This day in history

2013, 2018, 2022.

Tomorrow (May 5), I’ll be at the Books, Inc in Mountain View with Mitch Kapor; and on May 6/7, I’ll be in Berkeley at the Bay Area Bookfest.

#10yrsago Dan Kaminsky on Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/2013/05/lets-cut-through-the-bitcoin-hype/

#5yrsago Western Illinois coroner will hold your family’s ashes hostage for $1,000, won’t produce a death certificate without payment https://apnews.com/article/illinois-north-america-us-news-il-state-wire-ap-top-news-3b91c0727e254a1ab88c9fe044636d8c

#5yrsago Wil Wheaton’s frank, brave speech about his depression and anxiety https://wilwheaton.net/2018/05/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-i-am-not-ashamed/

#5yrsago Three artificial pancreases: a special trio of Catalog of Missing Devices entries https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/04/three-artificial-pancreases-a-special-trio-of-catalog-of-missing-devices-entries/

#5yrsago Prominent AI researchers call the entire field “alchemy” https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy

#5yrsago Scandal-haunted Scott Pruitt’s staffers are shopping dirt on Ryan Zinke to create a distraction https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/epa-leaks/559607/