This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#20yrsago Wil Wheaton’s book is out! https://web.archive.org/web/20030520183700/https://www.monolithpress.com/projects.php?projectID=2

#20yrsago Tufte shreds PowerPoint https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

#15yrsago Canada’s Crown Copyright: high-cost censorship https://www.thestar.com/business/2008/05/12/crown_copyright_is_overdue_for_retirement.html

#15yrsago Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches — using game-scoring to keep track of and expand how you browse https://pmog.com

#10yrsago Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely “reset password” for Android devices https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-deluged-by-police-demands-to-decrypt-iphones/

#5yrsago Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html

#1yrago A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/12/crypto-means-cryptography/#p2p-rides-again

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!