Object permanence
Most sound recordings are unavailable; Kill the Dead; XKCD map; Lockdown with kindergartners; Facebook’s living will; Ad tech bubble; The Internet is for end-users; Squeeze Me.
I’m on a tour with my new book Enshittification: Catch me next in Cambridge, MA; Washington, DC and Brooklyn! Full schedule with dates and links here.
#20yrsago Alternate reality game turns online poker into tombstone parties in cemetaries https://web.archive.org/web/20130514004112/https://42entertainment.com/work/lastcallpoker
#20yrsago Reporter vows to fight DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20051210140945/https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1952
#20yrsago Library of Congress: Most sound recordings aren’t available https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub133/contents/
#15yrsago T-Mobile sneaks “rootkit” into G2 phones — reinstalls locked-down OS after jailbreaking https://web.archive.org/web/20101009072029/https://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/newest_google_android_cell_phone_contains_unexpected_feature_a_malicious_root_kit-380
#15yrsago XKCD’s Online Communities map, part 2 — the online world, visualized with loads of funny https://xkcd.com/802/
#15yrsago KILL THE DEAD: Kadrey’s grisly, hard-boiled sequel to SANDMAN SLIM https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/05/kill-the-dead-kadreys-grisly-hard-boiled-sequel-to-sandman-slim/
#10yrsago How a romance-scam victim laundered $1.1M worth of other victims’ money https://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/
#10yrsago Snowden broke a nondisclosure EULA in order to uphold his Constitutional oath https://www.aaronswartzday.org/snowden-oath/
#10yrsago What it’s like to do a lockdown drill with kindergarten kids https://web.archive.org/web/20141029062211/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rehearsing-for-death-a-pre-k-teacher-on-the-trouble-with-lockdown-drills/2014/10/28/4ab456ea-5eb2-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html
#10yrsago Forget tidying: losing your precious possessions is the real “life-changing magic” https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/the-life-changing-magic-of-losing-shit-18122103f499
#10yrsago UK Chancellor: I must cut tax benefits for working poor to help them https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-low-paid-will-suffer-if-i-don-t-cut-their-tax-credits-says-george-osborne-a6679636.html
#10yrsago UK top government official: human rights no longer a “top priority” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/human-rights-are-no-longer-a-top-priority-for-the-government-says-foreign-office-chief-a6677661.html
#5yrsago Facebook’s living will https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#dnr
#5yrsago Ad-tech is a bubble https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost
#5yrsago The Internet is for End-Users https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#user-agents
#5yrsago Squeeze Me https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#disappearing-act
