This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Terry Pratchett’s “Making Money” — economic comedy https://memex.craphound.com/2007/09/28/terry-pratchetts-making-money-economic-comedy/

#10yrsago UK banks use robo-callers to make fraud-check calls, conditioning customers to hand out personal information to anonymous machines that phone them up out of the blue https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/27/automated-calls-fraud-banks

#10yrsago Panama’s new copyright law is the worst in the history of the universe https://www.technollama.co.uk/is-panama-about-to-pass-the-worst-copyright-law-in-history

#5yrsago Better education doesn’t correlate strongly to economic mobility (but union membership does) https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/education-and-economic-mobility/541041/

#5yrsago A glimpse of the European Commission’s plans for ham-fisted, indiscriminate mass online censorship https://felixreda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/

#5yrsago Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith collects $90M for his last year of outstanding work https://fortune.com/2017/09/26/equifax-ceo-richard-smith-net-worth/

#5yrsago Landscape With Invisible Hand: Late Stage Capitalism, by way of a YA alien invasion novel…