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Hi! Do you like distracting yourself from vague horrors you can't control by deep-diving on esoteric Wikipedia horrors you can? If so, here are some lists for you! (If not, mute me for 5 minutes)
A list of inventors killed by their own inventions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i…
A list of notable nightclub fires: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…
Everyone's favorite wtf, the Dyatlov Pass Incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_P…
A list of unusual deaths: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_u…
Not Wikipedia, but worth revisiting: WHAT do we think happened to Barbara Newhall Follett? (Who am I kidding, clearly murdered by her husband.) laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vani…
List of World War I shipwrecks in the English Channel--to repeat, this is JUST World War I shipwrecks and JUST within the English Channel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:…
PS: for some reason I find this one legitimately terrifying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_Coun…
Finally, hoarding all of this Chef Boyardee has reminded me - God, I am such a Debbie Downer - of what happened to Chef Boyardee’s great-grandson, a kid who grew up in community circles overlapping with mine. Do you...Do you know what commotio cordis is? news.cornell.edu/stories/2004/0…
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Happy Valentimes, everyone. Shout out to @matt_latimer and nearly 11 years of giving each other courage, counsel, and safety. Romantic love is great! Here are some additional kinds of love I am grateful for today:
@matt_latimer 1. PEDESTRIAN
The love you develop for people after seeing them every day for years. Viz: everyone at @rossyoon and Trister, Ross, the occupants of the office where I worked from ‘05-‘19. The way @DaraKaye just has to run in and share everything bizarre that comes into her inbox.
@matt_latimer @RossYoon @DaraKaye The way @allenmattison sighs with what sounds like existential stress every time he’s at the Xerox. The way the late, wonderful Mike Trister walked around with excessive loose change in his pockets: a legendary lawyer who sounded like one of Santa’s reindeer.
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Good morning! I am dying inside at the level of well-intentioned but totally-off opining about seven-figure advances in my feed. Remind me later today to talk about various reasons why you all are wrong about this, although I do love you.
PS: editors, while I’m finishing the school run, now is the chance to DM me the anonymous insider opining you’re too shy to share on your own feed 👀👀
OK, I really have to keep this quick, but: first, a reminder that 6-7 advances for single books are payable in 4 installments, typically spanning 4 years, sometimes more. An increasing # of 7-figure advances are 5-installment. But let's say the deal is $1 mil, 4 installments.
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An industry conversation that also needs to happen - overlapping with if less urgent than the whiteness issue - is the class issue. I could talk for hours with the obsessed and good-faith among you about the as yet unanalyzed class nuances involved in the topic at hand.
To be clear: the race issue is WAY more urgent, as narrative injustice there results in disenfranchisement and danger beyond “mere” shame and shaming. But we need to do some accounting within whiteness as well. Specifically:
The agent/editor side of the industry is concentrated w/people who hear “7 figure advance” and immediately amortize it down to “entry level white shoe lawyer $ for 4 years or so, plus whatever years of spec time spent writing. Hm yes, nothing to sniff at!” Which is...not...yeah.
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In the past months, we at @GlobalYAcademy have started to improve the visibility of young global scientists. I'll starting sharing more about what I learned through this about #digitization #academies #wikipedia and the visibility of researchers. Here's a picture of NYAs
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