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WASHINGTON—Alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration, millions of fearful Americans have already begun stockpiling facts before the federal government comes to take them away, sources confirmed Friday. “I know my rights as an American, so you’d better believe I’m getting my hands on as many facts as possible and keeping them somewhere safe where this First Amendment–hating president of ours can’t snatch them all up,” said Pittsburgh resident David Edelman, 38, adding that he was worried that President Trump planned to not only suspend production of facts, but also seize existing ones, leaving Americans and their families completely defenseless. “The minute I saw Trump, I knew he was someone who didn’t grow up around facts or the kind of folks who use facts. Well, the founding fathers cherished my right to possess facts, and they’d be rolling in their graves if they knew the Feds were going to bust in and try to steal our facts in the middle of the night.” A spokesperson for the Trump administration dismissed such fears, saying that the president merely wanted to keep facts away from certain dangerous people.

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Steve Ditko

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es·cha·tol·o·gy ˌeskəˈtäləjē/ noun noun: eschatology the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind. Origin mid 19th century: from Greek eskhatos ‘last’ + -logy.

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Harvard Blue Book: peace in our time?

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, “Readers may recall a long-simmering dispute over the use of common abbreviations required in citations, a technical standard known as the Uniform System of Citation. One explanation of that standard is a manual every law student knows, The Bluebook, long published by the Harvard Law Review Association in cooperation with 3 other law schools.”

In 2014, a law professor in Japan wrote about 5 years of frustration trying to gain the blessings of the Harvard Law Review Association to use those abbreviations in open source software. Since then, I’ve been working with Chris Sprigman of NYU on an open implementation of that standard. The Blue Wars got even more intense this Christmas eve with an urgent communication from the Association’s law firm, and then last month hundreds of law students from Harvard, Yale, NYU, and Stanford wrote petitions to the Blue People urging them for them to welcome free and open.

That open implementation, a book we call Baby Blue’s Manual of Legal Citation, is now online and has been extensively examined and revised. Yesterday, I submitted a detailed account of the Blue Wars to the Harvard Law Record, the student newspaper of Harvard Law School. My hope is that peace is at hand and we’ll all be able to work together and gather in a big tent for the First Global Citation Congress. It is time for peace.

I’m especially grateful to Mr. Michael Zuckerman, the new President of the Harvard Law Review Association for his patience and civility in our discussions over the last few weeks. He’s a good guy and I appreciate the time he’s spent going over their concerns. We didn’t make all the changes they suggested, but we made many, and I look forward to working with him in the future as we explore the future of citation.

https://boingboing.net/2016/03/22/harvard-blue-book-peace-in-ou.html

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“Know Your Feminisms”–a book list “essential for understanding the history of feminism and the women’s rights movement”–could easily be used in a Feminism 101 course. It runs chronologically, beginning with these ten volumes (the quoted descriptions come from Lynn Lobash): A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929). “This essay examines the question of whether a woman is capable of producing work on par with Shakespeare. Woolf asserts that ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'” The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1949). “A major work of feminist philosophy, the book is a survey of the treatment of women throughout history.” The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963). “Friedan examines what she calls ‘the problem that has no name’ – the general sense of malaise among women in the 1950s and 1960s.” Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig (1969). “An imagining of an actual war of the sexes in which women warriors are equipped with knives and guns.” The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970). “Greer makes the argument that women have been cut off from their sexuality through (a male conceived) consumer society-produced notion of the ‘normal’ woman.” Sexual Politics by Kate Millett (1970). “Based on her PhD dissertation, Millett’s book discusses the role patriarchy (in the political sense) plays in sexual relations. To make her argument, she (unfavorably) explores the work of D.H Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Sigmund Freud, among others.” Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984). “In this collection of essays and speeches, Lorde addresses sexism, racism, black lesbians, and more.” The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1990). “Wolf explores “normative standards of beauty” which undermine women politically and psychologically and are propagated by the fashion, beauty, and advertising industries.” Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (1990). “Influential in feminist and queer theory, this book introduces the concept of ‘gender performativity’ which essentially means, your behavior creates your gender.” Feminism is for everybody by bell hooks (2000). “Hooks focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and the sociopolitical.”

11 Essential Feminist Books: A New Reading List by The New York Public Library via Open Culture

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Crude Oil Price History Chart

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Have a look at this Google Doc to see all 944 genres listed. Not all of them may be available since we may not have all genres of music yet but you should be able to find the majority of them. (via https://news.spotify.com/us/2009/03/24/spotify-genres-the-full-listing/)