This day in history
2002, 2012, 2021.
#20yrsago John M. Ford’s 110 Stories about 9–11 http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html
#20yrsago Why researchers tremble before the DMCA https://web.archive.org/web/20020906224325/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000020.html
#20yrsago Ed Felten, spam-vigilante martyr https://web.archive.org/web/20020821095618/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000019.html
#10yrsago European Directories sends legal threat to guy who wants to make it easy to stop receiving phone books https://www.24oranges.nl/2012/08/19/phone-book-publisher-tries-to-silence-critic-with-legal-bullying/
#10yrsago Boots keeps selling quack remedies intended for babies, even after they are banned from US import over fears of broken glass https://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/08/boots-unconcerned-about-nelsons-production-problems.html
#10yrsago Man in a coma is “fit for work,” loses disability benefits https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/2496/
#1yrago Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/failure-cascades/#natalie-zina-walschots
#1yrago Machine learning’s crumbling foundations: Doing ‘data science’ with bad data https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/failure-cascades/#dirty-data