This day in history
2004, 2009, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to Defcon! On 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 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).
#20yrsago Salon op-ed on DNC bloggers https://www.salon.com/2004/07/28/demoblog/
#20yrsago Ebook column that gets it all wrong https://memex.craphound.com/2004/07/28/ebook-column-that-gets-it-all-wrong/
#20yrsago Don Martin MAD toons onomatopoeia glossary https://web.archive.org/web/20040803000036/http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/dmd-alphabetical.html
#20yrsago EFF defending creators of This Land is Your Land parody https://web.archive.org/web/20040804002623/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001778.php
#15yrsago Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright https://memex.craphound.com/2009/07/28/canadian-copyright-collecting-agency-subverting-open-debate-on-copyright/
#15yrsago US border station scraps sign that says “United States” because terrorists might attack it https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/arts/design/27border.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
#15yrsago Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2009/07/27/aps-drm-announcement-much-ado-about-nothing/
#15yrsago Free: a great book, but it’s missing the truly free https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson
#5yrsago “Intellectual Debt”: It’s bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it’s potentially WORSE when AI gets it right https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/28/intellectual-debt-its-bad-enough-when-ai-gets-its-predictions-wrong-but-its-potentially-worse-when-ai-gets-it-right/
#1yrago Microincentives and Enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/
#1yrago Tesla’s Dieselgate https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world
