2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware

Plus three of my own. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” It’s that time of year again, when I round up all the books I…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrago Bruce Sterling hits his stride on his blog https://web.archive.org/web/20040505163610/https://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=154868

2003, 2008, 2018, 2022. — Next Tuesday (Dec 5), I’m at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org’s Bill McKibben called “The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful.” #20yrsago San Francisco’s homelessness quagmire https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-CITY-HOMELESS-ISLAND-They-live-2510831.php

Welcome to the age of danegeld. — Tonight (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. …

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. Tonight (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Peak Population: when will population growth stop, why, and how? https://www.alexsteffen.com/peak_population_and_sustainability #15yrsago James Boyle’s “The Public Domain” —…

How to break the climate insurance doom-loop. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” Conservatives may deride the “reality-based community” as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed…

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #20yrsago Big Mouth Billy Bass runs Linux, does impressions https://web.archive.org/web/20031123212606/http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/ #10yrsago Pratchett’s “Raising Steam”: the magic of modernity https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/27/pratchetts-raising-steam-the-magic-of-modernity/

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — Tomorrow (November 29), I’m at NYC’s Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called “completely delightful.” #15yrsago Canada’s Internet is crap https://web.archive.org/web/20081207154815/https://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/11/is_canada_becoming_a_digital_g.html #10yrsago Brainwashed: Neuroscience vs neurobollocks https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/28/brainwashed-neuroscience-vs-neurobollocks/