[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling points to a Tumblr-sponsored symposium of Tumblr art.


• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin wonders if the American right's influence is now ebbing.


• Eastern Approaches documents the latest, disappointing round of cross-border Hungarian-Romanian competition over Transylvania and its peoples.


• Far Outliers' Joel points to an interesting essay by Andrei Lankov suggesting that, irrespective of foreign sponsorship or not, the Communist revolution in North Korea genuinely was popular.


• A Fistful of Euros' Brent Whelan hopes for a victory by the left in Italy's elections tomorrow.


• Maximos blogs about kayaking and sharks in the harbour of Sydney, Australia.


• Patrick Cain has a fun infographic charting the components of birth rates in Ontario from 1990 on.


• At Towleroad, Ari Ezra Waldman discusses coming out as HIV-positive and its political import.


• Eugene Volokh notes the arrest of some Christian missionaries in Libya.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian commentator, Vladislav Inozemtsev, who argues that the Russian government is fine with allowing immigration from the near abroad and is uninterested in making investments to improve productivity.