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Interview with Linda Smith of Carolines School of Comedy
By: Laura High @LauraHigh5
Linda Smith is one of my favorite people in this industry. This is a very harsh, cut-throat business, but Linda is the only one who never has a bad word spoken about her. She has an incredible resumé and teaches stand up comedy. Linda's credits include: HBO Women of the Night, Conan O'Brian on NBC, Comedy Central, VH1, Stand Up Spotlight, Good Morning America, Today Show, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
To sign up for a class with Linda Smith, click here: http://www.carolinescomedyschool.com/
Interview with Linda Smith @LindaSmithComic
Laura: How long have you been in the business of comedy?
Linda: (Laughing) I didn't know I'd have to do math. Wow, twenty-five/twenty-six years. Oh my goodness. Let's just say forever.
Laura: How did you get your start?
Linda: I just went up at an open mic in Boston at a Chinese restaurant. I planned it that way. I didn't want to start in my home (New York). 'Cause you suck when you start. I didn't want to stink up my home. So, I moved to Boston to start there. I was going out every night doing open mics.
Laura: How long have you been teaching stand up, and why did you start?
Linda: Math again. You're killing me. Ten years. I felt like it was getting time to pass the torch, which is something I believe in. I was out in L.A. for a development deal. My show didn't get picked up, which I took as a sign to reinvent myself. I saw The Rosie O'Donnell show, and I thought I could write for her. I ended up getting hired. That lasted three and half years, which is a good run. Those writing jobs are hard and exhausting. I took a little time off. Then started looking for other work. Got some freelance stuff here and there. Then my Dad got very sick, and had a heart attack. So, I dropped everything to be with my family. For six months I was there. After he passed I came back home and got an offer to teach comedy. I found out I really like it. I got to meet new talent, and I love new talent. I was seeing all kinds of new stuff. I love mentoring, and I think its an obligation. You have to give back.
Laura: Does your class consist of people who just want a career in stand up comedy?
Linda: No – all kinds of people. I get a lot of people there because it's on their Bucket List. I get a lot of people from corporate who want to improve their public speaking skills because hey – humor sells. And of course young kids who have big dreams.
Laura: What are the three most important things you think a beginner should learn?
Linda: One: stage time, stage time, stage time. This is not a one night deal. If you want to be a stand up comic you have to be committed. You have to do a ton of free shows. You're going to do that for a long time. It's all about getting on stage. Second: being true to who you are, 'cause that's how you'll stand out in a big crowd. And believe me; it's crowded. Third: watch as much stand up as you can. Eat, shit, and fuck comedy.
Laura: What are the benefits to taking a class?
Linda: It's like a fast track. Whatever club it's affiliated with, you now have an in. It also gives you tools to put together an act. If there was a class when I started, I would have taken it.
Laura: There are people who say that a stand up class is a waste of time; that you only learn from experience. What's your response?
Linda: Well, I understand that. It's true. However, a class gives you the confidence to get out there. I get a lot of people telling me, "I want to do stand up, but I'm just too scared." A class helps you navigate that fear.
Laura: What are some common traps comics fall into in their first year?
Linda: Get ahead of themselves, thinking they are farther ahead then they actually are. Someone asks them to do a spot that they aren't ready for. They end up bombing and pissing off the booker.
Laura: What are some traps that comics fall into in their fifth year?
Linda: Get bitter. That's a problem. If you come off as bitter, the audience won't like you. No one will like you.
Laura: If you could change one thing about the stand up industry what would you change?
Linda: I wish people would watch more live comedy than on TV. Stand up is meant to be experienced live and savored.
Laura: What are three stand up specials you think every comedian should see?
Linda: Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill; Hannibal Buress: Live from Chicago; and Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain.
Laura: What is your favorite bombing story?
Linda: I embrace the bomb because it's a learning experience. I was hired to do a show at the men's softball team end of the year party. It was a trophy event. It was horrific. They weren't listening, and every once in awhile they would yell, "Show us your tits!" My tits aren't funny. I hid in the ladies room afterwards. I waited for everyone to leave.
Laura: On average how many years of hard work does it take before a stand up's career starts to move forward?
Linda: No set time. It's hard to say; it's so competitive now. Just go out every night.
Laura: Do you have any stand up pet peeves?
Linda: Stealing jokes. That's a problem.
Laura: What tips do you have for the business side of stand up?
Linda: Comics hate that side. You're not corporate; that's why you're a comic. You have to treat it like a business: always be professional, treat everyone with respect 'cause you never know. Someone who isn't a big deal now might become one later. You truly never know.


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Ali Moshiri retired from Chevron at mandatory age as President of Chevron Africa and Latin America in March 2017. Currently, he is the CEO and President of Amos Global Energy, a newly formed company in Houston, Texas. Ali Moshiri graduated from the University of Tulsa with bachelors and master's degrees in petroleum engineering. He joined Chevron in 1978. He was appointed Managing Director of the Latin America business unit, where he was responsible for Chevron's upstream operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. He became the President of Chevron Africa and Latin America in 2008 until his retirement

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Paul Avril was a bigger-than-life vigneron, a visionary, and a great teacher, but Vincent has been in charge for a number of years, and he has rewarded his father with what I believe is the greatest Chateauneuf du Pape made since 1978 and 1990, the 2007. I have not only tasted this wine at the estate, but I purchased it for my cellar, and have now drunk it on three separate occasions out of bottle. It is unquestionably one of the great Chateauneufs of my lifetime, and I suspect it will merit a three digit score after another 3-4 years of cellaring. The blend is generally 65% Grenache, 20% Mourvedre, and the rest small amounts of Muscardin, Vaccarese, Counoise, and Syrah. It exhibits what is probably the deepest color I have ever seen here, and the finished alcohol is a high (for Clos des Papes) 15.5%. Still slightly restrained because of its recent bottling, but wow, what potential complexity, mind-boggling richness, and compelling flavor profile are apparent. It is a sublime expression of the art of winemaking as evidenced by its dense purple color and big, sweet kiss of kirsch, framboise, blackberries, licorice, roasted herbs, and smoked meat. It hits the palate with a fascinating combination of substance, power, full-bodied authority yet extraordinary freshness, elegance, and precision. Give it 3-4 years of cellaring, and watch it unleash its glory over the next three decades. This is a prodigious wine of great quality from one of the most important reference point estates in Chateauneuf du Pape.
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lao wang, if you pass by seattle, would u pls visit the starbucks cafe, which is said to be the first one, and share us some pics?
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Q: How can I simplify this JavaScript? I made this. Can anyone suggest how I can make it shorter without losing its properties? Please keep the English simple.
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When Sexting is a Crime in Texas
Last Friday, former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner pled guilty in a federal court to the felony charge of transferring obscene material to a minor as part of a plea deal.
His sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 8, 2017. It's understood that as part of the plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney General's Office, he will register as a sex offender and spend around two years behind bars in a federal facility.
So, what exactly did ex-congressman Anthony Weiner do? He's admitted in open court to engaging in "…obscene communications with this teenager." Or, in other words: sexting with a minor.
What is Sexting?
First of all, "sexting" is short for "sex texting" and involves sending digital messages of a sexual nature that involve messages, images, or video. Sexting can be done over a phone or via the web. Sexting may involve photos (selfies) or videos. Sexting usually involves images; however, it can also be email or text messages where sex or sex acts are discussed.
Ask someone about sexting and you will usually hear about it involving teenagers or minors. This is a big concern about both federal and state law enforcement. However, sexting by definition is not limited to one of the individuals being under the age of consent (adulthood). It is possible for two adults to be involved in sexting and one of them end up being arrested for a crime.
When is Sexting a Crime in Texas?
Both federal and state laws criminalize sexting. Under both systems of justice, the issue involves the distribution of materials deemed to be obscene.
Federal Sexting Crime
Federal law forbids the possession or transmission of obscene materials. The Supreme Court of the United States defined what is considered illegal obscenity in what has become known as "the Miller test" from Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 24-25 (1973).
The Miller test is as follows, and if the material meets these three criteria, then it will be considered obscene and illegal under federal law:
Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, finds that the matter, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interests (i.e., an erotic, lascivious, abnormal, unhealthy, degrading, shameful, or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion);
Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, finds that the matter depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way (i.e., ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, masturbation, excretory functions, lewd exhibition of the genitals, or sado-masochistic sexual abuse); and
Whether a reasonable person finds that the matter, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
For more details, read the "Citizen's Guide to U.S. Federal Law on Obscenity" published by the United States Department of Justice.
When sexting occurs between two consenting adults on their own phones with their joint agreement to keep the transmission private, it may not generate any federal charges.
However, things may be treated quite differently where the sexting results in its mass mailing or circulation for profit. That may transform the sexting into something considered as pornography distribution under federal pornography laws and a felony violation. It will depend upon the situation.
Currently there is no federal law making sexting a crime as non-consensual pornography (NCP). (There is a revenge porn statute in Texas, see below.) See, e.g., "How Two Marines Helped Bring Down Revenge Porn on Facebook" written by Katie Von Syckle and published in Rolling Stone on May 5, 2017.
Texas Sexting Crime
In Texas, Texas Penal Code Section 43.21(A),(B),(C) defines what is considered obscene and illegal in this state. Obscenity is against the law here in Texas as well as under the federal statutes. Obscene materials in Texas are those that:
the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex;
those that depict or describe:
(i) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or
(ii) patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state or a device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs; and
taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value.
When an adult is arrested for sexting under state law, he can face charges for serious felonies tied to these obscenity laws. What charges he may face will depend upon the circumstances of his particular case.
The Revenge Porn Statute
In 2015, the Texas Legislature passed Texas Penal Code Section 21.16, which has become known as the "Revenge Porn Statute." For details, read the article published in the Texas Tribune on August 21, 2015, written by Liz Crampton and entitled, "Taking New Steps to Put an End to Revenge Porn".
Under this state law, it is illegal and a Class A Misdemeanor for someone to reveal or disclose images of someone engaged in sexual conduct or images of someone's intimate parts unless that person gives their consent when that person had a reasonable expectation that the material would remain private.
Child Pornography Laws
If the adult is caught sexting with a minor, then he or she can face felony charges based upon child pornography (e.g., Possession of child pornography; Promotion of child pornography).
For more on child pornography charges, see our earlier discussions in:
Child Pornography: Defending Against Overreaching Investigations Using the Internet;
Child Pornography Arrests: Lessons From The Ex-Subway Pitchman's Sentencing;
Child Porn Charges: Busted By FBI Computer Surveillance and Now, Private Web Hackers on Social Media; and
Federal Child Pornography Charges Often Involve Federal Surveillance of Online Communications, Personal Email Records, Stored Computer Files.
Sexting Involving Teenagers: Misdemeanor Crime in Texas
Sexting is also a crime in Texas if no adult is involved. Under Texas Penal Code Section 43.261, it is a crime for a minor to "intentionally or knowingly" either:
(1) by electronic means promotes to another minor visual material depicting a minor, including the actor, engaging in sexual conduct, if the actor produced the visual material or knows that another minor produced the visual material; or
(2) possesses in an electronic format visual material depicting another minor engaging in sexual conduct, if the actor produced the visual material or knows that another minor produced the visual material.
This is a relatively new law, entitled "Electronic Transmission of Certain Visual Material Depicting Minor," passed as a misdemeanor offense. First offenders face a Class C Misdemeanor charge; after two or more convictions, the charge changes to a Class A Misdemeanor.
It has been passed by the Texas Legislature to deal with the huge problem of sexting among teenagers. If convicted of a Class A Misdemeanor, the teen can face up to one year in jail. Texas Penal Code Section 12.21.
Before this law was passed, teenagers who were arrested for sexting faced the same charges as adults. They could be considered to be promoting child porn even if they were minors themselves. If convicted, they faced being forced to register as sex offenders, and sentenced for a felony conviction, something considered so unjust that the Texas Legislature was moved to pass the Teenager Sexting law.
For more details on the issues involving teen sexting, read, "The Dangers of Sexting," written by Michelle Coker; Leslivett Garcia; JudithHicks; Jennifer Jeitz; Toni La Zurs-White, and Cheryl Rogers, and published by the Texas Counseling Association.
Defending Against Sexting Crime Charges in Texas
There are defenses to charges of criminal sexting. Some are contained within the statute itself, e.g., those found in Texas Penal Code 43.261 for minors caught with sexually explicit materials on their phones.
However, even being arrested and charged for a sex crime can be a life-altering event in a person's life. And for those adults who are accused of having sexually explicit images of minors in their possession, the risk of being labeled a predator and forced to register as a sex offender is very real.
These kinds of allegations merit an aggressive criminal defense strategy as soon as possible. Regardless of the intent in creating the image or message, fighting a sex crime charge means fighting against suggestions of predatory improprieties.
Posted on May 24, 2017 by Michael Lowe , on Arrest and Indictment, Child Pornography Charges, Sex Crimes


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Gorsuch Gets Judicial Deference Right
As the confirmation battle over 10th Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch—Donald Trump's nominee to fill the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat—takes shape on cable news shows and across newspaper opinion pages, phrases like "judicial restraint" and "judicial activism" dominate much of the discussion.
While anyone you ask will agree that restraint is good and activism bad, and that judges should be careful not to usurp lawmaking authority from the people's duly elected representatives, it's often difficult to figure out exactly what people mean when they give their opinion on this subject. All too often, calls for judicial restraint or deference are not about dispassionately applying the law and leaving the policy decisions to Congress; they are calls for blind rubber-stamping of governmental action.
Historically, this extreme form of restraint—it would be more accurate to call it judicial abdication—has found purchase throughout the judiciary, among liberals and conservatives alike. It takes the form of letting administrative agencies that are being sued for overstepping their statutory authority tell a court what the scope of that authority is; saving regulations by inventing new justifications for them from the bench, and allowing illegally obtained evidence into a trial because the police totally swear that they thought their actions were reasonable at the time. The Supreme Court, by endorsing this excessive deference, has all too often willingly abandoned its solemn constitutional duty to say what the law is.
But Judge Neil Gorsuch of Colorado happens to be part of a small but growing cadre of jurists who have found a way to actively hold the legislative and executive branches to account while still remaining respectful of the constitutionally limited scope of their authority. This version of "restraint"—a judge's actually just doing his or her job—recognizes that the judicial duty is to interpret what the law says rather than what it should say or what those who enacted it might have wanted it to say. It respects stare decisis—the idea that judges should follow the precedent set by prior cases—without allowing that doctrine to become dogma. And it recognizes that a judge may rightly defer to government experts on questions of policy, but not on questions of law—and never blindly.
While Judge Gorsuch has demonstrated time and again throughout his years on the bench that this is the type of judicial restraint he follows, perhaps the best example to look at would be his opinions (yes, plural) in Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch (2016). That case concerned the ability of the Board of Immigration Appeals—an administrative subdivision of the U.S. Department of Justice—to overrule a court's interpretation of an ambiguous immigration law and retroactively enforce that interpretation against people who had relied on the court's ruling.
Gorsuch, following the framework laid out by the Supreme Court in the infamous Chevron decision of 1984, held that the board could in fact overrule the court's interpretation, but that due process and equal protection rights required that it could only do so prospectively.
This alone would have made for a decent opinion, but Gorsuch wasn't done. He also wrote a separate concurring opinion in which he explained at length how the extreme deference that Chevron requires courts to give agency interpretations is unconstitutional, imploring the Supreme Court to set aside that precedent. Chevron deference, Gorsuch declared, has effectively made it so that "liberties may now be impaired not by an independent decisionmaker seeking to declare the law's meaning as fairly as possible—the decisionmaker promised to them by law—but by an avowedly politicized administrative agent seeking to pursue whatever policy whims may rule the day."
The fact that he wrote this separate concurrence shows how Judge Gorsuch understands the proper role that deference and judicial restraint should play in a judge's decisions. He could have quietly applied existing precedent to the case at hand and gone home knowing he did the job that was asked of him. He also could have made himself a martyr by rejecting the Chevron doctrine in his main opinion, which would have earned him pats on the back from libertarians like me for giving the bird to an authoritarian, unconstitutional doctrine. Instead he chose a third path, one that respects the rule of law by deferring to binding precedent, but without endorsing an approach to judging that abdicates the constitutional duty to say what the law is.
Neil Gorsuch is a judge who understands that courts are not legislatures, free to substitute their own views for that of the people's elected representatives. He respects precedent and statutory text—even when he personally disagrees—while zealously defending the judiciary's role as an independent check on the power of the other two branches of government. In short, he's that rare judge who actually gets deference right.
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Chestnut Hill Hospital to be Officially Acquired on January 1 by Alliance Formed by Temple Health, Redeemer Health, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
The alliance formed by Temple Health, Redeemer Health and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine will officially acquire Chestnut Hill Hospital on January 1, 2023. The hospital will be named Temple Health – Chestnut Hill Hospital (TH-CHH). A celebration will be held at TH-CHH on January 3, 2023 to mark the occasion (see attached and below media advisory for additional details on the event). Temple Health is the majority equity-holder and will manage the 148-bed hospital with Temple University Hospital (TUH) as the managing partner. TH-CHH will remain a freestanding, licensed acute care hospital under a not-for-profit company owned and controlled by the alliance.
"This is a historic moment in Temple Health's spiraling-up journey. This investment in our growth strengthens our ability to accommodate increasing patient volume, expands access to Temple Health's array of specialty services throughout the region, and creates capacity for higher-acuity services at TUH-Main Campus," said Michael A. Young, MHA, FACHE, President & CEO of Temple Health. "This transaction also strengthens our existing relationships with Redeemer Health and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine—our alliance partners in this acquisition."
"We look forward to working closely with TH-CHH President & CEO John Cacciamani, MD, MBA, and his leadership team as we move forward," said Abhinav Rastogi, MBA, MIS, President and CEO of Temple University Hospital and Executive Vice President of Temple Health. "Dr. Cacciamani is a board-certified internist and geriatric sub-specialist who served as acting chief medical officer and chief of clinical operations and informatics at Temple University Hospital before he became Chestnut Hill's President & CEO nearly 11 years ago. He is also a past president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society."
"This cooperative relationship brings additional clinical expertise and experience in operational efficiencies to TH-CHH while expanding provider and physician networks, broadening academic support, and increasing patient access to important healthcare services and world-class academic care in the community hospital setting for years to come," said Cacciamani. "Simply put: We're better together."
"We are proud to be part of the team that will continue Chestnut Hill's commitment to its mission", said Michael B. Laign, President & CEO of Redeemer Health. "We look forward to collaborating and sharing the Alliance's population health capabilities with the physicians and provider networks associated with Chestnut Hill and the communities served today and in the future. We are also excited about collaborating and sharing our expertise in women's health, and post-acute care including skilled nursing care, transitional care, home care and hospice care."
"PCOM has strong roots at Chestnut Hill Hospital, including residency programs in Internal Medicine and Surgery," said Jay S. Feldstein, DO, President and CEO of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. "We are eager to enhance the experiential learning environment at Chestnut Hill as we implement and expand our clinical education programs."
With more than 300 board-certified physicians, TH-CHH's specialties include minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery, cardiology, gynecology, oncology, orthopedics, urology, family practice and internal medicine. The acquisition assures continued access to emergency care and strengthens access to important healthcare services upon which the community depends, including higher-acuity specialty care.
The acquisition also represents a significant opportunity for Chestnut Hill employees. Temple Health recognizes the exceptional work that their staff members have been doing, and will give them the tools they need to continue providing the highest-quality care. The resources and stability the alliance brings to TH-CHH will make it a place where staff can thrive personally and professionally, and continue to advance in their careers. Employees will be able to take advantage of Temple Health's multiple career development and leadership training programs, and will benefit from a nationally recognized, positive work culture in which they will be supported and rewarded. Temple Health also recognizes TH-CHH staff members' commitment to their communities, and will empower them to continue this work and to ensure TH-CHH remains a strong community anchor for decades to come.


New Zealand's large and volatile external migration flows generate significant year-to-year fluctuations in the demand for residential housing. This paper uses population data from the 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand and rent data from the Department of Building and Housing to examine how population change, international migration, including the return migration of New Zealanders abroad, and internal migration affect rents and sales prices of both apartments and houses in different housing markets in New Zealand. Our analysis focuses on the relationship between the changes in the population in local areas and changes in house sale prices and rents in these areas. Focusing on changes allows us to control for time-invariant unobservable characteristics of local areas that either attract or repel individuals and lead to differential costs of housing.


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HHR Keeps Up Strong Showing in AmLaw, Law360 Diversity Surveys
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July 26, 2019 — The firm maintained a strong showing in the annual diversity surveys of The American Lawyer and Law360.
HHR continued to climb AmLaw's rankings, after rising 33 spots to No. 41 the previous year. In AmLaw's 2019 Diversity Scorecard, published in the magazine's June edition, HHR ascended another five spots to No. 36, with 24 percent of its attorneys and 11.4 percent of its partners identifying as minorities.
AmLaw's Diversity Scorecard records the average number of full-time minority attorneys -- Asian-American, African-American, Latino or Hispanic, Native American and self-described multiracial attorneys -- at AmLaw 200 and National Law Journal 250 law firms in 2018.
In Law360's 2019 Diversity Snapshot, published July 7, HHR was ranked No. 15 among firms with 150 to 299 lawyers, one spot lower than the previous year. To be eligible for the ranking, firms in this category had to report at least an average representation of 12.6 percent minority attorneys; 17.6 percent minority nonpartners; 8.2 percent minority partners; and 7.2 percent minority equity partners.
Diane Lifton, Patrice Jean, Aviva Wernick and Meaghan Gragg are the co-chairs of the firm's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. The Committee is supported by its affinity groups: The Asian Attorney Affinity Group (chaired by Mei Li Zhen), the Black Attorney Affinity Group (co-chaired by Ashley Hodges and Ose Okoruwa), the LatinX Attorney Affinity Group (chaired by Olivia Bensinger), the LGBTQ Attorney Affinity Group (co-chaired by Gragg and Danny Nuzzaci) and the Interfaith Attorney Affinity Group (co-chaired by Jean, Michael Traube and Shams Billah).
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The Conservative Hacker
David Banks on August 26, 2015
"Lone Hacker in Warehouse" by Brian Klug
The hacker label is, as Foucault might say, a "dubious unity." The single phrase can barely contain its constituent multitude. Even if every single person that self-identified as a hacker had a stable definition, the media would warp, expand, and misunderstand the definition to include all sorts of other identities, tactics, and personas. We cannot know what is in the hearts and minds of every person that feels an allegiance to the hacker brand but this past week's Ashley Madison hack, where deeply private information was leaked supposedly in the name of consumer protection, forces a conversation about the politics of hacking. Are hackers fundamentally conservative if not in intention, then in deed?
Such a question requires a working definition of hackers. One that, at the very least, identifies who and what is a hacker and hacking respectively. I can't think of a better source to turn to than Gabriella Coleman's Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy because not only is it a book-length meditation on what it means to call yourself a hacker, but her own work is deeply enmeshed in the boundary policing of hackerdom itself. This merits a fairly long block quote taken from her chapter on LuzSec, but this quote speaks mainly to her initial interaction with the information security community. It starts on page 256 if you want read around this quote, which I recommend:
Hacking they [members of the information security (InfoSec) community] would tell me, is digital trespass: breaking into a system, owning it hard, doing what you want with it. I had recently published my book on free software "hackers," Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, and it seemed that these InfoSec word warriors thought I had a narrow understanding of the term, one that omitted their world. But, my understanding of the term is much more nuanced than they realized. My definition includes free software programmers, people who make things, and also people who compromise systems—but that doesn't mean they have to all be talked about at the same time. My first book was narrowly focused.
Interestingly, while each microcommunity claims the moniker "hacker," some always refute the attempts of other microcommunities to claim the term. So when InfoSec people started yelling at me that free software "hackers" weren't "hackers," I wasn't surprised.
Policing of the term "hacker" could be read as a kind of proxy war over what hackers should do. That is, should the gravitational pull of the desirable (to some) hacker brand be used in service of communitarians dedicated to building free software or should it be a banner for libertarian free speech warriors (and everything in between)? For the purposes of this essay I'm going to focus on the assortment of people and ideas that orbit a Guy Fawkes mask. That is, those people who hack to break, "own hard", and trespass.
In light of this definition and many qualifications we should be asking three questions to determine hackers' political ambitions: What sorts of systems are generally broken by hackers? To what ends are they broken? What arises from the broken code? In the AH case, hackers were upset that the service was full of fake female profiles and that it charged $19.99 to deactivate accounts. There also seems to be a certain kind of desire to see cheaters exposed. Past high-profile hacks include the Sony leak that was done in protest of poor security surrounding users' account information, and the Stratfor hack that mainly served as retribution for years of corporate espionage.
The motivation for the Ashley Madison hack seems, at best, confused and contradictory. If your stated aim is the well-being of consumers, then threatening to expose their information seems like a bad bargaining chip. Its like threatening Shell oil by holding a gun to the head of a polar bear. The same could be said about the Sony hack and, at first, the blowback said just as much. Here is part of Coleman's recounting of the immediate aftermath:
Very quickly, the operation went south. DDoSing Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) did not earn Anonymous any new friends, only the ire of gamers who foamed with vitriol at being deprived of their source of distraction. Amidst the DDoSing, a splinter group calling itself "SonyRecon" formed to dox Sony executives. This move proved controversial among Anonymous activists and their broader support network.
Spurred by the operation's immediate unpopularity, Anonymous released the following statement: "We realized that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony's customers." They hoped that this would put out the fire.
Just to recap: It is okay to destroy something that lots of people pay for and rely on to entertain themselves, and it is okay to release sensitive information about millions of people, but doxxing millionaires is "controversial." This is not an isolated case either. Even the Stratfor hack, which was an undeniably anti-corporate act (which incluided stealing emails, donating to the Manning support fund with stolen corporate credit cards, and replacing the company's website with a manifesto about communal living brought about through armed insurrection) never treated the executives of Stratfor the way they might treat a kid that owned a Playstation. Unless a CEO says something brash about Anonymous itself (as was the case with HBGary Federal) hackers seem to hit customers hard, but treat executives about as harshly as a retiree writing an angry letter about sub-par cable programming.
There's no doubt that the operations that lead to security breaches at corporate espionage firms like Stratfor and HBGary Federal required bravery, skill, and contained within them a revolutionary spirt. But for all of the ostensible machismo and trickster joviality, there is an underlying respect for the security state. If any motivation (outside of "the lulz" which is more of a means than an end when you think about it) can be attributed to hackers it is the following: more and better security, deference to millionaires, and the sacrifice of immoral people for the future common good. That sounds an awful lot like Republicans.
To be really clear here: even if every person that has ever called themselves a hacker hated millionaires and believed in a borderless utopia, the effects of their actions produce a more battle-hardened police state. Of course many hackers would say that security is to meant to keep the government and corporations out of the business of individual citizens and the release of sensitive information would happen anyway given the poor security measures they are protesting in the first place. Such defenses actually brings to light another conservative attribute: the fear of a looming and malignant outsider waiting to prey on hapless victims who don't seem to appreciate how hard it is to keep everyone safe.
How does the hacker, despite frequently stated anti-authoritarian leanings, end up fighting for things like traditional marriage arrangements and national security? The easy answer is that many hackers are, in fact, socially conservative libertarians who actually harbor animosity for adulterers regardless of reason or context. This might very well explain some hackers but what about the avowed anarchists? What about the people who work in solidarity with Kurdish social ecologists or Tunisian fighting for free elections? How are these people unwittingly acting in a conservative way?
Back in April I wrote "Instead of handing over our trust to organizations like professional associations, governments, or corporations, hackers would have us move that trust to algorithms, protocols, and block chains." I argued that the rationalization for encryption and automation –humans cannot be trusted so we must replace them with code—is no different than progressive era activists' insistence that essential services like municipal government should be depoliticized and turned over to professionals and bureaucrats instead of elected politicians. Bureaucracy, like code, is supposed to act predictably and equally for everyone. The technologist's solutions are no different that the reforms that gave us city management experts. (Perhaps this is why hackers secretly love CEOs, because they are at once both the very top management expert and the person that totally owned the system. The fact that they are now the system, is the only reason why the CEO's business must be hacked at.)
This brings up a fundamental paradox: the hacker and the bureaucrat are polar opposites in terms of means –the former is trickster incarnate while the latter plots along as predictably as humanly possible– but they advocate for similar solutions to difficult problems. Even though the bureaucrat seeks and fosters smooth operation of a system, and hackers are motivated by a goal and are animated by chaotic destruction, they both share a fundamental distrust of humans as political entities. Hackers may embody the opposite of bureaucracy, but they ultimately desire the same thing as bureaucrats: technologies that obviate trust.
In the final chapter of Utopia of Rules David Graeber concludes that we all secretly love bureaucracy because it promises stability and predictability in an otherwise uncertain world. That while play can be creative and generative, we know it can also be destructive and disruptive. We cannot build complex systems like universal healthcare administration or nuclear missile launch systems atop ever-shifting human desire. Instead we have to make bureaucracies as Weber described them: hierarchical organizations with written rules staffed by trained (but ultimately and imminently replaceable) professionals. Bureaucracies date back to Mesopotamia but remain the least worst organizational solution we've come up with thus far for tackling big projects. And while it has let us accomplish a great deal, bureaucracies are still incredibly alienating, frustrating, and boring for everyone that interacts with them. The perfectly-functioning bureaucracy has never existed. Incompetence, nepotism, and all sorts of human foibles (and values) get in the way of true and complete bureaucratic predictability. It is no surprise then, that political actors get lots of traction by hating on bureaucracy.
The right, Graeber argues, came up with a critique of bureaucracy early on, and have benefited greatly. They peg public organizations as bureaucratic and private entitles as dynamic problem-solvers even though private firms are just as bureaucratic as governments. This has let them create bureaucracies with impunity: an ever-increasing military-industrial complex and oligarchic state wrapped in the glitzy paper of dynamism. The left, he argues, has yet to come up with an equally rhetorically effective critique of bureaucracy. I disagree. Hacking has risen as the heir-apparent for people that are as critical of corporations as they are of governments. The problem is that while the rhetoric is provocative, hackers are still as bureaucracy-loving as the Progressive Era reformists mentioned above. There may be a fix though.
The hacker critique of bureaucracy is simple: states and corporations are greedy and careless and you have to threaten them with destruction in order for them to behave. Ultimately we should replace bureaucracies –that try to make humans emulate robots– with actual robots and algorithms that will be invented through the creative destruction of existing institutions. It is a tantalizing argument, but right now it fails in practice because (and here I go back to agreeing with Graeber) it is still far too easy and cheap to exploit workers. All the free software created (and allowed to be used by corporations) by volunteer labor, cannot overcome the power corporations and states wield in steering R&D money towards profit-seeking behavior. When you attack a company for not safe-guarding sensitive information, the result is more security, not less possibility of theft. Or even better, a world where theft is unnecessary because everyone has what they need.
The hacker, for all its drawbacks, is still a helpful post-capitalist imaginary. That imaginary is instructive of a desirable future, as all utopian thinking is, but in the present historical moment the behavior of the hacker has conservative and authoritarian results. This happens in spite of all of the grandiose claims to libertarianism and trickster unpredictability because underlying all their actions is a deep-seated distrust of humans' ability to work together at a grand scale. This cynicism manifests in a willingness to expose people engaging in all sorts of non-monogamous relationships and a desire to go even further than than early champions of bureaucracy by inventing things that obviate trust rather than require it.
Perhaps then, the way to bring practice in line with rhetoric is to (counter-intuitively) expand the common definition of hacker. The hacker imaginary should include, as my fellow editor Jenny Davis argued last week, social movements like Black Lives Matter. Davis argues that such a redefinition will also require a move away from anonymity and towards speaking from a situated identity:
Because of this insistence upon centrality, Black Lives Matter refuses to be Anonymous. They do not disrupt the system quietly. The hack is their presence. The hack is their voices. The hack is their faces. It's not about discourse or even policy, but an insistence upon visibility; a refusal to remain unseen.
This shift in tactics from invisibility to obvious visibility does two things. First, as Davis notes, it forces power centers who otherwise benefit from quiet dominance to admit and show the violence that is quietly wielded every day. Such blatant violence and and often does push otherwise "moderate" people to adopt an antagonistic stance against oppression. Second, it breaks something fundamental that bureaucracies need to function properly: standardized objects. By refusing to act anonymously –and thus uniformly— BLM hackers make it difficult for bureaucracies to continue doing their work. By refusing to treat people (like Bernie Sanders) as equals at the moment of protest, they display how they have been treated historical as less-than equals.
More than anything, the hacker has to pick a side. He or she has to come into the light of politics and, instead of hiding in the shadows of unmarked categories, be an ostentatious and confusing thing willing to make alliances with people based on their living histories, rather than rallying around a single bad apple worthy of defacement. Hackers have long benefited from propaganda by the deed: winning adherents by acting as if their political agenda was already hegemonic. That should continue but with more clarity and resolution. Future hackers would do well to put aside masks, trust-less encryption technologies, and unpredictability, and instead act ostentatiously, with no regard for boundaries, and do so predictably and repeatedly until something breaks. That something, with enough tenacity and time, could very well be capitalism.
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We've followed the production for almost a year, and today we finally have the trailer to Fading Gigolo, the new film written and directed by John Turturro and starring Woody Allen.
The film stars Turturro, Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone and Sophie Vegara. Allen plays a pimp, Turturro is the aging gigolo. Short on cash, the two hatch an outrageous plan to make some money.
The first trailer focusses on the glamour, with Stone and Vegara front and centre.
The trailer was posted by the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF. They also released new images (bleow). No date yet for the screening but it will fall in the festival dates of 5-15 September. No North American dates as yet. TIFF has a page for the film as well.
Full synopsis
Woody Allen plays as bookseller-turned-pimp to John Turturro's middle-aged neophyte hustler, in actor-writer-director Turturro's inspired left-field comedy. The premise is as inspired as it is absurd, and Turturro carries it off with his own affecting and surprisingly romantic vision of New York City. There has been chatter of a Novmeber-January release in markets around the world.
It's been a while since we heard about this project, so it's great to see all things moving ahead. It all certainly seems like weird, quirky and sexy fun. Allen's voice seems to have deepened? He hasn't got a great track record of appearing in films directed by others, but he's not the lead and Turturro is certainly a talented actor and director.
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pink pearl friday 21.11.08
I seemed to be having more camera trouble than usual tonight. couldn't get a good shot of the black corset beneath the babydoll and also had a problem with the flash highlighting seam marks from the bra I'd just removed for the photo shoot. In the end I gave up trying and opened a bottle of red instead…..
on November 21, 2008 at 10:05 am Comments (37)
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On November 21, 2008 at 10:22 am silverstar98121 said:
Somehow, I don't think anybody is going to complain about this.
On November 21, 2008 at 10:38 am headbang8 said:
I told you those blog-review people know nothing about tits.
On November 21, 2008 at 10:50 am Kit Courteney said:
Ooh, I want one.
On November 21, 2008 at 11:18 am Jeffman said:
Corks!!!
I can't believe I just said, 'corks'. Ah, the power of Corset Friday. It's enough to drive a man to distraction (at least I think that's what they call it).
On November 21, 2008 at 11:23 am Somnambulist said:
Thud.
On November 21, 2008 at 11:36 am daisyfae said:
you need to take that corset back – they've left out a bunch of fabric!
but it's festive with the pearls and the barbell! needs a pearl necklace to match!
Yes, I'm in dire need of a pearl necklace daisyfae.
On November 21, 2008 at 12:22 pm Woeful said:
Trouble for camera is good luck for us…
On November 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm The Unbearable Banishment said:
I salute your troubled camera!
On November 21, 2008 at 1:28 pm tysdaddy said:
Did the piercing hurt like hell? I can only imagine . . .
Nope. It only took seconds to do
On November 21, 2008 at 1:43 pm Ian said:
mmmm…pierced nipples make me think naughty things…
On November 21, 2008 at 3:07 pm Kit Courteney said:
Pssst… got something for you….
(That could've sounded better in the circumstances.)
thanks Kit. I see you've got a whole lot of great links for me to check out so I'll be spending some time at your place later. break out some red wine and chocolate
Pearls before breasts? In this case, yes.
On November 21, 2008 at 7:26 pm healingmagichands said:
Speechless once again. For the life of me I just don't "get" piercings in intimate places. Just rack me up with the old fogies, I guess.
On November 21, 2008 at 7:29 pm xoggoth said:
mmm chewy!
On November 21, 2008 at 7:38 pm Daddy Papersurfer said:
My mother used to wear a twin set and pearls ……
On November 21, 2008 at 9:47 pm thegnukid said:
yep, those blog review people are friggin' idjits! they've no clue what a beautiful woman looks like… and i have a pearl necklace for you, but don't think it would travel well in the post…
On November 21, 2008 at 10:14 pm Olga, the Traveling Bra said:
I'll drink to that! CHEERS! 🙂
On November 22, 2008 at 12:19 am 70steen said:
mmmm I may have to consider a 'blot through' after that vision !! 😉
On November 22, 2008 at 1:24 am Daisy said:
Are you trying to compete with your sisters? They are enormous! Or is that some serious Photoshopping? Or I am I just jealous because mine look more like Grace in Will & Grace?
Hi Mum! Are you trying to tell me that I've put on weight? (fellow bloggites – this is my mother commenting – don't confuse her with daisyfae will you? We haven't seen each other for 4 years but I'm flying down to visit her and my two beautiful well-endowed sisters for NYE. Perhaps if you ask nicely one of them may join me in a tasteful corset friday shoot – though it will be a LOT more covered up than this one)
On November 22, 2008 at 1:27 am daisyfae said:
dearest nursemyra – i'd give you a necklace if i could… here's to a future necklace
On November 22, 2008 at 4:00 am sledpress said:
You are making me dig into the dresser drawer for old bustiers and the like buried under sweat socks and Spandex power suits.
On November 22, 2008 at 4:06 am Alex L. said:
Is it just me or is getting really hot in here.
On November 22, 2008 at 8:23 am nursemyra said:
It was hot in sydney earlier but it's clouding over now Alex. What's it like in bendigo?
On November 22, 2008 at 1:42 pm Dolce said:
Wow Nursie. That's fabulous!
On November 22, 2008 at 6:14 pm Jack said:
What does the tattoo read?
On November 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm nursemyra said:
Dolce: don't forget next week it's T-shirt friday! you wil join in again won't you?
Jack: The tattoo says Hoa Binh (with a grave accent above the o and the a) and there is a yellow star above the wording. It's the vietnamese word for Peace and the star represents their flag
Actually it was pissing down all yesturday… its quite clear today though.
ARGH! Outed! No more the anonymous Daisy. OK, so I'm mom. And we all can't wait to see you NYE — to check for ourselves whether you have put on weight 🙂 But seriously, darl, those are bigger than the ones Lenny Foster took photos of back in Taos so I'm guessing someone has been eating too much chocolate. I've atill got that pic somewhere … God help us, moms can be such a pain, can't they! We never know when to keep our mouths shut.
Ha… mothers have earned the right to say whatever they like 🙂
the photo on the left doesn't really look like my breast, even to me, I think it's just the way I've angled the camera. and the extra couple of kilos from overindulging in chocolate seems to go have gone straight to my belly. I was probably too thin in Taos anyway.
On November 23, 2008 at 12:04 pm gullybogan said:
I find that you can generally massage the bra seam crease out with your tongue.
OK, maybe not with *your* tongue…
That's fine nurse. They still look very tasty.
On November 24, 2008 at 10:04 pm archiearchive FCD said:
First you post about the evils of self-abuse and the need for lots of precautions in case it accidentally happens.
Secondly you post two of the most delightfully provocative photographs I have ever seen.
Talk about mixed messages – – –
Hiya Mom Daisy, a little bit of padding is always a good thing – and if the chocolate is stored on top of the fridge, the calories jump out because they are scared of heights.
On December 1, 2008 at 11:36 pm prurientdiarist said:
Absolutely lovely. I'm enjoying your photos and prose … thanks for sharing both.
On December 2, 2008 at 6:50 am nursemyra said:
welcome to the Gimcrack, PrurientDiarist. do you have a blog?
On December 3, 2008 at 5:40 am prurientdiarist said:
For the time being, I have one. We'll see if it sticks around, but you can find it here. I was a bit long-winded a meandering in thought today, so be warned.
ooh it's very new isn't it? only 2 posts old! I read them both and left a comment…..


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Operation Python Dance II in Southeast unpopular, poll shows
By Editor	| 15 September 2017 | 1:34 pm
In spite of the Nigerian Army's insistence that its Operation Python Dance II is aimed to checkmate "kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, violent secessionist agitations" and other crimes in Nigeria's southeast, a cross-section of Nigerians said the month-long military exercise is unnecessary.
Operation Python Dance II, also known as Exercise Egwu Eke II, will commence today and will be headquartered in the Abia State capital Umuahia.
A similar exercise stationed at Onitsha, Anambra State, was carried out in the region last year and it lasted for three months.
A Nigerian Army spokesman said the success of last year's exercise was an added impetus for staging Operation Python Dance II and that it is not targeted at any particular individual or group.
"Exercise Egwu Eke II is not targeted at any particular person or group," Colonel Musa Sagir, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Enugu, who also serves as Information Coordinator for the Exercise Python Dance II, told The Guardian.
"It is aimed to checkmate kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, farmers-herdsmen clashes, violent secessionist agitations and insurgency among other identified security challenges in the southeast," he said.
But 54 per cent of 4937 respondents to a poll conducted on the Guardian's website, Twitter and Facebook platforms said the exercise will be counterproductive.
Their misgiving about the military in the Southeast may be unconnected with the reported skirmishes between groups in Abia State, especially the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and men of the Nigerian Army.
This led to the declaration of a dusk-to-dawn curfew by Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu on Tuesday.
39.7 per cent of the respondents, however, said the Nigerian government was right to have introduced the operation in the region at this time.
Only 6.3 per cent of the respondents are indifferent to the exercise.
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