This day in history

2014, 2019, 2023.

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this week!

#10yrsago Forecasting versus the stubbornly arbitrary world https://www.ft.com/content/3950604a-33bc-11e4-ba62-00144feabdc0

#10yrsago Being physically unable to commit a crime is no defense against a system that has been fine tuned for prosecution https://www.techdirt.com/2014/09/04/miraculous-works-criminal-justice-system/

#5yrsago Amazon’s plan for traffic deaths from same-day delivery: deflect blame to anonymous subcontractors https://features.propublica.org/amazon-delivery-crashes/how-amazon-hooked-america-on-fast-delivery-while-avoiding-responsibility-for-crashes/#167390

#5yrsago Gallery of Hong Kong protest art: #BeWater https://archive.org/details/HongKongProtests2019_posters_01

#5yrsago Regular expression crossword puzzles! https://regexcrossword.com

#5yrsago Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it “nuance” https://www.zdnet.com/article/consent-removed-from-australias-proposed-data-sharing-legislation/

#5yrsago Information security and warfare metaphors: a toxic mix made in hell https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/05/information-security-and-warfare-metaphors-a-toxic-mix-made-in-hell/

#1yrago Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger” https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

On September 24th, I’ll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!