Posts Tagged ‘snow’
Sunday Reading!
* CFP: Folk Horror. CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2022.
* Four Tiny Essays on SF/F.
* The Future Is Black, Not Bleak: On Afrofuturist Poetry.
most of SF is đ˘ https://t.co/uK9A4ZatBD
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 19, 2022
* Notes on Contemporary University Struggles: A Dossier.
* The Great Faculty Disengagement: Faculty members arenât leaving in droves, but they are increasingly pulling away.
* Hustling to get by: side jobs in grad school. Great Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher Education.
* Microsyllabus: The History of Campus Policing.
* They fought critical race theory. Now theyâre focusing on âcurriculum transparency.â
nice to just lay it all out like that https://t.co/alaaxYSedE pic.twitter.com/eT6tc4BxPj
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 21, 2022
* Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined. Americaâs second pandemic winter: More virus, less death. Parents and caregivers of young children say they’ve hit pandemic rock bottom. Students are protesting covid policies â and the adults who wonât listen to them. America’s youth turn left.
* Families are in distress after the first month without the expanded child tax credit.
* âIf I Die, I Dieâ: Meat Loaf Spurned COVID Rules Before Death. Inside Meat Loaf’s Health Troubles, Including Vocal Strain, Alcoholism and Onstage Collapses. Meat Loaf Was My Softball Coach.
only in the work of meat loaf do we see the dialectical co-constitution of what is âcoolâ and what is âuncool,â precisely how what is cool is always deeply uncool and what is uncool is always, in its way, cool https://t.co/KyAElUgrXn
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 21, 2022
Huck Finnâs âAll right then, I'll go to hellâ is for my money one of the absolute greatest sentences ever written and itâs sort of funny how many of Meat Loafâs songs are elaborations on that theme but exclusively about getting laid.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 21, 2022
submitted for peer review pic.twitter.com/SrrfFWKWlK
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 21, 2022
rock legend, actor, covid denialist â two out of three ainât bad
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 21, 2022
* Americaâs shift to the right in 2021 is worse news for Democrats than it seems. The long slide: Inside Bidenâs declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises. âThe Lowest Point in My Lifetimeâ: How 14 Independent Voters Feel About America. Joe Biden Promised Change. He Hasnât Delivered.
hard to believe thereâs just 367 days until Kamala Harris becomes president of the United States
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 20, 2022
* What Does It Mean If Republicans Wonât Debate?
* Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines. Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump. Would Trump Throw His Own Kids Under the Bus to Save Himself? We May Soon Find Out.
* Florida Advances Bill That Would Ban Making White People Feel Bad about Racism, and No, That’s Not a Joke.
* Scientists Warn that Sixth Mass Extinction Has âProbably Startedâ. How to Prepare for Climate Change’s Most Immediate Impacts. Donât Look Up Is Missing What We Really Need From Climate Change Movies.
* Scientists Are Racing to Understand the Fury of Tongaâs Volcano. Tonga volcano: islands covered in ash as three deaths confirmed.
* âWhen my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. Iâm very happy to say weâre on schedule,â said Yankovic in a statement. âAnd I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.â
* The Moon Knight moment.
* The Star Trek century.
* Do you know what’s cooler than One Ring?
weâre gonna see Gandalf breeding Hobbits as a Ring-containment device in an illegal laboratory in the valley of Anduin
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 19, 2022
GIMLI: ORIGINS
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 19, 2022
Sexy Sauron, what have you done?
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 19, 2022
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sauron, what have you done?
Sexy Sauron, you broke the rulesâŚ
* Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Looks Absolutely Incredible, But… Crunch and TT Games.
* Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them.
* Smedley Butler Helped Build American Empire. Then He Turned Against It.
* The Fall of NC Mutual.
* Mother sues Meta and Snap over daughter’s suicide.
* Where’s the snow? Milwaukee is nearly 15 inches below its average this season.
* At-will employment in Wisconsin apparently means that you can be fired at any time for any reason but you need your boss’s permission to take a new job.
* Acting Mayor Johnson announces public safety plan to tackle gun violence, car thefts and reckless driving in Milwaukee.
* Discrimination has cost Black home owners of billions of dollars of generational wealth. What can change that?
* Huge, if true: Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme.
* Shakespeare Noir. The Tragedy of Macbeth Is a Cinematic Feast for Starving Film Lovers.
* 6 Dysfunctional Family Roles and Their Characteristics.
* New Bad Art Friend / West End Caleb mashup just dropped.
* Alcohol consumption can directly cause cancer, new genetic study finds.
* The Medieval Vegetarian.
* The Battle over Howard the Duck.
* This is your only friend in the world right now. It’s gonna be a long night.
* tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life
* They stan.
* We stan.
* What are the most compelling and readable “plotless” novels you’ve ever read? My answer.
* And it’s hard to imagine it wouldnât be better with the pizza in hand.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 23, 2022 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Not CoronavirME — CoronavirUS
* The new SFFTV is out, a special issue on Blade Runner and its legacies. It’s a really good one — check it out! Elsewhere on the SFFTV beat: Congratulations to Joseph Jenner, whose ‘Gendering the Anthropocene: Female astronauts, failed motherhood and the overview effect’ (from #12.1) has just been shortlisted for the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies’ Award for best Doctoral Student Article/Chapter!
* This week’s must-read: The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
*Â Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.
*Â âOh My God, Itâs Milton Friedman for Kidsâ:Â A historian of capitalism exposes how Choose Your Own Adventure books indoctrinated â80s children with the idea that success is simply the result of individual âgood choices.â
* UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Graduate Student Workers. UCSC cancels classes, shutters services as demonstrators block roadways. I Believe in the Strike. UCSC, The Fate of Graduate Education, and the Future of the University. After Announcing Firing of Grad Assistants, UC-Santa Cruz Is in Turmoil. “So far UCSC has spent $5.1 million dollars on police rather than meet with striking graduate students; this is nearly 25% of the cost of an annual COLA for all graduate students.” MLA Statement. Donate to the strike fund.
* The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s. The New School of Labor Rights.
* Critical theory represents the power, not the corruption, of the humanities.
* Debtors of the World, Unite!
I passed this in the hospital hallway going home one night after one of my sisterâs surgeries and I think about it all the time pic.twitter.com/cTIXWTFEgf
— bean (@christapeterso) March 6, 2020
* First Covid-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home raises concerns. The ominous days leading up to the coronavirus outbreak at Life Care Center in Kirkland. âWeâre gearing up for something extremely significantâ: Top hospitals across the US told us how theyâre preparing for the coronavirus outbreak. Cronyism and Conflicts of Interest in Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force. âTo hell and backâ: my three weeks suffering from coronavirus. The new normal. To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China. Coronavirus Will Test Our New Way of Life. WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought. Another senior politician has died of coronavirus in Iran, where 8% of the parliament is infected. State by state, we’ve still barely tested anyone. When Purell is Contraband, How Do You Contain Coronavirus? New CDC guidance says older adults should ‘stay at home as much as possible’ due to coronavirus. AIPAC. CPAC. Get ready for live-streamed funerals. Lourdes shrine closes healing pools as precaution against coronavirus. Port of Los Angeles Sees Coronavirus Impact Sharply Reducing Imports. As the coronavirus spreads, one study predicts that even the best-case scenario is 15 million dead and a $2.4 trillion hit to global GDP. CoronaCoin: A coronavirus speculative deathwatch cryptocurrency. ‘If We Don’t Work, We Don’t Get Paid.’ How the Coronavirus Is Exposing Inequality Among America’s Workers. America Is About to Get a Godawful Lesson in Why Health Care Should Never Be a For-Profit Business. The Invisible Hand Wants You Dead. We’re in trouble.
* SXSW Cancelled, Unbelievably. The effect on Austin will be massive. Event Admits It Has No Insurance for Coronavirus Cancellation.
* First U.S. Colleges Close Classrooms as Virus Spreads. More Could Follow. UW, Seattle University classes moving online starting Monday. Stanford too. As Coronavirus Spreads, the Decision to Move Classes Online Is the First Step. What Comes Next? Coronavirus Looms Over March Madness.
1/n The reason why we knew early about Seattle outbreak of #coronavirus was because of sentinel surveillance work by independent scientists. Such surveillance never got totally underway in other cities. So other U.S. hot spots may not be fully detected yet https://t.co/qmwVvxyEOn
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) March 7, 2020
1. A very short thread on the power of data graphics and scientific communication.
Roughly a week ago, some very smart person* sat down, drew this graph, and saved lives.
(*It's 2 AM. Without an economist subscription, I can't quickly discover whom. Maybe someone can help.) pic.twitter.com/eU71Eu60eS
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 6, 2020
1. A fairly grim thread coming. America is handling the #coronavirus like Iran, so it's likely what happens here will be like what's happening in Iran. In Iran, 8% of their parliament has been infected. Political leaders are dying. https://t.co/A7WX5hjHiA
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 7, 2020
I think most people arenât aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply havenât run the numbers yet. Letâs talk math. 1/n
— Liz Specht (@LizSpecht) March 7, 2020
By this estimate, by about May 8th, all open hospital beds in the US will be filled. (This says nothing, of course, about whether these beds are suitable for isolation of patients with a highly infectious virus.) 9/n
— Liz Specht (@LizSpecht) March 7, 2020
great worldbuilding detail, really evocative and creepy https://t.co/vqxy0q6mgV
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 7, 2020
* Graphic Novels Your Kid (Probably) Hasnât Read Yet.
*Â What to Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault.
To bring the spirit of these lessons into a childâs home, parents can focus on building a relationship with their daughter that teaches her that she is equal to men and has the right to set her own boundaries and see them respected. For dads, a simple thing to try is letting your daughter brush you off sometimes. Let her question your authority, talk back, and leave the room in the middle of an argument. These changes could be especially important if the greatest risk to your daughter comes from an authority figure, but they will apply to her peers too.
* Is Miscarriage Is So Normal, Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About It? The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go.
* The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon.
* We Re-Ordered The Entire Democratic Primary Calendar To Better Represent The Partyâs Voters. Twilight of Chris Matthews. Daily Caller gets one I can’t help but pass along. Bring in the boss? âThis Was a Griftâ: Bloomberg Staffers Explain Campaignâs Demise. Americaâs black billionaires have no place in a Bernie Sanders world! The Liberal-Conservative-Socialist Case for Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren: A Populist for the Professional Class. Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race. âBaileyâ vs. âblood and teethâ: The inside story of Elizabeth Warrenâs collapse. How Elizabeth Warren Lost. It Will Be Hard to Get Over What Happened to Elizabeth Warren. Capitalism Is Rallying Behind Joe Biden. Joe Biden Has a Long History of Giving Republicans What They Want. Democrats Rallying Around Joe Biden Could Alienate Generations of the Party’s Youth Support. Biden can finish Bernie off in Michigan. Who Said It: Trump or Biden? Democrats, You Really Do Not Want To Nominate Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s 2020 Campaign Makes Me Sick with Fear for Our Future. I just remembered Joe Biden is fine. Electability in the time of coronavirus. What if thereâs no hope? Sanders campaign hatches comeback plan.
The reason the establishment is boosting Biden, a weak candidate with a ton of baggage, is because they donât care if they win. Theyâd like to, but they donât have to. Theyâre not rationing insulin, drowning in debt, living paycheck to paycheck. Theyâll be fine either way.
— Your Dad (@InternetHippo) March 3, 2020
What's your favorite proposal from Joe Biden's campaign so far?
— John Pat Leary (@JohnPatLeary) March 4, 2020
Incredible to see Democrats consolidating behind a candidate who got caught in what should have been a career ending lie about Nelson Mandela *two days ago*
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 2, 2020
* Lots of my political thoughts have been going viral on Twitter lately, from the proper level of identification with a candidate to the ego protection of despising Bernie Sanders to just straight up rants to a pretty solid sitcom pilot. But nothing approaches a random repost of a meme I saw on Facebook.
* This seems fine: Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups.
* The head of CIS was illegally appointed and it barely even registers.
* The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread gets to The Dispossessed. And from the archives: Sexual Violence in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: Towards an Interpretation.
* I don’t want to shock you: Why algorithms can be racist and sexist.
* Larry Nassar victims want accountability. Olympic officials offered cash and veiled threats.
*Â Woody Allen Memoir Dropped by Hachette After Staff Walkout.
* Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
* Â In a lot of office environments, âbad energyâ might be code for âoldâ or âoverweightâ or âknows too much about labor law,â but one veteran WeWork employee said Rebekahâs firings were seemingly random and without obvious prejudice. âShe was just a spoiled baby,â the employee said.
* Hideo Kojimaâs Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds.
* Susana Polo writes for Polygon about her Twitter account, which, year-round, tweets out events in Lord of the Rings on the day that they happened. (via MeFi)
* Now I know you’re just making these up: “the snow firehose.”
Written by gerrycanavan
March 7, 2020 at 9:29 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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So I Had A Lot of Tabs Open Links
* There’s a kind of “deleted scene” from my book out in the new issue of Women’s Studies: “Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia.” It’s in the second half of a special double-issue devoted to Butler, edited by Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey.
* I’ll be presenting a little bit of my research at the conference this weekend held by Marquette’s Center for the Advancement of the Humanities. Check it out!
* Thanks to everyone who helped me run ideas for my theory class next semester. Here’s what I went with.
* I really liked The Wandering Earth and I think you should see it in a theater — but if you must see it on Netflix I understand. The Chinese Sci-Fi Epic The Wandering Earth Could Be a Glimpse at the Future of the Blockbuster. And while we’re talking: How Chinese novelists are reimagining science fiction.
* CFP:Â Special Issue: âSurveilling the Body: Ableism and Anglophone Literature.â
* CFP: Science Fiction and Religion.
* CFP:Â Contemporary American Science Fiction Film: The Bush, Obama and Trump Years.
* Deadline getting close for SFRA 2019 in Hawai’i.
*Â Marcus Center announces 2019 dates for ‘Hamilton’ in Milwaukee.
* eSports at Marquette and beyond: The booming popularity of esports has started a vociferous debate over whether the NCAA or another entity will regulate the industry for colleges and universities.
*Â âNow Comes the Hard Partâ: 20-Day Strike at Wright State Has Ended.
* Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism.
*Â Multiple UNC Honor System members, including the Graduate and Professional Courtâs chairperson and attorney general, will testify at a public hearing Tuesday as graduate student activist Maya Little appeals sanctions brought against her last year.
* It is worse, much worse, than you think. It is absolutely time to panic about climate change. More David Wallace-Wells via MetaFilter. A new simulation finds that global warming could cause stratocumulus clouds to disappear in as little as a century, which would add 8°C (14°F) of extra warming. We broke down what climate change will do, region by region. This map shows you what your city will feel like in 2080 and boy, are we in for a treat. Want to know what your city will feel like in 2080? Look 500 miles south. Use these tools to help visualize the horror of rising sea levels. The Story Behind the Green New Dealâs Meteoric Rise. 7 Reasons Democrats Wonât Pass a Green New Deal. Democrats are climate deniers. This is an emergency, damn it. Climate signs. Polar bears. Who is the Subject of Climate Change? Insurers Worry a Financial Crisis May Come From Climate Risks. Why the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized Wild Riceâs Rights. Massive restoration of worldâs forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests. When Islamophobia, inequality, and climate change collide, well, this is How It Can Happen Here. ‘Moment of reckoning’: US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports. And this January was actually one of the warmest on record, polar vortex and all. But don’t worry, they’ve got this.
This is a genuinely incredible video of a senator scolding frightened children who are begging her for a chance to live, like itâs their fault for disturbing her. https://t.co/JyEs9UPxTt
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 22, 2019
This entire generation of ostensibly liberal leaders has failed in every conceivable way by every conceivable metric, their entire careers, and their final act on the global stage is this endless petulant temper tantrum that anyone has dared to notice.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 22, 2019
I donât want to hear any Democratic politician say anything to children but âIâm sorry, and I will never stop fighting to make up for what weâve done.â
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 23, 2019
The year is 2020. Democrats have won control of the White House and Congress. A new President declares a National Emergency on climate change and guns. Their bold plan: an exciting new web site where businesses and private persons can decide which tax-deferred advantage plan they
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) February 14, 2019
Decline in global population, past decade.
Butterflies: 53%
Beetles: 49%
Bees: 46%
Dragonflies: 37%
Flies: 25%(Biological Conservation)
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) February 12, 2019
*Â How sci-fi could help solve climate change.
* For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park’s museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
*Â Chimpanzees âtalkâ just like humans. Itâs time to realise how similar we are. Rethinking animal cognition. Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High.
* When you don’t try to solve a problem, it doesn’t get solved.
* In the mid-1970s, Jon Armond was traumatized by something he saw on Sesame Street. It was a cartoon about a little girl who encounters creatures formed by the cracks on her bedroom wallâincluding a horrifying, screaming face who called himself âThe Crack Master.â
* âEskimos Have Fifty Words for Snowâ is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong. But reversing itâannouncing proudly that they donâtâonly replicates that wrongness; you canât say no to a bad question and be right.
* A deep dive into stadium bathrooms.
*Â In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal.
* All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List.
* What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students. Teachers with Guns.
* Have you ever wondered what goes on in those school shooter trainings your childâs teacher is required to undergo? Vital, must read thread on the nightmare factory that schools have become.
In the debrief for that one I realized: my colleagues think theyâre being taught how to survive.
They donât know this technique is intended to slow down our deaths, to give law enforcement more time to respond
— Dr. Lisa Gilbert (@gilbertlisak) February 14, 2019
* A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitableâand brutalâas it was for men.
*Â The Rise of the Mega-University.
* U.S. Student Debt in âSerious Delinquencyâ Tops $166 Billion. Hereâs Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans. What’s changed about grad school in fifteen years.
*Â This neuroscientist is fighting sexual harassment in scienceâbut her own job is in peril.
* What is it like to go from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving buses? This piece tries to make sense of an unusual transition. An update from Steven Salaita.
*Â Sean Guynes reviews Aimee Bahng’s Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times.
* The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanityâs New Homes. What would human civilization look like on a tidally locked world?
* Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the movie The Martian? Yeah, it went bankrupt.
* 11-Year-Old Arrested After Refusing to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance.
* Two years in, some people are still expecting one of his scandals to bring him down. I know better. Being Raised by Two Narcissists Taught Me How to Deal with Trump.
* Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first. You’re half right!
* Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of the Money That Changed Everything.
*Â Build your own wealth tax: try your hand at taxing the superrich.
*Â Income inequality is likely worse than before the Great Depression.
*Â A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.
* Nice work if you can get it.
* When the field gets big, the primaries get weird.
* The Internet is a nightmare from which I am struggling to awake: The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America. A pediatrician exposes suicide tips for children hidden in videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids. YouTube Kids is just a horror show. The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars. Disney, Fortnite pull YouTube ads amidst concern over a “soft-core pedophile ring” operating in its comments. Apple and Google accused of helping ‘enforce gender apartheid’ by hosting Saudi government app that tracks women and stops them leaving the country. Classroom Technology Is Indoctrinating Students Into A Culture Of Surveillance.
* The past isn’t over, it isn’t even past.
*Â The United States Is a Progressive Nation With a Democracy Problem.
*Â State Universities Are Being Resegregated.
*Â Do Racial Epithets Have Any Place in the Classroom? A Professorâs Suspension Fuels That Debate.
* A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says.
* How neoliberalism normalizes hostility.
* How the United States reinvented empire.
* Pack the court. John Roberts is not your friend.
* Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot).
* The love life of May Parker.
*Â âItâs eating the worldâ: Inside the Knicksâ and David Fizdaleâs battle with âFortnite.’
*Â Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History.
* The One Choice You Weren’t Given In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Veale followed the GDPR right of access process to submit his request, and Netflix eventually returned that viewing data through an encrypted email. Veale then posted the results of his request to Twitter for all of us to peruse. The bottom line is that Netflix is recording and storing the choices people make when they watch the episode.
*Â Is Email Making Professors Stupid? I promise it’s not helping.
* Second, someone get this film made.
* Meet me tonight in Atlantic City.
* Guys, Star Trek is CANCELLED.
R2-D2âs career is also a century long legacy of failure and catastrophe, culminating in catatonic depression, while C-3POâs nihilism allows him to attach himself to the ruling class of any political order he encounters.
The analogy is flawless. https://t.co/27TCF5QXV0
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 14, 2019
* Harvard got so rich it’s even going after Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage. Shameful.
* Psychology. Douchey robot bosses. Psyops. Political capital. A Brief History of Life Online. Rapunzel.
* And be warned, traveler: Tetris 99 is extremely very good.
— matthew miles goodrich (@mmilesgoodrich) February 23, 2019
Written by gerrycanavan
February 25, 2019 at 12:14 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Tuesday Links!
* FiveThirtyEight has been doing a great series on Mars colonization. Today’s entries are all about space sex. Also: Everything About Mars Is The Worst.
* Also at FiveThirtyEight: The Odds Youâll Fill Out A Perfect Bracket.
* TRAPPIST-1 seems like a no-go for humanity, but three of the worlds are close enough for life to hop between them.
*Â New York 2140 vs. The Collapsing Empire: Which New Sci-Fi Novel Is for You?
* ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Turns 20, from my “Buffy at 20″ co-organizer James South.
* On the coming apocalypse (and other’s people’s babies).
Your grandchildren were murdered by your parents.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 14, 2017
* What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders?
* From the archives: Snow Days Under Socialism.
*Â No, big snowstorms like this arenât normal.
* America elected a parasite. Let’s take away health insurance from 24 million people. Or 26 million, who’s counting. This Level of Corruption Is Unprecedented in the Modern History of the Presidency. Gotta save money to steal money. “Senate Democrats prepare for spring battle over Trumpâs border wall.”
24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to the population of:
VT
AL
ND
SD
DE
MT
RI
ME
NH
ID
WV
NE
NM
KS
WY**combined**.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 13, 2017
more people will lose health insurance under trumpcare than the entire population of florida
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 13, 2017
Fun fact: AHCA is projected to kill 17,000 people its 1st year. If all 301 GOP congressmen vote for it, each will have murdered 56 Americans
— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) March 13, 2017
find a man who smiles at you the way Paul Ryan smiles at a rise in the infant mortality rate
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 13, 2017
Ah good, Paul Ryan is finally clearing up some misconceptions about the GOP's health plan: pic.twitter.com/FWRiMb30Ni
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) March 14, 2017
TRUMP: I will use the bodies of dead 64-year-olds to build my wall.
DEMOCRATS: lol I thought you said Mexico would pay for it— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 13, 2017
*Â Remember the People Americaâs Healthcare System Has Already Killed.
* The university in ruins, Trump edition.
* The Party of Eugenics. They both are, honestly, but the GOP is just so much more vulgar about it.
* At every moment when Trump might have been stopped, when he might have been forced into bankruptcy, had his credit denied, had his loans called in, his licenses revoked, at every juncture where he might have been convicted of a crime or sent to jailâand, again, this is well before he makes his successful bid for the White Houseâsome unplanned and unintended conspiracy of economic reason and political lowlifery mobilizes to protect him. (And it really is unplanned and unintended. The genius of the American system is how the Invisible Hand works to produce systemic vice rather than incidental virtue.)
* We’re heading towards something very ugly:Â Employers can ban staff from wearing headscarves, European court rules.
* American Empire: The Reboot.
*Â Seeing red: Membership triples for the Democratic Socialists of America.
* The Onion struggling to lampoon Trump.
* Violent video games found not to affect empathy, again.
* The hype for Logan seems to be reaching comical proportions, but still, you’d be hard-pressed to find another recent superhero movie that was worth emulating.
*Â Should a Chimpanzee Be Considered a Person?
* MMMBop:Â Hanson announces 25th anniversary tour as your death rapidly approaches.
*Â The economics of airline classes.
* Bowie impersonates other singers like Springsteen, Lou Reed. Everything has been bullshit since Bowie died.
* Because you demanded it! Young Sheldon.
* USA Today discovers Hello from the Magic Tavern. They’ve hit a real stride lately as story events have allowed them to move away from their standard format — and they were great before.
*Â Every Author on Your English Syllabus, Summed Up in a Single Sentence.
*Â Itâs Donald Trumpâs Fault Iron Fist Is Bad, Not Marvelâs, Says Star Finn Jones. If you say so.
* A People’s History of the Marvel Universe. Via Abigail Nussbaum’s second Hugos post.
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February 28 Links! All the Links You Need for February 28
* Science Fiction Film and Television 10.1 is out, with articles on the suburban fantastic, the work of art in the age of the superhero, utopian film, review essays on The Martian and Terminator: Genysis, and my article on apocalyptic children’s literature. At long last, the world can discover why The Lorax is actually bad…
* My Octavia Butler book was discussed on the most recent episode of GribCast, on Parable of the Sower. (They start talking about me about 59ish minutes in, and especially around 1:30.) Meanwhile, later this spring: Octavia E. Butler’s Archive on View for First Time.
* If you knew our friend Nina Riggs, here is the donation page for John and the boys. And here’s the Amazon page for her book, which comes out this June.
* Instrumentalizing Earthseed.
*Â Fast Forward #289 â Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
* CFP: “Crips In Space: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Futurism.” And there’s still one day to submit to the SF exec group’s guaranteed MLA 2018 session on Satire and Science Fiction in Dystopian Times.
* Presenting the Nebula finalists.
*Â Inside the Brutal World of Comedy Open Mikes.
* The Melancholy of Don Bluth.
* Comics studies comes of age.
* Purging Iowa’s universities. The Campus Free Speech Battle You’re Not Seeing.
* How Trumpâs campaign staffers tried to keep him off Twitter. In Trumpâs Volleys, Echoes of Alex Jonesâs Conspiracy Theories. Asylum seekers take a cold journey to Manitoba via Trump’s America. We Are Living In the Second Chapter of the Worst-Case Scenario. How to lose a constitutional democracy. Silence of the hacks. Trumpâs TlĂśn. The Trumpocene. Untranslatable. Neurosyphilis?
*Â We can imagine a person slowly becoming aware that he is the subject of catastrophe.
* Hear Something About An Immigration Raid? Here’s How To Safely Report It. On ICE. Is ICE Out of Control? ICE detainee with brain tumor removed from hospital. Deportation ruses. What Itâs Like to Be a Teen Living in an Immigration Detention Center. Ten Hours in Houston. Abolish ICE.
REPUBLICANS: Hi, weâre ethnic cleansers!
DEMOCRATS: And *weâre* the loyal opposition!
BOTH: And together weâre [INHUMAN SCREECHING]
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 22, 2017
* On the Milo Bus With the Lost Boys of Americaâs New Right. 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump.
* On the deep state. Ditching the deep state. The Deep State, the Media, and the Crisis of Legitimacy.
Indeed, both sides are equally illegitimate on the popular level. Both sides are pushing agendas with no constituency. No one outside a small hardcore of party insiders and hack pundits wants either âsmartâ technocracy or nihilistic faux-libertarianism. The Democrats have been electorally devastated, but the Republicans are in the awkward position of being given the keys to the kingdom and yet realizing that they are advocating things that no one wants. They probably will push through more of their destructive idiocy, just because thatâs who they are, but itâs mainly happening because theyâve set up the system so that itâs nearly impossible for them to get voted out â an interesting counterpoint to the other major institutional structures (the Deep State and news media) that we absolutely canât vote out of office.
The only rallying point for genuine popular legitimacy right now is a desire to remove Trump and, in the meantime, humiliate and impede him as much as possible. And Iâll be clear: those are goals I share. The danger is settling for that goal, in such a way as to finally close the door on democratic accountability altogether.
* On North Carolina’s Moral Mondays.
* Space news! Nearby Star Hosts 7 Earth-Size Planets. SpaceX plans to send two people around the Moon. Mars needs lawyers!
*Â The Relevance of Biopunk Science Fiction.
* Like domesticity, segregation had to be invented.
* Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research. The Trump Administrationâs Lies About Voter Fraud Will Lead to Massive Voter Suppression.
* Income inequality and advertising. That link is probably the good news.
* Guys I think the FBI might be bad.
* Even Trump’s fake terror arrests are worse.
* Anyway we’re all going to die. And pretty soon!
* Rule by algorithm. An Algorithm Is Replacing Bail Hearings in New Jersey.
* Why facts don’t change our minds.
* Visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
* The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens.
* Checking in with SMBC: The Problem of Good. The Path of a Hero. How to Solve a Physics Problem. On the Etiology of Fuckers. Paging r/DaystromInstitute. Solving Sophie’s Choice. Gifts from God. And now to insult my core demographic. And that’s why I invented cancer. Don’t you dare stop scrolling, not now, not ever.
* The radical argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare.
* The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party of America. After more than a half-century in the wilderness, the socialist left reemerges in America.
*Â Teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage became legal.
* The ACLU sues Milwaukee over stop-and-frisk.
* The last days of Standing Rock.
* âAlternativeâ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.
*Â Now Arizona has responded with a new â and some say bizarre â solution to this quandary: Death row inmates can bring their own execution drugs. The stateâs manual for execution procedures, which was revised last month, says attorneys of death row inmates, or others acting on their behalf, can obtain pentobarbital or sodium Pentothal and give them to the state to ensure a smooth execution.
* And I say $100/day is too good for ’em!
* Scientists Say Theyâve Discovered a Hidden Continent Under New Zealand. Probably ought to invade just to be on the safe side.
* Huge, if true:Â Millennials arenât destroying society â theyâre on the front lines against the forces that are.
*Â Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry.
* Radical feminism finds a way.
* This is what Earth will look like if when we melt all the ice. Is It Okay to Enjoy the Warm Winters of Climate Change? Milwaukee temperature hits 66 degrees, shatters record. Wednesday marks 67 consecutive days since the City of Chicago logged an inch of snow.
* This interview with Peter Singer makes it very hard to see his work as anything but horrifyingly eugenic. What seemed to begin several decades ago as a thought experiment about animal intelligence has shifted into very disturbing ableism.
Republicans seek however many votes they need to relegalize slavery.
Democrats seek one vote less than they would need to ever do anything.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 18, 2017
* In an age without heroes, there was the Boss.
* In search of Forrest Fenn’s treasure.
* I hate this more than the discovery that the Death Star flaw was engineered. I don’t like much of this either. Bring back the old EU!
*Â 20 Brutally Hilarious Comics For People Who Like Dark Humour. You had me at hello!
*Â What Are the Chances? Success in the Arts in the 21st Century.
* Zombie cities of the Chinese Rust Belt.
* The nationâs only deaf menâs college basketball team, on the verge of its first March Madness. Meanwhile, UVM is undefeated.
* And you can’t fool me: this one was already a Black Mirror episode.
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Christmas and/or Fascism Megapost Forever and Ever Links – Part One!
* I had a great time as the guest on this week’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy talking about my Octavia Butler book, which has gotten some nice attention lately, including an interview in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel last weekend as well. I was also on Radio Free Marquette this week, talking Rogue One…
* Another great Butler piece making the rounds right now: My Neighbor Octavia.
* A New Inquiry syllabus on Speculating Futures. Wired‘s first-ever science fiction issue.
* Monday’s Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke. Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool. The Left and Long Shots. Trump Is Unambiguously Illegible to be President. Meanwhile, on the lawlessness beat: Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump. Amid outcry, N.C. GOP passes law to curb Democratic governorâs power.
* Hunter S. Thompson, the Hell’s Angels, and Trump. Look, all I’m saying is let’s at least give Nyarlathotep a chance. The Government Is Out of the Equality Business. When tyranny takes hold. Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt. It’s Trump’s America now. Time to get over our attachment to facts. And on that note: Too good not to believe.
* Not that we’re doing much better over here: Vox and the rise of explaintainment.
* How to Defeat an Autocrat: Flocking Behavior. Grassroots organizing in the Age of Trump.
* The worst possible Democrat at the worst possible time, forever and ever amen. What the Hell Is Wrong with America’s Establishment Liberals? Of course they are. The Year in Faux Protests. And no, I’m not over it yet: The Last 10 Weeks Of 2016 Campaign Stops In One Handy Gif. How Clinton lost Michigan â and blew the election.
* My President Was Black. The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America.
* I am terrified about where all this seems to be heading, on every level.
*Â Colby-Sawyer Eliminates Five Majors to Stay Afloat. English was on the list.
* More on Hungerford and not-reading. Elsewhere at LARB: Graham J. Murphy on the Ancillary Justice trilogy.
* How Bad Was Imperial Cybersecurity in Rogue One? Why Jack Kirby is (Probably) the Forgotten Father of Star Wars and Rogue One. The Obscenely Complex Way the Rebels Stole the Death Star Plans in the Original Star Wars Expanded Universe. And behold the power of this fully operational alt-right boycott.
so, Rogue One is the dirty work that allows the smooth and shiny surface of myth and ideology to be smooth and shiny.
— Ben Robertson (@BenRobertson) December 20, 2016
* More and more I find the unpublished and unwritten versions of stories as interesting or more interesting than the published versions — which is as true of Harry Potter as anything else.
* Dear tech community: your threat model just changed.
*Â You were never actually accomplishing anything by watching the news.
*Â You wonât believe how many Girl Scouts joined the Polish underground in WWII.
*Â In 2010, renowned string theory expert Erik Verlinde from the University of Amsterdam and the Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics proposed that gravity is not a fundamental force of nature, but rather an âemergent phenomenon.â And now, one hundred years after Einstein published the final version of his general theory of relativity, Verlinde published his paper expounding on his stance on gravityâwith a big claim that challenges the very foundation of physics as we know it. Big question is whether gravity is a bug they haven’t patched yet, or if gravity is the patch.
*Â TNT decides that a modern-day Civil War show doesnât sound like fun anymore. But a show humanizing the KKK, sure….
* There’s only one story and we tell it over and over, sitcom edition.
* History in the Anthropocene.
* EPA: Oh, yeah, we were lying before.
* Arms Control in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Nuclear Freeze Movement. And some timely clickbait: How would you know if a nuclear war started?
* Spoilers:Â What Really Happens After You Die?
* More news from the future:Â Feds unveil rule requiring cars to âtalkâ to each other.
* It can get worse, DC Cinematic Universe edition.
* Academic papers you can use: Where does trash float in the Great Lakes?
* And the war has even come to the Shire:Â Whitefish Bay to trap and remove coyotes.
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No, *These* Are the Weekend Links
* I have a short entry in SFRA Review‘s ongoing “101” series for science fiction scholars, “Ecology 101.”
* Avoiding gender bias in reference writing.
* Presenting The Journal of Hate Studies.
*Â Peter Jackson Freely Admits The Hobbit‘s Production Was a Shambles.
*Â How property rights in outer space may lead to a scramble to exploit the moonâs resources.
* Academic job market watch: Simplify the Job Application Process.
*Â CNN Reporter Suspended Two Weeks For Tweet Expressing Sympathy Toward Syrian Refugees.
*Â Black Tape Over Black Faculty Portraits at Harvard Law School.
* I can’t believe they found a way to make it creepier.
* The hawk and the mouse are playing the same sport, but the hawk is playing it much better.
*Â Adaptation of Unfilmable Vonnegut Novel Now Has Slim Chance of Not Being Terrible.
* Goodnight Moon and modernism.
* The news for Obamacare just gets worse and worse. Death spiral?
*Â These Are the Most Spectacular Nature Photos of the Year.
*Â Most movies would be lucky to open to $50 million. Four weeks before its debut, âStar Wars: The Force Awakensâ has more than that in the bank.
* Adaptation of Unfilmable Vonnegut Novel Now Has Slim Chance of Not Being Terrible.
* It was thirty years ago today.
* I won’t hear it, and I won’t respond to it.
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Wednesday Links! No Fooling.
*Â Keywords for the Age of Austerity 17: Brand/Branding/Rebrand.
* Jackson was paid $7.1 million in 2012, more than any other college president in the nation, and continues to be paid at that level. Just in case you don’t click through, the headline to that piece reads “Report: R.P.I. facing $1 billion in debts, liabilities.” So you know she’s worth every penny of that salary.
*Â But did you know the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gets less than half the public money per student that Madison Area Technical College gets and less than a third of what goes to Milwaukee Area Technical College?
* And speaking of UWM:Â After Extinction, at UWM April 30-May 2.
* Meanwhile, at Duke: Response to President Brodhead and Provost Kornbluth. The original incident is described here.
*Â Unsettling the University, at UCR April 2-3.
* But what also became clear was that she and I have radically different visions of what constitutes the well-being of the University of Wisconsin System and how it might be preserved and protected. Through the course of our conversation it became increasingly clear to me that in the current situation in Wisconsin we find ourselves in what French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard called âa differend,â a case of conflict between parties that cannot be equitably resolved for lack of a rule of judgement applicable to both. In the case of a differend, the parties cannot agree on a rule or criterion by which their dispute might be decided. A differend is opposed to a litigation â a dispute which can be equitably resolved because the parties involved can agree on a rule of judgement.â Despite all partiesâRegents, chancellors, faculty, staff, students, and alumniâbeing committed to the well-being of the University of Wisconsin System, it seems impossible to agree upon a rule of judgment or any set of criteria by which to adjudicate our different visions of what that well-being would look like.
*Â Dept. Names More Than 550 Colleges It Has Put Under Extra Financial Scrutiny.
*Â Salaita lawyers: ‘No doubt’ that UI, prof had agreement for employment.
*Â Over time, however, more and more departments failed to meet that standard; last year some 60 units were out of compliance, according to information gathered by the union. At Bridgewater State University, one of the worst offenders, for example, adjuncts taught more than 15 percent of courses in 16 large departments in 2014-15. Some 50 percent of classes in the English department were taught by part-time faculty, along with 40 percent in math and computer science. In philosophy, it was 63 percent of classes. Bridgewater officials did not respond to a request for comment.
* Google Maps turned your streets into Pac-Man yesterday, though I can’t imagine how anyone could have missed this news.
*Â The Entire History of âDoctor Whoâ Illustrated as a Tapestry.
*Â 24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless.
*Â California Snowpack Hits All-Time Low, 8 Percent Of Average.
*Â Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men.
* Chomsky:Â The Death of American Universities.
* There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
* The Trevor Noah train wreck.
* “Lutheran pastor resigns after being linked to threatening email.” That’s… something.
*Â Italian grandmother causes illness with cocoa expired in 1990.
* Why You Should Really Be Afraid of the Zombie Apocalypse.
* Gas Siphoning Coverup May Have Caused East Village Explosion. Jesus Christ.
*Â But thereâs at least one unforeseen upside when all episodes are released at once: The writers donât get the chance to self-correct in the middle of the season.
*Â The Long And Terrible History Of DC Comics Mistreating Batgirl.
* The Americans renewed for season four. Hooray!
*Â Study: Not Many Disco Songs About Daytime. But of course more work is required.
*Â Oh my God, Becky, look at this vigorous debate among scholars about the true origin of the straight male preference for a curvier backside.
* I can”t believe they’re bringing this thing back:Â The X-Files Could Have Ended With a West Wing Crossover.
* And Paul F. Tompkins picks his best episodes from a prolific podcasting career. My tragedy is I’ve heard all these. Perhaps you’ve heard he’s got a new one out today…
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April 1, 2015 at 8:56 am
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Weekend Links! So Many!
* Harris Wittels has died. I really loved his appearances on Earwolf, but the one I keep thinking about is his appearance on “You Made It Weird” last November, where he spoke about his addiction at length. The humblebrag.
* Oliver Sacks writes about his terminal cancer diagnosis in the New York Times.
* The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference began today. This year’s theme is “Animacy” and both Lee Edelman and Lauren Berlant are keynotes.
* TNI has a great excerpt from the beginning of Creepiness.
* A President’s Day remembrance of Ona Judge.
* Neill Blomkamp is making an Alien. âThe Man In The High Castle Gets Series Order From Amazon. Amazon should greenlight this next.
* The City and the City may be a BBC drama. I would have said it was unfilmable, but sure, let’s give it a try.
* Boston’s winter from hell. What the massive snowfall in Boston tells us about global warming.
*Â A Siberian blastâseriously, this air is from Siberiaâhas turned the eastern U.S. into an icebox featuring the most extreme cold of anywhere on Earth right now. Looking ahead, thereâs plenty more where that came from.
* Rudy Giuliani, still horrible.
* Melodrama is so powerful, then, because by promising heroic emancipation from terrorist villainy, it implies that US citizens can overcome their feelings of diminished political agency and lost freedom. Melodrama promises that both the US state, and individual Americans, will soon experience heroic freedom by winning the War on Terror. They will cast off their feelings of vulnerability and weakness through heroic actionâeven when the villain they attack is not the primary cause of their powerlessness or suffering.
* The fastest way to find Waldo. You’re welcome.
* Would you like to understand how the ânewâ Harper Lee novel, âGo Set a Watchman,â came to be billed as a long-lost, blockbuster sequel to âTo Kill a Mockingbirdâ â one of the definitive books of the American 20th century â when, by all the known facts, itâs an uneven first draft of the famous novel that was never considered for publication? Would you like to get a glimpse into how clever marketing and cryptic pronouncements have managed to produce an instant bestseller, months before anyone has read it?
* Republicans think this is their moment to kill higher education in America. And they might be right.
* Congressman Says We Donât Need Education Funding Because âSocrates Trained Plato On A Rock.â Checks out.
* The outlook for the rest of Illinois isn’t much better. We Need Syriza in Illinois.
* That there are any homeless children anywhere in the country is an unthinkable national tragedy.
* Save the Wisconsin Idea. You may have to save it from its saviors.
* The inexorable tuition explosion that will result is proving to be politically untenable, and Walker has moved immediately to head it off, consequences be damned. And UW leadership, having adopted a posture of supporting the public authority on principled grounds, is left in the politically deadly position of having to fight for the power to raise tuition arbitrarily.
*Â Meanwhile let’s kill all the state parks too.
* Meanwhile Milwaukee is one of America’s poorest cities. Though it still has one thing going for it.
* “Scott Walker says he consults with God, but his office canât provide documents to prove it.”
*Â Ideology Seen as Factor in Closings in University of North Carolina System. No! It can’t be!
*Â New Education Initiative Replaces K-12 Curriculum With Single Standardized Test.
* The best and worst presidents. The hottest U.S. presidents. The beardiest presidents.
* Mother Jones loves Minnesota governor Mark Dayton.
* The visiting professor scam.
*Â We donât need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.
The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the only atmosphere in which pure science can flourish pic.twitter.com/Y51Vgb7gXq
— StuHum (@StuHum) February 15, 2015
* Academic interviews are horrible, mealtime edition.
*Â Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History.
* The West Coast cargo strike.
* DWYL, porn industry edition.
* What is going to happen to all of those African-languages-speaking, archive-obsessed, genre-discovering graduate students? Listen, I have some terrible news.
* The death cult called the MLA wants you to have hope for some reason though. Really strange study.
* Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals.
* Meanwhile, affirmative action for men in college admissions.
* “A Superbug Nightmare Is Playing Out at an LA Hospital.”
*Â But one of America’s ugliest secrets is that our own whistleblowers often don’t do so well after the headlines fade and cameras recede. The ones who don’t end up in jail like Manning, or in exile like Snowden, often still go through years of harassment and financial hardship. And while we wait to see if Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the next Attorney General, it’s worth taking a look at how whistleblowers in America fared under the last regime.
*Â Boston Using Prison Labor To Shovel Heaps Of Snow In Frigid Temperatures For Pennies.
* Revealing scenes from the deranged thinking in the tech industry.
* SMBC messing with the primal forces.
* LARoB reviews Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble and Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s GuantĂĄnamo Diary and Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1.
* Clarissa Explains White Supremacy.
* Iceland begins to jail bankers.
* “College Apologizes for Way It Gave M&Ms to Children.”
* “Can There Be Too Many Museums?”
* “Which sexual positions are more likely to break your penis?”
* Giant Ron English art-book: Status Factory.
* An excerpt from David Graeber’s The Rules of Utopia.
* Oral histories of the early days of the HIV epidemic.
* National Adjunct Walkout Day is growing near. It’s Time to Review Your Adjunct Employment Policies.
* Trying to create a promotion track outside the tenure stream at Denver.
* The adjunct unionization movement. And more on that.
* Campus cops prepare for National Adjunct Walkout Day.
* Here’s a thing about @OccupyMLA that uses me as its stooge for part of it. Yay?
* Interesting Kickstarter: “Pioneers of African-American Cinema.”
* “DoJ report on Montana justice: Don’t get raped in Missoula, even if you’re only five years old.”
*Â Justice Department ‘seriously examining’ Ferguson race case.
* Another piece on the rise of the Title IX industry. Provocative Harvard Law Review forum on Title IX overreach. However bad we’re doing, though, we can certainly always do worse.
*Â Perhaps with each tuition bill, students should receive a breakdown of how their dollars are spent.
* Academic hiring:Â The Trading Places hypothesis.
*Â How Arizona State Reinvented Free-Throw Distraction.
* The Oscars and racism. The Oscars and sexism.
* The Brazilian town where the Confederacy lives on.
* DC Comics is bringing back Prez, this time as a teenage girl who gets elected president by Twitter.
*Â Holding Out For a Heroine: On Being a Woman and Loving Star Wars.
*Â 10 Worst Misconceptions About Medieval Life You’d Get From Fantasy Books.
* A rare piece from NRO worth linking: The Right-Wing Scam Machine.
* Former Nazi Guard Charged with 170,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder. Take the plea deal!
*Â The CIA asked me about controlling the climate â this is why we should worry.
*Â To misappropriate the prophecy of another technological sage: the post-human dystopia is already here; itâs just not evenly distributed yet.
* Mark Bould has another post on Jupiter Ascending trying to wrangle its treatment of gender. Lots of good discussion of Princess Leia here too.
* Plans to whip us up into another invasion in the Middle East are proceeding apace.
* When horrific child abuse becomes quirk.
* Florida police officer: “Planting evidence and lying in your reports are just part of the game.”
* Cuteness in history. Why when you see something cute you (sometimes) want to destroy it.
*Â Another Reason To Worry About The Measles.
*Â Wearable Workplace âMood Monitorsâ Are About To Become A Thing.
* A People’s History of Franklin.
* Asexuals and Demisexuals in Wired.
* Five-alarm nerd alert:Â Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality has begun its final arc.
* Settlers of Catan: The Movie.
* And in case that’s not enough here’s some more proof we as a nation are still capable of great things.
I just found out that @BigBird is the ONLY PERSON on Twitter who can see @MrSnuffleupagus. This is a goddamn triumph. pic.twitter.com/KT2QuUifj2
— Mia Bee (@im_a_mia) February 19, 2015
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Junior Associate Dean of Closing All My Tabs Links
* The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction is “temporarily out of stock,” but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t place your order! Cyborg Lincoln commands it!
* #SnomgIcanteven2015. Good luck, East Coast!
* The Day the Purpose of College Changed. Great piece. I’ve added it to Wednesday’s reading in the Cultural Preservation course, alongside readings from BĂŠrubĂŠ and Bousquet that I added to the syllabus this year.
* The idea behind it is simple: Get donations, and give them to contingent faculty members in need.
* Scott Walker canât afford to let Bobby Jindal be the only candidate in the race who destroyed education in his state. And while we’re on the subject: Dropkick Murphys Order Scott Walker To Stop Using Their Music: âWe Literally Hate You!â
* Iâm going to have to differ with former president Clinton and possible future president Bush. To me, Arizona State looks like a dystopia, rather than a model for the future. ASU is pretty clearly set up as a factory of credentialing, and any lip-service to educational excellence, particularly in the undergraduate sphere, is exactly that.
* What provosts think. The crucial takeaway: Say Nothing if you Want a Job. Elsewhere in academic freedom: Fox News Raises Alarm Over College Course About Race. Other universities could stand to learn something from ASU’s statement on the subject:
The university, however, issued a statement Friday after the segment, reading:
This course uses literature and rhetoric to look at how stories shape people’s understandings and experiences of race. It encourages students to examine how people talk about — or avoid talking about — race in the contemporary United States. This is an interdisciplinary course, so students will draw on history, literature, speeches and cultural changes — from scholarly texts to humor. The class is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions. A university is an academic environment where we discuss and debate a wide array of viewpoints.
* Of course, in addition to everything else ASU is also the school that’s trying to force its composition adjuncts into a 5/5 workload with minimal salary increase, so I’m not going to lose my mind defending it or anything.
* Part everyman tale, as far as English departments go, and part lesson in unintended consequences, Maryland Englishâs story looks something like this. Between 1996 and 2011, the number of majors actually grew, from 641 to 850 students. Then the university rolled out a new, faculty-backed general education program. Unlike the old general education program, which centered on the liberal arts and required a literature course, the new one offers students much more flexibility in how to fulfill their various requirements. So students who aren’t interested in the liberal arts can much more easily avoid them. Part of the idea was to take some of the burden off departments, such as English, that fulfilled requirements for many students under the old system. Faculty members generally supported the idea.
But then the numbers got funny. In the spring of 2012, the English department lost 88 majors. The following year, it lost 79 â then 128 more majors 12 months later. Between spring and fall 2014, 66 more majors fell from the rolls. Over all, the department lost 363 majors — about 40 percent — and the numbers continue to fall. I basically get called out personally as the article goes on:
One of the more controversial departmental reform topics is how to change the English program itself, including by creating more recruitment-oriented, lower-level courses. Cartwright said thereâs a demonstrated interest in updated versions of Great Books courses, but also in what he said some have called âzombie coursesâ â pejoratively, not descriptively. Those include courses on such popular genres as science fiction, fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkein, regional literature or childrenâs literature.
Cartwright said thereâs some feeling among his colleagues that such offerings equate to âdumbing downâ the curriculum. But he said others feel thereâs value in meeting students âwhere they are.â And of course there are professors whose areas of expertise are in those fields and vouch for their importance.
* Rise of the medical humanities.
* Associate Dean of Eureka Moments. Now accepting applications.
*Â The children of the rich and powerful are increasingly well suited to earning wealth and power themselves. Thatâs a problem. A Hereditary Meritocracy.
* Greek Conservative Spokesman Concedes Defeat to Anti-Austerity Left. Greece: Phase One. I guess I’ll take the “Eeyore” side of the bet:
@BigMeanInternet sabotaged by crooks elsewhere in Europe, leftist project discredited, etc
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 25, 2015
* Audio edition of Pacific Edge, the most uplifting novel in my library. KSR!
* How Amazon series misreads The Man in the High Castle. I’m glad someone got to this thinkypiece before I did; I’m crossing it off my list.
* The State department wants Frozen PSAs to finally convince the powerful children’s voting bloc to support climate change legislation.
* A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and inevitable failure. What makes them so compelling? And from the archives: Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created.
*Â Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00.
* Massive open online sexual harassment.
*Â Why itâs a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from.
* The bacteria at USC depend on energy, too, but they obtain it in a fundamentally different fashion. They donât breathe in the sense that you and I do. In the most extreme cases, they donât consume any conventional food, either. Instead, they power themselves in the most elemental way: by eating and breathing electricity. You were supposed to find us bacteria that eat garbage and shit electricity. I swear to god, I don’t know what you scientists are even doing sometimes.
*Â American Sniper is a racist, militaristic movie. But it has much to teach us if we want to build a successful antiwar movement. Learning from American Sniper.
* Why they throw subway cars away in the ocean.
* Great video bringing a kid’s imagination to life.
* Andrew Cuomo rips teacher unions as selfish ‘industry’ more interested in members’ rights than student needs. #ReadyforCuomo
*Â When the Boss Says, ‘Don’t Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid.’
* Gasp:Â Rationale for anti-ACA case continues to unravel.
*Â Keywords for the Age of Austerity 15: Wellness.
* “No king, no king, lalalala” in three dozen languages. Apropos of nothing, of course.
* Ninth Circuit Panel Suggests Perjury Prosecution For Lying Prosecutors. You mean that’s not the rule already?
* The age of miracles: Near-Impossible Super Mario World Glitch Done For First Time on SNES.
*Â The murderers of Charlie Hebdo prove that Puritan thugs (broadly defined) do in fact exist. However, this does not mean (contra McKinney and his supporters, educated and otherwise) that all those speaking out against Puritan thugs are beyond reproach. Nor does it place a seal forever upon the righteousness of comics creators or comics scholars. Is comics scholarship an academic field devoted to the understanding and discussion of comics, bringing a wide range of knowledge and approaches to a complicated, sometimes beautiful, sometimes flawed, sometimes undervalued, and perhaps sometimes overvalued medium? Or is comics scholarship to be devoted to boosterism, advocacy, and sacralization?If Charlie Hebdoâs accomplishment was to fight against all priesthoods, then surely it does them little honor to try to set up a priesthood in their name, handing down stern pronouncements about how their work must be read and understood.
*Â Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate.
* Great moments in he said/she said: Maybe Drunk, Sleeping Woman Wanted to Be Set on Fire.
*Â Within two seconds of the carâs arrival, Officer Loehmann shot Tamir in the abdomen from point-blank range, raising doubts that he could have warned the boy three times to raise his hands, as the police later claimed.
*Â Within two seconds of the carâs arrival, Officer Loehmann shot Tamir in the abdomen from point-blank range, raising doubts that he could have warned the boy three times to raise his hands, as the police later claimed.
The phrase âraising doubtsâ should get hazard pay for its role in this article. http://t.co/nGvVWQ2emm
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 25, 2015
Could the officer have done something transparently impossible, or did the police lie? I leave that question to the philosophers.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 25, 2015
* Deflategate by the numbers:Â Data Show The Patriots Have Fumbled The Ball Far Less Than Any Other NFLÂ Team.
* How to write like J.K. Rowling.
* The headline reads, “Pope Uses Balloons As Peace Symbols After Dove Debacle.”
*Â Pope Francis Wants To Cross The U.S.-Mexico Border As A âBeautiful Gesture Of Brotherhood.â
* The New Measles: One of the most infectious viruses on the planet is making a comeback in the United States, and many doctors have never even seen it. How Anti-Vaxxers Ruined Disneyland For Themselves (And Everyone Else.) Measles is horrible.
* The idea that a major problem with climate change is “sunburn” is just so incredibly, blisteringly stupid I doubt I’ll ever sleep again.
* More bad news:Â Negative tweets mean youâre probably going to die of a heart attack, study says.
* I’ve let so many tabs pile up since my last link post I have no choice but to do a “nightmare headlines” lightning round: Burglar gets 30 years in prison for raping 101-year-old woman in home. Father of ailing twins can only donate his liver to one of them. Vanderbilt Woman Didn’t Think She’d Been Raped Until She Saw Video Of It. Nearly two dozen cats seized from a Md. home, then euthanized touches off a furor. Prison Visitor Says Guards Made Her Prove She Was Menstruating By Letting Them Inspect Her Vagina. Ocean Warming Now Off The Charts. Here’s A Spider So Awful You’ll Wish It Would Only Bite You To Death.
* Mamas, don’t let your cities grow up to be gambling metropolises.
* Weird op-ed (linking to Serial) that seems to argue that extreme prosecutorial coercion through overcharging and oversentencing is a feature, rather than a bug. That said, I’d thought the podcast itself had explicitly explained why strangulation is associated with “premeditation,” though perhaps that’s only something I saw on Reddit.
* #serialseason2: Who killed PadmÊ Amidala? I actually like this theory fan rewrite a lot.
* George Lucas said Disney killed all his ideas for New Star Wars movies. Okay, so they did one thing right.
* The precession of simulacra:Â Car Manufacturers Have Been Faking Our Engine Noises.
* Peak Vox, but I actually found it interesting: Here are 9 surprising facts about feces you may not know.
* Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaireâs Sex Jet.
*Â Median weekly earnings by educational attainment in 2014.
*Â Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist.
* The Princess Bride, the new film from Francois Truffaut.
* The Star Wars tipping point.
* How to tell if you are in a High Fantasy novel.
*Â Would Crashing Through a Wall Actually Kill the Kool-Aid Man?
* My current favorite video: Marquette in the 1980s.
* And here they all are, together forever. All 1,547 Star Trek lens flares.
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January 26, 2015 at 8:40 am
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All the Weekend Links!
* Ursula Le Guin gave a great speech at the National Book Awards this week.
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionariesâthe realists of a larger reality.
* It’s quite a bit better than the other thing that happened that night, though Handler is trying to making amends.
* Kirkus Reviews on the radical Joanna Russ.
* A Sokal hoax we can all believe in.
* Roofs are caving in in Buffalo after a week of truly insane November storms. The temperature is projected to be 60 degrees on Monday, which means this could all melt in one day and cause a whole new set of problems.
* CFP: Hostile Intelligences and The General Antagonism.
The purpose of this conference is to organize and proliferate the material heresies that are the basis for what Matteo Pasquinelli has called “hostile intelligencesâ and what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have described as âthe general antagonism.â Pasquinelli writes, in “The Labour of Abstraction,” “Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall has to find eventually its epistemic twin.” For him, forms of knowledge and subjectivity play a prominent role in his theory of anti-capitalist revolution. Hostile intelligence is one imaginary in which the recently formed Accelerationists conceive such an epistemic twin. Moten and Harneyâs category, âthe general antagonism,â is no doubt the epistemic twin of âthe general intellectâ, and powerfully indicates a generalized disidentification with white-supremacist, capitalist culture that is an extant part of the fugitive practices of what they eloquently call âThe Undercommons.â
* Program of the 2015 MLA Subconference.
* While the Regents claim to negotiate on behalf of those who use the university–students, staff and faculty–their new gambit instead shows the difference between the Regents and higher Administration, on one hand, and “those who use” the university on the other. UCOPâs Failed Funding Model.
* A CommuniquĂŠ from the UCSC Occupation of Humanities 2.
*Â What the students were doing in 2010, and what theyâre doing today, is defending art, science and philosophy against a regime that believes none of these things are of any value except as a means to wealth and power. They are quite literally defending the values of civilisation from those who have abandoned them.
* Jacobin: Higher education should be free. But we canât just copy the flawed European model.
* Do you want to be responsible for something that’s gonna paint UVA in a bad light? Horrifying report in Rolling Stone about a young woman’s experience being attacked at a UVA fraternity and then reporting it. Please note that the description of what happened to her is quite graphic and very disturbing.
* Bill Cosby and the rape accusers: stop looking away and start believing women.
The repository would need some kind of physical marker that, foremost, could last 10,000 years, so the task forceâs report considers the relative merits of different materials like metal, concrete, and plastic. Yet the marker would also need to repel rather than attract humansâsetting it apart from Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids, or any other monument that has remained standing for thousands of years. To do that, the marker would need warnings. But how do you warn future humans whose cultures and languages will have evolved in unknown ways?
* Public officials once operated for profit. Now that system has returned with a vengeance. Mike Konczal reviews The Teacher Wars and Rise of the Warrior Cop.
* Academics sometimes seek to make the world a better place, and the Chronicle is ON IT.
* Seven years in, Twitter finally puts in what you’d think would be one of its most basic features.
* Bangkok cinema chain cancels Hunger Games screenings over salute protest.
* 400 Things Cops Know Is the New Bible for Crime Writers. By MU English Alum Plantinga!
* The Singularity Is Here: 5-foot-tall âRobocopsâ start patrolling Silicon Valley.
* NYPD Officer ‘Accidentally’ Shoots and Kills Unarmed Man in Brooklyn. Why would police officers have their guns drawn as a matter of course? How can that be protocol?
* Late capitalism and the viral imagination.
* Surprise: Humanities Degrees Provide Great Return On Investment.
* Exhibit A? U. of Colorado Will Pay Philosophy Professor $185,000 to Resign.
* Mass hysteria at the Department of Education.
* Now we see the violence etc:Â In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education to students in the struggling Highland Park School District. The law, in its majestic equality…
*Â First Grader Was Told âGuess What, You Canât Have Lunchâ Because His Family Was In Debt.
* Being bullied physically changes kidsâ brains.
*Â The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More.
* When My Mom Was an Astronaut.
* Often they have rich back stories. A motivational mantra, a swipe at the boss, a hidden shrine to a lost love, an inside joke with ourselves, a defining emotional scar â these keepsake passwords, as I came to call them, are like tchotchkes of our inner lives. Passwords are the new poetry.
* Accrediting commission says UNC ‘not diligent’ in exposing academic scandal. Let the stern finger-wagging commence!
* Lunatic: Keystone Pipeline Will Teach Men “What it Is to Be a Man.” Literally toxic masculinity.
*Â Itâs one reason weâre poorer than our parents. And Obama could fix itâwithout Congress. Whatever Happened to Overtime? I’m sure he’ll get right on it.
* âText neckâ is becoming an âepidemicâ and could wreck your spine.
*Â A new analysis by PunditFact found that of every statement made by a Fox News host or guest, over half of them were flat-out false. Whatâs more, only a measly 8% could be considered completely âtrue.â
*Â In a Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat.
* No, Your Ancestors Didnât Come Here Legally.
* Neuroscience Is Ruining the Humanities.
*Â The enduring legacy of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers’ room.
* The Ghostbusters 3 we’ll never see.
* The Empire Strikes Back we’ll never see.
*Â This One-Page Comic Explains Why Batman Never Seems To Die.
*Â From this vantage, the efficient society that terrorizes and comforts Codemus, and enfolds him in the straitjacket of a diffused, technologized fascism, resembles the experience of many workers today. Increasing numbers of people receive their instructions from, and report back to, software and smartphones.
* Flatland, at last, is truly two-dimensional.
* And this Deceptively Cute Animation Illustrates The Horrors Of My Addiction to Coca-Cola.Won’t you give what you can, please, today? The case for treating sugar like a drug.
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November 22, 2014 at 10:44 am
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Do They Even Know It’s Wednesday Links
* Great visit yesterday to STS at Riverside! Really enjoyed it.
*Â For the black community in America, there has never been a ânormalâ baseline experience from which emergencies are exceptions: unfortunate but episodic deviations. Rather, it has been a rolling emergency, interrupted by brief windows of relative promise. And from this perspective, perhaps we can understand the enigmatic âreal state of exceptionâ that Benjamin calls for â because from the perspective of white power, those moments of promise are the true emergencies that must be shut down at all costs.
* Indicting A System Not A ManâŚ. Indict the System, Not Just Darren Wilson. No more Missouri compromises.
* Apocalypse now: chocolate could disappear by 2020.
*Â Wisconsin as a Frontier of School Privatization: Will Anyone Notice the Looting?
* Just a short rumination on the greatness of comics from Ta-Nehisi Coates.
* Marquette in the… sigh. Philosophy Grad Student Target of Political Smear Campaign.
*Â The potential benefit for higher-earning graduate students is âa policy accident,â says Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation. âAnd whoâs going to figure this out? Probably people with graduate degrees.â
* Ladies and gentlemen, your rising Democratic stars:Â Most of those prisoners now work as groundskeepers, janitors and in prison kitchens, with wages that range from 8 cents to 37 cents per hour. Lawyers for Attorney General Kamala Harris had argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.
*Â New Project to Digitize 10,000 Sci-Fi Zines.
*Â Museum on slave trade planned for Episcopal cathedral in Providence.
* Tuition and Fees, 1998-99 Through 2014-15. Here’s Marquette:
* Exciting untapped market in higher education:Â Colleges Encourage Graduates to Seek Second Bachelor’s Degrees.
*Â In recognition of the evening, Ms. Stammâs husband, Arthur Stamm, made a gift of $100,000. At the time, it was the largest gift the college had received from a single donor in its 42-year history.
Since January alone, by contrast, Duke University, which educates 14,850 students on its 8,709-acre campus, has received gifts and pledges of $1 million or more on the average of every six or seven weeks. In those gifts alone, the university has already raised about $49 million this year. And yet, according to the latest ranking, its endowment of close to $6 billion in 2012 did not earn it a place among the countryâs 10 richest schools, a list led by Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
* More scenes from the class struggle at elite universities.
* Karl Stefanovic’s sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year.
* To remember Mandela is to remember Robben Island.
*Â Police officers in Florida surprised students, teachers and parents Thursday with an active shooter drill. And by âactive shooter drill,â we mean that a Winter Haven middle school went into lockdown as two armed police officers burst into classrooms, guns drawn, leaving the unsuspecting children terrified â and their parents furious.
* Rosetta Probe Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet.
* What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism.
* No capital projects but the end of capital.
* The rich want everything. They even want to suffer most from inequality!
* To draw on Klein paraphrasing Al Gore, hereâs my inconvenient truth: when you tell people what it would actually take to radically reduce carbon emissions, they turn away. They donât want to give up air travel or air conditioning or HDTV or trips to the mall or the family car or the myriad other things that go along with consuming 5,000 or 8,000 or 12,000 watts. All the major environmental groups know this, which is why they maintain, contrary to the requirements of a 2,000-watt society, that climate change can be tackled with minimal disruption to âthe American way of life.â And Klein, you have to assume, knows it too. The irony of her book is that she ends up exactly where the âwarmistsâ do, telling a fable she hopes will do some good.
* At This Rate, The World Will Have To Cease All Carbon Emissions In 2040 To Stay Under 2°C.
* Just another average November, nbd:Â Buffalo, N.Y., area in the midst of a truly insane lake effect snow storm.
* Mark Fisher has one of the better anti-identity-politics pieces I’ve seen on the left: Exiting the Vampires’ Castle.
If this seems like a forbidding and daunting task, it is. But we can start to engage in many prefigurative activities right now. Actually, such activities would go beyond pre-figuration â they could start a virtuous cycle, a self-fulfilling prophecy in which bourgeois modes of subjectivity are dismantled and a new universality starts to build itself. We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capitalâs work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesnât mean, of course, that we must always agree â on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication. We need to think very strategically about how to use social media â always remembering that, despite the egalitarianism claimed for social media by capitalâs libidinal engineers, that this is currently an enemy territory, dedicated to the reproduction of capital. But this doesnât mean that we canât occupy the terrain and start to use it for the purposes of producing class consciousness. We must break out of the âdebateâ that communicative capitalism in which capital is endlessly cajoling us to participate in, and remember that we are involved in a class struggle. The goal is not to âbeâ an activist, but to aid the working class to activate â and transform â itself. Outside the Vampiresâ Castle, anything is possible.
*Â Itâs Not Your Kids Holding Your Career Back. Itâs Your Husband.
*Â Academia for women: short maternity leave, few part-time roles and lower pay.
* Marriage, y’all, I just don’t know.
*Â I woke up this morning still black, still a woman, and still bothered by the Jezebel piece. So Iâm here using my voice to encourage us all to speak up.
*Â The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic and No One Really Knows How It Works.
* Necro-streaming: Notes on Watching a Dead Show.
* The Biggest Lies About Science in the U.S. Government’s “Wastebook.” Just pure ressentiment.
* Actually existing government waste! White House announces push for next generation of hi-tech weapons.
*Â Twilight of the Indoor Mall.
* Secret Origins of the Black Panther. Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ Isn’t Just Another Black Superhero.
*Â Five ways to pander to millennials in 2016.
*Â I wanted a bigger, better Bayside more than anybody:Â Company Halts Plan To Frack 3,000 Feet From Pennsylvania School.
*Â Bill Cosby Is An Alleged Serial Rapist. So, Now What?
*Â The heart of the matter is this: A defender of Bill Cosby must, effectively, conjure a vast conspiracy, created to bring down one man, seemingly just out of spite. And people will do this work of conjuration, because it is hard to accept that people we love in one arena can commit great evil in another. It is hard to believe that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist because the belief doesn’t just indict Cosby, it indicts us. It damns us for drawing intimate conclusions about people based on pudding-pop commercials and popular TV shows. It destroys our ability to lean on icons for our morality. And it forces us back into a world where seemingly good men do unspeakably evil things, and this is just the chaos of human history.
*Â Gorbachev Tried To Get George Bush To Spoil Who Killed Laura Palmer.
* Has Uber Ubered an Uber too Uber this Uber?
*Â Whatâs most troubling about âDo They Know Itâs Christmas?â is not the music per se but the way it insinuates itself â and âusâ â into a story about âthemâ and yet canât be bothered to get even the most basic facts right.
* The uncomfortable origins of “Afrofuturism.”
*Â I have an idea for a mature, adult, fantasy roleplaying game.
*Â In Defense of Indiana Jones, Archaeologist.
* Some days you just need http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com.
Written by gerrycanavan
November 19, 2014 at 8:20 am
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So Many Wednesday Links It Is Guaranteed to Make You Sick
* Brian Thill on academia, labor, and the prestige economy.
* Freddie de Boer on the unbearable wretchedness of higher education journalism.
* The only situation in which one would treat free speech as an end would be one in which there were no fundamental problems: no iniquities, immiseration, exploitation. No need for free speech as means. So we might say Dirks is speaking from the position of campus-as-utopia, a campus of nothing but speech, where the sun always shines and all other issues have been resolved happily for all. A campus wherein there was no privatized public education, no massive debt- and labor-loads for students, no shitty working conditions for campus workers, no cops being called in to beat or pepper-spray students and faculty into the hospital. No struggle over BDS, no systematic racism, no burying of rape statistics and accompanying leniency for perpetrators â struggles in which the administration is an aggressive antagonist, a side.
* Remember the other day when I linked to that piece about colleges recruiting lacrosse players as a proxy for wealth? Totally and absolutely unrelatedly, colleges are now giving out athletic video game scholarships.
* Steven Salaita has now spoken publicly at UIUC about his firing by UIUC.
* The New Inquiry 32: Back to School.
School is the alibi for class society. Passage through it is supposed to be what makes the unequal distribution of violence and luxury in the bourgeois world a fair outcome, what makes the bodies it disposes of earn their disposal. It is also the house of knowledge and so a powerful node of induction into the mysteries of this bloody society. Those who want to approach the knowledge held there must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers. Unexpected success in this self-Âtransformation is sometimes called class mobility, but to celebrate those who are capable of moving admits that the majority are fixed in place.
*Â How long will we have to wait for the poll finding that most Americans âregretâ having supported this new war in Iraq and Syria and view it as a âmistakeâ, as they prepare, in a frenzy of manufactured fear, to support the next proposed war? Even the liberal Kevin Drum hopes Obama can stop Obama before Obama invades Iraq.
* Against TFA: “I am, I am asking you to quit.”
* Crisis for the crisis in the humanities. The full report is here.
* Scalia wept:Â Death penalty fans reel as one of their go-to examples for the necessity of capital punishment turns out to involve two innocent men.
*Â Just 13, and Working Risky 12-Hour Shifts in the Tobacco Fields.
* From the archives: Almost everything in Dr. Strangelove was true. Capitalism Whack-a-Mole.
* Almost All the Books People Say Influenced Them Were Written for Children.
* Steve Almond on quitting football.
* Segregation forever: Share of white kids attending majority white schools. More links after the map.
*Â UC Berkeley police have obtained more than a dozen M16 rifles via the 1033 program, as of June 2014. That’s outrageous. I can’t imagine them needing more than four or five tops.
* The Economist Has a Slavery Problem. Reagan reviews Roots, 1977.
*Â A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder. No! No! I simply won’t believe it!
* Logistics, Capitalist Circulation, Chokepoints.
* Cuomo (and de Blasio) after Teachout.
*Â Where MacArthur fellows were born and where they lived at the time of the award.
* How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere? A Massive Increase in 2013 Sets a Record. “We are running out of time.”
* Milwaukee wept: Meteorologists Predict Record-Shattering Snowfall Coming Soon.
*Â Almost Half Of North American Bird Species Are Threatened By Climate Change.
* Amazon Indian Warriors Beat and Strip Illegal Loggers in Battle for Jungle’s Future.
* Louisiana doesn’t look like Louisiana anymore.
* The oceans are acidifying at the fastest rate in 300 million years.
* Fracking May Be Worse Than Burning Coal. People Who Live Near Fracking More Likely To Become Sick, Study Finds.
* Twilight for alumni donations. As someone remarked on Twitter, this piece seriously undercounts the rise of student debt and twentysomething un- and underemployment as factors here.
* Dystopia now: Airlines have never been better at making certain your flight is full.
*Â Forty Percent of Police Families Experience Domestic Violence.
*Â Peacekeepers Sexually Exploited And Abused Women And Girls In Somalia.
*Â Video Shows NYPD Officers Taking Turns Beating Man After He Asked Why He Was Being Searched.
*Â Cops Are Sorry They Keep Losing Cool Guns That the Military Gives Them.
*Â “Driving while black” is, indeed, a measurable phenomenon. Look, if we’re going to make this about facts…
* BREAKING NEWS: Gambling is terrible city planning.
* License to kill:Â CBP Requests Federal Court Keep Identity of Border Patrol Agent Who Killed Teen Secret.
* Court rules Yelp has no obligation to publish positive reviews.
*Â For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High Schoolâs dismal performanceânot firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. Turns out you actually have to teach the kids to get results. Crazy.
* And on the complete other end of the positivity spectrum:Â Teacher Allegedly Locked Kids in Closet to Teach Them “How to Survive.”
* Millennials aren’t using credit cards, and it might come back to haunt them.
* Now that I’m a parent, it’s hard for me to understand how roller coasters are allowed to exist.
* Silicon Valley’s Cult of Male Ego.
* The service, which launches September 16 in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, works with a fleet of women drivers and will only be available to female passengers. Drivers are hailed with an iOS appâlike Uber or Lyftâand arrive wearing “hot pink pashmina scarves,”according to the New York Times.
* Marriage counseling before feminism.
* Today in the voter fraud fraud.
Striking down Pennsylvaniaâs voter ID law in January, its state court found “no evidence of the existence of in-person voter fraud in the state.â Plus, the state failed to establish any connection between photo identity cards and the integrity of elections. Courts in Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas ruled similarly.
Wisconsin federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman in Aprilstruck down that state’s voter ID law for violating the Fourteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Adelman found about 9 percent of registered voters â about 300,000 â lacked the government-issued ID required for casting a ballot under the Wisconsin law, enough to change election results.
*Â âUnprecedentedâ Outbreak Of Rare Virus Strikes Hundreds Of Children In The Midwest.
*Â The Leaky Nuclear Waste Dump and the Town That Loves It Anyway.
* The kids are all right: LEGO Is Now the Biggest Toymaker on the Planet.
*Â 8 Things We Can Do Now to Build a Space Colony This Century.
* And Harvard has received a record $350 million donation. So glad those guys will be able to keep the lights on.
Written by gerrycanavan
September 10, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Weekend Links
* An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow. Please know that this link is very painful to read and will likely be especially so for survivors. What a horror.
* I’m pretty sure I read this interview with Woody Allen when it was published in 2001, as I’ve been using that exact phrase “the heart wants what it wants” as sarcastic shorthand for destructive, deluded narcissism ever since. But Farrow’s accusations, which are in there, never stuck with me, either from their initial airing in 1993 or from this article in 2001. I don’t know if I concluded from the reporters’s framing and the lack of a conviction that they’d been proven false, or what. I had no memory of any of this before what happened during the Globes. And I feel terrible about that. It’s not about me, but reading her letter and hearing her story broke my heart. “You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton.”
* Â “Of course, his dark side was always hiding in plain sight.”
* CU-Boulder reports pervasive sexual harassment within philosophy department. Women fleeing U of Colorado philosophy departmentâs rampant sex harassment. Summary of Report by the American Philosophical Association to the University of Colorado Boulder. Colorado: What We Do And Donât Know.
* Adam Kotsko thinks this from Timothy Burke might be the best thing he’s read about academic labor, but I still think this from Timothy Burke is.
* Scenes from my Cultural Preservation class: consumerism and abandoned malls at the Haggerty Museum of Art. The American Black Holocaust Museum, once the only museum in the country to be dedicated to the memory of slavery. The Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear.
*Â Use the fields below to search for an institution and view the numbers and percentages of tenure-track, full-time non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty members at that institution in 1995 and in 2009.
*Â Neighbors said to fear ‘transient academics.’
* Educational pessimism and socialism.
*Â U.S. map showing amount of snow needed to cancel school by county.
* Scarlett Johansson’s separation from Oxfam seems to have caused Netanyahu to call a meeting to discuss BDS.
*Â Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary.
* Snow, premeditation, and The Walking Dead.
* A short Seinfeld reunion of some kind seems to be in the offing. A Super Bowl ad, surely, no matter what they’re claiming otherwise?
*Â Time-Travelling Amazon Reviews Of The Next Series Of Doctor Who.
* Will Michael Mann end the National Review?
* âOut-Of-Controlâ Rig In The Gulf Gushing Methane Freely Into The Atmosphere. The Water Levels Of The Middle Eastâs Biggest Lake Have Dropped 95 Percent In Two Decades. Fracking Under Houses Could Be New Norm As U.K. Puts Environmental Concerns On Backburner.
*Â An Open Letter to the White Woman Who Felt Bad for Me at Yoga.
* J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermioneâs relationship. She also almost killed Ron altogether, so.
* And the Batman vs. Superman news just gets worse and worse. Perhaps it’s time I just lost hope.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 1, 2014 at 9:48 pm
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Thursday!
* What happened in Atlanta this week is not a matter of Southerners blindsided by unpredictable weather. More than any event Iâve witnessed in two decades of living in and writing about this city, this snowstorm underscores the horrible history of suburban sprawl in the United States and the bad political decisions that drive it.
* Accreditation Standards Should Include Treatment of Adjuncts, Report Says. This has been my revolutionary scheme for a while, glad to see it could actually be feasible…
*Â Let Banks Fail Is Iceland Mantra as 2% Joblessness in Sight.
*Â âI wouldnât go so far,â writes Horton of Kincaidâs central thesis that short science fiction exhibits all the signs of exhaustion. âI donât think that ‘all meaning has been drained from’ the tropes we use, but I do think they are becoming overfamiliar. And I do think that the field of science fiction has to a considerable extent become enamoured with explicitly backward-looking ideas.â
* Boom: A Journal of California interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
* My friend Jack Hamilton eulogizes Pete Seeger.
*Â What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jobs last year.
* Utterly horrifying:Â Hanover College Told Rape Victim That Attempting To Have Her Alleged Rapist Punished Is Harassment.
* UNC: We failed students “for years.”
* Stradivarius violin stolen in armed robbery in Milwaukee. Said to be the biggest heist in city history.
* Some Notes on the MLA Job Information List.
* What do unionizing NCAA players want? NCAA Should Be Begging for a Union.
* Capitalism, the infernal machine: An interview with Fredric Jameson.
* The police union as philosophical problem.
* The Rise of the Post-New Left Political Vocabulary.
*Â New York Senate passes bill punishing ASA over Israel boycott.
* More on Ezra Klein’s very strange idea.
* Batgirl advocates for equal pay for equal work.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal wins every prize today.
*Â New York City commissioner’s ancestors were slaves of Benedict Cumberbatch’s family.
*Â Climate Change Is Already Causing Mass Human Migration.
*Â 10 Failed Utopian Cities That Influenced the Future.
* And The State reunites (for a segment anyway)…
Written by gerrycanavan
January 30, 2014 at 7:00 am
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