This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 22, 2023

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#20yrsago Hilary Rosen resigns https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2003/01/683-2/

#10yrsago TARDIS dress is bigger on the inside https://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/8396310518/in/photostream/

#10yrsago More on “Escape From Tomorrow,” the guerrilla art-house movie shot at Walt Disney World and Disneyland https://archive.nytimes.com/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/disney-world-horror-fantasy-raises-knotty-copyright-issues/

#5yrsago New York cops furious that the union has reduced the number of “get out of jail free” cards they can give to their pals https://nypost.com/2018/01/21/police-union-slashes-number-of-get-out-of-jail-free-cards-issued/

#5yrsago Facebook helped consolidate power for Cambodia’s dictator and his attack-dog media, then killed the independent press’s platform https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-cambodia-democracy

#5yrsago Sears Canada execs paid hundreds of millions in dividends before declaring bankruptcy and leaving 16,000 workers’ pensions unfunded https://www.thestar.com/business/2018/01/20/will-16000-sears-canada-retirees-see-their-pensions.html

#5yrsago No such thing as Bernie Bros: Bernie’s approval rates are women 50%, Black people 70%, Latinos 55%; men 46%, whites 43%…

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