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• Mister_DK commented on Hugos, 2022
  With the Hugos / Raytheon connection, well, kinda seems like the Hugos are something better boycotted now. Even setting aside Covid risks, Raytheon does objectively more harm than, say, the Sad Puppies....
• Charlie Stross commented on Hugos, 2022
  With the Hugos / Raytheon connection, well, kinda seems like the Hugos are something better boycotted now. That was a one-off. The Hugos ceremony costs money to put on, and usually someone or other sponsors it -- frequently the big five publishers. Apparently the concom got badly burned over the Raytheon thing and the current worldcon are alert to double-check the sponsors this year. (Remember, each worldcon is run by a committee independent of past and future events: it has to be, the whole thing moves around, often internationally, every year.)...
• Robert Prior commented on Hugos, 2022
  I made a (masked) weekly supermarket trip. In my normal store, about 70% of the staff were masked, down from 100%; and about 60-70% of the shoppers, down from 90%. (They trend elderly and scared, which is why I go there.) We have an election in early June, so of course public health protections were dropped here, along with testing, and public school boards were forbidden to require masking in schools. I'm currently shopping at a Chinese grocery chain which still requires masks. Last time I was at Loblaws less than half the people there were masked (staff and shoppers),...
• SFReader commented on Hugos, 2022
  Re:'... Omicron mutations similar to BA.2, i.e. more contagious than measles, but in a happy fun twist they've picked up a gene for immune response evasion, meaning the vaccines are less effective at reducing symptoms!' Agree: Don't get complacent! Also - the re-infection rates are climbing among people who'd previously caught an earlier COVID-19 and/or been vaccinated. Saw a story a couple weeks back about someone who was reinfected only 20 days after their first infection. Typically, you'd think that their immune systems would be so fired up that a slightly tweaked version of the same virus wouldn't be able...
• Charlie Stross commented on Hugos, 2022
  Yup! A decade or three ago my approach to new technologies was: what are the unforeseen opportunities this opens up? These days my approach to new technologies is: how can this be deployed for maximum dehumanization and oppression by morally depraved Dark Triad cases in positions of absolute, un-checked power? Because that, sadly, is the way to bet it'll be used....