2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #15yrsago DHS spends millions on bus kill-switches to stop Osama bin Laden from reenacting the movie “Speed” https://nypost.com/2008/06/08/busting-terror/ #15yrsago National Geo’s China issue has controversial pages glued together in China https://web.archive.org/web/20130928204106/http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2008/06/04/glued-geographic/ #10yrsago UK government online disability benefits signup requires Internet Explorer 6 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-online-dla-claim-system-work…

Merck’s version of “market pricing” is “whatever we ask for.” — As the Marxist agitator Adam Smith once said, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Smith understood that capitalists hate capitalism. They don’t want to compete with…

2003, 2008, 2013. — #20yrsago Biopiracy: a new colonialism https://web.archive.org/web/20030625011109/http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16057 #20yrsago Ed Felten explains why “black box” DRM tech is bad for society https://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001359.php #15yrsago Kucinich begins impeachment process for GW Bush https://web.archive.org/web/20080610145134/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_presents_Bush_impeachment_articles_0609.html

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tonight (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues. #20yrsago Encrypted AIM https://web.archive.org/web/20030801072150/http://enterprise.aim.com/products/aim/personalcerts/ #15yrsago Virgin Media UK working with record industry to spy on and threaten downloaders https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/virgin-warns-illegal-downloaders-stop-or-face-prosecution-842086.html

The latest in “saving the news from Big Tech.” — Today (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin. Tomorrow (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues. Big Tech steals from the news, but what it steals is money, not content. Talking about the news, excerpting it, linking to it…

2013, 2022. — Today (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin. Thursday (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues. #10yrsago UK spies have access to NSA Prism, which has “direct access” to world’s largest Internet companies’ servers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism #10yrsago Leaked NSA slide-deck…

Incentives matter (and that matters). — Today (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability. Tomorrow (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin. Thursday (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues. When a giant company wrecks your life, what are you gonna do? They…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tonight (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability. Tomorrow (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin. Thursday (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues. #20yrsago An idea for email clients https://memex.craphound.com/2003/06/06/an-idea-for-email-clients/ #15yrsago Patching ancient walls with legos…

When the editorial page leaks into the news. — Tonight (June 5) at 7:15PM, I’m in London at the British Library with my novel Red Team Blues, hosted by Baroness Martha Lane Fox. Tomorrow (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability. The tacit social contract between the Wall Street Journal and its readers is this: the editorial…