This day in history
2004, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to DEFCON! On FRIDAY (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 SATURDAY (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).
#20yrsago FCC: why should the courts interpret copyright when we can regulate it? https://web.archive.org/web/20040811223828/https://www.corante.com/importance/archives/005534.php
#20yrsago Suspicious things I’ve done on an airplane https://web.archive.org/web/20040803082259/https://unmedia.blogspot.com/2004/07/suspicious-things-ive-done-on-airplane.html
#20yrsago Paranoia game redesigned using open-source methodology https://web.archive.org/web/20040806032852/http://www.costik.com/weblog/2004_08_01_blogchive.html#109173202462615135
#10yrsago Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land https://memex.craphound.com/2014/08/05/lev-grossmans-the-magicians-land/
#5yrsago Podcast: “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization https://ia903008.us.archive.org/16/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_306/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_306_-_IBM_PC_Compatible.mp3
#5yrsago A MIDI harmonica https://www.lekholminstruments.com
#5yrsago 46% of Scots want to separate from the UK; 43% want to remain https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/majority-of-scots-now-in-favour-of-independence-shock-poll-reveals
#5yrsago From Tiananmen to Occupy Central to the Umbrella Movement to today’s General Strike: understanding the Hong Kong uprising https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n16/chaohua-wang/hong-kong-v.-beijing
#5yrsago “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization https://memex.craphound.com/2019/08/05/ibm-pc-compatible-how-adversarial-interoperability-saved-pcs-from-monopolization/
#1yrago America’s largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/#hca
