This day in history

2005, 2020.

#20yrsago T-shirt: HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC AND IT’S FUN https://web.archive.org/web/20040429213938/http://www.downhillbattle.org/postal/index.php

#20yrsago Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change https://lareviewofbooks.org/blog/provocations/neophobic-conservative-ai-overlords-want-everything-stay/

#5yrsago Everything you wanted to know about money-laundering but were afraid to ask https://x.com/CZEdwards/status/1213597148274511872

#5yrsago Republican New York State Assembly leader publishes anti-drunk driving PSA shortly before drunkenly crashing a state-owned car https://web.archive.org/web/20200102042442/https://www.mpnnow.com/news/20200101/video-assemblyman-kolb-charged-with-dwi-after-victor-crash

#5yrsago The estranged anarchist daughter of the Republican gerrymandering mastermind inherited and dumped all his files https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-anarchist-daughter-of-the-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-just-dumped-all-his-maps-and-files-on-google-drive/

#5yrsago Permitting the growth of monopolies is a form of government censorship https://locusmag.com/2020/01/cory-doctorow-inaction-is-a-form-of-action/

#5yrsago Podcast: Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things https://ia802806.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_322/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_322_-_Science_fiction_and_the_unforeseeable_future.mp3