[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?


• Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.


• Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.


• JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.


• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.


• The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.


• Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.


• Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.


• Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.