This day in history
2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.
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#20yrsago Infosec advice for civil society https://web.archive.org/web/20020401204434/http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/
#15yrsago Brian Dettmer’s “Book Autopsies” — sliced book sculptures https://web.archive.org/web/20070925034123/https://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/
#10yrsago Turing and Burroughs: a beatnik SF novel by Rudy Rucker https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/09/18/turing-burroughs-out-in-ebook-and-paperback/
#10yrsago A mandatory $180 art school textbook about “prehistory to 1800” with no pictures, thanks to a lack of mysterious “copyright clearances” https://ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2012/09/16/copyright-and-the-pictureless-art-history-textbook/
#10yrsago Obama 2012 campaign erases all previous civil liberties campaign guarantees https://web.archive.org/web/20120919091047/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012911121256258902.html/
#5yrsago World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership
#5yrsago Florida Power and Light lobbyists made it illegal to use solar during outages https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-frustrated-with-fpl-after-hurricane-irma-9666311
#5yrsago California Democrats sell out online privacy in the dead of night https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/california-legislature-sells-out-our-data-isps
#5yrsago Dieselgate kills 5,000 Europeans per year https://phys.org/news/2017-09-dieselgate-deaths-europe-year.html
#5yrsago In California’s foreclosure valley, rents soar thanks to hedge fund landlords https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/wall-street-owns-main-street-literally.html
#5yrsago Survey: Canadians are increasingly denying science, climate and vaccines https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb7egy/43-percent-of-canadians-say-science-is-a-matter-of-opinion
#5yrsago Turkish high school students will no longer be taught “controversial” evolutionary theory https://english.alaraby.co.uk/features/turkey-scraps-theory-evolution-school-curriculum
