This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#20yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book, Forty Signs of Rain https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/13/kim-stanley-robinsons-new-book-forty-signs-of-rain/
#20yrsago Dotbomb patents considered harmful https://www.salon.com/2004/12/13/patent_reform/
#15yrsago Fugitive hides from arrest warrant by working at the DHS https://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/12/fugitive-gets-inside-homeland-security-department-office.html
#15yrsago Hundreds of billions in crime money knowingly laundered by banks during credit crunch https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
#15yrsago How Monsanto owns and manipulates the world’s food supply https://web.archive.org/web/20091216151139/https://www.ajc.com/business/ap-investigation-monsanto-seed-240072.html
#15yrsago Santa Claus banned from visiting locked-up children in UK asylum detention centre https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/13/santa-yarls-wood-father-christmas
#10yrsago House of Lords demands its own caterer because Parliament’s Champagne isn’t good enough https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/07/champagne-house-of-lords-reform-taxpayer
#10yrsago Georgia cops pay $100K for jailing woman who said “Fuck the police” https://web.archive.org/web/20141213070558/http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/27610700/woman-awarded-100000-in-free-speech-settlement
#10yrsago The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Procedure https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/13/the-illustrated-guide-to-criminal-procedure/
#10yrsago Teachers describe the terrible state of American education https://web.archive.org/web/20141212032535/http://gawker.com/why-teachers-pay-for-students-supplies-out-of-their-own-1669305507
#5yrsago Nulledcast: a podcast where hackers play live audio of themselves breaking into Ring cameras and tormenting their owners https://www.vice.com/en/article/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast/
#5yrsago LA police union will not defend cop accused of sexual assault on a corpse https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/us/lapd-officer-charged-fondling-dead-woman/index.html
#5yrsago Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/13/abbott-labs-kills-free-tool-that-lets-you-own-the-blood-sugar-data-from-your-glucose-monitor-saying-it-violates-copyright-law/
#1yrago Housing is a labor issue https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/13/i-want-a-roof-over-my-head/#and-bread-on-the-table
