[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• D-Brief engages with the refusal of Elon Musk to acknowledge that there is not enough carbon dioxide on Mars, in any form, to make terraforming with indigenous resources viable.


• The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas thinks of one category of moments, of the last time one does something.


• Hornet Stories notes the role that trans hacker Emma Best played in leaking Wikileaks' internal chats, and Julian Assange's transphobia demonstrated in his response.


• JSTOR Daily shares some texts and photos linked with summertime available on their archive.


• Language Hat celebrates its 16th anniversary blogging. Congratulations!


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money imagines what might have happened had the United States not developed the Tomahawk missile.


• Lingua Franca interviews two Puerto Ricans who attended university in Spain, and what they took from their experiences studying in that country.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution shares what he thinks is a realistic worst-case scenario for the United States' decline, of productivity never recovering and technology never producing its promised emancipatory potential.


• The NYR Daily reports on the latest regarding the investigations into Trump. What did he know, and when did he know it?


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel talks about the steps one would need, as an aspiring iconoclast scientist, to disprove an established scientific theory.


• Van Waffle gives high praise to a book offering advice on creative lifestyles, Creating A Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd.