Jon Lasser is Hanging in there

Writer, Shy Nerd. #ClarionWest 2016 aka #TeamArsenic. Bi. I probably talk a lot about food, music, technology, writing, and my #LungCancer. Codex, SFWA.

Stories out in Lightspeed, Analog, Interzone, Underland Arcana, elsewhere.

Pronouns: He/Him or They/Them
Personal Site: http://twoideas.org
Github: https://github.com/disappearinjon

Last Notes

2025-01-21 03:51:09 UTC

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I presume when they gamed it out, they reached the conclusion that “if we don’t capitulate now, we won’t survive against those who do. And they’re worse than us.”
Which of course can justify anything.

2025-01-17 17:02:49 UTC

Look, I’m not saying the Supreme Court is right about the #TikTok ban, but you can’t tell me there’s no national interest in addressing a platform where a foreign government is manipulating the topics and promoting specific opinions into the public discourse. As in Romania, the Chinese Government is putting their finger on the scale of elections and other political topics.
I’m anti-censorship, though, so what would be a better alternative to shutting them down?

2025-01-05 04:38:01 UTC

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is there a particularly good way to see these? I’ve been interested but haven’t succeeded in tracking down physical media.

2024-12-31 20:52:12 UTC

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even more than strengths and weaknesses, I love reviews that situate works in the larger conversation: what is this responding to? What’s it trying to say? Is it adding something new to the conversation?
I also like the Roger Ebert approach: What is this work trying to do? Does it succeed? Is it a worthwhile endeavor to try and do that thing?

2024-10-25 19:01:41 UTC

When the #WashingtonPost picked the slogan “Democracy dies in darkness,” I didn’t realize their plan was to turn off the lights.

2024-09-02 07:05:19 UTC

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this and last year have been great. There were several years it didn’t happen. At least five years before that were terrible because it was run by the same people who ran festivals everywhere else.
I’ve been around long enough that it got bad then good again.