This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 3, 2024

#15yrsago HOWTO make a packing tape ghost https://makezine.com/article/craft/how-to-packing-tape-ghost-sculptures/

#10yrsago Animation explains the dangers of Computercop, the malware that US police agencies distribute to the public https://web.archive.org/web/20141003115913/http://fusion.net/video/19094/who-needs-the-nsa-anyone-could-spy-on-your-kids-thanks-to-computercop/

#10yrsago Mobile malware infections race through Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/year-of-the-rat-chinas-malware-war-on-activists-goes-mobile/

#10yrsago Larry “Wide Stance” Craig busted (again) https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/10/larry-craig-cant-catch-a-break.html

#5yrsago Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution https://theintercept.com/2019/10/03/plastics-industry-plastic-pollution/

#5yrsago Resource Generation: rich kids who are determined to give away their parents’ money and make America more fair and equal https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29008841/rich-kids-revolution-resource-generation/

#5yrsago CN Tower’s management company claims that any picture of the landmark building is a trademark violation https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/03/cn-towers-management-company-claims-that-any-picture-of-the-landmark-building-is-a-trademark-violation/

#5yrsago What happened to the 2008 bailout money? https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bailout-was-11-years-ago-were-still-tracking-every-penny

#5yrsago Tiktok’s internal policies are both weird and terrible https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-time/

#5yrsago “I just love to solve problems”: how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers

#5yrsago Adversarial Interoperability https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

#1yrago Google’s enshittification memos https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

Tor Books just published two new, free “Little Brother” stories: “Vigilant,” a about creepy surveillance in distance education; and “Spill,” about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

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