This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013.

#20yrsago American Bar Association wants “pirate” WiFi regulated http://craphound.com/Committee_703_Mid-Winter_Re.DOC

#20yrsago Email “bullying” favors bosses https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2902777.stm

#15yrsago VCs sitting on giant piles of money that Internet startups don’t need https://www.wired.com/2008/03/bz-lonelyvc/

#15yrsago Declassified memo authorized US to torture “enemy combatants” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html

#10yrsago HOWTO turn a dead hard-drive into a cotton candy machine https://web.archive.org/web/20130402130715/http://micgadget.com/24223/turning-an-old-hard-disk-into-a-candy-floss-machine/

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 Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).