Some links relevant to the new normal:

Rules for Survival in an Autocracy. Trump is the first candidate in memory who ran not for president but for autocrat-and won.

Anil Dash on what to do now.

Ask MetaFilter has a thread on knowing the warnings for when you need to cut your losses and run. (This is where I got the previous link ( Read more... )

... just sleeping. And running. And looking for work. And dog-sitting. And so forth.

Some of these links are a little dated, but if I don't post them now they won't get posted at all.

Connie Britton is even more awesome than you thought. She's teamed up with Planned Parenthood to offer a What Would Tami Taylor Do? t-shirt to fund PP programs ( Read more... )

In the Bay Area, we call this the casual carpool; it sounds less unsavory than "slugging". And cool, I found the Bay Area casual carpool forum! (Four years after I stopped needing it, ah, well.)

The Morning News (which I used to read regularly and then somehow forgot about) on identity on the internet.

Also on TMN, a nice piece on libraries and ( Read more... )

Some links on Teh Future of Publishing:

SF Signal asks a bunch of people and gets a wide range of responses. I prefer Nick Mamatas', although some of the others are... well, huh. ::cocks head sideways:: Off-kilter, I think, is probably the kindest word for them. (As I told
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Gotta love distributed information-gathering and retrieval. One of the members of the Lost Battalion (as the commenters on TNC's blog are known) has compiled an index of all the Civil War-related posts on Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog over at The Atlantic. If you have any interest in the history of racism in the US, in the ways and hows black Americans ( Read more... )

Sartorial unhappiness: today I wore a grey wool skirt, argyle tights, burgundy patent leather heels, a white t-shirt, and a cranberry cardigan. I was very happy to wear my red shoes, which I so seldom wear, but when I got to work I realized that the heels and the sweater kind of clash. The burgundy and the cranberry not only don't match, they ( Read more... )

Quote of the day:
Being in the middle of doing the work is usually less painful than being in the middle of procrastinating.

(Which means, I think, that I should close this browser and go back to the report I was reviewing.)

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Paleobotanists looking at fossils of plants 22 million years old. coolness ( Read more... )

Noted for later reading:

Scientific American on the benefits of modern technology over paleolithic times.

NY Times has a piece on what happens to your online identity when you're dead.

Top Ten Must-Reads in the law from 2010. (Courtesy of one of the Buffistas.)

The Rise of the New Global Elite.

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NPR's Monkey See wants you all to stop ( Read more... )

Quote of the day: You cannot defeat Fate with scaffolding.

Ursula LeGuin is one of my heroes. I hate disagreeing with her. But I disagree with her here, even though I haven't seen the movie yet. Shakespeare's been dead for four centuries: I think it's okay to re-imagine his work now, especially since if you don't like Helen Mirren as Prospero, ( Read more... )

What better way to start the year's first linkspam than with a new baby animal? And I am impressed: I have never ever heard of a potto.

Courtesy of The Big Picture: Happy New Year!

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In other news, I saw my first Trucknuts on New Year's Day. I am not sure what kind of an omen for the year that is...

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Abigail Nussbaum wrote up her best and ( Read more... )