[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• anthro{dendum} hosts Alexia Maddox's essay on her experience doing ethnographic work on Darknet drug markets.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about how the creative life, contrary to some imaginings, is not self-sustaining. It desperately needs external support--an outside job, perhaps.


• Bruce Dorminey writes about how the climate of Chile, especially the Atacama, is perfect for astronomy.


• JSTOR Daily shares a paper talking about how Alexander Pushkin, the 19th century Russian author, was demonstrably proud of his African ancestry.


• Language Hat links to a new article on rongorongo, the mysterious and undeciphered script of the Rapa Nui of Polynesian Easter Island.


• Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle, notes in passing the oddness of restrictions imposed by customs in Chile on taking ordinary books into the country.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a bizarrely parochial article from the New York Times talking down to Los Angeles.


• The Map Room Blog links to some interesting articles, from The New York Times recently and from the Atlantic in 2012, about the art of gerrymandering.


• The NYR Daily looks at the import of the Nunes memo for Trump and Russian-American relations.


• Roads and Kingdoms considers the simple pleasures of a snack featuring canned fish by the beach in Mallorca.


• Drew Rowsome quite approves of this year's gay romance film Sebastian, set here in Toronto.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, contrary to predictions, most satellite galaxies orbit in the same plane as their hosts. This is a problem for dark matter.
Towleroad notes that some are lobbying Amazon not to locate its HQ2 in a city without human rights protections for LGBT people.