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2002, 2007, 2017, 2021.
#20yrsago Expoloring Liverpool’s forgotten network of makework tunnels https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2342183.stm
#15yrsago Scissor spiders made from TSA confiscata https://heartlessmachine.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/stainless-steel-spiders-from-stolen-scissors/
#15yrsago AT&T’s guilt-by-association algorithm for finding “terrorists” https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/10/29/att-explains-guilt-association/
#5yrsago RIP Teaforia, the $1000 IoT tea-infuser https://mashable.com/article/teforia-infuser-business#FlBfCDr4haqM
#5yrsago How the tech workers of WWII thwarted the Nazis with high-tech sabotage https://medium.com/@silicondomme/hacking-the-holocaust-abcd332947ae
#1yrago LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin’s celebration of the heroic era of the Mac https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/norwegian-potato-flour-enchiladas/#r2r
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).
