This day in history
2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.
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#15yrsago DHS spends millions on bus kill-switches to stop Osama bin Laden from reenacting the movie “Speed” https://nypost.com/2008/06/08/busting-terror/
#15yrsago National Geo’s China issue has controversial pages glued together in China https://web.archive.org/web/20130928204106/http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2008/06/04/glued-geographic/
#10yrsago UK government online disability benefits signup requires Internet Explorer 6 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-online-dla-claim-system-work
#10yrsago Detailed obit of Iain Banks https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer
#10yrsago Austerity: the greatest bait-and-switch in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM
#10yrsago Who’s claiming copyright on the Prism logo? https://www.gawker.com/a-british-television-host-took-the-photo-used-in-the-ns-512093707
#5yrsago Facebook only pretended to shut down access to friends’ data in 2015, quietly continued access for its favored partners https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/08/facebook-gave-some-companies-special-access-data-users-friends-report/686651002/
#1yrago Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers: The war on your pancreas continues https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/10/loopers/#hp-ification
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).
