This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2022.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Boston (Apr 11) with Randall “XKCD” Munroe, Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

#15yrsago London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators https://web.archive.org/web/20090405075419/http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/993

#10yrsago Rob Ford excuses, uttered by a child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zuzSuPwH4

#10yrsago Why I don’t believe in robots https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/apr/02/why-it-is-not-possible-to-regulate-robots

#5yrsago RIP, science fiction writer Vonda N McIntyre https://file770.com/science-fiction-author-vonda-n-mcintyre-official-obituary/

#5yrsago Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers’ libraries https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-removes-the-books-category-from-the-microsoft-store/

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders raises $18.2m from 525,000 small-money donors (including me) https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/bernie-sanders-18-2-million-raised-first-quarter/index.html

#5yrsago Moderators for large platform tell all, reveal good will, frustration, marginalization https://onezero.medium.com/your-speech-their-rules-meet-the-people-who-guard-the-internet-ab58fe6b9231

#5yrsago After boasting about running his company from prison, Martin Shkreli gets solitary confinement https://www.thedailybeast.com/martin-shkreli-thrown-in-solitary-confinement-after-running-drug-company-from-prison-cellphone-report

#1yrago Commafuckers Versus The Commons https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/02/commafuckers-versus-the-commons/