SOCIAL
Evidence of Russian Influence on FCC’s Net Neutrality Decision
Female Generals in Total War? Review Bomb
A Twitter Series on “Asshole Culture”
D.D. Harriman Issued Restraining Order: May NOT Launch Atomic Moon Shot!
…Elon Musk Fined 20 Million
NOT SURE WHERE TO STICK THIS DEPARTMENT
A Guy Called Daz Reacts to a… bizarre… “educational”… video (some may find disturbing for a host of different reasons)
Puppies and Scientologists Living Together? Over on the website for a certain religious cult’s revered author-god’s publications, a puppy adjacent author sings the praises of a book made into a film starring Scientologists (that ought to be enough clues to find it without linking to it).
ENTERTAINMENT
X-Men Dark Phoenix Reunites Prof X and Magneto
A Profile and Interview with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
PartAY! Bender and Buddy get down
The Dark Side of That’s No Moon (from Judith Dial)
If Alexa Had Been Aboard the Discovery
Lists: Top Comic Book One Shots
Star Trek Next Gen’s Section 31
DareDevil Dies (Dan Dare Doesn’t)
INDUSTRY
Bruce Sterling Defines SF for Britannica (and gets it mostly right!)
TAFF Voting Officially Opens Tomorrow, October 1st
It Doesn’t Hurt To Occassionally Remind Everyone of the Gunn Center For the Study of Science Fiction
If You Are Going to Write About Fantasy Horses – They’re Not Unicorns. Get It Right
If You Want tto Approach the Art of Writing from a Marketing Point of View, This Might Be Your Article – (We do, however, urge you to also listen to Ursula Le Guin’s acceptance speech at the ceremony for the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters – “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words”.)
Ken Liu Writes About Blockchain
SCIENCE
It’s Been a BIG Week for Aliens
More Mysterious Radio Signals From Deep Space
Kids Search for Aliens (none named Eliott)
Matter Cruising at 30% Light Speed
Mini Space Elevator Experiment
First Light From the Parker Solar Probe
Watch Plants Defend Themselves from Insectoid Atttack (Triffids they ain’t)
Spooky Death Skull Asteroid Seen Approaching Earth
Now We Know: Solving an Insoluable Math Problem is Worth One Million Dollars
