If, dear reader, you would permit a brief personal digression before I jump into our regular feature? It feels profoundly silly to be writing up the Thursday edition of Links, News, and Notes as so many horrible things are happening in the world. We briefly took a pause this summer at the peak of the BLM protests, and the support of our community here was greatly appreciated. I don’t think it makes sense to take a break again, these are different times and different (if related) issues, but I also cannot shake the banality of the exercise right now.