This day in history

2009, 2019, 2023.

#15yrsago Philosophy prof won’t go to jail for making unofficial Derrida translations available to students https://www.ip-watch.org/2009/12/14/restoration-of-french-philosopher’s-work-online-in-argentina-seen-as-an-opening/

#15yrsago How electricity became a right, and what it means for broadband https://web.archive.org/web/20091217080912/http://publicola.net/?p=20687

#15yrsago Haagen Dazs opens no-Indians-allowed store in Delhi https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/randomaccess/sorry-indians-not-allowed1/

#5yrsago McKinsey’s internal mythology compares management consultants to “the Marine Corps, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Jesuits” https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-makes-its-own-rules

#5yrsago Lawmaker admits not independently researching lobbyist’s claim that ectopic fetuses could be reimplanted in the uterus, blames medical journals https://www.wosu.org/news/2019-12-12/lawmaker-says-he-didnt-research-ectopic-pregnancy-procedure-before-adding-to-bill#stream/0

#5yrsago Private equity looters startled to be called out by name in Taylor Swift award-acceptance speech https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/private-equity-stunned-to-be-dragged-into-battle-between-taylor-swift-and-scooter-braun/

#5yrsago Radicalized is one of the Wall Street Journal’s top sf books of 2019! https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/14/radicalized-is-one-of-the-wall-street-journals-top-sf-books-of-2019/

#1yrago How the NYPD defeated bodycams https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/14/all-cams-are-private/#spoil-the-bushel