kontextmaschine:

Just gonna be a footnote in the case study of how OTW stole a march on WSFS and SFWA

I cannot emphasize enough that the valence of this stuff flipped when the wave crested, it’s not “they are making advances”, it’s “they just created an exposed salient”. WSFS and SFWA are organizations of writers that were calibrated in a pre-Internet era where the role of (business-minded) publishers and agents ballasted them, they were vulnerable to ideological capture; successor organizations founded in a modern era of modern pressures will be armored against