This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
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#15yrsago Congress proposes anti-DRM law for cars https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro
#15yrsago Bush cronies land jobs charging for advice on not getting eaten by the monsters they created https://web.archive.org/web/20090523162034/https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-19-newjobs_N.htm?csp=34
#15yrsago Search Engine podcast is back on TVO https://web.archive.org/web/20090522054021/http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=3&action=blog&subaction=viewPost&post_id=10253&blog_id=81
#10yrsago NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas https://web.archive.org/web/20140519224819/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/
#10yrsago U of Saskatchewan fires tenured dean for speaking out against cuts https://artssquared.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/canadas-academics-invited-to-sign-on-to-open-letter-to-university-of-saskatchewan-board-chair-ms-susan-milburn/
#10yrsago Nutritionists’ professional events catered by McD’s, sponsored by High Fructose Corn Syrup https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/my-trip-mcdonalds-sponsored-nutritionist-convention/
#5yrsago Bernie Sanders’ “Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education” will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline https://berniesanders.com/issues/reinvest-in-public-education/
#5yrsago Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company “immoral” and “barbaric” https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/16/health/judge-proton-beam-therapy-recusal-unitedhealthcare/index.html
#5yrsago Wil Wheaton’s “Dead Trees Give No Shelter”: terrifying tale, beautifully told https://wilwheaton.net/2017/04/dead-trees-give-no-shelter-audiobook/
#1yrago Venture predation https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy
