This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Danish birds imitate ringtones https://web.archive.org/web/20020209120444/http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_288774.html?menu

#15yrsago Wired News publishes damning docs from EFF vs AT&T https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/

#10yrsago HOWTO Make an office-supply X-Wing Fighter https://www.instructables.com/X-Wing-Fighter-from-Office-Supplies/

#5yrsago Brian Wood’s REBELS book one — read the first issue here! https://memex.craphound.com/2016/05/17/brian-woods-rebels-book-one-read-the-first-issue-here/

#1yrago Instagram’s slow-mo appeals court https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#robot-sez-no

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include The Shakedown (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering; and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias.