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Nora: A Doll's House, Young Vic review - Ibsen diced, sliced and reinvented with poetic precisionWednesday, 12 February 2020
Ibsen's Nora slammed the door on her infantilising marriage in 1879 but the sound of it has continued to reverberate down the years. In 2013, Carrie Cracknell directed Hattie Morahan in an award-winning performance at this theatre, last year Tanika...Read more...
Fairview, Young Vic review - questioning the assumptions of raceMonday, 09 December 2019
Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview comes to the Young Vic with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama under its belt, and a reputation for putting audiences on their mettle through a build-up of theatrical surprises that culminate in a denouement about...Read more...
Death of a Salesman, Piccadilly Theatre review - galvanising reinvention of Arthur Miller's classicTuesday, 05 November 2019
It is 70 years since Willy Loman first paced a Broadway stage; 70 years since audiences were sucked into the vortex of a man trying to live America's capitalist dream only to see his life crash and burn around him. This production, which transfers...Read more...
Blood Wedding, Young Vic review - inventive, poetic if over-stretched revival of Lorca's rural tragedyThursday, 26 September 2019
Earthiness, lyricism, fatalism, the undeniable force of passion, of ecstatic attraction, known as "duende": these are the familiar ingredients of Lorca's plays set in rural Spain. Blood Wedding, written in 1932, was the first, followed by Yerma two...Read more...
Bronx Gothic, Young Vic review - fervid intensityMonday, 10 June 2019
It's hard, and finally fruitless to attempt to describe Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic in conventional terms of genre: combining elements of dance and theatre, this visceral solo performance transcends both. It engages with frantic movement at the...Read more...
Death of a Salesman, Young Vic review - new-minted revival of a masterpieceFriday, 10 May 2019
The Young Vic, a welcoming theatre with a culturally diverse audience, has been home to memorable Miller revivals before, notably Ivo van Hove's emotionally shattering, stripped-back A View From the Bridge in 2014. But before that, in the 1980s and...Read more...
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Young Vic review - shards of power amidst much that is overwroughtFriday, 22 February 2019
An entirely electric leading performance from the fast-rising Ukweli Roach is the reason for being for revisiting Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, back in London for the first major production since the late Philip Seymour Hoffman brought his acclaimed...Read more...
The Convert, Young Vic review - Africa's electric cry for justiceSaturday, 15 December 2018
Wow! First, the Black Panther team took cinema by storm; now, they have conquered theatre as well. Or, at least, two of them have. The Convert has been written by actor and playwright Danai Gurira (Okoye), and stars Letitia Wright (Shuri)....Read more...
Twelfth Night, Young Vic review - Kwame Kwei-Armah makes a big-hearted return homeTuesday, 09 October 2018
What better way to celebrate a homecoming than with a party? That is the capacious-hearted thinking behind this new musical version of Twelfth Night, which additionally marks Kwame Kwei-Armah's debut production at the helm of that undeniable dynamo...Read more...
Fun Home, Young Vic review - a simply sublime musical memoirThursday, 28 June 2018
It seems only too fitting that David Lan's luminous reign at the Young Vic should draw to a close with this bold, creatively thrilling international import. Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Tony-winning musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2013,...Read more...
The Inheritance, Young Vic review - a long day's journey into lightThursday, 29 March 2018
About a decade ago, theatre-makers started routinely describing themselves as being in the business of storytelling. And "storytelling" is most certainly the term that best describes Matthew Lopez's two-part, seven-hour epic The Inheritance....Read more...
The Jungle, Young Vic review - physically and emotionally challengingSaturday, 16 December 2017
Refugees, it is said, have no nationality – they are all individuals. This new docu-drama, deftly put together by theatre-makers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, is a sombre account of a couple of recent years of the great European migration crisis,...Read more...
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Another debate is heating up on the horizon over the delayed comprehensive immigration reform bill, with many debating how the delay has affected the Obama administration.
Usually, when someone promises you they are going to do something and then makes a big fuss about getting it done, people expect results. Much like a bride at the altar waiting for her groom, she expects him to show up after the promise of a wedding.
The promise of comprehensive immigration reform is slowly turning into a love affair gone sour between the administration and the Spanish-language community. That community turned out in droves (67 percent of the Hispanic vote) to elect Obama and now, the shine is off the brass ring. One only has to read the latest news to know the full extent of the disharmony brewing in the Hispanic community.
Certainly disharmony isn't anything new when it comes to the subject of comprehensive immigration reform, but there was a lull for a period of time when the community got behind Obama and approved of his goals and choice of direction for the future of CIR. Now is a different story. There are a series of critical articles criticizing Obama for lack of action in fulfilling his promises.
The thing to remember is that the Hispanic community voted for Obama because the goal was CIR within one year. That went down the tubes when the debate got out of hand, and remains that way. In fact, the latest is even more aggressive enforcement, with nary a word said about the reformation of the system to allow illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
Unfortunately, stepped up enforcement is sending the wrong message to a community waiting for integration, not deportation and enforcement. But, that's politics – do what works to get the votes, despite the fact that millions of people are waiting on a reform package they were promised over two years ago. It's no wonder that today's great debate is whether the administration has lost credibility and popularity. Most pundits would say it has lost both, which is hardly a good thing for its future. The biggest loss in popularity and credibility came when Arizona passed its infamous anti-illegal immigration law.
Here is something to ponder on for the future of the current administration: what would happen if that 67 percent of the Hispanic vote that helped elect the president takes a walk in the other direction? Consider this: the Hispanic vote could be the swing vote and is highly critical in 40 electoral contests in at least 12 states for the midterms in November. With the betrayed ruminations the Hispanic community, the midterms may be quite interesting, to say the least.
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NJ rescue squad fined over $180K for using unlicensed ambulances
An investigation stemming from an anonymous tip also found that only one EMT was on board at more than 100 calls
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The state has fined a Somerset County first aid squad $182,000 for driving three unlicensed ambulances and not having the minimum number of EMTs on board over 100 during emergency calls.
The fines were detailed in a letter from the New Jersey Department of Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) to Jason Kerestes, chief of the Somerville Rescue Squad.
In the letter, sent Monday, the chief was told the fines were to be paid within 30 days or that the volunteer squad could request a hearing to contest the penalties within the same timeframe.
A call seeking comment from the Somerville Rescue Squad Wednesday afternoon was not immediately returned.
The OEMS said it received an anonymous tip the squad was "operating unlicensed vehicles when providing 911 emergency medical care to the residents of Somerville and its contiguous area," according to the letter.
An OEMS investigation and audit found the squad used two licensed ambulances, and the state warned the squad they could not operate any unlicensed ambulances.
During its investigation, the state received another anonymous tip on Aug. 29, 2019 detailing the same allegations.
A review of the squad's electronic patient care reports showed that from Sept. 1 2018 through Aug. 29, 2019, the squad handled 962 calls that required the use of an ambulance and in 524 of them, the two licensed vehicles were used, according to the letter.
However, the review also showed that three ambulances that were not licensed by the OEMS were used 142 times over a 77-day period and that one had just been used two days after the squad was warned by the state, authorities said.
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* Readers in a frenzy as Margaret Atwood's The Testaments released early. Why It Matters That Amazon Shipped Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" a Week Early. Look for my review of The Testaments in LARB soon!
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— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) September 4, 2019
* Maybe the aliens are already tired of us.
* The coming death of just about every rock legend.
* CFP: Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies.
* The job so nice they posted it twice: Assistant Professor of Fantasy/Science Fiction Literature.
* Author Walter Mosley Quits 'Star Trek: Discovery' After Using N-Word in Writers Room. Why I Quit the Writers' Room.
* The real Dickinson scandal appears only at the margins of Wild Nights with Emily, at the start and at the end. The movie begins with a disclaimer: "The poems and letters of Emily Dickinson are used in this film with permission of Harvard University Press." But why does anyone need permission from Harvard to make a movie about Emily Dickinson? The answer involves theft, adulterous affairs, a land deal gone wrong, a feud between families, two elite colleges, and some of the most famous poems in American literature.
* As of today there are no longer any children who were alive on 9/11. Never forget the worst comics page in history.
* "The grand neoliberal experiment of the past 40 years has demonstrated that markets in fact do not regulate themselves. Managed markets turn out to be more equitable and more efficient. Yet the theory and practical influence of neoliberalism marches splendidly on, because it is so useful to society's most powerful people—as a scholarly veneer to what would otherwise be a raw power grab."
* Liberalism can't defend itself.
* Shock of shocks: Administration Within UW System Grew While Faculty Numbers Declined.
* California to force NCAA to pay athletes. More at the MetaFilter thread.
* Ronan Farrow exposes MIT. The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites. The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab.
It turns out that handing over research universities to a handful of billionaire sociopaths was a bad idea https://t.co/HCTJasWOfO
— Dave Mazella (@DaveMazella) September 7, 2019
The MIT fiasco should underscore how fundamentally toxic the entire philanthropy- & billionaire-reliant funding model is for education & research, period. Should be easy to picture the countless email threads just like the Ito/Epstein chats with Saudi princes, opioid dealers, etc
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) September 7, 2019
I know "the ivory tower of leftist academia" is a thing people murmur incessantly, but anyone in a university community knows they're hidebound institutions that hoover money and prop oligarchies on every level, and if the Epstein MIT news gets us talking more about that: Good
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 7, 2019
* Her University Publicly Accused Her of Using Meth. Here's How It Came to That, and Here's What Happened Next.
* Another trip inside Cheating, Inc.
* The WSJ takes aim at the English major, again. Some college major data from the Center on Education and the Workforce.
* Hard not to think we've grown obsolete.
I laughed so hard at this pic.twitter.com/wCb8XiUnUZ
— Zito (@_Zeets) September 3, 2019
* Another free speech exception.
"We're not a school; we're a real estate hedge fund," said a senior university official with inside knowledge of Liberty's finances. "We're not educating; we're buying real estate every year and taking students' money to do it."
Ah, they've got nothing on Columbia or NYU.
An autocratic president and a hedge fund operating under cover of a university mission isn't what distinguishes Liberty U from other big privates. https://t.co/mczFLujfiP
— Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) September 9, 2019
* Elite schools say they're looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.
* I worked at a website that rated professors for political bias. This is what I learned.
* 'UVA has ruined us': Health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes. "Johns Hopkins deliberately puts poor people who seek its care into medical debt so they lose their homes so Johns Hopkins can buy the land for its expansion."
* Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break. Education Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them.
* Over 60, and Crushed by Student Loan Debt.
* The administrators who handle sexual-misconduct investigations aren't sticking around for long. That's because they have one of the toughest jobs on campus.
* Inside the cuts at Marquette. Under the circumstances I feel overly relieved that we've moved up in the US News rankings.
* When Active-Shooter Drills Scare the Children They Hope to Protect.
again, the *purpose* of these exercises is to traumatize children. this is *the purpose.* it is a social pedagogy. and there is a strong chance that anyone who tells you otherwise is literally invested in or otherwise monetizing that trauma https://t.co/hRN2xl2JZL
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) September 6, 2019
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* Richest Could Lose Hundreds of Billions Under Warren's Wealth Tax. They wouldn't even notice it missing.
* UBI Already Exists, We Just Need to Redistribute It.
* Climate change is here. Climate change isn't an intangible future risk. It's here now, and it's killing us. Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world. The heat is on. James Cameron says "people need to wake the fuck up" about climate change. Invest $1.8 trillion to adapt. Climate change also means retreat. In an era of climate change, everything feels strange. Even the places we call home. Mississippi Beaches Have Been Vacant For 2 Months As A Toxic Algae Bloom Lurks Offshore. Tired: The Anthropocene. Wired: The Carnivalocene. The novel in the Anthropocene. Winter Isn't Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.
* Island of 50,000 People in the Bahamas Is 70% Under Water. Hurricane Dorian Survivors Were Turned Away & That's A Chilling Look At Our Future.
* NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump. I knew he'd slip up eventually!
* Hope in the Midst of Ecological Dystopia: Cli-fi books for the young-adult reader.
* Agribusiness against the Amazon.
* "When I say state's rights," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
* From the mixed-up files of the top Republican gerrymanderer.
* Today in the wisdom of markets.
* For every grift, a mark: Meet The Hyperloop's Truest Believers.
* When the State Enforces "Straight Pride."
* What's Missing From "White Fragility": Robin DiAngelo's idea changed how white progressives talk about themselves—and little else.
* And speaking of white fragility.
That people expect to have pleasant fun trips to former slave plantations tells you everything you need to know about this country's failure to deal with the legacy of slavery.
— Jason Read (@Unemployedneg) September 8, 2019
* Indigenous Women in Canada Are Still Being Sterilized Without Their Consent.
* TWO MONTHS BEFORE my operation, I dreamed I was a character in a video game. As sometimes happens in video games, I died. When I respawned, I had a new face, the face of another woman altogether. Upon discovering this in the dream, I collapsed into my companion's arms and told her, through tears, that all I had ever wanted was to become unrecognizable to myself.
* The rise of anti-trans "radical" feminists, explained.
* Care Work Is the Next Feminist Frontier.
* In Chicago, more than 16,000 students are homeless.
* The Center for American Progress Is a Disgrace.
* Don't Be Fooled — Kamala Harris's "Criminal Justice" Plan Is Not Progressive.
* Baby Boomers are charmed by his rose-tinted revisionism. Younger Democrats see the past more clearly. The Historical Amnesia of Joe Biden's Candidacy.
* Joe Biden can't stop lying. He lies for popularity, he lies to protect billionaires' profits, and he lies to cover his own misdeeds. If he were to quit lying, Biden would be exposed for who he actually is: a happy stooge of industry trying to squash the rising demand for a better world.
* Imagine if we had a democracy.
* Trump's already cancelling elections.
* Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas's theory of race.
* The case for changing the voting age to zero.
* The Fall of the Meritocracy.
* Yes, GamerGate Was a Misogynist Hate Campaign.
* Rethinking cities, from the ground up. Cars are pushing out bikes and pedestrians to the applause of the influential and powerful.
* Ex-lawyer who stole from clients in part to finance his 'Excuseman' character given 3 years in prison.
* sometimes I just get overwhelmed by how regular and normal our country is
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— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) September 4, 2019
* Document reveals the FBI is tracking border protest groups as extremist organizations. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has accidentally revealed the whereabouts of a future "urban warfare" training facility that is expected to include "hyper-realistic" simulations of homes, hotels and commercial buildings in Chicago and Arizona. The Capricious Use of Solitary Confinement Against Detained Immigrants.
* Made In America: For $9.50 An Hour, They Brew Tear Gas For Hong Kong.
* California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees. UPDATE: Uber already refusing to comply.
* Republicans Republicaning, part 7998.
* How We Shut Down the Nation's Largest Child Detention Center.
* The US military may have spent millions to help prop up a Trump resort. Gee, I hope someone was fired over that blunder!
* TSA PreCheck: It absolutely shouldn't exist, and is absolutely an incredible value.
* Frenchest news item of all time: man dies having "adulterous relationship with a perfect stranger" on business trip; court rules it was a work accident.
* The struggle to save Day-Glo.
* Whatever happened to Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar?
* The original Civilization, running inside an Excel spreadsheet.
* A history of Tetris randomizers.
* How we became nostalgic for Minecraft.
* 44 African Architectural Styles.
* Where there were more than 2,000 staff cartoonists at work a century ago, and 180 as recently as the 1980s, contemporary estimates are grim: a 2011 survey by The Herb Block Foundation, an educational nonprofit, estimated that fewer than 40 such jobs still exist.
* Harry Potter Fandom in an Illiberal Democracy.
* Woman Shares 18th Century Student Disciplinary Records In Response To 'Millennials Are The Worst' Claim.
* A people's history of labor history.
* They solved the Geedis mystery.
* The Lost Issue of Grant Morrison and Chas Truog's Animal Man From 1988 – "Dominion."
* Maid of honor shows up to wedding in T. rex costume after being told she could wear anything.
* Every culture tells a different story about why it cages animals, which nearly all of them do. The stories evolve, and the cages do too.
* Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks.
* Occupations by frequency as mentioned in the lyrics of David Bowie.
* The art of the Anthropocene: @LegoLostatSea.
Lego from the 1997 container loss, a monster in my pocket, bungs and balloon wands, cereal packet toys from the 50s and 60s, pegs and pen tops, Vanish bottle caps from a spill in 2015. All found on Cornish beaches. #oceanplastic #anthropocene #plasticheritage pic.twitter.com/AWZGBT6Ktd
— Lego Lost At Sea (@LegoLostAtSea) September 9, 2019
* Disney still innovating ways to ruin the Muppets faster and faster; now the series don't even need to be made to be bad.
* A thread/sincere plea: if you a member of the mainstream/popular press and are writing an article about fandom, you can officially nix any of the following, as it has already been written in 20+ other "101" style articles about fans/fan culture…
* We were creating space for ourselves, centering our own positive stories.
* And, once again, Star Trek by the numbers.
Written by gerrycanavan
September 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Wednesday Links!
* CFP: Reading Lovecraft in the 21st Century. CFP: JOSF Special Issue on Environmental Studies.
* I saw some tweets tweets last night that turned my head a bit on the statement from the Tiptree Motherboard. I feel very conflicted.
* Academics calling for a boycott against Disability and Society.
* The latest from the Marquette free speech tire fire: University, attorneys differ on 'permission' in demonstration policy.
* Student debt is transforming the American family.
* No child grows up wanting to be a management consultant, and the fact that high levels of educational achievement strongly correlate with becoming a management consultant doesn't mean people who become management consultants are any smarter than dental hygienists or taxi drivers or the unemployed. That's where any honest accounting of meritocracy has to land, but the author can't manage it.
* Wait — there are ethics in college admissions?
* U.S., France, Britain may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, U.N. report says.
* How Has Climate Change Affected Hurricane Dorian?
* How Does Waffle House Stay Open During Disasters?
* Incredible image of the devastating flooding in The Bahamas. Yellow lines are original coastline. Look at what's left. Dorian's incredible stall over the island of Grand Bahama appears to set a new record for the slowest moving major hurricane over any 24-hour period since records began in 1851. Climate change is slowing hurricanes. Our first images of Abaco from air.
Our first images of Abaco from air. pic.twitter.com/rPmXuKDrSD
— Travis C-Carroll (@TravisCC) September 3, 2019
* As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most. New Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the Mekong Delta.
* All good news is also bad news: Joe Manchin Will Stay in the Senate Because He Could Become Its Most Powerful Member.
* The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny. This Ireland one really is outrageously bad.
* The protesters engaged in a "rolling picket" on August 27, rallying at branches of HSBC, Vanguard, BlackRock, and Prudential in order to pressure the companies to divest from CoreCivic and GEO Group, which imprison immigrants for ICE.
* Under the law, a 16-year-old who has sex with a willing 13-year-old—a crime in Alabama, since the 13-year-old isn't old enough to consent—could also lose parental rights decades later if he ever has a child, says Gar Blume, a longtime attorney in Tuscaloosa who has received national honors for his work on juvenile law. "It is so broad," he says of the legislation, "that anybody ever convicted of a sex offense essentially is having their right to parenthood severely constrained, or there's the potential for that to occur." He described the law as "blatantly unconstitutional."
* Nation that never abolished slavery getting a little angsty about it.
* South Dakota had a Democratic senator four years ago.
* Democracy Dies From Bad Fact-Checking.
* The voting machines don't help, either.
* At least a little good news: North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders. North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files.
* "I feel like my kids have been part of a huge massive experiment I have no control over."
This is literally every cohort of kids for the last forty years or more. Dumb fads sweep through again and again, chewing up valuable time in the ONE CHANCE that these kids have to get a basic education. https://t.co/Hl9jSiv8A0
— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) September 3, 2019
* Neal Stephenson Wants To Tell Big Stories.
* Yeah, that sounds like a really bad show!
Richard Gere was set to star as one of two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today's self-absorbed millennials and the duo then go on a shooting spree.
* She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.
* In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis.
* Facing a labor shortage, restaurants are turning to on-demand services for line cooks, dishwashers and other trained workers.
* The app went down, so I couldn't unlock my car.
* "Ben & Jerry's new ice cream flavor is inspired by racism in the criminal justice system."
* A glossary of dirty tricks websites use against their readers.
* There is something inherently entertaining about the self-proclaimed defender of uncomfortable speech on college campuses coming unglued when he found a sentence on the Internet that he didn't like.
* Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
* A review of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel in the wild! I was told they weren't giving copies to reviewers. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale Sequel Is Already Being Developed by Hulu.
* This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police.
This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police. https://t.co/SiwwLEh8jo
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 3, 2019
* And there's no idea so bad you can't make it worse.
Written by gerrycanavan
September 4, 2019 at 8:34 am
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Just Another Saturday Night Linkdump
* CFP: Medical Humanities and the Fantastic. CFP: Edited Collection, Fan Studies: Methods, Ethics, Research. CFP: Reclaiming the Tomboy: Posthumanism, Gender Representation, and Intersectionality. CFP: Special Issue on Indigenous and Sovereign Games. CFP: The Age of the Pulps: The SF magazine, 1926–1960. CFP: Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction, Bloomsbury, London, 12-14 September 2019.
* Awesome #altac job watch: Humanities Editor at Minnesota Press.
* The second half of the Women's Studies issue on Octavia E. Butler, featuring my article of Parable of the Trickster, is now officially out. Check it out!
* Find out when someone started crying during Endgame, and you'll find out who they've lost. (Really, though, it doesn't make any sense.) "Avengers: Endgame" is not just the culmination of the 22-movie Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also represents the decisive defeat of "cinema" by "content." In Praise of Poorly Built Worlds. The Avengers are the heroes of 'Endgame,' but Disney was the villain all along. But this time, we're talking about a tragedy beyond what could possibly be commemorated through memorial sites. It would land somewhere closer to mass suicide and total infrastructural collapse–and where Endgame is concerned, there are no tragedies, there is only Marvel. Eco-Villains: Thanos and the Night King. To put it bluntly, and in Deleuze's terms, superhero films are action films for people who no longer believe in action, for whom the capacity to act has been overtaken by the spectacle. It's probably the best version of what an Avengers movie can be. And even that turns out to be silly, sloppily written, and to require massive amount of suspension of disbelief. Is it really too much to hope that Marvel stops debasing its characters and stories with events that can never live up to the MCU's individual pieces? Interview With A Local Man Returning After Thanos' Snap.
* MCU continuity enters its "fuck you, that's why" period.
* An analysis of both side's tactics in the Battle of Winterfell, from a military strategist. A counterpoint.
* Hate to agree with Ross Douthat, but it really does seem to be the case that hype aside Martin is just warmed-over Tolkien, but worse in every particular. Bonus Twitter thread goodness on GoT and colonialism.
* America is a horror: on Jordan Peele's Us.
* Vox celebrates the great James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon).
* Keeping company with my Audible app over lunch, I've come to see it as the buddy our tech overlords have granted me in the isolation that they help to impose. I feel this way about podcasts.
* Report Realism: Tentative Notes on Contemporary Kenyan Writing.
Genres that strain realism—the gothic and neo-gothic, fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance, and so on—are conspicuously absent in Kenyan writing, even as they are incredibly well represented in Kenyan book consumption. We are not writing what we are reading; even the very popular Christian-themed fiction about fighting demonic forces, which is really a variation of the horror novel, remains relatively sparse in terms of what we write or, perhaps more accurately, what we choose to make public of our writing. The believable and the realistic are bounded by NGO narratives and perspectives. And too many writers believe that the only writing worth anything is the believable and the realistic: to be a "committed" writer requires adhering to report realism.
Report realism believes in the power of "truth," whether contemporary or historical, with a faith that borders on fundamentalism. In report realism, the truth will set us free. Report realism confirms objective NGO reports and affirms what Kenyans feel to be the truth of a particular condition. In report realism, for instance, the Kenyan prostitute is always a morally degraded figure looking for a way out to a respectable moral life. This realism is celebrated and supported by the NGO organizations who fund writing competitions and publish winning entries devoted to describing the real Kenya and by mainstream publishers who have the conservative mission of producing appropriately moral literature.
* 'It drives writers mad': why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi?
* The saddest story ever told, beating Hemingway out by one word: Esports Part-Time Online Instructor.
* Yes, you will get a job with that arts degree. With that history degree, too!
* Storm Clouds Over Tulsa: Inside the academic destruction of a proud private university.
* 6 Majors Were Spared the Ax at Stevens Point. But the Damage Might Be Done.
* Students and (not) doing the reading.
* How to Be a Better Online Teacher.
* Getting a Game Studies PhD: A Guide for Aspiring Video Game Scholars. Game Boys: The "gamer" identity undermines the radical potential of play.
* Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes.
* The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s. Being a Black Academic in America.
* 'It's an Aristocracy': What the Admissions-Bribery Scandal Has Exposed About Class on Campus.
* Swarthmore Fraternities Disband.
* Marquette faculty, students and community members rally for unionization. Unionization effort at Marquette leaves organizers, administration in a stalemate.
* The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb. A Moral Stain on the Profession.
* "Student loan debt is crushing millions of families. That's why I'm calling for something truly transformational: Universal free college and the cancellation of debt for more than 95% of Americans with student loan debt."
* Anxiety 'epidemic' brewing on college campuses, researchers find.
* Stanford keeps Stanford University Press alive… for one year.
I take *Stanford* claiming to have a "tight budget" not as a sign that a crisis is rippling through even the highest echelons of academia, but rather that "tight budgets" are manufactured crises that serve particular actors https://t.co/PReB8mkQkQ
— Jeffrey Moro (@jeffreymoro) April 27, 2019
A primary agenda of all university administrations is universal penetration of the notion that the ultrarich get to decide what is true and what is good, as well as what may not be said at all.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 4, 2019
* Charles Koch gave $25m to our university. Has it become a rightwing mouthpiece? George Mason University's Donor Problem and the Fight for Transparency.
* Grad Students at Private Colleges Were Cleared to Unionize 3 Years Ago. Here's What's Changed.
* How America's College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated.
* Meanwhile every teacher in the country is constantly confronted with the possibility that they'll be asked to die for their students.
* All Literature Is Climate Change Literature. The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing. Ecuador Amazon tribe win first victory against oil companies. 'Death by a thousand cuts': vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018. Vietnam just observed its highest temperature ever recorded: 110 degrees, in April. 'Decades of denial': major report finds New Zealand's environment is in serious trouble. Alaska's in The Middle of a Record-Breaking Spring Melt, And It's Killing People. The Folly of Returning to Paradise, California. Policy tweaks won't do it, we need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital. Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse. "You did not act in time." We Asked the 2020 Democrats About Climate Change (Yes, All of Them). Here Are Their Ideas. The Billionaire's Guide to Hacking the Planet. What if air conditioners could save the planet? The collapse of the industrial economy is, in all likelihood, the only remaining way to prevent the mass destruction of life on Earth. 'The Time To Act Is Now,' Says Yellowing Climate Change Report Sitting In University Archive. A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet. Between the Devil and the Green New Deal. Five years. And here comes eco-fascism.
A picture of LA if all the world's ice caps melt away. pic.twitter.com/dNKFD70JNu
— Scott Carney (@sgcarney) April 25, 2019
* Down and Out in the Gig Economy: Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention writers like me.
But for most of us, freelance journalism is a monetized hobby, separate from whatever real income one earns. The ideal relationship for a freelance journalist to their work becomes a kind of excited amateurism. They should hope for professional success and acceptance but always keep a backup plan or three in mind. They will likely not be welcomed past the gates of full-time employment. By year five or six, they might be rebranding themselves as "editorial consultants" or "content strategists," realizing that any genuine fiscal opportunity lies in shepherding corporate content to life.
* 'Two-Tiered Caste System': The World of White-Collar Contracting in Silicon Valley. The Future of Unions Is White-Collar. We Just Remembered How to Strike.
* These five charts show how bad the student loan debt situation is.
* "I am a woman and I am fast." The ongoing harassment of Caster Semenya is simply incredible.
* Ten years later, police lies about Oscar Grant come to light. And elsewhere on the police beat: We found 85,000 cops who've been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records. New York City's DAs Keep Secret Lists Of Cops With Questionable Credibility. Virginia police sergeant fired after being linked to white supremacy.
* Border Patrol Holds Hundreds of Migrants in Growing Tent City Away From Prying Eyes. Emails Show Trump Administration Had No Plan to Track and Reunite Separated Families. Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint.
* TSA Agents Say They're Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be.
* France Debates How to Rebuild Notre-Dame, Weighing History and Modernity. An art historian explains the tough decisions in rebuilding Notre Dame. How Digital Scans of Notre Dame Can Help Architects Rebuild the Burned Cathedral. The billionaires' donations will turn Notre Dame into a monument to hypocrisy.
* Researchers Made 3,900-Pound Boulders They Can Move by Hand, Giving More Insights Into Ancient Engineering.
* Mental health minute: Researchers say there's a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage. The challenge of going off psychiatric drugs. The kids are not all right.
* The Rise of Useless Health Insurance. High-Deductible Health Policies Linked To Delayed Diagnosis And Treatment. American Prescription Drug Prices Are Out of Control. One Man's Furious Quest to Get to the Bottom of It.
* Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they're talking about, study suggests.
* Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population.
* A new Gallup poll says that America is home to some of the most stressed people in the world, reporting extraordinary levels of anger and anxiety that could be cause for concern, say doctors.
* Workers Should Be in Charge.
* I Work With Suicidal Farmers. It's Becoming Too Much to Bear.
* On crunch time in the games industry.
* Instagram Memers Are Unionizing.
* How Dungeons & Dragons somehow became more popular than ever.
#DnD is a roleplaying game that let's you live out such fantasies as:
– Having money
– Making close friends as an adult
– Traveling the world without crippling debt
– Being able to change the world
– Getting better at something with practice
– Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
— Draconick (@DraconickGaming) April 20, 2019
* Fantastic Autistic: Neurodiversity, Estrangement and Playing with the Weird.
* Re-reading the Map of Middle-earth: Fan Cartography's Engagement with Tolkien's Legendarium.
* Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
* Believe them when they say they want to kill us.
* Children of the Children of Columbine.
* My parents didn't tell me they skipped my vaccines. Then I got sick.
* How a mall dies, Milwaukee edition.
* The hunt for rocket boosters in Russia's far north.
* Job-hunting will only get worse.
* Of course I believe in hell. I vote for Democrats.
Well, our compromised Department of Justice has given its report to a comically impotent Congress, which has already announced its intent to do nothing with the information — looks like it's time to use our apartheid voting system to VOTE THEM OUT
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 18, 2019
Cory Booker: let's defeat Trump with love power
Pete Buttigieg: a revenue-neutral tax credit for presidents who resign before their term is up
Beto O'Rourke: you know, I haven't considered the issue
Joe Biden: Donald is a great businessman and a great dad
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 18, 2019
I swear to God every liberal politician and media figure in the country is waiting for the teacher to come back in the room and tell them they were a good little boy.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 19, 2019
* The gamification of fascism.
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fandom, and anti-fandom.
* My feckless Googling had reaped a monstrous reality that I knew was going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I asked myself: Is there something righteous in facing reality, or would it have been better to stay ignorant? A surfeit of ugly knowledge is a feature of our age, a result of the internet carrying to our doorstep, like a tomcat with a dead rat, all manner of brutal information. How many others have flippantly Googled an old friend and discovered something ghastly? This was not knowledge as power; it was knowledge as sorrow.
* "Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats."
* The oldest known tree in Wisconsin.
* A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer's Disease Seems To Be Working.
* How "Liberal" Late-Night Talk Shows Became A Comedy Sinkhole.
* Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden. Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men. What Good Dads Get Away With.
* When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment.
* Despite being legally required to conduct audits since the early 90s and holding a staggering 2.2 trillion in assets, the Pentagon held its first-ever audit this week — which it, unsurprisingly, spectacularly failed.
* I have so little faith in the holders of the Star Trek IP I can't greet any of this news with pleasure. Even the realization that Discovery is (finally) going to do something truly original in its third season just fills me with dread. And I don't know how to feel about this at all: Star Trek: Picard Series May Not Reunite TNG Cast. Star Trek: Discovery's Depiction of Captain Pike's Disability is a Betrayal of Roddenberry's Utopian Vision. My mini-tweetstorm on the subject.
* Sundown on Deadwood: David Milch, battling Alzheimer's, finally finishes his TV Western.
* Professional obligation watch, god help me.
* Jeopardy Wasn't Designed for a Contestant Like James Holzhauer.
* Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult.
* John Lennon's 15 year old report card.
* Colonizing Condiments: A (Very) Short History of Ketchup.
* Women my age weren't called 'autistic' growing up. We were awkward or 'rude.' And we missed out on services.
* "We are not interested in the reason for why the people are killed," he wrote. "But if she is your wife or some family member, we can do it in your city as well."
* The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence.
* Obituary corner: Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction. Before the Labyrinthine Lore of 'Dark Souls,' There Was Gene Wolfe.
* Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention.
* Medicine is magical and magical is art / The boy in the bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart.
* Scientists Restore Some Function In The Brains Of Dead Pigs.
* The Great Pornwall of Britain Goes Up July 15.
* The United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan.
* what piece of cosmo sex advice most haunts your waking hours
* If you want a vision of the future: Netflix 'buys 50 literary projects in last year.'
* It was in autumn that the happy face arrived. Death of a Salesman. No mathematics, no science can ever predict the human soul. Where do you want to eat tonight?
* 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest.
* And only mass surveillance can save us now! Rough news day for Oxford if you ask me.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 4, 2019 at 6:42 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* Active shooter drills are scaring kids and may not protect them. Some schools are taking a new approach.
The essence of our magical thinking. https://t.co/7isFUdm35f
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 15, 2019
* Fire at Notre Dame. Fire was the scourge of medieval cathedrals. But they rebuilt from the ashes. Conspiracies and hoaxes. A warning from 2017. What's Been Saved and What's Been Lost. Rebuilding Notre Dame.
I'm still shell-shocked from Brazil's museum fire and the realization that between corrupt, incompetent governments and climate change, we're going to be watching irreplaceable cultural treasures burn for the rest of our lives.
— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) April 15, 2019
As a refugee I can tell you that the things you've lost can never be rebuilt. You can only build for the future.
We are all refugees now. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
— Jenka 🌱🌿🍄 (@babiejenks) April 15, 2019
There won't be room to mourn everything we're going to lose. Pace yourself.
— Jenka 🌱🌿🍄 (@babiejenks) April 15, 2019
Everyone helplessly watching something beautiful burn is 2019 in a nutshell.
— Ryan McGee (@TVMcGee) April 15, 2019
* Palpatine post-ROTJ in the new EU.
* Homestuck may be the most important work of twenty-first-century art I genuinely do not have the time to try and figure out.
* 17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change.
* If you want a vision of the future, imagine having a runny nose — forever.
* Weld is the first major intra-party challenger against a sitting president since Pat Buchanan took on George H.W. Bush.
* ICE deports spouse of U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan. Their daughter is now left parentless.
* A new policy proposal by the Trump administration calls for the surveillance of disabled people's social media profiles to determine the necessity of their disability benefits. The proposal, which reportedly aims to cut down on the number of fraudulent disability claims would, monitor the profiles of disabled people and flag content that shows them doing physical activities. When it comes down to it, the policy dictates that disabled people shouldn't be seen living their lives for fear of losing vital financial aid and, possibly, medical care. Veterans too.
* United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time.
* Two's a trend: Just two weeks after Burger King announced it was partnering with Impossible Foods to offer a new meatless burger, Del Taco has announced it's partnering with Beyond Meat to offer new meatless tacos.
* Artist Reimagines David Bowie Songs as Old Pulp Fiction Book Covers.
* I'm afraid the Dewey Decimal System… is cancelled.
* Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
* I think Bernie should boycott Fox, but it couldn't have gone better for him.
* Shoot a ninth season, you cowards. broke: Bran ruined the story. woke: Bran is the story.
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Friday Links!
* Deadline this weekend! Suvin Today?, A Roundtable Discussion, The Society for Utopian Studies (November 9-12, 2017 in Memphis, TN).
* People Are Sharing Photos of Real-Life Places That Belong in a Wes Anderson Film. Below: a conference room in North Korea.
* What the stock market's rise under Trump should teach Democrats. Great piece from the great Rortybomb.
First, Democrats need to reevaluate their idea of themselves as disinterested stewards of the economy — as a party that accepts the current economic arrangements largely as a given. Second, they need to understand what their coalition looks like if they can't peel off moderate Republicans, as they predicted they would throughout 2016. Third, they also need to decide if the economy requires structural changes, or merely some tinkering around the edges. And finally, they must decide whether social programs should target narrow populations or lean towards universalism.
* It's a bit premature for Democrats to start planning what they'll do with their domination once they have it, but I agree with Jack Balkin that they need to start fighting fire with fire.
* Study claims Clinton lost because of ravaged communities sick of war. I'm sure her hawkishness was a factor at some level, but the last few months have made it crystal clear that people pick their team first and then select some reason why.
So I've been thinking about this topic a lot over the past few months as my relationship to Twitter has intensified & worsened. 1/
— DFW Society (@DFWSociety) July 6, 2017
If DFW thought life in the 90s bombarded us w/information, Twitter makes that look like the Stone Age. We live in an age of "total noise" 8/
— DFW Society (@DFWSociety) July 6, 2017
* A History of American Comics.
* Mars Trilogy –> Aurora: "Mars covered in toxic chemicals that can wipe out living organisms, tests reveal."
* The best SF going is being printed at SBnation.
* Hackers are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say.
* The Police State Can Come After Trump Protesters, But It Can't Make Them Cooperate.
* A judge said these kids get a green card. ICE says they get deported.
* Internal memo reveals ICE officers have free rein to detain any undocumented immigrant.
* Republican lawmakers buy health insurance stocks as repeal effort moves forward. Tillerson Considered Central Figure In ExxonMobil Investigation. Accessory after the fact (at best). GOP source of fraud allegation vs. Bernie Sanders' wife admits info was hearsay.
* How long till Michael Flynn is a #hero of #TheResistance?
* 2020 watch: Kamala Harris.
* Self-appointed 'King' Macron is no antidote to Trump.
* The House Has a 'No Sleeveless' Dress Code for Women.
* How CNN Made Its Own Reporting Sound Like Blackmail.
* The Alt-Right 2.0. The Dirtbag Left. On SWATting.
* Hundreds dress like zombies at 'Welcome to hell' protest ahead of G20 summit in Hamburg.
* Progressives have long viewed Penn with deep skepticism, noting that he has repeatedly used his close ties to Democratic officials as a vehicle for promoting his corporate clients. But there's another wrinkle to Penn's advice: He now invests in Republican advocacy firms — and profits from the electoral defeat of Democrats.
* Hollywood Has a Bad-Movie Problem. Fan Fiction Is a Bad Television Show's Best Friend. I Would Totally Read the Harry Potter Fan Fiction Written by a Neural Network.
* An anthropologist who had the unenviable task of sitting through academics' meetings and reading their email chains to find out why they fail to change their teaching styles has come to a surprising conclusion: lecturers are simply too afraid of looking stupid in front of their students to try something new.
* AIs: artificial intelligence vs academic integrity.
* Drug addiction as learning disorder.
* Oh baby: Homebrewers Find An NES Emulator Inside The Nintendo Switch.
* Brand New Book By Maurice Sendak Has Been Found in the Late Author's Archives.
* Encryption by destruction. Social media. Gimme all your money.
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Friday Morning!
* Trump White House finding a new bottom, day after day after… whoa. Turning Point? They're not even pretending. The Biggest Political Story in Decades. In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. Days Before Firing, Comey Asked for More Resources for Russia Inquiry. Inside Trump's anger and impatience. Another inside story. Time to shut everything down. And then on the third day he threatened to blackmail Comey with secret White House tapes. Only the Rock can save us now.
* The primary takeaway of the last 18 months is that no one should ever use email for any reason.
* Though this chart from the New York Times seems pretty definitive that the Comey letter didn't determine the 2016 election.
DID YOU KNOW when Trump finally goes down in flames and brings half the country down with him your dad will say it was all Obama's fault
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 10, 2017
A person who still supports Trump after this week probably can't be reached. Sorry.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 11, 2017
COMEY: THE COMPLETE SAGA (chronological re-edit for TV, 2044)
COMEY, PART THREE (2057; regrettable)
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 5, 2017
* Huge relief after only 11 million people vote for a fascist.
* Trump's attacking the Census.
* Journalist arrested for trying to ask HHS Secretary Tom Price a question.
* What if populism is not the problem, but the solution?
* By refusing to negotiate with recently unionized graduate workers, Yale president Peter Salovey has announced in writing that the university will defy US labor law.
* Meanwhile, at the greatest public university in the world: Also included in the itemized spending was a dinner tab worth more than a year of tuition.
SINGER: hows everyone doin tonight
CROWD: woo
ME (from the back in a normal speaking voice): it's actually been a tough few months
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) May 9, 2017
* Locked Up for Being Poor. How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality. U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county. All the money's gone, nowhere to go.
* Kristen Gillibrand, for and against. All this for someone who already ruled it out!
* Despite the confidence that the backlash to the healthcare bill will benefit Democrats, this doesn't seem like good politics to be gleefully cheering on something you think is going to literally kill people. Especially, when you're just singing over the supposed political benefits.
* History Will Remember These 217 House Republicans for Their Inhumanity.
* The Democratic Party Is a Ghost. Losing West Virginia. Priorities in Delaware. The Resistance, but not just as a joke. Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter.
* Trumpism is coming from the suburbs. Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump.
* A study at Demos says voter suppression flipped Wisconsin. Some Words of Caution.
* I'm sure no one could find this objectionable: A top government official overseeing detentions and deportations is heading to a private prison company at the end of the month, according to a source with firsthand knowledge.
* The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces.
* Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused.
* How a Utah county silenced Native American voters — and how Navajos are fighting back.
* The Higher-Education Crisis Is a Labor Crisis.
* How Marquette Is Becoming More Diverse.
* Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong.
* This is how SETI plans to find alien life by 2037.
* Chicago Approves Plan To Block Trump's Name on His Tower With Giant, Flying Pigs.
* A Defense of the Tuvel Open Letter, at the Chronicle. And on the other side.
'In the XKCDification of political protest the demand has been replaced by the in joke, the threat to power by the witty signal to peers'
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) April 22, 2017
* How many Death Row prisoners are disabled? All of them.
* The length schools will go to cover up for bullies never ceases to amaze me.
* District: The Game of Gerrymandering for the Whole Family.
* Secret military space shuttle rattles Florida.
* Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in.
* HIV life expectancy 'near normal' thanks to new drugs.
* Another neurological disease unexpectedly linked to gut bacteria.
* U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say.
* Six individuals who learned that they descended from slaves sold by Georgetown University over 175 years ago reflect on family and life.
* Private schools have a plan to kill the high school transcript that will be totally fair and not offer their students an unfair advantage in any way.
* Stephen Fry is being investigated for blasphemy. Amazing.
* That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox.
* The Girls' Soccer Team That Joined a Boys' League, and Won It.
* Winners and losers of the recent nuclear holocaust.
* Write the book you needed to read when you were a child. Troubled Wisconsin man goes on 50 state killing spree. Guns and Roses tones it down. Our future in space. They fucking killed him. Top ten book rebrands, all-time. I hacked into Mike Pence's email. Maybe I should give the Yankees another look. A new favorite metaphor. But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
* And I don't care how pretty or enigmatic it is, nothing will ever make Blade Runner 2049 a good idea.
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May 12, 2017 at 9:00 am
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I Have (Not a Joke) 300 Tabs Open and This Afternoon I Am Closing Them All: Election Night Links!
Seriously, can you even imagine how aggressively evil the GOP nominee will have to be in order to get people fired up about Clinton?
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 19, 2014
I've been so ridiculously busy I haven't been able to tend to my open tabs at all. There's over 300 — and I'm not leaving this room until I've closed them all. Let's go!
* Really, I've been so busy I haven't even been able to shamelessly self-promote: I missed announcing my trip to Atlanta for SLSA 2016 and my presentations on "Literary Studies after Blackfish" and the upcoming almost-almost-done issue of Paradoxa on "Global Weirding," as well as my New Inquiry review of the (fantastic) end to Liu Cixin's (fantastic) Three-Body trilogy. My new essay on "Geriatric Zombies" from The Walking Med was namechecked as part of a larger zombie news report in the Seattle Times. Most importantly I haven't been able to hype my Octavia Butler book, which is printed and apparently shipping. I've even held one in my hands!
* Meanwhile, here's my guess for tonight's final results, just to get it out of the way: 340-198.
* CFP: Letters to Octavia Butler. CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel. CFP: English Studies in Ruins? CFP: The World of Harry Potter.
* A new issue of the Eaton Journal in Archival Research in Science Fiction is out, including a piece from Larisa Mikhaylova on Star Trek fandom in Russia.
* French town upholds law against UFOs.
* Invisible Planets / Invisible Frameworks — Assembling an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF. I've been reading the Invisible Planets collection and it's great.
* Why we should lower the voting age in America.
* Žižek on the lesser evil. Jameson on fascism, but not yet. Study Confirms Network Evening Newscasts Have Abandoned Policy Coverage For 2016 Campaign. Americans, Politics, and Social Media. Stop Calling the United States a Banana Republic. Yes, Trump Really Is Saying 'Big League,' Not 'Bigly,' Linguists Say. The 282 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List. No, "we" are not collectively responsible for anything. Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right. Ivanka is the real threat. A Reading Guide for Those in Despair About American Politics. And did someone order a Constitutional crisis with a 4-4 Supreme Court?
* What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day? Too late for all of us, alas.
* In contrast to the Fordist society observed by Gramsci, power now seeks to circumvent the public sphere, in order to avoid the constraints of critical reason. Increasingly, it is non-representational codes—of software, finance, human biology—that mediate between past, present and future, allowing society to cohere. Where, for example, employee engagement cannot be achieved via cultural or psychological means, increasingly business is looking to solutions such as wearable technology, that treat the worker as an item of fixed capital to be monitored physically, rather than human capital to be employed. The key human characteristics are those that are repeated in a quasi-mechanical fashion: footsteps, nightly sleep, respiration, heartbeat. These metronomic qualities of life come to represent each passing moment as yet another one of the same. The New Neoliberalism.
* "We are all Thomas More's children": 500 years of Utopia. And at LARB.
* It isn't every day that a street criminal—a high-school dropout with two felony convictions—is accused of stealing a centuries-old violin worth as much as $6 million. But nothing about the heist of the Lipinski Stradivarius, which galvanized the music world last winter, was normal, or even logical.
* How America Outlawed Adolescence. The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child.
* Inside the NSA's For-Sale Spy Town. The Indiana Town That Modernism Built.
* Where Ph.D.s Work. IPFW Community Shocked by Restructuring Recommendations. Last month's strike at Harvard. And its results. A City Clerk Opposed an Early-Voting Site at UW–Green Bay Because 'Students Lean More Toward the Democrats.' Saudi college student in Wisconsin dies after assault. Johns Hopkins threatens to close its interdisciplinary Humanities Center, sparking outcry from students and faculty members. San Diego State University tuition, 1959. How State Budget Cuts Affect Your Education.
* Cornell looks for ways to cut time professors spend on administrative requirements, as opposed to teaching and research.
* The Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges rates America's top 150 universities (as listed by US News and World Reports) and will soon rate the Top 50 Liberal Arts Schools according to their commitment to viewpoint diversity.
* The American Association of University Professors has launched an investigation focused on the dismissal of Nathanial Bork, who had taught philosophy courses at the college for six years before he was dismissed. The AAUP says that his dismissal raises concerns both because of the issues he raises about rigor and also because he was fired shortly after he complained about the situation to the Higher Learning Commission, the college's accreditor. Further, Bork was active in efforts to improve the working conditions of adjuncts at the college.
* A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award. Love this.
* "University Paid for Bigfoot Expedition."
* Starship Troopers coming back just as documentary footage of 2016. A darker, grittier Muppet Babies, for a tragic time.
* Quentin Tarantino still insists he's going to stop at 10 movies.
* Playing with History: What Sid Meier's Video Game Empire Got Right and Wrong About 'Civilization.'
* "Capitalism Broke Earth, Let's Protect Mars."
* Inside Magic Leap, The Secretive $4.5 Billion Startup Changing Computing Forever.
* The video for Soul Asylum's 1993 smash hit featured real missing kids. Some eventually came home; some never did.
* Her toddler suddenly paralyzed, mother tries to solve a vexing medical mystery. Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8. Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive. The Other Sister: Returning Home to Care for an Autistic Sibling.
* Inmates Explain How They'd Run Prisons.
* If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women.
* Russia Reveals 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile Capable of Destroying Texas in One Blow. Bathroom air freshener causes emergency response at nuclear site.
* Why can't the Star Trek timeline advance?
* The Venom From This Snake Will Make Your Life a Living Hell.
* Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange.
* Why Did This Guy Collect 500 Screenshots of Soda Machines in Video Games? Because He's a Genius. And elsewhere on the Jacob Brogan science beat: Everyone Poops. Some Animals Eat It. Why?
* Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Thumb U.N. won't intervene.
* Now Is The Perfect Time For The Indians To Quietly Abandon Chief Wahoo.
* Deep time's uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces. How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing.
* The Average American Melts 645 Square Feet of Arctic Ice Every Year.
* In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America's atomic history: The Pyramid at the End of the World.
* Penn State Fined Record $2.4 Million in Jerry Sandusky Case.
* Dibs on the screenplay: Yellowstone's "Zone of Death." And I'll take this one too: The Canadian Military Is Investigating a Mysterious Noise In the Arctic.
* How Doctor Strange went from being a racist Asian caricature to a magical white savior.
* A new favorite poem:
here's a sweet short poem by Tom French, who I'll be reading with this Sun., 1pm @IrishArtsCenter – y'all should come pic.twitter.com/VN2Yofc1yp
— Jana Prikryl (@janaprikryl) November 3, 2016
* Animal minds: the new anthropomorphism.
* You weren't educated, you were trained.
* Twenty-first century Victorians.
* How We Tell Campus Rape Stories After Rolling Stone.
* Native lives matter. Tribe vows to fight North Dakota pipeline through winter. The world watches. A Standing Rock Syllabus.
* Superheroes and sadness. Pixar and sadness.
* Presenting The Black Mirror Expanded Universe.
* Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction. Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life.
* The secret history of Teaching with Calvin & Hobbes.
* A bad idea, but fine: The Adventures of Young Dumbledore.
* Kardashev Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist.
* And frankly you had me at LEGO, but I like the rest too: LEGO's New Line of Female Superheroes Is the Toy We Deserve.
quick why was it important than Obama beat Hillary Clinton again
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 15, 2014
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