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This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 27, 2022

#15yrsago Board-game price-fixing https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/229526/mayfair-first-publisher-cap-retail-discount

#10yrsago Knuckles that promote literacy https://secure.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/8125668720/in/photostream

#10yrsago Carved pumpkin zombie lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyc27gei1BU

#5yrsago Haribo: sweetened with forced labor and abused animals https://www.dw.com/en/haribo-gummy-bear-ingredients-made-by-modern-slaves-documentary-shows/a-41036821

#5yrsago The New York Times is now a Tor onion service https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482

#5yrsago Record-breaking number of billionaires signals a second “Gilded Age” with inequality hitting 1905 levels https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/26/worlds-witnessing-a-new-gilded-age-as-billionaires-wealth-swells-to-6tn

#5yrsago Australian government proposes jail terms for satire https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/australian-government-wants-give-satire-boot

#5yrsago Catalonian parliament declares independence from Spain https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41780116

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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