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 PITTSBURGH’S White Whale Books on THURSDAY (May 15) and in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. More tour stops (London, Manchester) here.
#20yrsago Canadian MP blogs from Parliament’s floor https://web.archive.org/web/20050514023619/http://www.montesolberg.com/2005/05/voting.htm
#20yrsago Journal of Ride Theory amazing zine is now an amazing book https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/11/journal-of-ride-theory-amazing-zine-is-now-an-amazing-book/
#20yrsago Everything Bad is Good for You: How TV and games make us smarter https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/13/everything-bad-is-good-for-you-how-tv-and-games-make-us-smarter/
#20yrsago Broadcast Flag back from the dead https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/13/broadcast-flag-back-from-the-dead/
#15yrsago Words that are excluded from “secret questions” https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/14/sacramento/
#15yrsago Barbie-themed hotel rooms for three year olds that cost €1,600/night https://web.archive.org/web/20100513074929/http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/5/10/21912/7175/hotels/What_Would_Carrie_Say_The_Plaza_Athenee_Is_Getting_Barbiefied
#15yrsago FOR THE WIN launches today https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/11/for-the-win-launches-today/
#15yrsago IT in developing nations makes women and poor people happier https://www.bbc.com/news/10108551
#15yrsago Heinlein freaked out at “invasive” review of STRANGER IN A STRANGER LAND https://web.archive.org/web/20100514220628/https://thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/robert-a-heinlein-algis-budrys-and-me/
#10yrsago Copyfighting, jailbreaking legend Ed Felten is the White House’s new deputy CTO https://web.archive.org/web/20150512045054/https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/11/white-house-names-dr-ed-felten-deputy-us-chief-technology-officer
#10yrsago Finance deserves its corrupt reputation https://web.archive.org/web/20150618083908/https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/luigi.zingales/papers/research/Finance.pdf
#10yrsago Librarians: privacy’s champions https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/librarians-versus-nsa/
#10yrsago Teacher forced into retirement for showing archival queer-scare movie https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/05/07/retiring-missouri-teacher-suspended-after-showing-1959-anti-gay-boys-beware-video-to-class/
#10yrsago John Deere: of course you “own” your tractor, but only if you agree to let us rip you off https://memex.craphound.com/2015/05/13/john-deere-of-course-you-own-your-tractor-but-only-if-you-agree-to-let-us-rip-you-off/
#5yrsago Senate Dems want to ban internet disconnection https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#sanders-wyden-merkley
#5yrsago NSO Group tried to sell malware to US law enforcement https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#nso-group
#5yrsago Restaurants, hotels and bars cut the cord https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#cordcutting
#5yrsago Feds want national snitchlines for bosses whose workers don’t want to die https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#snitchlines
#5yrsago Corporate Dems want to bail out lobbyists and dark money orgs https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#thanks-nancy
#5yrsago Red states prep for postal vote https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#postal-vote
#5yrsago How Marcus Hutchins saved the world and lived to tell the tale https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#malwaretech
#5yrsago Gadget that adds steps to your Fitbit https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#restepper
#5yrsago University requires students to buy nonexistent webcams https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/malwaretech/#unobtanium
#5yrsago Facebook’s “supreme court” https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#star-chamber
#5yrsago Podcast of “Rules for Writers” https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#turkey-city
#5yrsago NLRB nukes Hearst’s union-busting https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#rosebud
#5yrsago The bailout is working (for Wall Street) https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#guillotine-watch
#5yrsago Shanghai Disneyland re-opens https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#splash-mountain
#5yrsago 80% of Britons want happiness, not growth https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/delete-facebook/#line-go-up
#1yrago Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler’s playground https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm
#1yrago AI “art” and uncanniness https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand
