Hey, my apologies for referencing a disco song, but as much as I like Yngwie Malmsteen, I won’t subject you to “Now Your Ships Are Burned.” Anyway, Jon Del Arroz writes on blacklists [http://delarroz.com/?p=856&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=gplus], the need to make others aware of them, and more importantly , the need to, as Vox would put it, to develop alternate platforms. More to the point, to forge forth and not look back. > It all comes down to blackballing again. And here’s where I call…
And pull out some wrongthink [http://badnovelist.com/giveaways/wrongthink-sci-fi-giveaway/]. (Hat tip to Brian Niemeier [http://www.brianniemeier.com/2017/04/wrongthink-sci-fi-giveaway.html]) > The Wrongthink Sci-Fi Giveaway is about showcasing authors who have been marginalized by the gatekeepers of the sci-fi publishing industry for the sin of not complying with progressive social justice dogma. From Sarah Hoyt, who was accused of racism and ”internalized misogyny” for her association with t…
OK. So Eric Raymond posted on a document on rogue waves on youtube, then followed up with a posting at his blog [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7506] referencing that documentary and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. First, the BBC special. Being reporters I think they got some of the math terms wrong, but… there’s enough here to make you go hmmm…. Rogue waves are considered one of the possible reasons for the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald [https://infogalactic.com/info/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Rogu…
I was catching up on Stefan Molyneux’s call in show via podcast, and question 6 of the April 5 podcast (available here [http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3647/the-nice-virus-call-in-show-april-5th-2017]) was from a man who’d been dragged to the US as a child and illegal alien, and had moved back to Mexico, discussing his alienation. All in all it’s a damned interesting conversation, but Stefan dug out a metaphor that really hit home for me personally. He pointed out that even in the “good” cases, yo…
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