This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Hollywood wants to outlaw crowbars https://web.archive.org/web/20030121114241/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000237.html

#20yrsago All clauses of this disclaimer apply to the disclaimer itself, except for this first sentence https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222457/http://www.brockerhoff.net/index.html

#10yrsago EFF creates the “Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents” https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-half-million-dollar-boost-mark-cuban-and-notch

#10yrsago SuperPACs: the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-13/super-pacs-are-cushy-jobs

#10yrsago Dinosaur Comics creator’s Choose-your-own-adventure Hamlet beats all Kickstarter publishing records https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breadpig/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-adventure

#10yrsago Why Mayor Rob Ford belongs on Toronto’s shitlist. Again. https://torontoist.com/2012/12/2012-villain-rob-ford/

#5yrsago Researchers trick Google’s AI into thinking rifles are helicopters, without any knowledge of the algorithm’s design https://www.labsix.org/partial-information-adversarial-examples/