This day in history
2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.
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#20yrsago Washington Post reporter doxes online critics, tries to get them fired https://web.archive.org/web/20020615092309/https://prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/05/nyhan-b-05-07.html
#15yrsago HOWTO own a 128-bit number! #AACS https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/05/07/you-can-own-integer-too-get-yours-here/
#15yrsago Unauthorized Mickey Mouse pirate tee pays tribute to Dali https://web.archive.org/web/20070509034345/http://www.trestriges.com/en/t-shirts.html
#15yrsago BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/05/bbc-trust-approves-final-plan-for-drmed-program-downloads/
#10yrsago AAirpass: American Airlines’s all-you-can-eat lifetime first class ticket, and what became of it https://web.archive.org/web/20120506043051/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506,0,3094073,full.story
#10yrsago Savage beatings for pro-democracy, anti-Putin protesters in Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTBF57cYw4
#10yrsago Makers, the Master’s thesis https://practicalaesthetics.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/my-makers-thesis-is-done/
#10yrsago Scorching legal response from Dajaz1.com to the unsealed US gov’t docs on the illegal, sleazy seizure of its domain name https://web.archive.org/web/20120510024553/http://dajaz1.com/our-response-to-unsealed-court-documents-in-dajaz1-domain-seizure/
#5yrsago Matt Furie celebrated yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day by killing off Pepe the Frog https://www.themarysue.com/pepe-the-frog-free-comic-book-day/
#5yrsago Irish police open blasphemy investigation into Stephen Fry for calling God an “utter maniac” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stephen-fry-blasphemy-god-utter-maniac-ireland-gardai-rte-meaning-of-life-atheist-a7722081.html
#5yrsago How to support a writer’s career https://memex.craphound.com/2017/05/07/how-to-support-a-writers-career/
#1yrago The FTC’s (kick-ass) Right to Repair report https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#we-fixit
