SOCIAL
UN Secretary General Issues Red Alert
CDC Offers Fallout Shelter Advice
It Outta Be A Law…and it IS in Iceland: Illegal to Pay Men More Than Women
Button Size Has Now Been Politicized; Colbert Weighs In
Related:
(Amazing Stories HQ Acquires Earth Moving Equipment, Planning to Invest in Used Shipping Containers; Welcome to my childhood Cold War)
On the Media Profession and Being Invisible (via Pretty Terrible)
Should Intolerance be Tolerated?
SPECIAL ‘BANNED FROM WORLDCON’ SECTION
(Editor’s Note: While there are “two sides to every story”, I’ve not been able to link to any articles that support the party in question for the very simple fact that they all engage in blatant distortions of reality. They’re there, and of course you are free to check them out, but you’ll have to do your own searches.)
WorldCon 76 Official Statement
File 770 Discusses (Read the comments, set aside some time)
A General Discussion on the General Topic
ENTERTAINMENT
Things You Missed in The Last Jedi
Frankenstein (and his monster) are 200 Years Old
Colbert Endorses “Fake News” Awards
Giant Steampunk Cities Eat Smaller Steampunk Cities
Dark Worlds Quarterly 3 (free)
Why We Won’t Find Space Vampires
Black Mirror Does Star Trek; comments on “Toxic Masculinity”
INDUSTRY
NYRSFR Presents Sunny Morraine & Brooke Bolander
Spotify Hit with Huge Infringement Suit. Implications for Copyright
Campaign To Reverse Net Neutrality Decision
Lindsay Lohan Sues Grand Theft Auto; Authors Guild Files Amicus Brief Supporting GTA
Hulu’s Re-animation of Animaniacs will include Pinky and the Brain
SCIENCE
NASA Mourns “Busiest Astronaut” John Young
Get a Real Broken Arm Riding These Real Hoverboards
Fermi Paradox Redux Redux (Drake, Brin, Kurzweil, Bostrom, more)
Alien Megastructure is Just Dust (so they say)
De-orbiting Chinese Space Hab Not Dust
