Author John Scalzi makes no bones about it:
A fraud was perpetrated by the Hugo administrators: on the Hugo Award voters, on the Chengdu Worldcon membership, and on the science fiction and fantasy community at large.
Infuriating. Glad it’s getting some notice.
Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, started his mill as a family business, later went to seminary. He died last week at the age of 94. At age 80 he started an employee stock ownership plan, and today the company is 100% owned by its 700+ employees. An inspiring obit. [Gift NYT link]
Andrew Thaler writes about the value of doing what he calls “weird little projects”. This post walks through him making a D20 die that announces your roll and laughs at you if you roll poorly.
A powerful excerpt from Sante’s book today on LitHub.
Scientists recently discovered a nearly kilometer-long wall about 6 miles off the German Baltic coast. It’s currently 60 feet underwater, but scientists believe that it was built in a lake or marsh sometime before 8000 BCE. Wild.
California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter, in a debate in her race for the Senate seat last night, suggested that presidential age limits should maybe be a thing. It drives me bonkers that Porter, age 50, is running as a candidate for “generational change” over the 70- and 80-somethings that largely populate the Senate. Meanwhile, 30- and 40-somethings are world leaders in other countries. Something’s gotta change.
This year seemed like the year of old TV stars in commercials. I’d be hard pressed to pick a favorite (or to remember them all in the first place), but this one for Dunkin was memorable.
Maybe it was just overshadowed by the Super Bowl, but I have seen almost nothing about this out on social media. A woman with a small child walked into Joel Osteen’s church yesterday afternoon carrying a long gun. Law enforcement personnel on the scene killed her. Tragic.