This day in history

2003, 2018, 2022.

#20yrsago Telcos attack VoIP numbering https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/voip-caught-in-a-numbers-crunch/

#5yrsago Kimberly Clark says the Trump tax-cuts let it fire 5,500 US workers and pay out dividends to its shareholders https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-clark-pays-for-layoffs-with-trump-tax-cuts-2018-1

#5yrsago Short-termism led the Democratic Party to let unions die, and now they’ve lost their base https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/research/pdf/fhw_rtw_jan2018.pdf

#5yrsago “We Shall Overcome” has overcome copyfraud and is now unambiguously public domain https://www.techdirt.com/2018/01/26/we-shall-overcome-overcomes-bogus-copyright-claim-officially-public-domain/

#1yrago Cops’ imaginary fears send addicts to real jail https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/#onshore-havana-syndrome

#1yrago As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/#wall-street-slumlords

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