This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

There’s only one week left in the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

#15yrsago Countering the FUD about the “Orphan Works” copyright bill (that doesn’t exist) https://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

#10yrsago Ordered list of credible fictions https://www.wired.com/2013/04/design-fiction-the-design-fiction-slider-bar-of-disbelief/

#10yrsago WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall https://jeffreifman.com/2013/04/12/seattle-dance-clubs-fundraise-to-pay-microsofts-tax-bill/

#5yrsago Parkland teacher who was open to the idea of arming teachers forgets his loaded Glock in a public bathroom https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43733755

#5yrsago Zuck to Congress: “I’ll get back to you” (42 times) https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-will-follow-up/

#5yrsago Peak Zuck: “What’s a shadow profile?” https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/