This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2023.

On June 20, I’m keynoting the Locus Awards in Oakland, CA. On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY.

#20yrsago Bush’s climate-change Lysenkoism https://web.archive.org/web/20040620082250/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/view.html?pg=4?tw=wn_tophead_4

#20yrsago WIPO Broadcast Treaty: consolidated three-day notes https://web.archive.org/web/20040611123828/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001599.php#001599

#15yrsago Chinese court hands down prison for extortion of virtual wealth https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/09/chinese-court-hands-down-prison-for-extortion-of-virtual-wealth/

#15yrsago Repo man who specializes in recovering planes from deadbeat con-artists, gangsters and drug-lords https://www.salon.com/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

#10yrsago Jay Lake, on blogging your own death https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jay-lake-speaker-for-dead/

#1yrago Capitalists hate capitalism https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/#price-giver