This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
On June 21, I’m doing an online reading for the Locus Awards at 16hPT. On June 22, I’m keynoting the Locus Awards in Oakland, CA. On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY.
#20yrsago Ian McDonald’s brilliant new novel, River of Gods: Bollywoodpunk https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/12/ian-mcdonalds-brilliant-new-novel-river-of-gods-bollywoodpunk/
#15yrsago British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you’re not allowed to know which areas you’re not allowed to photograph https://web.archive.org/web/20090616063717/http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=861650
#10yrsago Duration of WWII vs duration of movies about WWII https://what-if.xkcd.com/100/
#10yrsago George Orwell’s National Union of Journalists card https://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/88379861562
#10yrsago Thai shrimp industry runs on brutal slavery and murder https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour
#5yrsago It Feels Good to Be Yourself: a sweet, simple picture book about gender identity https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/12/it-feels-good-to-be-yourself-a-sweet-simple-picture-book-about-gender-identity/
#5yrsago The latest popular uprising in Hong Kong is fighting to keep Beijing from dragging dissidents to mainland China https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/6/12/hong-kong-extradition-bill-debate-delayed-after-massive-protests
#5yrsago When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html
#5yrsago Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends: stalled growth, security dumpster-fires, more online education and fear of regulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_dwZB5h56E
#5yrsago A deep dive into stalkerware’s creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security https://citizenlab.ca/2019/06/the-predator-in-your-pocket-a-multidisciplinary-assessment-of-the-stalkerware-application-industry/
#5yrsago Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children https://www.pcmag.com/news/all-new-echo-dot-kids-edition-launches-june-26
#5yrsago Twitter’s anti-Nazi policies result bans on pictures of anti-Nazi books https://www.thedailybeast.com/journalist-david-neiwert-twitter-suspended-me-for-displaying-book-about-far-right
#5yrsago In homeless LA, the families, retirees and working people who live in their cars are desperate for overnight parking https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-safe-parking-los-angeles-20190610-story.html
#1yrago Podcasting “Ideas Lying Around” https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/#lets-gooooo
