In view of the recent blog posts that have filled most of your timelines, I think some measures of mental hygiene are warranted. In times of conflicts, low wages, rampant housing insecurity, riots, a global pandemic, and the all-around destitution of the public sphere, it is important to be aware of how discourse is used, meddled with, and even weaponized.

It still needs to be said that black lives matter. It does. There is no question about it. It is not negotiable.

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No, not Castro. Wish I'd got this out before then, actually.

No, this week, we lost Scott Eric Kaufman, better known as SEK: a great member of the blogosphere, one of the men who helped to legitimize it as a forum academics could participate in, and someone whose life attracted weird shit at every turn.

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