This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago David Moles’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” https://chrononaut.org/fiction/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom/
#15yrsago Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/15digi.html
#15yrsago Struts & Frets: an indie-rock YA novel with heart and authenticity https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/15/struts-frets-an-indie-rock-ya-novel-with-heart-and-authenticity/
#15yrsago UN goons destroy academic poster describing China’s censorwall https://web.archive.org/web/20091118143608/http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm
#10yrsago Mesmerizing rebuild of a mechanical Fourier calculator https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5HNqGNW5AeEwq
#10yrsago Rightscorp is running out of money https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-firm-rightscorp-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-141114/
#10yrsago Spain’s top piracy-fighter goes to jail for embezzling $50K to spend in brothels https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-boss-spent-50k-in-brothels-to-protect-copyright-141114/
#10yrsago EFF makes DoJ admit it lied in court about FBI secret warrants https://web.archive.org/web/20141115172425/http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/justice-department-admits-it-misled-court-about-fbi-s-secret-surveillance-program-20141113
#5yrsago Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford’s books are out of print, they’re coming back https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html
#5yrsago Many Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future https://web.archive.org/web/20191114152903/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/how-to-conduct-business-with-chinese-companies-that-see-a-dark-future.html
#5yrsago Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/
#5yrsago Uber pretended its drivers were contractors, and now it owes New Jersey $650m in employment tax https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/uber-hit-with-650-million-employment-tax-bill-in-new-jersey
#5yrsago Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50427369
#5yrsago “Hope literacy,” “functional denial” and other ways to keep going in this difficult time https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/despairing-about-climate-crisis
#5yrsago Hong Kong protesters’ little stonehenges impede police cars https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1195350548062654465
#1yrago Big Train managers earn bonuses for greenlighting unsafe cars https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/15/safety-third/#all-the-livelong-day
