2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! https://memex.craphound.com/2007/06/26/i-shall-destroy-all-the-civilized-planets/ #10yrsago King City: awesomely weird, silly/funny sf comic https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/26/king-city-awesomely-weird-silly-funny-sf-comic/ #10yrsago Bruce Sterling on Alan Turing, gender, AI, and art criticism https://web.archive.org/web/20120630111115/http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/06/turing-centenary-speech-new-aesthetic/

Getting turkeys to vote for Christmas ain’t cheap. — Here’s something weird: in the wake of Roe v Wade in the 1970s, the Southern Baptist Convention repeatedly passed resolutions affirming the right to abortion and rejecting government interference in the decision to bear a child to term: https://text.npr.org/734303135 Back then, white evangelicals were deeply suspicious of people who opposed…

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 — #20yrsago James Gleick: Life is different with email https://www.salon.com/2002/06/25/what_just_happened/ #20yrsago Wibo: A wireless hobo https://web.archive.org/web/20020711044257/http://jimfl.tensegrity.net/greymatter/archives/00000226.html #15yrsago London’s mayor calls deadbeat US Ambassador “venal little crook” https://web.archive.org/web/20070703222807/https://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/environment/diplomatic+ccharge+bill+tops+45m/569892

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Ted Chiang’s debut: Short-story collection of the decade if not the century https://memex.craphound.com/2002/06/24/short-story-collection-of-the-decade-if-not-the-century/ #20yrsago More Songs About Buildings and Food https://www.salon.com/2002/06/24/buildings_and_food/ #20yrsago VerisignOff: Let’s put Verisign to death https://web.archive.org/web/20020802142751/http://www.verisignoff.org/

Apps are like software, only worse. — When my EFF colleague Alexis Hancock signed her baby up for daycare, she was told that she had to download a childcare management app — to monitor and specify “feedings, diaper changes, pictures, activities, and which guardian picked-up/dropped-off the child.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/daycare-apps-are-dangerously-insecure This was during the lockdown, and the app was…

2007, 2012, 2017. — #15yrsago Open Source Consortium to regulators: Stop the BBC’s DRM! https://web.archive.org/web/20070210062816/http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/65/55/ #15yrsago Broadcast Treaty wounded and dying! https://web.archive.org/web/20070626103453/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005333.php #15yrsago Podcasting Bruce Sterling’s “Hacker Crackdown” https://craphound.com/news/2007/06/23/the-hacker-crackdown-part-001/

2012, 2017, 2021. — #10yrsago St Colin and the Dragon: great torn paper kids’ comic https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/22/st-colin-and-the-dragon-great-torn-paper-kids-comic/ #10yrsago EFF joins the defense in Charles Carreon v. The Whole Goddamned Internet https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-will-represent-oatmeal-creator-fight-against-bizarre-lawsuit-targeting-critical #10yrsago Bruce Sterling interviewed about the New Aesthetic https://web.archive.org/web/20120626071907/http://davidalbertcox.com/blog/?p=29

When is a “sale” a “license?” — When you buy a vinyl record, cassette or CD, you own it, thanks to copyright law’s “first sale” principle. I have real criticisms of copyright law, but at least it’s a law, created by a democratically accountable legislature. When you buy a digital download of a song, your use of…

Why sex workers are the first in — and first out — of new technologies. — The sex industry has pioneered every new communications tool since the printing press: in my own lifetime, I’ve watched it take the lead in VCRs, desktop publishing, BBSes, digital text, digital images, digital videos, live streaming services, cryptocurrency, and VR. It would be easy to conclude that being interested in…