[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the newly-named Neptune moon of Hippocamp, and how it came about as product of a massive collision with the larger moon of Proteus.


• Centauri Dreams also reports on the discovery of the Neptune moon of Hippocamp.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes how the attempt to revoke the citizenship of Shamima Begum sets a terribly dangerous precedent for the United Kingdom.


• D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting the role of the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions in triggering the Cretaceous extinction event, alongside the Chixculub asteroid impact.


• Far Outliers notes the problems of Lawrence of Arabia with Indian soldiers and with Turks.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the state of philosophical contemplation about technology, at least in part a structural consequence of society.


• Hornet Stories shares this feature examining the future of gay porn, in an environment where amateur porn undermines the existing studios.


• JSTOR Daily considers the spotty history of casting African-American dancers in ballet.


• Language Hat suggests that the Académie française will soon accept for French feminized nouns of nouns links to professionals ("écrivaine" for a female writer, for instance).


• The LRB Blog considers the implications of the stripping of citizenship from Shamima Begum. Who is next? How badly is citizenship weakened in the United Kingdom?


• Marginal Revolution notes the upset of Haiti over its banning by Expedia.


• The NYR Daily notes the tension in Turkey between the country's liberal laws on divorce and marriage and rising Islamization.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the moment, in the history of the universe, when dark energy became the dominant factors in the universe's evolution.


• Towleroad remembers Roy Cohn, the lawyer who was the collaborator of Trump up to the moment of Cohn's death from AIDS.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at Marx's theories of how governments worked.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the existential pressures facing many minority languages in Russia.