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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 18, 2022

#20yrsago Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore overruled by Supreme Court https://www.salon.com/2005/06/28/ten_commandments/

#15yrsago Open Rights Groups — the first two years https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/open-rights-group-our-first-two-years/

#15yrsago Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier https://danhillier.com

#10yrsago Bibliomat: a vending machine for random rare and antiquarian books (with satisfying clunk) https://vimeo.com/53679084

#10yrsago Cowardice: Gutless House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than 24 hours https://www.techdirt.com/2012/11/17/that-was-fast-hollywood-already-browbeat-republicans-into-retracting-report-copyright-reform/

#10yrsago Artist arrested at Oakland airport for wearing ornate watch https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-strange-watch-arrested-at-oakland-airport/

#5yrsago Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds https://theintercept.com/2017/11/18/wall-street-wants-to-kill-the-agency-protecting-americans-from-financial-scams/

#5yrsago Candid Wall Street barons worry that GOP tax plan will lead to literal euthanasia of the rentier…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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