This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019.

On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY. On July 20, I’m appearing at Chicago’s Exile in Bookville.

#20yrsago ESC-key creator dies https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/us/robert-w-bemer-84-pioneer-in-computer-programming.html

#20yrsago Orrin Hatch criminalizes the iPod https://web.archive.org/web/20040627001053/https://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

#20yrsago Schneier: More police power = less security https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2004/06/unchecked_police_and.html

#20yrsago Ernest Miller savages Orrin Hatch’s grotesque new law https://corante.com/importance/the-obsessively-annotated-introduction-to-the-induce-act/

#20yrsago MP candidates on the “Canadian DMCA” https://web.archive.org/web/20040812131225/https://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/002667.html

#15yrsago How the Canadian copyright lobby uses fakes, fronts, and circular references to subvert the debate on copyright https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/06/copyright-policy-laundering/

#15yrsago Julian Comstock: Robert Charles Wilson’s masterful novel of a post-collapse feudal America: “If Jules Verne had read Karl Marx, then sat down to write The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire“ https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/24/julian-comstock-robert-charles-wilsons-masterful-novel-of-a-post-collapse-feudal-america-if-jules-verne-had-read-karl-marx-then-sat-down-to-write-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/

#15yrsago Health insurance versus health https://web.archive.org/web/20090709060418/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/the_truth_about_the_insurance.html

#15yrsago Guards are the worst prison-rapists https://web.archive.org/web/20090624183205/http://nprec.us/publication/report/executive_summary.php

#15yrsago Great Firewall of Australia to block video games unsuitable for people under 15 https://www.smh.com.au/technology/web-filters-to-censor-video-games-20090625-cxrx.html

#10yrsago Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-21st-century/

#10yrsago How accounting forced transparency on the aristocracy and changed the world https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html

#5yrsago America’s super-rich write to Democratic presidential hopefuls, demanding a wealth tax https://medium.com/@letterforawealthtax/an-open-letter-to-the-2020-presidential-candidates-its-time-to-tax-us-more-6eb3a548b2fe

#5yrsago You can’t recycle your way out of climate change https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal

#5yrsago US election security: still a dumpster fire https://www.wired.com/story/election-security-2020/

#5yrsago “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times”: my op-ed from the future https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-college-cancel-debt/

#5yrsago Mandatory childbirth: how the anti-abortion crusade masks cruelty to women in the “sacralizing of fetuses” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/anti-abortion-history.html

#5yrsago The internet has become a “low-trust society” https://www.wired.com/story/internet-made-dupes-cynics-of-us-all/

#5yrsago “PM for a day”: dissident Tories plan to bring down the government the day after Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48742881

#5yrsago Report: UK “Ransomware consultants” Red Mosquito promise to unlock your data, but they’re just paying off the criminals (and charging you a markup!) https://www.propublica.org/article/sting-catches-another-ransomware-firm-red-mosquito-negotiating-with-hackers

#5yrsago Lessons from Microsoft’s antitrust adventure for today’s Big Tech giants https://web.archive.org/web/20190622131345/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Microsoft-s-missteps-offer-antitrust-lessons-for-14030092.php

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