Submitted for Your Approval, Wednesday Links

* CFP with a Monday deadline: Paradoxa 29, “Small Screen Fictions.” And relevant to my current courses: CFP: The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy.

* Application period now open for 2016-17 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship.

* Yet we still have not thought seriously about what it means when a private investigative project—bound by no rules of procedure, answerable to nothing but ratings, shaped only by the ethics and aptitude of its makers—comes to serve as our court of last resort.

* Tor has an excerpt from Cixin Liu’s Death’s End, which is amazing (and which I’ll be reviewing for The New Inquiry, by and by).

* Just in the nick of time, the United States’ newly minted Solar Forecasting Center was able to convey the true cause of the radar jamming: a rash of powerful solar flares.

* On Pokémon Go and Psychogeography (and Philip K. Dick).

* Submitting (SFF) While Black.

* Trump, Second Amendment people, and stochastic terrorism. Could this actually be rock bottom? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are not two sides of the same coin but libidinally necessary for one another. The horror of Trump manages to create the ultimate liberal fantasy of post-partisanship, consensus and respect for the discourse.

* How the Trumps Got Rich.

Hrs after Trump says something dumb during a nuclear standoff, his last living staffer will send a clarification to the last living reporter

— Daniel Powell (@danieljpowell) August 10, 2016

Donald Tr*mp is the guy who invites you to his wedding, then later suggests a room full of people shoot you. This is not a metaphor.

— Lauren Morrill (@LaurenEMorrill) August 10, 2016

@sarahkendzior Peak_Trump.doc
Peak_Trump_Update.doc
Peak_Trump_Update_New.doc
Peak_Trump_Update_New2.doc
Peak_TrumpFINAL.doc
Peak_Trump3.doc

— Perfectly Cromulent (@p_cromulent) August 9, 2016

Watch as notionally hard-headed GOP Western Civ types turn into Derrida. WHAT IS "MEANING"? EACH PHRASE IS PREGNANT WITH ITS OWN NEGATION

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) August 9, 2016

* Remember When Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Were Maybe Forced To Pose Nude In College?

* Coming soon to a university near you: We’re implementing new general education requirements without having first figured out how we want to deliver it or even what it is we’re trying to deliver, on a model where all the previous examples we can think of have failed.

Obvious need to soon reverse sweeping changes is attractive feature for admin. Power grab to put them in, power grab to take them out again…

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 8, 2016

* The US government will track killings by police for the first time ever.

* Justice Department to Release Blistering Report of Racial Bias by Baltimore Police. Should shock even the most cynical.

* Chicago Police Can’t Explain Why Their Body Cameras Failed At The Moment Of Unarmed Black Teen’s Death. I suppose it will always be a mystery.

* A generation of lawyers has been wiped out in Quetta, and it will leave Baluchistan, in more ways than one, lawless.

* Oneida: The Christian Utopia Where Contraception Was King.

* Israel’s supreme court has ruled that Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are the property of the National Library of Israel, ending a lengthy legal battle, judicial sources said in Monday.

* Keywords for the Age of Austerity 26: Bootcamp.

* Finally, there’s a good way to play Dungeons & Dragons online.

* The debate over who should be allowed to compete as a woman has more to do with ethics than endocrinology.

* An unsettling thing happened at the Olympic diving pool on Tuesday: the water inexplicably turned green, just in time for the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform diving competition.

* Exceptionalism: More and more women are now dying in childbirth, but only in America.

* Nailing it: We’ve Devoured a Year’s Worth of Natural Resources in Just Seven Months.

* DCTVU Watch: This is a bad idea and they shouldn’t do it, though they will.

* Harley Quinn and sexism by committee. All the Ways Suicide Squad Could Have Been Much, Much Better.

* Trailers! Luke Cage! Story of Your Life Arrival! Even an improvised Rick and Morty mini-episode!

* And a friendly reminder to always look on the bright side of life.