This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
Next weekend (June 7–9), I’m in Amherst, New York to keynote the 25th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention and accept the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
#15yrsago FBI terrorist interrogator on the uselessness of torture and the efficacy of cookies https://web.archive.org/web/20090804121053/https://www.rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/cookies-al-qaeda/
#15yrsago Basil Wolverton’s Bible: the putting the grotesque into the Old Testament https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/29/basil-wolvertons-bible-the-putting-the-grotesque-into-the-old-testament/
#10yrsago Tor.com: a new short-fiction imprint from Tor https://reactormag.com/announcing-torcom-the-imprint/
#10yrsago Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino: a $55 Starbucks drink https://consumerist.com/2014/05/27/new-starbucks-free-drink-record-set-with-54-sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-mocha-frappuccino/
#10yrsago Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/29/mysterious-announcement-from-truecrypt-declares-the-project-insecure-and-dead/
#10yrsago Tor founder Tom Doherty on publishing without DRM https://reactormag.com/tom-doherty-tor-books-book-expo-of-america-2014/
#10yrsago Jonathan Lethem and Lars Eidinger’s claustrophobic, Snowden-commemorating short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgKtb_BKdI
#5yrsago Open Insulin: biohackers trying to create a “microbrewery” for insulin as an answer to price-gouging https://openinsulin.org/new-frontiers-for-the-new-year/
#5yrsago How DRM has permitted Google to have an “open source” browser that is still under its exclusive control https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/29/how-drm-has-permitted-google-to-have-an-open-source-browser-that-is-still-under-its-exclusive-control/
#5yrsago DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a “Cognitive Radio” future https://spectrum.ieee.org/if-darpa-has-its-way-ai-will-rule-the-wireless-spectrum
#5yrsago Chinese environment ministry finds widespread pollution coverups and corruption at the local government level https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01661-1
#5yrsago Trump’s new climate czar has repeatedly and unrepentantly compared efforts to reduce CO2 to Hitler’s slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-climate-advisor-compared-demonization-of-carbon-dioxide-to-jews-treatment-under-hitler-2019-05-28
#5yrsago The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-corporate-tax-avoidance-havens-justice-network-dodging-a8933661.html
#5yrsago What the FTC should do AFTER it fines Facebook $3–5B https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/fines-arent-enough-heres-how-ftc-can-make-facebook-better
#1yrago Monopolizing turds https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/29/oh-shit/
