Posts Tagged ‘CFP’
Another Day of Extreme Cold, Another Link Post
* CFP: The State of the Single-Author Study (also MLA 2020, deadline March 15). As Sean Guynes-Vishniac noted hopefully an SF studies scholar will participate as this has been a major site of research in recent years, largely due to the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series.
* Just for the record: Polar vortex: what is it and how is it linked to climate change?
* Greta Thunberg: Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
Do you know how rich a billionaire is?
Let’s say you earn $50k/year & save every. single. penny.
After 20 years, you’d have saved $1 million.
After 200 years, you’d be dead, but would have saved $10 million.
Only after 20,000 years(!!!), would you have saved $1 billion.
— Nathan H. Rubin (@NathanHRubin) January 30, 2019
* Kamala Harris picked a fight with the wrong fandom.
* Sanders’s bill, the “For the 99.8% Act,” would tax the estates of the 0.2 percent of Americans who inherit more than $3.5 million, while the rest of the country “would not see their taxes go up by one penny under this plan,” according to aides to the Vermont senator, who is considering a 2020 presidential bid.
* Democrats Must Reach Out to Moderates in 2020 — By Waging a Vicious Class War.
* How a frustrated blogger made expanding Social Security a reasonable idea.
* Joshua Tree national park ‘may take 300 years to recover’ from shutdown. And another shutdown is just a few short weeks away!
* Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate.
How much better? “A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast was in 1980,” says a new paper, published last week in the journal Science. “Useful forecasts now reach nine to 10 days into the future.”
* Cop watch: This Is What Truancy Laws Do. Feds used fake Michigan university in immigration sting. ICE force-feeding detainees on hunger strike. An asylum seeker’s quest to get her toddler back.
* OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market.
* Once you have your sensitivity raised about a particular condition, you see the abuses they suffer everywhere. Florida School Staffers Charged With Using Dark Room, Whistle to Torment Autistic Kids.
* You can report the news in a way that doesn’t inform anyone.
* Bipartisan agreement that Donald Trump is God’s chosen instrument for destroying the United States.
I have been on the edge of my seat for seven damn years. pic.twitter.com/BDpBmkD5Oj
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) January 31, 2019
* No helmets, no problem: how the Dutch created a casual biking culture.
* What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?
* I basically pitched this story in Graz, talking about the difference between Aquaman and Namor: Namor, ecoterrorist.
* The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism.
* Today in the liberal media’s endless drumbeat for war.
* 1984.
* It looks like I’ve accidentally made a terrific financial decision.
“We find that LEGO investments outperform large stocks, bonds, gold and other alternative investments, yielding the average return of at least 11% (8% in real terms) in the sample period 1987-2015,” write the authors of a study titled LEGO – The Toy of Smart Investors. “Small and huge sets, as well as seasonal, architectural and movie-based sets, deliver higher returns. LEGO returns are not exposed to market, value, momentum and volatility risk factors, but have an almost unit exposure to the size factor. A positive multifactor alpha of 4-5%, a Sharpe ratio of 0.4, a positive return skewness and a low exposure to standard risk factors make the LEGO toy an attractive alternative investment with a good diversification potential.”
* What You Should Know Before You Start Watching Porn.
* Scenes from the Anthropocene.
* And just in time for teaching SimCity later this semester: Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die—one that has proven dangerously influential.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Wednesday Is Now Trumpnesday, All Hail Trump
* CFP: 42nd Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis, TN.
* Fascism happens fast: First look at Biff to the Future, the alt-history comic chronicling the BTTF universe.
Where are the time travelers?
Options:
1- Forbidden by physics
2- It all works out, no need to intervene today
3- There is no future— Starship Engineers (@StarshipBuilder) January 20, 2017
4- They did this to us https://t.co/s7kHjEVLuc
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
* Trump and disaster capitalism.
* Dissenting from Within the Trump Administration.
* Delusional Democrats Yearning to Prove They Can Work With Trump. From Jonathan Chait, no less!
I keep coming back to this. I think it's the most important political commentary of our time. pic.twitter.com/IRvRNQ0TkI
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) January 24, 2017
sean spicer looks like the guy in the group of survivors that hides the fact he was bitten by a zombie pic.twitter.com/NelW22afc8
— Eli Terry (@EliTerry) January 23, 2017
* “The White House is deploying a network of advisers to the top of federal agencies as a direct line to stay on top of Cabinet officials.” “U.S. Government Agencies Go Silent, May Have Been Swallowed By Black Hole.” “Trump Health Care Plan Would Take Medicaid Coverage Away from Up to 31 Million People.” “Trump Aides Can’t Stop Blabbing about How He’s a Madman.” “Donald Trump’s stock in oil pipeline company raises concern.” Oh, no, not concern! “American Carnage.” “The Resistance.” Nailing it.
Trump's victory makes it impossible to convince any political actor they should obey *any* norm. What's the upside?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 24, 2017
How long is this really supposed to be sustainable, especially if the GOP continues to govern like this? https://t.co/cnvBkneD9e
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
The bad press over the weekend has not allowed Trump to “enjoy” the White House as he feels he deserves, according to one person who has spoken with him.
* Almost certainly our next president, ladies and gentleman.
* Within minutes of each other: Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline. Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land.
* Bill would end Virginia’s ‘winner take all’ electoral vote system.
All you need to know about Trump is he's so delusional he believes, devoid of proof, he won the election despite millions of illegal votes.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) January 24, 2017
* Some details on the shooting at the Milo Yiannopoulos talk at U Washington.
* Science corner! Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts. The Science of Sean Spicer’s Compulsive Gum Swallowing Habit. How long would a liberal have to cry to fill a coffee mug with tears? Flint water is fine again, also it was no one’s fault, trust us.
Not for nothing, but “it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive” has got to be one of the new ten commandments after the revolution.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 24, 2017
* Standpoint theory doesn’t say we can just make shit up; it says we need a clear-eyed understanding of power relations in order to understand and evaluate knowledge-claims. In other words, pomo feminists didn’t create “alt facts”; it’s pomo feminists who have given us the tools to oppose them.
* In Discarded Women’s March Signs, Professors Saw a Chance to Save History.
* Minnesota bill would make convicted protesters liable for policing costs. N.C. state lawmaker says shouting at current or former gov’t officials should be punishable by 5 years in prison.
* Interesting little story about Dan Harmon’s work on/against an early version of Dr. Strange.
* Like someone peeled open my skull and put my inner monologue on the Internet.
* The arc of history is long, but white women are going to prison at a higher rate than ever before.
* Wisconsin lawmaker wants Sheriff David Clarke booted from office, immediately.
* Further Thoughts on the Problem of Susan.
* Whitefish, Montana vs. the Nazis.
* This is how American health care kills people.
* Going back to the old days on health insurance, a first draft.
* Potential Trump Science Adviser Says 90 Percent of U.S. Colleges Will Disappear. I’m amazed they think a full tenth will escape the Sentinels.
* Arrested Development Season 5 rumors.
* Columbia University Releases Report on School’s Ties to Slavery.
* The Other Buffett Rule, or, why better billionaires will never save us.
* The Web Is a Customer Service Medium.
* And this truly is the darkest timeline.
If you think it's bad now: just wait for when there's a genuine crisis (which there will be, because there always is).
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 25, 2017

Tom the Dancing Bug 1322 view from trump tower 2
Written by gerrycanavan
January 25, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Even More Friday Links!
* CFP: Far Eastern Worlds: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction.
* Morally odious monsters: Rich white man explains why poor black kids must go to jail to serve as a cautionary tale for the privileged.
* The franchise now has until 4 p.m. Friday to sell the tickets or face a TV blackout in the Milwaukee, Green Bay and Wausau markets. The last time a Packers game was blacked out was an NFC first-round playoff against the St. Louis Cardinals on Jan. 8, 1983.
* The Scandal Bowl: Tar Heels Football, Academic Fraud, and Implicit Racism.
Implicit racism colors this entire episode. One of the most horrifying aspects of the exploitation of high-level college athletes, especially football and basketball players, is the vastly disproportionate impact on African American “students.” Too many black athletes with unrealistic dreams of NBA or NFL stardom arrive on campus unprepared academically and are allowed to depart with little meaningful classroom education. Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA and now a critic of its practices, has described the “plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today’s campus executives”—painful words, carefully chosen. Would UNC have tolerated the thorough undermining of an entire academic department other than Afro-American studies? Hard to picture. Could Nyang’oro and those who presumably aided and abetted him have come up with course titles any more likely to please skeptics of black-oriented scholarship?
* Duke University scientists find women need more sleep than men.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 3, 2014 at 9:10 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with academia, African American Studies, Amazon, animals, Asia, CFP, college basketball, college sports, Cthulhu, David Brooks, Duke, football, fraud, Green Bay Packers, H.P. Lovecraft, How the University Works, mass extinction, Milwaukee, morally odious monsters, morally odious morons, My Little Pony, NCAA, Orientalism, race, science fiction, sleep, UNC, war on drugs, Wisconsin
Reception Studies Conference @ Marquette This September
The fifth conference of the Reception Study Society is at Marquette this September. The CFP and additional details are on Facebook.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 13, 2013 at 10:37 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with CFP, conferences, fandom, Marquette, reception studies, science fiction