Sorry there’s no more of the great gobs of prose I used to spill out all over these blogs. People have been asking. Alas, epilepsy was really fucking with the long essays, a d I finally had to stop. Had to stop working too. Had to stop just about everything. It’s been a couple years […]
It’s taken a millennium for Arabic numbers—actually Indo-Arabic numbers—to replace Roman numerals, which cling to use in the Anglo-American world, but just barely. Roman numerals we still call them, because numbers were numerals a century ago. But numerals became numbers since then, while Roman numerals remained numerals, stuck a century ago, when they still retained […]
Brick's Politics 
Even the ridiculous and trivial world of science fiction fandom has split apart politically due to the genuinely evil power of social media. The “alt right” folks are constantly harassing what they call Social Justice Warriors, and the Left is doing exactly what the Right wants them to do, by shouting back, banning people from SF conventions, and so on. The Right stages protests against “pedophilia in science fiction fandom” at the World Science Fiction convention, and stages block voting that puts deliberately idiotic works on the Hugo Award. (They got something called “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” nominated, as an example.) The whole thing makes me ashamed to be a fan.
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Well that is thoroughly depressing. This too shall pass, evcntually.
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Appropriately, the SF fandom news site reports on an alt right rally that happened at the Worldcon just now.
http://file770.com/alt-right-rally-outside-worldcon-76-draws-about-40/
So many bizarre details. The anti-pedophilia thing, blocking the bloodmobile, the huge number of cops that had to come out, the German-looking flag with a weird symbol on it, etc.
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Most of the fans I’ve met were alt right types.
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