Friday Afternoon Links!

* Big story keeps getting bigger. ‘Total panic’ as ‘shell-shocked’ White House struggles to find impeachment footing. Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment. As Republicans Face Impeachment Dilemma, Romney is a Lonely Voice of Concern. Impeach Barr too. Innocent Man Calls for Whistleblower to Be Executed. This Guy Truly Has No Idea What He’s Talking About. This Guy Too. Needle already moving. Impeachment Shouldn’t Be the Goal of Impeachment.

* Huge, if true: Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism.

* Pattern Recognition but real and completely depressing: The Pee Tape Is Real, but It’s Fake.

* Whoever wins, we lose: With the US and China, Two Types of Capitalism Are Competing With Each Other.

* Wall Street vultures cutting ads for Warren now.

* Into every generation a Slayer is born: The harmless-looking girl… who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars: WWII heroine who joined the Dutch resistance aged 14, dies aged 92.

* For all its flaws, I liked Ad Astra more than a lot of my circle. Abigail Nussbaum gets at a lot of the reason why.

* Gollancz announces a £4,000 prize for sf writing by people of color.

* Grad programs still chronically lying about where their grads end up.

* White Borrowers? Almost Paid Off. Black Borrowers? Still Indebted.

* Greta Thunberg isn’t the only trailblazing young climate leader. Activists from the Amazon to Nigeria share their ideas for battling the climate crisis. Teen girls are leading the climate strikes and helping change the face of environmentalism. Why the right’s usual smears don’t work on Greta Thunberg. Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men? Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it. For people with Asperger’s, a role model emerges in Greta Thunberg. As an Autistic Femme, I Love Greta Thunberg’s “Resting Autism Face.” US politics is stuck. Can the climate movement shake it loose? I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic. For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth.

* Peace in our time: Sony and Marvel Strike a New Deal to Keep Spider-Man in the MCU.

* Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?

* Cash/Consent: The war on sex work.

* Trees won’t save us either.

* Reunite.

* You’re It, Charlie Brown.

* The creator of the labradoodle says he made ‘Frankenstein’s monster.’

* Spotted on the web: Games and Culture syllabus 2019.

* Trailer for documentary very specifically tailored to my Northern New Jersey roots: Class Action Park.

* Academic freedom under siege.

* That was fast: McDonald’s rolls out meatless Beyond burgers in Canada.

* Quantum Supremacy FAQ.

* There’s a serious blood plasma shortage, please consider donating.

* Wisconsin, you should be ashamed of yourself.

* Marquette program helps students with autism adjust to college life.

* Big mood: Kufungisisa, the local term for depression, is literally translated into “thinking too much”.

* And news of Tom Brady’s omnipotence does throw me for a loop.

Tuesday Links!

* CFP: Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction & Fantasy.

* CFP: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media.

* Tonight! I’m talking at this event about Black Panther, oppression, and liberation for the MU Amnesty International chapter.

* The Revealer has an excerpt from Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.

* Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration.

* Revisiting my nerd-fiction collection, I realize how much I needed pure lore when I was a kid, and how little I need it as an adult.

Re-reading Infinity Gauntlet and honestly it looks like Thanos was just trying to help. pic.twitter.com/PCBlHZsNv9

— Hucky Barnes: The Twintter Soldier (@TylerHuckabee) April 24, 2018

* How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

* America as glitching AI.

* The Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google.

* How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality.

* Reading on the Chaos in the UW system.

* “Wisconsin Won’t Remove Names of KKK Affiliates From Buildings. It Will Build an Exhibit Instead.” Could do both, you know!

* Which Animal Kills the Most Humans?

* Woman condemned to live in hell forever.

* “James Cameron Compares His Avatar Sequels to The Godfather, But Admits That Could Be a Huge Mistake.” Oh, you think that could be a mistake, do you?

* Obviously.

* The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy.

* The good news for Trump is that this is the last bit of embarrassing tape footage out there [pauses, touches finger to ear] I’m being told the pee tape is real.

* Woman fined $500 for taking her in-flight apple off the plane.

* Shock report: Man whose only qualification was physical proximity to Trump may not be qualified to run the VA.

* Unbelievable desecration on the Cinderella Blu-ray. Who signed off on this?

The Blu-ray of CINDERELLA (right) has been so scrubbed of grain that they've actually destroyed the linework in some scenes pic.twitter.com/TlqiVk5eY6

— Stephen Duignan (@stephen_duignan) April 23, 2018

* Walking Dead and Fringe Director Seith Mann Will Bring BLACK to the Big Screen.

* The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe.”

* She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It’s haunted her ever since.

* This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On.

* Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot.

* Here come the climate gentrifiers.

* It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler.

This is like a painting from the Renaissance. pic.twitter.com/nhmxYxD0vC

— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) April 22, 2018

* Husband-wife Gaffigan comedy team will be Marquette’s spring commencement speakers.

* I say teach the controversy.

* And holy moly.

Southern Illinois University is recruiting PhD grads for VOLUNTEER faculty positions. Duties include teaching undergrad and grad classes, committee service, and thesis supervision. https://t.co/i1y84exQFc

— Melissa Hubbard (@melissa_hubbard) April 23, 2018