This day in history

2014, 2019, 2023.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me next weekend (Mar 30–31) at Wondercon in Anaheim, then Boston (Apr 11) with Randall “XKCD” Munroe, Providence (Apr 12) and beyond!

#10yrsago Jimmy Wales tells “energy workers” that Wikipedia won’t publish woo, “the work of lunatic charlatans isn’t the equivalent of ‘true scientific discourse’” https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/wikipedia-founder-calls-alt-medicine-practitioners-lunatic-charlatans/

#10yrsago Noah Swartz reads Aaron Swartz’s afterword to Homeland https://memex.craphound.com/2014/03/26/noah-swartz-reads-aaron-swartzs-afterword-to-homeland/

#10yrsago Inside America’s illegal “Little Guantánamos” https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gk993/inside-the-kafkaesque-world-of-the-uss-little-guantanamos

#10yrsago Reflections from sketching courtrooms https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn5jy5/theater-of-justice

#10yrsago UK tax authority used anti-terror law to spy on whistleblower who disclosed sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/24/hmrc-criticised-mps-terror-law-tax-whistleblower-hodge

#5yrsago Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button https://medium.com/@emanuelkarlsten/sweden-democrats-swedish-social-democrats-defeat-motion-to-amend-articles-11-13-731d3c0fbf30

#5yrsago An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors https://bribestop.us

#5yrsago Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/music-labels-sue-charter-complain-that-high-internet-speeds-fuel-piracy/

#1yrago Silicon Valley Noir https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/26/silicon-valley-noir/