This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (May 2) in WINNIPEG, then Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!
#20yrsago MIT Tech Review makes a fool out of Jack Valenti https://web.archive.org/web/20040529210502/www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N20/ValentiIntervie.20f.html
#15yrsago Shatnerquake: bizarro novel about every Shatner character sucked into reality to hunt down William Shatner https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/04/william_shatner_william_shatner_william_shatner.php
#15yrsago US Trade Rep lies about Canadian piracy https://web.archive.org/web/20090503075121/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3912/125/
#15yrsago Why neutrality is more important than connection speeds https://isen.com/blog/2009/04/broadband-without-internet-ain-worth.html
#10yrsago Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant) https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/04/telco-disclosures/
#10yrsago Smooth sales-patter from Union Square’s Gentleman Peeler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0
#5yrsago Serpent profiteers: how a summer camp snakebite turned into a $142,938 medical bill https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/29/717467217/summer-bummer-a-young-campers-142-938-snakebite
#5yrsago The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won’t make them better at it — but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/content-moderation-broken-let-us-count-ways
#5yrsago Big Tech’s addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by “terrorizing” employees https://fortune.com/2019/04/29/silicon-valley-nda/
#5yrsago Chase’s stupid poverty-shaming “inspirational” tweet, and Twitter users’ magnificent responses thereto https://mashable.com/article/chase-bank-tweet-backlash
#5yrsago Duke University acquires the archives of Charles N Brown, founder of Locus Magazine https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2019/01/11/locus-archives-documents-the-history-of-sci-fi/
#5yrsago Securepairs.org will send debullshitifying security researchers to Right to Repair hearings to fight industry FUD https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-security-experts-california/
#5yrsago Most US eighth graders have taken apart a gadget to fix it or see how it works https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/tel/student-questionnaires/
#1yrago Weak Institutions https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/
