This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018.

Today (Oct 25) at 10hPT/18hUK, I’m livestreaming an event called “Seizing the Means of Computation” for the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

#20yrsago Citi’s CEO’s SSN sky-written over NYC https://www.wired.com/2003/10/yo-mr-ceo-get-our-point-now/

#10yrsago Librarian to sister superior, 1948: comic books are good for kids! https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/oct/25/librarian-rebukes-nun-over-comic-books/

#10yrsago 19th century 9lb, 100-blade multitool with a pistol https://www.wired.com/2013/10/you-can-kill-a-man-100-ways-with-this-crazy-swiss-army-knife/

#10yrsago Charlie Stross on spooks: paranoid, fumbling, all-powerful www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/spook-century.html

#10yrsago Texas’s “texting judge” resigns, admitting she texted instructions to prosecutors https://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/texting-judge-not-lol-coker-is-out/

#10yrsago Manchester cops trumpet seized “3D printed gun” — turns out to be parts for a 3D printer https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/25/5027282/uk-police-seize-3d-printed-gun-components

#5yrsago The Copyright Office just greenlit a suite of DRM-breaking exemptions to the DMCA https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair

#5yrsago Ebay is full of used voting machines full of real electoral data and riddled with security defects https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/

#5yrsago Disney theme parks have a serious problem with cremain-scattering https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-worlds-big-secret-its-a-favorite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes-1540390229