This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I’m giving a talk called “DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!” at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I’m doing a “Talking Caterpillar” Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
#15yrsago How free ebooks are good for well-known and obscure writers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/aug/18/free-ebooks-cory-doctorow
#10yrsago Here’s all the stuff the Pentagon has sold to local law enforcement — cheap! https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/aug/15/we-have-pentagon-1033-program-data/
#10yrsago Monopolists are perfectly impedence-matched with bureaucrats https://timharford.com/2014/08/monopoly-is-a-bureaucrats-friend-but-a-democrats-foe/
#10yrsago Videoing police violence is the new “See something, say something” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/16/fergusons-citizen-journalists-video
#10yrsago Fictional products don’t violate trademark laws https://www.techdirt.com/2014/08/15/software-company-loses-trademark-case-against-batman-over-fictional-software/
#5yrsago Towards a better practice of online news-corrections https://newscollab.org/2019/08/15/bringing-news-corrections-further-into-the-digital-age/
#5yrsago The case for allowing children to vote https://crookedtimber.org/2019/08/17/give-children-the-vote/
#5yrsago Washington state rep Matt Shea secretly backed and organized terror-training camps to create child soldiers to fight in a race war https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-children-to-fight-in-holy-war/
#1yrago When parties fail, movements step up https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/17/popular-front-of-judea/#speaking-frankly
Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear RIDA QADRI and me talk about how GIG WORKERS can DISENSHITTIFY their jobs with INTEROPERABILITY, VOTE FOR THIS ONE!
