This day in history
2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.
#15yrsago Norm Coleman tries to get Franken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, “Thank you for counting my vote.” https://web.archive.org/web/20081222013855/https://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/the_worst_ballot_challenge_of.php
#10yrsago Severed hand grafted to ankle, reattached to wrist a month later https://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/severed-hand-saved-after-being-attached-to-mans-ankle-4232581/
#10yrsago Secretive TPP treaty could kill creator’s right to get copyrights back from studios, labels and publishers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights
#5yrsago Livetweeting a toothbrush’s firmware update https://twitter.com/AndrewCrow/status/1074565600083492864
#5yrsago Malaysia charges Goldman Sachs with criminal complicity in multi-billion-dollar 1MDB fraud https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/12/18/goldman-sachs-fires-back-after-malaysia-charges-bank-in-1mdb-probe/
#5yrsago Lawsuit: US citizen suing CBP for coercing him into unlocking his phone during boarding at LAX https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5zny7/haisam-elsharkawi-lawsuit-against-us-government-cbp-dhs-unlock-phone
#5yrsago Sony won’t let you post “crap recordings” of a few seconds of your own Beethoven piano performance https://www.facebook.com/dheera/videos/10101580541973018/
#5yrsago Kansas judge tells government debt collectors they can’t hound a broke 58-year-old woman until her 84th birthday https://www.condemnedtodebt.org/2018/12/good-news-out-of-kansas-compassionate.html
#5yrsago Charter will pay $174.2m for defrauding New Yorkers over data speeds, the largest settlement ever paid by a US ISP https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18146210/charter-spectrum-174-million-settlement-new-york-state-attorney-general-internet-speeds
#5yrsago Tumblr’s porn filter blocked Tumblr’s images illustrating what Tumblr’s porn filter won’t block https://gizmodo.com/tumblrs-porn-filter-flags-its-own-examples-of-permitted-1831151178
#5yrsago Debunking “ghost users”: MI5’s plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/12/17/on-ghost-users-and-messaging-backdoors/
#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s new bill: let the US government manufacture generic versions of overpriced, unavailable drugs https://theintercept.com/2018/12/18/elizabeth-warren-generic-drugs-bill/
#1yrago “Metaverse” means “pivot to video” https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/18/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video/
