This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#20yrsago Swarthmore and Diebold team up to undermine integrity of elections https://web.archive.org/web/20031018102354/https://importance.typepad.com/the_importance_of/

#15yrsago Time Management for Anarchists — the free comic https://nomediakings.org/time_management_for_anarchists/free_anarchomic_released.html

#15yrsago Why free-riding doesn’t apply to some online collaboration https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/10/24/trouble-free-riding/

#10yrsago UC Davis’s Officer Pepper Spray gets a $38K payout for mental trauma of being hated by the entire world https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/UC-Davis-pepper-spray-officer-awarded-38-000-4920773.php

#10yrsago US ambassador to Germany summoned to explain NSA bugging chancellor Angela Merkel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/germany-summons-us-ambassador-nsa-merkel-phone

#10yrsago Mel Blanc’s radio show: 40+ free, downloadable episodes https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Mel_Blanc_Singles

#10yrsago Understanding NSA boss James Clapper’s France-spying “denial” https://www.techdirt.com/2013/10/23/james-clapper-plays-more-word-games-official-denial-french-phone-data-collection-leak/

#5yrsago Cathay Pacific leaks 9.4 million travelers’ passport numbers and other data https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cathay-pacific-suffers-data-breach-impacting-94-million-passengers/

#5yrsago Rep Steve King spent $18,000 at private GOP club, sent taxpayers the bill https://theintercept.com/2018/10/24/steve-king-spending-expense-account-taxpayer-private-club/

#5yrsago State surveillance company leaked its own data, its customers’ data, and its customers’ victims’ data https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbka8b/wolf-intelligence-leak-customer-victim-data-online

#5yrsago Facebook’s former security head: making Facebook moderate content will cement its dominance https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/23/139334/facebooks-ex-security-boss-asking-big-tech-to-police-hate-speech-is-a-dangerous-path/

#5yrsago You can request hand-crafted reading-list recommendations from the Brooklyn public library online https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

#5yrsago In America, the young find distinguishing fact from opinion easier than their elders https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/10/23/younger-americans-are-better-than-older-americans-at-telling-factual-news-statements-from-opinions/

#5yrsago High school class’s electoral predictions model is a model for electoral predictions https://web.archive.org/web/20181104020001/https://polistat.mbhs.edu/about/

#5yrsago Public domain scores a huge appeals court victory: the law cannot be copyrighted https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appeals-court-tells-georgia-state-code-cant-be-copyrighted

#5yrsago Mister Bone Saw got a standing ovation at Davos in the Desert https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/saudi-conference-khashoggi-killing.html

#5yrsago The stories behind the names on the Haunted Mansion’s tombstones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmg9CdIvgs

#1yrago An hour of interwar Halloween music https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/24/spooky-season/#interwar-ween

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