Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2024.

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me TODAY (Feb 14) for free at Boskone in Boston, and TOMORROW (Feb 15) for a virtual event with Yanis Varoufakis. More tour dates here.

#20yrsago Apple and Sony sued for non-interoperable DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20050216045927/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39127844,00.htm

#20yrsago Private Eye covers from 1961 on https://web.archive.org/web/20050205084651/http://www.ugandandiscussions.co.uk/

#15yrsago Broke-ass Washington state set to give MSFT $100M annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in evasion https://web.archive.org/web/20100218211101/http://microsofttaxdodge.com/2010/02/washington-state-about-to-give-microsoft-a-100-million-tax-cut-annually.html

#10yrsago Facebook tells Native Americans that their names aren’t “real” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-time-native-americans

#1yrago Prison-tech is a brutal scam — and a harbinger of your future https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve