Object permanence

DHS RFIDs tourists; Solar heroin; International development and the copyfight.

Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I’m selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11.

#20yrsago Homeland Security radio-tags foreign visitors https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/rfid_cards_for.html

#20yrsago Pix from today’s photog-mob at the unphotographable 1 Bush St building https://www.flickr.com/photos/avantgame/sets/668574/

#20yrsago The copyfight and international development https://web.archive.org/web/20050802001155/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003214.html

#5yrsago Interop to the rescue https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#interop-competition

#5yrsago Why sweat smells https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#no-sweatski

#5yrsago Solar heroin https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#solar-heroin

#5yrsago Google destroys yet more smart-glasses https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#focals#5yrsago Mexico's new copyright vs cybersecurity https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/roto-en-mexico/#ciberseguridad

#1yrago An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/30/open-and-shut-casebook/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop! This summer, I’m writing The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI, a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic.