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Almost Too Many Thursday Links, Really, If You Ask Me
* Extrapolation is seeking essays for a special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Michael Levy and John Rieder.
* Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
* No state worse than Wisconsin for black children, says new national study. The Fight for Wisconsin’s Soul. Other People’s Pathologies.
* University of California graduate students explain why they’re striking. Students Occupy Dartmouth President’s Office. Coaches Make $358,000 In Bonuses For Reaching NCAA Tournament Final Four. Emory University Eradicates its Visual Arts Department. Dear Harvard: You Win.
* A Brief Report from the University of Southern Maine. Armed guards at faculty meetings.
* Major attack on academic freedom in Michigan.
* Academia Under the Influence.
* Surveillance, Dissent, and Imperialism. NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze.
* The secret history of Cuban Twitter. If this tweet gets 1000 favorites Castro’s beard falls out.
* Kingdom Prep is one of dozens of basketball academies that have popped up in recent years to cater to “postgrad” players—recent high-school graduates who need to improve their standardized-test scores to meet the NCAA’s academic requirements.
* Just when I thought I was out: Marquette hires Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski.
* The really rich are different from the rich, who are different from you and me.
* An heir to the du Pont fortune has been given probation for raping his three-year-old daughter because you know damn well why.
* What Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway?
* Documents filed with the Department of Labor and dated December 2012—three months after the company’s owners filed their lawsuit—show that the Hobby Lobby 401(k) employee retirement plan held more than $73 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices, and drugs commonly used in abortions. Hobby Lobby makes large matching contributions to this company-sponsored 401(k).
* Libertarian Police Department. Koch Brothers Quietly Seek To Ban New Mass Transit In Tennessee.
* A new study shows how Lake Tahoe might serve as a mammoth reservoir that could significantly mitigate California’s chronic water shortages without tarnishing the lake’s world-renowned beauty. What could possibly go wrong?
* The geographic sublime, from the Rural Assistance Center.
* How to Think About the Risk of Autism.
* Sepinwall vs. How I Met Your Mother.
* How To Negotiate With People Around The World.
* Gasp! CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says.
* Gasp! Torture Didn’t Lead to Bin Laden.
* New G.O.P. Bid to Limit Voting in Swing States.
* You once said: “I’m part-android.” Has that revelation haunted you?
* The kids are all right: Talking With 13-Year-Old Leggings Activist Sophie Hasty.
* Bourbon and Girl Scout Cookie Pairings.
* The Definitive Ranking Of Robin’s 359 Exclamations From ‘Batman.’ 25 Weird Batman Comic-Book Covers.
* Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom’s gift economy.
* Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the rRise of the BBbad Fan.
* Original Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan VFX Storyboards Are A Visual Feast.
* The greatest, richest, freest country in the history of the world.
* The wisdom of markets: Walmart Realizes It’s Losing Billions Of Dollars By Denying Workers More Hours.
* Classic good news / bad news situation: Television Without Pity Archives Will Stay Online. Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come.
* Weird science: Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death.
* On Moretti-ism: Knowing is not reading.
* The New Inquiry’s “Money” issue is out with some great pieces, including one on China that really highlights a key contradiction in American ideology, which simultaneously holds that capitalism is the only possible economic system and that the future belongs to China. And Rortybomb’s piece on human capital is super chilling: basically dystopian literature, and it’s pretty much already real. And then the freedom piece! And the egg donation one! Great issue all around.
A person may be free because she can choose among a broad range of possibilities, or she may be free while she undertakes some action about which she has no choice at all, but whose compulsion she deems legitimate. Or she may be free when she faces a range of options, one of which is clearly superior to the alternatives, so that her behavior is perfectly predictable despite a formal freedom to choose. Freedom is not, at bottom, about the range of possibilities one faces but about the degree of consent one offers for the action to be taken or the circumstance to be endured.
* Japan Ordered To Stop Killing Antarctic Whales For “Science.”
* Teen Wins $70,000 Settlement After School Demanded Her Facebook Password.
* Is being thin more deadly than being obese? Take that, skinnies!
* I’ve had this dream: Student claims college instructor spent months teaching class the ‘wrong’ course.
* I dream of the day that Seattle and Portland can get along.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 3, 2014 at 7:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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All This Weekend’s Links at Half the Price
* Michael Lovell, Marquette, and Milwaukee. MU’s students are on board.
* Turns out academic freedom isn’t free: Michigan State University could risk losing $500,000 if it does not stop offering courses that allegedly promote unionization.
* “They call us professors, but they’re paying us at poverty levels,” she said. “I just want to make a living from a skill I’ve spent 30 years developing.”
* NCAA in Turmoil: Why UNC Can’t Get Past Its Fake Classes Scandal.
* In Silicon Valley there really is a class war going on, a wage-fixing cartel that’s pitting the one percent against everyone else.
* LAX Baggage Handlers Took Whatever They Wanted From Bags for Months. I’m actually pretty sure they stole our camera, which we haven’t seen since we left California.
* The typographical sublime: Switching from Times New Roman to Garamond could save the government almost half a billion dollars.
* End of an Internet Era: Television Without Pity Gets Shuttered. It’s Hard To Imagine The Internet Without Television Without Pity. Raised on Television without Pity. MetaFilter mourns. The real tragedy here is the absolutely unnecessary closing of the forums; there’s a valuable decade of Internet TV writing and fan commentary, lost overnight.
* Dialectics of Stephen Colbert: We Want To #CancelColbert. What We Can Learn From the Embarrassing #CancelColbert Shitstorm. A profile of Suey Park.
* In Praise of Odd Children’s Books.
* Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says.
* If You Support The Death Penalty, You Are Probably White.
* Rebecca Schuman on The Most Important University in St Louis. More from the new, Serious™ Schuman: Save Fulbright!
* The Case for Making Revenge Porn a Federal Crime.
* Free speech having a tough time tonight: Arrest Climate-Change Deniers.
* io9 has a visual history of prosthetics.
* Unpaid Interns In New York City Are Now Protected From Sexual Harassment. Well, obviously, of course they would be, what could be more obvious — wait, now?
* Oh, America empire, you’re incorrigible! As our troops pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re abandoning fixers and translators to the dangerous countrymen who view them as traitors. Asylum in the U.S. could be their last hope. If only we’d let them in.
* Scott Walker Signs Early Voting Restrictions Making It Harder For Low-Income Voters To Vote.
* Wisconsin also having a tough time tonight: BP Admits To Spilling Even More Oil In Lake Michigan.
* Come back here, we’re not done getting bummed out yet: The Pacific Ocean Is Turning Sour Much Faster Than Expected, Study Shows. Texas Oil Spill Is Killing Birds, Threatening Fishing Industry.
* How The Justice System Is Rigged Against These Cheerleaders Suing The Raiders For Wage Theft. Federal Judge Tells Women Lawyers Not To Dress Like ‘An Ignorant Slut.’ Virtually the entire judiciary is made up of former prosecutors and corporate lawyers.
* Tumblr of the weekend: Shit Settlers Said.
* The 1897 Petition Against Annexation That More Than Half of All Native Hawaiians Signed.
* The ASA is now asking for $100,000 in donations to defend itself from attacks resulting in its decision about how to spend a few hundred. Well done, everyone!
* So old I can remember when teaching was a career. Standing Up to Testing. New York Schools Are the Nation’s Most Racially Segregated. And if you only count the best-performing schools, charter schools are doing great!
* This is a land of peace, love, justice, and no mercy: Shanesha Taylor, Homeless Single Mom, Arrested After Leaving Kids In Car While On Job Interview.
* A year to make a game, a weekend to rip it off.
* This is a generic brand video.
* And at least it’s almost all over for humanity: Crazy Stone computer Go program defeats Ishida Yoshio 9 dan with 4 stones.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 29, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
No One Ever Expects Wednesday Links
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* Nearly one-third of public college presidents serve on corporate boards. Most of those companies exist in far-flung industries, and the issues at play are different: Why should college presidents involve themselves with shipping, with search engines, with banking?
* Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more.
* President of Ireland Affirms Value of the Humanities. Ireland, you’re not so bad yourself!
* Management Bloat at UC.
* Against gainful employment.
* Reprints and British Comics.
* This crazy space-age Satellite Hotel could’ve put Milwaukee on the map.
* “I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones.”
* Cincinnatus watch: Paul Ryan just said he would not accept the GOP presidential nomination at the convention.
* The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing.
* Liberalism and fracking.
* Guns on campus; adjuncts hardest hit.
* 4 big questions about the race to Mars. Under Obama, NASA finds itself in a familiar place: Big goals but inadequate funds.
* Stephen Hawking’s Starshot.
* Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Strange. Some commentary.
* LARoB reviews The New Mutants : Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics.
* Music to my ears: Why Story of Your Life May Be the Year’s Breakout Sci-fi Movie.
* Torchwood is back!
* Television without Pity is coming back!
* Homestuck is over!
* A list of games that Buddha would not play.
* Bloc by Bloc: A cooperative board game of revolutionary strategy, hidden agendas & 21st century urban rebellion.
* The sheep look up: Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048.
* Perpetual Present: The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future.
* Any sufficiently advanced non-Newtonian fluid pool is indistinguishable from magic.
* The Guardian read the comments.
* Navy Officer Rescued 3 From Remote Pacific Island After Seeing Sign For Help.
This photo provided by U.S. Navy released April 7, 2016 shows two men waving life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik. The three men were back to safety on Thursday, April 7, 2016, three days after going missing. (U.S. Navy/Ensign John Knight via AP)
Written by gerrycanavan
April 13, 2016 at 1:41 pm
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