The personal blog of Jay Garmon: professional geek, Web entrepreneur, and occasional science fiction writer.
The winner for Best Related Work is @jeannette_ng's “2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech”. You can watch it here: https://t.co/XHlFXvnsvU #HugoAwards
— Andrew Liptak (@AndrewLiptak) August 1, 2020
About the same time, I heard a visiting lecturer, an anthropologist, use a term I was unfamiliar with: multinational corporations. She used it as the answer to: What would nonhuman aliens regard as Earth’s dominant life form?
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 29, 2020
If it seems like a tweet that's too easy to dunk on, it's probably that way by design.
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) July 29, 2020
Feeling Tired and Alone? You Might Be Suffering From Being Alive
— nicky the friendly shark (@mostlysharks) July 28, 2020
Being an author means some readers cry when they meet you, but the people in your every day life assume you're not very successful.
— Jaye Wells (@jayewells) July 27, 2020
This is a very funny sentence, and near maximum levels of Marvel. pic.twitter.com/mijDjxFoDc
— David Harper (@slicedfriedgold) July 21, 2020
I still think about the kid who said that Fight Club is a bizarre movie to understand here in 2020 because it's about a bunch of white cishet men who are mad that they have jobs and can afford to shop at IKEA.
— Kameron Hurley (@KameronHurley) July 20, 2020
I want to make sure I have this right.
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) July 20, 2020
The GOP argument in America, right now, is that state-sanctioned violence against people does not justify violence against property, but violence against property absolutely justifies state-sanctioned violence against people.
Good talk.
Imagine what a man like John Lewis could’ve done for us all if he hadn’t needed to use his whole life to fight for something as simple as fairness.
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) July 18, 2020
We are never going to get “back to normal.” Recovery from the immediate disaster will take long enough that the ordinary pressures of history will transform the world into something new. Longing for the world of January 2020 is as pointless as wanting to bring back the 1950s.
— David D. Levine (@daviddlevine) July 15, 2020
Picard strategy tip: Make it a habit to try to gain new allies, not just new enemies.
— Picard Tips (@PicardTips) July 14, 2020
As a kid I wanted to write comic books and/or direct movies
— Jay Garmon (@jaygarmon) July 14, 2020
Started college expecting to become an archaeologist
25 years later I run product development for a software startup https://t.co/a4857gQDD3
— Joshua Kozak (@CoachKozak) July 14, 2020
The #TNG cast celebrating @SirPatStew’s 80th the socially distanced way. pic.twitter.com/eXZZOmWGcZ
— Marina Sirtis (@Marina_Sirtis) July 14, 2020
I love seeing quotes about “the media” hating someone and being united in some effort to get him or her. We don’t even like each other.
— Mark Ennis (@MarkEnnis) July 14, 2020
There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
— Moby Dick (@MobyDickatSea) July 14, 2020
Did the surgeon general just tell us that the US can’t mandate a nationwide mask order because police are incapable of enforcing it without killing black people?
— Stephanie Clay 🐝 (@_StephanieClay) July 13, 2020
That is a stunning admission from our national leadership. Absolutely stunning. https://t.co/gPhq2YAW5x
I think Twitter vastly overestimates how many people like or care about sports.
— Keith Wynne (@Keith_Wynne) July 14, 2020
As ring stories go, this one has an eye-popping last act: https://t.co/2X4tdXjTSe
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 12, 2020
"Intelligence is not the measure of how much we know how to do, but of how we behave when we don't know what to do. It has to do with our ability to think up important questions and then find ways to get useful answers." --John Holt
— Laurent Parenteau (@laurent_parente) July 12, 2020
Boober Fraggle sums up 2020 so far. pic.twitter.com/MtXoL27rDL
— Muppet History (@HistoryMuppet) July 12, 2020
a lot of dystopian movie plots are just what would happen if white people were suddenly oppressed the way everyone else is
— Becca O'Neal 🍒🍒 (@becca_oneal) July 12, 2020
A comprehensive follow-up study of Italian Covid patients shows that after 60 days only 12% are fully recovered.
— COVID Perspective (@covidperspectiv) July 11, 2020
55% have 3+ symptoms, 44% have worse quality of life.
This reinforces what we already know - this is not about 'not dying', it's much more.https://t.co/EibYxDRuJ6
"Cancel culture" is something that does not exist but is a very popular concept among people who do terrible things and don't like being held accountable
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 4, 2020
No amount of clapping or cheering or calling healthcare workers heroes meant a damn thing if you undo all our work with your shitty, irresponsible behavior now.
— Daniel Summers, MD (@WFKARS) July 5, 2020
I think the @Indians’ new name should be the Cleveland Commodores.
— Chris Gehring (@cdgehring) July 5, 2020
Reason: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led the US Navy to win the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812 and his battle flag is this famous one.
Please and thank you. pic.twitter.com/kzRyXyTzN0
America stopped being able to differentiate between "Freedom" and "you're not the boss of me" and that's why we can't get any sense of national unity on something as unifying as fighting a pandemic.
— Nash Across the 8th Dimension (@Nash076) July 4, 2020
something I personally think is nuts is that the field of criminology produced a ton of research in the 80s and 90s showing that anti-violence social norms are the most potent form of crime control -- community self regulation -- but criminology remains focused on police/prisons
— jon ben-menachem (@jbenmenachem) July 3, 2020
Citizens United was decided 10 years ago. https://t.co/9CEYAZdcar
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) July 1, 2020