Wednesday Links!

* A lost eighth continent was recently discovered underneath the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, but it’s all pretty boring actually.

* How the US built the world’s largest immigrant detention system. A list of companies that contract with ICE.

* Checking in on Duke and UNC under siege.

* 2019 Genius Grant awardees, including Lynda F’ing Barry.

* Only an English major can prepare you with the psychic resilience needed to endure a lifetime under capitalism.

* Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group. The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.

* The kids are all right: Students protest demonstration policy, deliver letter to Zilber.

Inspiring photos of @MarquetteU's undergrads protesting investments in fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt. @PresLovell should have divested from Baupost a long time ago! #solidarity from #MUnion pic.twitter.com/hv5SVL0j4w

— Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) September 24, 2019

* Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby.

* Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years. The Great Decline.

* And on the China and college beat: US universities see decline in students from China. China’s Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom.

* Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks. Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It’s Accelerating. ‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds. The African Congo Is Quietly Being Deforested As The Amazon Rainforest Burns. Scientists Set Out to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change. On white supremacy and green living. The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History. This is daytime. Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want World To End. “You’re So Accustomed to the Erasure and the Normalization of Catastrophism.”

Turns out the hippies were right about almost everything and no one will ever admit it even if it means the f'ing species dying out.

— David Roberts (@drvox) September 24, 2019

young people telling septuagenarians how much they despise them for what they did to the planet is good, actually

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 24, 2019

* It’s called M-Journal, and it will help you convince your professor that you’re citing a real academic source.

* Shoulda been Bruce.

* Can a burger help solve climate change?

* The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it.

* I might have done this one already, but what the hell: Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.

* A real “hold my beer” moment for neoliberalism: A doctor and medical ethicist, who happens to be Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, argues life after 75 is not worth living.

* Time travel is real y’all.

* Chris Ware, whose Rusty Brown is finally out, about which I am very excited, celebrates Peanuts.

* Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics.

* What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.

* Normal society that is definitely normal and good.

* Autism aesthetics.

* Die a villain, or live long enough to rebound as a hero.

* Will Google’s quantum computing breakthrough change everything?

* The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century. Surprisingly solid #1 and #2 picks.

* And I’d like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this jam! Impeachment step by step.