This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Google says spammers are giving up https://www.wired.com/2007/11/spammers-giving-up-google-thinks-so/

#15yrsago BBC’s iPlayer sold us out — and then failed https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/27/bbc.digitalvideo

#10yrsago In Finland, piracy fines are orders of magnitude higher than fines for rape, torture and murder https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2012112716377136_uu.shtml

#5yrsago How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/hsieh-moretti-affordable-housing-free-market-fantasy

#5yrsago Wells Fargo execs sealed their bonuses by gouging the bank’s business customers https://thehill.com/policy/finance/362073-wells-fargo-overcharged-hundreds-of-customers-report/

#1yrago The Cuban vaccines https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/somos-cuba/#omishambles

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