This day in history
2004, 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).
#20yrsago EFF suing on JibJab’s behalf for “This Land is Your Land” parody https://web.archive.org/web/20040803063125/http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/005452.html
#5yrsago Man donates mother’s body to science, discovers it was sold to the military for “blast testing” https://web.archive.org/web/20190801175813/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-arizona-man-moms-body-sold-military-blast-testing-20190801-pwqfc4mfvzfnjf7tocr6pkrbja-story.html
#5yrsago Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: “Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism” https://locusmag.com/2019/08/paul-di-filippo-reviews-radicalized-by-cory-doctorow/
#5yrsago Open archive of 240,000 hours’ worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07073
#5yrsago Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out “philanthropist” Warren Kanders for his company’s war-crimes https://memex.craphound.com/2019/08/01/triple-chaser-a-short-documentary-that-uses-machine-learning-to-document-tear-gas-use-against-civilians-calling-out-philanthropist-warren-kanders-for-his-companys-war-crimes/
#5yrsago Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924–63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0
#5yrsago Amazon’s secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products https://gizmodo.com/everything-cops-say-about-amazons-ring-is-scripted-or-a-1836812538
#5yrsago Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/private-equity-the-perps-behind-destructive-hospital-surprise-billing.html
#5yrsato Cisco’s failure to heed whistleblower’s warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines https://web.archive.org/web/20190801022718/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cisco-to-pay-8-6-million-fine-for-selling-14271226.php
#5yrsago Teenaged girl becomes a resistance symbol for her peaceful reading of the Russian constitution to a Putin goon-squad (they beat her up later) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/olga-misik-russia-protests-constitution-moscow-riot-police-putin-a9029816.html
