This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
Catch me in Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.
#15yrsago Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/on-day-one-obama-demands-open-government
#15yrsago Man arrested for shouting complaints about “Arab types” on Turkish Airlines flight https://nypost.com/2009/01/21/plane-crazy/
#15yrsago Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret https://www.mysociety.org/2009/01/21/blimey-it-looks-like-the-internets-won/
#10yrsago Lunar panorama stitched from Chinese Chang’e lander images https://www.360cities.net/image/lunar-panorama-change-3-lander
#10yrsago Jo Walton’s What Makes This Book So Great https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/21/jo-waltons-what-makes-this-book-so-great/
#5yrsago Agency: William Gibson’s followup to The Peripheral turns Neuromancer on its head https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/21/agency-william-gibsons-followup-to-the-peripheral-turns-neuromancer-on-its-head/
#5yrsago Latvia opens up its KGB files and names 4,000+ “informants,” many of whom claim they were framed https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/world/europe/latvia-kgb-informants.html
#5yrsago The EU’s ambitious, fearless antitrust czar is unlikely to win another term https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/21/the-eus-ambitious-fearless-antitrust-czar-is-unlikely-to-win-another-term/
#5yrsago “Capitalism has outlived its usefulness” -Martin Luther King, Jr https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/16/1621178/-Dr-King-the-greatest-purveyor-of-violence-in-the-world-today-my-own-government
#5yrsago CES-goer says his camera was killed by a self-driving car’s LIDAR https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-laser-was-so-powerful-it-wrecked-his-1998-camera/
#1yrago Tiktok’s enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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.
