This day in history
2009, 2019.
I’m coming to DEFCON! TOMORROW (Aug 9), I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On SATURDAY (Aug 10), I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).
#15yrsago Exhaustive index of fearmongering Daily Mail stories about cancer and its causes https://web.archive.org/web/20090815070522/http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
#5yrsago Hospital checklists work really well — except when they’re not used https://www.nature.com/articles/523516a
#5yrsago Science fiction and the law: beyond mere courtroom drama https://reactormag.com/will-there-be-justice-science-fiction-and-the-law/
#5yrsago Grifty “Students For Trump” founder pleads guilty to wire fraud for pretending to be a lawyer https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/08/06/students-for-trump-founder-pleads-guilty-to-posing-as-lawyer-in-46k-scam/
#5yrsago Security researcher cracks high-security lock used for ATMs, Air Force One, military bases https://www.reuters.com/article/us-locks-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-high-security-locks-for-government-and-banks-hacked-by-researcher-idUSKCN1UW26Z/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-locks-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-high-security-locks-for-government-and-banks-hacked-by-researcher-idUSKCN1UW26Z/
#5yrsago Taiwanese sympathizers are shipping helmets and gas-masks to Hong Kong https://asiatimes.com/2019/08/helmets-goggles-sent-from-taiwan-to-hk-protesters/
#5yrsago Tiktok is valued at $75b, is spending $3m/day on US advertising, and in China, it has been turned into a state propaganda vehicle https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/8/7/20757855/tiktok-growth-monetization-influencers-regulation
#5yrsago Medical examiner quits after declaring that bloody, stabbed corpse had died of “natural causes” https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gwinnett-county-me-investigator-resigns-after-misinterpreted-autopsy
#5yrsago CHESSES: chess variants for nonexperts, nonplayers, and the very playful https://pippinbarr.com/chesses/
