This day in history
2005, 2015, 2020, 2024.
#20yrsago Low-tech “Hipster PDA” (cards and a paperclip) hacks https://web.archive.org/web/20050111035632/http://www.43folders.com/2005/01/organizing_your.html
#10yrsago Sharpening the contradictions: why jihadis attack cartoonists https://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html
#10yrsago Porn companies carpetbomb Google with sloppy takedowns, remove tons of Github projects https://torrentfreak.com/google-porn-takedowns-carpet-bomb-github-150107/
#10yrsago DHS’s weird, creepy social media search-terms https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jan/07/homeland-security-search-logs-include/
#10yrsago Batmanga: Japan’s 1960s parallel universe “New Look” Batman https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/08/batmanga-japans-1960s-parallel-universe-new-look-batman/
#5yrsago A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/
#5yrsago Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/
#5yrsago Trying to land on some runways causes the Boeing 737’s control screens to go black https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/08/boeing_737_ng_cockpit_screen_blank_bug/
#5yrsago Something Awful’s “Fuck You and Die” forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it’s dead https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-awfuls-notorious-fuck-you-and-die-forum-shuts-down-because-of-nazis/
#5yrsago Internal docs reveal that Canada’s Exxon subsidiary knew about climate change risks and lied about it for decades https://theintercept.com/2020/01/08/imperial-oil-climate-change-exxon/
#1yrago Molly McGhee’s “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind” https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/08/capitalist-surrealism/#productivity-hacks
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