This day in history
2004, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#20yrsgo My latest short story — CC-licensed, on Salon, all about gaming https://www.salon.com/2004/11/15/andas_game/
#10yrsago University of Michigan makes up a bunch of non-reasons why it doesn’t have to do record retention https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/13/michigan-university-claims-its-public-records-retention-period-is-whatever-each-employee-wants-it-to-be/
#10yrsago Amazon and Hachette kiss and make up https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html
#5yrsago Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4–20 minutes https://www.zdnet.com/article/tpm-fail-vulnerabilities-impact-tpm-chips-in-desktops-laptops-servers/
#5yrsago Banned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish anti-Hong Kong videos https://qz.com/1747617/chinese-users-go-to-pornhub-to-spread-hong-kong-propaganda
#5yrsago Hong Kong protests: “Might as well go down fighting” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/escalating-violence-hong-kong-protests/601804/
#5yrsago Activists target Facebookers over “Gold Tier” sponsorship of Kavanaugh event https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20963865/facebook-ads-brett-kavanaugh-federalist-society-employees
#5yrsago Trump’s signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida https://www.propublica.org/article/superyacht-marina-west-palm-beach-opportunity-zone-trump-tax-break-to-help-the-poor-went-to-a-rich-gop-donor#170843
#5yrsago Big Tech’s CEOs can’t possibly fix Big Tech https://medium.com/bloomberg-opinion/mark-zuckerberg-is-totally-out-of-his-depth-887682ba70b9
#5yrsago American health care’s life-destroying “surprise bills” are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gougers-r-us-how-private-equity-is-gobbling-up-medical-care/
#5yrsago The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%’s growth comes from the upper middle class https://wolfstreet.com/2019/11/13/how-the-fed-boosts-the-1-even-the-upper-middle-class-loses-share-of-household-wealth-to-the-1-the-bottom-half-gets-screwed/
#1yrago The conservative movement is cracking up https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/when-youve-lost-the-fedsoc/#anti-buster-buster
