This day in history
2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
#20yrsago Vegas outcall services phreak each others’ phoneshttps://www.securityfocus.com/news/205
#15yrsago Gmail downgraded, no longer cracks PDFs https://web.archive.org/web/20060603055956/https://akira.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/andreas/blog/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html
#10yrsago Walter Jon Williams uses pirate ebooks to rescue his backlist http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2011/05/crowdsource-please/
#5yrsago Algorithmic cruelty: when Gmail adds your harasser to your speed-dial https://lizdenys.com/journal/articles/inboxs-accidentally-abusive-algorithm.html
#1yrago Tear gas ice-cream https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#612strike
#1yrago Whistleblower warns of massive mortgage fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#cmbs
#1yrago A people’s vaccine https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#accesstomedicine
#1yrago Google’s GDPR reckoning https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#noyb
#1yrago Understanding Qanon https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#q
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 How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. 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 The Shakedown (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering; and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias.
