This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

#15yrsago Airmile hackers use mileage credit-cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the CC bills https://web.archive.org/web/20150125163822/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126014168569179245

#15yrsago Streaming doesn’t exist https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/dec/08/music-streaming-cory-doctorow

#15yrsago The dumbest thing I heard anyone say in 2009 https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/08/the-dumbest-thing-i-heard-anyone-say-in-2009/

#10yrsago Parable of the Polygons: segregation and “slight” racism https://ncase.me/polygons/

#10yrsago Republicans in Michigan House pass religious bigotry bill https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2014/12/breaking_michigan_house_passes_religious_license_to_discriminate_bill/

#10yrsago Judge Posner: it should be illegal to make phones the government can’t search https://www.pcworld.com/article/436729/judge-give-nsa-unlimited-access-to-digital-data.html

#5yrsago Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal “Test for Espionage and Sabotage,” a psuedoscientific feature of government life https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2019/12/08/ncca-test-for-espionage-and-sabotage-administration-guide/

#5yrsago After sweeping election victories, Hong Kong protesters stage massive demonstrations marking their 6-month anniversary https://web.archive.org/web/20191207235555/https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-democracy-protesters-aim-massive-turnout-rare-210115805.html

#5yrsago One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

#1yrago “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill