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Monday Monday Links!
* The EdgeEffects year in review includes my interview with Kim Stanley Robinson from last spring. Check it out if you missed it then!
* Well, the reviews are in! Jaimee's latest published poem, "The Utopologist's Wife."
* I have covered sports in New Jersey for a decade, crisscrossing the state for as many incredible stories as I can find. But for all the tales that made their way into my notebook, one stayed elusive, even though it seemed to stand above all the others. The 1990 Montclair-Randolph game.
* Very extremely cool site: The Deep Sea.
* Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse.
* CFP: Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic, 28th-29th May 2020. CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Fandom Studies on Archives and Special Collections. CFP: Creature Features & the Environment. CFP: Hindsight is 20/20: How Popular Culture Writes, Rewrites, and Unwrites History.
* Ghosts of the future. What Green Costs. Congressional Democrats' last, long-shot attempt at climate progress this year. Greenland's ice losses have septupled and are now in line with its highest sea-level scenario, scientists say. Last Remaining Glaciers in the Pacific Will Soon Melt Away. The Arctic didn't used to emit carbon. Something like 14% of public housing in this country is at risk from sea level rise. Young people can't remember how much more wildlife there used to be. Climate change and depression. Irreversible Shift. Even Greta Isn't Radical Enough. Just ask Goldman Sachs.
The two most salient facts of our reality are ecological collapse and income inequality, and the response by every person with authority is a chaotic swing among denial ("it isn't real"), defeatism ("it can't be helped"), and sneering rationalization ("only the unworthy suffer").
younger voters would also prefer that civilization not collapse within their lifetimes by an almost 7-to-1 margin
older voters simply dngaf https://t.co/ekyoZhKDGu
* It's 2071, and We Have Bioengineered Our Own Extinction.
* Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity. Would be nice if someone look at the next 25 years, too.
* U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator.
* How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real.
* San Francisco's Sci-Fi Renaissance.
* The allure of science fiction.
* Beyond Gender.
* What was one work of speculative fiction—book, game, movie, tv show, whatever—that profoundly imagined a new future during the last decade and that is likely to have a lasting impact?
Some intriguing trends in the responses to this Very Informal Thing:
-Black Mirror got the most votes/mentions/whatever
-KSR's climate future 'New York 2140' proved *very* popular
-lot of nods to Her, 3 Body Problem, Ex Machina, Infomocracy, Broken Earth + Sorry to Bother You https://t.co/MdhijGUBg4
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) December 9, 2019
* This Professor Was Accused of Bullying Grad Students. Now He's Being Banned From Teaching. Followup on 'I Was Sick to My Stomach': A Scholar's Bullying Reputation Goes Under the Microscope.
* Harvard Faculty Have a Rare Chance to Act in Solidarity With Striking Student Workers. 'The Administration Is Assuming That We Are Going to Do Their Dirty Work.'
* Grad school is worse for public health than STDs.
* No, Humanities Degrees Don't Mean Low Salaries. The Humanities Must Go on the Offensive.
* These Students Want to Create a Required K-12 Racial Literacy Curriculum.
* Fall Enrollments Still on the Decline.
* Against Critical Thinking.
* 'Adulting' is hard. UC Berkeley has a class for that.
* One-book classes have been some of the best I've taught. I love it as a model and it works so much better than the cram-it-all-in method I started out using.
* Perhaps the greatest free speech mystery of them all: Trump Targets Anti-Semitism and Israeli Boycotts on College Campuses.
* The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords. Why do they have to be such sore winners?
* Speaking of Disney there's a pretty good discussion on this episode of Podcast: The Ride about Disney claiming all cinema in a way I haven't seen discussed anywhere — literally going back and rebranding Fox properties like Miracle on 34th Street as Disney's Miracle on 34th Street.
* What's Up With J.J. Abrams Seemingly Shading The Last Jedi? The Last Jedi didn't break Star Wars. It Saved It. John Boyega just having an incredible week.
I'd go further and point out that everything these people are complaining about was the inevitable consequence of decisions JJ made when he set up the new trilogy in TFA. If you're mad because Luke lost it's JJ's fault, not Johnson's. Johnson just tried to make sense of it. https://t.co/Qj5dUG6GWv
* A People's History of Lube Man. If HBO makes a second season of 'Watchmen,' it should be about Vietnam.
* So, when thinking about "Blue Monday" in context of the genre/format New Order basically helped found (i.e., post-punk and modern rock), the sixteenth-note/machine gun trope recalls the fact of lots of bad, imperialist things the U.S. did in the 80s and early 90s. But the whole point of this trailer is to provide audiences with the image or feeling of an American-ness that is actually grounded in something like truth and justice. Setting up a not-at-all-thinly-veiled ersatz Donald Trump as the film's villain, this trailer gives audiences a scapegoat for the nation's present and past wrongs: then as now, the problem lies in a really dastardly bad apple, not the system itself.
* Pete Buttigieg makes his Jacobin debut.
* How consulting companies like McKinsey optimized American inequality.
* Joe Biden Still Can't Answer Basic Questions About Hunter and Burisma.
* Self-help gurus all the way down: on Elizabeth Warren.
* Why Trump's path to reelection is totally plausible. On Depoliticization. Et Tu, U.K.? I'm Crying, You're Crying. But Our Day Will Come. No False Consolations.
I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn't expect this result but here's how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/
— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019
What's tragic but also revelatory about figures like Bernie and Corbyn is that genuinely principled, honest politics get sandbagged by their nominal allies, who really would prefer open fascists to someone slightly to the left.
* Finland forms government of five parties all led by women, with youngest prime minister in world.
* Trump's children must undergo mandatory training to learn how to avoid defrauding charities.
* People in the U.S. Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Online and Taking Them Themselves. Congress can't get its act together on lowering drug prices or eliminating surprise medical bills. Insurance companies aren't doctors. So why do we keep letting them practice medicine? AOC compares average paid family leave in US to time dogs stay with puppies. And this is a little on the nose.
Paradigmatic example of this for me is the bit in KSR's SCIENCE IN THE CAPITAL where one company has the patent on a cancer cure and one company has the patent on the delivery mechanism so they both go out of business and the cure is never distributed. https://t.co/2Cba7MvxiG
* You'd think after a story like this the adults involved would simply die of shame.
I guess "Five-year-old girl performs child labour to pay the debt accumulated by 123 other children who couldn't afford to eat" doesn't accomplish whatever ghoulish "feel-good" tone you're going for here https://t.co/EKbcomSvci
— Elizabeth May (@_ElizabethMay) December 15, 2019
* These 91 companies paid no federal taxes in 2018.
* House Democrats To Rich People: We Love You.
* Always money in the banana stand.
* These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD. TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators. Artificial intelligence will help determine if you get your next job.
* Understanding The U.S. Economy: Lots Of Rotten Jobs.
* People in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age.
* Stealing the election in plain sight: 234,000 voter registrations get tossed in Wisconsin after Republican lawsuit, overwhelmingly in Milwaukee and Madison. Whatever shall I do with this power?
* You don't know Bernie.
* Mario Maker is a blessing we never deserved.
why am I so excited about Link in Mario Maker? *this* is why I'm so excited about Link in Mario Maker pic.twitter.com/0qvQYp9Cnz
— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) December 11, 2019
* Perhaps the best example of how radical and reactionary horror tropes sprout from one another is John Carpenter's 1988 classic They Live. In the movie, John Nada (Roddy Piper), a virtuous, optimistic, working-class protagonist, discovers that cadaverous aliens are living among us, controlling us with television messages that turn us into obedient, consuming drones. The movie is widely considered a critique of Reagan-era neoliberalism, and it is that. But it's also a story about the virtues of genocide. A white guy discovers aliens who don't look like him living in his town, and his first impulse is to murder them. Foreign shape-shifting immigrants, like vampires, are a standard anti-Semitic stand-in for Jews, and They Live can be read as a fascist conspiracy theory, in which brave working Americans finally recognize their racial oppressors, and respond with righteous cleansing violence.
Reading @nberlat on THEY LIVE I'm reminded on my own article on the movie, which plays out some similar problems with the ending (and gets into some other Body Snatcher fiction I like as well): https://t.co/Va68iiGOiz Feels pretty relevant today. pic.twitter.com/4nZG6mj1Lf
* Boots Riley Critiques 'Joker:' "These Superhero Movies are Cop Movies."
* Another trainwreck behind the scenes of American Gods.
* Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back. False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump. The Evangelical Mind.
* Shocking slander of a female reporter in the Richard Jewell movie.
Paw Patrol's operations consistently violate principles of emergency assistance, from do no harm to local input. Pups regularly endanger civilians with reckless driving and utterly lack accountability or learning mechanisms. In this essay I will
— Doctora Malka Older (@m_older) December 15, 2019
* Second verse same as the first.
* Second verse same as the first but in a good way.
* UNC's self-inflicted humiliation just gets worse.
* Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. I know, I was one too.
* No one could have predicted: Charter Fraud And Waste Worse Than We Thought.
* The age of Instagram face.
* Ectopic Pregnancies Are Not Viable Pregnancies, Period.
* Hardt and Negri: Empire, Twenty Years On.
* What we know about you when you click on this article.
* U.S. lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island and left to starve. He saved them.
* 52 Things Learned in 2019.
* I'm Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 50 Of The Best Ones From 2019.
* You like doing this?
* Focus on a different kid every time you watch.
focus on a different child every time you watch 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/gGpowtXKGP
— Ree 🍯🍭 (@TTPrettyInPink) December 13, 2019
* And The Atlantic presents The Year in Volcanoes.
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* frieze asked me to write them an end-of-decade reflection on franchise culture, so here it is: "Disney's Endgame: How the Franchise Came to Rule Cinema." It bounces off the Scorsese brouhaha, but with an eye towards what I see as the key problematic there (monopoly), as opposed to fretting about spectacle or sequels as such. Check it out!
* Had an amazing time doing the keynote at the UC Speculative Futures Collective Symposium on Speculative Futures and Education this week. Look for more from this group soon!
* I was also on the Gribcast podcast talking about Parable of the Talents, something we'd planned for nearly a year before finally making it happen.
* I was elected president of the Science Fiction Research Association last week, too. It's been weird!
* CFP: Ecopedagogies for the Anthropocene. CFP: Midwestern Science Fiction and Fantasy. CFP: AU: Alternate University.
* The agrocapitalist sublime: The first map of America's food supply chain is mind-boggling.
* These 8 Men Have As Much Money As Half The World.
* Ken Liu in the Times: How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America. The China Science Fiction Research Institute.
* ASAP Journal has a cluster on Latinx SF.
* Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in. Come for the SF-fueled theory, stay for the celebration of Mark Fisher…
* Now, novelty is to be found in the refusal of communicative capitalism's false promises of smoothness. If the nineties were defined by the loop (the 'good' infinity of the seamlessly looped breakbeat, Goldie's "Timeless"), then the 21st century is perhaps best captured in the 'bad' infinity of the animated GIF, with its stuttering, frustrated temporality, its eerie sense of being caught in a time-trap.
* The humanities in ruins.
UMD majors update at UMD: Selected majors, 2011 and 2019. Not trying to be dramatic so I'll just say, it's a massacre. pic.twitter.com/jiN8NyG3zR
— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) December 5, 2019
* My university is dying. And soon yours will be too. The end of Title IX. The other college debt crisis: Schools are going broke. Academe as the Dystopian Workplace. My god, UNC. One of the smartest and most prescient things I've read about current higher education was written in 1974, by the great education editor Fred Hechinger, who predicted splitting aid by income would create a "class war over tuition." -22.8% per student, inflation adjusted. As Universities See State Funding Threatened, Will They Be Less Outspoken About Climate Change? A strike at Harvard. I told my mentor I was a dominatrix.
He saw taking higher-education tuition (which, I can't stress this enough, was a brand new thing in 1974) and mitigating it by providing aid to poorer families, with those with more covering themselves, would cause latter to react with vindictiveness and further retrenchment. /2 pic.twitter.com/izRI3QH5dh
— Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) November 29, 2019
* 63 Up.
* Are podcasts a disaster waiting to happen?
* Was 'Oumuamua a cosmic dust bunny?
* Farming and the United Federation of Planets.
* Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against. Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists. A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday. 'Bleak' U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks. Global Warming Prediction Sounds Alarm for Climate Fight. Climate Change Is Accelerating, Bringing World 'Dangerously Close' to Irreversible Change. Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming. I decided to do a bit of a close read of one particular part of a 1965 report sent to Lyndon Johnson, on atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because I hate myself, you see.
* 'It is raining plastic': Microplastics found in Colorado rainwater. US may face French fry shortage due to poor potato crop: report. Forget 'developing' poor countries, it's time to 'de-develop' rich countries. California bans insurers from dropping policies in wildfire zones. Will Buffalo become a climate change haven? Meet Julian Brave NoiseCat – the 26-year-old shaping US climate policy. Exxon and the carbon tax. And what could possibly go wrong? This Bill Gates-funded chemical cloud could help stop global warming. The Failure of the Adults.
Stopping climate change is only expensive compared to an imaginary world where climate change doesn't exist. It's *incredibly cheap* compared to the actual cost of a 3 degree warmer world.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 27, 2019
Imagine trying to explain to people 50 years from now that in 2019 leftists and other environmentalists were very afraid of sounding too sanctimonious.
— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) November 27, 2019
I think we should be thinking less about how to convince people that our agenda is the only way out and more about how to transform the world such that people can't pretend what's happening isn't happening to them.
My main issue with climate change rhetoric is that it seems to imply some apocalyptic event, while in reality the transition to climate apartheid is gradual and already in process https://t.co/LifFvaVY7D
— colleen (@collnsmith) November 29, 2019
* Indict Jair Bolsonaro over indigenous rights, international court is urged.
* Border Patrol threw away migrants' belongings. A janitor saved and photographed them.
* ICE set up a fake university, then arrested 250 people granted student visas. Truly the worst of these cases I've seen, no public good rationale whatsoever.
To recap: the feds created a scam school to entrap Indian immigrant-visa students, accredited it so it would look legit, took their money, then deported them for not knowing better, INCLUDING students who transferred out after realizing it was a scam. https://t.co/rdzVvAJSSn
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 27, 2019
the government is trying to put this person in prison https://t.co/rdzVvAJSSn pic.twitter.com/5Avr1TTq1I
The ICE fake university thing makes no sense if you see them as 'law enforcement' and perfect sense if you see them as what they really are.
— David Kaib (@DavidKaib) November 30, 2019
* This gets reported every few months as if it were new or shocking information: DHS never had technology needed to track separated migrant kids.
* Inside the Cell Where a Sick 16-Year-Old Boy Died in Border Patrol Care.
* Today in the Forever War.
* How "people of color" evolved from a gesture of solidarity and respect to a cover for avoiding the complexities of race.
* A staggering one-in-three women, experience physical, sexual abuse.
* What is going on? Fears of school shootings hit eight Wisconsin high schools in three days.
* Wisconsin Republicans can completely transform the state's system of governance on the fly, but the Foxconn deal is sacred writ now and forever.
* Trump's Turkey Corruption Is Way Worse Than You Realize. I predicted Trump would win in 2016 — and I'm predicting the same for 2020. Here's why liberals don't understand what he represents. How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020. And it will always get worse: Trump Tells Allies He Wants Absolved War Criminals to Campaign for Him.
what is most horrifying about Trump is precisely how easy it would have been, and will still be, for someone with just a little more self-control to completely transform this country, with effectively no resistance https://t.co/SUYW58umE5
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 1, 2019
If it is deadly serious and makes you blink extra hard? It's something that has always happened but now it's being done under the cover of Trump's administration.
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) December 3, 2019
I don't think anyone has yet processed the level of lawbreaking we're going to see once McConnell and the Senate Republicans formally declare that Trump is absolutely above the law. https://t.co/SllfwUWRSW
* If you want to beat Trump, be honest about Biden.
* McKinsey in the news!
* Waiting for Obama. Let's hang ourselves. The Real Barack Obama Has Finally Revealed Himself.
current state of the Dem primary: beloved previous president working to make sure the nomination doesn't go to one of only two candidates who even pretend to give a damn about normal people (both topping out around 19% each), while multiple billionaires straight up try to buy it
I know "Great Man of History" thinking is banned now but I really wonder how much of the history of the 2010s ultimately redounds to Obama's incredible personal magnetism against his failures as a leader
the only contradiction is between the fantasies people still have about him and the person he actually is https://t.co/h7m5ExpRnn
"The GOP's incumbent is a vile, universally loathed creep! Now our only choice is whether to run a senile pervert or an absolute psychopath"
* Anthony Weiner and the butterfly effect.
* The case for Bernie Sanders.
* 'A distinctly American phenomenon': Our workforce is dying faster than any other wealthy country, study shows. It's Not Just Poor White People Driving a Decline in Life Expectancy. Income inequality in America is the highest it's been since Census Bureau started tracking it, data shows. Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time work is high. Nearly 700,000 SNAP Recipients Could Lose Benefits Under New Trump Rule. In a small Vermont city: heroin, bullets, and empathy.
* Why Rent Control Works. Highways Give Way to Homes as Cities Rebuild. Against self-driving cars. Today's Socialist Revival Began on the Streets of Seattle 20 Years Ago. Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism. Even rich kids need free college.
* Millennials weren't the only ones gutted by the recession. Gen X has never recovered.
* True crime: Indiana manipulated report on Amazon worker's death to lure HQ2, investigation says. Google fires four employees at center of worker organization efforts. Away's founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment. Uber Office Had Separate Bathrooms for Drivers and 'Employees.' Uber's new loan program could trap drivers in cycles of crushing debt. Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year.
* "Nearly every Revver who spoke with The Verge said they were exposed to graphic or troubling material on multiple occasions with no warning. This includes recordings of physical and verbal abuse between intimate partners, graphic descriptions of sexual assault, amateur porn, violent footage from police body cameras, a transphobic rant, and, in one instance, "a breast augmentation filmed by a physician's cell phone, being performed on a patient who was under sedation." Transcribers for the gig economy service Rev hate the recently slashed rates, but the disturbing content they deal with is even worse.
* Watched "The Irishman" and wondered, hey, what happened to those Teamsters pension funds in the end? Turns out that once Rudy Giuliani made a big splash getting the mob out, he handed management over to Wall Street with no oversight, and they wrecked it.
the subtext of all of Scorsese's mob films is the gradual subsumption of the mob's rackets to finance capital, who run them at even greater profit https://t.co/rSqTtppMKz
— giorgio (@stungusbungus) December 1, 2019
* The final word on should you go to grad school, from 1987.
* But his bosses didn't like him, so they shot him into space.
* Starlink vs. the stars. Even more here!
* Airlines damage or lose an average of 26 wheelchairs a day, report finds.
* What happens after you abandon an entire amusement park?
* You can't have it both ways.
* This stabs me twice.
* Give it up for Tom Gauld.
I hope you all got good advent calendars today… pic.twitter.com/TIOA23iqLM
— Tom Gauld (@tomgauld) December 1, 2019
'My Reading Year' (for yesterday's @guardianreview) pic.twitter.com/u4oat6jVtA
* This is a mistake and we should not accept it.
* New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB.
* The color of the year is… blue. Just — blue.
* Wish I'd been quicker on the blogging trigger to include this Thanksgiving classic in time for the holiday.
UNCLE: I say this every year but-
ME: not this again
MOM: we're NOT talking politics this thanksgiving
UNCLE: without luigi there is no waluigi, therefore he is responsible for waluigi's many sins
ME: ARE YOU SAYING WALUIGI HAS NO FREE WILL
UNCLE: I SAID WHAT I FUCKING SAID
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) November 28, 2019
* Pretty sick dude. The prequels were close to a good story. I did stand-up last night as "1990s Jerry Seinfeld Doing Bits About His 17-Year-Old Girlfriend." It Happened to Me: Sinclair Bought My Hometown News Channel and Now It's Deranged. Bleakest shit I've ever seen. The Fire Was Good, Actually. That's good content. That's my secret. Inigo Montoya's Guide to Networking Success. The self care serial killer. Every city has a "guy" they all know about. Give me fucking strength.
* Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle.
* Why Elsa from Frozen is a queer icon — and why Disney won't embrace that idea.
* The Incendiary Aims of HBO's Watchmen. HBO's Watchmen Reveal Unmasks Homophobia and Fetishization. Move over, Joker – it's time for the OG Superman.
* So the new Ghostbusters sequel follows in the classic franchise legacy mold and is about the original generation of Ghostbusters failing to prevent a disaster that destroyed New York. I really feel like our culture needs some therapy.
* Hands down one of the worst living Americans, virtual lock he'll be president someday.
* I too can't wait for December 20th.
can't wait for dec. 20th pic.twitter.com/EWLG7qrztp
— porky thee pig (@faithwithanf) November 26, 2019
* Mark Z. Danielewski drops three new House Of Leaves teleplays, is definitely up to something.
* In 1969, a group of boys played a Thanksgiving football game. 50 years later, they're still at it.
* "There Is An Entity That Cannot Be Defeated": Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible.
* And rest in peace, D.C. Fontana. There's almost no one more directly responsible for what Star Trek became than her.
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* In case you missed it, I posted my syllabi for the spring last week: Classics of Science Fiction, Game Studies, and Methods of Inquiry: The Mind. And just in time for my games course: Marquette announces that esports — competitive video gaming — will be a varsity sport next year.
* Another just-in-case-you-missed-it: I was on the most recent episode of Random Trek talking about Voyager episode 7.18, "Human Error."
* I was interviewed for this Octavia E. Butler audio documentary at the BBC, though it's geolocked at the moment and even I can't listen to it…
* Polygraph 22 ("Ecology and Ideology"), coedited by me, Lisa Klarr, and Ryan Vu in 2010, has been put up in its entirety at the Polygraph site. Some sort of retrospective involving the three of us is coming in Polygraph 25 on Marxism and climate change…
* And you can read our introduction to The Cambridge History of Science Fiction for free at CUP! Put in a purchase order with your institutional library today!
* CFP: Marxism and Pornography.
* CFP: Canadian Science Fiction.
* CFP: After Fantastika.
* Science Fiction and Social Justice: An Overview.
* Special issue: Queerness and Video Games.
* Speculative Anthropologies.
* Absolutely worst week of weather since we moved to Wisconsin. Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven't Been This Hot in 115,000 Years. Sea levels could rise by metres amid record Antarctic ice melt, scientists warn. And meanwhile, in Australia.
* For and against hopepunk.
* The hope in dystopia.
* The radical hope of Octavia E. Butler.
* Snowpiercer was a documentary.
* Fantastic Beasts and Muggles: Antihumanism in Rowling's Wizarding World.
* The next Cixin Liu: Supernova Era.
* Red Moon, Red Earth: the radical science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson.
* A year-end (oops) roundup post about great science fiction stories from 2018.
* The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.: Original Drawings, Manuscripts, Maps & More.
* At its core was an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity's richest and most studied games and, later that day, it would become the best player there has ever been.
* What's a dirty secret that everybody in your industry knows but anyone outside of your line of work would be scandalized to hear?
* The University in Ruins: Colleges Lose a 'Stunning' 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years. The life and death and life? of the English major. Getting Students to Study Literature.
* Proceedings Start Against 'Sokal Squared' Hoax Professor. Landmark controversy could determine once and for all whether journal editors are people.
* The MSU autopsy.
* Being Poor in America's Most Prestigious M.F.A. Program.
* The median salary for a full-time writer in America is $20,300.
* When you kill the humanities, you kill the sciences' revenue stream.
* 4. The real analogy to make here is how many monuments do you see to, say the "genocidal regime" in Germany? Are there statues of Hitler at the University of Berlin? Of course not. There are "historical remnants" across Germany. But that is different than erecting monuments.
* Racism and the Wisconsin Idea. And while we're beating up on Wisconsin: Mandela Barnes Is First African-American In Decades To Hold Statewide Office In Wisconsin.
* How Ph.D.s Romanticize the 'Regular' Job Market. Okay, y'all, let's talk quick about what my experience was getting an #altac job. And from the archives: Alt-Ac Isn't Always the Answer.
* Federal judge allows to proceed a suit in which white student says an admissions officer told her she might improve her odds of getting into medical school by discovering Native American or African American lineage.
* Baby Boomers to steal college from their grandchildren, again.
* Hampshire College struggles to stay afloat.
* College of Theseus.
* The university at the end of the world.
* How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation. Generation Layoff.
* A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job.
* Not lazy, not faking: teaching and learning experiences of university students with disabilities.
* In this context, diversity banners are not evidence of Maoism on the march. They are evidence of an institution whose ideals are at odds with its social function. Few in higher education want to work in a laundering operation that exchanges parental capital for students' social capital so that they can turn it back into material capital again.And yet…
* The Data Colleges Collect on Applicants. Chinese schools are using 'smart uniforms' to track their students' locations.
* Journalism in ruins. What will Google and Facebook do when they've killed off every industry they're parasitic on? BuzzFeed's Unpaid 19-Year-Old Quiz Genius on Her Tricks, the Layoffs, and Jonah Peretti. Do You Still Have A Job At BuzzFeed?
* How to build a Medicare-for-all plan, explained by somebody who's thought about it for 20 years.
* The Foxconn deal just gets worse and worse.
* Whiteness in 21st century America has an endgame, and it is this: to divest itself from the shame of its power, while working to revive the fear it needs in which to thrive.
* In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies? Call me crazy but the horse may have left the barn on this one.
* Our national amnesia and insouciance is so advanced (sort of like those of our president) that we have already forgotten that Malibu burned down this fall and the celebrities had to flee, many losing their multimillion-dollar mansions. Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds. Billionaire Miami Beach Developer Dismisses Rising Sea Levels as 'Paranoia.' Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven't Been This Hot in 115,000 Years. The Democrats are climate deniers. What It's Like to Be a High School Senior and Lose Everything in the Worst Fire in California History. Managed retreat. This is what extinction feels like from the inside. Everything is not going to be okay.
Another way to think about this: all existing political problems must now be inflected through climate crisis, and many solutions to our most intractable problems (wealth concentration, racial and gender prejudice, democratic rather than neofeudal govt) are climate solutions too. https://t.co/oth4SfmLFq
I don't see how anyone over thirty could deny that things have changed. We have multiple Katrina-level infrastructure failures every year now. We're losing so many people to climate disasters the media has stopped reporting on it. https://t.co/25OOeHJagG
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 27, 2019
climate dystopias aren't scary bc of how societies will cease to exist. they're scary bc of how they'll carry onhttps://t.co/ERPQlakh2Q pic.twitter.com/Xiq2hWClRy
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) January 22, 2019
* Consider de-extinction.
* Soy boom devours Brazil's tropical savanna.
* The end of the monarch butterfly.
* Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, would have to pay $4.1 billion in the first year under U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposed wealth tax, based on his current net worth of $137.1 billion. Article never quite gets around to mentioning that that's about three weeks of Bezos's earnings.
A pyramid scheme is a scam where the people at the top get the money from the work done by the people at the bottom. Whereas a regular business is where…uh, well you see the shareholders, they create jobs. They spurn grown, so they should get the money from…the work done by…
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) December 31, 2018
* Meanwhile: Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money. The wallet biopsy.
* Politicians have caused a pay 'collapse' for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say.
* Joe Manchin's Daughter Was Responsible For Increasing EpiPen Prices By 400%.
* "If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History": The head of Harvard's astronomy department says what others are afraid to say about a peculiar object that entered the solar system.
* Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected.
by far the best subplot of the Trump administration is that we keep getting hints of extraterrestrial activity and everybody's too busy to care https://t.co/jfwT5BLSkg
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) January 13, 2019
* Surely You're a Creep, Mr. Feynman.
* Surviving R. Kelly.
* The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180.
* J'Accuse…! Why Jeanne Calment's 122-year old longevity record may be fake.
* CBS All Access playing with fire with my precious baby wants to create the next generation of Trekkies with multiple animated Star Trek series. "On the plus side, Michelle Yeoh is good. On the down side, she will be playing a fascist, and the show will be poorly lit." Star Trek 4.
standard complement of a Starfleet vessel:
7 elite special-forces operatives / top-level diplomats / PhD-level specialists in multiple academic fields / ingenious engineers capable of jury-rigging unheard-of technology perfectly on the fly
200-1000 absolutely useless losers
* Trump scandal watch 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
* What even is Fox News?
All of the talk about Blade Runner overlooks how Running Man proved to be far more prescient about 2019. It is not a good film by any stretch, but it grasped that weaponized game shows would be the ruling ideology.
— Jason Read (@Unemployedneg) January 2, 2019
* The ACLU made the Border Patrol reveal its terrifying legal theories.
* Face it, tiger, you just need a new Constitution.
* Twilight of the UCB.
* Bandersnatch stats. The Illusion of Free Will: On "Bandersnatch" and Interactive Fiction. The biggest thing missing from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's horror story about a career in games. Paging the Reddit detectives.
* Ainehi Edoro on the New Image of Africa in Black Panther.
* I have a problem with Black Panther: Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard 'Black Panther' as a counterrevolutionary film.
* Was Jane Jetson a Child Bride?
* Dozens of college-age men dead from 'accidental' drownings—but a team of retired detectives say the boys were drugged and killed by a shadowy gang with a sinister symbol.
* The year was 2005. That same year, National Book Award-winning author George Saunders traveled to Kathmandu to meet Bomjon, or "Buddha Boy" as the Western press had dubbed him. Saunders trekked deep into the unruly jungle that's shadowed by the distant Himalayas and recalled his adventure for GQ, reporting back that he felt as though he'd experienced a miracle. A divine presence. Dark Secrets of Nepal's Famous Buddha Boy.
* 'Nobody Is Going to Believe You.' How is Bryan Singer still working?
* Sex after Chernobyl.
* Winners of the 2018 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest. There's more posts after the links, I just liked a bunch of these.
* Uber and Lyft singlehandedly wipe out US transit gains.
* AAVE and court stenography.
* General Strike: Fierce Urgency of Now.
* Research shows that encouraging all women to breastfeed comes with serious risks. Will our perception of it ever catch up?
* The end of forever: what happens when an adoption fails?
* When Isaac Asimov predicted 2019.
* The United States of Rage.
* Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money.
* How The Lord of the Rings Changed Publishing Forever.
* Maybe fixing schools isn't actually about cutting budgets down to nothing and calling it a day.
* Automation at Amazon. Automation everywhere.
* The future is here, it just isn't very evenly distributed: Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars.
* The Fascinating '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult.
* "Black babies in the United States die at just over two times the rate of white babies in the first year of their life," says Arthur James, an OB-GYN at Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. When my daughter died, she and I became statistics.
* How Sears Was Gutted By Its Own CEO. Sears bankruptcy court OKs $25 million in bonuses for top execs.
* Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves.
* The Future of the Great Lakes.
* The Owner of One of the Biggest Comedy Clubs in the Country Tells Us Why She Said No to Booking Louis CK. Walking away from Louis C.K.The end.
* Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: 'Everybody is a potential target.'
* I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.
* 2018: The Year In Ideas: A Review Of Ideas. What Will History Books Say About 2018?
* The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda.
* 538 really covering its bases: How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary. How Pete Buttigieg Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination.
* This Is What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss.
* Tesla chief Elon Musk's corporate jet flew more than 150,000 miles last year, or more than six times around the Earth, as he raced between the outposts of his futuristic empire during what he has called "the most difficult and painful year" of his career, according to flight records obtained by The Washington Post.
* In the time it has taken for a child to grow up in Chicago, city leaders have either closed or radically shaken up some 200 public schools — nearly a third of the entire district — a comprehensive new tally by WBEZ finds. Boston's economy is booming, but schools seem cash poor. Why? Hidden crisis: D.C.-area students owe nearly half a million in K-12 school lunch debt.
* Yes, there are online preschools. And early childhood experts say they stink.
* Gym Class Is So Bad Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It.
* The end of tag.
* The generation gap in the age of blogs.
* Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth.
* AI Algorithm Can Detect Alzheimer's Earlier Than Doctors.
* The secret of my success: A small literature demonstrates that names are economically relevant. However, this is the first paper to examine the relationship between surname initial rank and male life outcomes, including human capital investments and labor market experiences. Surnames with initials farther from the beginning of the alphabet were associated with less distinction and satisfaction in high school, lower educational attainment, more military service and less attractive first jobs. These effects were concentrated among men who were undistinguished by cognitive ability or appearance, and, for them, may have persisted into middle age. They suggest that ordering is important and that over-reliance on alphabetical orderings can be harmful.
* Waukesha college helps answer 'What's next?' for people with autism.
* Today in dark, dark headlines: Female veterinarians committing suicide in record numbers.
* We're Working Nurses to Death.
* Grifts in everything: GoFundMe Provides Refunds To Donors Duped By Viral Campaign.
* The DNA grift.
* "Look, a lot of Twitter is bad. No question. But only Twitter can take you on a journey like this. What a website."
* It is one of the neoliberal commandments that innovation in markets can always rectify any perceived problems thrown up by markets in the first place. Thus, whenever opponents on the nominal left have sought to ameliorate some perceived political problem through direct regulation or taxation, the Russian doll of the [neoliberal] thought collective quickly roused itself, mobilized to invent and promote some new market device to supposedly achieve the 'same' result. But what has often been overlooked is that, once the stipulated market solution becomes established as a live policy option, the very same Russian doll then also rapidly produces a harsh critique of that specific market device, usually along the lines that it insufficiently respects full market efficiency. This seemingly irrational trashing of neoliberal policy device that had earlier been emitted from the bowls of the [neoliberal thought collective] is not evidence of an unfortunate propensity for self-subversion or unfocused rage against government, but instead an amazingly effective tactic for shifting the universe of political possibility further to the right.
* And a tiny fraction of the genius Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has been laying down day after day after day while I've been gone: When sociologists make movies. Pickup lines. I couldn't live without you. Domestication. Can video games be art? Honestly, Frank, that sounds like conspiracy theory territory. On Framing. I come from the future. Econ 101. Do you think humans are capable of suffering? Machine ethics.
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Friday Train Ride Links!
* I accidentally said something that went viral and now Twitter is absolutely useless to me.
* Seven-year-old Guatemalan girl dies of dehydration after being arrested by US Border Patrol. ICE Arrests 170 Immigrants Trying To Save Babies From Baby Jails. Trump is pushing Vietnam to accept deportees who have lived in the US for over 20 years.
* The New Authoritarians Are Waging War on Women.
* Is a Green New Deal Possible Without a Revolution?
According to the @climateactiontr, current climate policies have the world headed toward roughly 3.3°C of warming. Not a single major developed country has policies in line with 2°. https://t.co/lMbSnRMYar pic.twitter.com/UuhU4Iok68
— David Roberts (@drvox) December 13, 2018
As I keep saying, you're a climate change denier if you think it's going to happen in 50 years and isn't going to affect you or your children in a profound, civilization-ending way, without action. Fiction writers who write shit like that…same thing. https://t.co/Q4j53qNyw8
— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) December 14, 2018
* 'Carbon removal is now a thing': Radical fixes get a boost at climate talks. Earth on course to match climate from 3 million years ago by 2030, UW study says. You, Too, Are in Denial of Climate Change. 40 million Americans depend on the Colorado River. It's drying up. Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—and the Water Underneath. Urban Flooding Is Worryingly Widespread in the U.S., But Under-Studied. Welcome to the Eocene, where ice sheets turn into swamps. "You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to your children."
* University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off?
* Can the liberal arts survive neoliberalism? Serving at Cross's Purposes.
* Wall is good. Build wall!
* We can't pull down statues of slaveowners, while out there they're pulling down statues of Gandhi.
* Got to have some mixed feelings.
* Over the last decade or so it seems like very police forensic technology has been revealed to be complete and utter bullshit, which people believe in simply because they believe whatever cops say.
* Nice work if you can get it: insider trading is legal when you're in Congress.
i'm a socialist, although in america this mostly just means "i think it's bad that you die broke when you have cancer" and "poor people should eat" and "it's bad that corporations literally write laws"
— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) December 12, 2018
* Employers should have to bear the costs of at-will employment if they want to reap the benefits, so to the extent that this "ghosting" is actually happening that is very, very good.
* Elsewhere in hyperexploitation: Uncompensated Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (one-year term).
* How The US Left Failed Brasil. You're not going to pin this on me!
* Teach the controversy: It's ridiculous that it's unconstitutional for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president.
* Why women have better sex under socialism, according to an anthropologist.
* There's some wild shit going on in the far corners of the Game Of Thrones map.
* Totally normal.
* Fossils of the 21st century.
* Union solutions / management solutions.
* Twilight of Netflix.
* And it was 20 years ago (yesterday).
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Train Travel Day, Which Means A Whole Trainload of Links
* Two talks down, two to go! My Worlding SF keynote is archived at Facebook Live, but my "Superheroes vs. the Climate" talk got pulled down due to the Funny or Die video I played during my presentation and will need to be edited and reposted. You can also get some coverage from Austrian Public Radio and the Superscience Me podcast (which was there all weekend reporting on the conference). If you're dying for more Worlding SF content, there's always the #WorldingSF hashtag on Twitter!
* I was also briefly interviewed for GlacierHub's latest blogpost tracing the impact of ice sheets in science fiction.
* CFP: Science Fiction and Communism Conference 2019. CFP: Call for Papers: ANGUISH graduate conference at Georgetown University. CFP: The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, on "Artifice." CFP: Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations, Mapping the Mythosphere, 23rd-24th May 2019. CFP: The 2019 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, June 7-8, 2019.
* Paradoxa 30 is out, on Latin American Science Fiction.
* Terrific short film inspired by Richard McGuire's Here.
* Margaret Atwood is officially writing a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. All is proceeding precisely as I have foreseen.
* 2018 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Of course there's many, many, many more links below the image…
* Isn't the most important response to the question "how do we get students to value the humanities" this: how do we get the humanities to value students?
* Lies About the Humanities — and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
* What We Hire in Now: English by the Grim Numbers.
* "While humanists are often skeptical of measuring a major through debt, salaries, or employment after graduation, other fields that have not already seen extensive declines probably have more to fear from an honest accounting of salaries than we do."
* The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in tuition revenue from Chinese students.
* UNC announces exciting plan to return Silent Sam to campus for a mere $5 million up front and $800,000 every year. (Over the past ten years, taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments.) They've got some other great ideas, too!
* UNC TAs go on strike in protest. More here.
* I mean it's only half (up front) what they're paying their basketball coach not to coach basketball anymore.
* Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here's the Reality.
* Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People's Mental Health.
* The Insect Apocalypse Is Here. How A Shorter Sea Ice Season Is Changing Life In The Arctic. U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy. The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe. How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet. Here's How Climate Change Is Already Impacting The US. How Climate Change Is Challenging American Health Care. Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn't Ready, Report Says. America's Last-Ditch Climate Strategy of Retreat Isn't Going So Well. Reindeer in Sweden usually migrate in November. But there's still no snow. Huge if true. Democrats get on board with Manchin for energy committee post. When the survival of the planet is at stake, calls for moderation and compromise aren't a mark of adult politics — they're a threat to civilization. But Mr. Burns and the plot of Snowpiercer have a plan.
* Parable of the Sower was a documentary.
* Imagine a better world: Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet.
* Not even Pantone is safe. More geoengineering, coral reef edition.
* 150 Minutes of Hell: Inside the Carr Fire Tornado.
* Meanwhile, Brexit, am I right?
* Welcome to Our Modern Hospital, Where If You Want to Know a Price You Can Go Fuck Yourself.
* The steady erection of a system of minority rule that Republicans are implementing is not as dramatic as a populist putsch. But it's actually happening before our eyes. And it's led not by the rabble-rousing president or the unwashed masses who thrill to his rallies, but by the elite network of donors, operatives, and politicians who run the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
* How do they do it, every single time?
* Russians! Surprise! Trump was blackmailing everybody.
* When I was closing tabs I found this story about the Moscow Trump Tower project, which was like three unindicted crimes ago already.
* "The notion that a) the constitution absolutely forbids charging the sitting president for crimes, and b) the statute of limitations for those crimes *still runs while he's in office* so he might never face charges, shows how fatuous the constitutional analysis was to begin with."
* Trump officially ruining books, too.
* Trump Ramped Up Drone Strikes in America's Shadow Wars. No Bush, No Trump.
* When George H.W. Trump ruined a kid's life for a five-second TV bit. Why Do Political Journalists Think It's Their Job to Portray George H.W. Bush as America's Benign, Saintly Grandpa?
* Samuel Oliver-Bruno, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, didn't need to leave the Durham church where he's been taking sanctuary for eleven months Friday morning. He knew stepping foot outside the church risked arrest and deportation, but he chose to, in good faith, get a biometric screening to comply with part of his pending asylum petition. At about 8:45 a.m., Oliver-Bruno entered the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Morrisville, where he was thrown on the ground by ICE officers and arrested, according to Viridiana Martinez of Alerta Migratoria. He was taken outside and placed in a beige van with dark tinted windows.
* Migrants Tear Gassed at US Border. Families are still being separated at the border, months after "zero tolerance" was reversed. This is what the world looks like to kids in the caravan. US nixed FBI checks for teen migrant camp staff. ICE To Release Asylum-Seeker After 2 Years In Detention. Trans woman beaten to death in ICE custody. Making President Trump's Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers.
* Holocaust Survivors Recall Exact Day Holocaust Started Right Out Of The Blue.
* Meanwhile, the Democrats.
* Same joke but meanwhile, NJ Democrats.
* What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong.
* The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed.
* The New Republican Myth of California Voter Fraud. Meanwhile, in NC-09.
* How Democracy Works.
* Coups in WI, MI, NC, and WV. The suffocation of democracy.
* The lame duck session is a deranged, obviously terrible institution.
* Overall, the experiences of Central European countries suggest that when left-leaning parties turn their backs on working people, other parties will willingly step up to channel their frustration.
* 40 million people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030, study predicts. Insulin is a cheap and easy to manufacture drug invented 100 years ago, deliberately entered into the public domain by its creators to prevent precisely this situation.
* U.S. Life Expectancy Declines Again. Suicides are at the highest rate in decades, CDC report shows.
* "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?"
* Billionaires Made So Much Money Last Year They Could End Extreme Poverty Seven Times.
* Unemployment Is So Low Some People Have 2 or 3 Jobs.
* Sign here to lose everything.
* He won Powerball's $314 million jackpot. It ruined his life.
* Generational analysis isn't great, and yet.
* The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
* GM gave out $25b in dividends etc last 5 yrs; its auto biz is now worth just $14b, yet financiers want more. Financialization grinds real industry into the dirt.
* Police chief gets three years for a wide-ranging conspiracy to frame black people for crimes. When Brooklyn juries gentrify, defendants lose. How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever. Now we see the violence inherent in the system.
* An interview with the managing editor at one of the country's most widely read prison newspapers.
* I've been collecting an archive of attempts to bolster the police state by leveraging people's sympathies for dogs. It's such a bizarre phenomenon but it happens over and over.
* Meet the Stuntwomen.
* Meet the 90s nonwhite character actors.
* You Probably Owe Jennifer's Body An Apology. I don't think I've ever seen a movie marketed so catastrophically badly.
* About 137 women killed by someone they knew every day in 2017. More here.
* Rape by deception apparently isn't illegal in Indiana.
* Neil deGrasse Tyson under investigation after accusations of sexual misconduct.
* The Miami Herald has been diving deep into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
* The Socialist Memelords Radicalizing Instagram.
* @ChuckWendig yo, can you help me out
* Minneapolis becomes the first American urban area to ban single family housing.
* School turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency.
* Welcome to the Good Place: China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident.
* What could go wrong? Chinese scientists say they're creating CRISPR-edited babies.
* Millennials in China Are Using Nudes to Secure Loans.
* In less sensationalistic, Orientalist news, approximately one million Uighurs have been put in concentration camps in China.
* Surveillance in everything.
* The Palm Oil Catastrophe.
* Some deep dives into the Sentinelese, among the most isolated people in the world. A Twitter thread.
* Tumblr's porn bad reveals who controls what we see online.
* How an army of temps produces NPR.
* A people's history of He-Man.
* Remembering Square One.
* CNN, Palestine, and actually existing media bias.
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the politics of digital intimacy.
* N.K. Jemisin: "I'm writing about dragons as a black woman, and it's fucking political."
* Kim Stanley Robinson and Anthropology.
* 'Oumuamua goes into stealth mode in preparation for attack.
* Gods of Fiction: African writers and the fantasy of power. Ainehi Edoro's Essay on the God Complex of African Writers Sets Off Social Media Reaction.
* Good poets borrow, great poets steal, but not like that.
* Dialectics of Fortnite: Fortnite Addiction Is Forcing Kids Into Video-Game Rehab. Fortnite as third space.
* How one man's quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.
* Uber is a "bezzle," doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO.
* If you flip every word in "manic pixie dream girl" you get "depressive demon nightmare boy" and you think "well thank goodness THAT'S not a thing at least-" but then you…
* Millennials are brokest generation. Doing my part!
* Jigsaw puzzle mashups.
* Huge — IF true.
* In East Germany, a gamer scene emerged just before the fall of communism. Teenagers met at a computer club to swap and play C64 games. The state watched with interest.
* I've been rereading the series with my kids at bedtime and this is definitely canon.
* Six french fries? In this economy?
* And here's how long it would take you to poop a LEGO.
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1947 - In the first televised White House address, President Harry S Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1990 - After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days, The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald-Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as "The world's first 24-hour newspaper" with morning and afternoon editions is published on the 8th.


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Beyond the Tower: The Controllers That Guide You the Rest of the Way
Real-time air traffic map courtesy FlightRadar24.com
Almost without fail, the question I get immediately following, "What do you do?" is, "Oh, so you work at the tower?" I've been a controller for nine years now, and no, I've never worked at a tower. I actually work in a big windowless building, nowhere near an airport. While the question irks some of us, it's easy to see why it's asked so often: The tower is one of the most recognizable landmarks of the flying experience. Of course the mainstream media almost never gets it right. Any time the news talks about ATC, we are referred to as the "controllers in the tower." And the alternative misconception, that we are the crews on the ramp marshaling aircraft with the orange sticks, is no better. Let's see if we can start clearing up just what we do as air traffic controllers.
ATC That You Can See
When you're at an airport waiting for a flight, you can see all the hustle and bustle going on outside the windows – aircraft landing, departing and taxiing to and from the ramp. There are even other vehicles speeding about all the time. Every one of these is handled by people in the control tower. Even before your plane starts pushing back from the gate, the pilots are in contact with controllers, relaying information back and forth about their flight plan and taxi instructions to the runway.
Finally, with some patience, your pilots hear, "Cleared for takeoff." The engines of your airplane roar to full power, you get pushed back in your seat, the rumble of the concrete suddenly becomes silky smooth and off you go. Everything beneath you becomes much smaller…and then what? It's a big sky and the pilots have a flight plan, so they know where to go, right? Sixty years ago that may have been possible, but it is certainly not anymore. The airspace is far too busy and the airplanes far too fast for pilots to go it alone these days.
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Pursuing an applied research agenda to advance visionary philanthropy
The Nation's First Endowed Chair in Family Philanthropy
Expanding the practice and public understanding of family philanthropy
Family foundations and other family donors play an essential and increasing, yet often unheralded, role in addressing social challenges and enhancing the quality of life in communities across the globe.
The Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy at the Johnson Center works with a network of partners to pursue a comprehensive, international program of applied research, speaking and writing, professional education and teaching, and other activities.
The Chair was made possible by the vision and generosity of the Frey Foundation, one of Michigan's largest family foundations, which was established in 1974 in Grand Rapids by Edward J. and Frances T. Frey.
We are living in one of the most significant eras for family philanthropy in history. A new generation of eager donors with unprecedented resources are bursting on the scene. Innovation is happening at a torrid pace, and fundamental critiques of philanthropy have never been so widely debated. We live in interesting times for family philanthropy."
Michael Moody, Ph.D.
Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy
Michael Moody
Frey Foundation Chair
Leading the Center's Work on Family Philanthropy
Since 2010, Michael Moody has served as the inaugural holder of the Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy at the Johnson Center. A cultural sociologist who has been actively working to understand and improve philanthropy for 30 years, he serves as an accessible guide to the rapidly evolving and complex world of philanthropy and social innovation, helping diverse audiences see the vital role that giving plays in society and in their own lived experiences.
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Research and Initiatives for Family Philanthropy
The Frey Foundation Chair's work includes applied research and scholarship, international thought leadership through speaking and writing, convening and field-building, curriculum development and training, advising, and much more.
Connect with Dr. Moody.
Reach out to Michael to discuss research and engagement questions, opportunities, and partnerships.
The Nation's First Endowed Chair in Community Philanthropy
Exploring how communities, donors, and organizations come together to elevate generosity and community engagement
Community foundations and donors play an essential and increasing, yet often unheralded, role in addressing social challenges and enhancing the quality of life in communities across the globe.
The W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair was established at the Johnson Center in 2015. The Chair partners with a network of community and public foundations, collective giving groups, and national and international communities to support, research, and lift up the practice of community philanthropy.
This Chair honors the philanthropic legacy and civic investment of W.K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Company and W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Chair was established with a gift from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Kellogg Company 25-Year Employees' Fund.
Since the creation of the first community foundation in 1914, community philanthropy has expanded conceptually and geographically. It is now one of the most important global movements to expand and elevate generosity, driven by the core belief that communities are uniquely positioned to mobilize their own assets to address their own challenges."
Michael Layton, Ph.D.
W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair
Michael Layton
Kellogg Chair
A New Leader of the Center's Work on Community Philanthropy
As the newly appointed Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair, Michael Layton brings to the position decades of experience in the practice and study of philanthropy. He has served as a professor, researcher, director, and consultant at some of the world's most prominent universities, philanthropies, and development agencies.
Research and Initiatives for Community Philanthropy
Michael Layton's professional accomplishments span applied research and scholarship, international thought leadership through speaking and writing, convening and field-building, curriculum development and training, advising, and much more. Examples of his work include:
Mexico Community Foundations: A Comprehensive Profile, 2009–2016
With support from the Charles Stewart Mott and Inter-American Foundations, Alternativas y Capacidades, AC, conducted interviews and desk research on 21 community foundations in Mexico. This report offers an analysis of their development and makes recommendations on how to strengthen their capacity. By understanding their evolution and context, community foundations will be better positioned to make a meaningful, lasting impact in their communities.
Regulation and Self-Regulation in the Mexican Nonprofit Sector
This case study of Mexico is a contribution to the edited volume, Regulatory Waves: Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The chapter examines recent trends in state regulation of Mexico's nonprofit sector and nongovernmental initiatives aimed at increasing the sector's transparency and accountability.
Giving in Mexico: Generosity, Distrust and Informality
Based on Mexico's first national public opinion survey on giving and volunteering, this chapter is one of 25 country-specific studies in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy (2015). The chapter enriches the reader's understanding of the Mexican context and its seemingly contradictory philanthropic culture of generosity and distrust by providing both an in-depth case study and a comparative perspective.
Philanthropy and the Third Sector in Mexico: The Enabling Environment and Its Limitations
Why is Mexico's philanthropic sector underdeveloped? Despite the importance of this question, there is no persuasive response. This article develops the concept of an enabling environment to offer a diagnostic framework, including the following elements: empowering legal frameworks, adequate fiscal incentives, an effective accountability system, adequate institutional capacity of organizations, the availability of resources, and the civic culture.
Collective Giving Circles
The first holder of the W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Johnson Center, Jason Franklin, Ph.D., served in this position from 2015–2020. As a founding member of the Collective Giving Research Group, Jason conducted groundbreaking work researching the landscape of collective giving and giving circles in the United States and abroad.
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Connect with Dr. Layton to discuss research and engagement questions, opportunities, and partnerships.
Distinguished Scholar in Residence for DEI
The Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was established in 2018.
The Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) reflects our core conviction that these principles form the bedrock of thriving communities and must be integral to the everyday practice of philanthropy.
Still, our field as it exists today suffers from the same systemic issues of racial inequity, injustice, and white privilege that afflict every sector of our society. Countless individuals and organizations have called on all of us to do better. These calls come from the same place as philanthropy itself: a love for humankind.
At the Johnson Center, we are committed to continuing this work with intentionality, humility, and persistence. Research and community engagement efforts lead the way.
If philanthropy really wants to see the achievement of social justice by alleviating poverty and inequities for racial, ethnic, gender, gender orientation, religious, and ability groups, it must work collaboratively with others to address purposeful inclusion in structures of power and decision making."
Juan Olivarez, Ph.D.
Distinguished DEI Scholar in Residence
Juan Olivarez
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholar
Advancing Inclusive Strategies and Talent Development
Dr. Olivarez joined the Johnson Center in 2018 to establish a program dedicated to advancing inclusion and equity in philanthropy, both at home in West Michigan and nationwide. Juan's work focuses on community engagement, inclusive growth, and the development of equitable talent pipelines in our field. The Scholar in Residence position was established with support from the Frey Foundation, the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, the Kate and Richard Wolters Foundation, and the Wege Foundation.
Research and Initiatives for
At the Johnson Center, all of our teams conduct research in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our Scholar in Residence helps to lead and shape this work through collaboration and consultation.
Let's build a more equitable future.
Together, we can pursue innovative ideas and projects that ensure just outcomes for all. Connect with Dr. Olivarez to learn more.
Moving Philanthropy Forward Together
Our current initiatives aim to build unique, world-class programs and partnerships that advance more equitable and effective philanthropy. The Johnson Center seeks support to plan, implement, and launch these programs.
Competency-Based Badging Program
Competency-based credentials and hiring practices have been shown to increase staff diversity and retention, and support a field with combined mission and job-area expertise. The Johnson Center's competency model for foundation program officers will create and support a new paradigm for equitable learning and hiring.
Donor Journeys Initiative
Every donor has a journey — and every journey deeply influences that donor's values, strategies, knowledge, skills, and, ultimately, impact. In this time of great and generational change, we need to learn more about what goes into a successful path, and actively share these lessons with family donors of every sort.
Early Warning System for Nonprofits
Approximately 20% of nonprofits make it to their 20th anniversary. What drives a healthy sector, and how can we target capacity building and support so that more nonprofits thrive? We propose a three-phase approach to understanding nonprofits' status, risk, and recovery to enable timely intervention and, ultimately, vibrant communities.
Ecosystem for Nonprofit Leadership
Nonprofits are eager to embrace a more diverse and inclusive ecosystem for board leadership. Yet progress toward this goal remains slow. We believe that a community-wide approach to increasing nonprofits' capacity to foster inclusive boardrooms, and preparing more individuals to serve on boards, can effectively address this longstanding challenge.
Philanthropy Fellowship Program
With the Michigan Nonprofit Association and Council of Michigan Foundations, we envision a two-year fellowship to prepare the next generation of diverse leaders in our field. One year each of working in a nonprofit and a foundation will provide the broad grounding that drives strong leadership, no matter where fellows choose to make their careers.
Interested in supporting this work?
We are seeking philanthropic funding to pursue these projects. Connect with Teri Behrens to learn more.
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Q: Run Configuration I'm a new to Intellij + Gradle integration. I created a sample Java gradle project. When I create a new Configuration to try run my test main, it automatically make it a gradle task. Say if I want to run the Configuration as Java command line, instead of gradle task, is there a way to do that?
Thanks,

A: IntelliJ + Gradle does not create new gradle tasks in this case - IntelliJ is using the Gradle integration and knows how to create a configuration that you can run from Gradle. If you want to run the unit tests with Gradle from the command line, here are a few examples:
# Executes all tests in SomeTestClass
gradle test --tests SomeTestClass

# Executes a single specified test in SomeTestClass
gradle test --tests SomeTestClass.someSpecificMethod

gradle test --tests SomeTestClass.*someMethod*

More can be found on the Gradle website.

A: You can create a simple "Application" configuration as described here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-and-editing-run-debug-configurations.html

A: You can set the Platform runner to IntelliJ IDEA (instead of Gradle) as to be used as default when you run a configuration in Settings (Preferences on macOS) | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle | Delegate settings | Build and run using setting.

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Here at TeamDrive, I'm primarily responsible for the backend technology, the servers that support the TeamDrive Client applications. It consists of two LAMP-based server instances, which customers can either deploy at their own premises, or in a public cloud like Amazon EC2 (or in a mixed environment). The grunt work is handled by custom Apache modules, and we rely on MySQL to manage the required meta data and a custom application framework to provide the required infrastructure and functionality.
Even though my official title is "Product Manager", I quickly realized that I needed to get my hands dirty in order to make progress on the things that I deemed absolutely necessary. In particular, I've been focusing a lot on improving the product packaging, installation and documentation, as well as setting up release engineering processes and tools (e.g. setting up dedicated Jira projects for the server components, creating components and releases).
Initially, the Server documentation consisted of some Word documents that were partially outdated or incomplete and made installing the server components quite challenging. I think I spent nearly two weeks until I managed to get my first test server environment up and running, mostly due to missing steps or inaccurate descriptions in the installation instructions. I started taking notes and writing small HOWTOs on how to overcome the hurdles I ran into, but I also wanted to make the documentation itself more accessible and easier to update and maintain.
So I did some research on how to set up an automated documentation build system that builds HTML and PDF documents automatically and which allowed me to put the documentation sources under revision control. I opted for using Sphinx and reStructuredText as the foundation. With the help of another developer, we then converted the existing documentation into the new format, re-organized it into multiple documents, e.g. an Installation Guide, an Administration Guide and a Reference Guide. Next, we started overhauling, restructuring and updating them, so the documentation actually reflected the current state of the product and had a better flow. Over the course of the year, I constantly added more content and new chapters.
In parallel, I also reworked the entire build and release process of our server software. When I joined, the software was provided in the form of tar archives, and it was up to the customer to extract the files and copy them into the appropriate location. Some of the binaries were built on an older Linux system, which required customers to install compatibility libraries or creating symbolic links to other system libraries in order to satisfy the dynamic linker. I got rid of that by moving the build process to the same platform that we actually deployed on. I also added scripts and support files to create RPM packages that we provide via public yum repositories, so customers can now quickly install and keep our software up to date using the operating system's native tools.
In addition to making the build process more automated and repeatable, I consolidated and restructured parts of the code base, e.g. by migrating related code from external CVS and SVN repositories into a single Mercurial repository. Now all components of a product version, including the respective documentation, can be managed in a single branch. This makes it much easier to work on both a stable release and the current development version in parallel.
I also spent a lot of time doing QA of the installation and configuration as well as enhancing the product usability. I tested our web based Administration Consoles and reported my findings via Jira, working with the developers on how to improve the user experience and get rid of gotchas. In total, we made three major releases of the server software over the course of the year, each of these had several minor releases to publish bug fixes and minor improvements. The turnaround time for publishing new release builds has been drastically improved.
In order to being able to test the server software locally, I started using Linux containers (LXC) for quickly setting up a small virtual server farm consisting of dedicated MySQL instances and TeamDrive Server containers. I also familiarized myself with Docker and Ansible and plan to make more use of these technologies for upcoming projects.
All in all I had a lot of fun working on "low level stuff" again last year, and I must say I enjoyed going back to my roots here. I actually wrote some C code, too — I changed parts of our server code from using a public domain reference implementation of the MD5 algorithm (from L. Peter Deutsch) to using the optimized one from the OpenSSL library instead. This resulted in a 70% performance boost for computing MD5 checksums, especially on larger objects.
I also supported several customer projects, e.g. by assisting and advising them during the project planning and implementation phases, actually doing or helping with the installation and configuration of servers, and handling support questions and bug reports after the go-live project phases.
When I joined, it usually took new customers several days (if not weeks) and lots of hand holding from our side before they had a functional server setup. Now, our customers can perform the installation and setup of our server infrastructure all by themselves, and get up and running within hours. I'm quite happy and proud of these improvements.
Apart from improving my existing and learning a lot of new technical skills, I also expanded my theoretical knowledge on product management: I attended two seminars about Product Management (hosted by the excellent folks from proProduktmanagement) and passed both certification tests. I can now boast about being a certified strategic and technical product manager based on the Open Product Management Workflow™.
After laying out the technical groundwork, I hope to focus on the more high-level and strategic aspects of the product this year. Actually working on the code base helped me a lot to gain valuable insight into the inner workings of our products, which will be useful going forward.
It has been an interesting ride so far!


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FROM occlum/occlum:0.23.7-ubuntu18.04 AS occlum

ENV LOCAL_IP your_local_ip
ARG BIGDL_VERSION=0.13.0
ARG SPARK_VERSION=2.4.6
ENV SPARK_VERSION		${SPARK_VERSION}
ENV BIGDL_VERSION		${BIGDL_VERSION}
ENV http_proxy $http_proxy
ENV https_proxy $https_proxy

RUN env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
    env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y openjdk-11-jdk unzip

# Prepare Spark
RUN mkdir -p /bin/examples/jars
RUN mkdir -p /ppml/docker-occlum && cd /ppml/docker-occlum && \
    wget -P /ppml/docker-occlum https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-2.4.6/spark-2.4.6-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz && \
    tar -xvzf /ppml/docker-occlum/spark-2.4.6-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz  &&  \
    wget -P /bin/examples/jars/spark-network-common_2.11-2.4.6.jar https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/analytics-zoo/analytics-zoo-data/spark-network-common_2.11-2.4.6.jar && \
    rm /ppml/docker-occlum/spark-2.4.6-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz

ADD ./hosts /ppml/docker-occlum/hosts
ADD ./README.md  /ppml/docker-occlum/README.md
ADD ./run_spark_on_occlum_glibc.sh /ppml/docker-occlum/run_spark_on_occlum_glibc.sh
ADD ./start-spark-local.sh /ppml/docker-occlum/start-spark-local.sh

RUN wget -P /ppml/docker-occlum https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/intel/analytics/bigdl/dist-spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-scala-2.11.8-all/${BIGDL_VERSION}/dist-spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-scala-2.11.8-all-${BIGDL_VERSION}-dist.zip  && \
    unzip /ppml/docker-occlum/dist-spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-scala-2.11.8-all-${BIGDL_VERSION}-dist.zip -d /ppml/docker-occlum/bigdl && \
    rm /ppml/docker-occlum/dist-spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-scala-2.11.8-all-${BIGDL_VERSION}-dist.zip && \
    cp /ppml/docker-occlum/bigdl/lib/bigdl-${BIGDL_VERSION}-jar-with-dependencies.jar /ppml/docker-occlum/bigdl-${BIGDL_VERSION}-jar-with-dependencies.jar && \
    rm -r /ppml/docker-occlum/bigdl

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Some of the most generous people I know have no money.
When we have no money, it's a different lifestyle.
because of what is expected of us is that we share and give what we have.
we have to beg for things.
it was a given thing that we would share things.
That was a part of who we are.
would do the same things before money.
We don't share our things anymore.
It kills us as human beings, as a society, as a race.
When I say "race", I'm talking about the human race.
we deny other people their survival, purely because of money.
"The great struggle in life is to be better each and every day.
to make the life of just one person a little better?
Love is but a song to sing.
Fear's the way we die.
You can make the mountains ring.
Just one key unlocks them both.
It's there at you command.
is that we all inhabit this small planet.
let's not choose to be against one another.
Let's choose to be for one another.
My great-great-great grandfather had no choice.
representing the highest ideals of mankind.
is to place ourselves out of harmony with human life.


Toledo, Ohio - Mayor Hicks-Hudson is proud to show support to the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department who are now sending out eight members of the fire department to Houston, Texas to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
These eight members of the fire department are part of the special operations bureau and are highly trained technicians capable of handling the rescue operations that are currently underway in Houston. The Special Operations Bureau oversees the department's technical rescue programs which include our hazardous materials team, confined space team, structural collapse, high-angle rope rescue, dive team, and surface water rescue.
Toledo Firefighters will be deployed for eight days, leaving the city when approval is granted. The Chief Santiago is working with state officials to get the appropriate clearances for our team's departure.
"I am proud of our Toledo firefighters who are taking this step to help our fellow Americans in their time of need. I know they will be exhausted from the work they will be doing but will be completely overjoyed to join the other men and women who are helping those affected by Hurricane Harvey. I, along with the citizens of Toledo, thank these men for making this journey," says Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson.
"The Toledo Fire and Rescue Department is fully prepared to send 8 members that are highly trained and possess a variety of specialized skill sets that are paramount to succeed in this rescue mission. At this point, I have completed the necessary pre-deployment process with the Ohio EMA and we maintain a state of readiness in the event the final authorization comes from the state of Texas thru the Ohio EMA. Understanding the preparation that this team has done thus far and the work they will eventually do, I believe the state of Texas will be well served by this dedicated group of professional firefighters," says Fire Chief Luis Santiago.


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Joseph Philo Bradley (ur. 14 marca 1813 w Berne, zm. 22 stycznia 1892 w Waszyngtonie) – amerykański prawnik.

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Urodził się 14 marca 1813 roku w Berne w stanie Nowy Jork. Ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie Rutgersa, uzyskując w 1836 roku stopień bakałarza, a trzy lata później został przyjęty do palestry. Jako prawnik odnosił sukcesy, reprezentując między innymi Camden & Amboy Railroad. 7 lutego 1870 roku został mianowany sędzią Sądu Najwyższego z nominacji prezydenta Ulyssesa Granta. Jego kandydatura została zatwierdzona przez Senat 21 marca. Cztery lata później rozpatrywał sprawę ataku 40 białych obywateli, którzy zostali oskarżeni o zabójstwo 60 Afroamerykanów podczas wiecu politycznego w Luizjanie. Bradley był zdania, że prawo do pokojowych zgromadzeń, prawo do noszenia broni czy sprawiedliwego procesu nie jest zapewniane przez władze federalne, ale przez władze stanowe. Sąd Najwyższy przychylił się do jego opinii.

Podczas wyborów w 1876 roku głównymi kandydatami byli Samuel J. Tilden (demokrata) i Rutherford Hayes (republikanin). W czasie zliczania głosów z poszczególnych stanów szacowano, że Tilden ma zapewnione 184 głosy elektorskie, podczas gdy Hayesowi przypadało 166. Sytuacja ta oznaczała, że do elekcji demokracie brakowało jednego głosu. Z Karoliny Południowej, Florydy i Luizjany napłynęły dwa różne komplety wyników, od dwóch samorządów. Aby rozstrzygnąć spór, przewodniczący pro tempore Senatu powołał komisję składającą się z pięciu kongresmanów, pięciu senatorów i pięciu członków Sądu Najwyższego (w piętnastoosobowy skład wchodziło 7 demokratów, 7 republikanów i jeden sędzia niezależny – David Davis). Tuż przed rozpoczęciem prac Davis został wybrany do Senatu i ustąpił z komisji. Ponieważ demokraci nie mieli więcej reprezentantów w Sądzie Najwyższym, miejsce Davisa zajął Bradley. Komisja przegłosowała sporne głosy na korzyść Hayesa stosunkiem głosów 8:7. Badacze historii Stanów Zjednoczonych uznali, że Hayesowi słusznie przyznano głosy Karoliny Południowej i Luizjany, lecz niesłusznie otrzymał głosy Florydy, zatem prezydentem powinien zostać Samuel J. Tilden.

W 1883 roku Sąd Najwyższy orzekł niezgodność z amerykańską konstytucją dwóch ustępów ustawy o prawach obywatelskich z 1875 roku, która zakazywała dyskryminacji rasowej w karczmach, środkach transportu publicznego i miejscach rozrywki. Bradley stwierdził, że ustawa była poza kompetencją Kongresu, gdyż XIV poprawka zakazała działań dyskryminacyjnych jedynie stanom, a nie osobom prywatnym. Zmarł w trakcie sprawowania urzędu, 22 stycznia 1892 roku, w Waszyngtonie.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Publikacje Josepha P. Bradleya w serwisie openlibrary.org
 Archiwalia i rękopisy do biografii Josepha P. Bradleya

Sędziowie Sądu Najwyższego Stanów Zjednoczonych
Republikanie (Stany Zjednoczone)
Urodzeni w 1813
Zmarli w 1892

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