This day in history

2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#15yrsago Fun Home, a memoir from the creator of Dykes To Watch Out For https://memex.craphound.com/2006/08/18/graphic-novel-autobiography-of-dykes-to-watch-out-for-creator/

#10yrsago Muphry’s Law: the inevitability of typos in discussions of proofreading http://www.editorscanberra.org/muphrys-law/

#10yrsago Rep Allen West pens “dumbest thing ever written on congressional stationery” https://web.archive.org/web/20110914030034/https://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/17/297619/allen-west-nuts/

#5yrsago The 13 Clocks: Grimm’s Fairytales meet The Phantom Tollbooth https://memex.craphound.com/2016/08/18/the-13-clocks-grimms-fairytales-meet-the-phantom-tollbooth/

#5yrsago The NSA’s program of tech sabotage created the Shadow Brokers https://www.wired.com/2016/08/shadow-brokers-mess-happens-nsa-hoards-zero-days/

#5yrsago Predictive policing predicts police harassment, not crime https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-016-9272-0

#5yrsago Las Vegas: high unionization rates mean smaller wage-gaps for women, especially older women https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/opinion/how-unions-help-cocktail-servers.html

#5yrsago DoJ says it will end private federal prisons…