Friday Links!

* I’ll be promoting this relentlessly once everyone gets back from Spring Break, but for now, here’s a taste: some information about my Cultural Preservation Today symposium at the end of the month.

* Deadline extended! CFP for MLA 2016: Feminist Voices in Diasporic Afro-Futurism.

* Faculty Coalition Will Lobby for College Athletes to Be Paid.

* “The brute fact of the matter is that people who do something they love for a living are easy prey for exploiters.”

* notes on the [inevitable] proletarianisation of the University.

* Hedging Your Bets: The nuts and bolts of going on the academic and nonacademic job markets at the same time.

* Two from Freddie: critique drift and the Rich Uncle Pennybags test.

* OnMilwaukee gets nostalgic for the old Milwaukee downtown.

* Dominic Barton, a managing director at McKinsey & Co. and a fellow co-chair, said one CEO (names were carefully guarded) captivated the group’s imagination when he admitted his pay structure would actually allow him to make more in a few years than his whole career by eliminating research and development spending and instead buying back stock. The company wouldn’t exist after 10 years, the CEO added.

* Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second.

* This article has got to be Exhibit A for anyone who thinks talk of “the Anthropocene” is about re-centering Europe. I just can’t seen any argument that would put the date of the Anthropocene at 1610 that wouldn’t push it back into prehistory.

* Illinois lawmakers have put a benefit commonly offered to college employees — tuition breaks for their children — on the chopping block at public universities in response to a big expected cut in state spending on higher education.

* #accelerate: Today, big data is used to boost profits and spy on civilians. But what if it was harnessed for the social good?

* Good Family Feud, or, this is how I die.

* Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone.

* Remembering the great Sir Terry Prachett.

* It took him 25 years but Sid Meier finally made a version of Master of Orion.

* And it can happen here: Springfield, Illinois swears allegiance to Cobra Commander, declares war on G.I. Joes.