This day in history

2004, 2009, 2019, 2023.

I’m coming to DEFCON! On FRIDAY (Aug 9), I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On SATURDAY (Aug 10), I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).

#20yrsago Stupid judge breaks porn, Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20040903175845/http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Web_Exclusive_Features&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=185024

#20yrsago EFF reply comments to RIAA’s digital radio proposal at the FCC https://web.archive.org/web/20041027065736/https://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/EFF-BC_DAB_reply.pdf

#20yrsago Jack Valenti says stupid things — really, really stupid things https://web.archive.org/web/20040805024304/http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002065.shtml#002065

#15yrsago David Byrne’s live show: the highlight of the year https://memex.craphound.com/2009/08/03/david-byrnes-live-show-the-highlight-of-the-year/

#15yrsago Senator’s campaign website suffers search-engine death penalty for embedding invisible homophobic slur against opponent https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/hidden-gay-slur-search-terms-get-campaign-site-blacklisted/

#15yrsago HOWTO Present a poster session at a science meeting https://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design/

#15yrsago Black-market stem-cell clinic raided https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17551-guerrilla-stem-cell-clinic-raided-by-police/

#5yrsago Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits’s “Hell Broke Luce” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbiioBFkD_Q

#5yrsago Massachusetts says Purdue’s profits from a single opioid addict were $200,000 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/sacklers-are-massachusetts-ag-s-opioid-scapegoat-lawyer-says

#5yrsago Elsevier: “It’s illegal to Sci-Hub.” Also Elsevier: “We link to Sci-Hub all the time.” https://eve.gd/2019/08/03/elsevier-threatens-others-for-linking-to-sci-hub-but-does-it-itself/

#5yrsago Hong Kong’s General Strike on Monday will include workers from Hong Kong Disneyland https://twitter.com/maree_jun/status/1157671896751599621

#1yrago Cloudburst https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers