From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15315 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, January 3 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15315 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Maximize Your Chances to Win Lottery ["Effortless Wealth" Subject: Maximize Your Chances to Win Lottery Maximize Your Chances to Win Lottery http://digestsync.best/Jl48NqnMr5-Upuk9Iof_Bgdl9JgcPEyk0ojU7NKTtX5ycXXz http://digestsync.best/oi1Z2WAZxEz76GB23HvRYZFhFAxOvhxKnfvwhTl02RM1Ai6I tics for the 2023 Hugo Awards from the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, which was held in Chengdu, China, came into question due to several authors being declared ineligible without explanation, including Neil Gaiman, R. F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao, and Paul Weimer. Leaked emails revealed that the authors were excluded due to self-censorship by the Hugo Award administrators in order to appease the Chinese government, known to have a strict censorship regime. Additionally, an unknown number of ballots from Chinese voters were rejected because an award administrator considered them to be similar to a recommendations list published by the Chinese SF magazine Science Fiction World, and thus equivalent to a slate, even though there was no rule against slates. Based on complaints about the 2023 Hugo award process and official statements made about those complaints, Worldcon Intellectual Property (WIP), the non-profit organization that holds the service marks for the World Science Fiction Society, censured the director of WIP and two individuals who presided over the Hugo Administration Committee of the Chengdu Worldcon, and reprimanded the chair of the WIP board of directors. Both the director of WIP and chair of the WIP board of directors resigned. Glasgow 2024 Chairperson Esther MacCallum-Stewart announced in February 2024 that to ensure transparency in the awards selection, they would keep a log of all decisions, publish the reasons for any disqualification of potential finalists by April 2024, and publish the full voting statistics immediately after the awards ceremony on August 11. 2024: Voter fraud In July 2024, the Hugo administration announced that roughly 10% of all votes cast for that ye ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15315 ***********************************************