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This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJul 29, 2023

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

#15yrsago To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351.html

#15yrsago RIP Harriet Burns, first woman Imagineer https://web.archive.org/web/20080917032505/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/29/state/n164319D19.DTL&tsp=1

#10yrsago Dentist sued over “I own your criticism” agreement vanishes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/dentist-who-used-copyright-to-silence-her-patients-is-on-the-run/

#10yrsago Randall Munroe finishes “Time,” the 3,099-panel XKCD serial http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

#5yrsago Why Democratic Socialists aren’t afraid to call themselves “Socialist” anymore https://jacobin.com/2018/07/socialism-democracy-liberals-conservatives/

#5yrsago Why would a company give free tablets to prisons for inmate use? https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/07/24/no-cost-contract/

#5yrsago Seattle passes America’s most comprehensive labor protections for domestic workers…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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