Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020.

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

#20yrsago Record sales up, P2P sales up — RIAA’s story doesn’t add up https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/business/music-sales-rise-in-united-states.html

#15yrsago UK record lobby: democracy is a waste of time https://memex.craphound.com/2010/03/24/uk-record-lobby-democracy-is-a-waste-of-time/

#15yrsago Writers’ Union of Canada smears attempt to expand fair dealing: “Legalised theft” https://web.archive.org/web/20100327073841/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4903/125/

#15yrsago Ottawa joins the war on photography https://web.archive.org/web/20100327213857/http://www.sto.ca/secure/index_en.html

#15yrsago Airport worker caught photographing screen as female worker passed through naked scanner https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/mar/24/airport-worker-warned-body-scanner

#15yrsago Stop DRM on UK TV! Sign onto ORG’s comments https://web.archive.org/web/20100316073211/https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/stop-bbc-drm

#10yrsago ACLU sues TSA to make it explain junk science “behavioral detection” program https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/nyclu-and-aclu-sue-tsa-records-discredited-behavior-detection-program

#10yrsago Randomized dystopia generator that goes beyond the Bill of Rights https://www.brainwane.net/dystopia/

#5yrsago MIT’s ingenious manual/automatic open source ventilator https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#oshw-ventilator

#5yrsago Bailouts and moral hazard https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#moral-hazard

#5yrsago Quarantine reveals the falsity of the automation crisis https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#what-automation

#5yrsago Financial stability vs economic stability https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#jubilee

#5yrsago The Party of Death https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#death-panels

#5yrsago Murdering 20% of elderly Americans is bad strategy for the GOP https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#turkey-shoot

#5yrsago Stock Jump https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#off-the-cliff

#5yrsago Data is the new toxic waste https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/#digital-toxic-waste