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Weekend Links!
* But at least one line in the tax form gives pause: The college lost roughly $4-million in investment income compared with the previous year, for unknown reasons. That year the college posted a deficit of $3-million, compared with a $325,000 deficit the previous year. I certainly hope someone follows up on that little oddity.
* Of course, it’s not entirely insane: How Larry Summers lost Harvard $1.8 billion.
* Academia and the Advance of African Science Fiction.
* SimCity, homelessness, and utopia.
It seems we all now live in a Magnasanti whose governing algorithm is to capture all work and play and turn them not only into commodities but also into data, and to subordinate all praxis to the rule of exchange. Any data that undermines the premise that this can go on and on for 50,000 years, has to be turned into non-data. If there’s work and play to be done, then, it’s inside the gamespace that is now the world. Is there a way that this gamespace could be the material with which to build another one?
* Parenting and the Profession: Don’t Expect Much When You’re Expecting.
* Higher Education and the Promise of Insurgent Public Memory.
While the post-9/11 attacks have taken an even more dangerous turn, higher education is still a site of intense struggle, but it is fair to say the right wing is winning. The success of the financial elite in waging this war can be measured not only by the rise in the stranglehold of neoliberal policies over higher education, the increasing corporatization of the university, the evisceration of full-time, tenured jobs for faculty, the dumbing down of the curriculum, the view of students as customers, and the growing influence of the military-industrial-academic complex in the service of the financial elite, but also in the erasing of public memory. Memory is no longer insurgent; that is, it has been erased as a critical educational and political optic for moral witnessing, testimony and civic courage. On the contrary, it is either being cleansed or erased by the new apologists for the status quo who urge people to love the United States, which means giving up any sense of counter memory, interrogation of dominant narratives or retrieval of lost histories of struggle.
* 158 Private Colleges Fail Government’s Financial-Responsibility Test.
* The gangsters of Ferguson. But even this is still not “proof!”
* The Ferguson PD is NOT medieval. It’s modern white supremacy.
* Judge who invented Ferguson’s debtor’s prisons owes $170K in tax.
* It’s Not Just the Drug War: Progressive narratives about what’s driving mass incarceration don’t quite add up.
* Sotomayor May Have Saved Obamacare.
* Designing The Grand Budapest Hotel with Marquette alum Adam Stockhausen.
* Why Is Milwaukee So Bad For Black People?
* “Rahm Emanuel pays the price for not pandering.” Why should the poor man be voted out of office just because his policies are horror-shows that no one likes?
* A corrupt politician from New Jersey? What will they think of next?
* Wow: Ringling Bros. Circus Will Stop Using Elephants By 2018.
* Cities Are Quietly Reviving A Jim Crow-Era Trick To Suppress Latino Votes.
* Hartford, CT says friends can’t room together unless some of them are servants.
* This Is What It’s Like To Go To Prison For Trolling.
* Brianna Wu vs. the Troll Army.
* Short film of the weekend: “Chronemics.”
* Gasp! Science proves men tend to be more narcissistic than women.
* The Time That Charles Babbage Tried To Summon The Devil.
* Mary Cain Is Growing Up Fast.
* Wellesley Will Admit Transgender Applicants. Planet Fitness Under Fire For Supporting Trans Woman, Kicking Out Transphobic Member. Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as “all gender” face harassment and police detention at UC Berkeley. US Army eases ban on transgender soldiers.
* The headline reads, “Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a ‘fecal time bomb.’”
* Colonization: Venus better than Mars?
* On Iain M. Banks and the Video Game that Inspired Excession: Civilization.
* Get it together, Millennials! “Millennials like to spank their kids just as much as their parents did.”
* The Catholic Church Opposes the Death Penalty. Why Don’t White Catholics?
* What’s Next After “Right to Work”?
* David Graeber talks about his latest book, The Utopia of Rules.
* The Pigeon King and the Ponzi Scheme That Shook Canada.
* Conservative columnist can’t mourn Nimoy’s death because Spock reminds him of Obama. Is there nothing Obama can’t destroy?
* 9 Social Panics That Gripped America.
* How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton’s Secret Staff Email System?
* To whatever extent Doctor Who series 8 was a bit rocky, it seems like it’s Jenna Coleman’s fault.
* Making teaching a miserable profession has had a completely unexpected effect.
* Why Are Liberals Resigned to Low Wages? What could explain it?
* Is Yik Yak The New Weapon Against Campus Rape Culture?
* Tilt-shift effect applied to Van Gogh paintings.
* They say we as a society are no longer capable of great things.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 7, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Tuesday Links!
* The bottom line of the neoliberal assault on the universities is the increasing power of management and the undermining of faculty self-governance. The real story behind MOOCs may be the ways in which they assist management restructuring efforts of core university practices, under the smiley-faced banner of “open access” and assisted in some cases by their “superstar”, camera-ready professors.
* We Kill People Based on Metadata.
* Preparing for the apocalypse: Last November, after five years of remarkable negotiations that unfolded far from the Delta, representatives from the U.S. and Mexico agreed to a complex, multi-part water deal that will give them desperately needed flexibility for weathering the drought. Adjusting to the Apocalypse.
* NASA Discovers This Planet, Planet Earth, Just Might Be What It’s Been Searching For All Along.
* Aeon has an essay trying to think up some way we could include the people of the future in the politics of the present without just resolving to be morally decent to them.
* How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compare Globally. Norway Has Found a Solution to the Gender Wage Gap That America Needs to Try.
* No-one-could-have-predicted watch: Employers Eye Moving Sickest Workers To Insurance Exchanges.
* But two decades since the schools began to appear, educators from both systems concede that very little of what has worked for charter schools has found its way into regular classrooms. Testy political battles over space and money, including one that became glaringly public in New York State this spring, have inhibited attempts at collaboration. The sharing of school buildings, which in theory should foster communication, has more frequently led to conflict. And some charter schools have veered so sharply from the traditional model — with longer school years, armies of nonunion workers and flashy enrichment opportunities like trips to the Galápagos Islands — that their ideas are viewed as unworkable in regular schools. Charter Schools’ False Promise. Neoliberal reform in Newark.
* Race, Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.
* The fauxtopias of suburban Detroit.
* How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance.
* Europe’s Highest Court Tells Google People Have The “Right To Be Forgotten.”
* I’m back on top: Red wine’s “magic ingredient” resveratrol has no health benefits.
* But not for long: Being a bully may be good for your health, study finds.
* According to Cass Sunstein, studies in psychology and behavioral economics show that 80% of the population is “unrealistically optimistic.” When it comes to their own actions and life prospects, people tend to have unwarranted expectations that things will work out well for them. The other 20%? The realists? They “include a number of people who are clinically depressed.
* The five-second rule: It’s still good.
* Tomorrow’s pro-life placards today: rare mono-mono twins born holding hands at birth.
* Kim Stanley Robinson introduces the very best of Gene Wolfe.
* The Freakonomics boys declare that trial by ordeal must have worked because something something game theory.
* 25 hedge fund managers earned more than double every kindergarten teacher combined.
* As long as it is something that you would do even if it were unpaid, it is increasingly becoming something you have to do for free or for very little. On the other hand, you can be paid to do the kind of jobs that no one would do if managers did not invent them.
* I don’t care what you say: I choose to believe in China’s high-speed undersea Pacific train.
* Epic fails of the startup world.
* Did they just find the Santa Maria?
* The kids aren’t all right: Reading Report Shows American Children Lack Proficiency, Interest.
* When creeper dads ruin prom.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 13, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Wednesday Links!
* CFP: World Science Fiction Studies.
* We apply because it is absurd: The academic job market: A Kierkegaardian perspective. Also good from Adam: Some reservations about non-violent resistance. To what are “contrarians” contrary?
* Can a Pope Help Sustain Humanity and Ecology?
* How The “Trigger Warning” Took Over The Internet.
* There’s an old joke about economists: A mathematician, a statistician and an economist apply for a job. The interviewer asks, “What’s two plus two?” The mathematician says, “Four.” The statistician thinks for a second and says, “On average, four.” And the economist gets up, closes the door, turns to the interviewer and says, “What do you want it to be?”
* BREAKING: The U.S. Constitution Is Impossible to Amend. This is why we need to start over.
* BREAKING: New Report Finds Climate Change Already Having Broad Impact. This is why we need to start over.
* “Check your privilege!” is a speech-act that intends the maintenance of anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-capitalist groups against the persistent threat of auto-corruption. One only says “Check your privilege!” to comrades, to those with whom you co-incline. It’s a locution that keeps political lines of communication clear from all of the fucked-up shit we bring, and can’t not bring, to our collectivities. … A simple way of putting this: One checks the privileges of one’s friends. One destroys those of one’s enemies. One does the former in the service of the latter.
* Charter Schools Gone Wild: Study Finds Widespread Fraud, Mismanagement and Waste.
* Los Angeles now spending more on Wall Street fees than on maintaining roads.
* The Silencing Of Cecily McMillan.
* Advocates Respond to White House Report on College Sexual Assault.
* Universities and researchers all over the world have a problem with Microsoft. It’s not just that the company forces expensive and dated software on customers. Using products like Microsoft’s email service Outlook is potentially in breach of the ethical contracts researchers sign when they promise to safeguard the privacy of their subjects.
* The nursery and the sitting room are part of a Mehrgenerationenhaus, literally a “multigeneration house”, which is a kindergarten, a social centre for the elderly and somewhere young families can drop in for coffee and advice. In theory, the sitting room is reserved for the over-60s, but in the practice the door to the kids’ area rarely stays closed for long.
* “With Porn Studies, there is no such ambiguity about the sheer world-making power of pornography.”
* I just can’t accept that a movie starring a 72-year-old Harrison Ford is going to be called “The Ancient Fear.”
* Obama’s pretending he cares about climate again. Vox is straight-up advocating that America invade Iran I guess.
* W. Kamau Bell and Tressie McMillan Cottom discuss Leslie Jones, blackness, and Saturday Night Live.
* Great moments in poorly thought-out pedagogy.
* Amherst College Officially Bans All Fraternities And Sororities — though friends of Facebook familiar with the place tell me that it’s not as big a deal as it sounds.
* Gasp! Conservative Money Front Is Behind Princeton’s “White Privilege” Guy.
* Teen Pregnancies Are Plunging Because Young People Are Making Responsible Sexual Decisions.
* Science reporting is abysmal, sexual difference edition.
* Disruptive innovation, Soylent Green edition.
* A college degree is worth $831,000.
* And the future is finally here: Grilled Cheese Delivered By Parachute, Coming Soon to NYC.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 7, 2014 at 11:16 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with abortion, academia, academic jobs, administrative blight, Afrofuturism, Amherst, austerity, Barack Obama, capitalism, Catholicism, Cecily McMillan, centers for teaching and learning, CFPs, charter schools, class struggle, climate change, college, comedy, contrarianism, denialism, disruptive innovation, ecology, economists, Episode 7, ethics, Florida, food, fraternities, grilled cheese, headlines, How the University Works, infrastructure, Iran, Kierkegaard, Los Angeles, Microsoft, misogyny, multi generation houses, music, neoliberalism, New York, nonviolence, Occupy, pedagogy, places to invade next, police violence, politics, Porn Studies, pornography, Princeton, privilege, prom, race, rape culture, resistance, revolution, rising sea levels, Saturday Night Live, scams, science fiction, sex, sexism, Slate pitches, slavery, social justice, Soylent Green, Star Wars, Sun Ra, teaching, teen pregnancy, the Constitution, the future is now, the Holocaust, the Pope, Title IX, trigger warnings, Vox, white privilege
Today Is Tuesday!
* Gasp.
* Worker’s Comp Lessons From an Injured Adjunct.
* Progressive nonprofits that don’t pay their interns.
* At the beginning of April, one of the most important labor unions in U.S. higher education staged an unexpected two-day strike. It wasn’t the American Association of University Professors — the left-leaning professors’ union — or a chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, representing service workers; it was United Auto Workers Local 2865. Auto workers might appear to be an odd group to strike across American university campuses, but Local 2865 represents 12,000 teaching assistants, associate instructors and undergraduate tutors at University of California campuses.
* The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back.
* Kavanagh is referring to the lowered rate-per-bed the GEO Group offered Arizona as the national economy cratered in 2008. The rate applied to emergency “temporary” beds at two of its facilities to house an overflow of prisoners. In exchange for the discount, the state agreed to meet a 100% occupancy rate for all non-emergency beds at both prisons.
* On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
* Big Data: A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross.
* Coming soon: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, edited by Tarshia L. Stanley.
* DC says it’s finally publishing Grant Morrison’s Multiversity.
* Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only If We Act Now. I have some terrible news.
* How to Lie with Data Visualization.
* Casino Says World-Famous Gambler Cheated It Out of $10 Million.
* Zero tolerance watch: Police charge high school student with disorderly conduct for using iPad to prove he’s being bullied.
* KFC Selling Fried Chicken Prom Corsages as World Falls Into Darkness.
* Walt Disney presents: Firefly.
* Science has officially proven the exact age that men get grumpy. Still so many years for me to go.
* Fingers crossed! Wisconsin Republicans To Vote On Secession.
* BREAKING: The Grand Budapest Hotel is a huge hit for Wes Anderson.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 15, 2014 at 1:55 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Wednesday Night Links
* Net Neutrality hit a wall yesterday with a court decision ruling that the FCC can’t regulate broadband Internet in this way. More on what happens next from Boing Boing, MetaFilter, and Daily Kos.
* Obama has slightly tweaked national nuclear weapons policy. This is, of course, high treason.
* The Mississippi no-lesbians-at-prom debacle gets more atrocious every day.
* U.S. downgraded from “free” to “mostly free.” I’m assuming these categories work the way they do in The Princess Bride.
* Dr. Horrible as 8-bit video game.
* Just when we thought we were out: Another new Harry Potter book in ten years or so?
* Timewaster of the night: Tiny Castle.
* Josh Marshall: I’m curious whether under international law a diplomat can be expelled from a host country simply for being a raging c@#k.
* And your attention please: Slavery officially no longer relevant.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 7, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Barack Obama, Bob McDonnell, diplomatic immunity, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, equality, freedom, games, gay rights, Harry Potter, Internet, Mississippi, net neutrality, nuclearity, prom, Qatar, slavery, The Princess Bride, treason, Virginia
Saturday, Is It?
* Wearing a revealing prom dress? That’s a paddlin’.
* Do corporations have an obligation to increase shareholder value over all other considerations? Turns out the answer is “not really”—and corporate personhood is actually on the side of angels here:
Oddly, no previous management research has looked at what the legal literature says about the topic, so we conducted a systematic analysis of a century’s worth of legal theory and precedent. It turns out that the law provides a surprisingly clear answer: Shareholders do not own the corporation, which is an autonomous legal person…
More at MeFi.
* California Attorney General Jerry Brown has seen the unedited tapes of the James O’Keefe hoax that brought down ACORN and has determined they were dishonestly edited.
* Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit have been cleared (again) in the Climategate stolen email “scandal.”
* Slate has the four craziest lies about health care reform.
* Didn’t Joss say Dollhouse was over and that the story wouldn’t continue in any form? Now there’s talk of comics.
* Questions with too many answers: “Why America hates Duke basketball.”
Written by gerrycanavan
April 3, 2010 at 8:56 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with ACORN, climate change, college basketball, comics, corporate personhood, corporations, Dollhouse, Duke, fake scandals, games, health care, high school, hoaxes, James O'Keefe, Joss Whedon, lies and lying liars, misogyny, prom
3/16
* News that a Mississippi high school has canceled prom rather than allow a lesbian couple to attend has caused a “lesbian prom pictures” meme to ripple across the Internets.
* Inside Higher Ed has an article concerning (another) recent spate of suicides at Cornell.
* Saudi Arabia may not worry about Peak Oil, but they’re definitely nervous about Peak Demand.
* If David Brooks had a point, he might have a point. More from Taibbi and Chait.
* More Congressional procedure! Just because “deem and pass” happens all the time doesn’t mean it’s not tyranny when Nancy Pelosi does it. Ezra Klein is right when he says we should simplify Congressional procedure, but I think our friends in the GOP would be the first to tell us we can’t just unilaterally disarm.
* Avatar will be rereleased with an additional forty minutes à la Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, bringing its total running time to three days.
* But what the world needs most, of course, is another Battlestar Galactica sequel. I’ve fallen off watching Caprica, but from what I hear it’s at least good enough to Netflix—but I’m really not sure what’s left for a third series, except (perhaps) something pre-apocalpytic set on contemporary Earth using the BSG mythology as its starting point. Still, and it’s just a crazy idea: why not something new?
Written by gerrycanavan
March 16, 2010 at 11:17 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with academia, actually existing media bias, Avatar, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Cornell, David Brooks, energy, gay rights, health care, high school, House of Representatives, legislative hardball, Lord of the Rings, Misssissippi, Nancy Pelosi, nothing new under the sun, Peak Demand, Peak Oil, politics, prom, reconciliation, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, science fiction, suicide, SyFy Channel, the Senate, tyranny