We offer an entertaining look at some of the big issues in history by examining public apologies of the famous and infamous. We‘re looking at politicians, serial killers, actors, and you! Send us an apology you would like to make to someone and we‘ll read it on the podcast and give you the chance to redeem yourself or just get some guilt off your shoulders. We‘re here for you, once a week, maybe more if you are really, really sorry.
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We offer an entertaining look at some of the big issues in history by examining public apologies of the famous and infamous. We‘re looking at politicians, serial killers, actors, and you! Send us an apology you would like to make to someone and we‘ll read it on the podcast and give you the chance to redeem yourself or just get some guilt off your shoulders. We‘re here for you, once a week, maybe more if you are really, really sorry.
The 2025 Seattle World Science Fiction Convention will be held in August 2025. In getting ready to produce the event, organizers used AI to vet a list of about 1,500 potential speakers. The conference wanted to ensure they would not invite anyone who might create a controversy by their attendance. AI read through social media posts, public records, 3rd grade report cards, everything available online looking for red flags.
Imagine the organisers' surprise that in trying to prevent controversy, they created an even bigger controversy! Once word got out that AI was used to vet the list of potential speakers, people got big mad and had feelings about using robots to do human work. Kathy Bond, volunteer chairperson of the 2025 event, issued an apology amidst calls for her resignation (and a few nerds wanted to shoot her into space).
WorldCon is not only a SciFi convention, it's home to the Hugo awards - for SciFi writers, their publishers, and their readers, a Hugo award is a big deal. We dive into the WorldCon situation and visit Hugo award controversies past to discover it truly is A Brave New World (see what we did there!).
Apologies Accepted
We offer an entertaining look at some of the big issues in history by examining public apologies of the famous and infamous. We‘re looking at politicians, serial killers, actors, and you! Send us an apology you would like to make to someone and we‘ll read it on the podcast and give you the chance to redeem yourself or just get some guilt off your shoulders. We‘re here for you, once a week, maybe more if you are really, really sorry.
