This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019.

2 min readMar 20, 2024

I’m on tour with my new , nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW NIGHT in TORONTO (Mar 22), then on SUNDAY in NYC (Mar 24), then Anaheim and more!

A yellow rectangle. On the left, in blue, are the words ‘Cory Doctorow.’ On the right, in black, is ‘The Bezzle.’ Between them is the motif from the cover of *The Bezzle*: an escheresque impossible triangle. The center of the triangle is a barred, smaller triangle that imprisons a silhouetted male figure in a suit. Two other male silhouettes in suits run alongside the top edges of the triangle.

#15yrsago London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s https://web.archive.org/web/20120117080328/http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2009/03/01/the-kids-are-alright

#15yrsago Terrorism pundit accused of astroturfing extremist Jihadi message-board posts, then reporting on them https://barthsnotes.com/2009/03/18/obsession-pundit-in-meltdown/

#10yrsago RIP, Lucius Shepard, gone too soon https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2014/03/lucius.html

#10yrsago Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director https://ia801300.us.archive.org/2/items/WilCameoExplanationFMx1/Will_s_Cameo_Explanation_FMx1.mp3

#10yrsago Gamestop as a fee-free, convenient banking institution https://kottke.org/14/03/the-first-national-bank-of-gamestop

#5yrsago IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city’s police-linked death-squads https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/rodrigo-duterte-ibm-surveillance/

#5yrsago Health industry lobbyists are posing as “ordinary citizens who don’t want Medicare for All” https://splinternews.com/look-at-these-absolutely-ordinary-americans-who-hate-me-1833380461

#5yrsago California’s Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/18/california-reintroduces-right-to-repair-bill-after-previous-effort-failed

#5yrsago Sponsor of the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act” sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/devin-nunes-sues-twitter-and-devin-nunes-mom-for-a-whopping-250-million/

#5yrsago More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/more-130-european-businesses-tell-european-parliament-reject-copyrightdirective

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This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019.

I’m on tour with my new , nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW NIGHT in TORONTO (Mar 22), then on SUNDAY in NYC (Mar 24), then Anaheim and more!

Name your price for 18 of my DRM-free ebooks and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the Humble Cory Doctorow Bundle.

Written by Cory Doctorow

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This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019.

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW NIGHT in TORONTO (Mar 22), then on SUNDAY in NYC (Mar 24), then Anaheim and more!

Name your price for 18 of my DRM-free ebooks and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the Humble Cory Doctorow Bundle.

Written by Cory Doctorow

No responses yet

I’m on tour with my new , nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW NIGHT in TORONTO (Mar 22), then on SUNDAY in NYC (Mar 24), then Anaheim and more!