Celebrity weddings are the next big thing in India, where not only the groom and bride and their family but also their millions of fans come together to bless the couple and be a part of their wedding celebrations. DeepVeer wedding is the brand new addition to the lot and while a huge part of the entire thing was kept under the curtain for a long time, the official photos are out.
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, along with Sabyasachi, who is the designer of their wedding attire, posted pictures of these two beautiful souls uniting for the holy matrimony. They not only looked absolutely gorgeous on one of the biggest days of their lives but also looked spectacularly in love. The huge grin that the two carried on their faces, in the photos, can only come from true love and one can certainly feel it among these two.
DeepVeer wedding was, in fact, one of the most anticipated events of the year that millions of fans were eagerly waiting for. The wait continues when the two boarded flights to Lake Como, Italy for their wedding week and even after they officially got married. But as they say, the fruit of patience is always sweet and the same happened here. The couple tied the knot in a Konkani style wedding and in a Sindhi style wedding, respecting the two cultures that they come from.
Here are some of the pictures from the DeepVeer wedding.
1. Just look at the huge smile on their face and the love in their eyes.
2. These two are the cutest of them all.
3. Here is how lit the groom's house back in Mumbai, is.
Stunning! @ranveersingh's Mumbai residence is all lit up at the #DeepVeerWedding. Here's waiting for the bride and groom to return to the city soon.
Many of the couple's friends from the industry wished them on their union on social media and each and every message had something funny and amazing to add to their equation. Here are some of the congratulations aimed at DeepVeer Wedding.
1. Anushka Sharma welcomes the newlywed couple to the club.
2. Parineeti Chopra entering the ball with her own cute names for the two.
3. Ayushmann Khurrana is not behind.
4. Sushmita Sen is also here.
5. Karan Johar is a dear friend of the two and his wishes say the same.
As the DeepVeer Wedding in Lake Como, Italy comes to an end, we can't wait for the two to come back to the country and have receptions to enjoy their union with their friends and family in India and from the film industry.
We wish you two, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, a happy and wonderful wedding life.


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General Election result 'will help business prepare for post-Brexit future'
By John Corser | Business | Published: Dec 13, 2019 | Last Updated: Dec 14, 2019
Businesses across the Black Country and Staffordshire are welcoming the Conservative Party's victory in the General Election as an opportunity to prepare for a post-Brexit future.
Black Country Chamber of Commerce chierf executive Corin Crane
The Black Country Chamber of Commerce's chief executive, Corin Crane, said: "Our message for the Government is simple: businesses need confidence in the political system to unlock capital investment and to drive growth. The last two-and-a-half years have seen businesses holding back, concerned about cash flow and often unable to plan ahead.
"These results, delivering a Parliament with a clear majority should act as stimulus for economic clarity, allowing businesses to prepare for a post-Brexit future. The Black Country remains primed and ready as the engine for economic growth across the West Midlands and the UK, and the Chamber is at very heart of the business community here."
The chamber will be writing to all the MPs on its patch that have been returned to Westminster to outline the priorities of the business community and invite them to engage with it on behalf of members, particularly those in the manufacturing, aerospace and the automotive sector.
The chamber has spent many months helping businesses as they prepare for whatever Brexit may bring and says it will continue to do so as the UK exits the European Union.
Business leaders in Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, which covers Cannock and Lichfield, congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his overwhelming General Election victory but warned that the hard work starts now.
GBCC is urging urged the Government to urgently give a clear understanding on what the country's trading relationship with Europe will be beyond 2020.
Paul Faulkner, chief executive of GBCC, called for an end to the "years of uncertainty" caused by the Brexit process.
"Since the referendum result, feedback from our Quarterly Business Report has regularly highlighted that firms across the region have been hampered by years of uncertainty caused by the Brexit process," he said.
"With such a decisive majority, we hope that we will see the modicum of stability that businesses need in order to press ahead with informed decision making – particularly when it comes to investing in their people and products."
GBCC is also urging the Prime Minister to release the recommendations made by Douglas Oakervee and back HS2 in full.
"No other project comes close in its ability to rebalance the economy and bring prosperity to all corners of the UK," added Mr Faulkner.
Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, said: "After three years of gridlock, the Prime Minister has a clear mandate to govern. Businesses across the UK urge him to use it to rebuild confidence in our economy and break the cycle of uncertainty.
"Employers share the Prime Minister's optimism for the UK and are ready to play a leading role. They can bring the innovation, investment and jobs for a new era of inclusive growth. The biggest issues of our times – from tackling climate change to reskilling the workforce for new technologies – can only be delivered through real partnership between government and business.
"The starting point must be rebuilding business confidence, and early reassurance on Brexit will be vital."
The Conservative win drove a rally in the pound and UK domestic stocks. The currency jumped 2.7 per cent to US $1.3418 on confirmation that Boris Johnson's party had been victorious. The removal of the threat of Labour trying to re-nationalise many sectors, saw shares in Royal Mail, transport companies and utility stocks jump.
Dale Parmenter, chief executive of Hartlebury-based digital agency DRPG said: "At last we get some certainty and hopefully some stability and leadership. Now we just have to see it unfold. It's business as usual until then."
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MINSK, Belarus - Belarusian authorities have blocked a number of media websites reporting on the country rocked by two weeks of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian Journalists Association said on Saturday that more than 20 sites had been blocked, including those of US-funded Radio Liberty and Belsat, a Polish-funded satellite television channel that focuses on Belarus. On Friday, the state publishing house stopped printing major independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing equipment malfunction. Unprecedented protests in Belarus over its size and duration erupted after the August 9 presidential elections in which official results gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office. The protesters allege that the results...
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I'm pretty sure green is my new favorite color in my wardrobe. I don't have many green dresses but I just bought two for Christmas/my birthday and I can't stop wearing them. This Closet UK dress should be a staple in every wardrobe. Modcloth sells it in a wide range of colors and prints (this isn't my first one) and I can see a couple more in my future. It compliments every body type and it's one of the more comfortable dresses I own. Plus, it has pockets. You know how important that is!
I just bought my first Velvetine lip stains from Lime Crime. I was desperately looking for the Cashmere and Wicked hues and they happened to restock just in time for me to grab them. Needless to say, I'm obsessed! I don't want to get into too much detail because I'm planning a makeup post, but it surpasses any lipstick/lip stain I've ever purchased. It's just so good.
This weekend we're taking Bianca to the Gentle Barn. It's a safe haven for rescued barn animals and it's open to the public once a week. Since Bianca loves animals and I hate zoos/circuses, this was a happy medium. It's important for me to teach her how to love and respect all animals because I want her to grow up in a home much like mine. Full of spoiled creatures all the time!


Ironic — the bench is elegant and ornate, but also somehow unapproachable, like many aspects of art, and religion to the extent that it is also an art form. The wall behind the bench seems inviting and touchable, but not the bench itself. If I were to enter this scene, I would sit on the ground next to the bench and lean against the wall. I love the colors in this photo, the limited palate of greys, blues, and yellows, and the blue reflection in the window above the bench.


the benefits of all the intervention policies outweighed the harms, between 6 and 24 times. However, there were order-of-magnitude differences in estimated net benefits among policies. A universal approach to bicycle-friendly infrastructure will likely be required to achieve sufficient growth in bicycle commuting to meet strategic goals.
The researchers employed a system dynamics modelling approach that incorporated feedback loops between infrastructure provision and street design, people's travel behaviours, and actual and perceived safety.
As a transport economist, I found their methodology incredibly interesting. It illustrates how you often need complex modelling tools to quantify things that are intuitively quite simple. In this case, the fact that if you make every street safe to cycle on, people will choose to get on their bikes.
Right now, Auckland's obviously not doing too well when it comes to complete cycle networks. If you look at Auckland Transport's online cycle maps, you'll see some streets with strips of green paint down the side, and many more that you could in theory cycle on (if you were especially bold).
However, we're lucky enough to have a local example of a city that is rolling out an ambitious complete cycle network. Since the 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, Christchurch has planned a network of 13 major cycleways that will extend throughout the city, a re-jig of its city centre street network, and a new street design manual that will deliver better on-road cycle facilities. (Disclaimer: I have previously worked on the An Accessible City project as a consultant.) And they're planning on getting it done over the next five years.
It's going to be interesting to watch Christchurch over the next few years. I expect they'll provide a good example for a lot of other New Zealand cities.
So did it pan out in Christchurch?
And if it made some progress, how has the road building undermined that progress?
It's not finished, nor will be by 2019 as suggested it would be in the original article.
Yes there has been a lot of bikelash but in general the entire rebuild in Christchurch is dragging its heels, so who knows when this will be completed or even how much of the plan will happen.
Progress has been made though.
And Christchurch council recently acquired and demolished houses at the end of two cul-de-sacs that backed on to each other to allow the Quarrymens cycleway route to be built.
Even then that was done because of the backlash raised by residents over removing on street carparks from the preferred route. So they did the backroute instead and demo-ed two houses.
Still even that is something AT has not ever shown it has got the balls to do.
So at least someone in Christchurch council is not afraid to stand up to the cars first brigade.
It would be great to see a city in New Zealand on the otherside of the post bikelash vengance. Stuff commens are generally vile anti cyclist rage & fury at the moment.
Has anyone followed what the social media has been like in the cycling pilot study towns of New Plymouth and Hastings? Given the focus of NZTA, the Councils and the University of Victoria, with such good data to show the benefits of the cycling studies, I'm interested to know if people have been able to subdue the hotheads with great facts. Or with anecdotes of happy children.
I went to feilday yesterday there were heaps of electric bikes and mopeheads dirt bikes on display. I was expecting to see some electric quads but no signs. Anyway one of the lithium batteries had being opened so you could see the workings. Heaps of electronics along with the cells so they are not simple. I wonder if the electronics was just for battery control or maybe its speed control as well.
The drive home was a nightmare I should have taken the intercity to Hamilton and caught the shuttle. Next time however I am not happy with intercity at the moment because they won't use the beautiful new bus station at Manukau.
/does anyne know if the use of the bus station by interCity and Naked bus is going to occur? Is there any plans for interconnection between AT services (train and bus0 at Manukau for these two services.
Yes all the coaches will use the station.
Mana/Naked have been using the Manukau bus station since Sunday 18 April 2018. Intercity, for some strange reason, are still using the old bus stops outside Westfield Manukau, I guess they're quite happy to have their passengers waiting outside at night in the wind and rain, with no security, toilets etc.
Got told some/all of their new buses baggage doors didn't align to the gates in the fence so waiting on sorting that through.
Hi Royce, as it happens I took the bus to Fieldays last week (Mana both ways, down on Wednesday afternoon and return to Auckland on Thursday night after a day at the show). Very comfortable, especially the downstairs seats with tables, and cheaper than Intercity as well – and yes, they do use the Manukau sawtooth terminal. You should absolutely give it a try next time.


Thanks Thomas. This was a fun piece to create.
Love the patterns and textures!
Great abstract, wonderful textures and tones!
Beautiful work, great use of textures! Love the symbolism in this work!
I traced my left hand and decorated it with tangle designs. After I scanned it into my computer I designed this surreal image. The left hand is associated with yin, which can include the moon, the unconscious,receiving,emotion and creativity. Look closely to really appreciate the textures and layers that went into executing this piece.


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James Wan Debuts First Footage of 'Aquaman' at CinemaCon
Emma Stefansky
We've seen barely anything of James Wan's Aquaman solo film, and there's a reason for that. The director recently explained on Twitter that, despite the movie's December release date, there hasn't been a true teaser released because the movie simply isn't ready. There's a lot of VFX work still to be done, and with the movie now shooting pickups, it'll be a while before a substantial chunk of it is finished. But that didn't stop Wan and DC from showing off some choice clips at CinemaCon on Tuesday to whet fans' appetites.
Wan gathered onstage with stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson and Yahya Abdul-Mateen, as well as emcee Will Arnett ("You are the best f---ing Batman," Momoa told him). "I didn't want to bring anything, but they made me," Wan said before the footage debuted. He also explained that this shouldn't be construed as an official teaser, just a few scenes and shots that he had deemed ready for the public. According to The Hollywood Reporter:
The footage included Momoa's Aquaman pulling a submarine out of the water, what appeared to be shark horses and vistas of Atlantean skyscrapers. The villains of the pic, including Abdul-Mateen's Black Manta and Wilson's Ocean Master. also appeared briefly. There were also plenty of choice one-liners, including: "I'm a blunt instrument, and I am damned good at it."
Last month, Wan took to Twitter to explain what the hold up was on any sort of teaser or trailer for the movie: "This movie is filled to the gills with VFX, and the process is as slow and laborious as a sea-slug! Yes, even shots for the trailers take forever to do, and I refuse to put out anything that might be construed as subpar." It's frustrating that we haven't gotten a chance to at least gauge the vibe of Aquaman. I love picking apart trailers as much as the next fan, but props to Wan for refusing to send anything out into the world he isn't happy with. That's gotta be tough working for a company as huge as DC but it's encouraging that they're letting him take the lead here.
Aquaman opens in theaters December 21.
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By Naveed Qazi
Economist Thomas Piketty's new book, "Capital In The Twenty-First Century", has focused on the alternative between Capitalism and Communism. Branko Milanovic, a former economist at the World Bank, called it "one of the watershed books in economic thinking."
Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel in economic science and a columnist for The New York Times, wrote that it "will be the most important economics book of the year — and maybe of the decade."
With the help of other economists, Anthony Atkinson and Saez, Piketty expanded his work on inequality where he included countries like Britain, China, India and Japan in his research. They formed a committee, which spanned world's biggest income database that covered thirty countries.
Throughout the history of economic world, nature of Capitalism and the idea of the welfare state have often locked horns. Economists have been reflecting the problems of the society and trying to find a right match for human emancipation: The Rev. Thomas Malthus theorised that population growth would keep the bulk of mankind trapped in destitution.
David Recado rightly believed that the increase in land value would benefit the feudals and oppress the poor. And Marx rightly believed that ruinous competition among workers and investors would inevitably concentrate wealth in fewer hands.
As an academic, Mr Piketty was eager to learn about the case of an ideal society. He, in his early 40's, has been immersed in books and will most likely be a thinker of his generation. The motivation behind his PhD thesis at MIT after fifteen years of data collection has been: the collapse of Communism, the economic degradation of Eastern Europe and the first Gulf War, in 1991.
Mr. Piketty believes that the wealthier a society becomes, the more people will claw for the best relative social station and the more inequality will ensue. He turns to those timeless economic authorities Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac in mapping our future. Throughout the book, he importunately digresses with the dowry-chasing machinations of characters in novels like "Sense and Sensibility" and " Père Goriot".
Social inequality annoyed him and thus he wanted to write on the roots of economic problems. He wants the world to go back to the vision of the golden age of 1945 to 1973, where incomes and higher living standards converged. His book largely focuses on United States and Europe.
Like American economist, Joseph Stiglitz, he believes that social and economic equality threatens democracy and there is a need to implement a right balance between market and the government. He further suggests that liberal government policies on taxation, spending and regulation will fail to diminish inequality.
Historically, Capitalism, due to its profit motive, has been a product of cyclical failures. It's pretty logical that if rich lose the bundle, and if wealth is distributed wisely, inequality will start to diminish. He favours a progressive global wealth tax.
Piketty believes that the central nature of capitalism is where growth of the rate of return of capital exceeds the wider growth of economy, which thereby deepens the class divide between rich and poor.
He also believes that the rich people's wealth holds more value than income received by a worker – and rich should be taxed to remove disparities. Going back to history, he further ascertains the examples of Greeks, where participation in public life was mandatory. "There is moderation to everything," he claims.
World has witnessed crises in 2008 and 2011. There is a burden of paying high tuition at schools, mortgages. Wealth inequality thus becomes a recipe for slowing, innovation-averse, rentier economies, tougher working conditions and degraded public services. Capitalism is really a pain for the poor people. He further believes that social peace can only come when State gives high salaries and collects high taxes.
Mr Piketty believes that his solutions provide a "less violent and more efficient response to the eternal problem of private capital and its return." Instead of Austen and Balzac, the professor ought to read "Animal Farm" and "Darkness at Noon" which critique authoritarianism and inequalities in the society.
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Yawn-Fest 2010 aka The Whitney Biennial
I have been back about a week now, going over my notes and memories from my trip to the Big Apple. Aside from needing to get out of Sacramento, like you ever really "need" a reason, I wanted to attend the opening reception of the show I was in, visit old friends, ride the subway (reminds me of Chicago), get waisted, and most of all, view the latest Biennial.
And for those of you that haven't seen it, well the title of this post says it all. Or I can write simply, "Whitney Biennial aka zzzzzzzzzz" Or I can use what Hilton Kramer said in 1977 when he wrote, "The Whitney Biennial Is As Boring As Ever!" Or I can go right for the jugular and write, "2010 Whitney Biennial-Talent, Technique, and Your Message Is Meaningless-It's The Same Mind Numbing Shit As Every Other Year and No Wonder Most People Don't Understand or CARE About Contemporary Art!!"
I just wrote that.
And it felt goooood!
Go ahead and leave a hostile comment telling me how wrong or jealous I am. Dress up your argument with fancy "art speak" vocabulary. Or just write, "You're an asshole!" Years ago in college, I had a teacher threaten to stick his hunting knife through one of my paintings because he hated the way I painted "ears." So feel free to comment however you like, I can take it.
As seen from Manhattan and in the words of the two curators of the 75th Whitney Biennial, the most important roundup of this country's art: "During the last two years, the United States went through a huge atmospheric shift. After a period of political resistance came a kind of ecstasy. . . . With the election of Barack Obama, the clouds broke and the rain of renewal poured over the entire country." Strangely, that's not at all the vision I get from looking at the works in the show.
Before I go into the fire and brimstone portion of this post, there are some positive aspects I should point out.
Out of the 56 people featured this year, more than half are women, which is nice to see since women are still under represented when it comes to the art world. Some of the best works in this biennial, in fact, by female artists.
Pae White, an always-stylish artist from Los Angeles, has a photo of blowing cigarette smoke made into an astounding, computer-woven tapestry almost 40 feet long by 12 feet high. It's a heroic image of stasis and thumb twiddling, embodied in an archetypically luxurious commodity. It greets you as you enter the top floor of the biennial. It could almost be the whole show's flag.
Kate Gilmore, who grew up in Washington, presents her latest video of aimless female struggle. We get to see Gilmore, dressed in a polka-dot frock, breaking her way into a tiny drywall space she's built, maybe 4 feet by 4 feet, and then breaking out again using her bare hands. It is a metaphor for learned helplessness and I was surprised at how much it stuck with me.
The curators -- the veteran Francesco Bonami paired with the much younger Gary Carrion-Murayari -- have included Nina Berman's famous photos of an Iraq war vet, Marine Sgt. Ty Ziegel, who lost one arm and his entire face to a suicide bomber, yet is forging on at home. These pictures are standard photojournalism, with their share of visual clichés. Yet their strong subject easily overrides their conventional aesthetics.
Another room contains the harrowing photojournalism of Stephanie Sinclair, who has documented the suffering and courage of abused Afghan girls whose lives were such a hell that they set themselves on fire. They failed to die and now have to be helped to live again.
Aurel Schmidt's intricately detailed drawings include objects and creatures such as flies, condoms, and cigarette butts that are pieced together to form larger figures. Master of the Universe: FlexMaster 3000 is a portrait of the Minotaur, the half-man, half-bull mythic creature who represents both creation and destruction. Through exquisite draftsmanship, Schmidt questions conventions of beauty and masculinity as well as standard associations with decomposition, rot, and refuse. She relates her interest in finding the beauty in ugliness to the idea of the human condition as a cyclical process of renewal and decay. By using the detritus of our lives as the building blocks for her subjects, Schmidt's work becomes a sort of memento mori—a reminder of our own vulnerability and mortality.
Jim Lutes integrates representation and abstraction through his use of images and lyrical marks in the same pictorial space. In some works, Lutes employs egg tempera—a classical medium not often used in contemporary art—which allows for a great level of fluidity, depth, and luminosity. And it's good to see real painting hasn't fully died out, especially compared to other works that claim to be paintings.
A Majority of the artists are under 40 years old and younger, with one lucky fucker (Tam Tran) who was born in 1986! On one hand the age thing gives me hope in regard to time and my progress as an artist; time is on my side as far as skill and career, like John Currin or Gerhard Richter. But on the other hand, I feel like a complete failure at this point in my life. Mid 30's are just around the corner and I still don't feel like I have really accomplished anything. Tam Tran was only a year old when Guns N Roses released Appetite For Destruction! At her first birthday party, I was in elementary school probably listening to GNR on tape cassette, playing kickball and getting in fights with black kids that were bused in from the ghetto! And now she's in the Whitney while I'm drawing on my couch and crying myself to sleep. But enough about my typical Friday night.
Blah:
Aside from the those mentioned above, the art being shown by many of this year's Whitney artists is perfectly pleasant, but it barely seems to matter at all -- or even to want to matter or think it might ever be able to matter.
Going through this edition of the Whitney Biennial feels like an unusually good day window-shopping at the galleries of Chelsea: lots of surprisingly appealing commodities for sale -- to fill that supersize new house. It's a perfect New York show, that is, geared to New York's market-friendly culture, where so long as something looks good, and rich people buy it, it counts as good art. Honestly, I can't imagine them earning even a footnote in the history of 21st-century art.
But what about life outside New York? What about the other states in our bruised and battered Union? One can't just have 95% New York based artists in a show of this magnitude and claim, "Here's what this moment in American Art looks like."
The curators claim that all this mild-mannered fiddling reflects a newfound "need to rediscover the experimental nature of the artistic endeavor and politics within the self." That it is about "reaffirming the importance of the individual gesture in order to produce a collective change." But I don't see how such self-absorption, and such low ambition, could ever effect much of anything. If there's "change" on view in this show, I can barely make it out -- and it's certainly not the kind I can believe in.
A video by Ari Marcopoulos, projected huge with deluxe sound and color, is also about an aural assault. Marcopoulos lets us watch as two rock musicians use a roomful of guitar pedals to engender pure cacophony. It's not a bad image of social chaos and rage, and it ought to wake us up and get us going. The thing is, the two musicians are brothers maybe 10 and 12 years old, and their pedals are scattered on the floor of a colorful kid's room. Even raging noise has become a kind of empty, playful gesture, accessible to little kids and acceptable as creative expression to their minders. In other words, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Another video by "artist" Aki Sasamoto further cements my belief that 99% of performance art is made by people who don't have the talent or gusto to get into a decent theater program. According to the curators. "Aki Sasamoto's installations and performances explore the nuances and peculiarities of everyday life. She uses sculpture, movement, video, and sound to transform mundane actions into theatrical events. Strange Attractors consists of a careful arrangement of sculpturally altered, found objects that take on new roles and provide guidance for Sasamoto's improvisational performances that take place within the installation."
Does the world really need more Matthew Barney-esque work that claims to "explore the nuances and peculiarities of everyday life?" Can't I just find the nuances myself, say for example, with a visit to the DMV? Can't I just accomplish the "peculiarities of everyday life" by standing in line for hours only to be told I have been standing in the wrong line, stand in another goddamn line so I can talk to someone who is angry and extremely overweight and takes their "fat aggression" out on me because they didn't pay attention during career day at their high school? It's about the same as watching her video or most performance videos.
We are a country that just spent something like a trillion dollars and more than 3,000 lives so that a foreign nation's sects can once again be free to bash each other. And I see a country that is still hemorrhaging blood and funds in the fond hope that another foreign nation, dysfunctional and misogynist can be kept from fully imploding.
Here at home, I see the richest nation in history being so obsessed with getting back to still more growth -- so that the rich among us can have a yet bigger house or plasma screen -- that it won't spend money to rescue a neighbor's health, a crumbling bridge or our children's planet. Most important -- if not in the details of this biennial, then in the overriding spirit of so much of its art -- I also see a country that recognizes that all this is some kind of a problem but feels as though it's powerless to do anything about it -- except take solace in that bigger home or screen. I'm not claiming that all art today is in an absolutely hopeless state. There is enough engaged, ambitious art out there to fill a biennial. Some of it got into this show; but most of it did not.
Overall, the 2010 Whitney Biennial shows just how many of this country's artists (myself included) are at times unsure what to do with themselves. Hopefully within the next two years, the next round of curators will do a better job digging through all the postmodern clutter that has swamped the American Artistic landscape. If they don't, and it continues to be business as usual, then America as a whole will truly be in decline.
Posted by Jeff Musser at 12:44 AM
Labels: 2010, American, American Life, Art, Bad Art, Contemporary Art, Good Art, Most Art Is Bullshit, New York, New York City, Whitney Biennial, Yawn-Fest


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Partia Liberalna (węg. Szabadelvű Párt) − partia polityczna działająca na Węgrzech w latach 1875−1906.

Partia Liberalna została założona 1 marca 1875 roku z inicjatywy Kálmána Tiszy. Ugrupowanie było także znane jako Partia Wolności i było ulokowane na scenie politycznej na lewo od centrum. W okresie od powstania do 1905 roku partia dysponowała większością parlamentarną, a jej przedstawiciel był premierem. Partia reprezentowała głównie wyższe warstwy społeczeństwa, opowiadała się także za polityką madziaryzacji mniejszości narodowych (Rumuni, Słowacy, Serbowie, Chorwaci), które aż do początków XX wieku łącznie stanowiły ponad 50% mieszkańców kraju. Dominująca pozycja Partii Liberalnej była możliwa dzięki sprzyjającej jej ordynacji wyborczej, która znacznie ograniczała czynne prawo wyborcze. W wyborach parlamentarnych w 1913 roku prawo głosu miało jedynie 7,7% społeczeństwa. Następcą Kálmána Tiszy w roli przywódcy partii był jego syn, István Tisza. Obaj liderzy pełnili funkcję premiera.

Partia Liberalna poniosła pierwszą porażkę wyborczą, ulegając Partii Niepodległości, która dążyła do zerwania unii z Austrią. Doprowadziło to do trwającego rok kryzysu węgierskiego. Na skutek kryzysu partia uległa rozpadowi i została zlikwidowana 11 kwietnia 1906 roku. Sam Tisza i László Lukács utworzyli w 1910 roku Narodową Partię Pracy.

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Adnan "Sulehri" Ilyas (born December 30, 1984) is a Pakistani-born cricketer who plays for the Oman national cricket team. He has previously played for the Oman Under-17s and now plays for the senior Omani cricket team.

In international youth cricket, Ilyas has made scores of 199 not out v Malaysia U17 and 168 not out v Hong Kong U19s. Oman qualified for the 2005 ICC Trophy, and Ilyas was selected in the squad, scoring a hundred in a warm-up win over Denmark in Belfast. However, in six games as an opener in the main tournament, Ilyas made 49 runs in six innings as opener, and only when he was relegated to batting at number three against Canada did he make 31.

Ilyas remains in the side, and played three games during the 2006 ACC Trophy, where Oman were knocked out at the group stage after a loss to Bahrain in the final game. In the Bahrain game, Oman were set 284 and Ilyas scored 18 as opener, out of a total of 264.

He made his Twenty20 International debut for Oman against Hong Kong on 21 November 2015.

References

External links
Adnan Ilyas at Cricinfo

1984 births
Living people
Omani cricketers
Oman Twenty20 International cricketers
People from Narowal District
Pakistani emigrants to Oman
Pakistani expatriates in Oman


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// Package size contains a Prow plugin which counts the number of lines changed
// in a pull request, buckets this number into a few size classes (S, L, XL, etc),
// and finally labels the pull request with this size.
package size

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"

	"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/genfiles"
	"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/github"
	"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/pluginhelp"
	"k8s.io/test-infra/prow/plugins"
)

// The sizes are configurable in the `plugins.yaml` config file; the line constants
// in here represent default values used as fallback if none are provided.
const pluginName = "size"

var defaultSizes = plugins.Size{
	S:   10,
	M:   30,
	L:   100,
	Xl:  500,
	Xxl: 1000,
}

func init() {
	plugins.RegisterPullRequestHandler(pluginName, handlePullRequest, helpProvider)
}

func helpProvider(config *plugins.Configuration, enabledRepos []string) (*pluginhelp.PluginHelp, error) {
	// Only the Description field is specified because this plugin is not triggered with commands and is not configurable.
	sizes := sizesOrDefault(config.Size)
	return &pluginhelp.PluginHelp{
			Description: fmt.Sprintf(`The size plugin manages the 'size/*' labels, maintaining the appropriate label on each pull request as it is updated. Generated files identified by the config file '.generated_files' at the repo root are ignored. Labels are applied based on the total number of lines of changes (additions and deletions):

size/XS:  0-%d

size/S:   %d-%d

size/M:   %d-%d

size/L    %d-%d

size/XL:  %d-%d

size/XXL: %d+

`, sizes.S-1, sizes.S, sizes.M-1, sizes.M, sizes.L-1, sizes.L, sizes.Xl-1, sizes.Xl, sizes.Xxl-1, sizes.Xxl),
		},
		nil
}

func handlePullRequest(pc plugins.Agent, pe github.PullRequestEvent) error {
	return handlePR(pc.GitHubClient, sizesOrDefault(pc.PluginConfig.Size), pc.Logger, pe)
}

// Strict subset of *github.Client methods.
type githubClient interface {
	AddLabel(owner, repo string, number int, label string) error
	RemoveLabel(owner, repo string, number int, label string) error
	GetIssueLabels(org, repo string, number int) ([]github.Label, error)
	GetFile(org, repo, filepath, commit string) ([]byte, error)
	GetPullRequestChanges(org, repo string, number int) ([]github.PullRequestChange, error)
}

func handlePR(gc githubClient, sizes plugins.Size, le *logrus.Entry, pe github.PullRequestEvent) error {
	if !isPRChanged(pe) {
		return nil
	}

	var (
		owner = pe.PullRequest.Base.Repo.Owner.Login
		repo  = pe.PullRequest.Base.Repo.Name
		num   = pe.PullRequest.Number
		sha   = pe.PullRequest.Base.SHA
	)

	g, err := genfiles.NewGroup(gc, owner, repo, sha)
	if err != nil {
		switch err.(type) {
		case *genfiles.ParseError:
			// Continue on parse errors, but warn that something is wrong.
			le.Warnf("error while parsing .generated_files: %v", err)
		default:
			return err
		}
	}

	changes, err := gc.GetPullRequestChanges(owner, repo, num)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("can not get PR changes for size plugin: %v", err)
	}

	var count int
	for _, change := range changes {
		if g.Match(change.Filename) {
			continue
		}

		count += change.Additions + change.Deletions
	}

	labels, err := gc.GetIssueLabels(owner, repo, num)
	if err != nil {
		le.Warnf("while retrieving labels, error: %v", err)
	}

	newLabel := bucket(count, sizes).label()
	var hasLabel bool

	for _, label := range labels {
		if label.Name == newLabel {
			hasLabel = true
			continue
		}

		if strings.HasPrefix(label.Name, labelPrefix) {
			if err := gc.RemoveLabel(owner, repo, num, label.Name); err != nil {
				le.Warnf("error while removing label %q: %v", label.Name, err)
			}
		}
	}

	if hasLabel {
		return nil
	}

	if err := gc.AddLabel(owner, repo, num, newLabel); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error adding label to %s/%s PR #%d: %v", owner, repo, num, err)
	}

	return nil
}

// One of a set of discrete buckets.
type size int

const (
	sizeXS size = iota
	sizeS
	sizeM
	sizeL
	sizeXL
	sizeXXL
)

const (
	labelPrefix = "size/"

	labelXS     = "size/XS"
	labelS      = "size/S"
	labelM      = "size/M"
	labelL      = "size/L"
	labelXL     = "size/XL"
	labelXXL    = "size/XXL"
	labelUnkown = "size/?"
)

func (s size) label() string {
	switch s {
	case sizeXS:
		return labelXS
	case sizeS:
		return labelS
	case sizeM:
		return labelM
	case sizeL:
		return labelL
	case sizeXL:
		return labelXL
	case sizeXXL:
		return labelXXL
	}

	return labelUnkown
}

func bucket(lineCount int, sizes plugins.Size) size {
	if lineCount < sizes.S {
		return sizeXS
	} else if lineCount < sizes.M {
		return sizeS
	} else if lineCount < sizes.L {
		return sizeM
	} else if lineCount < sizes.Xl {
		return sizeL
	} else if lineCount < sizes.Xxl {
		return sizeXL
	}

	return sizeXXL
}

// These are the only actions indicating the code diffs may have changed.
func isPRChanged(pe github.PullRequestEvent) bool {
	switch pe.Action {
	case github.PullRequestActionOpened:
		return true
	case github.PullRequestActionReopened:
		return true
	case github.PullRequestActionSynchronize:
		return true
	case github.PullRequestActionEdited:
		return true
	default:
		return false
	}
}

func sizesOrDefault(sizes *plugins.Size) plugins.Size {
	if sizes == nil {
		return defaultSizes
	}

	return *sizes
}

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Amid Dorian's Chaotic Aftermath, Plotting an Effective Response
Direct Relief is preparing to provide medical aid to up to 75,000 people potentially affected by the storm.
A hurricane-damaged marina in the Bahamas is seen from the air on Sept. 2, 2019, and search and rescue efforts are underway across the islands. (Photo by Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater)
By Talya Meyers September 3, 2019 1:27 pm
Hurricane Dorian is pulling away from its days-long assault on the Bahamas, leaving desolation behind – and a slow, unsteady trickle of on-the-ground reports in its wake.
A lack of access to the most affected areas is making it difficult for government officials and aid groups to understand the full impact of the storm, and compromising response efforts. But there are concerns that the death toll – currently at five – will continue to rise as reliable information come in.
Humanitarian aid has begun pouring into the islands, creating a familiar dilemma: While the aid is needed and welcomed, its usefulness is compromised if aid groups don't carefully coordinate efforts with the government and one another. Not doing so can cause duplicate efforts, clog ports and passageways, and – worst of all – divert attention and resources needed elsewhere to deal with the incoming chaos.
That's why Direct Relief is working closely with the Ministry of Health, large-scale regional organizations, and other humanitarian groups to deliver vital aid wherever it's most urgently needed.
Based on initial assessments, up to 75,000 people may be in need of medical aid. (The entire population of the Bahamas is slightly under 400,000.)
On Monday, the Ministry of Health submitted an eight-page list of medical requests to Direct Relief, covering everything from pain-management medications and dialysis supplies to body bags, suggesting concerns about a rising death toll. Direct Relief staff are currently assembling the requested items, and working with FedEx to deliver them to the islands as soon as possible.
One Direct Relief staff member, currently in Nassau, is preparing to make a 12-hour journey by boat through treacherous waters to the Abacos. The boat will carry a cache of Hurricane Preparedness Packs, which the organization developed in consultation with experts to respond as effectively as possible to medical needs in the wake of a hurricane.
Another staff member, also carrying a cache of vital medications and supplies, is traveling with a group of doctors planning to fly into the Abacos as soon as conditions allow.
Direct Relief has committed $250,000 to the Hurricane Dorian response, which will cover everything from the transportation of vital supplies to the operating costs for healthcare organizations and first responders.
While a hurricane's severity is measured by wind speed, it's actually water – in the form of flooding, storm surge, and heavy rainfall – that's generally most lethal. In the hours and days following Dorian, first responders will confront everything from minor lacerations and skin conditions to heart attacks and other stress-induced health problems.
When a hurricane strikes, medications are often damaged or left behind. People suffering from chronic disease are at risk of going without vital medication. Power outages can be life-threatening to people who need dialysis or other medical devices.
And as the days go by, people affected by a hurricane are at risk of cholera, tetanus, and other diseases caused by exposure to unsanitary water. In warm conditions, standing waters allow mosquitoes to breed, increasing the potential for vector-borne diseases. Exposure to mold – which thrives when buildings are damaged by water – can lead to severe respiratory conditions.
Direct Relief will continue to work closely with the Ministry of Health, along with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, and other humanitarian aid groups, to develop and carry out an effective response to Dorian and its aftermath.
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Molds type: 1 and 2 faces - kit of 4 pcs.
Mold weight BODY: approx. 0,274 kg.
Mold weight ARMS: approx. 0,254 kg.
Mold weight SHOES: approx. 0,09 kg.
Mold weight BASE: approx. 0,028 kg.
Total weight of molds kit: approx. 0,646 kg.


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An Astro-Tarot Meditation Aid
September 3, 2019 September 3, 2019 / parsifalswheeldivination
Aleister Crowley said that the ideal way to become intimately acquainted with the Major Arcana of the tarot as "living beings" is meditation (although divination is the most practical way for the uninitiated). In his book The Druidry Handbook, John Michael Greer observed that the noisy Western mental machinery is not amenable to the Eastern way of emptying the mind of all conscious thought, instead preferring discursive meditation: choosing a single thought and dwelling on it tenaciously to the exclusion of all others. Essentially, we have a profound and protracted conversation with our inner selves about one idea. However, it can be daunting to seek meaningful impressions about the significance of the cards with no other frame of reference, so I came up with a way to anchor our meditation to something most of us have at least a passing familiarity with: our astrological horoscope.
The birth chart is a blueprint for a potential life; the native must consciously grow into it to realize its full promise. The zodiacal signs convey what we have to work with in terms of building material while the planets show the kinds of action we can take to effectively turn that resource to our personal advantage, and the mundane houses indicate the "departments of life" where the work is done. The Chaldean decan (ten-degree segment of a sign) which a planet occupies fine-tunes its repertoire. Each sign on a house cusp (a kind of "doorway") has a zodiacal tarot trump associated with it in the Golden Dawn system of correspondences, each of the seven original planets has a planetary trump card (the three "modern" planets have had elemental trump cards tacked on), and the planet-and-sign pairs all have a Minor Arcana card connected to the degree of the sign the planet occupies. In addition, each decan has a court card associated with it that lends it a human dimension. These combinations can be used as a meditative springboard for a series of ruminations on the applicability of the tarot trumps to our own lives, and in the process give us a more coherent understanding of and appreciation for their meaning in general. (Note that the signs and houses that don't contain planets are more "background noise" than major theme since their single trump card has no developmental outlet; some astrologers say there is no work to be done there in the present incarnation.)
In the example below, I used the zodiacal trump card of each astrological sign that contains one or more planet(s) to address the question "What resources do I have to draw on?" (in other words, what universal or archetypal energies), while the minor card representing the decan answers "How can I tap that energy in practical ways?" (in short, how can it be put to work). The associated planetary and elemental trump cards respond to "What can I achieve with the available resources?" and the corresponding court card contemplates "Who can I become as a result?" These chains of cards can be fashioned into a discursive narrative that offers commentary on the operation of the cards in the individual's life. It may be useful to break them down into the broad categories of human development: the "personal" planets Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars; the "social" planets Jupiter and Saturn; and the trans-personal or "generational" planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. I would certainly not attempt to get my head around all of them at once until you have gained some experience with them individually. Synthesis in these things is fine but sanity is even better.
This tableau displays (in ascending order from the 1st House cusp of the Scorpio-rising horoscope):
Jupiter at 23 degrees of Sagittarius (third decan) and Moon at 4 degrees of Capricorn (first decan), represented by Art (Temperance), the 10 of Wands and the Wheel of Fortune for Jupiter; and the Devil, the 2 of Disks and the Priestess for the Moon, with the Queen of Disks as the court card for both;
Uranus at 26 degrees of Gemini (third decan); Sun at 0 degrees of Cancer, Mercury at 3 degrees of Cancer and Venus at 4 degrees of Cancer (all first decan), represented by the Lovers, the 10 of Swords and the Aeon (Judgment) for Uranus; the Chariot, the 2 of Cups, the Sun, the Magus and the Empress for Sun, Mercury and Venus, with the Queen of Cups as the court card for all four;
Pluto at 13 degrees of Leo and Saturn at 19 degrees of Leo (both second decan), represented by Lust (Strength), the 6 of Wands, the Fool for Pluto and the Universe (World) for Saturn, with the Prince of Wands as the court card for both;
Mars at 16 degrees of Virgo (second decan), represented by the Hermit, the 9 of Disks and the Tower, with the Knight of Disks as the court card;
Neptune at 10 degrees of Libra (first decan), represented by Adjustment (Justice), the 2 of Swords and the Hanged Man, with the Queen of Swords as the court card. (The 2 of Swords in the picture should not have been reversed; maybe it's just expressing sympathy for the Hanged Man!)
As we can see, this biologically male individual faces some challenges in the "becoming" department with three Queens (maybe he's still trying to overcome the influence of his mother). Another perplexing dilemma is trying to find a constructive dynamic and growth opportunity in cards like the 10 of Swords and the 10 of Wands (but then that is always the case with these cards). Note that, in my personal system of correspondences, I relate Uranus to Judgement (Elemental Fire) because that trump immediately precedes the World (Saturn) and Uranus was the mythological father of Saturn; Neptune to the Hanged Man (Elemental Water) and Pluto to the Fool (Elemental Air).
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3 thoughts on "An Astro-Tarot Meditation Aid"
The Mystic Rose
I just received the "Tarot of the Holy Light" and curious if you have worked with this deck?
The decans are not based on Western astrology, but almost Vedic in placement as the signs are set back by one. Any thoughts??
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That deck has been on my wish-list for a while. I understand it is more in line with the "Continental"system of Etteilla, but I didn't think he was aware of sidereal astrology, so that must have been an addition by Christine Payne-Towler. I'm a Western tropical astrologer myself and am more attuned to the Chaldean decans. I don't see a need to be too scientifically precise since the tarot is a symbolic language rather than a literal one.
I can appreciate this. Some practitioners tend to get overwhelmed with the art and complex details in more "advanced" decks. I take it all with a grain of salt.
The deck is currently on sale at "Collect Tarot", if you're interested. 😊🌙✨


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Technoprecarious
The Undergig
by Precarity Lab
Published onNov 24, 2020
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Digital technologies enable and entrench various forms of labor exploitation. Digitality multiplies, metastasizes, and mutates exploitation, allowing for a more rapid extension of capital's ratio beyond circuits of production and circulation. Capitalism in the age of digital technologies forces itself into relation with spheres of life previously outside its locus of operations. But, as scholars working within the field of post-colonial studies have suggested,1 capitalism's expansion to new territories occurs without entirely subsuming or encapsulating these frontiers within the logic peculiar to the points of origin of its operations. This is capitalism's weak force: its under-determining flexibility allows for the extension and entrenchment of its more abstract forces into new contexts. Further accumulation of social wealth depends on labor, exploitation, inequality, poverty, immiseration, debt.
Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2008, there is a heightened sense of urgency in Western-centric scholarly and public media debates to make visible and intervene in the harmful consequences of the tech industry's naïve techno-utopianism and techno-solutionism. The promise of technologies to solve complex societal, economic, and political "problems" has long masked the proliferation of exploitation and inequality behind a rhetoric of "do good," progress, individual empowerment, and democratization.
Important as this rising awareness of labor exploitation is, it retains a troubling and all-too-simplistic binary view. It often goes as follows (framed in a somewhat caricatured way): "all of us" are "free laborers" in our day-to-day use of social media platforms – Facebook is the ultimate "social factory";2 "platform capitalism" feeds off the making of intimate and personal connection; "some of us" are Uber drivers, who labor in a highly fragmented work arrangement aimed at preventing unionization and solidarity among workers; "others" might have it even worse, coerced to work in the physically strenuous and harmful conditions of Amazon warehouses or the flexibilized services of postal delivery.
But all of this labor exploitation in the "gig economy" depends on another form of exploitation, one often rendered as somehow "deeper" down, closer to the raw material or to the machine.
Cheap labor is a precondition of the gig economy, which is why we identify these workers as part of the undergig. Undergig workers perform the often invisible labor needed to create the conditions of digital life for everyone else. Electronics production extracts value from depleted zones and from factory workers, and it produces toxicity. The undergig also often overlaps with the "global south" category yet also exceeds such categorization.
The undergig is under-protected and underpaid. Its haunting invisibility is a necessary precondition for the fantasy of a smooth-functioning and fully automated digital world to come.
Operations of Capital and Experimentation
The undergig is sometimes patterned on colonial practices of experimentation and control, and is partly the result of agents creating new practices. The undergig depends on states to maintain differential conditions of operation and to police the borders between the enriched and depleted worlds, as their value chains in part depend on maintaining the differential between them.
As Sylvia Wynter has argued, colonization was crucial for experiments with over-representing or making dominant a particular Euro-American cishet male identity within the category of the human. For Wynter, colonialism allowed for an extension of this over-representation across the globe and the identification of this image of humanity with its truth, a "truth" that continues to act as a fulcrum upon which "all our present struggles with respect to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, struggles over the environment, global warming, severe climate change, [and] the sharply unequal distribution of the earth resources" continues to rest.3
The colonial practices of the old empires tended to focus on resource extraction. The colony was a zone from which to extract cheap nature, in the form of cheap energy, cheap food, cheap labor, cheap land.4 The colony was a site of cheap resources, in the sense that they would all be extracted faster than they could regenerate, borrowing "on credit" as it were, from both the land and also from the social organization of the colonized peoples. Operations of extraction helped transform black slaves into living minerals, into commodity-producing commodities.5 Resource extraction by the old empires, then, was fundamentally an operation through which bodies were disciplined, exploited, and dispossessed in the production of value and goods. Extraction on the cheap continues the depletion of the colony, leaving vast horizons of sweat and blood, toxic landscapes of deforestation, abandoned open-cut mines and their mountainous tailings, soils exhausted by plantation methods of cultivation.
Consider how operations of capital are integral to the production of outsides – those landscapes that beckon further expansion and that nourish the engines of capital itself. Without outsides, capital can't sustain itself, has nowhere to go, and no further bodies to push into its chains of production.6 Regularities are achieved when the boundaries of capital are constantly undone by the expansion of frontiers, through which cheap nature – in all its encompassing meanings – can be brought into the fold. Operations of capital are thus attuned to experimentation for the ways they rehearse the borders of what can be included within the reach of capital's governmental power, especially for empire.
Yet empire is not a static entity or organizing principle. It is an assemblage of dynamics through which territorial ambiguity is produced in conjunction with legal categories of belonging and exclusion.7 Its distribution of power, priorities, demands, and violence are embedded in the debris and remains of the post-colony, and its durability stays with the most precarious. Or, to quote Ann Stoler's reading of Frantz Fanon, the depletion economy is a form of power that "slashes a scar across a social fabric that differentially affects us all."8
The Entangling Undergig
When we talk about the undergig it is seldom a "we," though it is poverty on all sides. It is those who are affected by the spiralling of poverty in a seemingly circular way – it isn't a clear-cut, linear flow of capital, or dominated versus non-dominated. People rendered "down there," "below" are poor and offshored, and the people in the gig economy are also poor – not necessarily poor in the same way, but caught up in the same spiral of poverty proliferation. Being female, poor, and non-white greatly increases your chances of being employed in undergig work, perhaps earlier than others, but this "sunken place" of digital labor is capacious; white men can find themselves there too. Poverty spirals and tightens the screws around those pushed to the limits of life. Poverty is a condition that legitimizes across class and rotates and feeds back into privilege. The promise of the gig economy is that you can find a "real job," that you can pull yourself up without being entrenched and stuck, while being ever more "screwed."
The undergigged may be continuously employed, but are often in untenable, sometimes invisible, exploitative conditions that underwrite and enable the precarity of gig workers. And because they fall outside the Marxist critique of gig economies, they are harder to imagine as an organized body. Gig workers, on the other hand, can participate in freelancers' unions such as new platform collectives. This does not mean that gig work is not exploitative. Rather, very exploited non-gig workers play a vital role in creating the technologies for gig work to exist.
The undergigged are also the unwilling or uncompensated participants of operations of capital. The ones that make myriad artifacts and infrastructures possible yet derive no benefits but maximum hardships for their precarious labor. They are the migrants, abused children, and the criminalized dead whose images are used to train facial recognition technology so that you can unlock your smartphone with a furtive glance.9 They are the black San Francisco homeless whose bodies are mined and appropriated to make facial recognition software more inclusive (and surveillance more accurate).10 The monetization and dispossession of already precarious lives are foundational for the security state. Facial recognition, after all, is a technology designed to know again, to recall to mind and identify the countenance of the Other. And this process makes the Other visible, exposed to practices of control and operations of extraction. The undergigged are a seemingly vast mine in the reproduction of capital and the state, and their management of populations.
The undergig is reproduced through shifts in geopolitical relations, mutations of oppression and within regional national borders. Digital economies preserve this dislocation, but in industries such as call center work, content moderation, and other digital outsourcing. Digital objects travel while leaving the lives of the workers behind,11 and the undergig workers entailed in producing these new commodities, the commodities that enable gig work, may themselves be rendered invisible in critical explorations of the novelty of the gig economy precisely because their labor appears anachronistic.
The depletion economy works through the production and reproduction of the undergig. Take, for instance, Walmart, often thought of as the "world's biggest firm." We might think of Walmart as producing one particular "underclass," the flex workers employed in its warehouses, in its delivery services, in its supply chains. Beneath this work we might also think of the workers employed in the factories that produce the end-consumer products sold on Walmart's platform, the engineers and designers in Asia employed through flex jobs without health insurance, or of the workers at the palm oil plantations of Indonesia, with labor and land both harvested for the production of cheap goods that in turn "feed" those Walmart employees. All these employees represent participants in the undergig, and as Lily Irani has suggested, rendering this labor invisible itself does a lot of cultural work for platforms that are not simply coterminous with the tech corporations of Silicon Valley.12
The undergig is created through the exploitation of asymmetries in power traditionally described using problematic sets of categories consisting of two to three interrelated terms: within the border and outside, the global north and global south; first, second, and third worlds; developed and developing nation-states; formal and informal economies; capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production.
In other words, capital integrates and re-integrates workers into the labor arrangements that reproduce social life as well as produce and facilitate the accumulation of social wealth. But, the labor of the undergig is labor that is undervalued, underappreciated, and most often unseen; it ensures enough to sustain the lives of those it employs in conditions of impoverishment.
It is critical that we move beyond the perspective of nation-states and nationally denominated capitals as basic units of imperial world order.13 The undergig pushes us to think about processes of differential inclusion across sites, contexts, and actors. It ties in together an assemblage of entities and modes of acting that are not territorially confined by the already porous borders of the nation-state, nor are they neatly separated capitals. We complicate the view that there is such a thing as inequality and exploitation along clear class, gender, and racial lines or along geographical divides, say north or south, or West and non-West, but without sacrificing a critique of the ways in which inequality and exploitation are rendered more intense for bodies that are forced to inhabit the precarious sides of these axes. The undergig is the unbearable weight of contemporary life, a spiral that stretches ever outward in the consumption of lifeworlds ripe for the taking but stubborn enough to threaten its perpetuation.
The undergig contains within it an older, pre-gigification, pre-platformification type of labor: resource extraction, factory work, electronics production in Asia (in turn often reduced to China, which in turn is understood through the trope of Foxconn). There is an inherent assumption in this logic that there are geographical and temporal differences that keep these forms of exploitation separate, while interdependent; Asia (or the global south) has "old," backward forms of labor exploitation, from a previous era of industrialization, which "newer" forms of labor exploitation that occur in the West, the "global north," rely on – an echo of critiques that subaltern studies scholars have made with respect to political and capitalist development in the third world.14
While the asymmetrical distribution of these forms of exploitation is undoubtedly true, like our post-colonial studies forebearers claim, our aim here is to "step sideways" and out of tropes of "linear progress" of labor exploitation. Specifically, we are interrogating how the (albeit tainted) endurance of the promise of the "good life"15 legitimizes the proliferation of exploitation and poverty in a spiralling fashion, back and forth, in and out, abusing (rather than flattening) temporal or spatial claims of difference.
Companies making up the gig and platform economies of digital capitalism distribute depletion and enrichment, sometimes in ways that follow older patterns of empire and sometimes not. They extract surplus from undervalued labor in depleted rural America, or in prisons, or in India, to tag and sift through images for machine learning. Or perhaps they use artificial intelligence, running on server farms close to power and water in cooler zones close to the Arctic Circle in order to figure out an optimal way to design "sustainable" palm oil production in Indonesia. This is the proliferation of the fragmented undergig. The gig hidden by distance, disproportionately performed by precarious women, people of color, far-away farmlands and forests, and animals whose lives are made even more miserable by precarious workers' need for cheap meat, cheap food, cheap sustenance.
Big Tech outsources on-demand code work in India and rolls out facial recognition technologies in Singapore's prisons because these places are already very precarious for coders and inmates. Algorithms don't do work by themselves; they depend on the bodies and expertise of precarious people. Your computer software can schedule a ride, but a human must build the car in Flint. You can click "purchase" for new shoes, but somebody has to dig that coal for free shipping (Amazon ships 1 million items a day). Algorithms can detect child pornography in a Facebook photo, but a human worker in Delhi must witness child abuse in order to tag this content as too traumatic for viewers. The growing undergig endures pain for the ever smaller percentage of overcommons to feel pleasure.16
And it's not as if the old shit-jobs disappeared. Rather, they are being supplemented by new shit-jobs that are also unreliable. That is why they call data taggers and image classifiers "data janitors" – they clean the shit out of your digital life. If the export is fewer disturbing images on Facebook or cheaper coal, what's being imported is dependent on an undependable kind of work – digital precarity and the undergig.
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