This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Universal threatens to drop iTunes Store contract https://memex.craphound.com/2007/07/01/universal-threatens-to-drop-itunes-store-contract/

#15yrsago Let a million top-level domains bloom https://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2007/07/01/aging_the_internet_prematurely_one_pdp_at_a_time.html

#10yrsago UK immigration test to focus on Shakespeare and Christianity instead of human rights and civics https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-18662531

#10yrsago Funnyjunk’s lawyer asks judge to stop charitable donation through IndieGoGo by The Oatmeal https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/funnyjunk-lawyer-aims-to-halt-distribution-of-bearlove-money/

#5yrsago Quantifying the additional killings commited by cops when they get military weapons https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168017712885

#1yrago Exxon lobbyist confesses to his crimes: Keith McCoy thought he was talking to an executive recruiter https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/basilisk-tamers/#exxonknew

#1yrago When the Sparrow Falls: Neil Sharpson’s dystopian tale of an anti-AI hermit kingdom https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/basilisk-tamers/#rage-against-the-machine