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Weekend Reading: The Annual End Times Edition Jason B. Jones April's almost done, y'all. I know this is the busiest time of the academic year, for good reasons and bad, but I hope that everyone's able to find a few minutes to recover a little bit this weekend as the chaos builds. The #PurpleSyllabus, hosted at the U of Minnesota Libraries, is a thing of wonder. A new-to-me site that's really great is Ravynn Stringfield's Black Girl Does Grad School, which is almost exactly what it says on the tin: a set of posts describing, reflecting, and analyzing life/work as a grad student at William & Mary by Ravynn and others. A recent post on overcoming the urge to quit is both honest and practical: Sometimes, you just fall into a funk and the only thing you can do is wait it out. I've written about how I journal, get organized and meal prep to make myself feel better, but occasionally, it just isn't enough. If you discover that what you need is time, I hope that you have friends and family who are patient enough to weather the storm with you and they will continuously remind you that this, too, shall pass. Sophia Carter-Khan does the important work of reminding us that everything glorious about internet culture is problematic: We're used to interacting with memes as if they are free from the detritus of heavier, offline cultural moments: a flash in the pan meme doesn't usually bear too much scrutiny. That's not to say we don't know that memes or moments of internet celebrity can quickly become morally reprehensible, something to stay away from. We even have a term for this now: "milkshake ducking." Josh Schimel explains how writing a useful manuscript review is like triage: When you are asked to review a manuscript, the first question you must address is the triage question: is this paper salvageable? Can it reach a level of "health" that it would be appropriate to publish in the journal following a reasonable investment of time and energy on the part of the editorial and review team? Any time I start to think, well, maybe Microsoft isn't *so* bad, they go about reminding people that they are resolutely committed to evil: I don't know how I can make this any more clear. Right now a man is going to prison for 15 months because these judges didn't understand basic concepts of the modern software ecosystem. Janelle Monáe released her new record Dirty Computer today, and because very occasionally the world is kind she also put out an "emotion picture" full-length video to accompany it: In this week's bonus video, why not give Frank Turner's "Make America Great Again" a try? Photo "weekend" by Flickr user Janine / Creative Commons licensed BY-ND-2.0 RSS to Email Formatted