This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2023.

On June 20, I’ll be live onstage in Los Angeles for a recording of the Go Fact Yourself podcast. On June 21, I’m doing an online reading for the Locus Awards at 16hPT. On June 22, 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 Neuromancer jacket-quote https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/16/neuromancer-jacket-quote/

#20yrsago Vatican reduces Inquisition’s atrocity-count https://web.archive.org/web/20040621234858/http://www.iht.com/articles/525118.html

#20yrsago Orin Hatch to make “counselling infringers” a crime https://web.archive.org/web/20040621210922/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001631.php

#15yrsago China backs off on mandatory spyware https://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-channel-wire/217900033/china-caves-says-green-dam-software-is-optional

#15yrsago EFF kills another stupid internet patent https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/06/16

#15yrsago Kids lose their summer break due to impenetrable bureaucratic mess https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-16-me-summer16-story.html

#10yrsago IRS won’t fix database of nonprofits, so it goes dark https://web.archive.org/web/20140715041700/https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/terminate.html

#10yrsago Father’s Day: Groucho sings “Father’s Day” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Dt9q8bkqg

#1yrago Conservatives are fringe outliers — and leftists could learn from them https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos