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 AUSTIN TODAY (Mar 10). I’m also doing several events for SXSW including a panel at Fediverse House.

#20yrsago Game developers’ amazing rants on the state of the industry https://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/burn_the_house_.html

#20yrsago Weirdo wants to sue because he has same name as video game character https://web.archive.org/web/20050316043002/https://gr.bolt.com/chatter/mailbag/mailbag.htm

#15yrsago French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html

#15yrsago London Olympics: police powers to force spectators to remove non-sponsor items, enter houses, take posters https://web.archive.org/web/20100307080427/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100303/tts-uk-olympics-london-ca02f96.html

#15yrsago Leaked documents: UK record industry wrote web-censorship amendment https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/bpi-drafted-web-blocking/

#15yrsago Lesbian panic shuts down Mississippi high-school prom https://web.archive.org/web/20100314150231/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6909566.html

#10yrsago UK foreign secretary: stop talking about Snowden, let spies get on with it https://web.archive.org/web/20150315031642/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2399082/government-minister-is-bored-with-snowden-and-wants-to-get-on-with-surveillance

#10yrsago Piketty on the pointless cruelty of European austerity https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/thomas-piketty-interview-about-the-european-financial-crisis-a-1022629.html

#5yrsago Podcast: A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#artistsrights

#5yrsago Postmortem: the catastrophic EU Copyright Directive https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#article17

#5yrsago Scam-buster hacks into a scam-factory https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#scambaiting

#5yrsago Italy’s “I Stay in the House” law https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#italiatine

#5yrsago Twitter’s new Terms of Service help academics https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#acabot

#5yrsago Sensor Tower’s VPNs and adblockers spied on users https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/11/i-stay-in-the-house/#quislings

#1yrago The Foilies https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/11/no-foia/#id-tell-you-but-then-id-have-to-kill-you