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Every Coronavirus Link Is Immediately Out of Date: A Links Round-Up

WELL my friends, we are now a full month into full coronavirus pandemic mode, and I hope that you are all hanging in there. Have we all sort of recognized that we’re going to be inside until the end of May? That’s how I’m reading the situation, but please weigh in if you feel differently. I know officially the end of April is when this stops, but like. Will it? No. Probably not. I am having my toddler godson over to my house later today to PARTY PARTY PARTY, and our agenda includes playing on my main bed, which goes…

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More Harassment Links than I Would Prefer: A Links Round-Up

No lie: I was looking at the bottom of this links round-up and thinking that it was pretty smart of me to corral all the harassment and assault writing in one big paragraph. Then I scrolled back up to the top and realized there were more harassment links because APPARENTLY nobody can just OBSERVE APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES. I sure love boundaries, y’all. Here are some links. Some contain harassment; I wish they did not but if wishes were fishes, eh? A personal account from a former teaching assistant to Avital Ronell, the NYU professor accused of harassment. The brilliant Carol Anderson…

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Down with the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Links Round-Up

So one of my random but intense opinions is that the Stanford Prison Experiment and its creator, Philip Zimbardo, are unethical as shit and also bad science. If you get me started on the Stanford Prison Experiment, I can expostulate for a good twenty minutes on everything that was wrong with it and how infuriating it is that it continues to garner its unethical creator praise and fame and money. Good, ethical scientists exist! Give them a movie deal, damn! Anyway, here’s a quick run-down on the Stanford Prison Experiment and its many problems. I’m so excited this is in…

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