This day in history

#10yrsago Shannon’s Law: a story about bridging Faerie and the mundane world with TCP-over-magic https://www.tor.com/2011/05/05/shannons-law/

#10yrsago Neil Gaiman responds to Minnesota Republican House Leader who called him a “pencil-necked geek” and a “thief” https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/05/opinions-of-pencil-necked-weasel-thief.html

#5yrsago MEP tours the farcical viewing conditions for the TTIP text https://twitter.com/lukeming/status/727822421219151872

#5yrsago Amid education funding emergency, Washington State gives Boeing, Microsoft $1B in tax breaks https://jeffreifman.com/2016/05/05/forget-boeing-microsofts-tax-break-costs-776-million/

#1yrago A federal jobs guarantee https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the-hard-stuff/#jobs-guarantee

#1yrago What “writing rules” actually mean https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the-hard-stuff/#said-bookism

#1yrago Teen Vogue on socialist feminism https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the-hard-stuff/#wages-for-housework

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy…