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All Your Friday Links!
* The itself.blog Star Trek: Discovery event is underway! Star Trek: Discovery Is Optimism, But Not for Us. “Can you bury your heart”? Having feelings about Discovery. Star Trek: Discovery as the End of Next Generation Triumphalism.
* CFP: Activist Speculation and Visionary Fiction (MLA 19).
* Jaimee Hills is officially a dangerous woman.
* The university in ruins: UW Stevens Point. The administration clearly doesn’t even understand what it’s proposing:
When releasing the plan, university officials said that English majors for teacher certification would continue. But Williams said that under the state Department of Public Instruction’s certification criteria, a person looking to become an English teacher has to have been an English major.
“They just both have to exist, or both have to be eliminated,” Williams said. “One depends directly on the other.”
The most salient fact of academia today is that low-cost humanities classes subsidize every other aspect of university operations. You will never hear a single administrator acknowledge this basic fact and indeed they insist that the money flows the other way.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 7, 2018
* Professors earn about 15 percent less than others with advanced degrees, finds a study circulated Tuesday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Though perhaps some of us make it up in job satisfaction (really).
* Why Creative-Writing Programs Have Been Havens for Harassment.
* It has taken me two and a half decades to recognize that my experience of having a senior male nominal adviser and a female (usually more junior) actual adviser is common throughout academe. On Ghost Advising.
* Abusers and enablers in faculty culture.
* 5% raises in West Virginia. Onward to Oklahoma.
Today's front page is one worth saving pic.twitter.com/ig9SNqbpuZ
— Jake Zuckerman (@jake_zuckerman) March 7, 2018
* Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is in fact a VICTIM.
* On the Blackness of the Panther.
* Loved this from Barbara Ehrenreich: Body Work: The curiously self-punishing rites of fitness culture.
If anything, the culture of fitness has grown more combative than when I first got involved. It is no longer enough to “have a good workout,” as the receptionist at the gym advises every day; you should “crush your workout.” Health and strength are tedious goals compared to my gym’s new theme of “explosive strength,” achieved, as far I can see, through repeated whole-body swinging of a kettleball. If your gym isn’t sufficiently challenging, you might want to try an “ultra-extreme warrior workout” or buy a “home fitness system” from P90X, which in 2016 tweeted a poster of an ultra-cut male upper body, head bowed as if in prayer, with the caption “A moment of silence please for my body has no idea of what I’m about to put it through.” Or you could join CrossFit, the fastest-growing type of gym in the world, and also allegedly the most physically punishing. The program “prepares trainees for any physical contingency,” the company boasts, “not only for the unknown, but for the unknowable, too. Our specialty is not specializing,” and the latter category includes the zombie apocalypse. The mind’s stuggle for mastery over the body has become a kind of mortal combat.
* In this economy you’re either burned out, or you’re boxed out.
* The Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs.
* A prosecutor who obtained a wrongful conviction that sent a Houston man to death row for nearly 10 years didn’t just withhold evidence but also denied under oath that he had information that supported Alfred Dewayne Brown’s alibi, court records show.
* Could Trump get a White House job if he weren’t president? Didn’t we already know Trump couldn’t get a loan before he was president?
For that reason win or lose I think the fights on the liberal-left will be a lot nastier after 2020 than they’ve been before. A huge part of the Democratic base is still living in denial about what this country has become.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 6, 2018
Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,— jesse farrar (@BronzeHammer) October 2, 2016
* Gratuitous cruelty by Homeland Security. Lying to the immigrant soldiers you promised citizenship.
* A Dozen Democrats Want To Help Banks Hide Racial Discrimination In Mortgages.
* Guess Who’s Not Coming To America? International Students.
— If you still feel pretty messed up about how they were just going to burn the Velveteen Rabbit, please mash all of the keys but mostly 2.
* White flight remains a reality.
[future history class]
Teacher: How did World War 3 start? Anyone? Yes, Khaleesi.
Girl: It started bec-
Teacher: No, I meant Khaleesi M. She had her hand up first.
Girl 2: It started because president Trump was hangry.
Teacher: Correct. [holsters gun]
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 3, 2018
* ‘50 or 60. If I get lucky maybe 150.’
* The grim reality of job hunting in the age of AI.
* Wait, what exactly was Luke Skywalker’s plan in Return Of The Jedi?
* The opioid crisis has become an “epidemic of epidemics.” Meanwhile, a new study suggests opioids are no better than Tylenol for treating some kinds of pain.
* Kentucky’s ‘child bride’ bill stalls as groups fight to let 13-year-olds wed.
* False news stories travel faster and farther on Twitter than the truth.
* There’s no idea so terrible there isn’t someone in favor of it.
* York University philosophy professor and team submit brief supporting chimpanzee personhood.
* Ok, but you’re on a very short leash.
* Her name was Kanga and she was trouble.
I thought of how it all used to be, back when C.R. was young, when we still all believed things would get better. When we still had hope. In a way, hope is as powerful a drug as honey.
— Lavie Tidhar (@lavietidhar) March 7, 2018
* I Am the Very Important Longread Everyone Is Talking About.
* The United States of Middle-earth.
* And the arc of history is long, but.
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March 9, 2018 at 11:39 am
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Star Wars Day Links! Yay!
* A brief history of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Star Wars Minus Star Wars. Is Luke Skywalker of ‘Star Wars’ inspired by Wisconsin war hero? Star Wars and Jihad. May the toys be with you. Me talking Star Wars at Salon. The only review I read, which seems 100% right to me (very light spoilers).
I realized recently, with surprise, that ROTJ is the only one that actually seems philosophically interesting to me. https://t.co/UzR5aMALac
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
Yeah, that, but also the weirdly unsettled politics of pacifism and forgiveness that undergird the Luke-Vader plot. https://t.co/99HGF12U2C
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
.@traxus4420 Oh, by “unstable end” I thought you meant more the “okay, well, I guess we did it!” aspect the EU novels viciously take apart.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
@SoylentHHH Yeah, that’s what’s so singular about it. He gets to be a ghost too, Yoda and Obi-Wan don’t even seem mad at him.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
@SoylentHHH From the standpoint of our usual narratives it’s almost obscene! It’s really striking.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
Is it “fear” when it’s something you know is definitely going to happen? https://t.co/9YZUbl819A
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
Fully prepared to spend the next ten hours before I see THE FORCE AWAKENS arguing RETURN OF THE JEDI is underrated.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015
* They Might Be Giants Look Back on Every Album They’ve Ever Made.
* This is maybe the most “Cold War” story of all time.
My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.
When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, “My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President’s judgment. He might never push the button.“
* Running the Red Cross like a business.
* This seems true, at least as FYE as it is usually conceived goes, but all the same it’s not necessarily a great argument for FYE practitioners to make.
* The Humanities as Service Departments: Facing the Budget Logic.
* UMass brass cash in despite budget woes.
* 10 Revealing Tidbits We Found in Football Coaches’ Contracts.
* The law school collapse continues.
* Milwaukee’s Push to Move the Homeless From the Streets Into Permanent Housing. U.S. Department of Justice agrees to review Milwaukee police. Milwaukee to pay $5 million to settle suits over illegal strip searches.
* Today NASA Begins to Take New Astronaut Applications. Do You Qualify?
* My life story: Tsundoku.
* Yet another trailer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
* The Trouble With Calling Jessica Jones an ‘Antihero.’ Show Me a Hero: Thoughts on Jessica Jones.
* Academic librarians: what do they do all day?
* Sylvia Plath — you know, for kids.
* Where the jobs are(n’t), 2015. The other me who went to grad school in philosophy instead is pretty unhappy right now.
* People Who Curse Have Better Fucking Vocabularies, According to Science.
* Followup: Report: Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Mystery Buyer Is Right-Wing Billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
* Another followup, from years back: Cop Who Sought Photos of Teen’s Erection in Sexting Case Commits Suicide Moments Before Arrest.
* I understand why they made the decision they made, but I don’t think this paradigm is really sustainable: All LA Schools Closed After Hoax Threat.
* An Unbelievable Story of Rape. Difficult but very powerful read.
I’ve listened to the first episode of the new season of SERIAL now, and it really strikes me as deeply unethical on just about every level.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015
Serial = bad media form for covering ongoing story; tainted by commercialization, also by exploitation of someone who appears mentally ill.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015
Idea that SERIAL’s “brand” is refusal of definitive conclusions also seems like serious problem for their ability to report going forward.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015
I’ll admit, though, I still feel burned by their irresponsibility in the previous story, and probably wouldn’t have liked anything they did.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015
* A record 409 scripted TV series were produced this year, according to FX. Almost too many, don’t you think?
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal doing the Lord’s work on Schrödinger’s cat. BONUS.
* Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays.
* The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong).
* Did the utopian pirate nation of Libertatia ever really exist?
* And your daily dose of total institutional breakdown: Embattled state’s attorney refused to prosecute cop who admitted to perjury. Prosecutors have hijacked America’s criminal justice system while no one was looking. LAPD found no bias in all 1356 complaints filed against officers. And maybe the worst just in sheer audacity: Denmark passes law to seize jewelry from refugees to cover expenses.
Today’s 10-year-olds will be serving in the wars the next president starts. https://t.co/jhuRGQwFs6
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 16, 2015
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December 17, 2015 at 9:05 am
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End of the Semester Fire Sale: Every Link Must Go
* Another galaxy is possible: Toshiro Mifune turned down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader roles.
* CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2016.
* The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
* Huntington’s disease and engineered humanity.
* A little on-the-nose, don’t you think? USS Milwaukee breaks down at sea.
* Elsewhere on the Milwaukee beat: Millennials: They’re Just Like Us!
* College Football Coaches Are Making Millions Off A Useless Metric.
* AAUP calls UI search a ‘crude exercise in naked power.’
* Report Highlights Faculty Conditions at Jesuit Colleges.
* The Marquette Tribune did a short followup on my magic and literature class, returning this spring.
* 95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump’s Tongue. How Will the Professors Act When Fascism Comes to America? I asked 5 fascism experts whether Donald Trump is a fascist. Here’s what they said. Understanding Trumpism the Scott Adams Way. And here’s where things get wild: GOP preparing for contested convention. Trumpism would be the perfect ideology for a third party.
10. Solution to Trump: present alternative framework, which Dems have aggressively refused to even attempt (not just on this, on anything).
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 10, 2015
11. Otherwise you simply yield to all power to him, and to whatever events intervene between now and then.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 10, 2015
* When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity.
* On English studies and ennui. Gee, I wonder why a cohort of people who have discovered too late that they have committed themselves to an imploding profession might feel a little bit depressed.
* On the plus side: More Useless Liberal Arts Majors Could Destroy ISIS.
* The College of Saint Rose has laid off a number of tenured faculty, among them Scott Lemieux.
* Another mass shooting was over. The country had moved on. But inside one house in Oregon, a family was discovering the unending extent of a wound.
* Every year, roughly 40,000 people die in Minnesota. For some, it’s weeks or months before anyone finds them. Meet the crew who comes in to clean up the mess.
* Amazing Graphics Show How Much Fruits Have Changed Since Humans Started Growing Them.
* At least five police officers present during a shooting that was captured on a video that has created a firestorm of protest in this city supported a discredited version of events told by the officer who fired the fatal shots, newly released records show. Laquan McDonald and police perjury: a way forward. The U.S. Department of Justice unit that investigates civil rights violations by police departments has only about 18 employees who work on such investigations full-time. According to a former head of the unit, a forthcoming probe into the Chicago PD could overwhelm its “ridiculously small” staff. Good luck to them! Meanwhile, Rahm tries to hold on to power despite a clear need to resign.
* Here’s how Las Vegas police halted a trend in excessive force.
* How the Democrats flubbed San Bernardino. The worst part is most them seem not to have noticed.
* Nice work if you can get it: Top 20 billionaires worth as much as half of America.
* An Isochronic Map of the World from London, c. 1914. More links after the map!
* The geography of student debt.
* UBI in Finland — though it looks a bit like stealth social safety net cuts to me.
* Does America Deserve Malala?
* Obama scandal watch: This one does seem pretty corrupt, actually.
* Abandoned America: the Hershey Chocolate Factory.
* God save Title IX from its champions: ‘Hunting Ground’ Filmmakers to Harvard Law Profs: Criticizing Our Film Could Create a ‘Hostile Climate.’ When the core belief is that accusers never lie, if any one accuser has lied, it brings into question the stability of the entire thought system, rendering uncertain all allegations of sexual assault. But this is neither sensible nor necessary: that a few claims turn out to be false does not mean that all, most, or even many claims are wrongful. The imperative to act as though every accusation must be true—when we all know some number will not be—harms the over-all credibility of sexual assault claims. Relatedly, Newsweek has an article covering “the other side” of campus rape investigations.
* Telltale will make a Batman game.
* Two strikes against the next Wes Anderson movie: “…it’s a Japanese story and I’m playing a dog.”
* Servicemen Contradict Military’s Account Of Attack On MSF Hospital In Afghanistan.
* The arc of history is long, but Red Mars is finally going to series.
* Last year carbon emissions dropped while the economy grew for the first time in history.
* Public history at UNC: tracing the history of building names.
* Reading Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Islamophobia.
* ACA collapse watch: The lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016.
* The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop. Don’t Let Kids Play Football. It’s Time To Take The Warriors’ Chances Of Going 73-9 Seriously. Golden State Warriors: best team in NBA history? The last team to start 20-0 like the Warriors was so good that its league folded.
* Being A Girl: A Brief Personal History of Violence.
* All The Items Of Clothing Women Have Been Told Not To Wear In 2015.
* These People Took DDT Pills In the 1970s to Prove it Was Safe.
* Being a good looking man could hinder your career, study finds. Happiness Doesn’t Bring Good Health, Study Finds. Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests.
* Why didn’t anyone stop Doctor Hardy?
* Latinx.
* Vice got the Rachel Dolezal profile.
* Fractal Problems in Comparative Domestic Policy.
* How D.C. spent $200 million over a decade on a streetcar you still can’t ride.
* Serial‘s back y’all. UPDATE: And it’s already super irritating!
* UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist.
* Ron Howard says Arrested Development season 5 is in the writing stage.
* Teach the controversy: Building the Death Star Was an Economic Catastrophe.
* Pretty grim America: Gun Rights Groups to Hold Fake Mass Shooting at UT This Weekend.
* Just another here’s-what-happens-when-you-adopt-a-chimp story.
* FDA Approves Device That Can Plug Gunshot Wounds in 15 Seconds.
* The Definitive Guide to Sci-Fi Drugs Was Produced by the Government in the 1970s.
* Why are so many toddlers being put on heavy psychiatric drugs?
* All right, I’m in: Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Part-Cat, Part-Owl, Part-Human Superhero Comic.
* xkcd explains the Three Laws of Robotics.
* And in an age without heroes, there was Matt Haughey.
Written by gerrycanavan
December 12, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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What Day Is It? Links
* Later today, at UC Davis: Environments & Societies: Gerry Canavan, “Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthroposcene.”
* Marquette Protest on Diversity, University Seal.
* The LAO and Permanent University Austerity.
* Proclaims British economist Noreena Hertz, who recently surveyed more than 1,000 teenage girls in the United States and England: “This generation is profoundly anxious.”
* Rebirth of the Research University.
* Our research indicates children learn 4% more efficiently when being slowly boiled alive.
* Natalia Cecire on resilience and unbreakability.
* The Brutality of Police Culture in Baltimore. The Mysterious Death of Freddie Gray. Nonviolence as Compliance. Images of the Unrest in Baltimore. “I Blame The Department.” “Those Kids Were Set Up.” The Baltimore Riots Didn’t Start the Way You Think. In Freddie Gray’s Baltimore neighborhood, half of the residents don’t have jobs. Why Baltimore Rebelled.
* How Often Do Officers Lie Under Oath?
* Police Cadet Turns in Cop for Turning Body Cam Off Just Before Pummeling his Victim.
* Sneaky crosswalk law in Los Angeles is a tax for the crime of being poor.
* How Photography Was Optimized for White Skin Color.
* The disturbing differences in what men want in their wives and their daughters.
* It was a group assignment for four of them, but one of them did any actual work.
* The Shining, Retold as an Atari 2600 Game.
* If a bug in a slot machine says you’ve won $41.8m, can you claim it? Not in the case of Pauline McKee, 90, denied the payout after Iowa’s supreme court sided with the house.
* I didn’t become a doctor for the money.
* Netflix’s numbers are much less impressive than you would have thought.
* I will burn this fucking place to the ground before I get rid of that mirror.
* The struggle is real: Zoo Keeper Helps Constipated Monkey Pass Peanut By Licking Its Butt For An Hour.
* Your Tumblr of the day: Samplerman.
* “Sucralose, better known as Splenda, and acesulfame potassium, which is often called Ace K”: parent, talk to your kids about drugs.
* Men Accused of Sexual Assault Face Long Odds When Suing Colleges for Gender Bias.
* Jane Goodall Says SeaWorld ‘Should Be Closed Down.’
* Wisconsin’s roads are the third-worst in the nation. That’s pretty grim: how could two different states possibly be worse?
* Sounds like Age of Ultron will disappoint you twice.
* Scenes from the class struggle in California.
* Who created Caitlin Snow on #TheFlash? According to @DCComics, nobody.
* And why not him? The Bernie Sanders Decade.
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April 29, 2015 at 9:00 am
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Sunday Links for the Sunday Reader
* This president delivers compassion with a kind face and from a decorous and understated height. And that seems to be the role he prefers to play in the world too. It was doubtless the posture from which he would have liked to address the Arab Spring, and for that matter the civil war in Syria, if only Assad had obeyed when Obama said he must go. Obama has a larger-spirited wish to help people than any of his predecessors since Jimmy Carter; though caution bordering on timidity has kept him from speaking with Carter even once in the last five years. Obama roots for the good cause but often ends up endorsing the acceptable evil on which the political class or the satisfied classes in society have agreed. He watches the world as its most important spectator.
* Meanwhile: Obama Steps Up Efforts To Deport Unaccompanied Children Crossing The Border. And all at the low, low cost of just $2 billion!
* Local news: Wisconsin second only to Alabama in cuts to education funding, study shows.
* On college debate, race, and the very idea of rules.
* …the only definitive statement I can make about Game of Thrones has less to do with what was happening on screen, and more with the popular and critical reaction to it, the fact that the fourth season was the one in which a critical mass of people suddenly noticed just how rapey this show is.
* Academia and disability: Why Are Huge Numbers of Disabled Students Dropping Out of College?
* The New York Times has a followup Q&A on its controversial piece about student debt from last week.
* In November 2012, when Kamel’s lawyers showed the video evidence to the assistant district attorney handling his case, the prosecutor dropped the charges immediately, motioning for a dismissal. The case was built on police testimony that was clearly false. But though Perez’s untrue statement had forced Kamel to endure months of anxiety and trial preparation, and sent prosecutors most of the way towards trying him, the officer suffered no consequence for his actions. On police perjury.
* Arizona State Universities takes the side of a cop abusing one of its own professors on video. Arizona Professor Body Slammed By Police During Jaywalking Stop, Now Charged With Assaulting Officer.
* Today, the UCPD is, as the university told me in a statement, “a highly professional police force,” and one of the largest private security forces in the country. Hyde Park “remains one of the safest neighborhoods in the city,” according to the statement sent to me by the University, and, “All of the neighborhoods patrolled by the University of Chicago benefit from the extra service.”
* Three Ways (Two Good, One Bad) to Fight Campus Rape.
* It Took Studying 25,782,500 Kids To Begin To Undo The Damage Caused By 1 Doctor.
* An illustrated history of Westeros.
* Independent Weekly catches Counting Crows phoning it in in Raleigh.
* Advocacy in the Age of Colorblindness.
* This is a land of peace, love, justice, and no mercy: Hate Crimes Against The Homeless Jumped 24 Percent Last Year.
* U.S. Pledges To Stop Producing New Landmines. The dream of the 1990s is alive.
* Mexico tried giving poor people cash instead of food. It worked.
* How Sci Fi Visionary Octavia Butler Influenced This Detroit Revolutionary.
* Britain’s Nuke-Proof Underground City.
* “Can anyone say no to this?”
* The Golden Gate Bridge will get suicide nets.
* Psychologists Find that Nice People Are More Likely to Hurt You. I knew those dicks were hiding something.
* On Facebook science: The real scandal, then, is what’s considered “ethical.”
* Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?
* Ripped from the pages of the Colbert Report: NC General Assembly Allows Possum Drop Exception.
* And Martin Freeman says no more new Sherlock until December 2015.
Written by gerrycanavan
June 29, 2014 at 1:14 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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