#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts

#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html

#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/

#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency

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#25yrsago Barnum & Bailey hired an ex-CIA spook to destroy a critical journalist https://web.archive.org/web/20010913192931/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/08/30/circus/print.html

#20yrsago Wired article about Wikipedia is on a editable wiki https://web.archive.org/web/20060901030941/http://www.socialtext.net/wired/index.cgi

#20yrsago Singapore will have nationwide WiFi by 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20060901191656/http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6110189.html

#5yrsago Twitter Arguments https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/29/twitter-arguments/

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#20yrsago Goth day at Disneyland photos https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/batsday/

#20yrsago HOWTO run a successful sf convention room party https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/how_to_throw_a_1/

#20yrsago Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand https://web.archive.org/web/20061111175912/http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html

#10yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly https://web.archive.org/web/20160818012451/https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/equation-group/

#5yrsago Bubble https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/podcasting-as-a-visual-medium/#huntr

#1yrago Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/21/weighty/#edie-is-a-badass

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#5yrsago Obama’s policy on Bush’s crimes is how #BrettKavanaugh got to the Supreme Court https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bush-administration/

#1yrsago Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#billionaire-dilletantes

#1yrsago #MedievalTimes invents a modern #UnionBusting tactic https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/#ip

#1yrago How lawyers became sadists https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/15/lex-sadist/#incentives-matter

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#5yrsago #AmericanConservative laments #MarketConcentration and #PrivateProperty as bad for #FreeExpression https://www.theamericanconservative.com/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/

#5yrsago #Missouri voters kill the state’s anti-union law with a massively successful ballot initiative https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-missouri-unions-ballot-primary-janus.html

#1yrsago A modest proposal to fix #contracts https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/10/be-reasonable/#i-would-prefer-not-to

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