This day in history

2009, 2019.

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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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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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