This day in history

2012, 2017, 2021.

#10yrsago Giants Beware: kids’ graphic novel that will delight adults too https://memex.craphound.com/2012/04/12/giants-beware-kids-graphic-novel-that-will-delight-adults-too/

#10yrsago Call for diversity in D&D rulebooks https://www.tor.com/2012/04/11/a-modest-proposal-for-increased-diversity-in-dungeons-and-dragons/

#10yrsago Putting a name to the free-floating dread inspired by the Facebook/Instagram acquisition https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/04/facebook-and-instagram-when-your-favorite-app-sells-out.html

#10yrsago Antitrust and ebooks: regulators miss the big DRM lock-in picture https://www.wired.com/2012/04/bezos-holder-settlement/

#5yrsago Human rights coalition from the global south to W3C: don’t put DRM in web standards! https://web.archive.org/web/20170412141946/http://justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf

#5yrsago After ratting out users to China, Yahoo created (and then blew) a $17m “dissidents’ fund” https://phys.org/news/2017-04-yahoo-accused-mismanaging-fund-dissidents.html

#5yrsago Oversold, understated and authoritarian: debullshitifying the reporting on United’s “removal” of Dr David Dao https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-removal-reporting-management-fail.html