This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

I’ll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8–10: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.

#20yrsago Why market-forces can’t correct DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20041109090959/http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19246

#15yrsago Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating https://www.amalah.com/photos/when_you_marry/index.html

#10yrsago UK Tories propose life sentences for using a computer to “damage the economy” https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/23/computer-users-damage-national-security-face-jail

#5yrsago BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries’ censoring firewalls https://web.archive.org/web/20191025120544/https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3083006/bbc-news-tor-dark-web-site

#5yrsago The Youtubers’ union just wants Google to give them the rulebook https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-union/

#5yrsago An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1186718183513907202

#1yrago Microincentives and Enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/#incentives-matter

Tor Books just published two new, free “Little Brother” stories: “Vigilant,” a about creepy surveillance in distance education; and “Spill,” about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.