This day in history
2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
#15yrsago Cracking ice-sheets sound like Star Wars blasters https://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/
#15yrsago When getting the bombsquad called to school was a badge of honor https://jalopnik.com/how-my-youthful-junkyard-scrounging-habit-got-my-high-s-5450096
#15yrsago Britain’s Business Secretary wants to turn the nation’s back on basic science https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/17/lasers-government-funding-peter-mandelson
#10yrsago Eric Holder: no more civil forfeiture without warrant/charges https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/holder-ends-seized-asset-sharing-process-that-split-billions-with-local-state-police/2015/01/16/0e7ca058-99d4-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html
#5yrsago Imagining a “smart city” that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-cities-where-youre-the-sensor-not-the-thing-being-sensed
#5yrsago Ars Technica’s dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix series is the best dunk of all https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/goops-netflix-series-its-so-much-worse-than-i-expected-and-i-cant-unsee-it/
#5yrsago Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids https://web.archive.org/web/20200501000000*/https://thegailygrind.com/2020/01/16/republicans-introduce-bill-to-make-it-illegal-for-doctors-to-treat-transgender-children-in-north-dakota/
#5yrsago Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/e541r4/new_type_of_parking_enforcement_on_my_campus/
#1yrago The super-rich got that way through monopolies https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/#inequality-corruption-climate-poverty-sweatshops
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