This day in history

2009, 2014, 2023.

On June 20, I’ll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go Fact Yourself podcast. 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.

#15yrsago Post one of Australia’s banned links, get fined AU$11,000/day https://web.archive.org/web/20090618142709/https://www.watoday.com.au/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day-20090615-c9rv.html

#15yrsago Free young adult novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making https://web.archive.org/web/20090620053229/http://catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland/

#15yrsago Twitter reschedules maintenance to avoid clobbering Iranian dissidents https://blog.x.com/official/en_us/a/2009/down-time-rescheduled.html

#10yrsago Timberland’s new warranty conditions screw the prisoners who must buy them https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/timberland-boots-have-a-lifetime-warranty-unless-youre-in-prison/

#10yrsago Ikea bullies Ikeahackers with bogus trademark claim https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/15/ikea-bullies-ikeahackers-with-bogus-trademark-claim/

#10yrsago Father’s Day: A Bear for Punishment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChdyOU4lQjY

#10yrsago FCC Chairman’s competition promise means nothing https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgak38/the-fcc-cant-help-cities-trapped-by-predatory-internet-deals-with-big-telecom

#10yrsago T-Mobile: your dead dad’s active phone will let you stay in touch https://consumerist.com/2014/06/13/t-mobile-rep-encourages-me-to-keep-dead-dads-mobile-line-open-to-hear-his-voice/

#1yrago Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers