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Monday! Morning! Links!
* With respect to the Mad Men finale, kudos to Eileen Sutton and Todd VanDerWerff. And to this guy too. That last shot really was “The Princess Bride” ending, btw. Beautifully, wonderfully cynical....
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All Your Tuesday Morning Links
* If You Leave Open A Million Tabs, ‘The Great Suspender’ Chrome Extension Is For You. Gamechanger. * When Birds Squak, Other Species Seem to Listen. * Two-Thirds of Risk Managers Say Frats Are Major...
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Friday Links!
* I’ll be speaking at this event on June 4th in DC: Resolved: Technology Will Take All Our Jobs. * SF-flavored art exhibit at the Racine Art Museum. * I think it’s fair to say Marquette has had a...
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Wisconsinned
In short, Wisconsin Republicans have declared total war on public education. Both the K-12 bill and the UW bill were negotiated and written totally in secret by committee Republicans, with the details...
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Resolved: Thursday Links Will Take All Our Links
* Tonight! DC! 6:30! Resolved: Technology Will Take All Our Jobs! * Help, University Administration Is Terrible! Kids these days. Let's grant that today's students make more complaints by and large....
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Wednesday Links!
* Fans aren’t the irrational ones. They know how to seize pleasure from the world and hold tight even as it hurts them. If fandom is simply an obedient response to the signals of the consumer market,...
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Thank God It’s Monday Links
* I have a pair of appearances in the new Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction: one the transcript of the archival research panel at the last ICFA, and the other a writeup of the...
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Mondayish Reading
* In the past five years, public universities pumped more than $10.3 billion in mandatory student fees and other subsidies into their sports programs, according to an examination by The Chronicle of...
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Monday Links! Quite a Few!
* I had a review of Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest in The Los Angeles Review of Books last week. Can’t wait for Death’s End. * “Star Trek style teleportation would take billions of years.” Not if you...
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Friday Links!
* Terrible news from UWM: The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) is facing an unprecedented attack on its very existence. * CFP for SLSA 2016: “Creativity.” * The shift from a subordinate learner as...
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Sunday Reading!
2016 Trump2020 Trump2024 Trump2026 Revolutionary Council2028 Trump2032, 2036 elections suspended2040 Chelsea Clinton vs George P Bush — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 28, 2016 * Some...
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Friday Morning Links!
* CFP: Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions. * “A mysterious infection may have killed 15 people in Wisconsin, and health officials aren’t sure why.” * The Coming Desert. *...
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Spriiiiiiiing Breaaaaaaaaak! Links
I have a plan to shorten the coming Dark Ages from 10,000 years to only 1,000. PM me for details. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 13, 2016 * Don’t miss the CFP for my upcoming Paradoxa special...
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Easter Monday (Hardly Knew ‘Er)
* Marquette suspends McAdams through the fall 2016 semester. Marquette’s statement. McAdams has some interesting comments specifically with regard to the the apology requirement on his blog. What a...
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Tuesday Links! Too Many of Them! Send Help!
* Don’t forget! Just two weeks until the “Global Weirding” deadline! * And tomorrow night in Missouri! Marquette Professor to Present ‘After Humanity: Science Fiction After Extinction.’ * CFP: Radical...
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No One Ever Expects Wednesday Links
* Nearly one-third of public college presidents serve on corporate boards. Most of those companies exist in far-flung industries, and the issues at play are different: Why should college presidents...
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Tuesday Afternoon Links
* A new page at Marquette: a $96 million residence hall development. * And then there’s that old page. * There’s more than one way to brand a college. Like at least three or four. * No-confidence vote...
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Monday Mega-Links
* Donald Trump Isn’t Going to Be President. Trump Has Won and the Republican Party Is Broken. Clinton Releases a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad. 5 not-totally-crazy electoral maps that show Donald Trump winning....
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Get June Started Right with June Links
* CFP for the first issue of Fantastika Journal. * David Higgins reviews Paradoxa 27: The Futures Industry. * Ending Their Wars: On Memorial Day, socialists honor the victims of war and struggle for a...
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Tuesday II: The Wrath of Trump!
* A Storify of tweets from the #ShapingChange Butler conference, from the great Moya Bailey. * Come for the Sputnik Awards, stay for the impossibly byzantine voting system… * Star Trek as critique of...
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