This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
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#15yrsago LA cop union buys stake in newspaper, demands critical writers be fired https://web.archive.org/web/20090523133759/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/la-police-union-wants-san-diego-newspaper-writers-fired.html
#15yrsago UK towns move to extend abusive license plate surveillance grid https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/whos_watching_you/8064333.stm
#15yrsago BA getting rid of first class in new planes https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/may/22/british-airways-first-class-loss
#15yrsago English schoolkids go on strike until CCTVs are removed from classes https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4377621.LOUGHTON__Pupils_walk_out_of_lessons_in_protest_against_Big_Brother_cameras/
#15yrsago Obamabot to be installed at Disney World, will robotically cover up torture, suspend habeas corpus https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/politics/22obamatron.html
#15yrsago Obama promises to suspend Habeas Corpus https://web.archive.org/web/20090524000332/http://open.salon.com/blog/behind_blue_eyes/2009/05/22/obama_proposes_indefinite_preventive_detention_without_trial
#15yrsago Verizon to cops: we won’t help you track down sick, possibly dying man unless you pay his $20 phone bill https://web.archive.org/web/20090524071613/https://www.timesreporter.com/homepage/x862899385/Unconscious-Carroll-man-found-after-11-hour-search
#15yrsago T-Minus: graphic novel tells the history of the space race https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/22/t-minus-graphic-novel-tells-the-history-of-the-space-race/
#10yrsago Brandalists replace 365 outdoor ads in 10 UK cities with hand-printed works of art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKRmVwqhEdE
#10yrsago Glorious juvenile moment of Dragon’s Lair heroism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9cqaVjufo
#10yrsago Edward Snowden hosted a cryptoparty and ran a Tor exit node https://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty/
#10yrsago Substitute fine old rums for bourbon and save https://web.archive.org/web/20140523092132/http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/how-to-shut-up-about-the-whiskey-shortage
#10yrsago House leaders gut NSA-curbing USA FREEDOM Act https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-dismayed-houses-gutted-usa-freedom-act
#5yrsago Exploitation of workers becomes more socially acceptable if the workers are perceived as “passionate” about their jobs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/
#5yrsago The “Uber of Live Music” will charge you $1100–1600 to book a house show, pay musicians $100 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/05/the-uber-of-live-music/
#5yrsago Trump’s stealth attack on Social Security: “Chained CPI” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/21/beware-trumps-sneak-attack-social-security
#5yrsago In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf
#5yrsago Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don’t https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/car-repair-data-privacy.html
#5yrsago A self-appointed wing of the American judicial system is about to make it much harder to fight terms of service https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3x79a/new-proposal-would-let-companies-further-screw-you-over-with-terms-of-service
#1yrago Justice Warriors https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/22/libras-assemble/#the-uz
