This day in history
2014, 2019, 2023.
Catch me in Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.
#10yrsago Building a fully open, transparent laptop https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/building-an-open-source-laptop/
#10yrsago Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
#10yrsago NSA harvests 200M of SMSes every day with untargeted, global “Dishfire” program https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep
#10yrsago Congress calls on Schneier to give it answers that the NSA won’t https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html
#10yrsago How to have a healthy relationship with technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/16/digital-failures-software
#10yrsago What’s the most profitable price for an ebook? https://blog.luzme.com/2014/01/10-things-may-know-ebook-prices/
#10yrsago Copyright troll dodging disbarment by resigning from the bar? https://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2014/01/15/how-to-avoid-disbarment-disbar-yourself/
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W8
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-01-16/state-official-went-roaming-around-vermont-to-test-cell-coverage-claims
#5yrsago The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook’s business-model) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18186045/facebook-pew-research-ad-targeting-consumers-quitting
#5yrsago Privatized energy utilities are burning down their states, but antitrust can make them stop https://www.wired.com/story/to-prevent-wildfires-treat-utilities-like-railroad-barons/
#5yrsago Trump’s FCC chairman won’t do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because shutdown https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/ajit-pai-gives-carriers-free-pass-on-privacy-violations-during-fcc-shutdown/
#5yrsago Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/the-shutdown-s-bad-buckle-up-because-it-could-get-much-worse
#5yrsago Tory voters: are you happy with your purchase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5t1CZFCU8
#5yrsago Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before https://www.wired.com/story/collection-one-breach-email-accounts-passwords/
#1yrago 1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/16/for-petes-sake/#unfair-and-deceptive
I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by Wil Wheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.
