Object permanance
Protesters must pledge souls to Satan; Cop “unions” aren’t; Afterland.
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I’m selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11.
#20yrsago Canada bans copying CDs to iPods https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2005/07/crias-higher-risk-strategy/
#20yrsago No taking pix of San Fran building from the sidewalk? https://thomashawk.com/2005/07/one-bush.html
#20yrsago Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’ https://web.archive.org/web/20050810083151/http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24961
#20yrsago Costikyan’s jeremiad against the video game industry https://web.archive.org/web/20050730021700/http://www.costik.com/weblog/2005_07_01_blogchive.html#112254986073206098
#10yrsago Satanic Temple required protesters to pledge their souls to Satan as condition of entry https://web.archive.org/web/20150728003106/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/07/26/to-weed-out-protesters-at-last-nights-event-the-satanic-temple-had-attendees-transfer-their-souls-to-satan/
#5yrsago Quick, inaccurate, cheap covid tests https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#pick-one
#5yrsago Swarov.se https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#goatse
#5yrsago Police “unions” are not unions https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#selective-solidarity
#5yrsago Snowden’s Little Brother intro https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#snowden
#5yrsago Audible Exclusives https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#acx
#5yrsago Mexican copyright crushes free speechhttps://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#mexico-copyright
#5yrsago Afterland https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#XY
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