Object permanence
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020.
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me at PITTSBURGH’S White Whale Books on THURSDAY (May 15) and in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. More tour stops (London, Manchester) here.
#20yrsago Access to Knowledge Treaty first draft is live https://web.archive.org/web/20050524104903/http://www.cptech.org/a2k/consolidatedtext-may9.pdf
#20yrsago Microsoft calls infringers “thought thieves” https://web.archive.org/web/20050512032005/http://bink.nu/Article3950.bink
#15yrsago Open source hardware business booms: 13 companies making $1M+ https://singularityhub.com/2010/05/10/13-open-source-hardware-companies-making-1-million-or-more-video/
#15yrsago Roy Lichtenstein’s estate decides they don’t own the rights to everything he ripped off, after all https://web.archive.org/web/20100511025449/http://www.elsinoremusic.net/841/
#15yrsago Man doesn’t know what happened at the Hustler Club, but it wasn’t worth $21K https://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/05/plaintiff-has-no-recollection-of-what-transpired-in-the-private-room.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LoweringTheBar+(Lowering+the+Bar)
#10yrsago Businesses losing big on globalization https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/reconsidering-the-value-of-globalization/2015/04/24/7b5425c2-e82e-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html
#10yrsago Class of 2015: most indebted in history https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-32365
#10yrsago What did the courts just do to NSA spying? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/eff-case-analysis-appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-records-dragnet-illegal
#10yrsago Smart Grid consortium rolled its own crypto, which is always, always a bad idea https://threatpost.com/weak-homegrown-crypto-dooms-open-smart-grid-protocol/112680/
#5yrsago Pandemic countermeasures from the porn industry https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/longshots/#porndemic
#5yrsago Factchecking virologist/conspiracist Judy Mikovits https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/longshots/#plandemic
#5yrsago Striking New Orleans garbage collectors replaced with prison labor https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/longshots/#slave-labor
#5yrsago Probability and pandemics https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/longshots/#longshots
