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Posts Tagged 'time travel'
* I had another short book review at Los Angeles Review of Books the other week, on Chris Ware's Rusty Brown, a book of this arbitrary amount of time if ever there was one: "Does Chris Ware Still Hate Fun?" When you're done with that, check out these: "Bedlam and Baby: Parables of Creation in Jack Kirby and Chris Ware" and "'Red People for a Red Planet': Acme Novelty Library #19, Color, and the Red Leitmotif."
* And just yesterday at this very site I was hyping the CFP for the relaunch of the World Science Fiction Studies series at Peter Lang, which I am now co-series-editing!
* CFP: SFFTV Call for Reviewers 2020. CFP: Creature Features & the Environment. CFP: English and American Studies in the Age of Post-Truth and Alternative Reality. CFP: Current Research in Science Fiction 2020. CFP: Imagining Alternatives.
* It's 2020 and you're in the future.
FUCK THIS https://t.co/CRJ63cnMu7
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 2, 2020
* Public Domain Day 2020.
* The 2010s, the decade of sore winners. Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics?
* The most insightful vision of the future at CES came from HBO's 'Westworld.'
* The only word on the coming Iran war. Stop the War. Stop US Empire.
* I Read Airbnb Magazine So You Don't Have To.
* The Subterranean Press edition of Unexpected Stories will be its first print edition, with a newly-commissioned introduction by Nisi Shawl, and an afterword by Butler's longtime agent and literary executor, Merrilee Heifetz.
* Visual art and film and TV list from the World Science Fiction course at Bowdoin. A climate fiction syllabus. Rain, Rivers, Resources & Ruin: A Critical Analysis of the Treatment of Resources in Ecocritical Science Fiction [cli-fi] Works from 1965 to 2015.
* Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: "Watchmen" and Frantz Fanon. Black, White, Blue: To Understand Where HBO's Watchmen Succeeded, We Need to Understand How Moore's Watchmen Failed. Project for the TV Criticism of the Future.
Thinking about @adamkotsko's TV criticism post from the other day and wondering how much of the critical impasse he describes originates in an inability to simply accept, like Adorno did, that essentially all mass cultural entertainment is bad.
* Read an English translation of new Cixin Liu short story, 2018-04-01.
* The problem with bringing back blogs is.
* The past five years are the five warmest years on record, the past six the warmest six, the past nine the warmest nine. Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second. Thousands Flee to Shore as Australia Fires Turn Skies Blood Red (Video). Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning. The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make. This is fine.
* Maybe we should look at doing something about the rest of the air, too.
300 carbon ppm https://t.co/IlWRXllZ5a
* Meet the Obamog(ho)uls.
* Prime Minister Of Iceland Calls For Prioritizing "Well-Being" Of Citizens Over GDP. Finlands Sanna Marin: 4-day-week and 6-hour-day could be the next step. Taiwan's single-payer success story — and its lessons for America.
* Meanwhile: the High Cost of Having a Baby in America.
* …one of the strongest cases for Bernie isn't just what he'll be able to achieve, it's what he'll refuse to do (cannot imagine him signing a grand bargain weakening Social Security, for instance).
* One Year in Washington.
* The Palace of the Future Is Nearly Complete.
* By itself, fascist infotainment might just be the hobby of millions, alone together, silently despairing of their lives, sporadically generating 'lone wolf' murders and occasional armed shitstorms. "We are living in the middle of a fascist takeover." NPR's sanitizing of Trump's Milwaukee rally shows how he's broken the media.
* Three shifts at the Scrabble factory.
* Take a look at F-Stop, the Portal sequel you'll never play.
* The Walking Sim Is a Genuinely New Genre, And No One Fully Understands It.
* Inside the College Football Game-Day Housing Boom.
* Higher Ed's Dirty-Money Problem.
* The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.
* The MLA Started Publishing Job-Searching Advice More Than 50 Years Ago. Here's How Things Have Changed.
* Liberal Arts Pay Off in the Long Run: A liberal arts education may not have the highest returns in the short run, but a study finds that after 40 years, liberal arts institutions bring a higher return than most colleges.
* University of Iowa associate dean appointed weeks after arrest.
* Student debt increased by 107% this decade, Federal Reserve data shows.
* Fresh from its laundering pedophile money scandal, MIT welcomes ICE.
* Being black at UW.
they're killing the humanities because they don't want the humanities; make any case you want, the problem is that they have different values and want to destroy you
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) January 12, 2020
* The Catholic Church as organized crime family.
* The rise of the permanent protest.
* This is probably dumb — though maybe 1919 had a lot of bonus fraud in it, would be cool to study — but I have immediately and permanently internalized its lessons nonetheless.
* Gen Zers vs. Millennials in the Workplace. Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people. Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves? Falling without a net. Baby boomers face more risks to their retirement than previous generations. Almost none of the S&P 500's blockbuster rally in 2019 can be pegged to rising earnings, and that's a problem.
* When your abuser is a cop.
* Med Students Are Doing Vaginal Exams on Unconscious, Non-Consenting Patients.
* Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall.
* Colin Trevorrow's Episode 9 script is better in some ways and worse in others, as you might expect. Star Wars Fans Furious JJ Abrams Gave Role to Dominic Monaghan Over a Soccer Bet. Star Wars: What Went Wrong?
Star Wars' insistence that killing a fascist leader is unambiguously an evil act while killing his minions is morally good is part of the civility trap enforced by the elite that is more outraged by rudeness to the rich than it is the deaths of the poor. In this essay I will
— Matthew Buckley (@physicsmatt) January 11, 2020
* Jeri Ryan's latest Picard interview makes me worried that I accidentally wrote the Picard series bible.
* When AI runs the entertainment industry.
* When business people run the Olympics.
* DC and Marvel vs politics.
* The Okorafor century! 'Binti' Adaptation From Michael Ellenberg in the Works at Hulu (Exclusive).
* Bad news y'all, seven more years of winter.
* Being Larry David.
* Slaughterhouse-Five is getting a graphic adaptation, and Sami Schalk has been reading the new Parables graphic novel on Twitter.
OMG loving & dying over this dynamic depiction of Lauren writing about Earthseed for the first time. This makes me want to go get my prose copy & be reading the texts of this side by side. This is a moment where you can really appreciate this visual medium. #parablegraphicnovel pic.twitter.com/asXwWVC21s
— Sami Schalk (@DrSamiSchalk) January 15, 2020
* Time travel baby. Coffee baby. Babies baby. Memory baby.
* Asimov, groper.
* How Negativity Can Kill a Relationship. Come for the life advice, stay for the weirdly unethical psychological research!
* The decolonization of Miles Morales.
* Despite Scorsese's attacks on superhero films, what links his film (and Tarantino's) with the various superhero movies is a certain mood: nostalgia. As the theorist Svetlana Boym once put it, "nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy." This is true of all of these films. Boym continues, noting that, "nostalgia appears to be a longing for a place, but it is actually a yearning for a different time — the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams." Tarantino has explicitly mentioned that the year 1969 — when he was six — was the year that "formed" him; Tarantino sees his latest film as a sort of "love letter" to the year (for another, quite different, perspective on this period, see The Stooges classic "1969"). The yearning for childhood should require no explanation in the case of superhero films, but it might require a bit more explanation in the case of The Irishman. Turning to that film allows me also to frame the exact way in which I want to pursue my discussion of Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
* Lord of the Rings appendices alignment chart. Alignment chart alignment chart.
* 'We are not alone': Confirmation of alien life 'imminent and inevitable.' Top-Secret UFO Files Could 'Gravely Damage' US National Security if Released, Navy Says. A list of solutions to the Fermi paradox.
* @ me next time
* One of my favorite archives to think about and teach: nuclear semiotics.
* Lord Byron used to call William Wordsworth "Turdsworth," and yes, this is a real historical fact.
* And Christopher Tolkien departs for the Grey Havens.
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Tuesday Night Links!
* I have another review at LARB this week, this time on Cixin Liu's Supernova Era. Check it out!
Now, the humans in Liu's fictions are not saints: there are always dire moments of backlash, too, moments of denial and cowardice and greed and the familiar madness of crowds refusing to face unpleasant truths. All of his major apocalyptic works thus far translated into English face this sort of ordinary and expected human failing as well. But what reads as genuinely, horrifyingly utopian for us in this moment is Liu's insistence, across his career, that humanity does in fact want to survive — that, faced with a crisis that upends everything we know and threatens to impoverish and immiserate every human being alive and who will ever be alive, the human race will choose collective life over species death. This remains the most fantastic novum in anything Liu has written, an almost inconceivable shift in the priorities of our elites who, like the traitorous Escapers fleeing the invading Trisolarians in The Three-Body Problem, won't even pretend to try and save the rest of us. "For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear," a defiant, furious Greta Thunberg recently challenged the United Nations. "How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight?" The adults of Supernova Era got it done in one. In a moment of intergenerational struggle defined by environmental protest groups like Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion, and by the school climate strikes sparked by Thunberg and other young people around the globe, Supernova Era offers a tantalizing glimpse into another universe with an entirely different field of ecological politics, one where parents and grandparents won't simply let their children and grandchildren suffer and die without a fight.
* And if you thought *I* was hard on The Testaments… The Booker Prize — what happened?
* Help make Milwaukee socialist again!
* Do you hear the people sing? Chile's people have had enough.
* Are Baby Boomers A 'Generation Of Sociopaths'? Suicide is Gen Z's second-leading cause of death, and it's a worse epidemic than anything millennials faced at that age. 'OK Boomer' Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations.
* Image and Text #33 is all about Black Panther. Wakanda, Worldbuilding and Afrofuturism for a World Without Violence.
* CFP – "Reading Comics at the Threshold."
* The world's top economists just made the case for why we still need English majors.
* Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?
* CUNY Contract Deal Means Big Raise for Adjuncts.
Maryland's Giant Global Campus Is Restructuring. And Professors Were Asked to 'Recompete' for Jobs.
* How Swarthmore shut down the frats.
* Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness.
* Fredric Jameson: How to adapt to cultural change.
* The rise of eco-horror.
* Every prediction that has been made about climate change has turned out to be a drastic undershoot of the true severity of the crisis. Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows.
* Hundred-year wildfires two or three times every week. A 'high-end and dangerous' Santa Ana wind event will dramatically escalate California's fire risk starting Tuesday night. PG&E CEO Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade.
"deenergization" https://t.co/bynSavKFBx
they paved paradise, and put up a parking lot, and passed a paradise preservation act for the remaining unpaved areas of paradise, then legalized heavy logging and oil exploration in paradise
There's a point in every serious conversation about California's wildfire problem where you have to entertain the thought that literally every major policy decision of the twentieth century related to any aspect of the problem was wrong
The story of fire in California is:
10,000 years of native people using low-grade fire to manage forests
100 years of settlers repressing ALL fire as much as possible, causing forests to go haywire
50 years of wild, overbuilding settlement, climate change, and PG&E falling apart
* Zeitgeisty!
"We're not so different, you and I" https://t.co/iNqtZGzUkE
"we've got it stopped…"
the final words of the 1958 cult classic THE BLOB, meant to be matter of fact, read rather ominous fifty years later
"yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold"
— kai a. bosworth (@kaibosworth) October 27, 2019
"Science-fiction is the dying breath of old ways of living."
— Nick Axel (@alucidwake) October 27, 2019
* The return of MOOCs, this time for climate change. Or because of incredibly poor planning, whatever, the point is MOOCs.
* The UN's Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic. Images reveal Iceland's glacier melt. An unprecedented climate change lawsuit against American oil giant Exxon Mobil is set to go ahead in New York. Kentucky's Leaders Are Siding With the Coal Industry, and Its Poorest Residents Are Paying a Price. Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point.' Humans are rapidly turning oceans into warm, acidifying basins hostile to life. US air quality dropped during Trump presidency after years of improvement, leading to thousands of premature deaths. Climate Activism Will Have 'Terrible Consequences,' Warn Richest People Alive. 'Collapse OS' Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse. A New Video Game Tests Whether You Can Survive the Climate Apocalypse. How to Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion.
Yeah that's kind of the point https://t.co/Dl2ZAFyPDe
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 29, 2019
Oh you love the 90s huh. Name every short-sighted decision elites made that we are only now beginning to pay for.
— Ed Booooo-mila (@gin_and_tacos) October 26, 2019
* The end of the Internet. The Real Threat to Journalism Is Not Donald Trump.
I taught a class on cultural criticism in the digital age last year, & it was stunning the number of essays I assigned from shuttered sites or written by fired writers. I pitched it as a class abt contemporary discourse but slowly realized it was a class abt an historical period.
— Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) October 29, 2019
I imagined that class five years ago imagining it'd be a class about life and energy but had to eventually teach it as a class about loss and decline. That all these disavowed words are so fucking funny and smart and humane makes it all that much worse.
* Coca-Cola, no!
* The Great Unraveling.
* No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists.
* Why lowering the voting age would make for a better democracy.
* Today in the scooter scam. You Lost How Much on Scooters? The madness of WeWork. San Francisco is losing residents because it's too expensive for nearly everyone. Life in a dayspa — with 95 roommates. admin/admin.
* Disability activist sues Minneapolis, scooter companies over sidewalk access. A report from the street.
* Poor kids spend nearly 2 hours more on screens each day than rich kids.
* School surveillance.
* On the Origins of the Professional-Managerial Class: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich.
* Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.
* UWM study finds over half of gun violence perpetrators and victims had elevated blood lead levels as children. The final five percent.
* How aristocrats ate prestige TV.
* "Bulletproof Emmett Till Memorial Unveiled After Repeated Vandalism."
* CA 1, NCAA 0.
* An oral history of the Chuck E. Cheese robots.
* Hollywood's New Self-Censorship Mess in China. Quentin Tarantino Holds Firm, Won't Recut 'Once Upon a Time' for China.
* Biden's just so bad at this. So bad at this! Bartenders for Bernie. Can Elizabeth Warren win it all?
OK, I think I figured it out: pic.twitter.com/GtpEpjH54T
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) October 22, 2019
* This is fine: In court hearing, Trump lawyer argues a sitting president would be immune from prosecution even if he were to shoot someone. Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it's going to take mass mobilization. John Roberts will save us!
* Being President Supervillain.
* Criminal misconduct by US border officers has reached a 5-year high.
You beat Trump by getting people who don't normally vote to vote, not by beating your head against the wall trying to convince rich white men to change their minds about hurting people
True of basically everywhere in the US honestly. https://t.co/3AHHChEcFS
I forget who said it, but respecting the powerful is called "civility" and should be held sacred, while respecting the powerless is called "political correctness" and should be the object of ridiculehttps://t.co/HmG4EYYUw7
— Seva (@SevaUT) October 25, 2019
* Taking the fight to every state.
* The recession returns to Wisconsin, which it never really left in the first place. Save me, Foxconn!
* HUD officials knowingly failed 'to comply with the law,' stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds.
* In the richest country in human history.
* Life in occupied Kashmir.
* The Empire of Patrolmen.
* Orcs, Britons, And The Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built For Racial Terror. I have an entire day in my Tolkien class devoted to this question, around the Gorbag/Shagrat passages in TTT and ROTK, just because it's such a threat to the pleasure of the fantasy by the end of the semester.
* Tolkien's lessons for Trump.
* Of course Mordor would be in Florida.
* The Evolution of Dragons in Western Literature: A History.
* The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman.
* Fantasy literature alignment chart.
OMG. This. pic.twitter.com/lPpud7dtSE
— Lou Anders needs to pick a book and stick with it (@LouAnders) October 20, 2019
* Benioff and Weiss explain at length how they don't know anything about making shows. Five seconds later: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Are No Longer Making Star Wars Movies.
* The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand Transgender People. Its ignorance could lead to a legal catastrophe.
* Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!
* There's a very good chance the government isn't hiding aliens. I can't believe they even got to Snowden.
* Mass. Dem's Bill Would Make It Illegal To Call Someone 'Bitch.'
Hunt told the Boston Herald that he filed the bill after being asked to do so by a constituent. "Any time a constituent approaches me with something that is of concern to them, I follow through with it," he said. "In this instance, someone asked me to file a bill that they deemed was important and I thought it was a good exercise to let that bill go through the process."
I think I've found the one flaw in your legislative strategy.
* Can't get good help these days: Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police.
* Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?
* How YouTube radicalization works.
* We Are All Clowns: A Defense of Joker.
* Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and That's Worrying.
* In honor of the return of Homestuck: How 'Homestuck' Defined What It Means to Be a Fan Online.
* The Evil Dead Cabin (Morristown, TN).
* My Daughter and I Were Diagnosed With Autism on the Same Day.
* If we can put a man on the moon. Media and and social class: a guide. Scams. Dreams.
Media and Social Class: A Guide https://t.co/eTztXfj1qB This is at least two years of grad school in literature for free. pic.twitter.com/j56AnoCJ0x
* One-page dungeon.
* Which words were first recorded in print the year you were born?
* The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time.
advance directive, colorize
backslash, commoditize
adjustable rate, identity
canola oil, therapy
neocon, pepper spray
WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY https://t.co/Pg1ADY7cpU
* Ian Bogost wants that goose off his lawn.
* The origins of Kirby.
* We did it! U.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System.
* 271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book.
* Nothing gold can stay.
* And imagine going back in time.
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Wednesday Links!
* A lost eighth continent was recently discovered underneath the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, but it's all pretty boring actually.
* How the US built the world's largest immigrant detention system. A list of companies that contract with ICE.
* Checking in on Duke and UNC under siege.
* 2019 Genius Grant awardees, including Lynda F'ing Barry.
* Only an English major can prepare you with the psychic resilience needed to endure a lifetime under capitalism.
* Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group. The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.
* The kids are all right: Students protest demonstration policy, deliver letter to Zilber.
Inspiring photos of @MarquetteU's undergrads protesting investments in fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt. @PresLovell should have divested from Baupost a long time ago! #solidarity from #MUnion pic.twitter.com/hv5SVL0j4w
— Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) September 24, 2019
* Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby.
* Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years. The Great Decline.
* And on the China and college beat: US universities see decline in students from China. China's Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom.
* Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks. Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating. 'Unprecedented Conditions' Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds. The African Congo Is Quietly Being Deforested As The Amazon Rainforest Burns. Scientists Set Out to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change. On white supremacy and green living. The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History. This is daytime. Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn't Want World To End. "You're So Accustomed to the Erasure and the Normalization of Catastrophism."
Turns out the hippies were right about almost everything and no one will ever admit it even if it means the f'ing species dying out.
— David Roberts (@drvox) September 24, 2019
young people telling septuagenarians how much they despise them for what they did to the planet is good, actually
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 24, 2019
* It's called M-Journal, and it will help you convince your professor that you're citing a real academic source.
* Shoulda been Bruce.
* Can a burger help solve climate change?
* The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it.
* I might have done this one already, but what the hell: Le Guin's work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.
* A real "hold my beer" moment for neoliberalism: A doctor and medical ethicist, who happens to be Rahm Emmanuel's brother, argues life after 75 is not worth living.
* Time travel is real y'all.
* Chris Ware, whose Rusty Brown is finally out, about which I am very excited, celebrates Peanuts.
* Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC's 1980s Famine Relief Comics.
* What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
* Normal society that is definitely normal and good.
* Autism aesthetics.
* Die a villain, or live long enough to rebound as a hero.
* Will Google's quantum computing breakthrough change everything?
* The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century. Surprisingly solid #1 and #2 picks.
* And I'd like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this jam! Impeachment step by step.
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Tuesday Afternoon Links!
* SFFTV 12.2 is here, with articles on Afrofuturism, time-travel surveillance cinema, Avatar, and the Anthropocene…
* CFP: Tolkien/Whedon.
* A people's history of New Coke.
* The Atlanteans and the Middle Passage.
* Stonewall, Before and After: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany.
* Are we living in a simulated universe? Here's what scientists say. Scientists are trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
* Ugly academic war ends with unprecedented apology from USC, $50-million settlement.
* The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim. Alaska is having an environmental and political meltdown. Alaskan glaciers melt at fastest pace in centuries. Trump Administration Is Suppressing Science and Public Opinion to Drill the Arctic Refuge. Six shocking climate events that happened around the world this week. Are parts of India becoming too hot for humans? A Ferocious Heat in Delhi. India staring at a water apocalypse. All Mississippi Beaches Close Due To Toxic Algae Bloom. The Internet Is Drowning. Fish die-offs in Wisconsin expected to double by 2050, quadruple by 2100, report says. Breaching a 'carbon threshold' could lead to mass extinction. And sure let's go back to killing all the bees while we're at it.
my brother just told me captain planet's not real but his enemies are and i felt it in my bones
— i'm tired (@artboypolitico) July 5, 2019
There are more LEGO figures in the world than humans, and they will last longer then any person alive today. #Anthropocene #plastic https://t.co/tJxkkyAqVb
— Simon Lewis (@SimonLLewis) July 8, 2019
* Fear of immigration raids looms as plans for ICE 'family operation' move forward. FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches. (81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent, independent report says.) Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. 'It's a Terrible Existence': The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants. ICE deports dozens of Cambodian refugees. Officials expect Trump to try and add citizenship question to the census via executive action this week — an idea officials say was not a serious one as recently as Wednesday. Attorney General Barr tells SC reporters he's found a legal recourse on Census question. Trump Lied to the Supreme Court, and Four Justices Don't Care. Whatever's coming, the career folks couldn't abide.
[ten thousand years later. earth is a smoking cinder. dead dust and ash coats the world] could we be on the brink of a constitutional crisis https://t.co/wqNuPGfkJb
* On the migrant crisis, European governments are failing the first test of climate change.
* The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders.
* Amazon Workers Plan Prime Day Strike at Minnesota Warehouse.
* Democratic candidates' school integration plans, explained.
* Democrats will never allow the system to be reformed.
* But this time around, I don't think 2007–8 produced anything. The resulting policies were, if anything, even more neoliberal. But the problem is that neoliberalism has lost its attractiveness and legitimacy, so is now enforced by authoritarian and right-populist means.
* The Millennial Condition: History, Revolution, and Generational Analysis.
* To see how the Koch brothers' free-market utopia operates, look no further than Corpus Christi.
* I've always been cold on Russiagate, but I'll believe any conspiracy theory you have to sell me about Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who is friends with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, explained. The Mystery Around Jeffrey Epstein's Fortune and How He Made It. How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime. Epstein indictment renews questions about earlier case handled by Trump Cabinet official. When Jeffrey Epstein Joked About Sex Abuse. DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency. Flashback to 2003. Inside Epstein's $56 Million Mansion: Photos of Bill Clinton, Woody Allen and Saudi Crown Prince. Barr won't recuse, again.
real glass half full feelings about the way the guy who was openly sex trafficking for the ultra-rich and powerful has finally been arrested after decades of just completely getting away with it
* So much corruption you can't even keep it all straight: Investigation Intensifies Into Top Trump Fund-raiser.
* Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It's With Her Own Party's Future.
* Haunted by the Reagan era.
* Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis.
* The Bernie-Warren Suicide Pact to Save America.
* Americans Shouldn't Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It. Don't Count on U.S. Regulators to Make Self-Driving Cars Safe for Pedestrians.
* MSP troopers blow through stop sign, arrest driver that ran into them.
* Most Americans like to think of their country as a meritocracy, a system that rewards hard work and intelligence over privilege. But if you look at how things actually work, @sarahrlnrd argues, it's clear the U.S. is more of an aristocracy…
* Far from Home saving the MCU from itself.
* MLMs Are A Nightmare For Women And Everyone They Know.
* One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.
* When Philip K. Dick turned to Christianity.
* Chernobyl and Russiagate.
* Stranger Things and Nostalgia Now.
* Full circe.
* When a car crashed outside of tiny Tonopah, Nevada, volunteer EMS workers raced to the scene in minutes. But ever since Tonopah's hospital closed, the town is now hours away from the nearest emergency room.
* Another animal intelligence roundup.
* Zoos Called It a 'Rescue.' But Are the Elephants Really Better Off? Despite mounting evidence that elephants find captivity torturous, some American zoos still acquire them from Africa — aided by a tall tale about why they needed to leave home.
* Principal Refused to Call the Holocaust a Fact. Five seconds later: Principal Who Tried to Stay 'Politically Neutral' About Holocaust Is Removed.
* Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt.
* Damn, that's dark.
* On average, older adults spend over half their waking hours alone.
* A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them.
* The Rise of the Professional Dungeon Master.
* Baseball has a home-run problem.
* Will Impossible Burgers be the norm for Gen Z?
* And if aliens call, what should we do? Scientists want your opinion.
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Tuesday Links, Plus a Very Canavan Podcast!
* There's No Sheriff on This Planet: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson. The latest in my irregular series of conversations with KSR. The transcript is just the highlights — for the full effect you'll have to listen.
* Extrapolation 60.1 is out! Articles on rape motifs in contemporary fantasy, Japanese print SF, and Nihād Sharīf's The Conqueror of Time.
* Endgame ephemera! Avengers: Endgame, or, why this is all your fault. Avengers and the Endgame of Liberalism. And the Russo brothers are on a quest to make sure you know that Endgame being good had nothing to do with them.
* The Night King? Never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened. Bonus appearance by the coffee cup! If these are the final two choices, the only way to win the Game may be not to play.
* "Like Groundhog Day — and while we're at it, like The Good Place — Russian Doll is Kafka played on easy mode."
* Watch The Wandering Earth on Netflix!
* Ted Chiang has a new book, why haven't you bought it yet?
The thing abt Chiang is how every story he writes is the definitive version of that trope in SF. "Story of Your Life" is the best time travel story; "Understand" is the best superhero story"; "Exhalation" is the best climate change story; this is the best parallel universe story.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 7, 2019
* A new climate change story from Paolo Bacigalupi at MIT Technology Review. Killer ending.
* Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life. One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns. Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an 'Unprecedented' Pace. An open letter to David Wallace-Wells. We are ruled by psychopaths.
* Greta Thunberg, autism, and climate activism.
If I'm being honest, the biggest story of my lifetime is there's half as much animal life on earth today as there was the year i was born (1969).
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 7, 2019
* For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop holding much of a charge, and the AirPods will slowly become unusable. They can't be repaired because they're glued together. They can't be thrown out, or else the lithium-ion battery may start a fire in the garbage compactor. They can't be easily recycled, because there's no safe way to separate the lithium-ion battery from the plastic shell. Instead, the AirPods sit in your drawer forever. AirPods Are a Tragedy.
* It's time to speak about batshit jobs.
Today, batshit jobs are more widespread than ever. You're likely doing a batship job if you're working in advertising trying to maintain mass consumption, in air traffic, industrial farming and forestry, in mining, in the car industry, and first of all if you're working in oil drilling, fracking, coal mining.
To become dilligent batshit workers we have to be trained, and we have to be able to block out the harm that our work participates in. The beauty of the school strikes is that a generation of young people are preparing themselves to refuse batshit work.
* It seems to me that anyone who considers this for more than ten minutes has to recognize that "student demand" is a construct: it is the product of a pervasive, cross-institutional pedagogy in social and educational value in which students are immersed from (at least) primary school onward. If students are demanding STEM in record numbers, this is a because they have been systematically invited to embrace a number of interlocking beliefs: that
STEM fields matter to the welfare and future of human societies more than other fields — that social problems respond best to technocratic solutions;
college is a course of career training;
college is an investment that ought to be maximized in order to yield the highest possible return in the form of lifelong higher income;
STEM fields represent areas of continuing high-growth, recession-proof employment.
"Student demand" is a fact insofar as it reproduces these assumptions, which are already endemic to the privatized, market-driven university. Other forms of "student demand" (for example, demands for a more racially and ethnically diverse faculty that better reflects regional and national demographics) are routinely ignored.
* Marquette Academic Senate calls for administration neutrality on unionization.
* Measuring the tenure-track success of pre-2009 Ph.D.s is like measuring the ice stability of Greenland's glaciers before industrialization. Researcher's suicide reflects bleak prospects for post-Ph.D. life. Adjuncts and Freelancers: Reading Signs of Eventual Destruction.
* Turning Point USA's dark coup on college campuses.
* A lot of older academics will point to the 1970s or the 1990s to say that crisis has always been the default, and there's truth to this. But they didn't have the same debt loads back then.
* "Second Chance: Life without Student Debt."
* For Colleges, Climate Change Means Making Tough Choices.
* People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps.
* What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right. As capitalism starts to crumble, hate finds a familiar foothold.
* Liberalism: the other God that failed. The Senate is a much bigger problem than the Electoral College. Here's how many millennials get help from their parents to pay rent and other bills. Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" 42% of Americans are at risk of retiring broke.
The eye-popping stat here that everybody needs to internalize and grapple with: in 2040, half the country will live in 8 states. Meaning half the country will have 16 senators, and half will have 84. https://t.co/M7x7g7ENGL
— Ezra Levin (@ezralevin) May 5, 2019
* America smartly sets its sights on the one flaw in the Constitution the Founders actually bothered to fix.
* If the president does it, it's not obstruction.
* This seems heathy. This too! Things are great.
it's truly bewildering why any young person of conscience staring down the barrel of the future should be swayed by Democratic centrism which has failed us on everything from land use to climate change to mass incarceration to student debt to the war machine
— don't use uber or lyft on may 8 #SB529🌹 (@uhshanti) May 5, 2019
* The forgotten history of how Abraham Lincoln helped rig the Senate for Republicans.
* Dialectics of Milwaukee: 'It's clear that the secret is out about Milwaukee,' increased tourism spending shows. There seems to be a surge of unsettling things happening on the Milwaukee education landscape, some of them just more of the same (low student achievement, divisive politics) and some of them not so typical (corruption). Glendale would provide $37 million to help redevelop struggling Bayshore — with $57 million debt paid off.
* Sandra Bland, It Turns Out, Recorded Her Own Video of Traffic Stop Confrontation. ICE provides local police a way to work around 'sanctuary' policies, act as immigration officers.
* On April 30, my Liberal Studies class, framed as Anthropology and Philosophy of Science, was the site of a horrific event. Two of my students were killed while four more were injured.
* Study: Therapy dogs reduce children's fear, anxiety during dentist appointments.
* Aging baby boomers are about to push Alzheimer's disease rates sky high.
* The Saga Of 'Star Citizen,' A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play.
* Dystopia watch: Oh Good, a Subway System Is Making Riders Stare at Ads Before They Can Buy a Ticket. Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell. We've lived so long that the founding of Amazon Prime is something we can be nostalgic about now.
* Let's just go with a daily reminder that Philip K. Dick wrote a novel where all films were just called disneys.
* Who Owns the Moon Watch: Why the Moon Is Suddenly a Hot Commodity.
* How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings.
* And the biggest danger about an asteroid strike? Lawyers.
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Another Day of Extreme Cold, Another Link Post
* CFP: ASLE co-sponsored roundtable at MLA 2020: Indigenizing the Future: (Re)Imagining the Future of the Environment. Jan. 9-12 2020 Seattle, WA. Deadline March 1.
* CFP: The State of the Single-Author Study (also MLA 2020, deadline March 15). As Sean Guynes-Vishniac noted hopefully an SF studies scholar will participate as this has been a major site of research in recent years, largely due to the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series.
* #freelance #altac
* Just for the record: Polar vortex: what is it and how is it linked to climate change?
* A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson.
* Greta Thunberg: Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
Do you know how rich a billionaire is?
Let's say you earn $50k/year & save every. single. penny.
After 20 years, you'd have saved $1 million.
After 200 years, you'd be dead, but would have saved $10 million.
Only after 20,000 years(!!!), would you have saved $1 billion.
— Nathan H. Rubin (@NathanHRubin) January 30, 2019
* Kamala Harris picked a fight with the wrong fandom.
* Sanders's bill, the "For the 99.8% Act," would tax the estates of the 0.2 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million, while the rest of the country "would not see their taxes go up by one penny under this plan," according to aides to the Vermont senator, who is considering a 2020 presidential bid.
* Democrats Must Reach Out to Moderates in 2020 — By Waging a Vicious Class War.
* Socialism for Realists.
* How a frustrated blogger made expanding Social Security a reasonable idea.
* Joshua Tree national park 'may take 300 years to recover' from shutdown. And another shutdown is just a few short weeks away!
* Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate.
How much better? "A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast was in 1980," says a new paper, published last week in the journal Science. "Useful forecasts now reach nine to 10 days into the future."
* Cop watch: This Is What Truancy Laws Do. Feds used fake Michigan university in immigration sting. ICE force-feeding detainees on hunger strike. An asylum seeker's quest to get her toddler back.
* OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into "Attractive" Anti-Addiction Market.
* Once you have your sensitivity raised about a particular condition, you see the abuses they suffer everywhere. Florida School Staffers Charged With Using Dark Room, Whistle to Torment Autistic Kids.
* You can report the news in a way that doesn't inform anyone.
* Bipartisan agreement that Donald Trump is God's chosen instrument for destroying the United States.
I have been on the edge of my seat for seven damn years. pic.twitter.com/BDpBmkD5Oj
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) January 31, 2019
* No helmets, no problem: how the Dutch created a casual biking culture.
* What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?
* I basically pitched this story in Graz, talking about the difference between Aquaman and Namor: Namor, ecoterrorist.
* The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism.
* Today in the liberal media's endless drumbeat for war.
* 1984.
* It looks like I've accidentally made a terrific financial decision.
"We find that LEGO investments outperform large stocks, bonds, gold and other alternative investments, yielding the average return of at least 11% (8% in real terms) in the sample period 1987-2015," write the authors of a study titled LEGO – The Toy of Smart Investors. "Small and huge sets, as well as seasonal, architectural and movie-based sets, deliver higher returns. LEGO returns are not exposed to market, value, momentum and volatility risk factors, but have an almost unit exposure to the size factor. A positive multifactor alpha of 4-5%, a Sharpe ratio of 0.4, a positive return skewness and a low exposure to standard risk factors make the LEGO toy an attractive alternative investment with a good diversification potential."
* The contemporary fascination with women who were tabloid media spectacles in the 1990s has turned at last to Lorena Bobbitt.
* What You Should Know Before You Start Watching Porn.
* Scenes from the Anthropocene.
* And just in time for teaching SimCity later this semester: Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die—one that has proven dangerously influential.
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I Had To Do Some Laundry, So You Know What That Means: Wednesday Links!
* CFP: Feral Feminisms is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our first general issue. Submission deadline is 15 January 2019.
* What our science fiction says about us.
* From the Earth to the Moon. And hell why not it's Wednesday just a few more.
* Following a Board of Trustees meeting this afternoon, Temple University President Richard Englert released a statement on behalf of the board, announcing that professor Marc Lamont Hill will not be punished or investigated for his Nov. 28 speech during an event organized with the United Nations. Now investigate the feckless administrators who made these baseless threats.
* Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges 2018.
* Following scientists in three fields, the paper's authors found that it took about five years for a half of a science cohort to leave academic work in 2010 — compared to 35 years in the 1960s.
* Tired: China is building a social points system that will rank people from birth to death. Wired: Trump Is Trying to Use Credit Scores to Keep Immigrants Out of the U.S.
* Wow, here and I thought Scott Walker was a man of principle and integrity.
* Social media will always be destructive for the Left. We should log the fuck off. I tweeted a tweet about the president and the modest virality of that tweet smells bad.
* Grant Morrison Opens Up About Feuding With Alan Moore and Why He Still Doesn't Like Watchmen.
* Upright Citizen's Brigade on the brink.
* The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what's to come. Unparalleled warmth is changing the Arctic and affecting weather in US, Europe. In what is being called the first of its kind, Mayor Francis Suarez quietly signed a resolution last month to address climate gentrification in Miami. Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed. EPA announces plan to poison all the water.
CNN put out a video urging people not to believe climate change deniers.
One problem: two of the four clips they cite are people *on* CNN. pic.twitter.com/tbCT6O43p0
— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 11, 2018
Twenty years from now, kids listening to "Baby it's cold outside" are gonna find it really, really weird.
We're gonna have to explain that it has to be understood in the context of its time.
You see, it used to get cold outside.
— Zi Teng Wang (@Zi_W) December 10, 2018
* Children of Ted: Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.
* ICE arrested 170 potential sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children.
* They say bipartisanship is dead, but U.S. House unanimously approves sweeping self-driving car measure.
* The law, in its infinite equality watch: Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has dropped charges against 23-year-old Jazmine Headley related to her arrest at a social services office on Friday, he announced Tuesday. Headley was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration, and trespassing after security guards called police over a dispute that apparently began because she was sitting on the floor while she waited with her 1-year-old son to renew a child-care benefit. Charge the cops who did this next.
* "Teenager Claims Body-Cams Show the Police Framed Him. What Do You See?" What terrible luck that the camera mysterious turned off during the relevant portion of the search! What are the chances!
* What Everyone Having Diarrhea On The Set of The Magnificent Seven Tells Us About Toxic Masculinity.
* A ProPublica investigation has found that the IRS has been so gutted that audits of the top 1% are rapidly converging on audits of the bottom 36%. This is of course totally irrational, but completely in line with the contempt the ruling class has for the poor.
* What It Means to Be a Marxist.
* The CRISPR babies and scientific ethics.
* The final stage of any sufficiently mammoth crime is abusing bankruptcy law to avoid responsibility.
* I remember having my mind blown by reading this observation in Daniel Dennett book twenty years ago: An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have.
* Throw these Chromebooks in the snow. Leave childhood alone, let kids have a little bit of joy.
* We lost that war. But the fight goes on.
* Yeah, that'll solve it!
* And here is John F. Kennedy in 1961 writing to reassure a child that fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapon testing won't kill Santa.
Here is John F. Kennedy in 1961 writing to reassure a child that fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapon testing won't kill Santa. #NuclearWarOnChristmas pic.twitter.com/4w4KapArwr
— Nuclear War on Christmas (Martin Pfeiffer) 🏳🌈 (@NuclearAnthro) December 1, 2018
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RT @JedediahSPurdy: Major fork in the road of the Gmail auto-fill choose your own adventure. https://t.co/r9iLpyUCkR 1 hour ago

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Murphy v. Kuhn
Long Beach Road Holdings, LLC v. Foremost Insurance
Generally, under New York law insurance brokers have a "common law duty to obtain requested coverage for…
Voss v. Neth. Ins. Co.
Rather, their claim hinges on the existence of a special relationship. Where a special relationship develops…
320 Citing Cases
Full title:THOMAS MURPHY et al., Appellants, v. DONALD C. KUHN et al., Respondents
Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Date published: Jun 27, 1997
90 N.Y.2d 266 (N.Y. 1997)
660 N.Y.S.2d 371
682 N.E.2d 972
Court of Appeals of the State of New York
holding that an insurance broker did not have a fiduciary duty to his customer even though the insured had been his customer for seventeen years and had provided several insurance services to the plaintiff
Summary of this case from Freeman v. MBL Life Assurance Corp.
Argued June 4, 1997;
Decided June 27, 1997
Appeal from Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department, Monroe County, (Robert J. Lunn, J.)
Faraci, Lange, Johns, Regan Schwarz, L. L. P., Rochester ( Paul K. Lange and Matthew F. Belanger of counsel), for appellants.
Lustig Brown, L. L. P., Buffalo ( Maurice L. Sykes and Katherine A. Fijal of counsel), for respondents.
BELLACOSA, J.
The question for this case is whether an insurance agent should be liable to a former customer for tortious misrepresentation and breach of implied contract. The alleged wrongdoing is a failure of the defendant insurance agent to advise plaintiff Thomas Murphy as to possible additional insurance coverage needs. The theory of the lawsuit and the asserted duty is a special relationship and special level of advisory responsibility.
The Appellate Division affirmed an order of Supreme Court, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint. Plaintiffs appeal pursuant to leave granted by this Court. We affirm the order of the Appellate Division because no special relationship was established on this record.
Plaintiffs Thomas Murphy and Webster Golf Course, Inc. sued defendants Donald C. Kuhn, Kuhn Pedulla Agency, Inc., and its predecessor Roman A. Kuhn Agency, alleging professional negligence and breach of implied contract. This dispute originates in a 1991 automobile accident in Florida involving Murphy's son. One person died and several others suffered serious injuries as a result of the accident. At that time, the title to the son's car was in his father's name and the personal insurance was placed under the commercial automobile policy covering Murphy's business, Webster Golf Course, Inc. After exhausting the $500,000 policy limit to settle the car accident claims, Thomas Murphy assertedly paid an additional $194,429.50 plus $7,500 in attorneys' fees. Then, he sued these defendants to recover the additional sums he had to pay personally.
Defendants began providing the property, casualty and liability insurance to plaintiffs in 1973 in connection with their golf business. Beginning in 1977, defendant Donald Kuhn also handled all of Murphy's personal insurance needs; providing him with both homeowners insurance and personal automobile coverage. In 1979, plaintiff Thomas Murphy and his partner, Edward Rieflin, completed their purchase of the Happy Acres Golf Course and formed Webster Golf Course, Inc. Happy Acres had been a client of the Roman A. Kuhn Agency since 1957.
In 1990, Kuhn placed personal automobile coverage for Murphy with The Hartford, as insurer. Later that year, Hartford notified Murphy that his coverage was in danger of cancellation due to the poor driving records of his children. Murphy then transferred the insurance covering his son's car, which was registered and titled in Murphy's name, from Murphy's personal policy to Webster Golf Course's commercial automobile insurance policy. Murphy testified at his deposition that it was his standard arrangement to place title and register his children's cars in his name. From 1984 until the time of the accident, the liability limits on the commercial policy were $250,000 per person and $500,000 total per accident. Murphy never requested higher liability coverage for his personal and family automobile insurance needs, which were subsumed within the commercial automobile liability policy.
Supreme Court concluded that, absent a request by the customer, an insurance agent "owes no continuing duty to advise, guide or direct the customer to obtain additional coverage." Therefore, acknowledging that on this record plaintiffs never specifically requested defendants to increase the liability limits on the commercial automobile policy, the court held that defendants owed no special duty of affirmative advisement to plaintiffs. The court also declined to adopt plaintiffs' "special relationship" theory.
Plaintiffs propose that insurance agents can assume or acquire legal duties not existing at common law by entering into a special relationship of trust and confidence with their customers. Specifically, plaintiffs contend that a special relationship developed from a long, continuing course of business between, plaintiffs and defendant insurance agents, generating special reliance and an affirmative duty to advise with regard to appropriate or additional coverage.
Generally, the law is reasonably settled on initial principles that insurance agents have a common-law duty to obtain requested coverage for their clients within a reasonable time or inform the client of the inability to do so; however, they have no continuing duty to advise, guide or direct a client to obtain additional coverage ( see, Wied v New York Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 208 A.D.2d 1132, 1133; Hjemdahl-Monsen v Faulkner, 204 A.D.2d 516, 517; Rogers v Urbanke, 194 A.D.2d 1024, 1025; Harnish v Naples Assocs., 181 A.D.2d 1012, 1013; Erwig v Cook Agency, 173 A.D.2d 439). Notably, no New York court has applied plaintiffs' proffered "special relationship" analysis to add such continuing duties to the agent-insured relationship ( see, Wied v New York Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 208 A.D.2d 1132, 1133-1134, supra).
Recently, however, this Court recognized a special relationship in a commercial controversy, involving no generally recognized professional relationship ( see, Kimmell v Schaefer, 89 N.Y.2d 257, 260). We held that the relationship between the parties "under the circumstances [there] required defendant to speak with care" (id., at 260). Kimmell cautions, however, that "liability for negligent misrepresentation has been imposed only on those persons who possess unique or specialized expertise, or who are in a special position of confidence and trust with the injured party such that reliance on the negligent misrepresentation is justified" ( id., at 263). For example, "[p]rofessionals, such as lawyers and engineers, by virtue of their training and expertise, may have special relationships of confidence and trust with their clients, and in certain situations we have imposed liability for negligent misrepresentation when they have failed to speak with care" ( id., at 263, citing Ossining Union Free School Dist. v Anderson LaRocca Anderson, 73 N.Y.2d 417 [engineering consultants]; White v Guarente, 43 N.Y.2d 356 [accountants]; Ultramares Corp. v Touche, 255 N.Y. 170 [accountants]; Glanzer v Shepard, 233 N.Y. 236 [public weighers]).
The Court concluded that given "the absence of obligations arising from the speaker's professional status" in the commercial context, "there must be some identifiable source of a special duty of care" in order to impose tort liability ( id., at 264). "The existence of such a special relationship may give rise to an exceptional duty regarding commercial speech and justifiable reliance on such speech" ( id.). We determined, to be sure, that "[w]hether the nature and caliber of the relationship between the parties is such that the injured party's reliance on a negligent misrepresentation is justified generally raises an issue of fact" ( id.). It is important to note that Kimmell is significantly distinguishable from the instant case, which involves an insurance agent-insured relationship and an alleged failure to speak. We therefore allude to Kimmell for its general relevance and disclaim any implication of a direct, precedential applicability in the insurance relationships context.
Even assuming the general applicability of the "special relationship" theory in the customer-agent automobile insurance coverage setting, we conclude that the relationship between these parties was insufficiently established to warrant or justify this case surviving a defense summary judgment motion. As a matter of law, this record does not rise to the high level required to recognize the special relationship threshold that might superimpose on defendants the initiatory advisement duty, beyond the ordinary placement of requested insurance responsibilities. Rather, the record in the instant case presents only the standard consumer-agent insurance placement relationship, albeit over an extended period of time. Plaintiffs' plight does not warrant transforming his difficulty into a new, expanded tort opportunity for peripheral redress. The record does not support plaintiffs' effort in this manner to shift to defendant insurance agent the customer's personal responsibility for initiating, seeking and obtaining appropriate coverage, without something more than is presented here.
We note in this respect that Murphy never asked Kuhn to increase the liability limits on the Webster Golf Course commercial automobile policy. In fact, there is no indication that Murphy ever inquired or discussed with Kuhn any issues involving the liability limits of the automobile policy. Such lack of initiative or personal indifference cannot qualify as legally recognizable or justifiable reliance. Therefore, there was no evidence of reliance on the defendant agent's expertise, as sharply distinguished from Kimmell (contrast, Kimmell v Schaefer, supra, 89 N.Y.2d, at 264).
The absence of reliance is further reflected in Murphy's deposition testimony that it was his standard procedure to simply register his children's cars in his name. Additionally, Murphy's deposition description of his relationship with Kuhn concerning the golf course's general insurance matters shows that he had not met personally with Kuhn to discuss the insurance needs of Webster Golf Course, Inc. for approximately 12 years preceding the accident in question. Rather, his partner Rieflin was the one actively and personally involved in handling the insurance needs of the golf course.
We also note that Murphy's contention that he mistakenly believed that the commercial policy had a $1,000,000 liability limit on all covered vehicles can be given no weight in resolving this dispute on this theory. The liability coverage had remained the same since 1984 and Murphy's deposition testimony failed to establish the basis for his plainly unfounded assumption. Therefore, plaintiffs are not entitled to advance beyond the summary judgment stage of this lawsuit because they failed to establish the existence of a legally cognizable special relationship with their insurance agent in this standard set of circumstances.
Plaintiffs-appellants urge this Court to avoid generally absolving insurance agents from legal principles which subject other individuals to duties beyond those rooted in the common law. They overstate the concern and effect of this decision and the principle that emanates from it. Our decision today does not break any new ground and does not immunize insurance brokers and agents from appropriately assigned duties and responsibilities. Exceptional and particularized situations may arise in which insurance agents, through their conduct or by express or implied contract with customers and clients, may assume or acquire duties in addition to those fixed at common law. As with Kimmell, the issue of whether such additional responsibilities should be recognized and given legal effect is governed by the particular relationship between the parties and is best determined on a case-by-case basis ( see, Kimmell v Schaefer, 89 N.Y.2d 257, 264, supra).
Notably, other jurisdictions have recognized such an additional duty of advisement in exceptional situations where, for example, (1) the agent receives compensation for consultation apart from payment of the premiums ( see, Sandbulte v Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co., 343 N.W.2d 457, 464 [Iowa]; Nowell v Dawn-Leavitt Agency, 127 Ariz. 48, 51, 617 P.2d 1164, 1168), (2) there was some interaction regarding a question of coverage, with the insured relying on the expertise of the agent ( see, Trupiano v Cincinnati Ins. Co., 654 N.E.2d 886, 889 [Ind] [applying Michigan law]); or (3) there is a course of dealing over an extended period of time which would have put objectively reasonable insurance agents on notice that their advice was being sought and specially relied on ( see, Trotter v State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 297 S.C. 465, 377 S.E.2d 343). In these circumstances, insureds bear the burden of proving the specific undertaking ( id.). The relationship established in the instant case does not rise to the level of these exceptional situations and we refrain from determining when the special relationship analysis may apply in the insurance context.
We do, however, take note that the uniqueness of customary and ordinary insurance relationships and transactions is manifested by "the absence of obligations arising from the speaker's professional status" with regard to the procurement of additional coverage ( Kimmell v Schaefer, supra, 89 N.Y.2d, at 264). As stated, it is well settled that agents have no continuing duty to advise, guide, or direct a client to obtain additional coverage ( see, Wied v New York Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 208 A.D.2d 1132, 1133, supra). No doubt, therefore, public policy considerations will have to be weighed on the question of whether to override this settled principle by recognizing additional advisement duties on insurance agents and brokers ( see, Farmers Ins. Co. v McCarthy, 871 S.W.2d 82, 85-86 [Mo]). But we do not reach that question here.
Insurance agents or brokers are not personal financial counselors and risk managers, approaching guarantor status ( see, id.). Insureds are in a better position to know their personal assets and abilities to protect themselves more so than general insurance agents or brokers, unless the latter are informed and asked to advise and act (id.). Furthermore, permitting insureds to add such parties to the liability chain might well open flood gates to even more complicated and undesirable litigation. Notably, in a different context, but with resonant relevance, it has been observed that "[u]nlike a recipient of the services of a doctor, attorney or architect * * * the recipient of the services of an insurance broker is not at a substantial disadvantage to question the actions of the provider of services" ( Video Corp. v Flatto Assocs., 85 A.D.2d 448, 456, mod 58 N.Y.2d 1026).
Accordingly, the order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
Chief Judge KAYE and Judges TITONE, SMITH, CIPARICK and WESLEY concur.
Order affirmed, with costs.
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That year, the airlines unleashed the full force of their legions of lobbyists and deep pockets in a successful effort to beat back a move in Congress to enact a meaningful Airline Passenger Bill of Rights.
The move in Congress was precipitated by a series of cases of airline disdain for customers, culminating on January 3, 1999, on the tarmac of Detroit Airport. There, an inbound Northwest flight arriving from Hawaii sat within a stone's throw of the terminal for more than eight hours. Toilets backed up. Food ran out. Passengers were left without their medications. And making a bad situation intolerable, the Northwest crew was less than forthcoming with information and updates.
The incident perfectly epitomized travelers' perceptions that the airlines were systematically disregarding passengers' most fundamental needs.
What the traveling public got instead of a federally mandated Airline Passenger Bill of Rights was a "we'll do better" promise from the airlines, codified under names such as Customer Commitment and posted in the nether regions of the airlines' websites.
As discussed in [% 1635436 | | this blog entry %], a recent review of those commitments by the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General found the airlines' compliance lacking in just about every respect.
Rewind to December 29, 2006. Three American Airlines flights from San Francisco to Dallas—AA1348, AA534, and AA1008—were ordered by air traffic control to divert to Austin because of inclement weather in Dallas. And there the three jets sat, on the Austin Airport tarmac, for eight or more hours. Within easy walking distance of the terminal. Food and water ran out. Toilets filled to overflowing. And airline disservice was back in the news. As was the idea of a Passenger Bill or Rights.
At the grassroots level, the movement has coalesced around the "Coalition for Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights" blog launched by Kate Hanni and others directly affected by the Austin debacle.
As was the case in 1999, the public outrage has caught the eye of some lawmakers, raising the possibility yet again that Congress will act on behalf of the traveling public. But given the history of this issue, no one should underestimate the resources and cunning the airlines will deploy in order to defeat or at least dilute any meaningful legislation.
Do I think we need a Passenger Bill of Rights? Here's what I wrote in March, 2000:
"I am not in general an advocate of government meddling in the business of business. But in the airline industry, the 'invisible hand' of the free market just doesn't seem up to the task of aligning carriers' behavior with consumers' needs. Accordingly, I for one would encourage Congress to revisit the need for a federally mandated Passenger Bill of Rights, including the disclosure of meaningful frequent flyer program information.
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 "When I'm Gone"
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 "The End"
 "Your Love is a Lie"
 "Save You"
 "Generation"
 "Time to Say Goodbye"
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 "Running Out of Time"
 "When I'm Gone" [Akustisk Version]

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