#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #5yrsago, aggregated by home.social.
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html
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#5yrsago Someone’s finally going to jail over the #PanamaPapers: a Turkish journalist who reported true facts from them https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/09/journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation
#5yrsago A history of the sprawling personality clashes over #RSS https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
#5yrsago American towns survive by fining poor people, and use #DebtorsPrisons to make them pay https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor-jail.html
#5yrsago LA school district prepares for #TeachersStrike with army of expensive scabs https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-teachers-strike-staffing-20190107-story.html
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#5yrsago Rhode Island lawsuit argues that the Constitution guarantees a right to sufficient education to be an #InformedCitizen https://theconversation.com/fight-for-federal-right-to-education-takes-a-new-turn-108322
#5yrsago Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and thereafter enjoyed the best per-capita GDP growth in the region https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/file/paper/594eced12c818.pdf
#5yrsago #Verizon writes down its #Yahoo/#AOL assets by $4.6 billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/verizon-writes-down-4-6-billion-of-value-of-aol-yahoo-business
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#10yrsago #Skype’s IP-leaking security bug creates denial-of-service cottage industry https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/privacy-101-skype-leaks-your-location/
#5yrsago The oil industry just told a judge that #ClimateChange is undeniably real, but they still found a way to weasel https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17151532/climate-tutorial-san-francisco-oakland-lawsuits-judge-alsup-chevron-exxon
#5yrsago #Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery/
#1yrago Facebook's #genocide filters are really, really bad https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/23/false-genocide-negative/#metacrap
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