This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago CCDs: a great disruptor lurking in the tech https://bitworking.org/news/2009/11/ccd/
#15yrsago Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48933/the-games-workshop-files-purge-of-09
#15yrsago Pub fined £8K after user infringes copyright with its WiFi https://web.archive.org/web/20091129040800/http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39909136,00.htm
#15yrsago DRM versus innovation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1496058
#10yrsago BMG and Rightscorp sue ISP for right to decide who may use the Internet https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/music-publishers-finally-pull-the-trigger-sue-an-isp-over-piracy/
#10yrsago Walmart holds food drive…for Walmart employees (again!) https://web.archive.org/web/20141127230642/http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/11/26/walmart-again-holds-food-drive-for-own-underpaid-workers
#10yrsago John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
#5yrsago Three women independently accuse Gordon Sondland of repeated acts of highly similar sexual misconduct https://www.propublica.org/article/multiple-women-recall-sexual-misconduct-and-retaliation-by-gordon-sondland
#5yrsago This Thanksgiving, don’t have a political argument, have a “structured organizing conversation” https://jacobin.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-organizing-activism-friends-family-conversation-presidential-election
#5yrsago Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who’s swaying both left and right politicians with talk of “the entrepreneurial state” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/business/mariana-mazzucato.html
#5yrsago South Carolina’s magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-less-training-than-barbers-but-still-decide-thousands-of-cases-each-year
#1yrago Insurance companies are making climate risk worse https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/28/re-re-reinsurance/#useless-price-signals
