SPECIAL NOTE: Fanac the Fan History Project has numerous collections of material for those voting on the Retro Hugo Awards
SOCIAL
It’s Not Time For Joe (we include this here because it addresses issues of inappropriate touching, sexual harrassment and related concerns)
Too Dumb to recognize Facism when you see it? No, but Americans have been lulled into discounting it
Hooray for Katie Bouman ‘Steeley Eyed Missile Woman’ (the EHT team member’s algorithm helpied image the M87 black hole; she’s been taking MRA & Incel hits) and Colleagues Defend Bouman
NYT releases series of articles on data privacy
Georgetown Students Vote Yes for Reparations
ENTERTAINMENT
You know, asking Captain Marvel where she’s been all this time is…well, watch the clip
The Future of Black Science Fiction wonders ‘what if the Avengers had launched in the 90s?’
Animated Addams Family Trailer (to be clear, it’s a trailer for the show, not their new home)
New Avengers: End Game Trailer (also to be more clear, it is a new trailer for Avengers: End Game, not a trailer for the New Avengers)
Retro Biography: Jonathan Harris – aka – Dr. Smith
More Retro and a Different ‘Doc’ Smith
INDUSTRY
Shut Down Your Patreon Account: It’s a rights grab
Michael BIshop notes a sad anniversary
Amazon has new rules for reviews, Better check them out
SP Somtow is close to funding his Mall World books reprint
Lisa Yazik (who once invited me for a Q&A with her SF class) continues to make her mark, receiving a Distinguished Researcher Award. And Dollars.
Correction: The Event Horizon DID take images of a black hole
Lawrence M. Schoen resigns from SFWA Board of Directors (see File 770 news from fandom for some small additional details)
Adam-Troy Casto GoH of Oasis con
Nora Jemisin reveals Far Sector comic and cover
Rob Latham’s anthology of SF Criticism is released
SCIENCE
人猿星球的崛起 – that’s Google Translate’s version of Rise of the Planet of the Apes in ‘simplified Chinese’. Here’s the headline: Chinese scientists put human genes into monkey brains and YES, the monkeys are smarter
Water World? The UN’s solution to climate change is Water World? (I bet the Chinese are working on genetically enhanced gill men too)
Multi-coverage of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Commercial Launch: Space X and Veteran’s Space Report
