This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I’m giving a talk called “DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!” at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I’m doing a “Talking Caterpillar” Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
#15yrsago Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, one of the all-time great American comedy sf novels, will be a movie https://memex.craphound.com/2009/08/13/buddy-holly-is-alive-and-well-on-ganymede-one-of-the-all-time-great-american-comedy-sf-novels-will-be-a-movie/
#15yrsago Dingbat dictatorship in Belarus invents magical anti-cancer pockets for school uniforms https://web.archive.org/web/20090820215848/http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/13/belarus_develops_school_uniform_that_makes_tin_foil_hates_obsolete
#10yrsago Comcast, Time Warner make huge “donations” to party honoring their FCC overseer https://www.techdirt.com/2014/08/12/comcast-time-warner-cable-spend-big-to-honor-fcc-commissioner-overseeing-their-merger-review/
#10yrsago Comcast leaves customer on hold for 3 hours, closes the office and goes home https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2ddxku/comment/cjoqmdo/
#10yrsago Brooklyn Law Clinic students scare away patent trolls https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/law-students-fend-off-a-patent-troll-2b8a708277fc
#10yrsago Groucho Marx on comics and depression https://memex.craphound.com/2014/08/13/groucho-marx-on-comics-and-depression/
#10yrsago How Gary Gygax lost control over D&D and TSR https://medium.com/@increment/the-ambush-at-sheridan-springs-3a29d07f6836
#5yrsago If you think Jeffrey Epstein must have been murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two-stories-jeffrey-epstein-prison-death/596029/
#5yrsago Deep look at the Googler Uprising, drawing on insider interviews https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/
#5yrsago The only path to victory in the Middle Earth election is to appeal to the moderate orc voter https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-need-a-wizard-who-can-appeal-to-the-moderate-orc-voter
#5yrsago “Productivity” is a perfect example of the pseudscience underpinning economics https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2019/07/08/no-productivity-does-not-explain-income/
#5yrsago If the election was held today, Bernie would beat Trump by 8 points https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/12/bernie-sanders-acing-electability-test-another-poll-shows-senator-crushing-trump
#5yrsago Barstool Sports’ president posts illegal termination threat against employees considering unionization https://web.archive.org/web/20190813133038/https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1161268795278790658
#5yrsago As Uber’s stock craters amid billions in unanticipated losses, a hiring freeze on engineers https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-imposes-engineer-hiring-freeze-as-losses-mount-exclusive-202234064.html
#5yrsago Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/interoperability-and-privacy-squaring-circle
#1yrago Enshitternet https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/13/enshitternet/
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