This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago BBC’s new site learns from you https://memex.craphound.com/2002/11/20/bbcs-new-site-learns-from-you/

#20yrsago Turducken: chicken-in-duck-in-turkey https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/20/dining/turkey-finds-its-inner-duck-and-chicken.html

#15yrsago Disney lawyers enstupidize ride with dumb legal disclaimer https://www.flickr.com/photos/unsupervised/2050682942/

#15yrsago UK tax authorities repeatedly lose 25m peoples’ tax records https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/21/immigrationpolicy.socialexclusion

#15yrsago Sardine in Outer Space: Cheerful anarchist comix for kids https://memex.craphound.com/2007/11/20/sardine-in-outer-space-cheerful-anarchist-comix-for-kids/

#10yrsago Beyond the public debt: making a wider case for openness https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/20/pharmaceutical-research-open-access

#10yrsago US publishers sabotage treaty on the rights of people with print disabilities https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/lets-close-deal-treaty-blind-and-print-disabled

#10yrsago Buyer beware: Nintendo nukes $400 worth of downloaded content during DRM-fail migration to Wii U https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/how-nintendo-drm-trapped-400-of-downloaded-games-on-my-failing-wii/

#5yrsago Scientist puts his dog on the editorial boards of seven predatory journals as proof of their negligence https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/the-perth-dog-thats-probably-smarter-than-you-ng-a4de0d201ce420e0302c69532a399419

#5yrsago Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild https://www.nybooks.com/online/2017/11/17/puerto-ricos-diy-disaster-relief/

#5yrsago America’s private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine https://jacobin.com/2017/11/single-payer-health-care-medicare

#5yrsago How technology’s built in “engagement maximization” destroys mental health in the Trump age, and what to do about it…