This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!
#20yrsago 1940s telephone manual https://web.archive.org/web/20040404003350/contactsheet.org/junk/telephone1.html
#15yrsago What will happen to your crypto-keys when you die? https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to-your-crypto-keys-when-you-die/
#15yrsago Bayou: chilling ghost story, a graphic novel about race and haunts in the deep south https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/27/bayou-chilling-ghost-story-a-graphic-novel-about-race-and-haunts-in-the-deep-south/
#15yrsago UK Tory MP added a servant’s wing to his house at public expense https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/28/john-butterfill-mps-expenses
#15yrsago Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/landmark-study-drm-truly-does-make-pirates-out-of-us-all/
#10yrsago UK Home Office’s terrorist detection checklist https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/27/uk-home-offices-terrorist-detection-checklist/
#10yrsago Peter Watts’s The Scorched Earth Society: A Suicide Bomber’s Guide to Online Privacy https://rifters.com/real/shorts/TheScorchedEarthSociety-transcript.pdf
#10yrsago You Are Not a Digital Native: on the publication of the Homeland paperback, a letter to kids https://reactormag.com/you-are-not-a-digital-native-privacy-in-the-age-of-the-internet/
#5yrsago AT&T’s dystopian advertising vision perfectly illustrates the relationship between surveillance and monopoly https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/27/atts-dystopian-advertising-vision-perfectly-illustrates-the-relationship-between-surveillance-and-monopoly/
#5yrsago Profiles of young Americans who entered voluntary exile rather than paying their student loans https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html
#1yrago Steven Brust’s “Tsalmoth” https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/mannerpunk/#ask-anyone
#1yrago Ideas Lying Around https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/ideas-lying-around/
