notes.husk.org. archive page 3 of 56.tagged quote.

“ In Argentina and Brazil, as I show in the book, inequality started to decline almost immediately once the financiers were knocked off their thrones. In Brazil the share of income passing through the financial sector was extraordinarily large, but over the course of twelve years and three presidencies, it has gradually been reduced, making room for expanded public services, improved social conditions and reduced inequality. ”

JK Galbraith, interviewed by Philip Pilkington (via, via)

Another world is possible.

2012-04-09

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In 2007 they were the subject of a large Tate Modern retrospective. “We felt we deserved it”, says Gilbert. “But we wanted it in the right Tate, not the wrong Tate.”

“Every English artist who has a show in Tate Britain is finished two weeks later,” says Gilbert. “It’s the kiss of death. If you have Tate Modern, then the other one must be Tate Old-Fashioned. They’re trying to say that they don’t really believe in British modern art.”

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Gilbert of Gilbert and George, in a Guardian interview to promote their White Cube show.

2012-04-06

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“ The reality that many of the Avenues weren’t even paved back then, because there were no houses there that needed streets, or that the Marina in 1920 was yet to be built following the clearing of the 1915 World’s Fair are just messy facts that get in the way of a good story… as is the reality that the stretch of Stockton Street pictured in this post was a relatively low-density community then, while today it’s part of one of the highest-density communities in America (though the street hasn’t gotten any wider). ”

This Just In: Muni Used To Be Faster! from the Market Street Railway blog, in reference to this Bay Citizen story (as previously quoted here).

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“ The tricky questions are whether anyone actually wants a head-mounted display. If you were a soldier, for example, you would want to know if there were snipers hiding behind a wall, and if you could bring in a drone (pilotless aircraft) to fire at them. As a pedestrian crossing the street, the sudden appearance of a special offer from a nearby carpet retailer might have less happy consequences (since this is Google, you can bet ads are part of the master plan). ”

Jack Schofield on Google Project Glass: will we really wear digital goggles? in The Guardian.

2012-04-05

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A drone used by police on Merseyside crashed into the River Mersey during a routine training exercise.

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which was fitted with CCTV, apparently lost battery power while being flown by officers in Aigburth in February 2010.

Attempts to make an emergency landing failed and it crashed into the water.

Merseyside Police said it would not replace the £13,000 drone due to problems with its performance and the cost of training staff to use it.

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BBC News: Police drone crashes into River Mersey.

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“ Seventeen 803 machines were exported to America between 1960 and 1963, where they were applied to on-line industrial process control - sometimes via the Panellit company under the badge of Panellit 609 computers. In the UK, a notable first for an Elliott 803 in 1960 was the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)’s Calder Hall atomic station project at Windscale (Sellafield). The 803 provided a 24/7 logging and alarm-scanning system for the prototype Magnox gas-cooled reactor, for what became the world’s first industrial scale nuclear power station. ”

Simon Lavington on Elliott Computers, from Computer Resurrection Issue 42.

2012-04-04

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“ The problem isn’t that Verhoeven got his fascist propaganda all over your action movie. The problem is that your action movie springs directly from fascist propaganda. ”

A particularly stinging sentence from Why Everyone Gets Robocop But Nobody Gets Starship Troopers at Overthinking It. (It’s an older piece, but it’s well worth a read.)

2012-04-03

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“ He spent a lot more time talking than doing. ”

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher on R. Buckminster Fuller, from the New York Times coverage of the SFMOMA exhibition (originally published in the Bay Citizen).

2012-04-02

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In 1920, the B line, replaced by the busy 38-Geary in 1956, departed from the spot where the Ferry Building stands today and zoomed out to near Ocean Beach in 35 minutes. The fare was a nickel.

Today a similar $2 trip on the 38-Geary takes 54 minutes, while the 38 Limited, which makes fewer stops, takes 43 minutes.

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After 100 Years, Muni Runs Slower at The Bay Citizen.

As the article notes, there are reasons for this. Even with a bus not a streetcar, there’s an obvious way to get the speeds back up: cut car traffic back to 1920 levels. (Of course, that’s far more easily written than done.)

(Also, a minor nitpick: the Ferry Building was already over a decade old by 1920.)

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“ I started thinking about weird formats and strategies for making print content out of screens. What would it be like to publish a week of BERG London’s mailing lists, from which they generate their amazing link posts? I want to see people go through and annotate their recent linkroll (I’ve been enjoying @rogre’s, mostly for the insane tagging); what about some kind of collaborative/track changes authorship? ”

Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links: Week 9. (The original has links which Tumblr’s “quote” post type strips out. Maybe this should have been a “text” post instead. Ah well.)

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2012-04-10

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