This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Next weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.

#15yrsago Science fiction as a predictor of the present https://web.archive.org/web/20091107095510/http://tinhousebooks.com/blog/?p=410

#15yrsago Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. https://web.archive.org/web/20091103214101/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/

#10yrsago Cybercrooks sell stolen rewards points at 99.9% discount https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/11/thieves-cash-out-rewards-points-accounts/

#10yrsago Ferguson’s no-fly zone created to ground news-choppers https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/02/360991500/ap-no-fly-zone-in-ferguson-meant-to-keep-media-out

#5yrsago Teen uses external cameras and projection-mapping onto the a-pillar to “solve” blind-spots https://gizmodo.com/14-year-old-genius-solves-blind-spots-1839540078

#5yrsago The public spent $10b for Trump’s wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

#1yrago Big Tech’s “attention rents” https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers