This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.

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#20yrsago Wired News publishes ridiculous story on Broadcast Flag https://web.archive.org/web/20031204225933/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60924,00.html

#10yrsago Explaining America’s massive, untenable wealth-gap with video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

#10yrsago Experian sold consumer data to identity thieves’ service https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/experian-sold-consumer-data-to-id-theft-service/

#10yrsago Zombie Baseball Beatdown: little-leaguers versus the zompocalypse https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/21/zombie-baseball-beatdown-little-leaguers-versus-the-zompocalypse/

#5yrsago The new Pixel phone has a bizarre, obscure “opt out” arbitration waiver https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/21/the-new-pixel-phone-has-a-bizarre-obscure-opt-out-arbitration-waiver/

#1yrago Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let-me-summarize/#i-read-the-abstract