This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024.
For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!
#20yrsago Matt Jones: refactor the UI https://web.archive.org/web/20040527124940/http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/000346.html
#15yrsago US corporations fighting to keep poor countries from getting patent-free access to green tech https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/19/wto-climate-change-intellectual-property
#15yrsago How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/former-uw-student-shakes-up-british-government-888589.php?source=rss
#10yrsago Surveillance state: the NSA doesn’t stand alone https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-nsa-transforming-law-enforcement
#10yrsago Kleargear ruins customers’ credit over online criticism, refuses to honor US judgment https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/embattled-retailer-kleargear-fights-back-against-online-review-defeat/
#10yrsago Science fiction and the law: free speech, censorship, privacy and surveillance https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2439423
#10yrsago Brussels: Water cannons turned on anti-TTIP protesters fighting the Son of ACTA https://www.techdirt.com/2014/05/16/water-cannons-turned-peaceful-ttip-protestors-brussels-as-public-barred-negotiations/
#10yrsago Schneier: NSA’s offense leaves Americans undefended https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/should-hackers-fix-cybersecurity-holes-or-exploit-them/371197/
#10yrsago 100 creeps busted in massive voyeurware sweep https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/more-than-100-arrested-in-global-crackdown-on-peeping-tom-malware/
#5yrsago Massive, careful study finds that social media use is generally neutral for kids’ happiness, and sometimes positive https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902058116
#5yrsago The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/baltimore-ransomware-nightmare-could-last-weeks-more-with-big-consequences/
#5yrsago The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during “surges”), overworked drivers https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Uber-Lyft-San-Francisco-pros-cons-ride-hailing-13841277.php
#5yrsago Facebook’s Dutch Head of Policy lied to the Dutch parliament about election interference https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2019/05/21/facebook-lies-to-dutch-parliament-about-election-manipulation/
#5yrsago Rogess: chess with roguelike combat https://pippinbarr.com/rogess/
#1yrago Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People’s Pain https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/21/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-peoples-pain/
