Authors Should Care About The 2023 Hugo Awards
A report was recently released on File770 and the Genre Grapevine that begins to hint at what happened with eligible works being left off the 2023 Hugo Awards ballot. At best it looks like the committee exercised self-censorship so as not to run afoul of China’s...
New Email Requirements for 2024. Are you ready?
Google recently announced some changes to its email service in regards to what it will consider spam and how it will handle those emails. Yahoo mail has followed suit. And while both services are billing this as a new for 2024 feature–and it’s true that...
NPR has shown that it’s okay to leave X
I admit that I’ve been hesitant to leave X. I’m also not going to lie that I’ve been advocating for it, and I believe that if you remain active on the platform then you’re indirectly supporting the hate and hatred that seems to have taken over...
Twitter is removing the ability to block. Here’s what it means.
An August 18th Tweet (Xeet?) from the current owner of Twitter/X confirmed what we’d all feared. Blocking would be taken away as a feature, further allowing Twitter/X to platform hate and spew propaganda at its remaining users. As a personal and a business...
