Dave Wallace
@dewtell.bsky.social
I started going to Worldcons for the Business Meeting
Today, the Worldcon Business Meeting voted an extra year of Hugo eligibility to Henry Bean's "The Event", due to very limited distribution within the Worldcon community last year. So it will be eligible for next year's Hugos. It's a remarkable story: jewishcurrents.org/the-event
The Event
“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”
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Important thread on media challenge these days. Figuring out how to overcome this in today's media environment is a big challenge.
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3mo agoI can tell you from experience that of people actually read and shared stories about Trump and crypto, more people would know. The stories are written. And ignored.
This is an enraging, heartbreaking story.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY. In the middle of February. A mile from a home where he no longer lived. While his relatives were searching for him. Cops found his body 5 days later www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
In a world where @bretdevereaux.bsky.social doesn't yet have a TT position, Savage has nothing to complain about. Bret does a much better job of diagnosing the real problem here: bsky.app/profile/bret... And Bret has shown how a real military historian can teach 50k weekly subscribers about Rome etc
Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8mo agoI am BEGGING you all to stop sharing that bullshit Compact Mag piece on the white dude who didn’t get hired by Brown because he was too RETVRN about the Roman military. The writer is a full time ticket scalper who has one beat: white-man grievance. $20 says the whole article is a work of fiction.
"We will cure cancer in 100 days" would also be pretty popular if people thought you could do it. But unless you have a plan for how Dems can sweep 21 of the 22 GOP Senate seats up for election in mostly deep red states, or get a bunch of GOP Senators to go along, it isn't any more realistic.
I'm at the 62nd Design Automation Conference today in San Francisco. This is one of the premier conferences for software that helps chip designers design better chips. I noticed something about the authors of the 32 technical papers I picked to read. 1/n
Heh. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social just finished a series on the stuff that's wrong with the portrayal of the opening battle of Gladiator, including Maximus's name (like the battle, it looks superficially authentic, but doesn't fit the way the Romans actually did stuff). acoup.blog/2025/06/20/c...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III
This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II, III) look at the iconic opening battle scene from the film Gladiator (2000). Last time, we brought …
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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
Trans rights are human rights, even if the current Supreme Court doesn't recognize that. I'll be checking with a trans pastor I know to see what trans-positive charities she can recommend to add to our giving list over the next few years.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2y agoMy guess is that a lot of trans people will be feeling a ton of stress and worry over SCOTUS today. If you are a cis person, quote this and say why you support trans people and what you are willing to do to support us if the government comes for us.
A Quora question gives me a chance to explain the "231 method" for determining if a number with lots of digits is divisible by 7: www.quora.com/How-can-I-ch...
How can I check if a number is divisible by 7 when the number has 1,000 or more digits?
David Wallace's answer: I came up with a method I call the “231 method,” which I’m sure others must have come up with previously. It’s based on the fact that 1000=-1, 100=2, 10=3, and 1=1 (mod 7). Thi...
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Reposted from X, Aug 2022: I've never kept a diary. But I've just prepped a bunch of financial records from the 80s and 90s for shredding, and I see fragments of my life in the check records. My rent on my 1st grad school room ($133/month). The camera I bought to document my move to Berkeley. 1/n
This would be a DM to @smarier.bsky.social if Bluesky had DMs. I've got a friend who would like to host a SFF film festival some day. Don't know how much he knows the nuts and bolts. I've pointed him to Worldcon as an example. Can you say anything about what Seattle (or Glasgow) is doing for film?
