This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019.
On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY. On July 20, I’m appearing at Chicago’s Exile in Bookville.
#15yrsago Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA https://web.archive.org/web/20090516205904/http://www.sfscope.com/2009/05/comics-artist-mark-sable-detai.html
#10yrsago SWAT teams claim to be private mercenaries, immune to open records laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/26/massachusetts-swat-teams-claim-theyre-private-corporations-immune-from-open-records-laws/
#10yrsago Poesy guest-reviews the new Ariol book https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/27/poesy-guest-reviews-the-new-ariol-book/
#5yrsago Internet users are wising up to persuasive “nudge” techniques https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/
#5yrsago Congress orders Ajit Pai: hands off San Francisco’s broadband competition law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/house-votes-to-block-ajit-pais-plan-to-kill-san-francisco-broadband-law/
#5yrsago NYC Mesh, a neutral, nonprofit meshing ISP, dramatically expands access in Brooklyn https://www.vice.com/en/article/paj8z8/a-diy-internet-network-has-drastically-expanded-its-coverage-in-nyc
#5yrsago Robert Reich backs Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Tech https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/robert-reich-why-we-need-to-break-up-big-tech
#5yrsago How Memphis’s Methodist University Hospital, a “nonprofit,” sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each https://www.propublica.org/article/methodist-le-bonheur-healthcare-sues-poor-medical-debt#163801
#5yrsago Hong Kong protesters repeatedly blockade police HQ, demanding release of people arrested at #612strike demonstrations https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3016238/hong-kong-police-under-siege-again-protesters-surround
