This day in history
2004, 2009, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to Defcon! On Aug 9, I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).
#20yrsago Woody Guthrie’s copyright used to defile his memory in lawsuit threat https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2004/07/land-isnt-your-land
#15yrsago New Adrian Mole diary is dark, hopeless and hilarious https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/26/new-adrian-mole-diary-is-dark-hopeless-and-hilarious/
#5yrsago Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty” https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html
#5yrsago Make the internet better by empowering users, not by demanding that platforms implement automated filters https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/key-safety-online-user-empowerment-not-censorship
#5yrsago The Airbus 350 needs a hard reboot every 149 hours https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/25/a350_power_cycle_software_bug_149_hours/
#5yrsago Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement
#5yrsago Siemens contractor hid “logic bomb” in complicated spreadsheet, guaranteeing future maintenance work https://www.zdnet.com/article/siemens-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-planting-logic-bomb-in-company-spreadsheets/
#5yrsago Activist blacksmith teaches gun violence survivors to melt down guns and turn them into farm implements https://billypenn.com/2019/07/25/using-fire-and-force-this-philly-author-turns-guns-into-garden-tools/
#5yrsago Grifty conservative PACs raised millions pushing racist Obama conspiracies to elderly, low-income supporters, then kept almost all of it https://www.propublica.org/article/conservative-majority-fund-political-fundraising-pac-kelley-rogers
#1yrago The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in
