Sunday Morning Links!

[image error]Because Saturday Night Links just weren’t enough.

* Catching Up With the Next Generation of Sci-Fi Writers at the Village Voice.

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“We’re 100 percent committed to diversity…Marvel is the world outside your window and we want not only our characters but our creative talent to reflect that world and it hasn’t been an easy road to be honest with you. Going back to the 60s when Marvel were created it was created by a number of white men here in New York City who were working in our studio… But now, we do not have any artists that work in Marvel. All our writers and artists work — are freelancers that live around the world so our talent base has diversified almost more quickly than our character base has.”

* Accountancy used to be boring – and safe. But today it’s neither. Have the ‘big four’ firms become too cosy with the system they’re supposed to be keeping in check? The financial scandal no one is talking about.

* The implications of this authority are breathtaking. Trump, in their view, has unlimited control to open or close any federal investigation. Meanwhile, they keep openly admitting obstruction, and nothing matters.

* During one December 2013 hearing, still available online, Scott questioned an applicant about illegally voting after his release from prison. When the man replied he voted for Scott, the governor chuckled and, seconds later, granted his voting rights.

we talk a lot about fascism on here, but a system where a small group of rich media personalities faint over the insults one member of the ruling class calls another while thousands of people in a colony die of deliberate neglect is just straight-up, like, Bourbon France

— dr. robert “west” world, phd (@JayHClay) May 31, 2018

* I used to be a 911 dispatcher. I had to respond to racist calls every day.

* Families of Four of Eight Students Killed in Santa Fe Shooting Are Suing Gunman’s Parents.

* Hacking the mosquito.

* “The most common complaint I receive from students and faculty members is that we don’t have enough administrators.”

All of the essential admin at universities are engaged in some form of instructional work (student/faculty services, technology, libraries, etc.), or skilled technical and infrastructure work (cleaning, communication, maintenance). It's the presidents like this guy no one needs.

— M.P. (@OmanReagan) June 3, 2018

* “All of the theoretical work that’s been done since the 1970s has not produced a single successful prediction,” says Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. “That’s a very shocking state of affairs.” Say what you will about critical theory in the humanities, it’s predicted just about everything that’s happened since…

* The one thing that we can I think be sure of is that if we get a signal, we will know it’s an artificial signal [and not from an astronomical source]. And then we’ll know that we are not alone. Will we ever be able to understand it? I don’t know. The researchers who study alien linguistics.

* The Soviets’ secret map of Seattle tells a lot about us.

* Itsa me!

* And I’d at least give it a watch.

Dan: “Your mother is dead, Darleen.”

Darleen: “No dad. I can bring her back. As a Robotic Online Synthetic Empathic Android Neural Network Entity.”

Dan: “You mean a—“

[opening titles]

R.O.S.E.A.N.N.E.

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) June 2, 2018

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