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Thursday Afternoon Links!
* Mark Z. Danielewski has written a pilot for a potential House of Leaves TV series. It's good! The question of adapting the novel wound up being a minor subtheme in our discussion of the book in my summer grad class last month, so I was gratified to actually get to see the script — and directly incorporating the novel into the storyworld of the TV series seems like an intriguing solution to the book's basic unfilmability. I think I hope someone makes it!
* I haven't had a chance to see Ant-Man and the Wasp yet, so I'm gratified someone went ahead and wrote my triennial rant about franchise fictions and narrative closure on my behalf.
* Texas Studies in Literature and Language has a special issue on Wes Anderson.
* CFP for the SFRA guaranteed panel at ASLE 19. ASLE 19 (in Davis, CA) is a week after the planned dates for SFRA 19 in Hawaii, so if you're going to the West Coast anyway it could be almost like a two-for-one…
* The second issue of Fantastika Journal is now available.
* That the things that gave my life meaning growing up have all become vectors for recruitment to misogynistic and white nationalist hate groups is the bitterest surprise of my middle age. That and Trump. Two bitterest surprises.
* Nominations Are Open for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards.
* Ken Liu Presents Broken Stars, A New Anthology of Chinese Short Speculative Fiction.
* The Fall of Wisconsin. How to win Wisconsin back.
* Shakespeare in the state parks.
* Specialized program for Marquette undergraduates with autism disorders gifted $450,000, set to launch fall 2019.
* "In some ways, I now think that one of the primary functions of the university, for the ruling class, is precisely to train a generation in indebtedness, in a state of being in debt."
* The Self-Helpification of Academe: How feel-good nostrums cover up the university's cruelty.
* Another piece on searching for work outside academia.
* Professor Faces Fraud Charges for False Job Offer. Reading the confession letter just makes me cringe.
* His University Asked Him to Build an Emoji-Themed Parade Float. Then It Fired Him.
* Why Donald Trump Nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Brett Kavanaugh Will Mean Challenging Times For Environmental Laws. The Vice Report. The Coming Era of Forced Abortions. The end of net neutrality. The imperial presidency 2.0. Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Spell a Fresh Hell for Workers' Rights. Brett Kavanaugh Ruled Against Workers When No One Else Did. The issue with Kavanaugh is that he seems completely reactionary, bouncing from one indefensible position to another, without applying any judgment whatsoever. Liberal media in full effect. The Liberal Case for Kavanaugh Is Complete Crap. He's a very normal Republican pick — that's the problem. Establishment Extremist. What's coming. It's bad y'all. Someone investigate precisely how this deal was made and what the terms were. And from the archives: The Three Alitos.
* The Supreme Court: still bad.
* Capitalism is ruining science. The Business Veto: The demise of social democracy shows the precariousness of any project of reform under capitalism.
* Here come the DIY guns.
* Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras.
* Technoleviathan: China, Silicon Valley, and the rise of the global surveillance state. How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape the Global Order.
* Silicon Valley Is Bending Over Backward to Cater to the Far Right.
* How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System. Rule-Making as Structural Violence: From a Taxi to Uber Economy in San Francisco.
* It's amazing that US governmentality has finally crossed the threshold where its obvious illegitimacy can be spoken about in public.
* Former Obama Officials Are Riding Out The Trump Years By Cashing In.
* The end of NATO. 'They Will Die in Tallinn': Estonia Girds for War With Russia.
* Trump is set to separate more than 200,000 U.S.-born children from their parents. Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement Is Budgeting for a Surge in Child Separations. 'Don't You Know That We Hate You People?' ICE is lawless, racial profiling edition. Where Cities and Counties Are Detaining Immigrants. Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed. Government Told Immigrant Parents to Pay for DNA Tests to Get Kids Back, Advocate Says. As Migrant Families Are Reunited, Some Children Don't Recognize Their Mothers. Deported after Trump order, Central Americans grieve for lost children. 'What if I lose her forever?' Undocumented Grover Beach mother deported despite community rallying in her support. Facing a Tuesday deadline to reunite about 100 migrant toddlers with their parents, feds say they've reunited 2. Inside The Courts Where Some Immigrants Plead Guilty Without Knowing What's Happening. Now they're coming for grandmas.
So that's 50 kids matched and reunited in two weeks. At that pace we're looking at OVER TWO YEARS to match and reunite the approximately 3000 children in its custody that have been taken from their parents.
Not acceptable.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 9, 2018
They have been extremely clear: there is no nonwhite migration of any sort that is legitimate. They've attacked asylum seekers, visa applicants, DACA recipients, green card holders, naturalized citizens. Any status, legal or illegal, is purely contingent. It's ethnic cleansing. https://t.co/djp8cpiZz9
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 11, 2018
And as the cruelty ramps up we are seeing the justifications becoming more freeform and loose, closer and closer to unapologetic racism. They are dropping any pretense this is about following rules.
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— Steven Schwinghamer (@s_schwinghamer) July 12, 2018
If you are not among the groups being targeted and demonized and attacked by this administration and its lackeys and minions, you have a moral duty to stand with those who are.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) July 9, 2018
* Woman arrested in assault of 91-year-old Mexican man who was told to 'go back to your country.'
* Weird coincidence.
* There's been a spate of violent far-right extremism since the 2016 election.
* If you're anti- antifa, that must mean…
* Andrew Cuomo and ICE.
* It's Not Civil Disobedience if You Ask for Permission.
* Liberalism, legitimacy, and loving the Parkland kids.
* Eleven Theses on Civility.
* Why Marx's Capital Still Matters.
* Nixon's $7B carbon tax forms centerpiece of energy agenda.
* The Industrial Age May Have Actually Been Kind of a Bad Idea.
* An interview with Julia Salazar. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, In Her Own Words. Cynthia Nixon: I'm a democratic socialist. Meanwhile our old pal Joe Crowley looks like he's trying to get away with something.
* We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment.
* Sure, why not?
* Alan Dershowitz is ALL IN on Trump. But he's not the only person with some truly around-the-bend ideas of what lawsuits can do.
* Weird science: Girls sometimes inherit almost two full sets of their dad's genes, which seems to cause rare cancers.
* The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene, Part III: A Conversation with Helen Phillips, Amitav Ghosh, and Nathan Kensinger.
* An Arkansas man complained about police abuse. Then town officials ruined his life.
* Did… did Milwaukee write this?
* Jeff Bezos Is Now $50 Billion Richer Than Anyone Else on Earth.
* All 12 Thai Boys Successfully Rescued from Cave after Third Dangerous Mission. The only person unhappy is Elon.
* WHO's Language on Breastfeeding Really Is Flawed. This was our experience with breastfeeding for sure; I'm sure it's great for a lot of people but we needed formula as a supplement from the first night on. That said, the corporate forces that promote formula over breastfeeding are utterly gross.
* When the relationship status truly is complicated.
* Nabokov's dreams.
* Scotland's official plan if the Loch Ness Monster is found.
* Brexit: It's bad!
* Being Bobcat Goldthwait.
* Billy Dee is back.
* Japan and the stay-at-home dad.
* Reality Winner and the espionage act.
* My Best Friend Lost His Life to the Gig Economy.
* When your child reveals sexual abuse from your parent.
* The Socialist Case for School Integration.
* Factchecking David Brooks.
* Your town tomorrow: Kure residents cut off from outside world due to flooding.
* Nope, no thanks.
* I knew wearing a tie was making me stupid.
* Bad subtitling is a daily problem for deaf viewers.
* Melt Monument Ave.
* How swimming pools became a flashpoint of racial tension in America.
* California brings emissions down below 1990 levels. But it's not all good news.
* Feminist Apparel CEO Fires Entire Staff After They Learn He's An Admitted Sexual Abuser. RIP, Papa John.
* There is too much uncertainty in sports; even if you bribe the officials, something unaccounted for could still cause the "wrong" result. It can be a bad idea to gather large crowds opposed to your team (and, by extension, your dictatorship). During Franco's rule, Barcelona FC's stadium was the only place the Catalans could wave their flag and sing their songs. Dictators are better off with tyranny and oppression. Football is for people who can accept a loss.
* David Graeber's new book argues that many of us are toiling in dummy jobs with no ostensible purpose. Any poll will show you he has a point. But his thesis is built on scant evidence and dubious claims of a ruling class conspiring to keep us busy. Bullshit jobs exist not due to orchestrated oppression but because of something altogether simpler: bad managers.
* An even tougher review of a book that seems like a big step down from Debt.
* The SAT, constantly innovating new ways to make teenagers unhappy.
* "I sort of feel like I'm taking the bait on this, but: Can you imagine the copy they *rejected* for this Handmaid's Tale pinot noir?"
* Through such characters, Muluneh's work explores the layered psychic realms of blackness and womanhood that the African-American science fiction writer Octavia Butler, whom she cites as a major influence, explored through her otherworldly prose. In the process, Muluneh's work has helped reorient the way black women are perceived. "As women, especially as African women," Muluneh said, "we forget—and the world forgets—our positioning in history and religion and culture."
* And amusing ourselves to death: 12 theme parks where the danger is real.
I sort of feel like I'm taking the bait on this, but: Can you imagine the copy they *rejected* for this Handmaid's Tale pinot noir? https://t.co/QPHkYWsBw6 pic.twitter.com/fT86HGhirx
— Lauren Kelley (@lauren_kelley) July 10, 2018
well, back to the grind pic.twitter.com/PLL7F66DGI
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Don't Fall Behind, Spring Ahead with These Sunday Morning Links
two papers graded. let's see what's in the news
* The R.D. Mullen Fellowship is calling for applications. The deadline this year is April 2, 2018.
* Fully Automated Luxury Socialism: The Case for a New Public Sector.
* For Your Consideration: African Speculative Fiction Society Nommos 2018.
* I had a few bad parents during my time in One Hour, One Life but only one of them outright abandoned me. Most of them, even if they could barely care for themselves, tried to keep me alive. "We're going to die," one mother told me when I spawned into the game with her in the middle of a barren wilderness. We did, but she carried me with her every step of the way through our brief lives. 'One Hour, One Life': This Game Broke My Heart and Restored My Faith in Humanity.
* We Must Cancel Everyone's Student Debt, for the Economy's Sake.
* Solarpunk: Against a Shitty Future.
* Despite their claim to be the champions facts, reason, and evidence the right-wing and alt-liberal figures have failed to understand a simple fact about universities: they're not actually left-wing places at all.
* Fewer foreign students exacerbate financial challenges for some U.S. universities.
* 99 Problems in Academia.
* What passes for intellectualism on the right.
* Unpaid internships are back.
Who else can imagine a wave of university adjunct strikes? Adjuncts do 3/4 of all the teaching these days.
— reclaim UC (@reclaimuc) March 10, 2018
* All The Movies I Didn't See.
My guess is, having elected, much to their surprise, a lunatic as the most powerful man on the planet, a man who boasts of 'his' nukes being bigger than Kim Jong-un's, a man who could actually be crazy enough to unleash a nuclear warhead on millions, the Americans are sorely missing a time when the white man did something right.
* A slow, cerebral, Miracleman depiction of Barry Allen losing all touch with his humanity Dr.-Manhattan-style seems like the only way for The Flash to proceed from here.
* Black Panther crosses $1 billion.
I'm so dumb I'm only just now thinking about Killmonger as Hamlet.
I think a lot of the Hamlet parallels are inverted, not just catastrophic indecisiveness vs catastrophic decisiveness but also the materialist vs spiritualist orientation of the final speech, but there's something there.
* "President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact."
* Echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in today's immigration debate.
* We'll Never See This Politically Themed Black-ish Episode Because of 'Creative Differences.'
* How to Lose Your Job From Sexual Harassment in 33 Easy Steps.
* This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town.
* YouTube, the Great Radicalizer.
* Super Mario as it was meant to be experienced.
Writing tip: If no one wants to publish your manuscript, consider the possibility that you're living in a simulation whose only purpose is to punish you for a crime you can no longer remember.
— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) March 10, 2018
I'm gonna do a true crime podcast that's just me reading everything US presidents have done for the last 240 years
— Christopher M (@mammothfactory) November 4, 2017
everything on planet Earth is falling apart
— NYT Minus Context (@NYTMinusContext) March 10, 2018
* The legend of Kelly.
* The Singularity in theory and practice.
* If you want a vision of the future.
* I Felt Despair About Climate Change—Until a Brush With Death Changed My Mind. "Leukemia and climate change have more in common than you might think."
* Remembering The Hobbit: The Text Adventure.
* love 2 post on social media
* And a much-too-long-delayed Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal roundup: The oceans are warming. It's altering turtle reproduction so that the vast majority of offspring are female. It was mistake to drop acid with Neil Degrasse Tyson. Pure evil. I'll do anything for a good grade. Dear science. Dr. Bees. On sequels. I have this nightmare where a giant monster chases me. I'm going to give you a pill that'll double your intelligence. Welcome to robot heaven. Penguin have a much happier version of the Titanic story. Finegan's Wake. You are watching The Nihilist Channel. Where do you think all these fossils come from? Get me a scientist! Purposelessness is the only real super villain. Daddy, can I ask you something? The fundamental kid utility function. And my whole life has been one string of failures. Please send help.
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Sunday'd Reading!
* Presenting the International Journal of James Bond Studies.
* On graduate labor and the Yale commencement protest.
* A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project.
* "Self-defense" in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
* Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared!
KUSHNER (Oliver Stone, 2018) – Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jared), Jennifer Lawrence (Ivanka), Mickey Rourke (Trump), Daniel Craig (Putin)
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) May 27, 2017
* Flynn, Sessions, etc.
* So old I can remember when Eric and Donald Jr. were going to run the business and not have a political role. (January.)
* Cool, thanks for looking into it.
* Same joke but with the one of the highest capitalized companies on the planet claiming poverty to avoid not being quite so sexist.
* Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday.
* Google's AI Is Now Creating Its Own AI.
* The Republicans Broke American Politics, and Media Elites Are Blind to It. A week that reveals how rotten today's Republican Party is.
Simple from here:
1. Trump pardons everyone, including himself
2. Republicans openly laugh about it
3. The End
4. Worst Thanksgiving Ever
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 27, 2017
ballpark, how many relatives do you have that would gladly murder you if Fox/Trump/Limbaugh said they should
* The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. It's too late, of course, the cultists will believe in it for all time.
* Horrific hate crime in Portland. Seems to be part of a disturbing trend.
* New Orleans principal loses job after wearing Nazi-associated rings in video. Glowing 2015 profile.
* Meanwhile, in Arizona. In New Jersey.
* New Jersey not doing great in my newsfeed today generally. Though this was good.
* U.S. Airstrike Killed Over 100 Civilians in Mosul, Pentagon Says. The U.S. Is Helping Allies Hide Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria.
* 'Mostly Toddlers' Among 31 Drowned.
* A spectre is haunting Goldman Sachs.
* Trump going to the mattresses.
* How Alleged Russian Hacker Teamed Up With Florida GOP Operative.
* Democrats doing much better, still can't win a damn thing. The only answer is to keep offering them nothing and telling them they're stupid, until they finally come around. Wake up, liberals: There will be no 2018 "blue wave," no Democratic majority and no impeachment. Donald Trump Is A Big Reason The GOP Kept The Montana House Seat.
Democrats are going to declare it a historic victory when Trump retakes the White House after losing the popular vote by *six* million.
Getting to still run the Dem Party after losing to Trump is like getting to still run a Wall St bank after engineering the financial crisis
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) May 27, 2017
* The end of Breitbart?
* Remember how terrible the AHCA is?
* Can Trump pardon by tweet?
* Trump and the drug war.
* RNC PR BS but even more so.
* Sheriff Clarke and some totally appropriate, not at all batshit insane behavior.
* A GoFundMe Campaign Is Not Health Insurance.
* A 31-year-old undocumented Honduran bicyclist, Marcos Antonio Huete, was hit by a car in Key West, Florida, on his way to work. The policeman's camera shows him inquiring about the victim's immigration status before offering medical assistance. He was later detained by the Border Patrol.
* Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers ate breakfast at a Michigan restaurant, got up, and detained three employees on Wednesday morning.
* "We want you to think Luke is bad" is an awfully large part of Last Jedi hype. I have to think that means they won't actually do it…
* Title IX Policy shift at the University of Oregon: Faculty members at the University of Oregon will no longer be required to notify campus authorities when students confide in them that they've been sexually assaulted or harassed but say they don't want the information reported.
* Wealth, I realized, is the adult version of magic: an incredibly powerful but ultimately arbitrary resource that transfers primarily through inheritance. It has some logic to it— but also enough randomness that those without can hope for a spontaneous windfall in the form of an improbably lucrative investment or a secret inheritance.
* Disaster: The Game!
try think of an album that came out last year. WRONG. it came out in 2009. you're old as fuck dude
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) May 25, 2017
* Unexpected and interesting: Joss Whedon isn't just finishing Justice League; he's been working on it for a while.
* Not So Random Trek.
* Truly, ours is the darkest timeline.
* Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn't fully confined within the head.
* The average person keeps thirteen secrets, five of which he or she has never shared with anyone else.
* A chance meeting with Mr. Rogers.
* RIP, Denis Johnson.
* Crayola by the numbers.
* If you'd bought $1,000 of Bitcoin in 2010, you'd be worth $35M.
* Uber: a cheap scam all the way down.
* Original draft of Revenge of the Sith actually treated Padme as an interesting character.
* Obituaries My Mother Wrote for Me While I Was Living in San Francisco in My Twenties.
* These birds have the right idea.
* This one cuts me. When you're in your thirties. Call CPS. #TheResistance.
* Everything was connected, and I was fucked.
* Can someone please explain the physics of Casper?
* And N6946-BH1 is all of us right now.
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Trumpsday Reading
* Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation. Making America Cruel Again. The triumph of cruelty. Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump's immigration order. 24 Hours at JFK. 'Breathtaking violation of rights.' Constitutional crisis. Hero Lawyers. Stop that plane: The frantic race to halt a deportation. A Q&A With the ACLU. Our New Itinerary. Travel ban causes high anxiety for Milwaukee's international students. The little-noticed bombshell in Trump's immigration order. Half Of World's Refugees Are Running From U.S. Wars. Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting. The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas. Yes, all this happened. Gasp! Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire. Ivanka lied about the leaving the Trump organization too. Make War with Mexico Great Again. Trainwreck in Yemen. Even Australia. Onward to Iran! 14 Versions Of Trump's Presidency, From #MAGA To Impeachment. Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together. Editing Trump. Authoritarian Government Watch. We just let this one go without even making a big deal about it. And this one was crazy too! A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. Seems legit. This is not normal. #TheResistance. A Reader for Trumplandia. Trump: A Resister's Guide. SNL 1, 2, 3. Oh man. The law, in its majestic equality. 4 in 10. A whole year? Jesus. The numbers. A 3,900 percent increase. It takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships. Here's how much the anti-Trump protests cost, at Trump paid-turnout rates. Disobey.
* I had a very brief segment on Wisconsin Public Radio last week discussing 1984 and the Trump administration.
* The worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they've always happened through American institutions and practices. These are the elements of the American polity that have offered especially potent tools and instruments of intimidation and coercion: federalism, the separation of powers, social pluralism, and the rule of law. All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression, and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them.
* There is a style of political reasoning which the Trump moment lends itself to, which can be called conspiracism. Against omniscience.
* Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable.
* V-Milwaukee!
* Vaughn Prison Uprising.
* Screaming about Trump into a Well: A Text Adventure.
* The Democratic Response to Gorsuch Is Easy: Just Say No. Why Democrats Should Oppose Neil Gorsuch. Make Republicans Nuke the Filibuster to Confirm Neil Gorsuch.
* Football players at private institutions in college sports' most competitive level are employees, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel stated this week, and will be treated as such if they seek protection against unfair labor practices.
* Chris Ware on George Herriman. A rebuttal.
* The African Speculative Fiction lecture series at the University of London.
* Inside the Disney Vault.
* The Hot New Brand of Higher Education.
* Riot at Berkeley. #Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism.
* After-the-Horse-Has-Left-the-Barn Department. Well at least you're sorry.
* Who Cares If the Dow Jones Hit 20,000?
* Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost.
* The U.S. military's stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported.
* Academics boycotting the U.S.
* The end of Locked-In Syndrome… in the Twilight Zone.
Okay so this really *is* like a news story straight out of Black Mirror – right down to the ending. pic.twitter.com/RrFaQ4SH3W
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) February 1, 2017
* Same.
* The new issue of the SFRA Review is up.
* The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock.
* Poker and the machines.
* Guns, hostile lawmakers, and professional bigots are more dangerous to academic freedom than left-wing activists are.
* Other Space, the best SF series no one but me watched.
* Against the Constitution. Against the Supreme Court.
* Video Game Voice Actor Strike Now Second-Longest In SAG History.
* Zelda map size comparisons.
* How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee.
* How to Kellyanne Conway.
* Why the voting age should be lowered to 16.
* February 17 is the next time the general strike isn't actually going to happen.
* In the Trump International Penal Colony and Golf Resort.
* Marquette in the ne — come on, again?
* Also they enslaved and tortured generations of animals, but that's not important right now.
* no no no no no no no no
* …and now it's canon.
* Decolonizing Science Fiction.
* How an Interstellar Starship Could Actually Explore Alpha Centauri.
* How Astronauts' Brains Are Changed By Spaceflight.
* In the future, everyone will be hated by thousands of strangers for 15 minutes.
* The Milwaukee Bucks Century.
* The war comes to Whitefish Bay.
* Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of small farmers' livelihoods.
* The richest society in human history.
* And like Nietzsche said: it is forgetting, not remembering, that makes life possible.
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Can It Be? More Wednesday Links?
* …as long as critics and publishers frame African literature as always on the cusp, it will continue to be an emerging literature whose emergence is infinitely deferred. It will remain utopian, just out of reach.
* Also from Aaron Bady: 'House of Cards' Should Stop Trying to Be 'The West Wing.'
* Never tell me the odds.
* How To Lower Univ. of Illinois Tuition (and it can work at other universities too).
* The Corinthian 15.
* Columbia Graduate Students Push for a Labor Union.
* The Loser Edit That Awaits Us All.
* How One University Unexpectedly Found Itself Ranked Among the '25 Most Dangerous Colleges.' This is pretty horrifying, even before you get to my intuition that this is all prelude to an extortion scheme.
* Teaching evaluations: still bad! Don't use them!
* Legendary, lost civilization discovered in Honduras rainforest 1,000 years later.
* Brian Williams has finally found the women responsible for his mistakes.
* Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon.
* My name is Ozymandias, Sim of Sims — look upon my work, ye Maxis, and despair.
* Remember the Maryland parents who let their two kids walk home from a park alone and then had to deal with police and child protective services? They heard from the state today. The couple was found responsible for "unsubstantiated" child neglect, a confusing charge that resolved nothing and left the couple possibly more nervous and paranoid than ever.
* Pharrell Made Only $2,700 In Songwriter Royalties From 43 Million Plays Of 'Happy' On Pandora. Disruptatational! Innovasmagoric!
* Daddy, what do you want me to be when I grow up?
* And from the too-good-to-check file: Profile of Hulk, a 175-pound pit bull.
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Tuesday Links!
* UT President just comes out and says it: tenure is over.
Rather than debate these issues as an all-or-nothing matter, we should implement our system in a way that looks to the purposes tenure serves. In fact, we already do that. American higher education, including UT, has been using an increasing share of non-tenured faculty. In this sense, American higher education has been de-tenuring itself, that is, unleveraging itself, for the last 20 years. My point here is that we need to do this in a purposeful way that is aligned with our large-scale teaching and research goals in ever more detailed ways. We need to use tenure when it is most needed: where competition is the keenest and where research is more central to the enterprise. It is less necessary where those two features aren't present. Again, my point here is not that I have the answer. My point is that we can't shy away from an issue even as sacred as how we use tenure. We need to lead the way by implementing everything we do in light of the purposes we claim it promotes.
* Meanwhile: There's still no STEM shortage.
* For-Profit Colleges as Factories of Debt.
* Isn't everybody equal now? Can't women be obnoxious too? Wesleyan Rules That Fraternities Must Accept Women.
* The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tries to make sense of Wisconsin's ever-changing voter ID rules.
* I've simply never understood how "divestment" was supposed to work as a tactic against climate change. The only thing that threatens to shake this conviction is the fact that Slate agrees.
* Better march harder: Worldwide Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reached Record Levels In 2013.
* Yes we can! U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms.
* Elsewhere in Obama doing a heckuva job: The US just started bombing Syria.
* Police shoot teenage special-needs girl within 20 seconds of arriving to 'help.'
* What Reparations in America Could Look Like.
* I taught in one of the many social-service organizations known in the nonprofit industrial complex as "re-­entry." Re-entry's primary goal is to induct people back into the workforce once they are released from prison or are mired in the bureaucracy of one of the state's "community supervision" programs, which include jails, probation, parole, or ATIs (alternatives to incarceration). In practical terms, re-entry provides "services," broadly construed, to economically disenfranchised people who are targeted by the police and as a result are under some form of surveillance by the carceral network.
* Inside Higher Ed debates whether and how you can try to address male pathologies in the classroom without reentering maleness pedagogically.
* Glengarry, Bob Ross.
* What it's like to have a stroke at 33.
* On this week's episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver takes a look at the Miss America pageant and asks, "How the f*ck is this still happening?"
* 11/23/63 is coming to Hulu as a series. I feel like I run a link that says this at least three times a year.
* The past isn't done with us: A Brazilian man whose parents were African slaves could be the oldest living person ever documented after receiving a birth cerficate showing he turned 126 last week, it was reported on Tuesday.
* The past isn't done with us, part two: Star Trek 3 might reunite William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
* I've had dreams like this: Camera falls from a plane and lands in a pig farm.
* Somebody's stealing my bit: There's a new university course focusing on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
* And they say America is a country no longer capable of achieving great things: Rhode Island Man Manages to Get Four DUIs in 30 Hours.
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Tuesday!
* C21's book on Debt is finally almost out. My essay draws on the bits of the Polygraph introduction I wrote and is about ecological debt.
* Syllabus minute: I have W.H. Auden envy.
* MOOC Completion Rates: The Data.
* How neoliberal universities build their football stadiums.
Some projections showed Athletics might not be able to make payments starting in the 2030s when the debt service balloons. The debt is structured so that for the next 20 years, Cal only needs to make interest payments on the debt. The principal kicks in in the early 2030s, resulting in payments between $24 million and $37 million per year.
Look, if it's good enough for an idea man who settled out of court on securities fraud, it's good enough for me.
* Kent State fires adjunct who built their journalism master's.
* Ian Morris, psychohistorian.
* What If? on The Twitter Archive of Babel. The Twitter Archive of Babel contains the true story of your life, as well as all the stories of all the lives you didn't lead….
* Proud Species Commits Suicide Rather Than Be Driven To Extinction By Humans.
* A People's History of "Twist and Shout."
* PPP: Russ Feingold Poised For Comeback, Could Top Scott Walker Next Year.
* Michael Chabon: Dreams are useless bodily effluvia. Nicholson Baker: Dreams are all we have.
* You and I are gonna live forever: 72 is the new 30.
* Settling nerd fights of the 1990s today: Is This the Smoking Gun Proving Deep Space Nine Ripped Off Babylon 5?
* The Star Wars Heresies: Star Wars and William Blake. Tim Morton's essay in Green Planets has a similar impulse with respect to Avatar.
* And in even more insane mashup news: WWE Keeps Pressure On Glenn Beck.
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