#15yrsago Michael Swanwick writes a story about autumn on fallen leaves https://www.flickr.com/photos/54366973@N04/5035946705/in/photostream/

#15yrsago Why the copyright wars matter: a reply to Helienne Lindvall https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/oct/05/free-online-content-cory-doctorow?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

#15yrsago William Gibson nails my philosophy in life https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/04/william-gibson-nails-my-philosophy-in-life/

#10yrsago Car accidents aren’t accidents https://www.wired.com/2015/10/stop-calling-daughters-death-car-accident/

#5yrsago Why I love the Haunted Mansion https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/04/build-back-better/#grim-grinning-ghosts

#5yrsago Normal isn't enough https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/04/build-back-better/#post-pandemic

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#20yrsago Ebook DRM that encourages identity theft gets a huge makeover https://web.archive.org/web/20051011041018/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004026.php

#15yrsago Security company ad tricks people into thinking their houses were burgled https://copyranter.blogspot.com/2010/10/adt-shows-you-how-easy-it-is-to-break.html

#15yrsago Firefighters watch as house burns to the ground: owner had not paid annual firefighting fees https://web.archive.org/web/20101003021723/https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/firefighters-watch-as-home-burns-to-the-ground-104052668.html

#15yrsago Sky Marshals to lose their cushy first-class seats? https://web.archive.org/web/20160521034617/https://www.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703431604575521832473932878-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwOTEyNDkyWj.html

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#20yrsago Internet Archive and Yahoo announce open scanned-in-book index https://web.archive.org/web/20051007010920/https://www.opencontentalliance.org/

#20yrsago Europe’s Broadcast Flag: first look https://web.archive.org/web/20051026014633/https://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_critique.php

#15yrsago Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada’s healthcare system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1GtIhwpSk

#15yrsago ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/01/01gigaom-creator-blessed-elfquest-fan-film-crowdsources-fun-7954.html

#10yrsago Pokemon demands $4000 from broke superfan who organized Pokemon party https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/pokemon-copyright-lawyers-demand-4000-from-party-planner/

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#15yrsago Stuttgart police use overwhelming force against peaceful protestors concerned about new train station https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-world-from-berlin-germany-shocked-by-disproportionate-police-action-in-stuttgart-a-720735.html

#10yrago Apple removes Ifixit’s repair manuals from App Store https://www.ifixit.com/News/7401/ifixit-app-pulled

#10yrsago Theoretical “auto-brothel” attack on mechanics’ computers could infect millions of cars https://www.wired.com/2015/10/car-hacking-tool-turns-repair-shops-malware-brothels/

#10yrsago France’s plan to legalize mass surveillance will give it the power to spy on the world https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/frances-government-aims-give-itself-and-nsa-carte-blanche-spy-world

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#15yrsago Welcome to Bordertown: the first Borderlands book in decades! https://web.archive.org/web/20111201160812/https://ellen-kushner.livejournal.com/326691.html

#15yrsago It Gets Better: video postcards to isolated queer kids from happy queer adults https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2010/09/28/4996088/sf-says-it-gets-better

#10yrsago Icelanders school their PM on solidarity with Syrian refugees https://www.icelandreview.com/news/icelanders-want-welcome-refugees-pm-responds/

#10yrsago Lemony Snicket gives Planned Parenthood $1M https://x.com/DanielHandler/status/648468194215243776

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#15yrsago SUPERDAD: moving and infuriating memoir of fatherhood and crack https://memex.craphound.com/2010/09/29/superdad-moving-and-infuriating-memoir-of-fatherhood-and-crack/

#10yrsago Apple removes an app that tracks U.S. military drone strikes from its store https://www.dailydot.com/news/app-store-drone-strike-metadata/

#10yrsago Edward Snowden is now @snowden https://theintercept.com/2015/09/29/edward-snowden-twitter-snowden/

#10yrsago With Roca Labs smackdown, the FTC slams non-disparagement clauses for the first time https://web.archive.org/web/20150930020239/https://popehat.com/2015/09/29/in-roca-labs-case-ftc-takes-novel-stand-against-non-disparagement-clauses/

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#15yrsago What Internet activism looks like https://web.archive.org/web/20101001074040/http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/when-the-revolution-comes-they-wont-recognize-it.html

#15yrsago American atheists and agnostics know more about religion than professed believers https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-28-la-na-religion-survey-20100928-story.html

#15yrsago Only 1.7% of sites blocked by Scandinavia’s “child-porn” filters are actually child porn https://ak-zensur.de/2010/09/29/analysis-blacklists.pdf

#15yrsago Inside the finances of the UK “legal blackmail” copyright enforcement company https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/p2p-settlement-factory-expects-10-million-from-mailing-letters/

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#20yrsago Anti-MMORPG ads from D&D https://craphound.com/images/wowdanddad.jpg

#20yrsago Phone unlockers versus the DMCA https://web.archive.org/web/20061005152056/https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68989,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6

#20yrsago My DRM talk for HP research https://craphound.com/hpdrm.txt

#15yrsago Legal blackmail: comprehensive look at tactics of copyright bounty-hunters https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/amounts-to-blackmail-inside-a-p2p-settlement-letter-factory/

#15yrsago HOWTO make a meat-head https://web.archive.org/web/20100928035616/https://makeprojects.com/Project/Meat-Head/294/1

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#20yrsago Financial Times: WIPO’s webcaster treaty is a disaster https://www.ft.com/content/441306be-2eb6-11da-9aed-00000e2511c8

#15yrsago Google’s autocomplete blacklist https://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/

#15yrsago FBI ignores DoJ report, raids activists, arrests Time Person of the Year https://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/27/fbi_raids_homes_of_anti_war

#15yrsago Meta-textual analysis of mainstream science reporting https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1

#15yrsago Lockheed Martin sign prohibits sketching and “gathering information” https://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/5028187145/

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#20yrsago MPAA/RIAA subvert democracy with super-broadcast-flag bid https://web.archive.org/web/20050926233646/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004000.php

#20yrsago Islam in science fiction https://web.archive.org/web/20051002030829/https://www.cs.rit.edu/~maa2454/SCIFI/sci_lit.html

#15yrsago Philosophy of Thomas Ligotti, a horror writer who can’t feel happiness https://web.archive.org/web/20061119163754/https://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/interview-with-thomas-ligotti/

#10yrsago Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth, a fantastic middle-grade adventure comic https://memex.craphound.com/2015/09/26/hilo-the-boy-who-crashed-to-earth-a-fantastic-middle-grade-adventure-comic/

#10yrsago Molly Crabapple’s illustrations from Syria https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/inside-aleppo-syria

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#20yrsago TiVo breaks devices, then charges you $150 if you don’t like the new deal https://memex.craphound.com/2005/09/24/tivo-breaks-devices-then-charges-you-150-if-you-dont-like-the-new-deal/

#15yrsago Microsoft’s DRM makes your computer vulnerable to attack https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15061

#15yrsago Tim Wu on Net Neutrality/Google-Verizon betrayal https://www.engadget.com/2010-09-24-engadget-explains-net-neutrality-and-our-full-interview-with.html

#15yrsago Multinational copyright companies will require French ISPs turn over 150,000 subscriber names and addresses per day https://torrentfreak.com/france-starts-reporting-millions-of-file-sharers-100921/

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#20yrsago John Gilmore explains why sterophiles who buy DRM are suckers https://web.archive.org/web/20051201214323/https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1905

#20yrsago Shanghai bans net.slang https://web.archive.org/web/20051225001229/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1151510

#20yrsago Vintage Mexican wrestler fotonovela scans https://web.archive.org/web/20051210071408/https://foros.kaliman.com.mx/discus/messages/41/18447.html?1127150474

#15yrsago Brighton, England town council says that councillor is violating copyright law by youtubing the council meetings https://web.archive.org/web/20100926175545/https://jim.killock.org.uk/blog/brighton-tries-to-use-copyright-to-censor-councillor.html

#15yrsago Contrastive reduplication: do you LIKE IT like it? https://web.archive.org/web/20100926220557/https://rabnett.posterous.com/contrastive-reduplication-the-salad-salad-pap

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#15yrsago Evercookie: a tracking browser cookie you can’t delete https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/09/evercookie-escalates-the-zombie-cookie-war-by-raising-awareness/

#15yrsago Netflix pays actors to pretend to be customers and talk to press at Canadian launch https://web.archive.org/web/20100924092746/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/netflix-apologizes-for-using-actors-to-meet-press-at-canadian-launch/article1718924/

#15yrsago William Gibson talks writing-craft https://maudnewton.com/2010/09/maximus-clarke-talks-with-william-gibson-about-his-speculative-novels-of-last-wednesday/

#15yrsago Top UK spies revealed as wankers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8015180/MI6-used-bodily-fluids-as-invisible-ink.html

#10yrsago Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers https://www.computerworld.com/article/1637120/lenovo-collects-usage-data-on-thinkpad-thinkcentre-and-thinkstation-pcs.html

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#20yrsago London cops mug blogger for computers, phones, data, call him a “terrorist” https://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html

#20yrsago RFID crackers hotwire cars, steal gas, sniff phones https://web.archive.org/web/20050930202451/http://rfidanalysis.org/

#15yrsago The .DOC File of J Alfred Prufrock https://web.archive.org/web/20100924085521/http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3102544.html

#15yrsago MPAA: ACTA’s censoring firewalls will help governments avoid Wikileaks embarrassments https://www.techdirt.com/2010/09/20/mpaa-wants-to-know-if-acta-can-be-used-to-block-wikileaks/

#15yrsago Christian anti-transhumanist manifesto https://web.archive.org/web/20100926112935/http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory94.htm

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#20yrsago Software lets camphones scan and OCR a page of text in 5 secs https://web.archive.org/web/20051029085125/https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns/?feedId=online-news_rss20&id=dn7998

#20yrsago Profiles of RIAA victims who fought back https://web.archive.org/web/20051125085616/http://p2pnet.net/story/6283

#15yrsago Intel + DRM: a crippled processor that you have to pay extra to unlock https://memex.craphound.com/2010/09/18/intel-drm-a-crippled-processor-that-you-have-to-pay-extra-to-unlock/

#10yrsago UC Berkeley issues first-ever university transparency report https://slate.com/technology/2015/09/uc-berkeley-issues-the-first-ever-university-transparency-report-others-should-follow.html

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#15yrsago Intel threatens lawsuits against HDCP jailbreakers https://web.archive.org/web/20100920183314/https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/intel-threatens-consumers/

#10yrsago America’s spooks abandon crypto-backdoors, plan shock-doctrine revival https://www.techdirt.com/2015/09/17/having-lost-debate-backdooring-encryption-intelligence-community-plans-to-wait-until-next-terrorist-attack/

#10yrsago Do you really trade your privacy for service on Facebook? https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/facebook/

#10yrsago 3D print your own TSA Travel Sentry keys and open anyone’s luggage https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/video-3d-printed-tsa-travel-sentry-keys-really-do-open-tsa-locks/

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#15yrsago UK government hands £500M copyright enforcement and censorship tab to nation’s Internet users https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/should-isps-pay-for-p2p-warning-letters-uk-says-yes/

#15yrsago Multinational record industry shill calls Canada’s new copyright bill “a license to steal” https://web.archive.org/web/20100918101200/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5304/125/

#15yrsago Blu-Ray falls: HDCP key crack confirmed https://www.pcmag.com/archive/hdcp-master-key-confirmed-blu-ray-content-vulnerable-254650

#10yrsago For the first time ever, a judge has invalidated a secret Patriot Act warrant https://www.calyxinstitute.org/news/2015/federal-court-invalidates-11-year-old-fbi-gag-order-national-security-letter-recipient-nicholas

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d to more programming https://memex.craphound.com/2005/09/16/tivos-accidental-no-save-locks-applied-to-more-programming/

#20yrsago Finnish Culture Minister: citizens concerned about copyright are “terrorists” https://hietanen.typepad.com/copyfraud/2005/09/the_story_of_fi.html

#20yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on eco-disasters on Earth and Mars https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/14/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.sarahcrown

#20yrsago WIPO wants to give webcasters the right to steal from public domain, Creative Commons and GPL http://www.cptech.org/wipo/15sep05letter2usptoloc.html

#15yrsago Astronauts’ fingernails fall off https://web.archive.org/web/20100916000752/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100913-science-space-astronauts-gloves-fingernails-injury/

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