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 India rejects software patents https://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/04/20/2311255/software-patents-stopped-in-india

#15yrsago Kids and mobile phones: waiting for the surveillance shoe to drop https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/20/kids-and-mobile-phones-waiting-for-the-surveillance-shoe-to-drop/

#15yrsago Magazine by and for the volcano-stranded https://web.archive.org/web/20100423042252/https://www.losowsky.com/magtastic/2010/what-we-do-next/

#15yrsago Spying school took “thousands” of photos of students with covert webcam app, caught kids sleeping, half-dressed https://www.wired.com/2010/04/webcamscanda/

#15yrsago Ireland High Court gives entertainment giants the power to disconnect whole families from the net https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/04/major-labels-go-bragh-as-irish-judge-allows-3-strikes/

#15yrsago Carbon offsets: fraud, exaggeration, and poorly run projects https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0420/Buying-carbon-offsets-may-ease-eco-guilt-but-not-global-warming

#10yrsago Helen Keller, feminist, radical socialist, anti-racist activist and civil libertarian https://truthout.org/articles/the-radical-dissent-of-helen-keller/

#5yrsago Amazon is stronger — and weaker — than ever https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#crisis-means-crossroads

#5yrsago Trump’s antitrust report card: F- https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#aaint

#5yrsago 94.5% of “small business” money went to giant corporations https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#ppp

#5yrsago Cars correlated with contagion in NYC https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#methodological-errors

#5yrsago Australian academic spyware https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#proctorio

#5yrsago Zoom claims it uses AI to stop sexytimes https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#nudity-detector-vans

#5yrsago Denmark: no bailouts for companies headquartered in tax havens https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/#great-danes

#1yrago Greedflation, but for prisoners https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in