I'm coming to the #HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-On-Wye:

Sun (May 28), 1130h: The AI Enigma
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-enigma-12147

Mon (May 29), 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
https://howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-danger-and-desire-of-the-frontier-12246

I'm at #Oxford's #Blackwell's on May 29 at 1930h with @TimHarford:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctorow-red-team-blues-with-tim-harford-tickets-574673793787

Then it's #Nottingham, #Manchester, #London, #Edinburgh, and #Berlin!

http://redteamblues.com

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To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110429262481542937

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#20yrsago Turn a floppy into a Klingon ship https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/25/turn-a-floppy-into-a-klingon-ship/

#20yrsago “Facts” about printing and book-design https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002638.html

#20yrsago Dear Hollywood: neener neener neener https://web.archive.org/web/20030524173415/http://www.instapundit.com/archives/009672.php

#20yrsago @eff on #TotalInformationAwareness https://web.archive.org/web/20030528233343/https://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20030523_tia_report_review.php

#15yrsago Villagers from three continents will confront #Chevron execs at annual meeting https://web.archive.org/web/20080520120807/https://www.chevrontoxico.com/

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#15yrsago Former #RIAA CEO is the #HuffingtonPost’s new political director https://www.wired.com/2008/05/the-huffington/

#15yrsago Canadian spooks think punk band “#SuicidePilots” are terrorists https://web.archive.org/web/20080530022051/https://canadiandimension.com/blog/2008/05/csis-spying-on-canadian-punk-band/

#15yrsago #Punk House: communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle https://web.archive.org/web/20080526172905/http://www.alarmpress.com/2293/book-reviews/punk-house-interiors-in-anarchy/

#10yrsago Laptop with thermite self-destruct mechanism https://hackaday.com/2013/05/23/laptop-vs-thermite-slow-motion-destruction/

#10yrsago 3D-printable model of the cover of #JoyDivision’s “#UnknownPleasures” https://web.archive.org/web/20130607163848/http://i.document.m05.de/2013/05/23/joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-printed-in-3d/

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#10yrsago Game designer creates a never-played-by-humans titanium boardgame and buries it for play in 2700 years https://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157884/game-designer-jason-rohrer-designs-a-game-meant-to-be-played-2000

#10yrsago Hardwood #Escher tesselated lizard tiles https://evolulignum.blogspot.com/2011/02/diseno-geometrico-inspiracion-escher.html

#10yrsago How London cops use social media to spy on protest movements https://www.itnews.com.au/news/police-tap-social-media-in-wake-of-london-attack-344319

#10yrsago Vermont passes anti-#PatentTroll law https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/vermont-enacts-1st-u-s-law-against-patent-trolling-1.1372639

#10yrsago #RIAA losing money, firing employees, giving execs raises https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-makes-drastic-employee-cuts-as-revenue-plummets-130522/

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#10yrsago Forging £1 coins is apparently profitable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22612487

#10yrsago Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, and affiliated with the KKK https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014

#10yrsago Lamps made from cassette tapes http://www.cassetteisnotdead.com

#5yrsago A guide to the valuable electronics inside #Bird’s illegal-in-San Francisco scooters https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/05/landfill-capitalism-you-only-have-two-weeks-to-gather-up-all-those-free-microcontrollers-servos-and-batteries-that-are-littering-the-sidewalks-of-san-francisco/

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#5yrsago #Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value https://timharford.com/2018/05/how-much-would-i-have-to-pay-you-to-quit-facebook/

#5yrsago The paleocomputing miracle of the 76477 #SpaceInvaders sound effects chip https://www.righto.com/2018/05/inside-76477-space-invaders-sound.html

#5yrsago Texas high-school principal fires award-winning, nationally famous journalism teacher to rein in critical student newspaper reporting https://splc.org/2018/05/0522prosper-2/

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