This day in history

2002, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Get Your Enron On https://web.archive.org/web/20020119171027/http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war7.html

#20yrsago Google declares war on pop-up ads https://web.archive.org/web/20020127141457/https://www.google.com/help/nopopupads.html

#20yrsago TCP/IP on a Lego brick https://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/legos/?n=2247

#5yrsago The Department of Labor’s Wells Fargo whistleblower site has disappeared https://nypost.com/2017/01/27/whistleblower-site-for-wells-fargo-workers-vanishes/

#5yrsago Canadians: tell your MP to change the law so Canada can welcome Trump-stranded refugees https://greatislander.ca/something-to-do/

#1yrago David Dayen’s MONOPOLIZED https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. 1His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).