[PHOTO] Autumn tree and bike rack by wall and lights, Dupont station

I'm rather fond of this photo that I took Wednesday night, walking east past Dupont station. The light and shadow work for me.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Anthrodendum takes an extended look at sexual harassment in anthropology, drawing from #metoo.


• Crooked Timber considers the so-called Amazon-Facebook-Google "trinet" set to take over from the free Internet.


• Dead Things considers if the Americas could have been populated by early migration down the coast, the "kelp route".


• Samuel Hatmaker's Lego portrait of RuPaul is profiled in Hornet Stories.


• Language Hat considers an untranslatable poem of Pasternak.


• Language Log notes how Manafort's legal team confused "Cyprus" with "cypress".


• Robert Farley of Lawyers, Guns and Money shares an interview of his with the Indian consul-general in Houston on the nature of the latter's work.


• Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution argues blaming Facebook for electoral manipulation overlooks the responsibility of individual voters.


• The NYR Daily notes that the Kurds have paid the price for Trump's dealings with Iran.


• Roads and Kingdoms explores the surprisingly living Central Cemetery of Vienna.


• Drew Rowsome explores the literature of horror writer Robert Sherman.


• Towleroad notes BPM, the Oscar-contending French film about the AIDS crisis in that country.


• Window on Eurasia notes the oddness of a pledge by China to fight illegal migration by Chinese into Russia.