This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#20yrsago India: Your IP is NG for us https://web.archive.org/web/20041011200232/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2004-October/006992.html
#20yrsago Bruce Sterling: Marry the UN and the Net https://web.archive.org/web/20041012070928/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001314.html
#15yrsago HOWTO make scary guts out of expanding foam insulation https://web.archive.org/web/20091211220737/http://www.halloween-haunted-house.com/how.html#guts
#15yrsago Liar: YA suspense novel that elevates the unreliable narrator to a new level https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/01/liar-ya-suspense-novel-that-elevates-the-unreliable-narrator-to-a-new-level/
#10yrsago Finance industry profiteers exploit prisoners’ families https://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/
#10yrsago No Such Thing: spooky (not scary!) picture book https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/01/no-such-thing-spooky-not-scary-picture-book/
#10yrsago Hundreds of US police forces have distributed malware as “Internet safety software” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies
#10yrsago Chinese security forces administer rectal probes to 10,000 pigeons https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/10/1/chinese-security-body-searches-10000-pigeons
#5yrsago Europe’s Right to Repair rules have passed, and will take effect in 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49884827
#5yrsago Make: a Halloween “Useless Machine” with a skeleton inside it https://www.instructables.com/RIP-Skeleton/
#5yrsago Zuckerberg: President Warren would “suck” for Facebook https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings
#5yrsago Consent in Gaming: a guide for GMs and players to difficult subjects for amazing games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/288535/Consent-in-Gaming
#5yrsago “The Tragedy of the Commons”: how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought https://thebaffler.com/latest/first-as-tragedy-then-as-fascism-amend
#5yrsago Surveillance camera hallucinates face in the snow, won’t shut up about it https://twitter.com/kcimc/status/1099934485301276673
#5yrsago Global shipping companies comply with anti-air-pollution rules by dumping pollution into the sea, instead https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/shipping-pollution-sea-open-loop-scrubber-carbon-dioxide-environment-a9123181.html
#5yrsago Stock buybacks: how Wall Street has created “profits without prosperity” https://worth.com/stock-buybacks-threaten-economic-growth/
#1yrago How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/
