This sort of thing is (part of) why I don't post anything under my full legal name except professionally-tuned profiles (e.g. github and linkedin). And my handle is googleproof on top of that...I think.
How long does this run for? I've never tuned in, and would like to, but my partner has a maybe-conflicting event tonight too.
[edit]: Well, we did tune in after all, and I'm glad of it. I've been wanting to go to one of these for several years and haven't been able to. The livestream is appreciated, and that was beautiful.
I found the trailer/intro a bit off-putting too. It didn't bother me, exactly, but it seemed over the top, and makes me hesitant to share the interview with others.
That said, I think JTM makes a good point above, about the expectations of the general public. I rarely watch talk shows; I don't know what's normal. I could understand a tradeoff where the optimal tone for the public also provides ammo for certain kinds of criticism.
This isn't about the content, but: Thank you for publishing the transcript. It's really, really aggravating when useful and/or interesting material is trapped in a form that can't be ctrl-F'd.
Ahh, thanks for the context. I'm not on Twitter so I wouldn't have known. LO2025 was my first encounter with the phrase.
(I suppose that also answers the mystery of what This Part of Taldor was spoofing in Planecrash, which I've wondered about since I first read it)
I wouldn't be surprised if it's something like that. My first guess was concerns about doxxing of well-known writers. My second was participants who might face professional or social costs IRL for associating with Weird Nerds; I met at least one person who didn't want to be known-to-be-there for approximately that reason. Which is sad because they were one of the more interesting people I ran into but I had to cut/vagueify them in the writeup.
I didn't cite either possibility because I don't actually know the organizers' reasoning. For all I know there could be California-specific privacy laws about photos at events, or something.
Fooey. Nothing I can do, but I'll leave the link just in case someone who can changes that.
That's bizarre, I have no such option. From either the playlist or the individual songs, my "share" menu has "copy link", "copy link at current time", and "share to...", and none of the sub-options under the latter are for downloading.
(edit: and I'm logged in as far as I can tell, so it's not a logged-in-only thing)
Why does nobody ever ask about the Project Lawful / Planecrash epilogue? I still have to finish that one too!
Datum: I want to see a Planecrash epilogue, but after the second case of missing-epilogue I began to suspect that the "missing" part was purposeful -- some combination of trolling the reader and encouraging meta-fanfiction to continue the story -- and that I should treat both stories as completed.
I have no idea if others have the same impression. I didn't read HPMOR until long after it and its discussions were done, and all Planecrash discussion happened on platforms I don't use.
Something I'd really like to know about colds is how fast infectiousness drops off. Most sources describe peak contagion as a few days after symptoms start, and note that you're still infectious until the last cough -- but I can't find anything about how infectious. After, say, seven days, is the secondary attack rate fifty percent of peak or one percent of peak? If one percent, I'm probably happy to interact with the person normally; if thirty percent, I'm probably not. But I have no idea of the actual number.
(This comes up mostly with my partner; she starts "feeling better" after a cold well before the symptoms are actually gone, whereas I'm almost completely debilitated for the entire length. So when she gets sick, I'm stuck choosing between "maintain a depressing degree of interpersonal paranoia long after she's able to interact again" and "run a completely unknown risk of losing two weeks of my life to misery." I hate it.)