This day in history

2002, 2012, 2021.

#20yrsago Ben Franklin, hax0r https://web.archive.org/web/20020216042825/http://www.mbay.net/~jubois/id23.htm

#5yrsago Five reasons to play D&D https://grimmwisdom.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/5-reasons-to-play-dd/

#10yrsago Science fiction grand master Jack Vance rockin’ a uke and a kazoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiOt6eW0pZI

#1yrago Facebook’s official disinformation research portal is a bad joke https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#potemkin-research-program

#1yrago Scammers sell griefers social media banning services https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#curse-of-bigness

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 Surveillance Capitalism. 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 The Shakedown (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; 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).