Object permanence
Apple and trusted computing; TSA mocks travelers; Self-bricking med-tech.
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 Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? https://memex.craphound.com/2005/07/31/apple-to-add-trusted-computing-to-the-new-kernel/
#10yrsago TSA Behavioral Detection Program’s awful newsletter mocks travellers’ worries https://theintercept.com/2015/07/31/tsas-behavior-detection-program-newsletter-ridiculous-offensive/
#10yrsago German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for “treason” https://netzpolitik.org/2015/federal-office-for-the-protection-of-the-constitution-brings-a-charge-the-federal-public-prosecutor-investigates-against-us-concerning-our-sources/
#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/museum-which-promised-to-celebrate-east-end-women-now-devoted-to-jack-the-ripper-10423690.html
#5yrsago Challenge questions suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#favorite-food
#5yrsago Apple’s internal Right to Repair fight https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#e-waste-apple
#5yrsago Self-bricking medical device https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#bricked-exogen
#5yrsago Mexico’s copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#necensuraninadados
#5yrsago I’m being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#hall-of-famer
#1yrago The largest campaign finance violation in US history https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/greater-fools/#coinbased
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop! This summer, I’m writing The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI, a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic.
