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’s amazing statement on IP and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050417231302/http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2005-April/000241.html
#15yrsago This means war: Big Content’s war on democracy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/apr/16/digital-economy-act-cory-doctorow
#15yrsago Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for “ridiculing public figures” https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/mark-fiore-can-win-a-pulitzer-prize-but-he-cant-get-his-iphone-cartoon-app-past-apples-satire-police/
#15yrsago Big Content’s dystopian wish-list for the US gov’t: spyware, censorship, physical searches and SWAT teams https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future
#10yrsago Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?smid=pl-share
#10yrsago Arkansas cops send malware to whistleblowers’ lawyers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops/
#5yrsago One person is in charge of oversight for $2.2T in stimulus https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#tumbleweeds
#5yrsago Universities want to infect students’ laptops with undetectable rootkits https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#invigilation
#5yrsago State treasurers demand ventilator manufacturers publish manuals https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#loz-im-gain
#5yrsago Jailbreak for CPAP machine reveals hidden ventilator functionality https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/invigilation/#breathless
#1yrago How to screw up a whistleblower law https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/#lisa-monaco
