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My Hugo Awards ballot (2015): So much drama
This was the year Coart & I decided we’d take the plunge and pay our membership fee to WorldCon so we could vote in the annual Hugo Awards. So of course this was also the year the Hugos exploded in a brilliant display of obnoxious politicization. The Hugo Award is distinctive in being a fan-determined…
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Sunsets, artistry, life…. nothing really to see here.
Man, it’s been awhile. Sorry ’bout that. Then again, it’s summer. And what is summer but for relaxing, going to the beach, reading books, and seeing horrible news stories about racism and death. Oh wait…. It’s been a rough month with the Mother Emanuel murders, the ongoing burning and vandalism of black churches in South…
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How the Internet Has Brought Us Too Close Together (and the Wisdom of Trolls)
If we are to encourage a healthier Internet culture of discourse, I submit that we may need to make a half-turn towards the trolls, away from the non-differentiated culture of the reactive masses in the social Internet the corporations and the massification of the Internet have formed for us. We need contexts that are less…
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Link: Helicopter parenting is increasingly correlated with college-age depression and anxiety.
The data emerging about the mental health of our kids only confirms the harm done by asking so little of them when it comes to life skills yet so much of them when it comes to adhering to the academic plans we’ve made for them. Really. This has got to stop. And not just “everybody…
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