Day 2 at WorldCon
Aug. 14th, 2025 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI had breakfast with Rorschach from uwbb. I met him in the lobby and we went up to the club lounge for breakfast. Highly enjoyable. This is the first time in probably a decade or more where neither of us had kids hanging around us getting bored while we chatted.
After he went to do a remote meeting in the lobby, I met B. and A. (financial advisors) in the lobby and brought them up to the club lounge (loving the club lounge). We had a highly enjoyable (for me anyway) conversation. A. is a new mom! Very exciting! Apparently, the two people she will come in to the office for while on maternity leave are me and her brother and she says she likes her brother. I am honored! I have this idea in my head and I inflicted it on them: is anyone working on systematizing identifying and prioritizing and responding to change? I mean, we all agree change is happening all the time faster and faster (not me — I’m not convinced it’s faster), so why haven’t we automated this? B. had to do some forecasting and planning when he was in the Navy, but of course that report got filed and forgotten. But that’s still case by case stuff. I want to know who is working at the meta level. We all went to lunch at DTF, and I had forgotten to get A. a plate at breakfast so I ordered her a pork chop and a chocolate bun and B. kindly paid for it. I tried, but I didn’t argue very hard.
I did blast her out of the room to go to a panel with Becky Chambers.
“Working Class Science Fiction Science Fiction
Room 321, Wed. 3–4 p.m.
How are economic status and class depicted in science fiction? From the protein miners of Frederick Pohl’s Gateway to the ship mechanics of Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer’s novels, work and working-class people abound. This panel will discuss explicitly proletarian science fiction.
Mallory Craig-Kuhn (M), Andrew Penn Romine, Becky Chambers, Sam Asher, Stoney Compton”
It was very enjoyable and, predictably, someone really did ask about whether you could really have a protagonist and still be on the side of the workers / be a good marxist. It’s so weird when that happens. Becky answered saying, well, I don’t really have a protagonist, I really value having multiple perspectives. A. asked a question and got an answer (it was something about filter bubbles not being a new phenomenon and Chambers’ answer was in agreement) and was super excited. I later saw Chambers and thanked her and she was incredibly sweet and told me to say hi to my daughter for her. D’awwwww.
I met up with Priestess and made sure she ate, altho I was too full from DTF.
R., A., H. And B. all went to dinner at Rider. Very, very expensive dinner. Very, very good.
When I was back at the hotel wandering around and somewhat drunk, I got a ribbon after complimenting someone on their ribbon that mashed up Mandalorian and Lego. AND! Someone had lost their fan and needed to catch the Bremerton ferry, so I did a side quest with three other people, one of whom found the fan very quickly. I started the process of arranging to hand the fan off tomorrow morning.
After he went to do a remote meeting in the lobby, I met B. and A. (financial advisors) in the lobby and brought them up to the club lounge (loving the club lounge). We had a highly enjoyable (for me anyway) conversation. A. is a new mom! Very exciting! Apparently, the two people she will come in to the office for while on maternity leave are me and her brother and she says she likes her brother. I am honored! I have this idea in my head and I inflicted it on them: is anyone working on systematizing identifying and prioritizing and responding to change? I mean, we all agree change is happening all the time faster and faster (not me — I’m not convinced it’s faster), so why haven’t we automated this? B. had to do some forecasting and planning when he was in the Navy, but of course that report got filed and forgotten. But that’s still case by case stuff. I want to know who is working at the meta level. We all went to lunch at DTF, and I had forgotten to get A. a plate at breakfast so I ordered her a pork chop and a chocolate bun and B. kindly paid for it. I tried, but I didn’t argue very hard.
I did blast her out of the room to go to a panel with Becky Chambers.
“Working Class Science Fiction Science Fiction
Room 321, Wed. 3–4 p.m.
How are economic status and class depicted in science fiction? From the protein miners of Frederick Pohl’s Gateway to the ship mechanics of Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer’s novels, work and working-class people abound. This panel will discuss explicitly proletarian science fiction.
Mallory Craig-Kuhn (M), Andrew Penn Romine, Becky Chambers, Sam Asher, Stoney Compton”
It was very enjoyable and, predictably, someone really did ask about whether you could really have a protagonist and still be on the side of the workers / be a good marxist. It’s so weird when that happens. Becky answered saying, well, I don’t really have a protagonist, I really value having multiple perspectives. A. asked a question and got an answer (it was something about filter bubbles not being a new phenomenon and Chambers’ answer was in agreement) and was super excited. I later saw Chambers and thanked her and she was incredibly sweet and told me to say hi to my daughter for her. D’awwwww.
I met up with Priestess and made sure she ate, altho I was too full from DTF.
R., A., H. And B. all went to dinner at Rider. Very, very expensive dinner. Very, very good.
When I was back at the hotel wandering around and somewhat drunk, I got a ribbon after complimenting someone on their ribbon that mashed up Mandalorian and Lego. AND! Someone had lost their fan and needed to catch the Bremerton ferry, so I did a side quest with three other people, one of whom found the fan very quickly. I started the process of arranging to hand the fan off tomorrow morning.