This day in history

2014, 2019, 2023.

#10yrsago A modest proposal for Wall Street’s future https://web.archive.org/web/20141215195720/http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-15/michael-lewis-eight-things-i-wish-for-wall-street

#5yrsago From Enron to Saudi Arabia, from Rikers Island to ICE’s gulag, how McKinsey serves as “Capitalism’s Consigliere” https://theintercept.com/2019/12/18/capitalisms-consigliere-mckinseys-work-for-insurance-companies-ice-drug-manufacturers-and-despots/

#5yrsago A profile of Cliff “Cuckoo’s Egg” Stoll, a pioneering “hacker hunter” https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

#5yrsago With 5G, 2019 reached peak bullshit https://www.lightreading.com/5g/2019-the-year-telecom-went-doolally-about-5g

#5yrsago Kentucky’s governor insisted that investment bankers could provide broadband. He was wrong. https://www.propublica.org/article/there-are-kentuckians-who-still-dont-have-broadband-because-the-former-governor-chose-an-investment-bank-over-experts#173512

#1yrago Debbie Urbanski’s ‘After World’ https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/18/storyworker-ad39-393a-7fbc/#digital-human-archive-project