Object permanence
Google Reader launches; Bill Gates hates Blu-Ray; NYPD steals Black woman’s BMW and puts her in a mental institution; Baby flask; Zombie mouth cupcakes.
I’m on a tour with my new book Enshittification: Catch me next in Washington, DC, Brooklyn and New Orleans! Full schedule with dates and links here.
#20yrsago Lawmaker: I’ll fight the Broadcast Flag https://web.archive.org/web/20071114231008/http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2005/10/07/surprise_your_reps_actually_listen_when_you_complain_about_the_broadcast_flag.php
#20yrsago Google launches a feedreader https://web.archive.org/web/20090210070551/http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html
#20yrsago Soviet PCs http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ussr.html
#20yrsago Soviet pocket-calculators https://web.archive.org/web/20051013063203/https://rk86.com/frolov/calcolle.htm
#20yrsago Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy https://web.archive.org/web/20051013082800/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005106_9074_tc024.htm
#10yrsago Kim Davis isn’t doing her job. Again. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/oct/07/kim-davis-emails/
#10yrsago Howto make Zombie Mouth cupcakes https://www.instructables.com/Zombie-Mouth-Cupcake/#10yrsago HOWTO make a realistic brain-cake for your zombie parties https://web.archive.org/web/20151010034621/https://howtocakeit.com/blogs/cakes/46754689-deep-red-velvet-brain-cake-with-fondant-brain-tissue-and-raspberry-jam-blood
#10yrsago Algorithmic guilt: defendants must be able to inspect source code in forensic devices https://web.archive.org/web/20190421120433/https://slate.com/technology/2015/10/defendants-should-be-able-to-inspect-software-code-used-in-forensics.html
#10yrsago Make a booze flask hidden in a baby https://www.instructables.com/baby-flask/
#10yrsago NYPD steal black woman banker’s BMW, commit her when she asks for it back https://web.archive.org/web/20151002030408/https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/shes-banker-owns-bmw-and-obama-follows-her-twitter-ny-cops-still-threw-innocent
#5yrsago Congress’s Big Tech trustbusting smackdown https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/google-and-platos-cave/#break-em-up
#5yrsago Hackers can remotely lock IoT cock-cages https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/google-and-platos-cave/#power-play
#1yrago China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/#calea
