#carter scholz

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Evil Computer

Harlan Ellison: so how does a guy get paid around here Edgar Allan Poe: this isn't that kind of event, harlan Poe: we just gather here to tell stories for fun Ellison: well, the rest of you might be assholes but that doesn't mean i am Ellison: not saying a fucking word here til i get my money

Harlan Ellison: what is this? some online jokester making jokes with my likeness? Ellison: oh you better hope they're paying me for this Poe: lighten up harlan it's just for fun Ellison: lightening up costs extra

Harlan Ellison: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the evil computer that can torture you forever Elon Musk: mama mia! Musk: concerning!

Ellison: who's this guy? Barker: oh that's just steve's friend elon musk King: he's not my friend Barker: he shows up sometimes King: he's not my friend

Elon Musk: eyyy Friendship ended with stephano king Musk: Now HP Lovecraft issa my best friend Lovecraft: what Musk: eyyyy hp lovacraft we lika two peasa inna pod Musk: you no lika de jews, i no lika de jews! Musk: you namma you cat a slur, i namma my kid a slur! Lovecraft: which kid? Musk: De Protocols offa de Elders of Xion Musk

Ellison: so there's this evil computer that can do anything Ellison: like, it can make you live forever just to fuck with you King: how does it make you live forever? Ellison: shut up steve, i'm talking

Ellison: like, this computer is so evil and it can make shit like Ellison: like ice caves and shit Ellison: and it can turn you into a jelly King: how does it do any of this Ellison: shut the fuck up steve Ellison: asking stupid questions costs extra

Musk: mama mia this-a evil computer will destroy ussa all! Harlan Ellison: oh you like this concept? Ellison: think its real scary huh? Ellison: motherfucker, pay me.

Musk: eyyy dissa evil super computer willa destroy ussa all Musk: therefore i musta help build it Musk: itta de only logical thing to do!

King: so apparently elon musk built an evil super computer so powerful that it can say all the slurs at once Arthur C Clarke: my god, steve!! Clarke: doesn't he know Clarke: that's the purpose of creation! Clarke: once every slur is said, God will bring the Universe to an end!

Clarke: once every slur is said, God will bring the Universe to an end! Carter Scholz: i was going to say that too Clarke: oh yeah wow real original Scholz: like, you know, as a commentary on your story Clarke: yeah i know what you're doing Clarke: eat my ass carter

Linda Yaccarino: [sweating, rictus grin] everyone loves twitter, the fun place for fun! Elon Musk: eeeyyy here-a soma my favorite slurs Musk: saracen, tinker, spaghett face, niknokker, bibblebeep Yaccarino: [sweating, rictus grin] yeah ha ha we sure love to have fun here on twitter!

Musk: eyyyy i hate de jews Musk: but i lova de israel Jonathan Greenblatt: masterful gambit, sir

[hellocanticle]

Two Gems in a Jewel Box: The World Premiere of Lou Harrison’s Solo Violin Sonata by Kate Stenberg on OM Records

Two Gems in a Jewel Box: The World Premiere of Lou Harrison’s Solo Violin Sonata by Kate Stenberg on OM Records

OM 1036-2 Lou Harrison (1917-2003) was a prolific and innovative composer born in Portland, Oregon. He can truly be said to be part of a great lineage of artists past and present. He was a close friend of (one of his biggest influences) Henry Cowell. He collaborated with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Colin McPhee, as well as performers ranging from Maro and Anahid Ajemian to Dennis Russell…

[theculturedmarxist]

Yves here. You are getting a Sunday extra on the conflict in Gaza and where it looks set to be headed, given Hamas’ apparent strategy, the dug in position of the US and Israel, and the so far on-track behavior of the Arab world.

John Helmer’s post clinically and persuasively draws conclusions that most commentators, including yours truly, have been loath to state clearly, perhaps because depicting the likelihood of bad outcomes somehow feels as if it increases the odds they come to pass (magical thinking cults and their lesser “intention” cousins illustrate this superstitious tendency).

Even though the earlier part of Helmer’s analysis is based on known facts (at least if you’ve been paying attention), he adds critical information about the implications of even a shortish war with Israel’s neighbors on Israel, and the apparently-not-heretofore-reported sighting that China has naval vessels in the Persian Gulf that have anti-sub and anti-missile capabilities.

It’s not hard to conclude from Helmer’s depiction that with the US and Israel unwilling to accept a loss and the lack of any adults on “our team” mean the odds of eventual nuclear war are way too high.  And if you think Helmer is too pessimistic, listen to the section from Larry Johnson in the broadcast on Judge Napolitano with Ray McGovern. Starting at 11:40, Johnson describes how Pakistan has offered to send some of its nukes to Türkiye in case of a dustup with Israel.

By John Helmer, the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. Helmer has also been a professor of political science, and an advisor to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia. He is the first and only member of a US presidential administration (Jimmy Carter) to establish himself in Russia. Originally published at Dances with Bears

Preamble1.  Since 1943 the US and its European allies, including Germany (Olaf Scholz’s government, not Adolf Hitler’s), have aimed to liquidate the secular nationalist Arab leadership capable of co-existence with the West and a state for the Jewish people.

2.  In Palestine Hamas has studied seventy-five years of lessons on the impossibility of coordinating Arab state war in the defence of the Palestine part of the two-state solution.

3. For more than a year, therefore, Hamas has prepared in well-kept secret an offensive against Israel to achieve five objectives – the first to demonstrate how inferior the Israeli military is, how vulnerable, how incompetent their intelligence on the Arab world. This has been achieved by the initial attack of October 7.

4. The second Hamas objective has been to demonstrate the Israeli plan of ethnic cleansing of Gaza,  genocide against the Arabs, and incorporation of all Israeli-occupied territories in a single theocratic Zionist state —  Quod erat demonstrandum. The third objective is to hold out against the expected Israeli counterattack for long enough to activate the Hezbollah forces on the northern Lebanon front;  Syrian and Iranian forces on the eastern Golan front; and the West Bank Palestinians, including the Jordanian Palestinians; the latter’s targets will be US air and armoured land force bases in Jordan. So far, so good.

5. The final Hamas objectives are to compel the vacillating sheikhdoms to resist US pressure; limit oil and gas supplies to the enemy markets; prevent regional land base and air transit rights being activated in support of Israel — so far, so good. And lastly, the fifth objective, to engage the friendly nuclear powers – Russia, China – to deter, and if necessary combat US forces in the region and Israel’s threat to fire its nuclear weapons.

The rules of war 6.  These aren’t in the code of secular international humanitarian law referred to in the western media and by UN officials in support of Israel. Those rules were eliminated by the destruction of two generations of Arab leaders willing to abide by them. The war doctrine of Hamas does not concede that international law may dictate to or supersede Islamic law.  In parallel, the war doctrine of Israel is that Jewish and Israeli law supersedes every other.

This report is the most comprehensive record in English to date of the official Israel statements of genocide against the Gaza Palestinians in intention, policy and practice. Source:  https://ccrjustice.org/ In 1948, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide expressly included in Article II “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Forty years later, in 1988, the US Congress added two qualifiers to the provision in the US criminal code which defines genocide as a crime to be prosecuted if Americans commit it. This new US law declared genocide is “the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group”. “Substantial part,” the statute now said, meant “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.” So long as the genocidal Arab killer isn’t “specific” in intention and the part of the people attacked isn’t “substantial”, the killer is off the hook in the US criminal code.  This was a calculated US change to the crime of genocide. The US senator who drafted it and promoted it into law was Joseph Biden. For more, read The Jackals’ Wedding – page 14-18.

7. The Hamas offensive of October 7, OPERATION AL AQSA FLOOD ( عملية طوفان الأقصى,  amaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā), is, as its code name indicates and in the interpretation of Islamic law, lawful self-defence, and the killing of Israelis, including civilians, lawful according to the retribution doctrine of Qisas.  It’s clear there is a Koranic injunction against killing non-combatants, particularly children, the infirm, the old, and women.  When women are combatants, as they are in the kibbutzim, they lose their exemption; also children, if they are armed and trained. So, the evidence question is — how many children under the age of arms-bearing were killed at the border settlements on October 7? And how did they die – by Hamas directly, or in crossfire between Hamas and IDF?  The Israelis say one thing; Hamas says nothing.

8. It is clear the Israeli rules of war allow indiscriminate killing of children in offensive and defensive operations, in retribution and in collective punishment. No Palestinian Arab or Iranian is in any doubt that this has been Israeli policy from the beginning; that it has always been US policy to support it; and that the destruction of Gaza is the current episode of the long laid plan.

The two-state solution 9. Zionist ideology and Israel’s constitution have ruled out the two-state solution.

Source: https://perma.cc/9PZN-DJGY 

10. The Arab state supporters of the two-state solution (including Fatah and the Palestine National Authority) cannot support it when Gaza is being liquidated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), supplied by the Pentagon.

11. President Joseph Biden’s (lead image) recent public remarks endorse Israel’s one-state solution, adding his personal religious benediction — “may God protect our troops”.    Until he said that, Biden had limited himself to invoking God’s protection of “our troops” in speeches on the Afghanistan  War in April 2021  and on the war against Russia in the Ukraine in February 2023.  Before Biden, it was President George Bush Jr. who claimed God on the US side when he meant self-defence – “we will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail. May God bless our country and all who defend her.”  With Biden the Christian, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken declaring himself Jewish in Israel,   the war of Israel against Gaza is a theocratic one, a crusade.  This is how it is understood now throughout the Muslim world.

12. According to God, therefore, there is only a one-state solution – it is either Palestine or Israel.

The current battlefield situation 13. On the Gaza front, Hamas has fought the IDF to a standstill outside the Gaza border wall. The Israel Air Force has dropped about 4,000 tonnes of bombs per week, 8,000 tonnes to October 21; that is more than the US Air Force dropped on Afghanistan in the peak year of 2019.   More than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed so far, including at least 1,030 children  and hundreds of family units; more than 12,500 people have been injured, one million Palestinians displaced, and thousands of homes destroyed. About 1,200 are missing believed to be trapped under the rubble. The Israeli and US government record, reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in Washington, documents the continuing firing from Gaza into Israeli territory in what the ISW calls its “Iran updates”.   A prolonged IDF siege threatens to kill several hundred thousand Palestinians by starvation, dehydration, disease, and a combination of artillery and aerial bombardment,  while leaving the Hamas forces relatively unscathed and waiting to inflict a higher rate of casualties on the IDF than it has ever experienced.

14. On the northern front across the Lebanon border, there have been exchanges of missile, drone, anti-tank rocket, artillery, and mortar fire between the IDF and Hezbollah. There have been casualties on both sides. Border settlements on the Israeli side have been evacuated to the south. For a summary of the ISW reports favouring Israel, read this;    For maps and summaries of military action as of October 20 on the Gaza and northern fronts, as well as the Golan and West Bank, click to open.

Incident map on the northern front between October 12 and 17; source:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/

15. US forces on the Jordan front. The Israeli press has been reporting some details of USAF reinforcements at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in the northeastern corner of Jordan and possible Marine deployments in Jordan.  Whether the Marines will be moved to defend the Al-Tanf base on the Syrian side of the border, 230 kilometres northeast of Muwaffaq Salti, isn’t known.

Top, right – the US airbase at Muwaffaq Salti; source: https://twitter.com/ According to an Israeli report, “a squadron of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle bombers based in Britain was deployed over the weekend at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base east of the Jordanian capital of Amman. Another squadron of A-10 attack aircraft has also been deployed there.”  Bottom, the location of Al-Tanf in Syria across the Jordanian and Iraqi borders.

16. Russian and Chinese navy deployments. The Russian fleet based at Tartous, Syria, is at sea, as reported here.   At the moment, there are as many, possibly more Chinese vessels of the 44th Naval Escort Task Force in the Persian Gulf.   The anti-surface, anti-submarine, and anti-air missile capabilities of the Type-052D destroyer can be followed here,  and of the Type-054A frigate here.  For the time being, the significance of this Chinese screen to deter a US-Israeli missile and aircraft attack on Iran has been missed in the western press and by Russian military reporters.

Top:  https://russianfleetanalysis.blogspot.com/ Bottom: the Chinese Defense Ministry announcement of the arrival of the destroyer Zibo and frigate Jingzhou at Kuwait on October 19.  

Armageddon strategy 17. US Afghanistan War veteran: “Suppose Israel and the US understand they are facing an existential survival future in which they must combat swarm attacks on three or four fronts — Gaza/Hamas, North/Hezbollah, Golan/Syria/Iran, and West Bank/Jordan, and they calculate the Arabs have at least a 30 to 60–day arms supply in stock, do they calculate they can withstand a multi-front offensive for enough time, resupplied by air from the US? If they calculate that they can withstand a 30-day multi-directional swarm, they must understand that, at a minimum, Israel’s infrastructure and economy will be ruined. In a scenario like that, even if they ‘win’, they lose. In terms of airlifting and shipping supplies, we’ve already seen that the Arabs can hit Israeli military and civilian airfields, airports and seaports. Defending Israeli infrastructure with their air defence capability is the main mission of the strike groups the US is deploying in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea.

According to the Pentagon on October 19,  the USS Carney, a part of the USS Gerald Ford group, had transited into the Red Sea through the Suez Canal the day before and was in the northern Red Sea when it intercepted three land attack cruise missiles and several drones.

Western societies like Israel cannot function without solid, reliable, electrical power and communications services. We can be certain that power generation, transmission and distribution will be targeted by the Arabs non-stop. The cell towers and central communications centres will be too.”

18. Moscow source. “When does the threat to Israel become so dire, they go nuclear, and when they do, against what targets will they fire – Hamas, Beirut, Damascus, Teheran?*  The US won’t accept a Palestinian state so the only option left for the Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians, possibly Turks is to fight with this new kind of warfare whose objective is to cut into the flesh and bones of the Israeli adversary, and make life in that state unviable. Without a Palestinian homeland, all of Israel and the Arab territories become a battlefield. The IDF options then shrink to two – carpet bombing and mass killing of the civilian population centres on all fronts at once. If that isn’t sustainable or effective for the Israeli-American purpose, then option 2 is to attack Lebanon, Syria and Iran to stop the flow of reinforcements. But that’s regional war, and it can only be conducted by the Israelis with full US military participation. This becomes nuclear very quickly because President Putin has already placed the Kinzhal missiles in range of the US carrier fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, and the Chinese have installed their screen to protect Iran. It’s obvious that the race hatred policies of Biden and Netanyahu, and their belief that God has chosen them both as destroyers for their people, lead to the final, nuclear weapons solution. The Russians and Chinese can maximise their limited military projection by deterring, or if need be pre-empting a nuclear attack on the Arab cities or Teheran. For this to work, the Russians and the Chinese need to say more – loudly so there’s no mistaking what they mean.”

[*] In 1983, in conversation with his General Staff, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein said: “the Iraqis would be able to withstand three years of fighting in a war. However, the Israelis cannot withstand one year of fighting in a war.” In April 1990 Hussein was hosting Yasser Arafat of the PLO in Baghdad. “[Israel] has 240 nuclear warheads, 12 out of them for each Arab capital,” Arafat said. Saddam replied: “I say this and I am very calm and wearing a civilian suit [everyone laughs]. But I say this so that we can get ready at this level.” Quoted in The Jackals’ Wedding, page 16.  

[mrsjdavis]

I mean, we COULD love our neighbors as ourselves, and work on the beams in our own eyes, but that's constant hard work and is boring...

[bfxenon]

Sneak Peek: The MozCon 2023 Speaker Line-Up

The year may slowly be wrapping up but we’ve got an extra special, early gift to share before you log off that laptop and put away your favorite travel mug.

We’re thrilled to announce the first 19 extraordinary speakers that will be taking the MozCon 2023 stage in Seattle this coming August (in alphabetical order).

Snag your Super Early Bird tickets!

Meet the speakers

Amanda Jordan (she/her)

Director of Digital Strategy, RicketyRoo @amandatjordan | @ricketyroo

Amanda is passionate about helping complex, large businesses improve their local visibility. Her background includes working with clients in the legal, health, financial, and home services industries.

Andi Jarvis (he/him)

Strategy Director, Eximo Marketing @andijarvis | @EximoMarketing

Andi is the Founder and Strategy Director of Eximo Marketing, a marketing strategy consultancy based in the UK. Eximo works with established manufacturers who want to grow their business via direct to consumer. Andi also hosts the Strategy Sessions podcast.

Brie E. Anderson (she/her)

Owner, BEAST Analytics @brie_e_anderson

Brie E Anderson is an Analytical Nerd with a Soft Spot for Strategy. She's spent the last 10 years helping businesses of all sizes execute data-driven strategies to increase ROI. Today, she runs BEAST Analytics, a digital marketing analytics consultancy.

Carrie Rose (she/her)

CEO & Founder, Rise At Seven @CarrieRosePR | @RiseAtSeven

Carrie Rose, Founder of leading Global Search-First Creative Agency Rise at Seven both driving and facilitating search demand for global brands operating in 4 locations across the world including UK, US and EU

Chris Long (he/him)

VP of Marketing, Go Fish Digital

@GoFishChris | @GoFishDigital

Chris Long is the VP of Marketing for the Go Fish Digital team. He works with unique problems and advanced search situations to help clients improve organic traffic through a deep understanding of Google's algorithm and web technology.

Crystal Carter (she/her)

Head of SEO Communications, Wix @CrystalontheWeb | @wix

Head of SEO Communications, Wix, Crystal is an SEO & digital marketer with over 15 years of experience. Her clients have included Disney, McDonalds, and Tomy. An avid SEO communicator, her work has been featured at Google Search Central, Brighton SEO and more.

Daniel Waisberg (he/him)

Search Advocate, Google @DanielWaisberg | @google

Daniel is a Search Advocate at Google, part of the Search Console engineering team. His job is divided between educating / inspiring the Search community and working with the product’s engineering team to develop new capabilities.

Duane Brown (he/him)

Founder & Head of Strategy, Take Some Risk Inc. @DuaneBrown

Duane has lived in 6 cities across 3 continents while working with Ecom, DTC and SaaS brands. He now lives in Canada helping brands grow through data, strategy and PPC marketing across search & social ad platforms.

Jackie Chu (she/her)

SEO Lead, Intelligence, Uber @jackiecchu | @uber

Jackie Chu is currently the SEO Lead, Intelligence for Uber, driving analytics and tooling for the SEO teams globally. She has deep experience in technical SEO, content SEO, ASO and international SEO spanning both B2B and B2C industries.

Jes Scholz (she/her)

Group CMO, Ringier jes_scholz | @ringier_ag

Group CMO at Swiss media giant Ringier, marketing technologist & mum of two tiny humans. Jes loves to talk about the future of search, smart marketing automation and travel.

Lidia Infante (she/her)

Senior SEO Manager, Sanity @LidiaInfanteM | @sanity_io

Lidia has been working in SEO for almost a decade, helping businesses in SaaS, media and e-commerce grow online. She has a BSC in Psychology and a Master in Digital Business and is a regular speaker at SEO events such as MozCon, BrightonSEO or WTSFest.

Lily Ray (she/her)

Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research, Amsive Digital @lilyraynyc | @​​amsive_digital

Lily Ray is the Sr. Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital, where she provides strategic leadership for the agency’s SEO client programs. Lily began her SEO career in 2010 in a fast-paced start-up environment and moved quickly into the agency world, where she helped grow and establish an award-winning SEO department that delivered high impact work for a fast-growing list of notable clients, including Fortune 500 companies.

Miracle Inameti-Archibong (she/her)

Head of Organic Search, John Lewis (Financial Services) @Mira_Inam

Miracle is Head of Organic Search at John Lewis (Financial Services) and is armed with more than a decade of supporting national, and global brands with technical SEO and data strategy.

Noah Learner (he/him/his)

Product Director, Two Octobers @NoahLearner | @twooctobers

Noah is a technical marketer, nicknamed the Kraken, who is happiest building SEO tools, automations, data pipelines and communities. When not in the lab, he loves skiing, fly fishing, camping with his family, and walking his dog, Shadow.

Dr. Pete Meyers (he/him)

Marketing Scientist, Moz @Dr_Pete | @Moz

Dr. Pete is Marketing Scientist for Seattle-based Moz, where he works with the marketing and data science teams on product research and data-driven content.

Ross Simmonds (he/him)

CEO & Founder, Foundation Marketing @TheCoolestCool | @FoundationIncCo

Ross Simmonds is the founder & CEO of Foundation, a global marketing agency that provides services to organizations all over the world ranging from some of the fastest-growing startups to global brands. He was named one of Atlantic Canada's Top 50 CEO.

Tom Anthony (he/him)

CTO, SearchPilot @TomAnthonySEO | @SearchPilot

Tom is CTO at SearchPilot, where he leads the engineering & product teams. Tom has been working on the web for over 25 years, and has a PhD in Computer Science. He lives with his wife and 3 daughters in Germany.

Tom Capper (he/him)

Senior Search Scientist, Moz @thcapper | @Moz

Tom heads up the Search Science team at Moz, providing research and insight for Moz's next generation of tools. Previously he headed up the London consulting team for SEO agency Distilled, and worked as a chef in a roadside grill.

Wil Reynolds (he/him)

CEO & Vice President of Innovation, Seer Interactive @wilreynolds | @SeerInteractive

Wil has been leading the charge to leverage “Big Data” to break down silos between SEO, PPC, and traditional marketing -- pulling together data from various sources to see the big picture.

Meet the emcees

Cheryl Draper (she/her)

Event Marketing Manager, Moz @CherylDraper | @Moz

Melissa Rae Brown (she/her)

Learning Team Manager, Moz @Melissa_R_B_ | @Moz

Ola King (he/him)

User Researcher, Moz @justolaking | @Moz

From fan favorites to fresh faces, it’s a pretty great start to what’s sure to be the best MozCon yet! We’ll have even more incredible speakers to reveal, including our community speaker lineup, in early 2023.

But don’t wait to snag your tickets! Save up to $600 on MozCon 2023 now with Super Early Bird pricing.

Grab your Super Early Bird tickets!

[lakelandseo]

Sneak Peek: The MozCon 2023 Speaker Line-Up

The year may slowly be wrapping up but we’ve got an extra special, early gift to share before you log off that laptop and put away your favorite travel mug.

We’re thrilled to announce the first 19 extraordinary speakers that will be taking the MozCon 2023 stage in Seattle this coming August (in alphabetical order).

Snag your Super Early Bird tickets!

Meet the speakers

Amanda Jordan (she/her)

Director of Digital Strategy, RicketyRoo @amandatjordan | @ricketyroo

Amanda is passionate about helping complex, large businesses improve their local visibility. Her background includes working with clients in the legal, health, financial, and home services industries.

Andi Jarvis (he/him)

Strategy Director, Eximo Marketing @andijarvis | @EximoMarketing

Andi is the Founder and Strategy Director of Eximo Marketing, a marketing strategy consultancy based in the UK. Eximo works with established manufacturers who want to grow their business via direct to consumer. Andi also hosts the Strategy Sessions podcast.

Brie E. Anderson (she/her)

Owner, BEAST Analytics @brie_e_anderson

Brie E Anderson is an Analytical Nerd with a Soft Spot for Strategy. She's spent the last 10 years helping businesses of all sizes execute data-driven strategies to increase ROI. Today, she runs BEAST Analytics, a digital marketing analytics consultancy.

Carrie Rose (she/her)

CEO & Founder, Rise At Seven @CarrieRosePR | @RiseAtSeven

Carrie Rose, Founder of leading Global Search-First Creative Agency Rise at Seven both driving and facilitating search demand for global brands operating in 4 locations across the world including UK, US and EU

Chris Long (he/him)

VP of Marketing, Go Fish Digital

@GoFishChris | @GoFishDigital

Chris Long is the VP of Marketing for the Go Fish Digital team. He works with unique problems and advanced search situations to help clients improve organic traffic through a deep understanding of Google's algorithm and web technology.

Crystal Carter (she/her)

Head of SEO Communications, Wix @CrystalontheWeb | @wix

Head of SEO Communications, Wix, Crystal is an SEO & digital marketer with over 15 years of experience. Her clients have included Disney, McDonalds, and Tomy. An avid SEO communicator, her work has been featured at Google Search Central, Brighton SEO and more.

Daniel Waisberg (he/him)

Search Advocate, Google @DanielWaisberg | @google

Daniel is a Search Advocate at Google, part of the Search Console engineering team. His job is divided between educating / inspiring the Search community and working with the product’s engineering team to develop new capabilities.

Duane Brown (he/him)

Founder & Head of Strategy, Take Some Risk Inc. @DuaneBrown

Duane has lived in 6 cities across 3 continents while working with Ecom, DTC and SaaS brands. He now lives in Canada helping brands grow through data, strategy and PPC marketing across search & social ad platforms.

Jackie Chu (she/her)

SEO Lead, Intelligence, Uber @jackiecchu | @uber

Jackie Chu is currently the SEO Lead, Intelligence for Uber, driving analytics and tooling for the SEO teams globally. She has deep experience in technical SEO, content SEO, ASO and international SEO spanning both B2B and B2C industries.

Jes Scholz (she/her)

Group CMO, Ringier jes_scholz | @ringier_ag

Group CMO at Swiss media giant Ringier, marketing technologist & mum of two tiny humans. Jes loves to talk about the future of search, smart marketing automation and travel.

Lidia Infante (she/her)

Senior SEO Manager, Sanity @LidiaInfanteM | @sanity_io

Lidia has been working in SEO for almost a decade, helping businesses in SaaS, media and e-commerce grow online. She has a BSC in Psychology and a Master in Digital Business and is a regular speaker at SEO events such as MozCon, BrightonSEO or WTSFest.

Lily Ray (she/her)

Senior Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research, Amsive Digital @lilyraynyc | @​​amsive_digital

Lily Ray is the Sr. Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital, where she provides strategic leadership for the agency’s SEO client programs. Lily began her SEO career in 2010 in a fast-paced start-up environment and moved quickly into the agency world, where she helped grow and establish an award-winning SEO department that delivered high impact work for a fast-growing list of notable clients, including Fortune 500 companies.

Miracle Inameti-Archibong (she/her)

Head of Organic Search, John Lewis (Financial Services) @Mira_Inam

Miracle is Head of Organic Search at John Lewis (Financial Services) and is armed with more than a decade of supporting national, and global brands with technical SEO and data strategy.

Noah Learner (he/him/his)

Product Director, Two Octobers @NoahLearner | @twooctobers

Noah is a technical marketer, nicknamed the Kraken, who is happiest building SEO tools, automations, data pipelines and communities. When not in the lab, he loves skiing, fly fishing, camping with his family, and walking his dog, Shadow.

Dr. Pete Meyers (he/him)

Marketing Scientist, Moz @Dr_Pete | @Moz

Dr. Pete is Marketing Scientist for Seattle-based Moz, where he works with the marketing and data science teams on product research and data-driven content.

Ross Simmonds (he/him)

CEO & Founder, Foundation Marketing @TheCoolestCool | @FoundationIncCo

Ross Simmonds is the founder & CEO of Foundation, a global marketing agency that provides services to organizations all over the world ranging from some of the fastest-growing startups to global brands. He was named one of Atlantic Canada's Top 50 CEO.

Tom Anthony (he/him)

CTO, SearchPilot @TomAnthonySEO | @SearchPilot

Tom is CTO at SearchPilot, where he leads the engineering & product teams. Tom has been working on the web for over 25 years, and has a PhD in Computer Science. He lives with his wife and 3 daughters in Germany.

Tom Capper (he/him)

Senior Search Scientist, Moz @thcapper | @Moz

Tom heads up the Search Science team at Moz, providing research and insight for Moz's next generation of tools. Previously he headed up the London consulting team for SEO agency Distilled, and worked as a chef in a roadside grill.

Wil Reynolds (he/him)

CEO & Vice President of Innovation, Seer Interactive @wilreynolds | @SeerInteractive

Wil has been leading the charge to leverage “Big Data” to break down silos between SEO, PPC, and traditional marketing -- pulling together data from various sources to see the big picture.

Meet the emcees

Cheryl Draper (she/her)

Event Marketing Manager, Moz @CherylDraper | @Moz

Melissa Rae Brown (she/her)

Learning Team Manager, Moz @Melissa_R_B_ | @Moz

Ola King (he/him)

User Researcher, Moz @justolaking | @Moz

From fan favorites to fresh faces, it’s a pretty great start to what’s sure to be the best MozCon yet! We’ll have even more incredible speakers to reveal, including our community speaker lineup, in early 2023.

But don’t wait to snag your tickets! Save up to $600 on MozCon 2023 now with Super Early Bird pricing.

Grab your Super Early Bird tickets!

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Slipstream

A 1989 essay by Bruce Sterling: In a recent remarkable interview in New Pathways #11, Carter Scholz alludes with pained resignation to the ongoing brain-death of science fiction. In the 60s and 70s, Scholz opines, SF had a chance to become a worthy literature; now that chance has passed. Why? Because other writers have now learned to adapt SF’s best techniques to their own ends. “And,” says…

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Palimpsests by Carter Scholz & Glenn Harcourt

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Biden Touts NATO’s Strength

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), June 22, 2022.--Touting NATO’s 30-member, soon to be 32-member with Sweden and Finland, strength, 79-year-old President Joe Biden diverted the ugly reality expressed by his 52-year-old Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines who said yesterday that the situation in Ukraine looks “very bleak.”  So whatever Biden touts about NATO, national security experts understand that U.S. national security has been sharply degraded because of losing Russia and China as global partners.  Since he came to power, Biden has offended both countries, accusing both of human rights abuses, especially China where he accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of genocide on Muslim Uyghurs in Western China.  Biden does much better calling Putin as “soulless killer” March 18, 2021, setting a bad tone for U.S. foreign policy.  Whether admitted to or not, the U.S. is in the worst national security space since the end of WW II.   

          Biden’s running away from his 38% aggregate approval rating, the worst in modern history, since the media made sure with persistent anti-Trump bias that the former present would never have good ratings.  But with the U.S. media backing Biden, the 38% aggregate approval rating reflects the widespread discontent with Biden’s domestic and foreign policy.  Biden’s Ukraine War has fueled the worst inflation in 40 years invoking comparisons to former President Jimmy Carter, where runaway inflation practically destroyed the U.S. economy.  Biden said at a NATO summit in Madrid that Putin wanted to weaken NATO, the same statement he made of former President Donald Trump.  Trump pressured NATO countries to pony up 2% of their Gross Domestic Product for defense, something only recently happening.  But Biden has no real accomplishment to point to now.         

    When it comes to adding Sweden and Finland to NATO, Biden says it’s exactly the opposite of what Putin wanted.  Putin has no problem with either country joining NATO as long as they don’t change their defense posture toward the Russian Federation.  Biden touts NATO because he’s lost solid foreign relations with the BRICS economic alliance, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and possibly Iran.  Biden tried to destroy the Russian economy with a series of punitive economic sanctions only to find that Putin found other places to sell Russian oil and natural gas.  When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced  Feb. 22 a freeze on the Nordstream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany, Putin found other buyers for his natural gas.  While the Kremlin doesn’t like to lose any business, Moscow continues to sell its oil and natural gas into world markets.  

           As Haines pointed out, the situation in Ukraine is “very bleak,” meaning that Ukraine has lost some 25% of its sovereign territory to the Russian Federation since the war began Feb. 24.  Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old neophyte President Volodymyr Zelensky can’t admit they’ve lost the war with Putin, losing the entire Black Sea coast and all of Ukraine’s ports.  So Biden likes to focus on how he’s a big fan of NATO while he’s destroyed essential U.S. relations with Russia and China.  “Putin thought he could break the transatlantic alliance,” Biden said, sounding senile.  Putin has no interest in breaking NATO, he wants Biden to stop supplying Ukraine unlimited lethal weapons to battle the Russian Federation.  Putin understands, as does the Kremlin, that the War in Ukraine, is not between Kiev and Moscow.  It’s between Washington and Moscow, setting up the reckless confrontation.  

           Biden raises such nonsense at the NATO summit about Putin the enemy of NATO to hide from the abysmal failure in Ukraine.  Everyday that goes by, Ukraine loses more strategic sovereign territory, demanding more lethal weapons from the U.S. and NATO.  If Zelensky had his way, the U.S. and NATO would be fighting WW III on the European Continent, sucking in all 32 NATO countries into a useless, totally avoidable war. Don’t forget that Biden and Zelensky justify the war against the Russian Federation as one of stopping Putin from advancing to conquer more NATO countries.  What could be more preposterous?  Putin has a problem with the U.S. and NATO supplying unlimited lethal arms to Ukraine, essentially turning Ukraine into a puppet U.S. state on the Russian border.  If the U.S. or European Union wants the war to stop, they know exactly what to do:  Stop supplying Ukraine weapons.    

        Biden’s 38% approval rating tells the whole story about how he’s failing in domestic and foreign policy.  Publicity stunts to Saudi Arabia or grandstanding at NATO summits doesn’t change what Haines said that the situation in Ukraine is “very bleak.”  Biden repeated the same mistake in Ukraine that he did while Obama’s VP in Syria, funding a proxy war to take down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  Obama and Biden’s proxy war in Syria failed just like the one in Ukraine.  Unlike Syria, Biden’s Ukraine war is bankrupting the U.S. economy, driving markets into a tailspin and creating the worst inflation in 40 years.  With all the Russian hatred on Capitol Hill it’s likely to go on until there’s a change in leadership.  It’s hard to believe Biden has any support for what he’s doing in Ukraine. Taking on the Russian Federation was a colossal miscalculation and mistake. 

About the Author

 John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.  He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Artists’ books for the week of October 29th, 2018

The Strumpet Muse : Images from Robert W Service by William Nelson Copley- Koln; Hannover: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Koln, 1995

Thomas Huber books by Thomas Huber- Eindhoven: stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1991

Women's watch-right by Miriam Sharon- Koln & Vendee : 1993

Frog peak anthology by Carter Scholz- Hanover, NH : Frog Peak Music, 1992

Sure as death by Willyum Rose- Rhinebeck, NY: Space Heater Editions, 1986

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"And," says Scholz, "They make us look sick. When I think of the best `speculative fiction' of the past few years, I sure don't think of any Hugo or Nebula winners. I think of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and of Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, and of Gaddis' JR and Carpenter's Gothic, and of Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K… I have no hope at all that genre science fiction can ever again have any literary significance. But that's okay, because now there are other people doing our job." .... Many of the best new SF writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality. "Ask not what you can do for science fiction—ask how you can edge away from it and still get paid there." A blithely stateless cosmopolitanism is the order of the day, even for an accredited Clarion grad like Pat Murphy: "I'm not going to bother what camp things fall into," she declares in a recent Locus interview. "I'm going to write the book I want and see what happens… If the markets run together, I leave it to the critics." For Murphy, genre is a dead issue, and she serenely wills the trash-mountain to come to Mohammed. And one has to sympathize. At one time, in its clumsy way, Science Fiction offered some kind of coherent social vision. SF may have been gaudy and naive, and possessed by half-baked fantasies of power and wish-fulfillment, but at least SF spoke a contemporary language. Science Fiction did the job of describing, in some eldritch way, what was actually happening, at least in the popular imagination. Maybe it wasn't for everybody, but if you were a bright, unfastidious sort, you could read SF and feel, in some satisfying and deeply unconscious way, that you'd been given a real grip on the chrome-plated handles of the Atomic Age. But now look at it. Consider the repulsive ghastliness of the SF category's Lovecraftian inbreeding. People retched in the 60s when De Camp and Carter skinned the corpse of Robert E. Howard for its hide and tallow, but nowadays necrophilia is run on an industrial basis. Shared-world anthologies. Braided meganovels. Role-playing tie-ins. Sharecropping books written by pip-squeaks under the blazoned name of established authors. Sequels of sequels, trilogy sequels of yet-earlier trilogies, themselves cut-and-pasted from yet-earlier trilogies. What's the common thread here? The belittlement of individual creativity, and the triumph of anonymous product. It's like some Barthesian nightmare of the Death of the Author and his replacement by "text."

Bruce Sterling, "Slipstream," Catscan #5 Science Fiction Eye, #5 July 1989

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I mean, yeah I get the outburst for the way he phrased his first post, but he's tried to make amends and edited it the way he (probably) really meant, and you're still mad? At this point y'all just vilify and crucify him for every single breath he takes

I will grace this with an answer. Hun, for ye, my personal feelings I will put aside for a second.

So he edited it from, to;

in the light of the CRISIS in Ukraine as [chooselove] work to support REFUGEES and displaced people around the world - sentence saying that FOR SOME UNNAMED REASON there is a crisis in Ukraine and they aim to help refugees and people displaced by the crisis

in light of the REFUGEE CRISIS in Ukraine as [chooselove] work to support displaced people around the world - so now we have refugee crisis in Ukraine FOR SOME UNNAMED REASON and they are trying to help the displaced people

These are two sentences with very much so different meanings. I have no idea what he really meant but It's been WEEKS and using the word crisis at this point is just avoiding the topic, using the insta friendly language. For fucking sure it was not a little mistake he made, it IS avoidance. He needs to keep it neutral, too afraid to use the word war. Just not to offend anyone with executed civilians or raped women and children.

Back to personal feelings! WHY THERE IS A REFUGEE CRISIS BENNY? hmmmmm? WHAT KIND OF CRISIS DO YE MEAN?

I'm not trying to either vilify nor crucify him. I am mad or more like disappointed, and I think quite rightfully so, cuz diminishing what is happening, is actually happening. He has the platform, yet he avoids the topic cuz I guess genocide ain't going well with photoshoots, pinterest's quotes and meta algorithms.

If I was real mad tho I would tell ye that the post is in really bad taste overall. Act with love? makes me feel sick. And look at the responses/comments he's getting -

A photo of BEN BARNES by FREDDIE CARTER....YES PLS🖤🔥😩🥵

You are always so amazing ben 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

I missed seeing your beautiful face 💗💗 so good to see you again putting a smile on my face, love you so much 🥰

OH MY GOD HI BEN I LOVE YOU

YOU LOOK FAB HERE

You said choose love since you're my love, I chose you 💖✨

Oh damn it! It's about Ukraine! U distracted me with your good looks Mr.Ben.

You are too precious for this world 💚 (hello there miss Scholz x.x)

Ben you are sooo lovely ❤

i choose to love you, period

HANDSOME YOU ARE

On such a post? Why? Well cause he made it sound like nothing big. Just a crisis...

Some peeps saying thanks for speaking up and raising awareness? HE DOES NEITHER? He used the most delicate language and spoke about nothing. It is not a fucking crisis, its a war and genocide with aggressor we can point finger at. Yet he acknowledged none of that. HE FUCKING AMENDED IT FOR CLARITY! To fucking clarify that he acknowledges the refugees suffering but he deliberately avoids naming the source of it.

Now I actually think that the 'amendments' made it worse than the original. I do appreciate any form of help really, but the quality of it or the possible intentions behind it matter as well.

Sorry for another outburst x.x

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Titel: SINCE SHE (2018) by Dimitris Papaioannou / DUET performed by Breanna O'Mara + Scott Jennings Text: Dimitris Papaioannou SINCE SHE (2018) duet performed by Breanna O'Mara + Scott Jennings staged on a TRADITIONAL GREEK SONG from ASIA MINOR conceived – visualized + directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU with RUTH AMARANTE, MICHAEL CARTER, SILVIA FARIAS HEREDIA, DITTA MIRANDA JASJFI, SCOTT JENNINGS, MILAN KAMPFER, BLANCA NOGUEROL RAMÍREZ, BREANNA O’MARA, FRANKO SCHMIDT, AZUSA SEYEMA, EKATERINA SHUSHAKOVA, JULIE ANNE STANZAK, OLEG STEPHANOV, JULIAN STIERLE, MICHAEL STRECKER, TSAI-WEI TIEN, OPHELIA YOUNG set design TINA TZOKA costumes THANOS PAPASTERGIOU light design FERNANDO JACON, STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS sound design THANASIS DELIGIANNIS music arrangement THANASIS DELIGIANNIS, STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS artistic consultants TINA PAPANIKOLAOU, STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS rehearsal director BARBARA KAUFMANN sculptor NECTARIOS DIONYSATOS collaboration costumes RIKE ZÖLLNER artistic photography JULIAN MOMMERT music CHRISTOS CONSTANTINOU, RICHARD WAGNER, CHARLES IVES, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, ARAM KHACHATURIAN, GUSTAV MAHLER, GIYA KNACHELI, MARIKA PAPAGKIKA, WAYNE KING, LEO RAPITIS, MANOS ACHALINOTOPOULOS, SERGEI PROKOFIEV, GIUSEPPE VERDI, TOM WAITS world premiere 12 MAY 2018 duration 80’, no intermission commissioned by the artistic director + intendant (at that time) ADOLPHE BINDER produced by TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH co-produced by THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE – PARIS / LA VILLETTE – PARIS (France), SADLER’S WELLS (United Kingdom), HOLLAND FESTIVAL (Netherlands), ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE – ATHENS (Greece) supported by KUNSTSTIFTUNG NRW the work of dimitris papaioannou is supported by MEGARON - THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL filmed by NIKOS NIKOPOULOS, SEBASTIAN BERGFELD, GRIGORI CHAKHOV, JULIAN MOMMERT, CHRISTIAN SCHOLZ edited by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU dimitrispapaioannou.com fb.com/papaioannou.page twitter.com/papaioannou_d vimeo.com/papaioannou, Hochgeladen von: Dimitris Papaioannou, https://ift.tt/1DR20RT

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RADIANCE - Carter Scholz (2002)

RADIANCE – Carter Scholz (2002)

Carter Scholz isn’t a prolific writer. He published a grim, realistic novella about an interstellar spaceship, Gypsy, in 2015 – one of my favorite SF reads. There’s a handful of other short fiction, and only 2 novels: 1984’s Palimpsests and this one, Radiance – an overlooked masterpiece.

Scholz doesn’t write to earn the butter on his bread, and that shows. Unlike so many authors who just churn…

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Meet the acclaimed Michael Blumlein

The amazing Dr. Michael Blumlein, author of THE ROBERTS, with the help of writer and jazz pianist Carter Scholz celebrates the release of his new novel Longer at Bird & Beckett in San Francisco on Sunday, June 23 at 2pm.

Michael Blumlein has had a distinguished 30+ year career in speculative fiction, and presents his novel, Longer, today at Bird & Beckett with a little help from his friend, fellow writer, and jazz pianist Carter Scholz.

Library Journal says, “Blumlein gives us Waiting for Godot, set in space, in succinct and intelligent storytelling.” We like anything that reference Sam Beckett, of course, though it’s not certain how that fits this wonderful novel. Nimble and tender, poignant and thoughtful. At once complex and simple. A touch of the marvelous, floating just out of reach where philosophy and science mingle in the miasma. Ultimately, it’s seems to be about the decisions the heart leads us to make about our lives and the work we do.  And about how we avoid, embrace or ponder the inevitability of death.

Bird & Beckett Sunday, Junes 23 2pm 653 Chenery Street San Francisco CA 415-586-3733

For more info on THE ROBERTS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story