This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 21, 2022

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#15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein gets everything wrong in column about NSA domestic spying https://www.wired.com/2007/11/times-columnist/

#10yrsago Five reasons to opt out of TSA pornoscanners this weekend https://www.huffpost.com/entry/5-reasons-im-opting-out-tsa_b_2137558

#10yrsago Creationist fifth grade science textbook used in Louisiana public school https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/here-is-what-louisiana-schoolchildren-learn-about

#10yrsago Toronto Mayor Rob Ford demonstrates his governance style https://memex.craphound.com/2012/11/21/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-demonstrates-his-governance-style/

#5yrsago After a Freedom of Information lawsuit, the White House visitor logs are now available online as a free searchable database https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex

#5yrsago The stairs in a viral sensation public library in China run with blood, and its “books” are just sheets of aluminum screened with pictures of spines https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinas-futuristic-library-more-fiction-books-093019395.html

#5yrsago The FCC will move to kill net neutrality over Thanksgiving and it thinks that we’ll all be too busy eating and shopping to notice…

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