from Facebook: the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies get rapped on the nose

And the 2017 Worldcon will be in Helsinki: a great bunch of people in a lovely city.

Well, it was an obvious cheap joke. :-)

John Scalzi just tweeted something he said last April:

So, a couple of things to know about Vox Day. One, he’s the sort of person for whom any scenario will be seen as a victory condition; if he were to be set on fire and pushed in front of a speeding train, he would cackle about how this was exactly what he had planned right up until the moment of impact turned him into flaming bits of kibble.

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/04/20/

Here, by the way, is an alternate point of view on the Wired article:

https://storify.com/tehawesomersace/we-ve-always-been-here

Oh, Teddy’s capacity for self-aggrandizement is definitely a known quantity. (It’s value, of course, is infinity.) But like so many conspiracy theories, Brand, Larry, and their fellows had set up a fantasy world where they would (in their own minds) be right no matter the outcome last night. They win all the awards, they really do represent the silent majority. They lose everything (as they did), the mean nasty lefties really are keeping them down. Anything in between, they claim both. It’s a perfectly closed system (which is why it’s immune to facts).

Also, I just saw Scalzi do a reading in Ft. Collins this afternoon, which was cool.

Funny, but the Storify collection makes a point that I thought was already inherent in the Wired piece. But maybe I got that sense because I did already know that there were people other than straight white men in fandom and pro SF who were in many ways marginalized.