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Just a Few Links for Thursday (Really!)
* Essay prize for graduate students and early-career, pre-TT science fiction studies scholars: The Foundation Essay Prize 2019.
* The call for papers for the 2019 conference at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii (Friday, June 21 – Monday, June 24, 2019) is available. Should be a great time!
* Among other terrible things, Brazil’s rising fascist has vowed to destroy the rainforests.
* Cheating to win, part 102: Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Tribal North Dakotans to Vote. Brian Kemp Is Blocking 53K Applicants From Registering To Vote, Most Of Them Black.
* Figures provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection detail the separation of 6,022 “family units” from April 19, 2018 to August 15, 2018, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. Noting that the term “family unit” has varying applications in the U.S. immigration enforcement world — sometimes referring to individuals in a family, and other times referring to family groups containing multiple people — Amnesty observes that even on the low end, the figure reflects the largest total ever disclosed by the border enforcement agency in the context of the family separation crisis.
* This description of an afternoon with Trump is really something else.
* It’s Time To Go To War With The Supreme Court. Here’s How.
* Trump Administration Seeks to Stifle Protests Near White House and on National Mall.
* Corruption all the way down.
It’s true today seems dark, but the Democrats can lead the way out of the wilderness just like they [check notes] oh no
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) October 6, 2018
* It seems like the thousand-year storms come faster and faster every year. UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That. What Is Eco-Socialism?
* In effect, Amazon’s system taught itself that male candidates were preferable. It penalized resumes that included the word “women’s,” as in “women’s chess club captain.” And it downgraded graduates of two all-women’s colleges, according to people familiar with the matter. They did not specify the names of the schools.
* Elsewhere in Amazon’s total surveillance nightmare.
* The Silence of Sexual Assault in Literature.
* Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons. Yeah, if I were a scientist I’d probably be phoning it in right now too…
Written by gerrycanavan
October 11, 2018 at 2:29 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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