This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019.

#15yrsago How Britain’s Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy’s expense https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/26/digital-economy-file-sharing-mandelson

#15yrago Musician’s open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain’s Pirate-Finder General https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI

#15yrsago Scientist explains why climate scientists talk trash https://rifters.com/crawl/?p=886

#10yrsago The clown-prince of DHS checkpoint refusal videos https://www.youtube.com/user/ttoutpost/featured

#10yrsago Song for Shaker: free the last UK Gitmo prisoner! https://standwithshakeraamer.tumblr.com

#10yrsago Vodafone made millions helping GCHQ spy on the world https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/new-snowden-docs-gchqs-ties-to-telco-gave-spies-global-surveillance-reach/

#10yrsago Uberdystopian: the surge-priced nightmare future https://www.vice.com/en/article/one-day-i-will-die-on-mars/

#10yrsago Essential reading: the irreconcilable tension between cybersecurity and national security https://opencanada.org/the-cyber-security-syndrome/

#10yrsago Strong Female Protagonist Book One https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/26/strong-female-protagonist-book-one/

#5yrsago Four union organizers fired from Google https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/firing-of-four-google-employees-is-retaliatory-activists-say/

#5yrsago 1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates https://web.archive.org/web/20191126175152/https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/that-time-animators-brought-a-guillotine-to-the-disney-1839802702

#5yrsago Christian TV pastor Rick Wiles: Impeachment is a “Jew coup” https://web.archive.org/web/20191127005302/https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/11/christian-tv-host-warns-followers-trump-impeachment-is-jew-coup/

#5yrsago In defamation case, Elon Musk will testify that “pedo guy” is a common South African phrase and not an accusation of pedophilia https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information/

#5yrsago Across America, DMVs make millions selling your license data to private eyes — and randos https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information/

#5yrsago Bloomberg’s $34m presidential campaign ad-buy is 1.1% of the taxes Bernie, Warren and Steyer want him to pay https://newrepublic.com/article/155844/michael-bloomberg-big-hedge-wealth-tax-2020

#5yrsago How to argue with your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving https://action.dccc.org/pdf/knowyourstuffing-2019_print.pdf

#5yrsago Podcast: The Engagement-Maximization Presidency https://ia803104.us.archive.org/30/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_316/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_316_-_The_Engagement-Maximization_Presidency.mp3