Object permanence
2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
#15yrsago Zoomable paper London streetmap https://www.thezoomablemap.com/video/
#15yrsago 5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain Democratic Members Of Congress To Abandon Health Care Reform In Light Of Scott Brown’s Electoral Victory https://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/21/5-jokes-about-the-apparent-eagerness-of-certain-democratic-members-of-congress-to-abandon-health-care-reform-in-light-of-scott-browns-electoral-victory/
#10yrsago London cop who repeatedly kicked, beat woman who wouldn’t leave her child’s sickbed cleared https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/22/met-police-warren-luke-cleared-kicking-mother-child-hospital
#10yrsago Consumerist on Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free https://consumerist.com/2015/01/22/4-ways-copyright-law-actually-controls-your-whole-digital-life/
#10yrsago Oakland cops’ license cams follow drivers everywhere https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/what-we-learned-oakland-raw-alpr-data
#10yrsago Radical Brownies: girls of color push social justice, not cookies https://web.archive.org/web/20150122020603/https://fusion.net/story/39637/meet-the-radical-brownies-girl-scouts-for-the-modern-age/
#10yrsago Potemkin rumble: your car’s muscular engine noise is an MP3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise/2015/01/21/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html
#5yrsago Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won’t dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/23/unauthorized-charcoal-ge-fridges-wont-dispense-ice-or-water-unless-your-filter-authenticates-as-an-official-55-component/
#5yrsago German proposal to control links to news stories: headlines, 3s of video, 128 pixel thumbnails https://www.techdirt.com/2020/01/23/germany-wants-to-limit-memes-mashups-derived-press-publishers-material-to-128-by-128-pixels-resolution-three-seconds-length/
#5yrsago A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic https://www.wired.com/story/release-the-kratom-inside-drug-culture/
#5yrsago You can read the forensics report that suggests Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone https://www.vice.com/en/article/saudi-arabia-hacked-jeff-bezos-phone-technical-report/
#5yrsago White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-rally-virginia-documents-allege-base-members-discussed-starting-civil-war-2020-01-21/
#1yrago Dave Maass and Patrick Lay’s “Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis” https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/#terez
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