Object permanence

2005, 2015, 2020, 2024.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 19, 2025

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

#20yrsago Yahoo! bought Flickr! https://web.archive.org/web/20050328011033/http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html

#10yrsago Suspicious people, American Airlines edition https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/16690196059/

#5yrsago Republican senators told us everything was fine as they secretly panic-sold their stocks https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#senate-selloff

#5yrsago Right to Repair during pandemics https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#r2r

#5yrsago Judge overturns terrible copyright decision against Katy Perry https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#fair-use

#5yrsago Patent trolls spin their shakedown of covid testing tech https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#pandemic-profiteers

#5yrsago Dafoe’s plague diaries https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#dafoe-knew

#5yrsago Open source hardware ventilator enters testing https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#oshw-breathing

#5yrsago Ifixit’s new database of med-tech repair guides https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#youfixit

#5yrsago Simon Pegg’s coronavirus Sean of the Dead remake https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#the-plan

#5yrsago Trump is outbidding state agencies for medical supplies https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/20/pluralistic-20-mar-2020/#heckuvajob-brownie

#1yrago Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/20/actual-material-conditions/#bread-and-butter

--

--

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Responses (1)