Object permanence
2010, 2020, 2024.
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me at PITTSBURGH’S White Whale Books on May 15 and in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. More tour stops ( London, Manchester) here.
#15yrsago Satellite photos catch Greek tax-evaders https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.html
#15yrsago Six reasons to hate Facebook’s new anti-privacy system, “Connections” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/things-you-need-know-about-facebook
#15yrsago Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/may/04/viacom-youtube
#15yrsago Bruce Schneier explains how to prevent terrorist attacks like Times Square car-bomb https://archive.nytimes.com/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/times-square-bombs-and-big-crowds/
#15yrsago London cops’ signs in Internet cafe warn against loading porn and “extremism” https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4581218328/
#15yrsago Windsor Executive Solutions: Bruce Sterling and Chris Nakashima-Brown’s transhuman monarch story https://futurismic.com/2010/05/04/new-fiction-windsor-executive-solutions-by-chris-nakashima-brown-and-bruce-sterling/
#15yrsago BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben’s tower https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8656578.stm
#5yrsago XML inventor quits Amazon over whistleblower firings https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/which-side-are-you-on/#tim-bray
#5yrsago The failure of software licensing https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/which-side-are-you-on/#tivoization-and-beyond
#5yrsago Wired workers have unionized https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/which-side-are-you-on/#solidarity
#5yrsago Hospital CEOs making millions amid cuts https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/which-side-are-you-on/#administrative-bloat
#5yrsago Pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent overlords https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/04/which-side-are-you-on/#trustbusting
#1yrago Rosemary Kirstein’s “The Steerswoman” https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/04/the-wulf/#underground-fave
