Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 17, 2025

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in SAN DIEGO on Mar 24 at MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, and in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2. More tour stops here.

#20yrsago Orrin Hatch is head of new IP subcommitee https://www.technewsworld.com/story/hatch-to-lead-senate-panel-on-intellectual-property-41548.html

#20yrsago Hollywood stars look like crap in high-def https://web.archive.org/web/20050324045011/http://www.onhd.tv/thelist.htm

#20yrsago Self-replicating 3D printers https://web.archive.org/web/20050410074636/https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns/?id=dn7165

#20yrsago Andre Norton, RIP https://web.archive.org/web/20050318045717/https://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html

#15yrsago YouTube: Viacom secretly posted its videos even as they sued us for not taking down Viacom videos https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/broadcast-yourself/

#15yrsago Entertainment industry sours on term “pirate” — too sexy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/piracy-sounds-too-sexy-say-rightsholders/

#15yrsago Is the UK record industry arrogant or stupid? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/mar/18/digital-economy-bill-calculated-loss

#10yrsago J. Edgar Hoover palled around with a suspected commie spy https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/feb/26/fbi-files-congressman-dickstein-show-close-relatio/

#10yrsago DRM for woo: “light therapy” mask’s LED only works 30 times https://www.techdirt.com/2015/03/18/drm-how-to-make-30000-hour-led-bulbs/

#10yrsago Canadian court hands a gimme to copyright trolls https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/defending-privacy-doesnt-pay-federal-court-issues-ruling-in-voltage-teksavvy-costs/

#10yrsago Clinton’s sensitive email was passed through a third-party spam filtering service https://web.archive.org/web/20150317223142/http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2015/03/16/breaking-news-spam-filtering-service-had-access-to-clinton-classified-emails/comment-page-1/

#10yrsago Following the key Trans-Pacific Partnership senator with a 30′ blimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDKzwB8GhN0

#5yrsago Plague precautions from 1665 https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#hello-1665

#5yrsago How to make your own toilet paper https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#diy-tp

#5yrsago If nothing is for sale, how will covid stimulus work? https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#covid-stimulus

#5yrsago 3D printed ventilator hero got a patent threat https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#patently-absurd

#5yrsago Epidemiology and public health in 14 minutes https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#explainer

#5yrsago Bigoted Republican Congressjerk votes against coronavirus relief because it might cover same-sex partnerships https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#repandybiggs

#5yrsago How to split a single ventilator for four patients https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#ventilator-sharing

#5yrsago John Green’s mutual aid manifesto https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#nerdfighters

#5yrsago American Airlines blew billions, now it wants a bailout https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#aa-crashes

#5yrsago MAGA firefighters dismiss coronavirus as Democrat hoax https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#trump-virus

#5yrsago Charter orders all workers to keep showing up https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy-tp/#sociopathy

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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