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 NEW ZEALAND’S UNITY BOOKS in AUCKLAND (May 2, 6PM) and WELLINGTON (May 3, 3PM). More tour stops (Pittsburgh, PDX, London, Manchester) here.
#20yrsago WIPO’s $50 million bribery scandal https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/world/europe/swiss-investigates-possibility-of-bribery-in-un-contract.html
#20yrsago Updating websites from prison by paper mail https://web.archive.org/web/20050419003402/http://beta.news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050416/ca_pr_on_tc/us_internet_inmates/nc:737
#15yrsago Sign for the US Border: unprovoked beatings ahead https://web.archive.org/web/20120426212453/https://i44.tinypic.com/2dv77f8.jpg
#15yrsago Every comic is funnier with “Christ, what an asshole” for a punchline https://web.archive.org/web/20100423063424/http://www.robertsinclair.net/comic/asshole.html
#15yrsago UK LibDems pledge to repeal the Digital Economy Bill https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1240561
#10yrsago Arcology: cutaways of the future city-hives that never were https://memex.craphound.com/2015/04/16/arcology-cutaways-of-the-future-city-hives-that-never-were/
#5yrsago The Facebook Political Ad Collector https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#transparency
#5yrsago Zombie movies teach us all the wrong lessons for pandemic https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#acephalous-kindness
#5yrsago Building a “web of books” https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#library.json
#5yrsago Evangelical pastor denied quarantine, now he wants your stimulus check https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#death-cult
#5yrsago Apple hunters recover ten “lost” varieties from forgotten farms https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#lostapple
#5yrsago FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#not-the-territory
#5yrsago Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#aoc-not-mcc
#1yrago Rebecca Roque’s “Till Human Voices Wake Us” https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/16/dead-air/#technorealism
