Wednesday Links!

* Marquette now requires permission for on-campus protests. An Open Letter Opposed to Marquette U.’s Anti-Demonstration Policy.

Two aspect of Marquette's new protest policy worth noting:
1) All protests must be approved by the administration and in the designated protest era. This recalls the "free speech zones" of the Trump era. Essentially: denude protest of power by hiding it. pic.twitter.com/zh8aG9ztUm

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 28, 2019

* Elsewhere in academics behaving badly: Professors rally behind MIT Media Lab director after Epstein funding scandal.

* The Quantitative Easing of the Humanities.

The dangerous essence of the humanities is loyal criticism of the institutions one serves.

— William Pannapacker (@pannapacker) August 27, 2019

* Most-Expensive 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions, 2018-19. Impressive for Harvey Mudd to be so committed to that last three dollars to tick just over $75,000/year.

* College Board Drops Its ‘Adversity Score’ For Each Student After Backlash.

* New analysis finds that education researchers, unlike scholars in many other disciplines, don’t check one another’s work.

* Academia: A Life.

by @tomgauld pic.twitter.com/FQ3EkVW12M

— New Scientist (@newscientist) August 26, 2019

* The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials.

* I just knew it would be something like this.

* As e-scooters take over Milwaukee streets, other cities reckon with injured riders, scarce helmet use.

* This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost. A Q&A With the Man Who Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Bret Stephens’s “bedbug” meltdown, explained. Who Gets to Speak Freely? Aaron Bady goes all the way back to 2005 for a good old-fashioned blog post.

Rorschach's journal, August 27, 2019: “Time to do what I long ago promised to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deact

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 27, 2019

the thing you have to understand is that university administrations absolutely despise faculty and will gleefully seek out any opportunity to hurt them no matter how petty or embarrassing https://t.co/VZ1b9PotBD

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 27, 2019

* Speaking of the mystery of free speech: Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked.

“When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell them about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all,” he wrote. “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

* Southern California police arrest 3 middle school students for inciting a riot.

* Journalism Is an Action.

* Photos: The Burning Amazon Rainforest. The basic premise of geoengineering is that it will be easier to get the planetary atmospheric and ecological systems to change the way they work than to get the capitalist economy to change the way it works. It is immoral to have climate change in the era of babies. Wildfires and Floods Push Russia to Revise Its Stance on Climate Change. Let’s just spray trillions of tons of snow on Antarctica?

it cost $350 million to make Avengers: Endgame https://t.co/WOdh4fEcxN

— flglmn (@flglmn) August 26, 2019

The US spends $32 million on its wars – per hour. https://t.co/0oetA6fFod

— Amir (@AmirAminiMD) August 26, 2019

That’s what climate change is. https://t.co/ooGMmSbIw7

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 24, 2019

* The Affair, climate change, and the new realism.

* Florida Marine vet teacher on leave after telling students he would ‘be the best school shooter.’

* Bigotry and hate are more linked to mass shootings than mental illness, experts say.

* Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. (A rebuttal.) Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart. Trump Allies Reportedly Set Up Network to Smear Journalists Ahead of Election. He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.

* The Entire Plane of the Milky Way Captured in a Single Photo. Keep scrolling, there’s more!

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* A reading list on alcoholism.

* School Administration Reminds Female Students Bulletproof Vests Must Cover Midriff.

* Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them.

* When your kids start beating you in games.

* Where the candidates campaign. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Understands Democracy Better Than Republicans Do.

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* Congress by the numbers.

* Being Andrew Luck.

* Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products.

* Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh, a county coroner is forced to confirm. He’s in on it.

* Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules.

* Drug prices in 2019 are surging, with hikes at 5 times inflation.

As 1/4 of diabetics ration their insulin to survive, here's how much Pharma execs rake in:

Regeneron: $118M
Merck: $49M
Pfizer: $47M
Johnson & Johnson: $46M
Abbott: $32M
Gilead: $22M
Eli Lilly: $14M

Pharma's greed is as lethal as the diseases they’re supposed to be treating.

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 23, 2019

* The US Created MS-13.

* 2 California towns where chickens have free range.

* Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say.

* A growing army of ‘Airbnb’ police gets paid to expose the addresses of homeshare hosts.

* ‘They’re Putting People at Risk’: Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Inaction at Zeel, the Top Massage App.

* Human-guided burrito bots raise questions about the future of robo-delivery.

* More evidence of YouTube rightwing radicalization. In a study of >79 million YouTube comments, @manoelribeiro et. al. shows that a high % of people who now comment on Alt-Right videos used to comment exclusively on IDW or Alt-lite videos.

* ProPublica found that – despite the TSA saying it is committed to treating all passengers equally and fairly – five per cent of civil rights complaints against the TSA related to the treatment of trans passengers, despite trans people making up less than one per cent of the US population.

* Lots of nerds *think* they like science fiction because of the technology and perditions.

* Marvel Comics Just Retconned the Entire Vietnam War.

* There Are People Who Think The West Invaded Iraq Over a Stargate.

* Mystery Deepens Around Newly Detected Ripples in Space-Time.

* “We are in a mass delusion that it’s all Gary, that he’s the father of role-playing games,” he said. “Humans do not like to admit they’ve been hornswoggled, lied to, cheated, or fooled.”

* We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture. The Campbell Award gets a new name.

* How Do We Colonize the Moon?

* And submitted for your approval: the new culture industry.

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