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Effective Altruism
Effective altruism reading material for busy people is a useful link-list for people who’d like a quick guide to the Effective Altruism (also called EA) movement. Here’s a quote from an EA primer by Scott Siskind, which is included in … Continue reading
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Grace Loves Lioness: a love letter for our anniversary
Recently, Barry let me know that he was travelling, and I wondered if he would be anywhere near me, so that we could meet in person for the first time. And he was going to be, on a particular date! … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett Has Died
Science fiction and fantasy humor writer Terry Pratchett has died. This is not unexpected as he has been ill for some time, but it’s still sad to see the end. As I said on my livejournal: I don’t believe in … Continue reading
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Rachel Swirsky’s Recommendations for 2014 Young Adult & Middle Grade SciFi/Fantasy Novels
So! I’m on the Norton jury this year, which is the jury that’s responsible for reading widely for the award (which is given to young adult and middle grade science fiction and fantasy novels). After SFWA voters wisely nominate their … Continue reading
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Rachel Swirsky’s Recommendations for Novellas Published in 2014
Every year, I try to binge read short fiction and make recommendations on it. I am not able to do a very comprehensive job this year. First, because I’m on the jury for the Norton Award (given to science fiction … Continue reading
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Recommending Fiction from “Across the Aisle”
At some point, I’d like to put together a recommendation list of awesome stuff (science fiction and fantasy, probably only short fiction because that’s where I feel like I really have a specialty) by conservative or right-wing authors. Unfortunately, I … Continue reading
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Two Opportunities for Writers I Thought Worth Publicizing Here
I subscribe to the Creative Writing Opportunities List. It’s a Yahoo group called CRWROPPS-B. These two opportunities showed up in my inbox today that I thought would be worth letting people here know about. Since they do not concern the kind of writing I … Continue reading
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“So no I don’t always believe them and yeah I let them know that.”
This is a very seasoned detective, 15 years in a sex crimes unit. When I asked him sort of what happens when victims come in to report an assault to the criminal justice system, this is what he said. He … Continue reading
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On Ferguson
This is an open thread to discuss Ferguson, but I’d ask anyone participating to please: 1) Watch the video. 2) Don’t be a jerk.
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