This day in history

2002, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago The guy who stole sex.com says he can’t afford a lawyer https://web.archive.org/web/20020201182327/https://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50104,00.html

#20yrsago Wired Wellington, a citywide, publicly owned fiber network https://web.archive.org/web/20020207131813/http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2841197,00.html

#5yrsago Google quietly makes “optional” web DRM mandatory in Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514415

#5yrsago Beyond the Trolley Problem: Three realistic, near-future ethical dilemmas about self-driving cars http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/

#5yrsago “Work ethic”: Minutes from 2011 meeting reveal Federal Reserve bankers making fun of unemployed Americans https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/federal-reserve-bankers-mocked-unemployed-americans-behind-closed-doors/

#1yrago Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#stockstonks

#1yrago Thinking through Mitch McConnell’s plea for comity https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#comity

#1yrago Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#no-seriously