This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 23, 2024

#15yrsago EULAs + Arbitration = endless opportunity for abuse https://archive.org/details/TheUnconcionabilityOfArbitrationAgreementsInEulas

#15yrsago Wikipedia’s facts-about-facts make the impossible real https://web.archive.org/web/20091116023225/http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?pg=16

#10yrsago Youtube nukes 7 hours’ worth of science symposium audio due to background music during lunch break https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/25/youtube-nukes-7-hours-worth-of-science-symposium-audio-due-to-background-music-during-lunch-break/

#10yrsago El Deafo: moving, fresh YA comic-book memoir about growing up deaf https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/25/el-deafo-moving-fresh-ya-comic-book-memoir-about-growing-up-deaf/

#5yrsago Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing https://crookedtimber.org/2019/11/25/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine/

#5yrsago After Katrina, neoliberals replaced New Orleans’ schools with charters, which are now failing https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_0c5918cc-058d-11ea-aa21-d78ab966b579.html

#5yrsago Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future https://bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/castle-talk-cory-doctorow-on-disneys-carousel-of-progress-and-lost-optimism/

#5yrsago Tiny alterations in training data can introduce “backdoors” into machine learning models https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06638

#5yrsago Leaked documents document China’s plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/

#5yrsago Hong Kong elections: overconfident Beijing loyalist parties suffer a near-total rout https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3039132/results-blog

#5yrsago Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/25/library-socialism-a-utopian-vision-of-a-sustaniable-luxuriant-future-of-circulating-abundance/

#1yrago The moral injury of having your work enshittified https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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