This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago Measuring the smell of old books to find candidates for preservation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202122041.htm
#15yrsago Are terms-of-service enforceable? https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-terms-service
#15yrsago Just look at this awesome banana bunker. https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/04/just-look-at-this-awesome-banana-bunker/
#15yrsago Woman jailed, charged with felony camcordering after recording 4 mins of sister’s birthday party in a movie theater https://web.archive.org/web/20091206024138/https://consumerist.com/2009/12/charged-with-felony-after-taping-4-minutes-of-new-moon.html
#15yrsago Jonathan Lethem’s CHRONIC CITY, surreal and beautiful sf explores the authentic and the unreal https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/04/jonathan-lethems-chronic-city-surreal-and-beautiful-sf-explores-the-authentic-and-the-unreal/
#10yrsago NSA leak reveal plans to subvert mobile network security around the world https://theintercept.com/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/
#10yrsago Brian Krebs’s “Spam Nation” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/04/brian-krebss-spam-nation/
#10yrsago Why journalists should be free speech partisans https://medium.com/backchannel/when-journalists-must-not-be-objective-fad5aadd8cb3
#10yrsago Fantastically detailed Boeing 777 model made from manila folders https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/sets/72157632208677161
#5yrsago FCC Chairman Pai’s former employer, Verizon, lied about coverage, and then Pai tried to bury the news https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/fcc-tries-to-bury-finding-that-verizon-and-t-mobile-exaggerated-4g-coverage/
#5yrsago The south’s latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/are-prison-diets-punitive-a-report-from-behind-bars/
#5yrsago Browser plugins from Avast and AVG yanked for stealing user data https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-removes-avast-and-avg-extensions-from-add-on-portal-over-snooping-claims/
#5yrsago Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from “What should algorithms do?” to “Should we use an algorithm?” https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-second-wave-of-algorithmic-accountability/
#5yrsago How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html
#5yrsag The bizarre story of China’s most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets https://marker.medium.com/jackpot-694063c4d867
#5yrsago Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/what-are-jo-swinsons-liberal-democrats-so-desperate-to-hide/
#1yrago Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz” https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/04/cahokia/#the-sun-and-the-moon
