This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago AP threatens copyright suit over one-sentence quotation https://web.archive.org/web/20050717075914/https://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/8/17/202249/240

#20yrsago The joys of dumpster diving https://web.archive.org/web/20011115053410/https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0808/p13s1-lihc.html

#10yrsago Google’s Nym Wars must end https://epeus.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-plus-must-stop-this-identity.html

#10yrsago G+’s Real Names clusterfuck https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/nym-wars/

#5yrsago Candid Republican operators admit that voter ID laws are about disenfranchisement https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/when-politicians-tell-truth-voting-restrictions

#5yrsago US Army committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in one year https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG

#1yrago Boeing fixes the 737 Max problem (by renaming the jet) https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#737-8

#1yrago College Covid app is a security dumpster-fire https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dubious-quantitative-residue/#thick-description