This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago Xmaspunk raygun https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_colunga/4201119099/
#15yrsago America can’t make things because managers all learn finance instead of production https://newrepublic.com/article/72035/wagoner-henderson
#10yrsago EFF’s copyfighter’s crossword https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/crossword-puzzle-year-copyright-news
#10yrsago TX SWAT team beats, deafens nude man in his own home, lies about arrest; judge declines to punish cops or DA https://web.archive.org/web/20141224170549/http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/27645689/ft-bend-police-prosecutors-accused-of-abuse-in-swat-incident
#10yrsago Outfit a game-designer’s toolkit for < $20 https://web.archive.org/web/20141222165215/http://iq212.com/iQ212Blog/2014/12/16/the-20-dollar-game-designers-tool-kit/
#10yrsago Telcos’ anti-Net Neutrality argument may let the MPAA destroy DNS https://www.techdirt.com/2014/12/18/mpaas-secret-war-net-neutrality-is-key-part-its-plan-to-block-sites/
#10yrsago Musical time-machine to Walt Disney World in the late 1970s https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2014/12/another-musical-souvenir-of-walt-disney.html
#5yrsago Doctors who take pharma industry freebies prescribe more of their benefactors’ drugs https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-prescribe-more-of-a-drug-if-they-receive-money-from-a-pharma-company-tied-to-it#173787
#5yrsago New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
#5yrsago Americans should definitely be worried about the EU’s new copyright rules https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/why-americans-should-worry-about-the-new-eu-copyright-rules-97800be3f8fc
#5yrsago Illinois schools don’t just lock special ed kids in solitary, they also restrain them https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-school-restraints#173374
#5yrsago Medicare for All would cut most Americans’ taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/medicare-for-all-taxes-saez-zucman
#5yrsago Codifying “Boomerspeak” and debating the ethics of poking fun at it https://www.wired.com/story/boomerspeak-enregisterment/
#5yrsago Alberta’s tax-funded climate denial “war room” ripped off its logo from a US tech company https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-s-oil-and-gas-war-room-changing-logo-following-complaints-it-copied-u-s-data-company-1.4737423
#5yrsago My annual Daddy-Daughter Xmas Podcast: interview with an 11-year-old https://ia802801.us.archive.org/18/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_320/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_320_-_Christmas_2019_with_Poesy.mp3
#1yrago 2024’s public domain is a banger https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes
