This day in history
2013, 2018, 2022.
#10yrsago Celebrate the crossword’s centenary with EFF’s NSA-themed crossword puzzle https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/crossword-what-did-we-learn-about-nsa-year
#10yrsago Politwoops! Which US politicians deleted the largest number of social media posts in 2013? https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/12/20/politwoops-2013-the-years-top-politicians-and-their-best-deletions-from-twitter/
#10yrsago US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years https://www.techdirt.com/2013/12/23/defense-department-privatizes-giant-public-domain-media-archive/
#10yrsago Jaunty, Xmassy steampunk assemblage clock sculpture https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/21/jaunty-xmassy-steampunk-assemblage-clock-sculpture/
#10yrsago Royal Society appoints a Wikipedian-in-Residence https://wikimedia.org.uk/2013/12/royal-society-appoints-wikimedian-in-residence/
#10yrsago Prisoner on literary censorship in Guantanamo Bay https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2013/12/why-russell-brand-banned-gitmo
#5yrsago Syracuse cops falsely accuse man of rectal dope-stashing and take him to hospital for nonconsensual anal probe; now he must pay $4600 for the procedure https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2018/12/syracuse-cops-push-st-joes-to-probe-mans-rectum-for-drugs-what-country-are-we-living-in.html
#5yrsago Bryan Adams to Canadian parliament: extending the term of copyright enriches labels and other intermediaries, not artists https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/12/bryan-adamscopyrightwarning/
#5yrsago Facing unpaid overtime, cuts and austerity, French cops threaten to join Gilets Jaunes protesters https://www.newsweek.com/france-protests-police-strike-gilets-jaunes-yellow-vests-pay-overtime-1264961
#5yrsago Congressional Democratic establishment wants to replace “Green New Deal” with a climate committee of oil money recipients https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kathy-castor-climate_n_5c1c0843e4b08aaf7a869cfd?chl+<https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fkathy-castor-climate_us_5c1c0843e4b08aaf7a869cfd%3Fchl=
#1yrago How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/malicious-compliance/#dma
