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This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 8, 2022

#15yrsago Tim Wu profile in Business Week https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150030/http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2007/db2007117_264711.htm

#15yrsago Early calculator watch prototype https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/11/vintage-watching-1970-prototype-concept.html

#15yrsago HOWTO Use Creative Commons licenses https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-commons.html

#10yrsago Warcraft-playing Maine senate candidate wins, despite opponents anti-orc smears https://www.bangordailynews.com/2012/11/07/politics/elections/world-of-warcraft-candidate-vanquishes-opponent-in-waterville/

#10yrsago Philip Pullman’s Grimm’s Fairytales https://memex.craphound.com/2012/11/08/philip-pullmans-grimms-fairytales/

#5yrsago Facebook’s “shadow profiles”: the involuntary dossiers of information you never provided, and can’t opt out of https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691

#5yrsago GOP tax plan punishes people who work, rewards passive income https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-wins-biggest-in-the-gop-tax-plan-the-lazy-rich/2017/11/06/0d010482-c337-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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