This day in history

2014, 2019.

(Tonight) June 21, I’m doing an online reading for the Locus Awards at 16hPT. On June 22, I’m keynoting the Locus Awards in Oakland, CA. On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY.

#10yrsago How Hachette made the rope that Amazon is hanging it with https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/20/how-amazon-holding-hachette-hostage

#10yrsago Public opinion of Congress reaches a new low https://news.gallup.com/poll/163052/americans-confidence-congress-falls-lowest-record.aspx

#10yrsago Congress passes anti-mass surveillance amendment with overwhelming support https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-statement-massie-lofgren-amendment-passing-house

#10yrsago UK bans teaching Creationism as science in schools https://humanists.uk/2014/06/18/victory-government-bans-existing-future-academies-free-schools-teaching-creationism-science/

#10yrsago NSA helps foreign governments conduct mass surveillance at home https://web.archive.org/web/20140619092447/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/06/18/nsa-surveillance-secret-cable-partners-revealed-rampart-a/

#5yrsago Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations to Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCnQ3iRkys

#5yrsago Wonderful profile of Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist games critic who made an army of shitty manbabies very, very upset https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/6/19/18679678/anita-sarkeesian-feminist-frequency-interview-history-story

#5yrsago The “ghost networks” of mental health professionals that US health insurers rely on to deny care to their patients https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/17/ghost-networks-psychiatrists-hinder-patient-care/

#5yrsago UK government quietly cancels “age verification” system that would have compiled a database of every Briton’s sexual fantasies https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/20/uk-government-quietly-cancels-age-verification-system-that-would-have-compiled-a-database-of-every-britons-sexual-fantasies/