This day in history
2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.
This Thursday, November 16, I’ll be in Stratford, Ontario, appearing onstage with Vass Bednar as part of the CBC IDEAS Festival. I’m also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library.
#20yrsago Pearson Airport threatens to sue websites that take its name in vain https://www.techdirt.com/2003/11/13/is-it-against-the-law-to-put-the-name-of-the-toronto-airport-on-the-web/
#10yrsago Edward Snowden is almost broke https://world.time.com/2013/11/12/edward-snowden-is-almost-broke/
#10yrsago Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even worse, I’m leaving https://web.archive.org/web/20131114001432/http://vihart.com/google-youtube-integration-kind-of-like-twilight-except-in-this-version-when-cullen-drinks-bellatubes-blood-they-both-become-mortal-but-cullen-is-still-an-abusive-creep-also-it-is-still-bad/
#10yrsago Tune: Still Life, new installment in romcom/alien abduction graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/13/tune-still-life-new-installment-in-romcom-alien-abduction-graphic-novel/
#5yrsago Trump is bailing out a Chinese owned pork producer to compensate it for retaliatory Chinese tariffs https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smithfield-china-tariffs-20181109-story.html
#5yrsago Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism’s incompatibility with democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ
#5yrsago Congressional Democrats’ first bill aims to end gerrymandering, increase voter registration and rein in campaign finance https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/665635832/democrats-say-their-first-bill-will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home
#5yrsago Big Tech got big because we stopped enforcing antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-curse-of-bigness/
#1yrago The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever broken https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/#frame
#1yrago They Want to Kill Libraries https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/they-want-to-kill-libraries/
