Object permanence

2010, 2015, 2020.

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).

#15yrsago HOWTO Make a Admiral Ackbar paper-bag puppet https://web.archive.org/web/20100525031350/http://www.starwars.com/kids/do/crafts/f20100511.html

#10yrsago Self-sustaining botnet made out of hacked home routers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/researchers-uncover-self-sustaining-botnets-of-poorly-secured-routers/

#10yrsago Leetspeak, circa 1901 https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/history-of-telegraph-operators-abbreviations-used-by-telegraphers.html

#10yrsago The business model of NSA apologists https://web.archive.org/web/20150512185408/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/intelligence-industry-cash-flows-media-echo-chamber-defending-nsa-surveillance/

#10yrsago Guard tells top senator that she can’t take notes on TPP https://web.archive.org/web/20150513114616/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/can-read-notes-life-top-democratic-senator-blasts-obamas-tpp-secrecy/

#10yrsago Dragons Beware: Claudette’s back in the sequel to Giants Beware! https://memex.craphound.com/2015/05/12/dragons-beware-claudettes-back-in-the-sequel-to-giants-beware/

#5yrsago Plane ticket refunds (without airline cooperation) https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evil-maid/#friendly-skies

#5yrsago Iceland’s world-beating coronavirus app didn’t help much https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evil-maid/#fjords

#5yrsago Adjacent, similar NYC neighborhoods with wildly different outcomes https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evil-maid/#demographics-are-destiny

#5yrsago The right’s theories about human behavior are bankrupt https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evil-maid/#blitzed