah Brubaker (Uncivilized Books)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly) Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Black Hole by Charles Burns, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection, by Colleen Coover (Oni/Limerence) Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly) Unreal City, by D. J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Beowulf, adapted by Santiago García and David Rubín (Image) H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse) Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, adapted by Christophe Chabouté, translated by Laure Dupont (Dark Horse) Kindred, by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow) Flight of the Raven, by Jean-Pierre Gibrat, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (EuroComics/IDW) FUN, by Paolo Bacilieri, translated by Jamie Richards (SelfMadeHero) Ghost of Gaudi, by El Torres and Jesús Alonso Iglesias, translated by Esther Villardón Grande (Lion Forge/Magnetic) The Ladies-in-Waiting, by Santiago García and Javier Olivares, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics) Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, by Marcelo D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Furari, by Jiro Taniguchi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) Golden Kamuy, by Satoru Noda, translated by Eiji Yasuda (VIZ Media) My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii (Pantheon) Otherworld Barbara, vol. 2, by Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn (Fantagraphics) Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories, by Junji Ito translated by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien (Andrews McMeel) Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley, by Frank King, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press) Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations, by Rube Goldberg, edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey (Sunday Press Books) Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies, by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood et al., edited by Daniel Herman (Hermes Press) Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, by Russ Manning et al., edited by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha) Behaving MADly, edited by Craig Yoe (Yoe Books/IDW) The Collected Neil the Horse, by Arn Saba/Katherine Collins, edited by Andy Brown (Conundrum) Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Jaime Hernandez, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, by Paul Gravett, Denis Kitchen, and John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Writer

Tom King, Batman, Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, Mister Miracle (DC) Matt Kindt, Grass Kings (BOOM! Studios); Ether (Dark Horse); Eternity, X-O Manowar (Valiant) Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender (Image) Marjorie Liu, Monstress (Image) Mark Russell, The Flintstones (DC)

Best Writer/Artist

Lorena Alvarez, Night Lights (Nobrow) Chabouté, Moby Dick (Dark Horse); Alone, Park Bench (Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster) Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) Cathy Malkasian, Eartha (Fantagraphics) Jiro Taniguchi, Furari, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide: Venice (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi) Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC) Gary Gianni, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (Dark Horse) Ramón K. Perez, Jane (Archaia) David Rubín, Black Hammer #9 & #12, Ether, Sherlock Frankenstein #1–3 (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Dinosaur, Little Tails (Lion Forge/Magnetic) EFA, Monet: Itinerant of Light (NBM) Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Flight of the Raven (EuroComics/IDW) Cyril Pedrosa, Portugal (NBM) Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Best Cover Artist

Jorge Corona, No. 1 with a Bullet (Image) Nick Derington, Mister Miracle (DC); Doom Patrol (DC Young Animal) Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel) Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image) Julian Totino Tedesco, Hawkeye (Marvel)

Best Coloring

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC) Ed Piskor, X-Men: Grand Design (Marvel) David Rubín, Ether, Black Hammer, Sherlock Frankenstein (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image) Dave Stewart, Black Hammer, BPRD: Devil You Know, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Sherlock Frankenstein, Shaolin Cowboy (Dark Horse); Maestros (Image) Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, What Is Left (ShortBox)

Best Lettering

Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi) Clayton Cowles, Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Bolt, Spider-Gwen, Astonishing X-Men, Star Wars (Marvel) Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse) John Workman, Mother Panic (DC Young Animal); Ragnorok (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

Alter Ego, edited by Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows) The Comics Journal, edited by Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler, and Tucker Stone, tcj.com (Fantagraphics) Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes Jack Kirby Collector, edited by John Morrow (TwoMorrows) PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, panelxpanel.com

Best Comics-Related Book

Deconstructing the Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, by Jean Annestay and Christophe Quillien (Humanoids) How Comics Work, by Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher (Wellfleet Press/Quarto Group) How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics) Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, by Richard Pini (Flesk) Monograph, by Chris Ware (Rizzoli) To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young, by Glenn Bray and Frank M. Young (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon (University Press of Mississippi) Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, by Kate Polak (Ohio State University Press) Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, by Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press) Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, by Brannon Costello (LSU Press) Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics, edited by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis (University of Texas Press)

Best Publication Design

Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, designed by Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia), NORMA Editorial, and MASH•ROOM (Kodansha) Celebrating Snoopy, designed by Spencer Williams and Julie Phillips (Andrews McMeel) Monograph, designed by Chris Ware (Rizzoli) My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics) Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, designed by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic

Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology) Barrier, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate) The Carpet Merchant of Konstaniniyya, by Reimena Yee (reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant) Contact High, by James F. Wright and Josh Eckert (gumroad.com/l/YnxSm) Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates) Quince, by Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, and Emma Steinkellner, translated by Valeria Tranier (Fanbase Press/comiXology)

Best Webcomic

Awaiting a Wave, by Dale Carpenter and Nate Powell, features.weather.com/us-climate-change/arkansas (The Weather Channel Digital) Brothers Bond, by Kevin Grevioux and Ryan Benjamin, www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothers-bond/list?title_no=1191 (LINE Webtoon) Dispatch from a Sanctuary City, by Mike Dawson, https://thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city (The Nib) The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill, teadragonsociety.com (Oni Press) Welcome to the New World, by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world/ (New York Times Sunday Review)

[starwarsnewsit]

Eisner Awards 2018: poco "Star Wars" tra le nomination

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Eisner Awards 2018: poco "Star Wars" tra le nomination

Eisner Awards 2018. Verrà assegnato a breve uno dei premi più importanti del panorama fumettistico. Quest’anno tra le varie nomination c’è anche qualcosa legata a Star Wars, ma veramente poco…

Eisner Awards 2018 – Tutte le nomination

Best Short Story

“Ethel Byrne,” by Cecil Castelluci and Scott Chantler, in Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix)

“Forgotten Princess,” by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Antonio Sandoval, in Adventure Time Comics #13 (kaboom!)

”A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green,” by Nick Sousanis, in Columbia Magazine (Summer 2017), http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/summer-2017/life-comics?page=0,0

“Small Mistakes Make Big Problems,” by Sophia Foster-Dimino, in Comics for Choice (Hazel Newlevant)

“Trans Plant,” by Megan Rose Gedris, in Enough Space for Everyone Else (Bedside Press)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Barbara, by Nicole Miles (ShortBox)

Hellboy: Krampusnacht, by Mike Mignola and Adam Hughes (Dark Horse)

Pope Hats #5, by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)

The Spotted Stone, by Rick Veitch (Sun Comics)

What Is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (ShortBox)

Best Continuing Series

Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and David Rubín (Dark Horse)

Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Liz Fleming (BOOM! Box)

Hawkeye, by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, and Mike Walsh (Marvel)

Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)

The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Limited Series

Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)

Extremity, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)

The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC)

Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor (Marvel)

Best New Series

Black Bolt, by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward (Marvel)

Grass Kings, by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins (BOOM! Studios)

Maestros, by Steve Skroce (Image)

Redlands, by Jordie Belaire and Vanesa Del Rey (Image)

Royal City, by Jeff Lemire (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Adele in Sand Land, by Claude Ponti, translated by Skeeter Grant and Françoise Mouly (Toon Books)

Arthur and the Golden Rope, by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye/Nobrow)

Egg, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)

Good Night, Planet, by Liniers (Toon Books)

Little Tails in the Savannah, by Frederic Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci, translated by Mike Kennedy (Lion Forge/Magnetic)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)

Bolivar, by Sean Rubin (Archaia)

Home Time (Book One): Under the River, by Campbell Whyte (Top Shelf)

Nightlights, by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)

The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill (Oni)

Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

The Dam Keeper, by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi (First Second/Tonko House)

Jane, by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)

Louis Undercover, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)

Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)

Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Humor Publication

Baking with Kafka, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, by Tom King, Lee Weeks, and Byron Vaughn (DC)

The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC)

Rock Candy Mountain, by Kyle Starks (Image)

Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)

Best Anthology

A Bunch of Jews (and Other Stuff): A Minyen Yidn, by Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins et al. (Bedside Press)

A Castle in England, by Jamie Rhodes et al. (Nobrow)

Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)

Now #1, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

The Spirit Anthology, edited by Sean Phillips (Lakes International Comic Art Festival)

Best Reality-Based Work

Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)

The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Abrams ComicArts)

Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903, by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (IDW)

Lennon: The New York Years, by David Foenkinos, Corbeyran, and Horne, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger (IDW)

Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Graphic Album—New

Crawl Space, by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)

Eartha, by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

Stages of Rot, by Linnea Sterte (Peow)

The Story of Jezebel, by Elijah Brubaker (Uncivilized Books)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Black Hole by Charles Burns, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection, by Colleen Coover (Oni/Limerence)

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)

Unreal City, by D. J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Beowulf, adapted by Santiago García and David Rubín (Image)

H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse)

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, adapted by Christophe Chabouté, translated by Laure Dupont (Dark Horse)

Kindred, by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)

Flight of the Raven, by Jean-Pierre Gibrat, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (EuroComics/IDW)

FUN, by Paolo Bacilieri, translated by Jamie Richards (SelfMadeHero)

Ghost of Gaudi, by El Torres and Jesús Alonso Iglesias, translated by Esther Villardón Grande (Lion Forge/Magnetic)

The Ladies-in-Waiting, by Santiago García and Javier Olivares, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)

Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, by Marcelo D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Furari, by Jiro Taniguchi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)

Golden Kamuy, by Satoru Noda, translated by Eiji Yasuda (VIZ Media)

My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii (Pantheon)

Otherworld Barbara, vol. 2, by Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn (Fantagraphics)

Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories, by Junji Itotranslated by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien (Andrews McMeel)

Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley, by Frank King, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)

Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations, by Rube Goldberg, edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey (Sunday Press Books)

Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies, by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood et al., edited by Daniel Herman (Hermes Press)

Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, by Russ Manning et al., edited by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha)

Behaving MADly, edited by Craig Yoe (Yoe Books/IDW)

The Collected Neil the Horse, by Arn Saba/Katherine Collins, edited by Andy Brown (Conundrum)

Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Jaime Hernandez, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)

Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, by Paul Gravett, Denis Kitchen, and John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Writer

Tom King, Batman, Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, Mister Miracle (DC)

Matt Kindt, Grass Kings (BOOM! Studios); Ether (Dark Horse); Eternity, X-O Manowar (Valiant)

Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender (Image)

Marjorie Liu, Monstress (Image)

Mark Russell, The Flintstones (DC)

Best Writer/Artist

Lorena Alvarez, Night Lights (Nobrow)

Chabouté, Moby Dick (Dark Horse); Alone, The Park Bench (Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster)

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Cathy Malkasian, Eartha (Fantagraphics)

Jiro Taniguchi, Furari, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide: Venice (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)

Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)

Gary Gianni, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (Dark Horse)

Ramón K. Perez, Jane (Archaia)

David Rubín, Black Hammer #9 & #12, Ether, Sherlock Frankenstein #1–3 (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Dinosaur, Little Tails (Lion Forge/Magnetic)

EFA, Monet: Itinerant of Light (NBM)

Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Flight of the Raven (EuroComics/IDW)

Cyril Pedrosa, Portugal (NBM)

Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Best Cover Artist

Jorge Corona, No. 1 with a Bullet (Image)

Nick Derington, Mister Miracle (DC); Doom Patrol (DC Young Animal)

Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)

Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Julian Totino Tedesco, Hawkeye (Marvel)

Best Coloring

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)

Ed Piskor, X-Men: Grand Design (Marvel)

David Rubín, Ether, Black Hammer, Sherlock Frankenstein (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image)

Dave Stewart, Black Hammer, BPRD: Devil You Know, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Sherlock Frankenstein, Shaolin Cowboy (Dark Horse); Maestros (Image)

Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, What Is Left (ShortBox)

Best Lettering

Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)

Clayton Cowles, Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Bolt, Spider-Gwen, Astonishing X-Men, Star Wars (Marvel)

Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse)

John Workman, Mother Panic (DC Young Animal); Ragnorak (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

Alter Ego, edited by Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)

The Comics Journal, edited by Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler, and Tucker Stone, tcj.com (Fantagraphics)

Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes

Jack Kirby Collector, edited by John Morrow (TwoMorrows)

PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, panelxpanel.com

Best Comics-Related Book

Deconstructing the Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, by Jean Annestay and Christophe Quillien (Humanoids)

How Comics Work, by Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher (Wellfleet Press/Quarto Group)

How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics)

Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, by Richard Pini (Flesk)

Monograph, by Chris Ware (Rizzoli)

To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young, by Glenn Bray and Frank M. Young (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon (University Press of Mississippi)

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, by Kate Polak (Ohio State University Press)

Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, by Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press)

Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, by Brannon Costello (LSU Press)

Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics, edited by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis (University of Texas Press)

Best Publication Design

Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, designed by Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia), NORMA Editorial, and MASH•ROOM (Kodansha)

Celebrating Snoopy, designed by Spencer Williams and Julie Phillips (Andrews McMeel)

Monograph, designed by Chris Ware (Rizzoli)

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)

Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, designed by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic

Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)

Barrier, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)

The Carpet Merchant of Konstaniniyya, by Reimena Yee (reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant)

Contact High, by James F. Wright and Josh Eckert (gumroad.com/l/YnxSm)

Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideo Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates)

Quince, by Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, and Emma Steinkellner, translated by Valeria Tranier (Fanbase Press/comiXology)

Best Webcomic

Awaiting a Wave, by Dale Carpenter and Nate Powell, features.weather.com/us-climate-change/arkansas (The Weather Channel Digital)

Brothers Bond, by Kevin Grevioux and Ryan Benjamin, www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothers-bond/list?title_no=1191 (LINE Webtoon)

Dispatch from a Sanctuary City, by Mike Dawson, https://thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city (The Nib)

The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill, teadragonsociety.com

Welcome to the New World, by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world/ (New York Times Sunday Review)

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182) Cathy O’Neil “Broń matematycznej zagłady. Jak algorytmy zwiększają nierówności i zagrażają demokracji” - równe szanse na rynku, status społeczny i materialny jednostki skorelowany ściśle z nakładem pracy, czy też kolokwialne „chcącemu nie dzieje się krzywda” – czy znacie mity neoliberalizmu, którymi również w Polsce od prawie 30 lat, karmią nas elity? A co, gdyby udowodnić, że ponad naszymi głowami podlegamy selekcji, pozycjonowaniu i na swe życie mamy coraz bardziej ograniczony wpływ? Jako, że statystyczny obywatel ma tendencje do utrzymywania iluzji niezależności pozycja Cathy 0’Neil może wywołać u wielu czytelników dysonans poznawczy. Byłoby to jednak dobrą reakcją, ponieważ potencjalnie zmusiłoby do refleksji: czy tak skonstruowany system ekonomicznej zależności naprawdę ma nam służyć? Wydana w 2017 roku książka wydaje się być jedną z najaktualniejszych jak i najobszerniejszych publikacji poświęconych algorytmom Big Data. Autorka, z zawodu matematyczka, wykładająca w Barnard College, nie kryje swego krytycznego stosunku wobec coraz szerszego zastosowania omawianych systemów analitycznych w procesie regulowania skomplikowanych interakcji społecznych. Dla podkreślenia ich destrukcyjnej roli tytułuje je „bronią matematycznej zagłady” (skrót: beemzet). Warto, aby książka O’Neil była pierwszym etapem do poszerzonej dyskusji o zastosowaniu algorytmów. Beemzety bowiem chociaż powierzchownie niedostrzegalne coraz częściej cieszą się popularnością w sferze zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi jak i ogólnie przenikają nasze życie codzienne. Z pozycji nacjonalistycznych część tez postawionych przez autorkę może być uważanych za co najmniej kontrowersyjne, aczkolwiek ciężko obecnie powoływać się na osobę o większym autorytecie, która tak dogłębnie przedstawiła negatywny wpływ beemzetów. Cathy 0’Neil w przeszłości zatrudniona była w jednym z amerykańskich funduszy hedgingowych i każdego dnia poznawała siłę oddziaływania algorytmów. Jak udowadnia autorka na łamach swej ponad 200-stronicowej publikacji powszechne zastosowanie technologii Big Data przyniosło efekt odwrotny od zamierzonego. Potencjał algorytmów, który z powodzeniem mógłby służyć podniesieniu jakości życia wielu społeczeństw, w rzeczywistości przyczynia się do wykluczenia, pauperyzacji, spycha na margines osoby długotrwale bezrobotne. Analiza – często błędnych lub niepełnych – baz danych może być kluczowa nie tylko w momencie udzielenia pożyczki gotówkowej, ale także często decyduje o zatrudnieniu w danej firmie. Może też być wykorzystana przez pośredników finansowych do udzielenia kredytu w para-banku, tym samym wpychając klienta w spiralę zadłużenia. Metody matematyczne decydują równie często o selekcji kandydatów na studia, gdzie liczy się punktacja podnoszącą prestiż uczelni, a nie unikatowe predyspozycje ucznia. Wreszcie na podstawie treści udostępnianych przez użytkowników media społecznościowe mogą sugestywnie podsuwać określone artykuły do wyświetlenia i wpływać na wybory polityczne obywateli. Dlaczego więc mimo wielu negatywnych aspektów technologia Big Data cieszy się rosnącą popularnością? W świecie, w którym liczy się bowiem wymierność gwarantuje ona często efektywność, optymalizację środków i realizację celu nawet mimo destrukcyjnego wpływu na życie społeczne. Na szczególną uwagę w moim mniemaniu zasługuje omówienie technologii Big Data w modelu zarządzania personelem w sektorze usług, przede wszystkim w barach szybkiej obsługi i w sieciach kawiarń. W Stanach Zjednoczonych tradycyjnie najgorętszymi entuzjastami implementacji algorytmów w zakresie organizacji pracy okazały się wielkie korporacje, takie jak Walmart, McDonalds czy też Starbucks. Jak można się domyśleć w tych przypadkach, Big Data została wykorzystana w celu maksymalizacji zysku akcjonariuszy stopniowo zamieniając się w tytułową „Broń Matematycznej Zagłady”. Najdramatyczniejszą postać system ten przybrał w sieci kawiarń, gdzie normą w procesie świadczenia pracy stała się tzw. „zamytwieralność”. Menadżerowie zarządzający kawiarniami Starbucks układali grafik podległemu personelowi według wskazań algorytmu przetwarzającego szereg zmiennych związanych z dniem tygodnia, porą roku, prognozą pogody etc. Normą więc stała się praca od rana do południa, by następnie mieć kilka godzin wolnego i powrócić do kawiarni wieczorem, gdyż w deszczowy dzień algorytm przewidział wzmożony ruch w sieci Starbucks – stąd wywodzi się termin „zamytwieralność”. Jakby tego było mało grafik układany był często zaledwie kilka dni przed zmianą, co dla wielu osób oznaczało dezorganizację życia prywatnego. Beemzety w omawianym przypadku pozwoliły na skuteczną akumulacje zysków kosztem rosnącej stopy wyzysku pracowników najemnych. Czy termin „zamytwierność” brzmi dość egzotycznie? Być może wielu z nas pozna go z praktyki na polskim gruncie poprzez formę kontraktu zero godzin. Komisja kodyfikacja intensywnie pracuje według medialnych doniesień nad nowelizacją kodeksu pracy lub – uwzględniając pojawiające się gdzieniegdzie dementi – wytyczeniem ram do rozmów o jego zmianie. W omawianym przypadku kontraktu zerowego, niczym pracownicy Starbucks, pracobiorcy byliby w pełni dyspozycyjni w zależności od woli zatrudniającego. Pojawia się pytanie czy warunki tak elastycznego zatrudnienia będą zależne od zastosowania broni matematycznej zagłady na polskim rynku pracy? Mimo wielu przykładów, w których algorytmy okazały się wadliwym narzędziem w regulacji skomplikowanych relacji społecznych nadal często cieszą się bezkrytycznym zaufaniem ich twórców. Z założenia widzą je bowiem jako modele całkowicie obiektywne, pozbawione ludzkich uprzedzeń. Jest to jeden z wygodnych mitów, które chcą utrwalać firmy specjalizujące się w analizie danych niezbędnych m.in. do opracowywania strategii marketingowych czy też badania zdolności kredytowej przez instytucje finansowe. Tymczasem życie dostarczyło przykładów jak krucha jest to wiara, gdy wieloletni szef FED, Alan Greenspan w dobie szalejącego kryzysu finansowego oświadczył komisji, że nagrodzony Nagrodą Nobla algorytm związany z oceną modelu ryzyka finansowego okazał się jednak błędny… - R.eutt.

[still-single]

RADIO SHOW 11/19+11/26

I combined the best parts of the last two weeks of shows into one five hour block of sound. You can find it here. Listen to it, for fuck’s sake.

Playlist is as follows:

Sunday Drive by The Mountain Movers Ode (Extended Comfort Anthem Remix) by CCFX Untitled (Live) by Heron Oblivion Lonely Girls by Golden Boys Never Be Afraid by Dawn People Alone by Dinosaur Jr Oh! by The Breeders Too Simple by Clikatat Ikatowi Parallel Android by Uniform (ATL) In Glass by Nots Lonesome Traveler by Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker Run by Ray Harlowe & Gyp Fox Those That We Love by Julie Driscoll Karye Pyar by Nahid Akhtar Gary Panter by The World Second Decade by Gun Outfit Light Pools by dbh Is Frances Faye God? by Wireheads Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland by Mucca Pazza Do the Locomotion by Midnight Mines Hot Boi by ISS In My Dreams by Makthaverskan Golden Age of the Pariah by Oneida You Got a Problem Son by Exploded View Silent Command by Cabaret Voltaire Frozen * Edge by Dendo Marionette Raga Blues by Surabhi Ensemble Weirdo by The Charlatans UK C'mon and Get My Love by D-Mob feat. Cathy Dennis Out of My Hands (Love's Taken Over) by Omni Strange Afternoon at the Swimming Pool by Maraudeur Soon Forward by Gregory Isaacs Inner Peace by The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble Solstice by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble How Does It Feel? by Spacemen 3 Berg 211 by Neutral Untitled by Femme 29.7100053,-95.4020523 at Sunset by Ama Divers Chokayo by Bitchin Bajas Man of Straw by John Wonderling Les oxalis by Charlotte Gainsbourg Carrier BDX by Digital Release Game Six by Swiftumz Relics by Dan Melchior You'll Be Around by Reggie King Fallin' Stars End by White Heaven Tuned to Monochrome by Gregg Kowalsky Complete Excerpt from the Previous 7" by Hydroplane High Sun Energy by Richard Youngs Waste the Alphabet by Dick Diver Clair Oh Clair by Chris Gantry Are You Sure? by Alvarius B. I Really Want to Be Your Friend by French Quarter Some Lunar Day by Gunn-Truscinski Duo Blue Lightning by Joint Effort Air Raid/Drill by Air Raid Anxious Trend by N o t s Wishing Ring by Dawn People Breedlove by Geoffrey Landers Void Vision (Slow Version) by Cyber People Forever Free by Exploded View Miss Eleana by Sid Selvidge Easy to Say by Del Shannon What Fresh Hell is This? by Golden Teacher Make it Through the Summer by The Chamber Strings Natural Beauty by Neil Young Song from the Earth to the Moon by Laura Baird Sister Ray by The Velvet Underground

[gemmahayesfans]

Starboard Home to air on Irish Television 

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ1 will finally broadcast the live recording of the 2016 Starboard Home live show from Dublin. 

The music documentary and live show first premiered at the Irish Film Institute.

Featuring the highly successful Starboard Home album and showcase gigs at the National Concert Hall, Dublin this documentary celebrates the formative bond between Dublin’s port, city and river through music, song and spoken word.

The film illustrates the songs, airs and words from Starboard Home in an impressionistic journey from the source of the River Liffey, deep into the heart of the docks. The music, which ranges from electronic minimalism to folk and rock, is performed by key artists in contemporary Irish music, including BellX1’s Paul Noonan (who curated and produced the album with Gary Sheehan of the NCH), John Sheahan, Lisa O Neil, Cathy Davey, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Paul Cleary, Duke Special and Gemma Hayes. An aural and visual delight, capturing the often hidden mysteries, stories and histories of the city’s port.

The Starboard Home song cycle was commissioned by Dublin Port to celebrate 2016 centenary celebrations that led to Irish Independence.

The show will air on RTÉ1 on May 30, 2019 from 22.35 (IST )/ 23.25 (CET). The show will be available for a limited time on RTÉ Player. 

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Just for a bit of fun, here are the Last Mixed Tape’s 40 favorite Irish indie gems in no particular order from the year 2000 to 2010 (inclusive). 

Curated from Spotify and delving deep into the Irish music scene’s back catalog to come up with a playlist of some of TLMT’s favorite indie gems from the first decade featuring tracks from Republic of Loose, the Chalets, Gemma Hayes, Roisin Murphy, Mic Christopher, Ash, Cathy Davey, Turn, Bell X1, Lisa Hannigan, Jape, Director and more. *I’ve kinda cheated and also included JJ72‘s ‘Snow’ which isn’t on Spotify, so it’s really 41 not 40…*

See the full playlist below and subscribe to TLMT on Spotify for more past/upcoming playlists from the Last Mixed Tape.

https://open.spotify.com/user/thelastmixedtape.com/playlist/67I7y0ZmfMMvA0CYARbTWB

TLMT’s 40 Favorite Irish Indie Tracks 2000-2010 1. The Chalets – Nightrocker 2. Bell X1 – Rocky Took A Lover 3. Republic of Loose – Comeback Girl 4. Fight Like Apes – Something Global 5. The Frames – Fake 6. Gemma Hayes – Back Of My Hand 7. Turn – In Position 8. Cathy Davey – Moving 9. Jape – I Was A Man 10. Duke Special & Neil Hannon – Our Love Goes Deeper Than This 11. Director – Reconnect 12. Lisa Hannigan – Lille 13. Hal – Play The Hits 14. Fred – Skyscrapers 15. Ash – Burn Baby Burn 16. Fionn Regan – But Good or Be Gone 17. Damien Rice – Cannonball 18. The Thrills – One Horse Town 19. The Divine Comedy – Our Mutual Friend 20. Mundy – Mexico 21. David Kitt – Song From Hope St. 22. Snow Patrol – Spitting Games 23. Valerie Francis – Punches 24. The Immediate – Big Sad Eyes 25. Julie Feeney – Impossibly Beautiful 26. The Mighty Stef – Sail The Boats 27. Neosupervital – Nothing 28. R.S.A.G – Stick To Your Line 29. Humanzi – Diet Pills & Magazines 30. O Emperor – Po 31. The Redneck Manifesto – I Am Brazil 32. David Holmes – I Heard Wonders 33. Gavin Glass – Ragdoll 34. Roisin Murphy – Let Me Know 35. Codes – This Is Goodbye 36. Yeh Deadlies – Magazine 37. James Vincent McMorrow – Hear The Noise That Moves Soft And Slow 38. Imelda May – Johnny Got A Boom Boom 39. Villagers – That Day 40. Mic Christopher – Heyday *41. JJ72 – Snow*

TLMT’s 40 Favorite Irish Indie Gems of 2000-2010 feat Republic of Loose, JJ72, Gemma Hayes

Just for a bit of fun, here are the Last Mixed Tape’s 40 favorite Irish indie gems in no particular order from the year 2000 to 2010 (inclusive). 

TLMT's 40 Favorite Irish Indie Gems of 2000-2010 feat Republic of Loose, JJ72, Gemma Hayes Just for a bit of fun, here are the Last Mixed Tape's 40 favorite Irish indie gems in no particular order from the year 2000 to 2010 (inclusive). 

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Review: Weapons of Math Destruction

Review: Weapons of Math Destruction

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have experienced big data, whether you applied to lease an apartment or if you are a Facebook user. Generally, we see big data as a helpful way of predicting what movies we’ll like on Netflix and streamlining processes like applying for a mortgage. There are apps now to track your budget, your steps, your caloric intake, and we generally welcome…

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Efficiently Grinding the Precariate - Scheduling Efficiencies - Weapons of Math Destruction

Efficiently Grinding the Precariate – Scheduling Efficiencies – Weapons of Math Destruction

     I’m currently reading a book called Weapons of Math Destruction, inside Cathy O’Neil details how ‘Big Data’ (via the use of opaque algorithms) is increasing inequality and threatening democracy in the industrialized world.

About half-way done and the sad word of the day that I’ve learned from the book is this –

This untidy word in question is “Clopening” and is defined as this:  When an…