This day in history

2001, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Original Hotwired guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20010722002246/http://www.freedonia.com/~carl/#2001.06.12

#5yrsago North Carolina adopts the nation’s worst police bodycam law https://abc11.com/1422569/

#5yrsago Vivendi lobbyist appointed to run copyright for UN agency https://web.archive.org/web/20160717052135/https://www.keionline.org/node/2614

#5yrsago The long, racist history of Brexiteer Boris Johnson, the new UK Foreign Secretary https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36792746

#5yrsago It’s official: the Olympics result in the worst budget overruns of any megaproject https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2804554

#5yrsago America’s infrastructure debt is so bad that towns are unpaving roads they can’t afford to fix https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/

#1yrago California goes antitrust on Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#feeling-lucky-punk

#1yrago Big Oil can have you locked up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#privilege-private-law

#1yrago Target workers strike over chickenization…