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I've gone from being scared to being amused by this. Scared because Worldcons literally saved my life - an abusive marriage and there was only a tiny core of the left. Finally my brother said, "You liked conventions and there's this huge one in Chicago. I've paid for everything and you're...

I seem to remember you saying LA wasn't too far from where you live . . .

People are confused because I’ve been confusing, numbers unrelated to other in the same post. And was annoyed enough that I really exaggerated one. I’ll try starting with the structure with the numbers in the right place. Please, please remember that I’m speaking only for myself, and that I’ll...

You're confused because I've been being confusing! Extremely, because I keep mixing things. I'll see about doing it properly when I get my paying work done.

Nope. They dropped out, LA stepped in.

Got to the very, very end then came up to a provide an introduction: My posts belong solely to me and may not be shared in any way or fashon without my permission. Which I usually will. But the second point is chilling. Oh! Once I got down to “we have names” I realized that I’ve been making an...

I spent several hours drafting and editing a post, doing some research for things I'd forgotten, etc. A lot of explanation. What WSFS is, what Worldcons are, all carefully written in service of getting people on the same page, how it boils down to what's basic: There is no they. "They" don't...

That the voting was suspect. China won, fair and square. China wasn't "considered", China bid for a Worldcon. That's the way this works: the only "you" is you and anyone else who wants to bid. I'll add that the voting process wasn't problematic, it was the same voting process as always. I'm...

This needs to be debunked, yet again, to get it out of the way so people can talk. The voting was suspect until the basics were sorted out. It was a problem with translation and how different cultures handled email. A person handling memberships has confirmed that they matched the votes. The...

Thank you for the courtesy, the reason I could calm down. That is exactly what I'm saying. 2023 was a scandal, but it was a one off, the conjunction of a number of things. The administration committee was honorable: they took full responsibility for what happened on themselves, including Dave...

NOTE: People who are being told that they're awful, incompetent, that they and the thousands of people they know or know of are corrupt . . . decades of work, on their own time and own dime, and they don't matter until the one year something doesn't work. They're people. People get hurt. They...

God almighty! Would someone please explain to me why we put ourselves through this? Let's play a LARP: Congratulation! You've just negotiated a 6-figure Convention Center contract! You now have a huge, raw space, football fields of it. Girders three stories above you, concrete floor underneath...

I can still only find that one email thread, where Dave asks people to look for things that might need special attention as well as doing a technical check, and only one of the documents. But I've realized some of the impressions may be from when he lost his temper of Facebook. I didn't bother...

I really, really need to see the rest of those emails! I only have one and thought it was the only one. Do you know where to find them? I also didn't follow all the File 770 threads (I've been ill) and clearly I should have. Thank you. Now that I know I might have been wrong I'll refrain from...

I walked out of the Hugos during an impassioned acceptance speech by a well known author who was so ignorant about his subject he didn't know he was ignorant. He vilified a group of people he knew nothing about. And he totally undid a lot of quiet, calming down in various places all week to heal...

Okay, pulling up what McCarty said: "In addition to the regular technical review, as we are happening in China and the 'laws' [note the quotations] we operate under are different . . . we need to highlight anything of a sensitive political nature in the work" to determine if there's a law...

I've seen the emails the report was ba I'm out of the loop on this - where can I find his videos? I've seen the emails and it was only one thread, McCarthy asked people on his team to flag anything that might require attention. At least in that thread it was concern was for people who'd...

Yup. The Worldcon belong to the fans, fans make the decisions. If you want one in this or that place, with these or those people running it (more obscure) vote. If you want more information first go to the bid tables, usually near Exhibits or something. The voting area isn't far away and folks...

It was excellent writing, insinuating something wrong with those votes, setting readers up with the feeling that no votes can be trusted. Slight problem: they were setting you up with something that isn't true. The truth is pretty boring: the ballot wasn't translated into Chinese perfectly; my...