This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Botnets will eat the Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html

#10yrsago Leaked memo: USA blackmailed Spain into passing brutal, censoring copyright law https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/05/us-pressured-spain-online-piracy

#5yrsago Four Futures: using science fiction to challenge late stage capitalism and Thatcher’s “no alternative” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/01/06/four-futures-using-science-fiction-to-challenge-late-stage-capitalism-and-thatchers-no-alternative/

#5yrsago New Senator from California can’t explain why she didn’t prosecute Trump’s Treasury pick when she was AG https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/kamala-harris-fails-to-explain-why-she-didnt-prosecute-steven-mnuchins-bank/

#1yrago Congress bans “little green men” https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#ndaa

#1yrago Mass court: “I agree” means something https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#i-agree

#1yrago Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#3kg-per-day

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