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These Are Monday Links; There Are Many Like Them, But These Are Mine
* If you’ve been following Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, there’s a new chapter out.
* A One-Item List For Tenure-Track Faculty: Do the job you were hired to do.
* The next wave of Afrofuturism.
* Kim Stanley Robinson: Science Fiction and the Realism of Our Time.
* Bring on the Snowpiercer thinkpieces! 1, 2, 3, 4.
* Even the liberal George Will: “We ought to say to these children, ‘Welcome to America, you’re going to go to school and get a job and become Americans,’” Will implored. “We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can’t assimilate these eight-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.”
* Identifying the bodies of those who tried to cross the border illegally.
* Halbig, King, and the Limits of Reasonable Legal Disagreement.
* There is a lizard sex satellite floating in space and Russia no longer has it under control. UPDATE: Russia Regains Control of Gecko Zero-G Sex Satellite.
* If you want to know how I do it. More links below the image!
* Iron Man Should Move to Cleveland, Not San Francisco.
* A friend said it best: Ricky Gervais is scripting Congress now.
* Star Fleet uniforms: not OSHA-compliant.
* The mask slips: Tax agency says ‘preventing poverty’ not allowed as goal for charity.
* “Our bad!” It Turns Out Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All.
* This is horrible: First case of ebola reported in Africa’s most populous city Lagos.
* When Tonga Was a Vast Empire.
* The Five Most Overrated Weapons of War.
* Community colleges and the art of the hustle.
* A lawsuit may determine whether “Happy Birthday” is really still under copyright, which is a bananas notion to begin with.
* Scientists: Rich People, Poor People May Have Shared Common Ancestor.
* BuzzFeed Writer Resigns In Disgrace After Plagiarizing ‘10 Llamas Who Wish They Were Models.’
* Blastr teases Grant Morrison’s Multiversity.
* Giving up beef will reduce carbon footprint more than cars, says expert.
* If I major in philosophy, what are the career prospects?
* Ascension sounds… pretty good?
* The deadliest Ebola outbreak in recorded history is happening right now. And now the Liberian government has confirmed that a senior doctor working to fight the disease, Samuel Brisbane, has died, the Associated Press reports. That makes him the first Liberian doctor to die of Ebola in the current outbreak.
In addition, an American doctor has been infected. Keith Brantly, a 33-year-old working for American aid organization Samaritan’s Purse, has been treated and is in stable condition, according to USA Today.
This news comes just days after an announcement that the top Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone, Sheik Umar Khan, had been infected.
* And before there was The State, there was You Wrote It, You Watch It.
We Have to Magic the Magic Before the Magic or the Magic will Magic
* I’m planning on using this week’s bizarre Lost/West Wing crossover as my litmus test for how seriously to take people’s opinions on science fiction. That was painful, and enshrines what is more or less total garbage at the center of the show’s mythology. (We have to magic the magic before the magic or the magic will magic…) Despite those really good time travel bits in season five, season six has presented a strong challenge to the wisdom of our decision to start watching this show again. The showrunners still don’t have any idea what they’re on about; they never have. I’m hoping the last few episodes can avoid Battlestar Galactica levels of total series failure; I’ll be glad if they can just bring this thing in for a landing…
* Oliver Stone previews Wall Street 2 and 3.
* Climate change watch: no more lizards.
* The Great Unwinding: Detroit to begin its demolishing of 10,000 homes.
* And Boing Boing has a helpful graphic about Virgin’s SpaceShip Two. Booking my ticket now.
More Monday Links
More Monday links! More!
* Jacob directs my attention to the Spider-Man lizard. As Jacob says, you won’t be disappointed.
* Amanda Marcotte says last night’s explosive office hijinx on Mad Men were a quiet reference to the Kennedy assassination. I think she may be right.
* Japan’s real-life Dollhouse.
* The mother of all Infinite Jest ending theories. (Thanks, kate!)
* Last words of the executed in Texas. Found poetry.
Cathy, you know I never meant to hurt you.
All my life I have been locked up.
I am tired.
I’m ready, Warden.
Gerry Canavan 