The 2023 Hugo Awards in China Were Probably Not a Great Idea
Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao were deemed ineligible for works that are “sensitive” to China.
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Category: Politics
Who’s Planning Our Extraterrestrial Diplomacy?
One day humans may meet an extraterrestrial civilization for the first time. What do we do? Is anyone thinking seriously about this?
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Hollywood Actors, Writers On Strike For Survival
For the first time in 7 decades the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) has joined the Writer’s Guild (WGA) in striking the major studios and streamers.
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Court Orders Disney to Pay Its Workers a Living Wage
An appellate ruling requires The Walt Disney Company to comply with a 2018 City of Anaheim voter initiative establishing a higher living wage for more than 25,000 Disneyland-area workers.
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Kerry Thornley: Dwarf Planet Eris, Discordianism, and the John F. Kennedy Assassination
Kerry Thornley was the one person in the history of the world who cofounded a religion, wrote a book about Lee Harvey Oswald before the Kennedy assassination, got investigated for it, and posthumously influenced the naming of a planet. He would have been 85 today.
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Disney Circumvents DeSantis’ Takeover Attempt
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tried to take away Walt Disney World’s control over its own lands. It’s not going well.
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Baen Books Publisher Toni Weisskopf Uninvited as GoH at 2021 WorldCon
In its entire eighty-plus year history, no Worldcon has ever removed someone as a Guest of Honor. There’s a first time for everything.
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Woman in Motion: How Lt Uhura Changed NASA
“What is change in society? A change is – you cannot even imagine a world any other way.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson, about Nichelle Nichols changing the course of history of space flight.
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