This should be a lot of fun - looking forward to it end of next month! Tnx to @reimenayee.com for making it happen!

Literary SF was pretty darn white at the time, too!

That was a fair criticism - though with a few exceptions, "serious" SF wasn't that much better on that score at the time.

Plus a lot of "you got fantasy in my science fiction" complaints.

It's largely been forgotten how hostile a lot of "serious' SF people were to Star Wars in the first few years after its release.

Heave Ho
Overcooked

We've done it, we've worked our back to Vonnegut's PLAYER PIANO

Yesterday the news said student absenteeism is way up, today they say hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable illnesses have doubled, and so far as I can tell nobody yet has connected those two things.

* raptor hissing * putting on the ritsssssssz

Thanks!

Really interesting data, where's it from?

And at the same time, more and more of the economy is oriented towards the very rich.

We have seen this before, with the kidnapping of Maduro or the mass protests against ICE raids – fake images of real events. While these synthetic images fictionalize reality, they are not necessarily meant as disinformation. Rather, they both illustrate and cater to wide-spread expectations
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I wouldn't say the original MC was a right-wing text, though. It's quite explicitly a satire of McCarthyism.

More seriously, Phil Tinline's Ghosts of Iron Mountain. It's the only good text I've seen on left-right movement and overlap.

(Kidding/not kidding)

Veggie Tales

(Never miss a chance to use an archaic pronoun)

I think you mean Messrs. Ben and Jerry

I agree that seeing Killmonger as the hero (or at least not a villain) is probably outside the bounds of a reasonable negotiated reading, but it's a legitimate resistant reading so long as it's framed as such.

Actually, every day is 1/365th World Homeopathy Day

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

"If PERSON=REASONABLE, VERDICT=PLAINTIFF"

This is why I go so hard about studying entertainment as politically relevant media. Viewers may be learning about these issues for the first time, or connecting to what they’ve already experienced. And how they make sense of entertainment as politically relevant will affect what happens next.

I don't know the quote, but this paper looked at the question quantitatively: jmparman.people.wm.edu/research-fil...

The kids are all right Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

This is excellent
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

IMO, we need to teach them both, as a two-step sequence. Teach students how to identify sources that are reliable enough to be worth your critical attention, then teach them to analyze those.

YOW!

Preprint: "Our findings indicate that SARS-CoV-2 maintains high household transmissibility and requires substantial medical resources in the post-pandemic era." (Over a third of Covid transmissions in the study occurred before infected people showed symptoms.) doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Every American media work from 1967 to 1990 that depicts war is at least 25% about Vietnam, whether the makers knew it or not.