Briefly Noted for 2020-08-03

Clinton Foundation: Administration Alumni Conversation with President Clinton and Secretary Rodney Slater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SG-jcTuV5A: ���Administration Alumni Conversation with President Clinton and Secretary Rodney Slater���

St. Ignatius of Loyola: _Prayer for Generosity https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/prayer/traditional-catholic-prayers/saints-prayers/prayer-for-generosity-saint-ignatius-of-loyola/: ���Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,/Teach me true generosity./Teach me to serve you as you deserve./To give without counting the cost,/To fight heedless of wounds,/To labor without seeking rest,/To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward/Save the knowledge that I have done your will./Amen���

DOL: News Release: Embargoed Until 8:30 A.M. (Eastern) Thursday, July 30, 2020: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf���

FRED: Weekly Unemployment Insurance: Initial Claims https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA#0���

FRED: Weekly Unemployment Insurance: Continued Claims https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCSA���

Lois Parshley: _Covid-19 in Children: A Clearer Picture of Infection & Transmission Risk_ https://www.vox.com/21352597/covid-19-children-infection-transmission-new-studies: ���Six days in, a teenage staff member... tested positive for Covid-19. Eventually, 49 percent of the campers... 19 percent of trainees and 56 percent of staff were infected.... 26 percent of the cases reported no symptoms. A CDC report on the Georgia camp joins a rapidly growing body of desperately needed evidence of how the coronavirus impacts children and young people���

Hoisted from the Archives from 11 Years Ago: Notes: Vernor Vinge's 'A Deepness in the Sky' https://www.bradford-delong.com/2014/04/hoisted-from-the-archives-from-11-years-ago-notes-vernor-vinges-a-deepness-in-the-sky.html: ���[Spoilers]. In Vernor Vinge (1999), A Deepness in the Sky (New York: Tor: 0812536355). On pp. 699-700, a brief paragraph completely reverses your understanding of the progress of the book's main plot���

TV Tropes: Books on Trope https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BooksOnTrope���

W.E.B. DuBois: The Comet https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/story-dubois-comet.pdf���

W.E.B. DuBois: Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/book-dubois-darkwater.pdf���

Jack Williamson: The Legion of Space https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/williamson-legion-of-space-i.pdf https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/williamson-legion-of-space-ii.pdf https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/williamson-legion-of-space-iii.pdf

Party Cards: 5th International; Burkean Conservative; Social Democrat; Neoliberal; Market Socialist https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/%23delong-5th-international-party-card.pdf��https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/%23delong-burkean-party-card.pdf https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/%23delong-social-democrat-party-card.pdf https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/%23delong-neoliberal-party-card.pdf https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/%23delong-market-socialist-party-card.pdf

Wikipedia: Iron Crown of Lombardy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Crown_of_Lombardy���

Randall Munroe: xkcd: Blagofaire https://xkcd.com/239/��� Explain xkcd https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/239:_Blagofaire...

Randall Munroe: xkcd: 1337: Part 5 https://xkcd.com/345/��� Explain xkcd https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/345:_Period_Speech...

Randall Munroe: xkcd: Period Speech https://xkcd.com/771/��� Explain xkcd https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/345:_1337:_Part_5...

Randall Munroe: Cory Doctorow���xkcd https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/03/23/cory-doctorow/���

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@qpheevr: 'Gentle readers of all genders https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1269637114297298946.html.... I crave your indulgence. I���d like to quote a single sentence from someone who is now one of our least favourite fantasy authors, in order to illustrate a scientific fact about language. Here���s the sentence: ������Harry, your eyesight really is awful,��� said Hermione, as she put on glasses���.... The pronoun ���she��� refers anaphorically to Hermione Granger. At this juncture in the narrative... Hermione has just drunk a potion that makes her physical form identical to that of Harry Potter.... Pronouns reflect gender, not reproductive organs.... Hermione is still a girl, even though she���s been ���turned into��� a (specific) boy, because her identity hasn���t changed, and being a girl is part of her identity, not a property of her physical form...

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