This day in history

2009, 2019.

I’m coming to Defcon! On Aug 9, I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).

#15yrsago What real piracy looks like: biopirate loses patent over century-old latinamerican staple crop https://web.archive.org/web/20090918155634/http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/release_31.htm

#5yrsago Irish islamaphobe condemns Halal grocery as evidence of creeping islamification, is subsequently forcefully reminded of the global proliferation of Irish pubs https://web.archive.org/web/20190808135045/https://www.indy100.com/article/halal-shop-ireland-gemma-odoherty-twitter-response-9023161

#5yrsago Germany’s powerful IG Metall trade union is organizing Youtubers to force Google to play fair https://fairtube.info

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