Object permanence
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. The last two stops are in London (Jul 1) and Manchester (Jul 2).
#20yrsago Italian phone carriers have phone-unlockers arrested https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/20/italian-phone-carriers-have-phone-unlockers-arrested/
#15yrsago Critical paths and self-publishing https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/43187-closing-in.html
#15yrsago JHEREG license plate https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/20/jhereg-license-plate/
#15yrsago UK government promises immediate, sweeping, pro-liberty reform https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/new-uk-govt-to-curb-cctv-scrap-id-cards-help-open-source/
#15yrsago Canada’s sellout Heritage Minister ready to hand copyright to Hollywood https://web.archive.org/web/20100523073407/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5049/125/
#15yrsago NYC sidewalk with a tourist lane https://web.archive.org/web/20100523071746/http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-446601?hpt=Sbin
#15yrsago Charts of UK Parliamentary language usage, 1935- https://web.archive.org/web/20100523074752/http://contentini.com/an-analysis-of-uk-parliamentary-language-1935-2010/
#15yrsago NYC writer’s space throws out last remaining typewriter user https://web.archive.org/web/20100523093837/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/20/2010-05-20_untitled__typewriter20m.html
#15yrsago World Sauna Championships: blisters, peeling skin, burned throats https://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?id=5198604
#10yrsago Digital rights news from 2025 https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-300-digital-rights-news-2025/
#10yrsago FBI spies on tar sands opponents under banner of “national security” https://web.archive.org/web/20150523001136/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/19/fbi-invokes-national-security-justify-surveillance-tar-sands-protestors/
#10yrsago Bottled water: the ultimate throwback to feudal selfishness https://gizmodo.com/stop-drinking-bottled-water-1704609514
#10yrsago Chris Christie denounces “civil liberties extremists” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-christie-911-attacks-coffin_n_7309628
#5yrsago Ifixit’s medtech repair manual trove is full to bursting https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#ifixit
#5yrsago Re-positive coronavirus cases are not infectious https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#whew
#5yrsago Google vows no custom AI for oil and gas https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#no-ml-for-oil
#5yrsago Grocer won’t show employees results from mandatory temp-checks https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#thermal-privacy
#5yrsago Software secrecy https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#floss
#5yrsago Climate and machine learning https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#digging-coal-with-your-spacebar
#5yrsago Hackers on Planet Earth, in the cloud https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/20/oil-in-the-cloud/#hope
#1yrago The new globalism is global labor https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/#the-multinational-playbook
