This day in history

2003, 2008, 2018, 2022.

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I’m hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I’ll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I’ll be at Toronto’s Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

#20yrsago US goverment trying to sink WIPO open content talks https://archives.lessig.org/indexcd0e.html?p=2321

#20yrsago Gilberto Gil supports CD-burning automats https://web.archive.org/web/20031001111038/https://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/ago/19/30.htm

#15yrsago Printcrime in Portuguese https://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2008/08/printcrime.html

#15yrsago Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft’s headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse https://web.archive.org/web/20080831143307/http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/482449.html

#15yrsago Cartoon depicts what went on in the NSA’s wiretapping room at AT&T…