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 Bob Basset’s latest steampunk mask https://web.archive.org/web/20100118104624/http://bobbasset.com/?p=300
#15yrsago EFF’s trends for 2010 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/trends-2010
#15yrsago Hiaasen’s BASKET CASE: hilarious mystery novel about the *last* newspaperpocalypse https://memex.craphound.com/2010/01/13/hiaasens-basket-case-hilarious-mystery-novel-about-the-last-newspaperpocalypse/
#10yrsago Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race, class, geography, cultural background https://medium.com/message/an-old-fogeys-analysis-of-a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-5be16981034d
#10yrsago Freedom of speech is now compulsory https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/01/freedom-of-speech-public-information.html
#10yrsago What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-proposed-would-endanger-every-briton-and-destroy-the-it-industry/
#10yrsago Jo Walton’s “The Just City” https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/13/jo-waltons-the-just-city/
#5yrsago The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same “domestic terrorist” category as Dylan Roof and James Fields https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists
#5yrsago Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry https://gizmodo.com/spectrum-kills-home-security-business-refuses-refunds-1840931761
#5yrsago Olympics warns athletes that kneeling, fist-raising and other political actions will be banned at the Tokyo 2020 games https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/01/cowardice-olympics-committee-slammed-for-new-guidelines-barring-athletes-from-kneeling-raising-fists.html
#5yrsago Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/style/college-tech-recruiting.html
#5yrsago The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/13/the-bubbles-in-vr-cryptocurrency-and-machine-learning-are-all-part-of-the-parallel-computing-bubble/
#1yrago Tech workers and gig workers need each other https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions
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