Couldn’t Write a Damn Word Today, So: Links!
* Capitalism didn’t liberalize China; it made America more authoritarian. More on that first one here, more on that second one here and here. When you’ve got me rooting for South Park things have gone very wrong.
* Sad Dad Space Movies: A Taxonomy.
* Tananarive Due: Inside My 90-Minute Visit With Octavia Butler.
* Think I forgot to promote this one: Call for papers: UC Riverside Symposium on speculative futures and education.
Call for papers: @UCRiverside Symposium on speculative futures and education: pic.twitter.com/4NSN0WqSnu
— Nalo Hopkinson (@Nalo_Hopkinson) October 3, 2019
* Get ready for the next recession.
* John Henry vs the steam engine, 2019 edition.
The looting of higher ed https://t.co/crh0sNJpTx
— Kevin Modestino (@kevin_modestino) October 8, 2019
* Dive deep into the latest Elizabeth Warren controversy.
* Poll: Majority of Americans say they endorse opening of House impeachment inquiry of Trump. Romney v. Trump.
* A truly heroic commitment to corruption at every scale.
* You don’t have to work for ICE. We will help you find a better job.
* Greta Thunberg Heads to Standing Rock to Support Indigenous Activists.
One year ago, Greta Thunberg began a one-person school strike.
This week, she will likely win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Her message to world leaders is really a message to all of us: "Change is coming whether you like it or not." https://t.co/UaP72pdIwE
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 7, 2019
* News of the weird! This nearly fatal shooting may have you barking with laughter.
it's clarifying to watch liberals who have spent three years bemoaning the ruin of US society yet again show that what they really mean by "norms" is the ability of celebrities to have telegenic feel-good moments of Being Normal with ghouls who have killed millions of people
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) October 8, 2019
* For $29, This Man Will Help Manipulate Your Loved Ones With Targeted Facebook And Browser Links.
* The Concern Troll in Everyone.
I think this is all tied to the much more abstract, multivalent erosion of 19th and 20th Century conceptions of publics and citizenship in the direction of the constellation of ideas and practices that we often call “neoliberalism”. The advantages of this deferral of direct responsibility for advocacy are obvious for individuals and institutions. David Brooks or Bret Stephens can throw up their hands and say that they’re not responsible for gross errors of fact or tendentious constructions of argument, because they’re only serving as a messenger for what is said and claimed by others that they believe their readers should know about. Institutions can shield themselves against risk and liability if they are only conforming to or compliant with decisions and practices adopted elsewhere. The failure of solutions can be blamed on the subcontractor that supplied them or simply on the intractability of the problem itself without putting any values or beliefs in danger.
* The Comic That Explains Where Joker Went Wrong.
* Pope Francis considers lifting celibacy requirement for priests.
* “every time i think about this poem i need to lie down.”
every time i think about this poem i need to lie down pic.twitter.com/mQBBqqbNGY
— ava wolf (@wownicebuttdude) October 7, 2019
* Don’t Be Fooled. Chief Justice John Roberts Is as Partisan as They Come.
* I can’t buy pizzas for an event without three signatures and I’m not allowed to tip over 16%, and I once exchanged an hour of emails with our accounting office over (literally) four cents, but ex-prof’s strip club habit sticks Drexel University with $190K bill.
* Lyft and Uber Are Having a Terrible, Awful, No-Good Time.
* What can’t we remember our earliest years?
* And this gender reveal party has so much to teach us.
Every “gender reveal” is a fail https://t.co/5aL66brUok
— rhea butcher (@RheaButcher) October 7, 2019
Written by gerrycanavan
October 8, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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