Object permanence

MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree.

Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I’m selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11.

#20yrsago Anti-software-patent site taken down by software patent advocates https://web.archive.org/web/20051025080342/https://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=656

#20yrsago One 3 min MP3 = 5’9″ high stack of punchcards https://web.archive.org/web/20050804025015/http://www.ypsidixit.com/blog/archives/2005/08/remember_punch.html

#20yrsago German Harry Potter fan-translation in 45 hours https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/01/books.harrypotter

#10yrsago Re-recording the 1969 “Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJRoi92Ilo

#5yrsago Populism is good for your health https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

#5yrsago The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#boundaries

#5yrsago A deep dive into Mexico’s new copyright law https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#la-ley

#5yrsago Grace is going home https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#grace-freed

#1yrago Why is this Canadian university scared of you seeing its Privacy Impact Assessment? https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/#streisand-v-linkletter

Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop! This summer, I’m writing The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI, a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic.