Fun fact, when we started, we weren't given proper work PCs. We all just had chromebooks cause it was assumed that's all we needed. We eventually got PCs with graphics cards that weren't compatible with any of our software.

I loved @natania.bsky.social's point abt difference historically between having a few expensive hand-drawn maps, vs. "if you have a printing press, now you have 3,000 maps and that person's worldview makes more of a claim on reality than before." Esp vital w/ resource maps, fashion, food. #WorldCon

If you want to know who has power in a society, one way to find out is to ask: whose feelings are enough, in and of themselves, to prompt a policy response?

"Chasing reviews is a waste of time. Reviews don't beget sales. Sales beget reviews."
Matt Dinniman

#writing #Worldcon

and here's David Mamet revealing that getting snubbed by Terry Gross is what radicalized him into conservatism