This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TODAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, then Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

#15yrsago Home Office official offered advice and “comfort” to Phorm spyware vendor https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021661.stm

#15yrsago Geoengineering wishful thinking is the new climate denialism https://web.archive.org/web/20090430135547/www.worldchanging.com/archives/009784.html

#15yrsago Bruce Sterling explains swine flu https://web.archive.org/web/20090512004141/https://www.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/practical-tips.html

#10yrsago Unboxing a Makie doll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnT9lMR3ATg

#10yrsago Hacking the hospital: medical devices have terrible default security https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/

#10yrsago UKIP candidate tells Lenny Henry to move to a “black country”; party says reporting this is a “smear campaign” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27176803

#5yrsago The DCCC is sabotaging Marie Newman’s primary challenge to Dan Lipiniski, a hereditary, anti-choice, anti-minimum-wage, homophobic “Democrat” https://theintercept.com/2019/04/26/dccc-blacklist-marie-newman-dan-lipinski/

#5yrsago Lawyer for kid whose parents paid $1.2m bribe to get into Yale says the high price shows grifters’ anti-Chinese bias https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/college-admissions-scandal.html

#1yrago Convicted monopolist prevented from re-offending https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/27/convicted-monopolist/#microsquish