This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
TONIGHT (October 23) at 7PM, I’ll be in Decatur, Georgia, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books.
#15yrsago 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera https://web.archive.org/web/20091025233149/http://calibersf.com/2009/10/23/i-will-break-your-fucking-camera/
#15yrsago Barclay’s terrible bank-security https://web.archive.org/web/20091028154706/http://www.links.org/?p=772
#15yrago Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism https://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/
#10yrsago Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in 20 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKsHhXwqDqM
#10yrsago The dirty secret of Google’s self-driving cars https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/google-self-driving-car-it-may-never-actually-happen.html
#5yrsago Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we’ll help you sabotage teachers’ strikes https://qz.com/1318758/schools-are-using-ai-to-track-what-students-write-on-their-computers
#5yrsago New York Times abruptly eliminates its “director of information security” position: “there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security” https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760
#5yrsago The wonderful You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney’s most racist movie, Song of the South www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2019/10/21/six-degrees-of-song-of-the-south-episode-1-disneys-most-controversial-film
#5yrsago A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/23/down-with-god-how-the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures
#5yrsago Bernie supporters are the most diverse of any Democratic presidential contender https://prospect.org/politics/aoc-endorsement-queens-rally-sanders-movement/
#5yrsago When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: “face-scanning algorithm” gains popularity as a job-applicant screener https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/
#5yrsago Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices https://web.archive.org/web/20191023135234/https://www.tokyoreporter.com/business/robot-hotel-operator-announces-modification-to-prevent-hacks-by-guests/
#1yrago In defense of bureaucratic competence https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis
