This day in history
2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.
#20yrsago Ghanan gov’t shuts down ISPs to keep email from displacing long-distance https://web.archive.org/web/20030424090724/http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200302/msg00189.html
#20yrsago Doctorow on Gibson in Mindjack https://www.mindjack.com/books/gibsonpr.html
#15yrsago Government and corporate employees engage in an “epidemic” of snooping into databases https://web.archive.org/web/20080229003253/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghPenZUJTE7BfSfgQbj6RX597DEAD8V019TG0
#15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America election is a referendum on copyright extremism https://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/18/a-gut-check-moment-for-sfwa/
#15yrsago Knowledge isn’t property https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property
#10yrsago Marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_and_i_are_both_physicists/
#10yrsago Pastafarian denied religious freedom in New Jersey driver’s license scandal https://web.archive.org/web/20130225093656/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/colander-religious-headwear-police-article-1.1271134
#5yrsago Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was surrounded by cowering “good guys with guns” https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies/index.html
#5yrsago Gothamist unionized and its evil Trumpist billionaire owner shut it down; now public radio is bringing it back https://www.wired.com/story/gothamist-dcist-laist-return-wnyc-public-radio/
#5yrsago Paul Manafort’s inability to save Word files as PDFs provided the evidence necessary to indict him for fraud https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/
#1yrago Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/#nibbled-to-death-by-ducks
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 Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power. 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 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).
