Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me at NEW ZEALAND’S UNITY BOOKS in AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM) and WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM). More tour stops (Pittsburgh, PDX, London, Manchester) here.

#20yrsago Architectures of Control: DRM in hardware https://web.archive.org/web/20050425184527/http://www.danlockton.co.uk/research/architectures.html

#20yrsago Insect photos in naturalistic macro-focus https://bugdreams.com

#15yrsago UK’s super-rich get even richer https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8642021.stm

#15yrsago Protect your copyrights, boycott DRM-locked platforms https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/devices/article/42869-can-you-survive-a-benevolent-dictatorship.html

#10yrsago Obituary for an amazing history teacher https://web.archive.org/web/20150426235723/https://thescientificparent.org/teachers-be-like-robin-barker-james/

#10yrsago What the UK Greens actually believe about copyright tomchance.org/2015/04/24/making-copyright-work-for-creatives/

#10yrsago School bus driver bans little girl from reading https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-girl-told-to-stop-reading-book-by-school-bus-driver-1.3043652?cmp=rss

#10yrsago Senators announce “Aaron Swartz Should Have Faced More Jail Time” bill https://www.techdirt.com/2015/04/23/senators-introduce-anti-aarons-law-to-increase-jail-terms-unauthorized-access-to-computers/

#5yrsago California Adventure, Minecraft edition https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#minecraft

#5yrsago Security expert conned out of $10,000 https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#overconfidence

#5yrsago Facebook let advertisers target “pseudoscience” and “conspiracy” https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#upton-sinclair-disease

#5yrsago Amazon uses its sellers’ data to figure out which products to clone https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#moral-hazard

#5yrsago US telcoms sector isn’t doing better than Europe’s https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#opportunists

#5yrsago Masks work https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#pewpew

#5yrsago US healthcare fails insured people too https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#m4a

#5yrsago “Inject disinfectant” vs both sides-ism https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#both-sides-ism

#5yrsago A labradoodle breeder is in charge of America’s vaccines https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#labradoodles

#5yrsago Which guillotine is right for you https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/slicey-boi/#slicey-boi

#1yrago The specific process by which Google enshittified its search https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan