This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readSep 26, 2024

#15yrsago D&D camp, circa 1982 https://web.archive.org/web/20091001142940/http://rpg.brouhaha.us/?p=925

#10yrsago Why #gamergate is bullshit https://www.cracked.com/blog/7-ways-gamergate-debate-has-made-world-worse

#10yrsago Eric Holder: creator of the “Too Big to Jail” bankster https://memex.craphound.com/2014/09/26/eric-holder-creator-of-the-too-big-to-jail-bankster/

#5yrsago The DoJ’s corporate “diversion” program is supposed to change bad corporate culture, but really, it enables repeat offenders https://www.citizen.org/article/soft-on-corporate-crime-deferred-and-non-prosecution-repeat-offender-report/

#5yrsago After the passage of the EU Copyright Directive, Google nukes Google News France https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/google-to-change-french-news-results-under-copyright-rules

#5yrsago Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room “surprise bills”: private equity firms that own doctors’ practices https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2019/09/who-advocates-for-surprise-medical.html

#5yrsago Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies https://web.archive.org/web/20190927033958/https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-is-a-prime-example-of-counterfeit-capitalism-2019-9

#5yrsago bruce sterling on Boris Johnson’s bizarre, cyberpunk dystopia address to the UN https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/09/visionary-high-points-recent-boris-johnson-speech-united-nations/

#5yrsago Christopher Brown talking legal thrillers, dystopia, and science fiction https://narrativespecies.wordpress.com/2019/09/25/christopher-brown-rule-of-capture/

#1yrago Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine” https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen

Today, Tor Books publishes “Vigilant,” a new, free “Little Brother” story about creepy surveillance in distance education. It follows “Spill,” another new, free “Little Brother” novella about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

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