This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
On October 23 at 7PM, I’ll be in Decatur, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books.
#15yrsago Finland makes broadband a right https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/finland-makes-1mb-broadband-access-a-legal-right/
#10yrsago Dead Set: Richard Kadrey’s young adult horror novel https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/dead-set-richard-kadreys-young-adult-horror-novel/
#10yrsago Gamergate as a hate-group https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/gamergate-as-a-hate-group/
#10yrsago Lamar “SOPA” Smith dispatches GOP commissars to National Science Foundation https://gizmodo.com/the-gop-intensifies-its-attacks-on-the-national-science-1645733575
#10yrsago Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Doubt Factory” https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/14/paolo-bacigalupis-the-doubt-factory/
#5yrsago What it would cost to build Trump’s snake-and-alligator border moat https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/10/snake-and-alligator-border-moat-budget-analysis/160350/
#5yrsago German bank robber staged a 5-day fillibuster with his legally guaranteed right to a post-sentencing “final word” https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/europe/bank-robbery-five-day-speech-intl-scli-grm/index.html
#5yrsago Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook
#5yrsago China’s new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/14/chinas-new-cybersecurity-rules-ban-foreign-companies-from-using-vpns-to-phone-home/
#5yrsag Orban humiliated: Hungary’s crypto-fascist Fidesz party suffers string of municipal election defeats https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/13/opposition-parties-candidate-wins-budapest-mayoral-race
#5yrsago Proof-of-concept supply-chain poisoning: tiny, undetectable hardware alterations could compromise corporate IT https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/14/proof-of-concept-supply-chain-poisoning-tiny-undetectable-hardware-alterations-could-compromise-corporate-it/
#1yrago Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/#ex