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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 11, 2022

#20yrsago AIs ate my economy https://web.archive.org/web/20021127063614/http://www.futurefeedforward.com/

#20yrsago How Karl Rove used a Blackberry to put W in office https://web.archive.org/web/20021112150100/https://time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,388904,00.html

#20yrsago Fast-forwarding is not a crime! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-11-oe-miller11-story.html

#15yrsago Democrats: Colleges must do copyright surveillance, or else https://scoopsmangum.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-colleges-must-democrats.html

#15yrsago David Byrne considers IKEA as a video game https://web.archive.org/web/20071108220107/http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2007/11/11032007-social.html

#15yrsago Top US spook officially redefines “privacy” to mean “surveillance” https://web.archive.org/web/20071113074939/http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7068964,00.html

#10yrsago TSA inspectors get a larger annual clothing allowance than Marine lieutenants get through their whole careers https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tsa-uniform-perks-more-expensive-than-marine-corps

#10yrsago Intel to Boy Scouts: no more donations if you don’t drop anti-gay policy…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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