This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 24, 2023

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#15yrsago God Save Stan Lee tee https://memex.craphound.com/2008/01/24/god-save-stan-lee-tee/

#15yrsago FBI whistleblower tells librarians about discriminatory practices and bad procedure at the Bureau https://web.archive.org/web/20080127183738/http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/fbi-whistleblower-answers-questions

#10yrsago Tim Wu: “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t violate Disney’s copyright https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-disney-world

#5yrsago EU fines Qualcomm over $1 billion for anti-competitive iPhone deal https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_421

#5yrsago The NSA’s new “core values” statement no longer includes “honor,” “honesty” or “openness” https://theintercept.com/2018/01/24/nsa-core-values-honesty-deleted/

#5yrsago For 100 minutes, more than a million tuned into Sanders’ Medicare for All town hall https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/24/bernie-sanders-talks-universal-medicare-and-1-1-million-people-click-to-watch-him/

#5yrsago California’s lax usury laws means out-of-state loan sharks are charging desperate Californians 183% APRs https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-installment-loans-20180119-htmlstory.html

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