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Thursday Afternoon Links
* Fast Food Workers Walk Off the Job in Milwaukee. * Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided. Phew! Civilization saved. * Long story short, for every degree Celsius that...
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Weekend Links (Now with More Twitter Nazel-Gazing!)
* How to Survive a Graduate Career. Draws in part from Audrey Waters’s “The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program.” I’ve just been talking a bit on Twitter this afternoon about my own experiences...
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Late Night Monday Links
* Government shutting down because everything is terrible that’s why. Federal workers who check their e-mail during a shutdown will be breaking the law. * Shock at Berkeley: Campus officials declare...
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Wednesday Links Have Been Deemed an Essential Service
* MetaFilter has your shutdown megapost, including the list of all the “nonessential” government services that will be closed during the shutdown, including WIC, NIH, the CDC, and the EPA. Here (via...
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Doomed
Much of the chaos of the last decade has to do with attempts to shift US presidential system to a parliamentary system without admitting it.— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) October 02, 2013 …start with...
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More Sunday Links!
* Die Like a Man: The Toxic Masculinity of Breaking Bad. To recycle my joke from Twitter: tonight’s episode should be amazing. Can’t wait to see how Walt gets out of it. * A Federal Budget Crisis...
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Monday Morning Links
* These kids today, and their games. * The Post has a profile in motion of freshman House Republican Ted Yoho (FL). The focus is how he’s part of the faction who forced John Boehner to trigger the...
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Fall Break!
* The shutdown is over; bring on the next shutdown! Communists at Standard and Poor’s Determine the Shutdown Took $24 Billion Out Of The US Economy. What You Can Get For The Price Of A Shutdown. Here...
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It’s Always Mischief Night Somewhere Links
* You can now order the special Paradoxa issue on “Africa SF.” The testimonials indicate that Samuel Delany has at least heard of something I’ve written, so there’s that… * Those who do not study...
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Weekend Links!
* Afrofuturism and drones. * Food Stamp Cut Reverberates Across Country. North Carolina Mother of 4: Food stamps cut from $500 to $16 per month. SNAP benefit cuts to affect 1 in 7 Wisconsinites. * From...
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Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is Bullshit (But You Already Knew That). Pizza Hut Manager Fired For Refusing To Open On Thanksgiving. Five People Obama Could Pardon In Addition To The Turkey. The Democrat’s Guide to...
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Just a Few Monday Night Links
* Sometimes the other universe bleeds into this one: Satanists Unveil Design For Okla. Capitol Monument. * Science has announced today is the worst day of the year. Don’t worry, it’s almost over… * The...
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First Day of the Semester Links!
* CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will be meeting at feminist science fiction convention WisCon in Madison this year. * MLA Delegates Narrowly Approve...
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Monday Morning Links
* An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist. * The 85 richest people on the planet are as wealthy as poorest half of the world. * Slate has a memo from MLK following the desegregation of...
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Tuesday, Tuesday
* The U.S. Cities Where the Poor Are Most Segregated From Everyone Else. Milwaukee, alas, is #1. * “Dr. Kissinger’s visit to campus will not be publicized, so we appreciate your confidentiality…” *...
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Almost Too Many Thursday Links, Really, If You Ask Me
* Extrapolation is seeking essays for a special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Michael Levy and John Rieder. * Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel. * No state worse than...
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Tuesday Links
* My favorite website is having big financial problems. The New Internet Gods Have No Mercy. * The museum as classroom: Marquette professors use art for pilot project. * Insuring the apocalypse. *...
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Wednesday Links!
* Ruling over a world while destroying it has made the rich a bunch of clinical assholes. * The grotesque corruptions of big-time intercollegiate athletics have become so glaringly obvious that there...
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Wednesday Links!
* After long neglect I’ve updated the “online articles” page on my Professional Website, if you’re interested. * Studies show kindergarteners do better on standardized tests when chained to their desks...
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Thursday Links!
* Working Mom Arrested for Letting Her 9-Year-Old Play Alone at Park. Dad Charged With Child Endangerment After Son Skips Church To Go Play. This Widow’s 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home...
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