This day in history
2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.
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#20yrsago Internet Radio tax created to kill small webcasters and eliminate competition https://web.archive.org/web/20020802201718/http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/062402/index.asp
#20yrsago Webcams and life in the panopticon http://www.drive-thru.org/#85305317
#10yrsago Doonesbury has a new protagonist https://web.archive.org/web/20120802160523/https://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/07/31/609031/doonesbury/
#10yrsago Romney’s tax-free decade What can we learn from the Aurora shooting? https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/opinion/schneier-aurora-aftermath/index.html
#5yrsago Bitch Doctrine: sympathy, empathy and rage from the Laurie Penny’s red pen of justice https://memex.craphound.com/2017/08/01/bitch-doctrine-sympathy-empathy-and-rage-from-the-laurie-pennys-red-pen-of-justice/
#5yrsago Amazon’s “fish antibiotics” are a way for uninsured people to buy medicine without paying for doctor’s visits https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjxwma/people-are-buying-fish-antibiotics-because-they-cant-afford-human-ones
#5yrsago Jury to rule on whether the CIA’s torture architects will stand trial for killing and maiming https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/7/31/jury-to-decide-fate-of-cia-torture-psychologists
#5yrsago Profile of Lexi Alexander: director, martial arts champ, and the first (only) woman to direct a Marvel movie https://www.wired.com/story/lexi-alexander-fights-back-against-hollywood/
#1yrago Github pledges legal aid for interoperators https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/01/balance-of-forces/#equilibiria
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include The Shakedown (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).
