This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readAug 15, 2021

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#20yrsago Berkeley Breathed comes out of retirement for Onion interview https://web.archive.org/web/20011201062719/http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3728/avfeature_3728.html

#20yrsago Human tiger files down teeth, tattoos strips, seeks fur implants https://web.archive.org/web/20011003225705/http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_365440.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

#10yrsago Empirical manners: towards a science of harmonious norms http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/rewilding-etiquette.html

#10yrsago WDW restores original Tiki Room https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/every-cloud-has-silver-lining.html

#5yrsago Private prison contractor’s $1B no-bid deal to run immigration jails guarantees 100% occupancy payouts https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/inside-the-administrations-1-billion-deal-to-detain-central-american-asylum-seekers/2016/08/14/e47f1960-5819-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html

#5yrsago Even the woo industry thinks Gwyneth Paltrow’s “smoothie dust” ads are too much https://consumerist.com/2016/08/09/ad-and-supplement-self-regulation-groups-have-issues-with-gwyneth-paltrows-smoothie-dusts/

#5yrsago After New Zealand spooks misidentified pro-democracy activist, NSA spied on…

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