This day in history

2004, 2009, 2019, 2023.

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

#20yrsago US troops kidnapping family members of Ba’athists and locking them in Abu Ghraib https://web.archive.org/web/20040604154034/http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woabus0526,0,2008882.story

#20yrsago Creative Commons ships 2.0 licenses https://creativecommons.org/2004/05/25/announcingandexplainingournew20licenses/

#20yrsago Japanese Broadcast Flag — welcome to the crappy future of TV https://web.archive.org/web/20040610170835/http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20040525a2.htm

#20yrsago Scorching critique of some arguments for copyright https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=494424

#15yrsago Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/05/conference-board-ip-reports/

#15yrsago Plagiarising Canadian think tank who used tax dollars to shill for Big Content refuses to back down https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2009/05/conference-board-response/

#5yrsago Europe’s surging, far-right, “anti-establishment” parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/Europe’s two-faced authoritarian right FINAL_1.pdf

#1yrago To save the news, shatter ad-tech https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/25/structural-separation/#america-act