This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Copyright maximalist demands infringement crackdown to fight bin Laden https://www.corpwatch.org/article/us-opportunists-use-crisis-push-agenda

#10yrsago Shadowy organization publishes blacklist of writers who track down con-artists https://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/10/03/writer-beware-and-the-write-agenda/

#10yrsago Inquisitor’s Apprentice: tenement sorcerers versus the robber barons in an alternate Gilded Age New York https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/04/inquisitors-apprentice-tenement-sorcerers-versus-the-robber-barons-in-an-alternate-gilded-age-new-york/

#5yrsago Ghosts: Raina Telgemeier’s upbeat tale of death, assimilation and cystic fibrosis https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/04/ghosts-raina-telgemeiers-upbeat-tale-of-death-assimilation-and-cystic-fibrosis/

#5yrsago Martin Shkreli offers a bailout to ailing 4chan https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/4chan-cashflow-problem-martin-shkreli-wants-to-join-board/

#5yrsago “Power Poses” are bullshit https://www.wbur.org/npr/496093672/power-poses-co-author-i-do-not-believe-the-effects-are-real

#5yrsago The Wells Fargo fraud came to light because of union organizers https://prospect.org/labor/first-foremost-wells-fargo-scandal-workers/