This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 15

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#20yrsago Moorcock savages PKD https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.philipkdick

#20yrsago Airport luggage inspectors policing thoughtcrime https://web.archive.org/web/20030321200829/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134653764_tsasign15m.html

#15yrsago House votes against telcom immunity for illegal wiretapping https://www.wired.com/2008/03/house-refuses-t/

#15yrsago Finnish MP proposes week-long “love vacation” law https://web.archive.org/web/20080318173955/http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Finnish+Parliament+debates+proposal+for+love+vacations+/1135234799696

#15yrsago TSA officials running illegal private consultancy? https://web.archive.org/web/20080318171924/http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/top_tsa_officials_in_cheating.php

#10yrsago Legal issues in Pirate Cinema analyzed by IP lawyer https://lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/03/15/pirate-cinema-by-cory-doctorow/

#10yrsago Makies in Make: https://makezine.com/article/digital-fabrication/3d-printing-workshop/alice-taylor-inventing-the-future-of-toys/

#10yrsago Weird probabilities of non-transitive “Grime Dice” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XNL-uo520

#10yrsago Aaron Swartz defense: prosecutor Steve Heymann deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aaron-swartz-prosecutorial-misconduct_n_2867529

#10yrsago English town council wants to abolish apostrophes in street-names to end “confusion” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/15/council-ban-apostrophes-street-signs

#10yrsago National Post wants to copyright article titles https://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2013/03/warman-v-fournier-copyright-in-titles.html

#5yrsago Caped one-percenters: how superheros make out like bandits under the Trump tax-plan https://lawandthemultiverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/158tn0879-Bodger.pdf

#5yrsago China’s mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist’s advocacy for “systems thinking”…

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Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr